“Working at McDonald’s” Etzioni’s essay states that teens who hold a part-time paying job in fast food places, such as McDonald’s, are getting nothing educational from the job itself. After reading his piece, I have to say I highly concur with the point he is making. Having a “highly routinized” job has a lot of drawbacks, especially for teens who are slowly being weaned into the real world. Such jobs are somewhat of a tradition amongst high school students. However, they tend to interfere with school, are highly routinized, have no room for personal growth, creativity, initiative, and no entrepreneurship opportunities.
For example, Pollan talks about margarine, and how scientists “claim” that it is a better, and cheaper substitute for butter, but it contains all these unnecessary ingredients that could be more harmful to the human body. Scientist believed by taking out saturated fats and cholesterol they could make margarine healthier, but what they did not know was it would produce unhealthier fats known as, trans fats. People never think about how deep and revealing food can be, but after reading this novel it’ll open your eyes to what really lies
Sweet & Tasty General Purpose: To demonstrate Specific Purpose: To demonstrate to my audience how to make strawberry dip. Central Idea: Being able to make strawberry dip with strawberries is messy, but is a quick and easy appetizer to put together. Introduction: Attention Catcher: Not all people can cook, but whether you can cook or not, making this strawberry dip doesn’t require much, which can be done at an ease. Listener Relevance Link: How many people like sweets as appetizers? Speaker Credibility Statement: I have always made this appetizer, and people seem to enjoy it.
He realizes if he stays in this dead beat town for the rest of his life, he may not have the marvelous future he always hoped for. Details reveal the driving force causing Sammy to quit his job; he wants to move on to bigger and better chances in his lie. The story reflects that Sammy quit because Lengel embarrassed Queenie and her followers, and that Sammy wanted to seem heroic, but underlying details reveal he already had intentions on quitting, but finally stumbles upon a reason that is seemingly legitimate. The sheep represent the idea of boredom in the story. The town, being so complacent and closed off have a daily routine, and they have no desire to change.
Establishing an annual Buy Nothing Day doesn’t leave room for exceptions. If someone is out of gas then they can’t get to work. If someone is in desperate need of food they might starve because of the government. Making an annual day on which no one can buy anything is highly impractical. Establishing an annual Buy Nothing Day punishes everyone for the few idiots’ problems.
At night i will admit i crave sugary foods or some junk food, im not sure why but its just a bad habit that im trying to break. 8.14.09 Knowledge, i think that the things im good at or i know alot about are because of my parents, they helped me out with that. 8.17.09 A reoccuring nightmare is when i wake up to my house being robbed and there is nothing i can do about it and its like im stuck and i cant talk or i cant move, i just see everything happening and i stress out, definately not a fun nightmare to have. ive had it for about 1 week straight when i was younger. kind of got over it as i got older.
You and your hunting! We might’ve gone home- “(Golding 93). This quote is about how Jack goes off on his own, knowingly going against the rules for his short-term goal of hunting, and due to his actions, the group paid the ultimate price and missed their chance to be rescued. Due to the childish actions of the boy’s, and the inability to work with one another, it is impossible for them to establish a functional form of democracy. Rebellious kids are not only in works of fiction, they occur every day in modern society, according to Abby Ohlheiser’s article “Woman called ‘Mom of the Year’ After Beating a Young Man out of Baltimore Riots” posted in the Washington Post, she states that “I wish I had more parent’s take charge of their kids tonight”(n.pag.
He needed her to say that she never loved her current husband Tom. His behavior clearly portrayed his conflicting emotions and excessive moodiness. Why would someone become angry or not accept that the one that they loved admits to loving them back? Even though Gatsby is rarely ever alone, from his extravagant parties, to the non-stop company of Klipspringer he is a loner. Mr. Gatsby really does not have any real friends, just people flocking to him to live off of his fortune.
There were a lot of emotions used, like for example “Self-confessed television addict often feel they ought to do other things, but the fact that they don’t read and plant their garden or sew or crochet or play games or have conversations means that those activities are no longer as desirable as television viewing”, (Winn) In my opinion she is saying that television addicts no longer have the passion for anything anymore, television takes away from the small things that are fun to do. Another example of pathos, “And yet television does not satisfy, else why would the viewer continue to watch hour after hour, day after day”. To me she is saying that television doesn’t really satisfy the addict’s needs that is why they continue to watch. Marie also uses logos in one of her paragraphs by saying “They are living in a holding pattern, as it were, passing up the activities that lead to growth or development or a sense of accomplishment”. By this statement, I feel Marie is saying that by watching TV this will make addicts procrastinate on getting things that they need to get done finished and that they can’t learn anything and grow from experiences in life if they are glued to the
Brooke refuses to acknowledge that Gary is tired and stressed from working all day and that he wants to relax. Gary doesn’t notice how Brooke has also worked all day, cleaned their place, and tried to prepare dinner for their families. After the dinner he wants to play video games and she wants help cleaning. They argue and she says she wants nothing to do with him, he takes her literally and leaves the condo. It escalates until finally the heartbreak is too much for both of them.