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Introductory Essay - Welcome to my world! I hope you enjoy.

Since I was young I have this strange and big fear of failure. I hate making mistakes and I have a horrible relationship with frustration. This past summer, while I was in Brazil, I decided to go to the therapist and see if I could get some advices on how stop being so afraid of making mistakes. She ended up telling me that my problem was partly due the fact that when I was younger (and fat), my parents wanted me to have a “perfect body” and a children does not know how to differentiate that she only has to be perfect in one aspect of her life. In the end, I grew up thinking that I need to be perfect in every single aspects of my life (without even realizing it). Although it seems weird, it makes sense. That’s why I hate criticism. I usually tend to be stubborn when someone criticizes me. In one of my peer review we can clearly see how I ignored when one of my classmates said that my rhetorical analysis had “Too much summary”, Here I have examples of two phrases where I only summarized the article “In the second paragraph Graeber emphasizes the fact that people are choosing “more toys and pleasures than time” and also calls people’s attention when he says that “We’ve collectively chosen the latter” putting this affirmation as a morality problem. He Asks questions such as “So what are these new jobs precisely?” so he can explain his thoughts about the “Jobs created by the Capitalism”.

Politics and the government situation in Brazil is a subject that I grew up learning about, and it is also something that drives me to be who I am. I feel more comfortable when talking about topics that I am familiar with. For example, in my Personal Statement I wrote “For those who live outside of the country, Brazil seems to be a place of corrupt government and suffering society: unfinished airports, unemployed adults, queues in hospitals with no medications and children with no opportunity to study. However, the reality unfortunately might be that we are not a country of a corrupt political sphere and a victimized population, but that we are a country of a corrupt society in general. Those who live here in Brazil day-to-day understand that corruption in the political sphere is not an isolated situation. It is the consequence of moral micro-fissures in Brazilian society formed by what we call the "Brazilian way". In this paragraph I think I was able to provide concise and interesting information in a well-organized manner. It is concise because I am saying everything that is necessary without using any unnecessary words.

Also, already utilizing my Personal Statement as an example, I want to talk about how I feel way more comfortable when it comes to writing about my life than when it comes to talking about an article or a book, for example. In this sentence of my Personal Statement I can communicate very clearly about a situation that I went through. I constructed my sentences carefully, and using grammar properly. “Moses told me that when he heard that two girls (me and my friend) would be teaching English in the community he did not believe it, and did not even go to the first class because he believed we were just another group of politicians with more lies. He said I was the first person who had kept my word. “ . Also, I have another example of one of “letter to my inner critic” that I needed to do for my ENGW 1102 class “I commit to be a better person for you. I commit to go to the gym, to eat healthy, but to not go crazy about a diet. I commit to give you chocolate or ice cream when you need to. I commit to pray, to meditate, to read and to what the motivational videos that you love. I commit to study! I commit to study as much as I can till the end of the semester. I commit to learn spanish. I commit to take pictures (I know you love great pictures). I commit to enjoy your life and have fun with your friends. I commit to be happy… for you.” where I was able to utilize effective words and achieve the goal of writing a personal letter to my “inner critic.” In the other hand, if I need to write a annotated bibliography struggle a lot. I get confused and sometimes cannot differentiate a research paper from a annotated bibliography, here I have an example of a part of my Annotated Bibliography (Before Revision) I needed to write for my English Writing class (ENGW 1102). “Bouldier et al. want to try to analyse, first of all, the profile of the people that suffer from emotional-induced eating utilize the Statistical method “Descriptive statistics were computed using means and standard deviations (SD) for continuous variables, and using counts and percentages for categorical variables” (Bouldier et al., 2017, p. 74) It is simply not an annotated Bibliography.

A project that I really enjoyed doing and that I was able to grow as a thinker was the Public Genre one. My teammates and I had to decide whether we were going to write an essay, film a video or record a podcast about emotional eating during college. We made our research and decided at the end that we were going to record a podcast. The process of deciding that we were going to record a podcast was really challenging. Why a podcast? Our goal was to provide information in a non formal way, where people could learn and at the same time connect with us. Where people could listen wherever they were. This final project made me feel powerful and special, since before this, I thought that only professionals were able to record a podcast.

