Blog 13: Reflection for the Food Unit

For this blog entry please look back over your work for the Food Unit. These include

1. Blogs 9-12
2. Your response to the "XXXL: Why Are We So Fat?" Google Group, 
3. Your evaluations of two CATs for other students
4. Your reading of the student responses to "Hype"
5. Your response to CAT 3
6. any revisions you have made to previous blog entries.

In your first paragraph, discuss how the content of the food unit connects to previous texts ("The Allegory of the Cave," The Truman Show, The Matrix, "Red Pill or Blue Pill?" etc.) and to the main theme of this class, as expressed in the subtitle of my blog, Brave New World: "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."

Examples of ideas to explore for this section of the reflection: Why do you think the makers of The Meatrix films used The Matrix as the basis for their arguments? What possible connections could the food industry have to the ideas in The Matrix and, by association, the themes of this course? Or: How do the readings in "XXXL" reveal a system of control through food?

In your second paragraph, explain what tasks from the six-item list above you have done well and what needs improvement. What challenges are you facing? What do you think you need to know right now to move ahead? What can you say about your response to CAT-W #3?

Please write 400+ words reflecting on your experience and work in this third unit, giving specific evidence from your blog entries, work in Google Groups, and evaluation of two student responses to CAT #2. My feedback for the Food Unit will be a response to this reflection.