For my midterm assignment I have decided to research Alice Waters. Alice Waters is an author, chef, and the owner of the restaurant Chez Panisse She has followed the culinary philosophy that all cooking should be done using the freshest and finest seasonal ingredients that are locally produced and sustainably produced .
The early years of Alice Louise Waters were that she was born on April 28, 1944 in Chatham, New Jersey She attended the University of Berkeley, which is in California, and she had studied a semester abroad in Paris Editors She graduated from the University of Berkeley in 1967 with a degree in French cultural studies After she graduated from the University of Berkeley she had begun training as a chef in London at the Montessori School Waters had spent a year in France where she was learning the French cooking technique and while in France she had developed a passion for unique fresh food, which would come straight from a farm and go right to the plate Alice Waters is known as a restaurateur because
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her and her friend Lindsey Shere in 1971 had decided to open up a restaurant, which was located in Berkeley and the restaurant was called Chez Panisse In 1983, Alice Waters had a baby and she had to hire another chef to do the cooking for her at the Chez Panisse restaurant All of the ingredients that are used in the restaurant are purchased from local farmers and the menu has healthy food choices on it, which encourages its customers to eat healthy Alice Waters has written several cookbooks since the opening of her restaurant and as of 2013, her restaurant Chez Panisse is continuing to maintain its reputation as being one of the finest restaurants that is in the world Alice Waters is also known as a food activist, which means that she is very passionate about locally produced foods, healthy food choices, as well being concerned for obesity that is in America She wanted to spread her message of purchasing locally produced foods, eating healthy, and her concerns for obesity beyond her restaurant Chez Panisse and the customers that go to the restaurant Alice Waters and her chef Jerome Wang form Chez Panisse in September 2013, both had led a petition against California fracking, voicing their concerns that fracking has on agriculture According to the article Alice Waters Biography it states, Alice Waters has created many organizations throughout her lifetime. She had created the Edible Schoolyard Project in 1996 at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Berkeley due to her commitment to education, and through this program students have the ability to grow their own fruits and vegetables and they also learn how to cook what they have grown The Edible Schoolyard at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School, which is located in Berkeley California, is a learning lab and a demonstration site where teachers have the opportunity to teach their students about edible foods The Edible Schoolyard Berkeley is an organic garden and kitchen classroom that is one acre and it is for those students who attend the middle school. In this program all of the students who attend the middle school have the opportunity to participate in the growing, planting, and cooking of nutritious foods that they have grown either during the school day or after school is over Students who are in this program are given hands on experience because they have the opportunities to work in the kitchen classroom to prepare foods from the fruits and vegetables that they have grown By having the students participate in the growing of their own fruits and vegetables they are promoting a healthy lifestyle of eating fresh and healthy foods that are locally grown and they have the ability to prepare healthy foods at home as well In the spring of 1995, there was an abandoned lot that was located next to the middle school and the lot had been turned into the garden site This garden site serves students that go to the middle school with learning experiences that are hands on The land that the garden site is on has been filled with seasonal flowers, berries, vegetables, herbs, and it even has fruit trees The teachers at the middle school, as well as the garden staff both work together to connect the science lessons that the students are learning with the garden The Edible Schoolyard Berkeley had developed its own curriculum that consists of sixty two lessons, which edible education learning goals, as well as the Common Core State Standards for California are being met This program establishes the values and the knowledge that we need in order to build a sustainable future This program has been recognized nationally because it combines cooking and gardening into the school’s curriculum She also founded the Chez Panisse Foundation in 1996 as well, and this foundation was to help to fund school gardens and to support the Schoolyard The Chez Panisse Foundation was established to encourage the use of food to teach children By having the support from the Chez Panisse Foundation and the success from The Edible Schoolyard, Waters had the ability to establish another program, which is known as the School Lunch Initiative, which is a program that will provide nutritious school lunches to students and the lunches are actually made with ingredients that were grown by the students She also established a Garden Project, which supplied the San Francisco Country Jail with fresh produce for the people and her program also offered jobs to those that were recently let out of prison She also created a nonprofit organization called Slow Food International and is the vice president of this organization, which supports food traditions that are local Alice Waters became inspired to create these different organizations because she wanted to increase and promote an individual’s awareness and availability of foods that are located grown and foods that are sustainable for our environment Her passion for locally grown and healthy food as well as her concern for obesity in American has inspired her to promote her message to all individuals not just to her customers at the Chez Panisse restaurant The significance of Alice Water’s work is that she has created many different organizations where she is promoting the eating of healthy foods the growing of fruits of vegetables that are locally produced, and that she focuses on obesity that is becoming a problem in America Alice Waters’s matters because she has created so many different organizations that promote the eating and using of locally produced foods Alice Water’s contribution on making the community more sustainable is that she is an advocate of sustainable food. The other contributions that Alice Water’s has made in the world is that she has created several different organizations such as Edible Schoolyard Project, Chez Panisse Foundation, School Lunch Initiative, a Garden Project, and Slow Food International In my opinion I feel that Alice Water’s is a very important change maker in the world because I agree with her that we need to eat healthy foods that are locally grown because by eating healthy foods we will be promoting a healthy lifestyle and by promoting a healthy lifestyle we will be trying to reduce obesity.
I also like how Alice Waters created the Edible Schoolyard Project because I think that it is great for children to have hands on experience with growing their own fruits and vegetables and then learning how to cook with what they have grown. I wish when I was in elementary school there was a program that allowed students to plant and grow our own fruits and vegetables because it would I have taught us about eating healthy at a young age. Even though they didn’t have a program like the Edible Schoolyard Program when I was in school I feel that I eat healthy because I was taught by my parents what was healthy for you and what was
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today as a great journalist and activist. Her organizations that she formed long ago such
Alice Cogswell was an incredible little girl from the 1800s who helped to change the course of history for deaf people everywhere. Alice was one of the first and most prominent figures in the creation of ASL as well as an education system for American deaf people. She became this brave pioneer at only 9 years old.