In our last class, professor Kim showed us some quotes about writing that she thought were relevant. One of the quotes was “I think the hardest part of writing is writing” from Nora Ephron, which in my interpretation means that the most difficult part of writing is sitting down, concentrating and simply start writing. I agree and can totally relate to this quote. Although I know I have a great potential to be an A student and a good writer, there is something blocking me to do so. Maybe it is procrastination, since unfortunately this semester I wasn’t on top of my assignments and left everything for the “last minute”. I guess in this class I was able to grow as writer, but in a untouchable way. I was able to learn that I need to put all the effort I can in my projects in other to succeed. I learned that I can have an amazing outcome if I have determination and persistence.

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Artifact Five - Podcast

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Artifact Four - Personal Statement

For those who live outside of the country, Brazil seems to be a place of corrupt government and suffering society: unfinished airports, unemployed adults, queues in hospitals with no medications and children with no opportunity to study. However, the reality unfortunately might be that we are not a country of a corrupt political sphere and a victimized population, but that we are a country of a corrupt society in general. Those who live here in Brazil day-to-day understand that corruption in the political sphere is not an isolated situation. It is the consequence of moral micro-fissures in Brazilian society formed by what we call the "Brazilian way". The "Brazilian way" is the creative way in which the Brazilian people improvise in problematic situations. It is the habit of always looking for shortcuts and believing that the easiest way is always the best way even when such ways are illegal. As a consequence, the government is nothing but a reflection of a tainted society. Beneath the polluted government, we have a deep moral crisis. From cutting lines to parking in prohibited places on a daily basis and from economic crisis to political and corruption scandals, we use our creative ability to obtain personal benefits, instead of using such creativity for the greater good.

I will never forget the words of a child whom I met when I began to teach English in a riverside community in the black river coast of the Amazon River. Little Moses looked at me and said several people had already come into the community spouting "misleading advertisements." They were going to give guitar lessons, teach soccer, and instruct how to build a robot – but all were empty promises made by candidates during political campaigns and never fulfilled. Moses told me that when he heard that two girls (me and my friend) would be teaching English in the community he did not believe it, and did not even go to the first class because he believed we were just another group of politicians with more lies. He said I was the first person who had kept my word. This made me very emotional and was incredibly flattering, but at the same time I was indignant and furious. Would this be our next generation? One of hopeless and distrustful children? Do they also have to suffer the consequences of the irresponsible acts of adults and a dysfunctional society that builds its pillars on the Brazilian way? I just cannot accept that.

I long to be the antithesis of the "Brazilian way”. I feel obliged to fight to help these children and I believe that only education can make people impervious to the "Brazilian way.” No shortcuts. I want to go outside of the country, study Business and Education at the world's best educational institutions to come back and change the reality of my country through investments in education in my region and, if possible, in the country. I believe you lead a team not by giving orders, but by being an example. I want to create projects where I can implement quality education, and lead quality teachers to the riverside communities of the Amazon where I have personally witnessed the sad situation and stop the cycle of empty promises.

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Artifact Three - Peer-review coments

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Artifact Two - Letter to Your Inner Critic

Letter to your inner critic

I am proud of you for deciding to come to Boston, Northeastern, even when people told you not to do so. I am proud of you for not giving up living with your roommates even when you knew you could get hurt because you are different. I am proud of you for being kind. I am proud of you for not letting people’s ego affect your attitude. I am proud of your relationship with your family. I am proud of what you did last saturday. I am proud of you for leaving your comfort zone to go on a trip with people you “barely” knew. Did you see? It was amazing. You need to follow your heart sometimes. Ask God to protect you and let it go. The best things in life are unexpected.

