30 Matching Annotations
  1. Mar 2016
    1. Hassett was with two presidents and had a close relationship with both as their secretaries.

    2. Hassett began his career as a newspaper author. Perhaps he knows ho to deal with the press well.

    3. It is important to know when and where the main character as born and his early life to get a better understanding of how he might act in certain situations.

  2. Feb 2016
    1. Regardless of how much you hate the idea of dropping the bomb to end the war, it did save lives, and this is a great first person example

    2. In order to finally bring the war to an end, Truman had to decide that American lives were worth the killing of many civilians in Japan

    3. In 1945, Americans overwhelmingly supported the use of the bomb; seventy years later, that number is now a bare majority (some polls suggest less), with support for Truman’s decision concentrated among older people.

      This is important to remember that as time goes on there is less support for Truman and his decision. This is likely because we forget the terrible events that caused for consideration of dropping the bomb

    1. This is about the man who traveled to Tuscany to become a butcher and learned the art behind making meat, showing it is more than murder. I will use this in my paper by showing that many don't just look at animals as food, but as art.

    1. This is about the hunt for animals, dealing with the morality of murdering for food, and the struggle to cope with the pleasure. The author's point for writing this is very similar to my argument, discussing the rights and wrongs of killing animals.

    2. I enjoyed shooting a pig a whole lot more than I ever thought I should have.

      He's struggling with the morality of killing for food

    1. This is about the man-made burger and if it will cause the end of treating animals poorly or open up the world to synthetic meat. I will tie this into my paper by using it as opposition, showing there are other options to kiiling.

    2. pointed out that ‘70 per cent of the antibiotics used in the United States now are not used on people, they’re used on animals in agriculture, because we keep them in such inhumane, overcrowded conditions’. He then reeled off a list of UN-backed statistics: ‘18 per cent of our greenhouse gas emissions come from meat production. We’re also using something like 1,500 gallons of water to produce just one pound of meat. Meat takes up about 70 per cent of our arable lands.’

      These stats do show plausible reasons why genetic meat is needed

    3. pointed out that ‘70 per cent of the antibiotics used in the United States now are not used on people, they’re used on animals in agriculture, because we keep them in such inhumane, overcrowded conditions’. He then reeled off a list of UN-backed statistics: ‘18 per cent of our greenhouse gas emissions come from meat production. We’re also using something like 1,500 gallons of water to produce just one pound of meat. Meat takes up about 70 per cent of our arable lands.’

      These stats do show plausible reasons why genetic meat is needed

    4. A scientific landmark was sold to us in the manner of a glitzy product launch, a piece of corporate puff.

      The first sign that this product will turn to the Quantity>Quality

    5. commercial production of meat that has been grown in a lab rather than reared and slaughtered.

      This meat will eventually become less animal and more product

    6. first proper portion of cultured meat, a beef burger created by Mark Post,

      I'm against genetically creating meat because I believe this will turn to creating the most meat for the cheapest price, and ruin the quality

    1. This is about the top 50 bbq places in texas and how much people love meat and the atmosphere and culture around it. I will tie this into my paper showing how people love bbq and meat.

  3. Jan 2016
    1. exley said that one Saturday morning, when there were ninety people waiting outside, a local resident asked permission to gather signatures along the line for a petition, only to return a few minutes later with the information that there wasn’t one person there from Lee County.

      I wish Illinois was like Texas, where people would come from all over to try great bbq.

    2. In the weeks after the Texas Monthly feature was published, Snow’s went from serving three hundred pounds of meat every Saturday to serving more than a thousand pounds.

      This is an absurd amount of meat that shows the dedication people have to bbq.

    3. In central Texas, you don’t hear a lot of people talking about the piquancy of a restaurant’s sauce or the tastiness of its beans; discussions are what a scholar of the culture might call meat-driven.

      I like that people can talk about the flavor and substance of meat without other food getting in the way

    4. some barbecue fans visit the way the devout of another sort walk the Camino de Santiago.

      People are serious about their meat products

    5. like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L.

      This author has very relatable analogies

    6. barbecue tradition that developed during the nineteenth century out of German and Czech meat markets

      BBQ is german and czech

    7. the equivalent of Matt Damon and George Clooney and Brad Pitt would be establishments like Kreuz Market and Smitty’s Market, in Lockhart

      This analogy makes it easy to understand

    1. (It wasn’t the lost revenue; it was that you’d squandered some animal: the rearing, cleaning, caring, fattening, slaughtering, transporting, and now butchering, and, at the end of a disciplined line of purposefulness, you’d lost your concentration

      People do care for the animals

    2. torso, which was boned and rolled up with an extravagance of herbs—garlic, thyme, fennel pollen, pepper, rosemary, and double-ground sea sal

      Like an art

    3. which you then stuffed into a cannister that looked like a giant bullet

      Personal Eperience

    4. We began.

      Cooking meat is like an art, and is tradition for many families

    5. I couldn’t imagine people eating it (neither the Maestro nor Teresa would touch it) unless they were very poor and without a refrigerator and hallucinating from starvation. The principal ingredient was old pork that had been aging in its own blood, sealed in a plastic bag.

      The stuff people do to meat is extremely disgusting

    1. Gover-norEdgarismaybefiftyandgreyhound-thin,withsteelglassesandhairthatlookscarvedoutoffeldspar.Heradiatessincerity,though.

      Everyone who Wallace describes recieves a backhanded compliment.

    2. tiscloudlessanddry,butforehead-tighteninglyho

      It seems that he drives home how hot it is every paragraph.