... There are many different formats for writing a compare and contrast essay. For the purpose of this assignment, we will focus on the most common format called the Feature by Feature Format, where we compare and contrast (similarities and differences) between two subjects (i.e. Singapore versus Trinidad, etc.) on three different features about the subjects (i.e. geography, people, and food, etc.) Basic Structure: |1st Paragraph – Introduction | |General Topic Sentence(s) – catch the reader’s attention | |Brief background information about the two subjects | |THESIS STATEMENT | |Brief overview of the three features you are comparing and contrasting | |2nd Paragraph –Personality Inventory | |Transition word/phrase ...
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...Guanlin Situ EWS 301.02 Prof Banh 5-14-2013 The Westernized Panda As the melting pot, “the United States has the largest ethnic Chinese population outside Asia” (Zhou 43). When people choose to step in the melting pot, their original identities will be blurred in some ways, languages, daily habits, religions, and the most important element, which is food. Panda Express, a fast casual restaurant serving American Chinese cuisine, is one of the most popular places that serving orange chicken. The company was founded in 1983 by Andrew Cherng, Peggy Cherng and Ming Tsai Cherng. It is also the largest chain of Asian fast food restaurants in the United States. As of year 2011, the company has approximately 1500 restaurants covering 42 states and Puerto Rico. To a sector that was used to be dominated by American fast food, burgers and fried chicken, the invention of Panda Express found a good market niche. The success of the company relies heavily on its unique concept, quick-service Chinese restaurant, and its locations, shopping mall food courts, supermarkets, key intersections, college campus, airports and casinos (Panda Management Company, Inc. History). Dishes featured in Panda Express are originated from different regions of China. Usually, adjustments have to be made in order to allow the dishes to be more acceptable by Americans. For example, cuisines from Hunan and Sichuan are usually “spicy and oily, often featuring a sophisticated blend of intense flavors” (Coe...
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...Comparing and Contrasting the British Cuisine with the Indian Cuisine A cuisine is a traditional method or style of cooking, which is usually related to a particular culture. Cuisine can be considered as an aspect of the culture of a country in countless ways. For example, religion has a great influence on food in Muslim countries where people tend to eat all types of meat except pork. In this essay, I will be comparing and contrasting the British cuisine with that of my own country, the Indian cuisine. There are both, very interesting similarities and differences that one can notice in the traditional cuisines of both these countries which may, in fact, prove to be quite interesting. I think both of these cuisines are different yet so much alike. Firstly, there are several differences between these two cuisines. British cuisine traditionally consists of simple dishes matched with delicious sauces. This cuisine is worldwide renowned for its Christmas dinner and full breakfast. “The most important foods of Britain are meat, fish, potatoes, flour, butter, and eggs, as many of its dishes are mainly based on these ingredients.” (Mandy Barrow, 2010). On the other hand, the Indian cuisine is one of the most popular cuisines in the world and is famous for its great love for food and more importantly, spices. Even though same foodstuffs, such as meat, fish, etc. are used in India as well, the varied uses of the spices are a vital part of food preparation as this makes these dishes...
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...The main idea that appears throughout Kincaid's, Menissi's, and Hurston's articles is certain biases within a specific culture. In her "How It Feels To Be Colored Me", Hurston speaks about the culture of the Americans and the African Americans. She mentions how people believe that these cultures differ, yet she thinks otherwise. In her Size 6 : The Western Women's Harem, Mernissi believes that men dictate all the judgments surrounding what women's size should be. In her Excerpt from On Seeing England for the First Time, Kincaid displays her own biases towards English culture because she is originally from Antigua. Hurston speaks about how white Americans believe that they and African Americans are different, yet she believes that they're the same. She does have her doubts however, for example when she was in the bar and saw a white person, she noticed the difference between herself and him. "He is so pale with his whiteness then and I am so colored" (197). She speaks of the cultural biases that are placed on her and her family because she is of color. She states, "at certain times I have no race, I am me"(197). She states this to oppose what other people think about white Americans and African Americans. She says that she has no race and is only herself, to show that she is nothing more than a human. She also emphasizes that she only feels American, neither white or black. "I have no separate feelings about being an American citizen and colored"(197). To make a point that...
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...This week students are learning how to do shopping. They were taught some shopping vocabulary in the previous lesson and on the current lesson they will practice using these new vocabulary words when comparing two items in a store. The grammar section in the previous lesson was about giving advice, so that is why along with practicing new material, one of the practical exercises in this current lesson will let students review giving advice. Goal: To help students accurately use comparative and superlative forms of adjectives. Objectives: Terminal: Students will learn about comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and appropriately use these forms in conversation. Enabling: 1. Students will learn about comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives. 2. Students will practice creating correct comparative and superlative forms of adjectives describing items in a store. 3. Students will practice using comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and shopping vocabulary by talking about two different items in the store and comparing them. 4. Students will review grammar material from the previous lesson “Giving advice” and establish their ability...
