3. There Are No Fat People in Paris

       Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote an article on her own personalized experience in Paris. The article "There are no Fat People in Paris" is genuinely about how the evironment of the city Paris itself helps people stay skinny. "There are stairs everywhere and the stairs are all but mandatory"(Coates). She mentions that even though there is an elevator somwhere, it makes her feel guilty to take it because the country has a strong culture of pedestrianism. Also barely having any air conditioning in almost every place she went, she realized that you sweat a lot. In this way she would go talking about many things she had felt and realized while in Paris. She also constrasts America with Paris. She says out straightforward how America feels more like a "free" place than Paris. "There's more choice, and a strong desire to deliver that choice at the lowest cost possible. There's no sense in France that "the customer is always right." This city is very old " (Coates). Readers can assume that the author is having a hard time living with their culture and tradition. She wraps up her conclusion by saying that what ever the tradition, culture, that is who we are.

       Coate's personal opinions about Paris is cleary shown in her paper. The way she looks at their culture and contrasts it with her home country is done very specifically. She gives many examples of the lifestyle of people in Paris to show the readers what it's like. Throughout the entire article, she compares and contrasts the both countries--America and Paris. Most of the time after mentioning something about Paris, she constrasts it by saying something about the other country in the next sentence. After that she makes a comment on what she thinks. Her observations of the culture and lifestyle of people showed distinct difference between the two countries. She sees herself making all these observations and conclusions and evaluates herself as a reformist rather than a revolutionist. She concludes by realizing that tradition affects the cost of living for actual people and this is culture. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/there-are-no-fat-people-in-paris/278162/