The wages of sin francine prose

Assignment 1 and Assignment 2
Subject
Humanities

Question Description
Please read the instruction below. This doesn't need any kind of format. I will write the discussion questions for every assign reading below.

You have been assigned a reading selection indicated below. Choose any one of the DISCUSSION questions at the end of your assigned reading selection and answer it thoroughly in a paragraph (7-10 sentences minimum) using one cited quote from the text, Acting Out Culture, for support. You must identify the reading selection title and the question you are answering.

Assignment 1: Acting Out Culture: Chapter 3--

The Ethics of Eating Meat (By Paul Schwennesen)

Discussion Question; Schwennesen refers to the practice of eating meat as " biological imperative" (page 178). Do you agree? What attitude toward meat eating doeas this phrase suggest?

Add Cake, Subtract Self-Esteem ( Caroline Knapp)

Discussion question: Knapp begins her personal account of anorexia by referring to the " lure of staring" (page 188). How do you react to this provocative phrase? In your view, is it possible for something as harrowing and harmful as self-starvation to feel so compelling or desirable? If so, how?

The Wages of Sin ( By Francine Prose)

Discussion question: Elsewhere in this essay Prose writes, " The so-called glutton is walking rebuke to our self control, our self denial, and to our shaky faith that we watch ourselves, then surely death cannot touch us." What exactly does she mean by this? Do you think she is right? In what ways do we use the images and examples of those body types that regarded in our culture as deficient or abnormal as role models for what not to be ourselves?