I forgive you for your procrastination. I forgive you for not having studied enough for the exam. I forgive you for not being the perfect girl that you want to be. I forgive you for being sad sometimes. I forgive you for creating expectations.I forgive you for losing your time thinking about deteriorating things about yourself.

I commit to be a better person for you. I commit to go to the gym, to eat healthy, but to not go crazy about a diet. I commit to give you chocolate or ice cream when you need to. I commit to pray, to meditate, to read and to what the motivational videos that you love. I commit to study! I commit to study as much as I can till the end of the semester. I commit to learn spanish. I commit to take pictures (I know you love great pictures). I commit to enjoy your life and have fun with your friends. I commit to be happy… for you.

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Artifact One - Annotated Bibliography Before Revision

Introduction

Nowadays, people all around are suffering from eating disorders. These eating disorders, in the majority of the cases, happens because people cannot separate his/hers eating habits from his/hers emotions. Diseases like bulimia and anorexia are turning the teenager’s lives into a nightmare. Some studies showed that 1 in every 10 teenagers suffer from at least one type of eating disorder.

With the implantation of the media, teenagers are often comparing themselves with the amazing and beautiful “beach bodies” and with the media perception of “beauty”, it seems like everybody is striving for a perfection that is not real. In this Annotated Bibliography, I am going to show the points of a book, peer reviewed articles and two magazine articles that will help us to understand a little bit more the cause, the different profile of the people and how we can combat eating disorders, for example: The article “Dryden-Edwards, R. (2017, August 18) Emotional Eating.” Shows that there are multiple factors that influences a person to develop an eating disorder and the deep study like “Examination of emotion-induced changes in eating: A latent profile analysis of the emotional Appetite Questionnaire” from Bouldier, L., Morvan, Y., Kotbagi, G., Kern, L., Romo, L. & Berthoz, S will help us to identify the different profiles and what those people have in common.

12 Signs of Emotional Eating (and Why It is Bad For You). By Chua, C.

Eating disorders are more likely to happen with people that react to threatening and challenging situations by eating. They eat to avoid the sensation pf desperation. They eat because they do not know what else to do to comfort their emotions. Usually the foods that those people prefer are the ones with a lot of sugar, and no nutrition value. Ice-cream, chocolate or candy.

The people who suffer from emotional eating usually indicate that they also suffer from some type of depression, and that they tend to eat when they are going through a hard and stressing moment. “You eat as a response for your emotions. You eat when you feel sad / annoyed / disappointed / angry / lonely/ empty / anxious/ tired / bored. It’s a reaction so subconsciously embedded that you don’t even think about it. You just automatically reach out for food whenever you experience those emotions.” Chua, C. (2015) 12 Signs of Emotional Eating (and Why It is Bad For You). People who suffer from eating disorders report usually not having control of the quantity of food that they are eating, and that they also feel sad and anxious after the episode. “You eat even when you are not hungry, and you continue to eat even when you should have stopped long ago. Your desire to eat seems to have taken a life of its own. At times, you would even go out of the way just to get food or to satisfy a particular craving, even though you may not be hungry at all.” Chua, C. (2015) 12 Signs of Emotional Eating (and Why It is Bad For You)

Emotion-driven impulsiveness and snack food consumption of European adolescents. The Journal of Research in Appetite: Eating and drinking (p.152-159) by Coumans, J., Danner, U., Entermann, T., Decker., A., Hadjigeorgiou, C., Hunsberger, M., Moreno, L., Russo, P., Stomfai., Veidebaum, T., Adan, R. & Hebestreit, A. (2017)

Now it is recognized that emotions can affect food intake, some say they tend to eat even more when they are going through a problematic situation, but some also say they actually eat less. Coumans et al. utilize the Questionnaire method in order to investigate the association between emotion-driven impulsiveness and snack food consumption in European Adolescents “Questionnaires. Adolescents reported their date of birth and sex. Parents reported their highest educational level according to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) that was used as a proxy indicator for socioeconomic status (UNESCO, 2011).” (Coumans et al, 2017, p. 153). They demonstrate deep and profound studies addressing emotion-driven changes in eating habits and its causes and effects.

