...diet. Obesity is optional, it is never mandatory to eat fast food. People just blame the fast food industries for personal reasons. Fast food throughout the world is advertised to the public but never forced to purchase. Article Fast Food Culture Serves Up Super Size America “hard for people to constrain...
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...In many school systems across the United States, there are many different opinions on whether or not junk food should be banned. Some people favor the thought of junk food in school systems and feel as though kids should be able to eat what they want. Others believe that schools should provide students with healthier snacks and meals to eat. The true question is, how much is too much? There are certain school systems taking over meal plans and completely banning the food selection for kids to only health choices. Kids should be able to make choices for themselves and eat the food they want too eat. Having junk food in school systems has been known to bring up the percent of obesity in kids, but having junk food will give students freedom of choice, will help the vending contract revenue, and it will save money and complications in creating a new lunch program. Schools that allow students to eat what they want give’s the students dining options and also freedom of choice. Many school systems in America are strict enough already; they do not need to be even stricter and be told what to eat and what not to eat. When students can pick out their own food, it gives the student the feeling of personal responsibility. Margaret Johnson, an English and French teacher at West Las Vegas High School in Las Vegas, New Mexico, explains, “ junk food should be sold in schools-along with other food. Students will buy anything that coast under a dollar, is profitable, flavorful,...
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...Obesity has been the main problem throughout the United States of America. Michelle Obama has a campaign called Let’s Move; essentially this is to get the younger generation of children to start making healthier choices for their future. Michael Bloomberg is the Mayor of New York City, and has been for the past eleven years. Instead of Bloomberg making a healthier choice for kids, he wants to make healthier choices for everybody that lives in New York City. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has already started generating methods to help improve the health of New York. In an article called A Ban Too Far by an anonymous editorial of the New York Times, mentions that Bloomberg has already made an outlaw on smoking in all restaurants, work environments, and bars. He also banned trans-fat in restaurants, and every chain food restaurant in New York is mandated to post calories of all the food on the menu. Mayor Bloomberg’s new plan is to ban the sale of all sugary drinks that are considered to be sixteen ounces or more. The only negative aspect to this is an individual could purchase multiple drinks to...
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...that burger you love from McDonalds could kill you. Do you ever stop and think about who controls what we eat, what can and cannot go into our food, or who even produces our food? Probably not. All college kids want to know is how well it tastes, the cost of it, and how much they can get in one sitting. Our food system is in place to make sure production, control, regulation, inspection, and distribution of food is met to the highest of standards. But as our world changes, so does our need for a changing food system. The American food system needs to change because it’s causing world hunger in other nations, there is a blurred line in the quality of organic food, and lastly Americans don’t even know where their food has come from. We’ve all seen those informational commercials where they ask us to donate around 20 cents a week to help the hungry in a third world country. Have you ever thought about how that country got to the state it’s in or why they can’t get out of that state? Believe it or not, the “Green Revolution” isn’t as great as most think. The revolution brought on new farming technologies to nations that weren’t stable enough to sustain them. Robert Paarlberg, author of “Attention Whole Foods Shoppers,” addresses the Green Revolution and world hunger by providing an example from Central America: “Absentee landlords in Central America, who previously allowed peasants to plant subsistence crops on underutilized land, pushed them off to sell or rent...
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...EL RINCON DEL MUNDO The small town of Guadalupe has Spanish history, as does most of the southwest region of the USA. Most of Guadalupe’s jobs center around agriculture. “El Rincon del mundo” which is what the region was thought of, literally mean the edge of the world in English. The name of Guadalupe is derived from either “La virgen de Guadalupe” or “Rancho de Guadalupe”. THE SKINNY BEAR Oso Flaco or (skinny bear) is a salt water lake near Guadalupe, gets it’s name from a story of a Spanish adventurer who kills a bear then eats its meat not knowing that the bear had been poisoned by the local Native Americans. The teens of Guadalupe organize a youth group called “Thee Group B”. “The Group B” has it’s own house band called “Soul Explosion” which eventually changes it’s name to “Congress”. Soul Explosion and Thee Group B have bonfires and party at the outskirts of town. THE DUNE THAT NEVER MOVES In 1923 The Ten Commandments a silent movie by Cecil B. DeMille is shot at the southern end of Guadalupe. A gigantic set is created for the film, complete with 20-ton pharaoh statues and a “City of Pharaohs”. After completion of the film the set is bulldozed with sand giving it term “The Dune that never moves”. To big city folk like those whom make movies there, Guadalupe and her surrounding area looks very different from what they are used to, from it’s farmland, to the fact that in the whole town there is not a single traffic light, to it’s cities building’s...
