Introduction to Piece One

The piece of writing that best demonstrates my critical thinking is essay #3. The assignment for this essay was to analyze how a specific pop culture trend has challenged a tradition and impacted society as a whole. For this essay I chose to write about the traditional family dinner and how it was being challenged by the trend of eating out. Although the topic for my essay was pleasing to write about, it was a challenging essay to write. I felt myself slipping into comparison and contrast at times instead of analyzing the tradition being challenged. "One tradition that would be challenged by pop culture is family recipes. If a family eats out all of the time, there is neither a favorite recipe nor the chance to teach a son or daughter how to make it. “I feel this sentence shows the type of analytical thinking that was put into my essay.