He allows himself to eat nothing but the unhealthy food from this restaurant for a whole month abiding by certain regulations. He had to eat at a McDonald’s restaurant at least three times a day during this binge, and was required to have every food item on the menu at least one time. However, perhaps the most crucial rule in this experiment was that if at any time one of the cashiers asked him if he would like to “supersize” his meal, Spurlock was forced to oblige. Throughout this month Spurlock gained a total of 24.5 lbs and suffered from mood swings, sexual dysfunction, and an alarming accumulation of fat on his liver. Also, his body mass increased by 13% and his cholesterol level escalated to an unhealthy 230.
He insists on routines such as sitting at the same table in the restaurant and being served by the same waitress daily. The first incident that provides Melvin with a small breakthrough with his OCD was when his neighbor had to be hospitalized and they needed someone to care for his little dog. Melvin despised the dog but the dog was placed inside his apartment against his will. It caused Melvin some stress that there was another living being in his apartment, but he soon adjusted to it and enjoyed having the dog as company. In one scene, Melvin was sitting at his regular table being served by his regular waitress, Carol, with the dog tied up outside the restaurant door.
The place is completely shot up and there is no man with an automatic weapon. Suddenly they see a dog lying on the floor that has been victim from the cop’s heavy shooting earlier. On the way down the policemen notice another door that was open just a bit. They stormed the apartment like the other one and the narrator sees a young boy who has been shot in connection with the shooting a Mary’s window. The title of the short story is “The Baddest Dog in Harlem” It is unknown when it is written but we know it was by Walter Dean Myers.
Granddad is a chubby man and he's fallen in love with the beautiful bakery girl, but she knows him not at all. Daniel goes in to buy cakes one day and meetings baker girl who Granddad is in love in. She is completely gone on mushrooms, so then Daniel drives her home and lays her in bed. A few days later he discovers that her one sock is in the car so he goes home to her to deliver it, and it ends up with they set up a date on a café, and they fall in love with each other. Daniel don’t tell Granddad about he’s relation to Frank (Baker girl) because he knows granddad is in love in her.
When the protagonist, Sanyo Lee wakes up, he sees his aunt in front of him. His aunt blames him for doing nothing every day, so she tells Sanyo get off the bed and go out to reception guests. There are three people of the Miao nationalities in the inn, they charter the entire inn. Sanyo Lee thinks them maybe the brothers, and he goes to the downstairs, and his aunt tells Sanyo drive away the drunkard who lies near the door, and goes to the kitchen to bring the food and drink to the guests. The drunkard says to Sanyo Lee: “please just give a little, is that ok, I am so thirsty!” Sanyo Lee does not know what to say to the poor man.
Ginsberg refers to Whitman as “childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys” (Ginsberg 1290). He is sarcastically conveying groundless and discriminating notions of the time that homosexuals do not contribute to society because they cannot reproduce and that they are perverted. He thinks he is being followed by the store detective. At the time when the poem was written, all states had sodomy laws which made homosexual acts illegal in the United States
He roamed around the living room for about a minute and then climbed back over the gate and into the kitchen area but while doing so he actually fell on his butt this time. Grayson then climbed onto the kitchen chair while waiting for his food. He stands on the chair and then starts to hit the table over and over. Grayson seems to be impatiently waiting for his food. He then gets his food and now it seems he doesn’t even want to eat it.
He is not called by his name but by ‘thing’ which shows a loss of identiy and a lack of respect from the other house memebers. After mrs earnshaws death, Mr earnshaw took to Heathcliff strangely putting him far above both his children which caused Hindley a great deal of jealously and led him to persecute the fatherless child. During heathcilffs childhood, the only friend he had and loved was Cathy. Both enjoyed eachothers company and got along very well, however this soon changed as one night they wonder to thrushcross grange and cathy gets bitten by a dog and is foced to stay their for 5 weeks, by the time she returns her relationship with Heathcliff grows more complicated as she has infatuated with edgar, this angers him and Hindleys abusive behaviour leads him to run away from W’H. When Heathcliff returns he immediately sets about seeking revenge on all those who have wronged him.
He hasn't eaten since breakfast and late at night while he waits for Corley to return with money, he orders a meal of peas and vinegar with a bottle of ginger beer for his dinner. He simply doesn't have the money for a proper meal. And, his future looks dismal: it will only get worse. By showing this detail, readers are not as quick to judge Joyce's character, and while we certainly can't like this leech, we can perhaps understand and view him in a sympathetic light. In "Clay," the older unmarried character Maria lives a life of diligent sacrifice for a pittance.
“They’re Not Your Husband” is a short story by Raymond Carver, where he writes about the man named Earl Ober, who is an unemployed salesman, with his wife (Doreen) working as a waitress, at a 24-hour coffee shop. After a night of drinking as he usually does he goes to see the place where his wife works. Here he is treated like a nuisance by his wife. Two men start talking about his wife’s weight and this bothers Earl greatly. He decides to let Doreen know that she (he) has a problem with her weight.