...g statistics about the public’s health and make the future seem bleak, “the lifespan is shortening for new American children” (Pastor) and “ one in three children born after the year 2010 will develop type II diabetes” (Pastor). Pastor says that he is shocked by the impact and wants to break away from the cycle created. In his closing statements he convinces the audience to break away from the cycle away as well, by drawing on the seeds he planted with pathos, ethos, and logos. The film was well made and addressed all the issues of “organic” food and well informed the audience of what is occurring. Next time, an audience member goes to the supermarket to buy food they will probably remember what their children will look like in twenty years if they don’t take a more “organic” approach to their lives.
Alice Walker, through her essay "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens", and Paule Marshall, in "Poets In The Kitchen", both write about the African-American women of the past and how these women have had an impact on their writing. Walker and Marshall write about an identity they have found with these women because of their exposure to the African culture. These women were searching for independence and freedom. Walker expresses independence as found in the creative spirit, and Marshall finds it through the spoken word. Walker and Marshall celebrate these women's lives and they see them as inspirations to become black women writers.
To read the Civil War diary of Alice Williamson, a 16 year old girl, is to meander through the personal, cultural and political experience of both the author and one's self. Her writing feels like a bullet ricocheted through war, time, death, literary form, femininity, youth, state, freedom and obligation. This investigation attempts to do the same; to touch on the many issues that arise in the mind of the reader when becoming part of the text through the act of reading. This paper will lay no definitive claims to the absolute meaning of the diary, for it has many possible interpretations, for the journey is the ultimate answer. I seek to acknowledge the fluidity of thought when reading, a fluidity which incorporates personal experience with the content of Williamson's journal. I read the journal personally- as a woman, a peer in age to Alice Williamson, a surrogate experiencialist, a writer, an academic and most of all, a modern reader unaccustomed to the personal experience of war. I read the text within a context- as a researcher versed on the period, genre, aesthetics, and to some degree the writer herself. The molding of the personal and contextual create a rich personalized textual meaning .
Critical Essays on Alice Walker. Ed. By Ikenna Dieke. Greenwood Press, Westpoint, Connecticut, London, 1999
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Alice Walker's short fictional story, "Nineteen Fifty-five", revolves around the encounters among Gracie Mae Still, the narrator, and Traynor, the "Emperor of Rock and Roll." Traynor as a young prospective singer purchases a song from Mrs. Still, which becomes his "first hit record" and makes him rich and famous. Yet, he does not "even understand" the song and spends his entire life trying to figure out "what the song means." The song he sings seems as fictional as certain events in this story, but as historical as Traynor's based character, Elvis Presley.
• Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia. She was born into a poor sharecropper family, and the last of eight children.
Before the Civil Rights Movement, which took place from 1955-1968, African-Americans had a difficult time establishing an identity and their rights. However, for many African-Americans, the Civil Rights Movement developed a purpose for one’s life and progressed African-Americans’ status and rights in society. Although some people may argue that the Civil Rights Movement was not productive and only caused conflict and havoc, due to the majority of African-Americans still employed in low-level jobs and many towns affected by the Civil Rights Movement being torn apart and degraded, those effects were only temporary and tangible to others. The Movement had a much more profound effect of giving one a purpose or “spark” in life, which later led to African-Americans demanding more rights and equal status in society.
Alice Walker's Literature “Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence” -Alice Walker (Lewis n.pag) Walker is considered to be an African American novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and activist. Most of her literature is mostly from her personal experiences and is moral to a number of African Americans all over the world. Walker defines herself as a “womanist” which means “the prophetic voice concerned about the well-being of the entire African American community, male and female, adults and children.
Alice Walker was born on February 9th 1944 and was born in Eatonton GA. She is the author of the novel, The Color Purple and was an American author, poet and self-activist. Also Alice Malsenior Walker is still living today and is currently 69 years old. Alice Walker was married to Melvin Leventhal and they were married to each other in 1967 and separated in 1977. Walker was the youngest in her family held with eight children and her parents were Tallulah Grant and Willie Lee Walker, who were sharecroppers. Then in 1961 Alice Walker left Eatonton for Spelman college, a prominent school for black women in Atlanta, on a state scholarship (Biography of Alice Walker). Furthermore she then transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and studied the involvement in civil rights.
Alice Walker pours events and conflicts from her life into her works, using her rural roots as settings and Ebonics she brings her stories to life. Everyday Use and The Color Purple reflected the negative views Alice walker took upon herself because of her deformity. While also showing how things were in the Jim Crow era; where African-Americans were not afforded the same opportunities of whites. These two works explore events from her entire family, not just events she faced solely on her own. While also having the same rural setting as Walker’s Georgia upbringing. In this paper, I will go into detail of Alice’s two works Everyday Use and The Color Purple and what events are reflected in these works.
Whitted, Qiana. "Alice Walker (b. 1944)." New Georgia Encyclopedia. N.p., 4 Sept. 2013. Web. 9 Oct. 2013.
The definition of sociology is the study of society. Social criticism is the practice of analyzing a literary work by examining the cultural, political and economical context in which it was written or received. Alice Walker’s work demonstrates this type criticism very well; from The Color Purple to Everyday Use, or any of her earlier short stories. The majority of her work reveals the struggle of African Americans in society, especially women. Furthermore, her stories mirror a lot of the social characteristic that were taking place in America, from the 1940’s on; thus, making Alice Walker the epitome of sociological criticisms.