The majority of the teenagers are exposed to snacking, commercials and movies that actually shows these snacks as a reward. In the movie, when the girl is sad, what does she do? She eats ice cream watching movies. One of the preventions to emotion-induced eating is to teach, since the person is young, that dealing with emotions is important, and that food cannot be a reward. Coumans et al. intention with their research is to prevent the obesity and help people with Emotional Eating (EE) to treat their issues, “These findings have implications for obesity prevention and treatment as they indicate the importance of targeting emotion-driven impulsiveness as a strategy to avoid excessive snacking.” (Coumans et al., 2017, p. 152).

Emotional Eating. By Dryden-Edwards, R.

Eating disorders appear to have more than one factor as its cause. “Some research is consistent with girls and women being at higher risk for eating disorders, showing they are at higher risk for emotional eating. However, other research indicates that in some populations, men are more likely to eat in response to feeling depression or anger, and women were more likely to eat excessively in response to failing a diet.” (Dryden-Edwards, R. 2017, August 18 Emotional Eating).

There is a correlation with hormones such as the cortisol – the stress hormone, and the response of a person towards his/her emotions “Specifically, both tend to trigger the body's stress response, including increased heart and breathing rate, blood flow to muscles, and visual acuity. Part of the stress response often includes increased appetite to supply the body with the fuel it needs to fight or flee, resulting in cravings for so-called comfort foods” (Dryden-Edwards, R., 2017, August 18). The ones who have went through any type of abuse, family problems, or diseases usually have a high level of cortisol in their bloods. Usually people who can relate food as a “reward” or any type of consolation, can be more exposed to have eating disorders. These people try to fill an “empty spot” caused by their personal experiences with food. These people were taught to, somehow, connect food with well-being.

Examination of emotion-induced changes in eating: A latent profile analysis of the emotional Appetite Questionnaire. By Bouldier, L., Morvan, Y., Kotbagi, G., Kern, L., Romo, L. & Berthoz, S.

Bouldier et al. want to try to analyse, first of all, the profile of the people that suffer from emotional-induced eating utilize the Statistical method “Descriptive statistics were computed using means and standard deviations (SD) for continuous variables, and using counts and percentages for categorical variables” (Bouldier et al., 2017, p. 74) to relations with age, sex, BMI and risk for eating disorders “Questionnaires. Adolescents reported their date of birth and sex. Parents reported their highest educational level according to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) that was used as a proxy indicator for socioeconomic status (UNESCO, 2011).” (Bouldier et al., 2017, p. 153).

Bouldier et al. mention other studies in their research, for example:

“Further evidence for this idea comes from studies on the concept of emotional eating, i.e. eating when feeling emotional. One study found that adults scoring high on emotional eating reported a higher consumption of sweet and savoury foods, but not fruits and vegetables (Konttinen, Mannisto, Sarlio-Lahteenkorva, Silventoinen, & Haukkala, 2010).” (Bouldier et al.,., 2017, p.153)

Bouldier et al. report information of people from different ages and backgrounds. Bouldier et al. want to comprehend the reason beneath the emotion-induced changes and understand if there is correlation between different ages, sex and BMI. Bouldier et al. states the need for further investigations “These observations also add to the growing literature underscoring the importance of further investigating the role of different facets of impulsivity in triggering overeating and to develop more targeted interventions of EE.” (Bouldier et al., 2017, p 72)

The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health by Karen R. Koenig,

Some people use to have food as a compensation after facing a problematic situation, whether it is a hard day at work or after arguing with a friend. When reaching out for food after a hard situation is done occasionally, it is not harmful for the physical and mental health, but when it becomes a habit, people start to see food as a “reward product” and there is where the eating disorder can be developed. “An extraordinary, powerful connection exists between feeling and feeding” Karen R. Koenig, 2007

Most of the people who suffer from Bulimia or Anorexia do not know how to deal with their emotions. They tend to feel incapable of dealing with frustration without food. Reaching out for help, therapy, and trying to start dealing with these emotions can help to combat eating disorders., as Karen T. Koenig addresses in her book. She focused on trying to help people all around the world that think they are alone when in the reality they are not. There are thousands of people out there suffering from the same problem that some address as “not real”. She encourages those with any type of emotional-induced eating to reach out for help; because nobody deserves to live a life filled with pain and anxiety.

