She has to work all day in a cafeteria with the aroma of tater tots and two day old spaghetti. She has a dying passion to serve kids foods that barely pass the FDA’s strict guidelines. She loves seeing the happy expressions on children’s faces fade as they see what she has conjured up for them. The lunch lady confronts the evils of making unhealthy foods and smashes the foods hopes and dreams of one day being tasteful. Only a select few have what it takes to be an everyday lunch lady.
I can see the concern, but I have also had lunch at school with my kids and seen the reality. One of the main reasons behind these changes to school food regulations is to promote healthy eating habits in school age children. The reality is that children do not eat their food, and they throw it away. Parents, who visit their children during lunch, take in fast food for them to eat. At the end of the day, the child is hungry, and most parents stop by the favorite fast food to get dinner as part of their busy lives.
Every day in school cafeterias across the country, students are choosing healthier options. According to the revised lunch menus, instead of a breaded beef patty with ketchup, a frozen fruit ice pop, and whole milk, students can now select a chef salad with grilled chicken, low-fat mozzarella, accompanied by a whole-wheat soft pretzel and low-fat chocolate milk. These new offerings are the result of the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010,” (HHFK) which provides $4.5 billion in new funding for the federal school lunch program. In order to receive this funding, school districts must offer menus that meet certain nutritional standards. These federally-mandated nutritional standards for school lunch menus will create a healthier generation
Menudo was the food I hated most. Its texture and taste made me want to throw up. Now my anxiety to trying pozole turned into a disappointment and had me wanting to eat pizza again. My mom looked at me and asked what was wrong so I told her how now that I knew what pozole was I didn’t want to try it anymore sine it was like menudo. She then said “When it is ready I will give you some from my plate and if you like it I’ll serve you some for yourself.
But she still took one…” Cala uses colloquial forms of speaking, which reflects her low level of education. She sounds laid-back from the way she speaks: “I shovel chips on to the kids at dinner-time”, “I dish out tea and buns”. She involved with the life of the school, which shows she is perceptive. This also shows that she is warm-hearted, because she is “only” catering staff but knows how the school works and likes the children. This is shown by her descriptions of exactly what is happening and saying that this is the norm (to know something is normal you must have seen it before): “and as usual he had a pile of papers in front of him… I saw him thinking, trouble.
[4] Anthropologists such as Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski argued that any human science had to transcend the ethnocentrism of the scientist. Both urged anthropologists to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in order to overcome their ethnocentrism. Boas developed the principle of cultural relativism and Malinowski developed the theory of functionalism as guides for producing non-ethnocentric studies of different cultures. The books The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia, by Bronisław Malinowski, Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict, and Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead (two of Boas's students)
Recalling a time I was being stereotyped was when I was in the grocery store shopping for an upcoming family cookout. Once I was done shopping my cart was overfilled with groceries. After the cashier finished ringing up my groceries she informed me that the total was two hundred and fifty five dollars and then proceeded to ask me if I would be paying with E.B.T. food stamps. Growing up in a small town keep me in a box when it came to learning about other culturals as a child.
This demarcating of science is a definite way to distinguish the difference between true science and pseudo-science. Before diving into the details of the criterion of demarcation, it is crucial to first understand the significance of demarcating science. In the simplest of reasoning, science is a study based on factuality (it is important to point out that scientific conclusions are however not based on absolute certainty, something I will touch on later). There is a specific process and order in which scientific experiments are conducted, the scientific method, and conclusions are gathered based on very tedious and detail-oriented procedures. That is one of the main reasons why that which is labeled a “science” has a certain level of credibility attached to it.
What does Paul Feyerabend’s notion of “Epistemological Anarchism” mean? Evaluate this in relation to his critique of Kuhn’s Paradigms. While Emphasizing the subjective side of science, Kuhn claimed that operating within science means existing within the restrictive confines of the dominant paradigm, which attempts to limit particular questions that can be asked, how these are asked, and how their answers are formulated into viable scientific facts that are accepted by fellow scientists. This paradigm, in turn may actually obstruct the progress of science by nature of being untranslatable to other paradigms and impede rational argument. Kuhn states that a scientist’s switch between one paradigm to the next is similar to a “gestalt switch” where neural programming is required rather than argument and persuasion.
These constant changes are the result of ideologies of great scientists and philosophers who have contributed their very particular perspective, bringing these claims to a set of different points of view in which specific criteria are spelled out. This paper is intended to highlight the contributions that each of these characters proposed in order to establish, standardize and explain all the events, what is now considered the foundation of our scientific and technical culture. The importance of these thinkers lies in the influence even today. And as explanatory procedure have made countless procedures, which has been refined to the point that we know as definitive scientific method. The old ideal of science Aristotle and many more Greeks played an important role in defining what we now know as science and hence the relevance of mentioning their contributions when discussing issues of scientific philosophy and all that it concerns.