Dieting Essays - Obesity, Dieting, De, Flow,

Dieting The article I chose to write about is entitled "The Lazy Guy's Guide to Health"; it is foundin the October 1998 issue of Maxim Magazine. The magazine is promoted towards menand mainly covers issues dealing with men's health. The whole point of the article is to 1. show men easy ways to lose weight. It lists eleven different things a man can do to lose weight and reduce the calories in his diet. All of the suggestions are quick and easy ways 2. to keep weight off. 3. The basic information in the article is good. The suggestions the author lists seemto be simple enough for most men. Even the though article has no flow it does get the point across about weight loss; if you work at it, every man can lose some weight. For 4. most men it's nice to hear that they can stay fit without having to spend several hours a week in a gym. It does a great job explaining how to stay fit. The tips are things that mostmen can use wherever they live. The article has information that is very useful for men that lead a busy life. The most important thing this article does is tell men what they want tohear. Most men want to hear that weight loss is something that takes little time and effort. 5. Having appeal can be the most important part of an article from a common consumer'sstandpoint. The article will catch the eye of most male readers simply because of the article's title. The author is not a good writer from an English instructor's point of view, 6. but he does a great job of getting his point across. 7. I think the author should have been more informed about physical fitness. The way I was able to tell that he needed more knowledge about health was because he didn't use 8. very many details when he talked about losing weight. The author never told you why aperson might have a weight problem, he simply told you how to lose the weight once you gained it. From a time standpoint; the article never states how long it might take for a man 9. to lose weight using these tips. Most people aren't trained health professionals and they don't really know how to diet correctly. I include myself when I say that most people don't know the correct way to lose weight. The article claims that it applies to most men, 10. the author should have used some percentages to back up his point. Another thing the author never states is whether or not results will vary due to a man's age. In my opinion the author should have used a story of a man who used these tips to lose weight. It would 11. have shown the reader that by using these tips a man can get the results he wants when itcomes to weight loss. 12. The article does not flow very well. Since the article is listing things it doesn't havea rhythm. Its very hard for a paper to flow when it is a list of items. The author mainly uses quotes from doctors and universities rather than his own point of view. The structureof the article is rather poor. The author made no attempt to write this article in a way where it flowed. Instead of writing several paragraphs that flowed together and were cohesive, he wrote down far too many small paragraphs that just had no flow or rhythm. It seemed like the article was one large list that made no sense. I felt like the author didn'tput any time into writing a good article. It was evident that he spent quite a bit of time 13. doing research for his article; he just didn't put that same effort into writing the article itself. You don't have to know very much about health and fitness to know that this articleisn't great advice on how to lose weight. At the same time I don't claim to be a healthexpert, but I've tried to lose weight and I know that it is much tougher than this article makes it out to be. 14. The author of this article gets his point across, but the real problem is the way hegets it done. He has done some great research as far as weight loss; he just doesn't put thearticle together in a way that made any sense. It was easy to follow, but at the same time

Book Review of The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Book Review of 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy Add the post-apocalyptic The Road to Cormac McCarthy’s growing list of masterpieces. It combines the terse but poetic meditations on the horrific depths of human depravity of his Blood Meridian with the taut, thriller writing found in his, No Country for Old Men. What separates The Road from his other works is McCarthy’s ability to capture moments of lyrical and emotional beauty in a father and son’s haunted relationship even as a silent cloud of death covers the world in darkness. Synopsis of  The Road A nameless man and his son trek to the coast in search of food, shelter, and some sign of life.Encounters with other humans are devastating affairs of cruelty, savagery, or despair.Even in a seemingly hopeless struggle for his son, the father notices moments that bring warmth.Though weary, moments of luck or providence seem to catch them before death’s grip can take hold.The Road doesn’t turn away from ultimate horror  but also doesn’t hide defiant love. Pros Sears its mark into your mind from the first sentence to weeks after you’ve put it down.Reveals the strength of a father’s love for his son in the bleakest of circumstances.Written by a master author who knows how to make every word count.Involves a post-apocalyptic world that is frighteningly realized. Cons Only recommended for aged and bold readers. Full Review of The Road â€Å"When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him.† A father and son are striving to survive in a wilderness that used to be a country that used to be the most prosperous nation on earth. All that is left is ash, floating and falling when the wind chooses not to breathe. This is the setting of The Road, a journey of survival only Cormac McCarthy could envision. McCarthy carves this world in a harsh, stark lyricism reserved for those who speak unflinching prophecy. Both the father and son are surrounded by a nightmare and are frightened by others when they sleep. They are always starving, always cautiously alert, only having a grocery cart with a few blankets and a gun with two bullets, either to protect against the cannibalistic humanity following their tracks or for the father to finish their lives before despair consumes them both. As they journey to the coast in search of something, the father tells the boy it is better to have nightmares because when you start dreaming, you know the end is near. McCarthy allows the reader to dream for them, striving on with them until a conclusion that whispers, under the pain and futility, of a sovereignty that is older than the destruction ever looming in the world. The Road is a brutally astonishing work. If your book discussion club is up for the dark themes, it is a book that will leave you wanting to discuss it with others. The movie adaptation is also available for those who prefer that medium. Check out our discussion questions for The Road to guide your exploration of the book further.