References

Bouldier, L., Morvan, Y., Kotbagi, G., Kern, L., Romo, L. & Berthoz, S. (2017)

Examination of emotion-induced changes in eating: A latent profile analysis of the emotional Appetite Questionnaire.

Dryden-Edwards, R. (2017, August 18) Emotional Eating. Retrieved from

https://www.medicinenet.com/emotional_eating/article.htm

Coumans, J., Danner, U., Entermann, T., Decker., A., Hadjigeorgiou, C., Hunsberger, M.,

Moreno, L., Russo, P., Stomfai., Veidebaum, T., Adan, R. & Hebestreit, A. (2017) Emotion-driven impulsiveness and snack food consumption of European adolescents.

Chua, C. (2015) 12 Signs of Emotional Eating (and Why It is Bad For You). Retrieved from

https://personalexcellence.co/blog/signs-of-emotional-eating/

Karen R. Koenig, 2007, The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health.

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Annotated Bibliography - Revised

Introduction

Nowadays, people from all around are suffering from eating disorders. These eating disorders, in the majority of the cases, happens because people cannot separate his/hers eating habits from his/her emotions. Diseases like bulimia and anorexia are turning the teenager’s lives into a nightmare. Some studies showed that 1 in every 10 teenagers suffer from at least one type of eating disorder. With the implantation of the social media, teenagers are often comparing themselves with the amazing and beautiful “beach bodies” and with the media perception of “beauty”, it seems like everybody is striving for a perfection that is not real. In this Annotated Bibliography, I am going try to answer my research question ““what is the relationship between stress and eating habits?” showing the points of a book, peer reviewed articles and magazine articles that will help us to understand a little bit more about the cause, the different profile of the people and how we can combat eating disorders, for example: The article “Dryden-Edwards, R. (2017, August 18) Emotional Eating.” Shows that there are multiple factors that influences a person to develop an eating disorder and the deep study like “Examination of emotion-induced changes in eating: A latent profile analysis of the emotional Appetite Questionnaire” from Bouldier, L., Morvan, Y., Kotbagi, G., Kern, L., Romo, L. & Berthoz, S will help us to identify the different profiles and what those people have in common.

Chua, C. (2015) 12 Signs of Emotional Eating (and Why It is Bad For You). Retrieved from https://personalexcellence.co/blog/signs-of-emotional-eating/

The article lists twelve main signs of emotional eating. Chua says that eating disorders are more likely to happen with people that react to threatening and challenging situations by eating. They eat to avoid the sensation of desperation. They eat because they do not know what else to do to comfort their emotions. The twelve signs that he researched were: You eat when you are stressed; You eat as a response to your emotions; You seek solace in food; You have trouble losing weight (due to the way you eat); Your eating is out of control (You can’t stop yourself from eating); You eat to feel happy; You eat when you feel happy; You are fascinated with eating / food; You use emotionally-charged words to describe food / eating; You eat even though you are rightfully full; You think of eating even though you are rightfully full; You have random food cravings out of the blue

Chua wrote this article in order to help people to be aware about the signs of emotional eating. His audience is people who do not have the academic knowledge about eating disorders. Chu’s personal blog “Personal Excellence” is one of the top personal development sites in the world. She aims to help adolescents to recognize and treat emotional reactions to different aspects of life. She has been invited to speak at different well-known institutions such as Wharton Business School and The Asia Business Forum. This helps me to answer my research question “what is the relationship between stress and eating habits?” in a way that it shows the connection between food and stressing and lists and provide 12 signs of emotional eating.

