Banana Research

Researching bananas was a bit of a challenge, but nonetheless, I didn't know that workers had to spray a certian pesticide to have the banana ripen and be sent out to consumers. Also, if you look carefully at the blue sticker on bananas from the Chiquita company, they have that certain Latin American woman on it, which is suppose to represent a famous singer, Carmen. (There were a lot of stereotypes of Latin American woman, and the Chiquita girl got really popular). I can use this information by showing the historical facts and why bananas were popular in my essay just as Polland wrote about Johnny Appleseed. I found this information by researching online at the databases and by looking at the course reserves at ANTPAC. I found all this information by going to the library drop-in session, and saw what other students were using to research bananas last year (course reserve) and by browsing through some of the books by looking at the table of contents and what most suited for my thesis. In class, the professor mentioned something about Carmen Miranda and so, I researched her up looking at historical facts about bananas and how they came to be. I also looked at particular databases like Worldwide Political Science Abstracts and Expanded Academic ASAP. On the essay, I had to keep on reminding myself what my main focus was on the essay and what I was trying to convince my readers. This essay was challenging in a way to not make it a five paragraph essay and be strong and not have a passive voice.