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...Running head: ENG 160: English Composition I Final Exam ENG 160: English Composition I Final Exam Allied American University Author Note This paper was prepared for ENG 160: English Composition I, ENG 160: English Composition I Final Exam taught by Jeffrey Stamberger Final Exam When it comes time to decide where to eat on one of our “Date Days”, two places come to mind and are hard to pick from because both are great. One is Culver’s, a small fast food restaurant, and Max & Erma’s, a small family dining restaurant. One may seem different than the other because of the set up but in actuality they are pretty similar in what they offer that keeps us coming back to both. Generally I prefer Max & Erma’s while my husband likes Culver’s. When trying to decide we generally look at what we have to spend and how much time we have to spend in order to get everything done before we have to be home for the kids. Generally the first decision is, “What is our time and money limit?” From there we decide whether we want to eat at Culver’s or Max & Erma’s. Both have amazing food! Culver’s is famous for their “Butter Burger” and frozen custard as to where Max & Erma’s are famous for their “Garbage Burger” according to my husband. I prefer the “Build Your Own” burger. The only thing different in the price range is if we get appetizers while at Max & Erma’s, but if you figure in the dessert at Culver’s there really is no difference I the two. Time wise...
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...Today I will be comparing and contrasting Jamestown and Plymouth. Jamestown was a town located in Virginia. In this town about 104 English men came and settled. Plymouth is a place located in Massachusetts. with these two towns the English settlement was made. Making this settlement helped tremendously. Jamestown would be making money, and they will also be getting rich. Everyone was there for themselves and only themselves . There was also a time when smith left the colony and he never returned back to the colony. That’s how it was there in Virginia Like I mentioned before, 104 men showed up and settled there. The men went there for the 3 g’s, and the three g’s are gold, god, and glory. Those were the three reasons why they went to land there....
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...English 103 10 July 2014 An Improper Proposal “A Modest Proposal”, written by Johnathon Swift, is perhaps one of the greatest literary works in English history. It is an intelligently written satire that is set in 1729. In it Swift presents the idea of devouring one year old infants in an attempt to feed the hungry and ever growing population. The satire is set in Ireland and was aimed at Catholics, who were known for having a lot of kids and being too poor to care for them. Throughout his persuasive/argumentative satire he utilizes logic and reason, emotion, and character to argue why his proposal is a good solution to the excess population and to persuade others to follow his idea. One of the types of arguments Swift employs throughout his essay is logos. Logos are arguments that are based on fact and reason. In the beginning of his literary work Swift begins discussing how many children are born every year to poverty stricken parents. He uses specific numbers such as “. . . . One-hundred and twenty thousand children of the poor are born annually” to bring to light how much the population and hunger problems will continue to grow. Swift is using logos (logic and reason) when he uses statistics of children born to parents who cannot afford to care for them. He also uses logos to dehumanize the infants by comparing them to food already eaten. When Swift compares the children to roasting pigs he is using an analogy. Another logical analogy Swift uses is comparing...
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...Thiong’o both Orwell and Thiong’o received the British colonial education. As humans, others' opinions mean a great deal to us, and in "Shooting an Elephant", and “Decolonising the Mind,” they both have one thing in common: English. "Shooting an Elephant" is the story of a British policeman in Moulmein, a city in Burma, that is torn between shooting or not shooting an elephant that has gone ramped. Many people may misinterpret George Orwell's tone in the essay "Shooting an Elephant." People often construe that the story is about Orwell's decision to either shoot the elephant, or to just peacefully observe it until the mahout came to tame the animal. The story is actually about the struggles Orwell faces because of his position "in between" the Burmese and the imperialistic system. Orwell portrays a distinctive amount of irony in this piece of writing because after he reviewed the situation and started this essay, he spotted a lot of irony in the actions between himself, the people of Burma, and the British Empire. Thiong’o gives a powerful image of how British government tries to control the culture of Kenya. In “Decolonising the Mind”, Thiong’o illustrates his childhood: “All the paper were written in English. Nobody could pass the exam who failed the English language paper no matter how brilliantly he had done in the other subjects”(167). This shows that “the language” comes first above all. In their culture, nothing is more important than the language. Why? Thiong’o explains...
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...(Green & Reinckens, 2013). The purpose of this paper is to discuss the usefulness of the Heritage Assessment Tool to evaluate the needs of a person as a whole; identify and evaluate common health practices based on cultural beliefs and values of three different families from Mexico, Philippines and China and how they subscribe to these traditions and practices to address their familys’ health maintenance, health protection and health recovery. The writer will include her culture as well. Efficacy of Heritage Assessment Tool The Heritage Assessment Tool is useful to evaluate the cultural needs and health traditions of a person. The assessment consists on a set of questions that explores a person’s ethnicity, traditions, language, religion, food, and family values. By applying the Heritage Assessment, the nurse can obtain cultural information regarding religious beliefs, language preference and the degree of acculturation. Interpretation of the results are as follow: the greater the number of positive responses, the greater the person’s identification with his or her heritage. This cultural...
