Summer 2010 English 1C Journal Entries: All in One Page for Your Convenience

On the syllabus we have 14 entries, but we've cut them down to 12: Here are the 12:

Entry One: In a page, define the conditions you need to be happy and explain if you may have been pursuing a type of happiness that is not happiness at all but Darwinian domination, hedonism, or something else. 

Entry Two: Write about 3 happiness fallacies you or someone you know has.  

Entry Three: Think of the happiest person you know and write down 5 qualities that this person has that you think create happiness. Or, regarding today's alternative introduction, write about a time you were disenchanted with the idea of happiness. 

Entry Four: In a half page, answer the following: Do you eat meat? Why? Why not? Could you continue to eat meat if you saw how the animal you're eating is killed? Explain.

Entry Five: O

n a scale of 0-10, how aware are you of the animal's suffering when you eat it? Also, if you became more aware of an animal's suffering during its killing and butchering, would you be less likely to eat meat? Explain.

Entry Six: 

How has your reading about animal rights and vegetarianism influenced or affected your eating habits? And how has your reading affected which direction you're going to take your essay? Explain.

Entry Seven: What percentage of the food do you eat is processed and what percentage is real food? What obstacles prevent you from eating more real food and eating less processed food?

Entry Eight: In light of the research we’ve covered, what is your attitude toward the Western Diet? How dependent on the Western Diet are you? Emotionally, financially, socially, and culturally, how difficult would it be, or not, to reject the Western diet and eat more like our caveman ancestors.

Entry Nine: Write down the Top 5 Things you want to change in your eating habits since studying food for this class.  

Entry Ten:  Write about a father you know who struggles with his own internal war and the sublimation strategies he depends on to behave in a tame, civil manner. Or Second Option: Write about a man-child, a physical adult who suffers from Peter Pan Syndrome and use this profile to compare to Francis Weed.

Entry Eleven: Write about you or someone you know who, like Neddy Merrill, has confused noble ambition with grandiosity. 

Entry Twelve: Write about a couple you know whose relationship mirrors that of Will and Maria. Or write about a jealous person you know whose jealousy results in insanity.