There Is A House In New Orleans They Call The Rising Sun

Act 1:
The title is a reference to the song 'House Of The Rising Sun' by the band The Animals. This was the first song that was played while me and my fellow students were in the Starbucks lobby. It was past 1:00 and the lunch rush had been over for some time. However, the line at Starbucks was quite long and many students were waiting to taste their macchiatos, lattes and frappuccinos. Each person individually gave their order to a barista and moved down the line to the cash register to pay for their order. After they had paid, some of the students stood near the counter anxiously waiting for their order. Those who were standing either stood there blankly and did not socialize with anyone around them, others were with friends and talking about their day, one was on his cellphone, and two shared a bagel while waiting. Others sat down to socialize with others, watch the daily events on CNN or had pulled a book and started reading. As the barista shouted out the orders and the names of the people that had ordered, the students thanked the barista,grabbed their drinks and many of them left. The few that did stay continued socializing with their friends about topics ranging from relationships to global politics. Only a handful were reading or watching television. On the other end of the spectrum, some of the students did not come here to drink coffee but to eat a salad or buy a bottled drink such as tea or water. These individuals quickly moved in front of the line, paid for their goods, and left the lobby not having to deal with the long line or the patient wait for their order.

Act 2:

Adams, Carol, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminists-Vegetarian Critical Theory

Anderson, E.N, Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture

Belasco, Warren, Meals To Come: A History of the Future of Food

Kulick, Don and Anne Meneley, Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession

Lappe, Frances Moore and Joseph Collins, World Hunger: Twelve Myths

Millman, Marcia, Such A Pretty Face: Being Fat In America

Schlosser, Eric, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Singer, Peter and Jim Mason, The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

Sobal, Jefferey and Donna Maurer, Weighty Issues: Fatness and Thinness As Social Problems

Van Esterik, Penny, Right to Food; Right to Feed; Right to Fed; the Intersection of Woman's Rights and the Right to Food

Wenche Barth, Eide and Uwe Kracht, Human Rights and Development

Witt, Doris, Black Hunger: Food and the Politics of U.S. Identity

From what I have gathered from my sources, it seems that I am interested in the political aspect of food. The topics that these sources range from include woman's rights, obesity, world hunger, and the future of food. I believe that food and politics intertwined because of my interest in how food influences politics. From what I remember, food became an important topic because Michelle Obama wanted to create a program that would curve obesity in America. Right now, obesity is a problem in America and the availability of cheap, unhealthy food is not solving the problem. If this problem is not solved many social, political and economic changes could occur not only in the United States but throughout the world Likewise, world hunger is a problem and some communities in this world find it difficult to gather food for themselves or for their families. However, the sources that interested me was food and the advancement of woman's rights. How food and woman's rights go together baffles me and I am interested in knowing how this works and if food is still advancing woman's rights today. It was only ninety years ago when woman obtained the right vote and it be interesting to see if another phenomenon related to woman's rights would occur in our time.