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...Restaurants only represent a small percentage of restaurants in America comparing to other restaurant such as McDonald. Most Chinese restaurant menus list the dishes in their original Chinese names, but usually, the menu will have an English description of the dish. Chinese restaurants are usually decorated with items of Chinese culture, such as dragons, hanging lanterns and statues of Buddha. Chinese restaurants in the United States began during the California gold rush, which brought twenty to thirty thousand immigrants across from the Canton also know as the Guangdong region of China. Normally, Chinese restaurants are owned and operated by small, hardworking ethnic Chinese families. In Chinese cooking the “wok” is often said to be very important in food making, it's a large metal pan with a rounded bottom. China is a quite large country so it have several cooking styles for example, Szechuan, Hu nan, Cantonese and Northern Style in Beijing each with its own culinary style and flavors. Cantonese food is best known in the US and Canada for its dim sum small bites, steamed and fried dumplings stuffed with meat or seafood. Dim sums are individual portions of food traditionally served in small steamer baskets or on small plates. This style of food is also known as “yum cha”, which means tea drinking. Dim sum consist of many different variety of food. A traditional dim sum selection includes various types of steamed buns...
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...Culture is a very integral part of making people who they are. The culture one exists in effects and can be affected by their beliefs, social norms, race, religion, and social group. My friend can't I was born in South Korea, but moved to the United States when he was an infant. He, therefore has lived in the United States for as long as he can remember. Growing up in America with Korean parents has created a co-culture within my friends family. I am going to compare Hyun Tae’s Korean-American culture with my own African-American (actually from Africa) co-culture. As I interviewed can take, I learned that the American culture that he most assimilates with, contrast a great deal with the Korean culture of his parents. The first contrast in hyuntae...
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...Madison Blankenship English 101-004 Mr. Lyles October 19, 2012 Raising Cane’s Vs. Chick-fil-A Raising Cane’s and Chick-Fill-A are very popular fast food restaurants that both specialize in chicken. While both specialize in the same type of food, they conduct their businesses differently. Their presentations are similar in some areas and different in others. Kristin Mastre greatly explains that Raising Cane’s and Chick-fil-A can be easily compared through their environment, costs, nutrition, and variety in her article,“Throwdown! Chick-fil-A versus Raising Cane’s.” (par. 1). The environments of each restaurant provide an atmosphere that makes the customer want to return. Raising Cane’s has a very fun type of decoration using movie posters, band posters, and sports team decoration. It uses these posters to attract people of all ages to eat there. Raising Cane’s also allows their employees to show team spirit for sports’ teams around the area (Feasting Fort Collins, par. 7). This atmosphere makes the restaurant a perfect place to be after football games. Chick-fil-A has a family oriented environment. It has children play places, and very polite service. Chick-fil-A employees will always ask, “How they may serve you?” and answer the customer’s “Thank you” with “My pleasure.” The customer service creates an atmosphere so the customer feels that he or she is not actually in a fast food restaurant (Feasting Fort Collins, par. 5). Both restaurants provide outstanding environments...
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...To understand how industrialization changed the world, starting in Britain, it is vital to look at how the world operated pre-industrialization. Living conditions were awful all around the world prior to the 1800’s. The world did not yet have adequate technology to defend itself against natural disasters, famines, and diseases. In addition, some places were not able to sustain enough resources for the population as it increased. Although these problems existed around the world, “before 1800 income per person —the food, clothing, heat, light, and housing available per head—varied across societies,” creating a gap before industries came to widen it. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, Britain did not have as much income as China did. Britain’s land made it difficult to farm, exposing the difficulties of what an ever growing population did to society. In his book, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy, Kenneth Pomeranz demonstrates how Britain’s, like the rest of Europe’s, “disadvantages were concentrated in areas of agriculture, land management, and the inefficient use of certain land intensive products.” Without the ability to provide enough resources for a population to survive, there is no way for a population...
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...Comparing and Contrasting France Verses Kenya awd Introduction Kenya is located approximately on the map as 2N, 38E. (Latitude, Longitude.) Kenya became independent in 1963, and only had three presidents since. The current population is estimated as 30, 339,770. The official language is Swahili. It has a host of cultural practices and beliefs. France is a country in Western Europe. It is famous for its wine and cheese. People in France also enjoy croissants and different kinds of bread but baguette is the most popular. They also like truffles; a black, warty fungus that grow in the roots of oak and hazelnut trees. Truffles are really expensive and they use trained pigs to find them. The study compares these two countries France and Kenya within the setting of International Management practices. Comparing and Contrasting France Verses Kenya Kenya is located in East Africa and borders Somalia to the northeast, Ethiopia to the north, Sudan to the northwest, Uganda to the west, Tanzania to the south, and the Indian Ocean to the east. The country straddles the equator, covering a total of 224,961 square miles (582,600 square kilometers; roughly twice the size of the state of Nevada). Kenya has wide white-sand beaches on the coast. Inland plains cover three-quarters of the country; they are mostly bush, covered in underbrush. In the west are the highlands where the altitude rises from three thousand to ten thousand feet. Nairobi, Kenya's largest city and capital, is...
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