Coumans, J., Danner, A., ntermann, T., Decker., J., Hadjigeorgiou, C., Hunsberger, M., Moreno, L., Russo, P., Stomfai., Veidebaum, T., Adan, R. & Hebestreit, A. (2017) Emotion-driven impulsiveness and snack food consumption of European adolescents.

Presently, people are aware that our emotions can have a negative effect in our eating habits, some say they tend to eat even more when they are going through a problematic situation, but some also say they actually eat less. Coumans et al. study the relation between impulsive and emotional attitudes and snacking among Adolescents. Coumans et al. purpose with their studies is to prevent Bulimia, Anorexia and Obesity and help people with Eating Disorders to treat their issues.

Roger Adan, one of the authors of the article is a Professor of Molecular Pharmacology who have been trying to help people to find a solution for emotional eating through researches in the neuroscience field. This article is important to answer my research question because this studies aimed to investigate the association between emotion-driven impulsiveness and snack food consumption.

Dryden-Edwards, R. (2017, Aug 18) Emotional Eating. Retrieved from https://www.medicinenet.com/emotional_eating/article.htm

In this article, Dryden-Edwards shows that people who went through some kind of trauma are more likely to have emotional eating, because the ones who have went through any type of abuse, family problems, or diseases usually have a high level of cortisol (the stress hormone) in their bloods. And there is a correlation between stress level and emotional eating “Part of the stress response often includes increased appetite to supply the body with the fuel it needs to fight or flee, resulting in cravings for so-called comfort foods” (Dryden-Edwards, R., 2017, August 18). Roxanne Dryden-Edwards is an adolescent psychiatrist. She is part of the Committee of Developmental Disabilities for the American Psychiatric Association. Dr Roxanne wrote the book “Infertility from Both Sides of the Stethoscope: A Guide from a Doctor Who's Been There”. Druden-Edwards is an especialist in mental-health issues and her main goal is to educate the general public about mental diseases. She does it by speeches in different schools and national organizations This peer-reviewed article is important to answer my research question because it shows in depth wy when we are stressed we tend to crave the “comfort foods”.

Bouldier, L., Morvan, Y., Kotbagi, G., Kern, L., Romo, L. & Berthoz, Y. (2017) Examination of emotion-induced changes in eating: A latent profile analysis of emotional Appetite Questionnaire.

Bouldier et al. analyse in this study, first of all, the profile of the people that suffer from emotional-induced eating. They want to find the correlations with age, sex, BMI and risk for eating disorders. Bouldier et al. report information of people from different ages and backgrounds, they desire to understand the reason and the cause of emotion-induced attitudes.They end their studies saying that they need further investigations when it comes to overeating and impulsivity.

Gayatri Kotbagi, one of the writers of this article was graduated from Université Grenoble Alpes and she is the author of several articles that provide information about gambling and impulsivity, addictions and food disorders. Sylvie Berthoz, other writer from this article graduated from L'Institut Mutualiste Montsouris. She is the writer of more than 15 articles about depression and emotional eating like “Are emotionally driven and addictive-like eating behaviors the missing links between psychological distress and greater body weight?” and “Predictive factors for outcome in adolescents with anorexia nervosa: To what extent does parental Expressed Emotion play a role?”. This peer-reviewed article is important to help me to answer my research question because it is studying the reason behind emotional eating. Not only the reason, but also the relation between people who usually have it and which group tend to suffer from it more.

The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health by Karen R. Koenig,

Some people use to have food as a compensation after facing a problematic situation whether it is a hard day at work or after arguing with a friend. When reaching out for food after a hard situation is done occasionally, it is not harmful for the physical and mental health, but when it becomes a habit, people start to see food as a “reward product” and there is where the eating disorder can be developed. “An extraordinary, powerful connection exists between feeling and feeding” Karen R. Koenig, 2007. Most of the people who suffer from Bulimia or Anorexia do not know how to deal with their emotions. They tend to feel incapable of dealing with frustration without food. Reaching out for help, therapy, and trying to start dealing with these emotions can help to combat eating disorders.

