Your Favorite Food

1) Choose your favorite food item or the major ingredient of your favorite food item.

2) Explain where it came from all the way back to its original agricultural hearth.

3) Find out who (what country) is the biggest producer of that food item or ingredient in the world today and how much do they produce.

4) Find out how much of that food or major ingredient is consumed in the USA each year.

5) Include your reliable source(s) of info (URL address).

Include your first name, last initial, and class period in your comment, with 1-5 above, by 11:59pm on 5/2/16.

Culture Then and Now

First -- Read/skim 1 or all of the links below to get an idea of the culture of the USA about 100 years ago:
Zero Hedge
Rense
About
US News
Twitter
Daily Mail

Second -- choose one aspect of  USA culture that has changed since 100 or so years ago that you think has been the biggest positive change.  Write it down, and explain why you feel this cultural change has been so positive.

Third -- choose one aspect of  USA culture that has changed in the last 100 or so years that you think has been the biggest negative change.  Write it down, and explain why you feel this cultural change has been so negative.

Fourth -- choose one aspect of  USA culture currently that you think will change in a major way in the next 50 or so years.  Write it down, and explain why you feel this cultural change will happen.

Put your first name, last initial, and class period in the comments to this post.  This is a 5 point assignment due by 11:59pm on 4/20/16.