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...Selective taxes on sugary drinks and other junk food are great revenue engines for shading business (Brownell, Kelly) . The burden of paying these taxes we fall mostly on the middle and lower class people And narrows the range of food they can choose from (Brownell, Kelly) .What's more bussies and other people should rank in the money. Suppose that tax is allowed certains groups allowing companies like Coca Cola or Pepsi to sell without the tax should receive benefits from said company (Brownell, Kelly). Plus it could kill other business if say Pepsi makes a deal with government and are allowed to not pay the tax it would give them an unfair advantage against the other companies while they have to raise prices to regain profit Pepsi stays the same price and soaks in the benefits because of it (Brownell, Kelly). The other problem with any junk food tax is the store owners have to deal with it in a big way. The taxation regulations already in place are quite the headache for grocery stores to keep track of what is and isn't taxable (Craig, Colin). Large grocers may have staff to keep track of complex government regulations, but forcing store owners to sit down and figure out which drinks are...
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...Vitamins allowed animals raised inside to live longer and healthier (“History of the Animal Science Industry”). The use of antibiotics and vaccines reduced the rate of death and disease, allowing livestock to be kept in denser living conditions which would have previously promoted the spread of disease. With these advancements most farms started to look more like the feedlots of today. Originally only the most common farm animals - cows, chickens, and pigs - were produced in these facilities. Although, later sheep, fish, and even rabbits started being grown using this system (Mason and Singer 18). The streamlining of the animal agriculture business led to less workers required to run each farm. As of 2002 only 1.5% of Americans were employed in the agriculture...
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...Every citizen in America has a chance to be the best they can be; we all have the chance to lead amazing lives. We have such a diverse country and we should all work together to make it the best we can. As a citizen in America, we have many responsibilities that should not be taken for granted. These responsibilities include to everyone no matter who they are or what they do. Being an American means you’re a part of one of the greatest countries in the world, it means having freedom, justice and liberty. Our country is made up of millions of civilians and a few of these civilians are brave and have a burning love for America. These strong men and women make up our military. With the largest military in the world, Americans can depend on the...
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...were the policies of the Republican Party the main reason for America’s economic success in the 1920’s [50 marks] Although America remained neutral and did not join World War One until 1917, they were already increasing their country’s profits by selling goods such as: weapons, food, equipment and other ammunition to both sides of the war. During World War One, as well as selling goods, America became ‘the banker’ to the rest of the world: loaning countries money at a very high interest. According to the First World War commissions “Britain, France and Italy owed the USA $22 billion plus interest”, this is showing that USA was at a very stable place financially even before the 1920s began. When the war ended Woodrow Wilson put forward his 14 Points which included a League of Nations. The League of Nations’ overall aim was to prevent war from breaking out again. America’s congress at the time decided that it would be best for America in the long run not to join the League of Nations because, congress believed that the USA should not interfere in any European or world affairs. Refusal to join the League of Nations made America an isolationist country. When Warren G. Harding won the presidential election and became president in 1921 a political party called the Republicans took over from the Democrats and the American government. 1920s America was known as the ‘Roaring twenties’ because of the entertainment and the crazes sweeping the country. There were lots of reasons for...
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...were the policies of the Republican Party the main reason for America’s economic success in the 1920’s [50 marks] Although America remained neutral and did not join World War One until 1917, they were already increasing their country’s profits by selling goods such as: weapons, food, equipment and other ammunition to both sides of the war. During World War One, as well as selling goods, America became ‘the banker’ to the rest of the world: loaning countries money at a very high interest. According to the First World War commissions “Britain, France and Italy owed the USA $22 billion plus interest”, this is showing that USA was at a very stable place financially even before the 1920s began. When the war ended Woodrow Wilson put forward his 14 Points which included a League of Nations. The League of Nations’ overall aim was to prevent war from breaking out again. America’s congress at the time decided that it would be best for America in the long run not to join the League of Nations because, congress believed that the USA should not interfere in any European or world affairs. Refusal to join the League of Nations made America an isolationist country. When Warren G. Harding won the presidential election and became president in 1921 a political party called the Republicans took over from the Democrats and the American government. 1920s America was known as the ‘Roaring twenties’ because of the entertainment and the crazes sweeping the country. There were lots of reasons for...