Karen R. Koenig, is a licensed psychotherapist, motivational speaker and international author who has specialized in the field of compulsive, emotional and restrictive eating for more than 30 years. She received a B.A. from Boston University, an M.Ed. from Antioch College. Karen T. Koenig focuses on trying to help people all around the world that think they are alone when in the reality they are not. There are thousands of people out there suffering from the same problem that some address as “not real”. She encourages those with any type of emotional-induced eating to reach out for help; because nobody deserves to live a life filled with pain and anxiety. Her book helped me to answer my research question because it explains that people who don’t know how to deal with their emotions are usually the ones who have emotional eating. These people are always stressed and worried, and they usually run to food whenever they’re feeling this way.

References

Bouldier, L., Morvan, Y., Kotbagi, L., Kern, L., Romo, L. & Berthoz, Y. (2017) Examination of emotion-induced changes in eating: A latent profile analysis of emotional Appetite Questionnaire.

Chua, C. (2015) 12 Signs of Emotional Eating (and Why It is Bad For You). Retrieved from https://personalexcellence.co/blog/signs-of-emotional-eating/

Coumans, J., Danner, A., Entermann, T., Decker., J., Hadjigeorgiou, C., Hunsberger, M., Moreno, L., Russo, P., Stomfai., Veidebaum, T., Adan, R. & Hebestreit, A. (2017) Emotion-driven impulsiveness and snack food consumption of European adolescents.

Dryden-Edwards, R. (2017, Aug 18) Emotional Eating. Retrieved from https://www.medicinenet.com/emotional_eating/article.htm

Karen R. Koenig, 2007, The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health.

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Rhetorical Analysis - Revised

The author presents a comparison between currently and modern days and the “old inefficient socialist states” with the goal to make a claim about how we should be improving the type of jobs that exists, not the contrary. He claims that people can even be working 50 hour a week on paper, but effectively working 15 hours just as Maynard Keynes (the British economist) predicted, since the rest of their time is spent organizing or attending motivational seminars, updating their Facebook profiles or downloading TV box-sets. He dees that in order to invoke the audience’s emotion to gain acceptance and approval for the ideas expressed. He says that the answer for the problem of “insufficient productive” is not economic, but moral and political. He finishes his argument pointing that, Clearly, the system was never consciously designed. It emerged from almost a century of trial and error. For him, that’s the only explanation for why, despite our technological capacities, we are not all working 3-4 hour days.

David Graeber, an anthropologist, anarchist activist and the author of the article “Why Capitalism Creates Pointless Jobs.”, offers his opinion about the “technological world” and its advantage and disadvantages when it comes to “new jobs”. In the article, he includes information about how the British economist Maynard Kayne predicted that technology would make people work less although he disagrees with his argument. Graeber claims that contrary to what Kayne predicted, the capitalist world is making people work more. He provides the information about Mayanard Kayne without saying that he is an economist because he is assuming that his public already know who he is. Graber’s audience is people who are interested in the capitalism and the consequences of the technological world in today’s society, like for example, an economics student.

In the second paragraph Graeber emphasizes the fact that people are choosing “more toys and pleasures than time” and also calls people’s attention when he says that “We’ve collectively chosen the latter” putting this affirmation as a morality problem. He Asks questions such as “So what are these new jobs precisely?” so he can explain his thoughts about the “Jobs created by the Capitalism”. He gives data about the amount of “productive jobs” and “nonproductive jobs” in order to provide evidence about his explanations.. “But rather than allowing a massive reduction of working hours to free the world’s population to pursue their own projects, pleasures, visions, and ideas, we have seen the ballooning….”, Graeber emphasizes this reduction by using an adjective like “massive” which shows the degree of reduction, also, by saying “to free the world’s population” He exaggerates when he writes about people being affected by this issue. He extends the effect of this issue to the world, which capture’s a reader’s attention because he’s speaking about the majority—that it affects all of us. Graeber believes that in order for people to have a better life they need to work less hours and prioritize their time.

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