Does Microwaving Veggies Kill the Nutrients?

The best way to get noticed in the world now is through the internet media.  Many websites post new stories on their home pages trying to get consumers to read them if the headline catches their eye.  That’s exactly what Shape magazine did.  They posted an article entitled “Does microwaving kill the nutrients?”  The headline caught my attention because I along with many others am concerned with my health.  Plus, they posted the article on the Yahoo! homepage in the middle of the screen that scrolls through all of the top news stories for the day.  The benefits of posting it there are that it has the possibility to grab the viewer’s attention more by having color and having a catchy headline with only a teaser of what the article is about, whereas, a newspaper would be in black and white and is easily skimmed over.  

Right off the bat the article asks the headline questions and instantly tells the reader that microwaves do NOT kill nutrients.  This immediately satisfies the reader’s worries about what they have been eating for their whole life.  With this out of the way, the author focuses more on the positive effects of microwaves and teaching the reader how to get proper nutrients from vegetables.  

This method is a very effective way to raise people’s awareness about how to better take care of themselves.  It scares them into reading an article that they might have otherwise just skimmed over and just thought that microwaves were the best thing ever made.  Now the reader knows exactly what ways they can benefit from boiling, microwaving, or sautéing vegetables.  Also, with this internet article, it includes related stories with links in the article.  Those headlines could lead to the viewer learning even more to make him healthier. 

 http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/does-microwaving-veggies-kill-nutrients-190700707.html

And Justice for All by Khalil Bendib

At first, all you see is a two faced person but upon further examination you make out the symbols that the artist uses.  The lighter side of the picture depicts a blindfolded person with a sword in his hand turned down.  Symbolizing life is a more difficult task than symbolizing death, but with the white background and the white robes the illustrator is definitely using the white man’s version of life.  The right hand side of the picture is dark and gloomy, quite obviously the death side.  It contains the grim reaper bearing his scythe and the term “death row.”  Of course, after noticing all of the symbols then you start to see the writing on the side.  The lighter side is labeled “WHITES” and the darker side is labeled “COLORED.”  The illustrator wants the viewer to see how the justice system works.  He indicates that the prisoners were sentenced to death based on the color of their skin.  By opening up this window to the world he expands the thinking on racial bias.  It still exists today especially when there is judgment involved.  The problem with this bias is that it would save guilty lives and end innocent ones. 

Also, the vast contrast between black and white in the drawing already makes your mind associate with the illustrator’s point.  When you see black, you think of death and consequently also of the black culture.  Before you even read the words in the picture you already have an idea of what the cartoon is about.  This is a major problem for everyone involved if the mind already has an unknown racial bias.