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...expect reduction as long as unemployment remains high. (5) 46.4 million people in America are a recipient of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (5). What started out as a subsidy for low income families is now the sole source of food dollars spent by non-taxpayers. Peter Cardillo a chief market economist explains that not all SNAP recipients are unemployed but food stamps “are a good indication that the income of the workforce is stagnated and more and more people are applying for food stamps.” (5) American tax payers spend eighty billion dollars a year financing food stamps for the poop, and this number is quickly on the rise as well. (16) Do Americans know exactly what this money is going towards? Yes, it is going to food, but what type of food? Food stamps can be used on anything from chips and candy to steak and energy drinks. Unfortunately the government will not say what stores do the most business in food stamps, and it doesn’t say what kinds of food our tax payers’ dollars buy. (16) My argument is that American’s should have a right to know exactly what their tax money is going towards and should be able to police and limit what can a cannot be bought with food stamps, after all it is our money. The Food Stamp Program was designed to address the problem of hunger. The FSP was established in 1964 and began expanding in the 1970’s. It is obvious that the hunger problem in America has drastically improved along with the growing problem of America’s obesity...
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...and throughout time the writings have had a very important role. for some folks writing is also solely how to establish communication, as newspapers and magazines. For some others, it's an inner pleasure to share feelings and concepts, like in journals and theories. However, for others it is an instrument for additional definite purposes, like awareness regarding movements or a personal catharsis – Sylvia Plath’s poetry, for example. Therefore, the power of words helped mankind to change the globe. Bearing in mind this concept that literature may renew and reinforce a belief or an idea, the theme of the analysis supposed in this work comparing Phillis Wheatley’s poem “On Being Brought From Africa To America” to Langston Hughes’ “I, Too, Sing America” is somewhat known and reassure aspects that are still a part of society nowadays: be it prejudice, racism or oppression. In order to grasp how their poems differ it's necessary to understand some details about their lives, that has strong...
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...Should Convicted Felons Be Allowed To Vote? For many years felony disenfranchisement has cost convicted felons their right to vote. This law caused 5.3 million people were denied the right to vote in 2008. Everyone should have a voice and because they made a mistake you can’t just take it away. Ten thousand people are wrongly convicted every year; that is 10,000 voices taken away every year. “When people vote, they feel like they’re part of something bigger than themselves. “(Justice) So would you like someone to take your voice? Should felons have the right to vote? Convicted felons should not have their right to vote taken away. The Constitution of United States of America in the first three words state,” We the People “. Taking the voice...
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...The Japanese market has consumers to which are mostly traditional in not purchasing the latest and greatest so they can keep up with the Johnsons or Lees I guess for Japanese version. The Japanese market is that of what people need to survive instead of the American market to which is to buy all the nice things you can afford so you can enjoy the finer things in life. Japanese people also do not earn as much money as American people do for the same classes. Middle class in America earns somewhere in the midst of $75,000 to $150,000 a year per household to which is considered doing pretty well. The typical middle class of a Japanese household can accumulate $5,000 to $15,000 and be considered middle class by Japanese standards. Then there is the whole ethnocentrism issue of past wars and conflicts creating consumer whom may be interested in products for other countries but because of the past conflict do not buy. A good example from the book would be this “Other evidence suggests that some older American consumers, in remembrance of World War II, still refuse to purchase German- and/or Japanese-made products, whereas some German and Japanese consumers may feel similarly about American-made products.”(Consumer Behavior 2010) When the American Army changed its uniform headwear to the beret the government purchased Chinese berets for the soldiers to wear and the soldiers were opposed to wearing berets from a country to which we were in past conflicts with and had different...
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...of the Islamic economic system, as laid down by the Qur’an and the Sunnah, are discussed as follows: 1. Allah determines Right and Wrong: We have already discussed in the first chapter that Islamic economic system makes distinction between what is permitted being lawful (Halal) and what is forbidden being unlawful (Haram). To determine what is permitted or lawful (Halal) and what is forbidden or unlawful (haram) is the soul prerogative of God. None but God is empowered to pronounce what is right and what is wrong. Allah has made demarcation between lawful and unlawful in the economic sphere and has allowed man to enjoy those food items and other articles of use which are lawful and avoid those things which are unlawful. The Qur’an says: “O ye who believe ! Forbid not the good things which Allah hath made lawful for you, and transgress not, Lo! Allah loveth not the transgressors. Eat of that which Allah hath bestowed on you as food lawful and good and keep your duty to Allah in Whom ye are believers.” (5 : 87-88) No human being has power to say what is right (Halal) and what is wrong (Haram). The Qur’an clarifies this principle in unambiguous terms when it commands: “And speak not concerning that which...
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