A Better One Mizzou: How Permaculture Can Change the Campus Climate
Walking into campus dining halls for a fulfilling dinner, college students usually have the following options: a hot dog, highly processed and covered in processed cheese substitute, a cheesy pasta with a side of grilled vegetables that are slimy and covered in oil, some frozen, mushy fruit, full of high fructose corn syrup, or a salad, complete with limp, browning lettuce, expired cucumbers and dirty celery sticks. Its no wonder that undergraduates are notorious for gaining the Freshman 15 in their first year of college, courtesy of all the times we chose the hot dog or pasta instead of a salad.
Failing to Make the Grade: How the School Lunch System is Falling Short of Its Purpose
With over 1/3 of the nations children overweight or obese according to the Center for Disease Control, concerns over what children are consuming have become ever more prevalent among parents across the United States. Serving over 32 million children a year, the lunch program certainly plays a large role in what our nations children consume on a daily basis.
Bend It Like Beckham and “Bending” the Rules
Bend It Like Beckham is primarily a film about soccer. However, because the protagonist is part of a traditional Indian family, food plays an important role in the film.
Essay Contest Winners!
The winners of our essay contest (sponsored by Mizzou Advantage) imagine new approaches to the ways we produce and consume food.
A Close Reading of Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes
Released in 2003, Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes is a compilation of 11 vignettes that follow the conversations between two to three people as they discuss a variety of mostly insignificant subjects.
The Taiwan (Architectural) Miracle
In modern times, the ever-growing world population has caused the boom of giant cities with limited space, along with the rise of amazing places that are built to round in tourists. The allure to build and have the tallest building known to the world in ones country satisfies many needs of a blossoming city. The recent few record buildings have primarily been in Asia, and all have in some way influenced the other.
Fantastic Conflict in The Raven
The raven serves as the representation of the unreal because it is nothing more than an anthropomorphized version of the narrators subconscious despair. In this way, the poem consists of a pseudo-dialogue between the narrator and his own psychological echo.
WWII Propaganda: The Influence of Racism
Images created in times of war reveal the tensions and fears ignited by the conflicts between nations. Close analysis shows that the attached World War II propaganda poster is one such image. This 1942 poster, titled This is the Enemy, circulated in the United States following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Its purpose was to embody the entire Japanese nation as a ruthless and animalistic enemy that needed to be defeated.
If You Give Your Love Some Chemo
My boyfriend has cancer. With cancer you can never say, had, because even after you complete your treatment and your scans come up clear, you never really get to be called cured. After that diagnosis the best you can ever hope for is cancer-free and I suppose thats accurate, because after having cancer your life and the lives of those around you are never the same.
Nature’s Voice: A Review of Environmental Literature
I started this essay with the intention of crafting a new chapter, a 21st century update, to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. What I soon found was that this task is fundamentally impossible. There cant be another Silent Spring because it isnt 1962 anymore. The context has changed. This train of thought brought me the realization that the environment of a writer is inherent in his work.