Each step I take, I feel pressure on my soul. All I can do is support the my person who bought me. Beneath me I feel the earth, I am used up as a cushion between my owner and the pavement beneath me. All I can do is support my owner. Up and down, in a circular motion. All I can do...
I absorb the shock from the pavement which runs throughout my whole body. I am being bombarded by rain. It is below freezing temperature. It feels like I am being attacked by coins. My body becomes stiff.
There are other days where I endure the summer heat of Los Angeles. The pavement is scorching hot. It feels like I am being melted by the heat and friction between me and my owner.
All the suffering I have to endure,and what do I get as a result of my hard work? I get washed.
Knowing I have done my job, getting used up to all of my possible potential.
Getting beat up, thrown, washed, getting bitten by dogs, and running through all the seasons of the year. I know I have done my job. Maybe if I am good enough and be taken care of well, I may be able to last a little longer.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011
1500 word essay
America, one of the fattest counties in the world. America wasn’t chosen randomly to be nominated ao be the fattest country. It was all the fast food. Fast food in America is a decent place to set up fast food shops. “America, the land of the free!” America is a magnet for people who want new lives. To start anew, people have to start from the bottom. When they start of at the bottom, they wont have a lot of money. As soon as the people who live in America get their livings, they want to save money for the younger generation. So in order to save money, they eat fast food which is cheap and filling. Fast food is now a part of the 21st century. People need to accept that fast food is there and probably will not just go away. But not everybody has adopted fast food is there, and will probably just not go away just because people want it to. Fast food is rapidly growing, and may even become mainstream.
America will continue to be one of the most fattest countries in the world, unless people take a stand. Parents should be a role model for the younger generations, buy they’re not! I believe that the parents are at fault, but not only the parents but the industries as well. The marketing industries try to expose their products to children. The industries proliferation of making chains of stores distributing the products make it hard to stay away. States within the United States are getting more and more obese. The states have taken notice of childhood obesity. It was a serious matter ans still is. The industry is only marketing the products, while the parents are the ones who allow the children to eat such high-calorie foods.
Set of short articles in “Fast Food: Who’s to blame?”
Shannon Brownlee, in “Its Portion Distortion that makes America Fat” states that the fast food companies are the ones that the fast food companies are the ones that are responsible for the Americans with the roly-poly shapes they have today. “But make no mistake: When they do well economically, we gain weight.” Meaning that when the companies to good, its thanks to us. Americans wake up to the fact that obesity is killing nearly as many citizens as cigarettes are, jumbo burgers and super-size fries will seem like less of a bargain. If you put more food in front of people, they eat more, as studies have shown in the last decade.
“If you Pitch it, They will Eat it” by David Barboza stated that “ a growing number of nutritionalists call it a blitzkrieg that preserves children’s eating habits and sets then on a path of obesity.” Just as the title implies. If they pitch it, they will eat it. “While the companies view these as promotional pitches, lawyers are threatening a wave of obesity-related class action lawsuits.” Companies see their marketing as “harmless” but in fact the opposite, the results are within the children who are exposed to the “harmless marketing”. “Increase in food marketing to children has closely tacked their increase in weight.” Targeting children is a smart thing, but can result to childhood obesity.
David Zincsenkojin “Don’t Blame the Eater” talks about how its not the fast food whos at fault, but the eaters. “Kids taking on McDonalds this week, suing the company for making them fat.” $100 billion a year for the centers for disease control is stupid. Children who eat fast food, by the age of 15 one is 212 pounds. Before it was only 5 percent of childhood cases were obesity related, not its over 16 percent. “Fast food targets children”, that meaning children influence the adults, because the can only cry and cry about what they want. To shut them up the parents have to give in.
Daniel Weintraub, in “The Battle against Fast Food Begins in the Home.” Stated “it’s the parents-not the government, not the fast food companies, not the video-game manufactures- who are responsible for teaching kids healthy eating and excuse habits.” People try to blame the government, fast- food companies, video- games, but I believe that all of the responsibilities fall on the parents. While people still try to find someone to blame, they should be conserned about their fitness.
The fast- food chain is an epidemic. Since the 1980’s the rate of obesity has doubled. All starting in their childhood years. Student or children are being exposed to more and more fast foods. Children rely on their parents are being exposed to more and more fast food
America will continue to be one of the most fattest countries in the world, unless people take a stand. Parents should be a role model for the younger generations, buy they’re not! I believe that the parents are at fault, but not only the parents but the industries as well. The marketing industries try to expose their products to children. The industries proliferation of making chains of stores distributing the products make it hard to stay away. States within the United States are getting more and more obese. The states have taken notice of childhood obesity. It was a serious matter ans still is. The industry is only marketing the products, while the parents are the ones who allow the children to eat such high-calorie foods.
Set of short articles in “Fast Food: Who’s to blame?”
Shannon Brownlee, in “Its Portion Distortion that makes America Fat” states that the fast food companies are the ones that the fast food companies are the ones that are responsible for the Americans with the roly-poly shapes they have today. “But make no mistake: When they do well economically, we gain weight.” Meaning that when the companies to good, its thanks to us. Americans wake up to the fact that obesity is killing nearly as many citizens as cigarettes are, jumbo burgers and super-size fries will seem like less of a bargain. If you put more food in front of people, they eat more, as studies have shown in the last decade.
“If you Pitch it, They will Eat it” by David Barboza stated that “ a growing number of nutritionalists call it a blitzkrieg that preserves children’s eating habits and sets then on a path of obesity.” Just as the title implies. If they pitch it, they will eat it. “While the companies view these as promotional pitches, lawyers are threatening a wave of obesity-related class action lawsuits.” Companies see their marketing as “harmless” but in fact the opposite, the results are within the children who are exposed to the “harmless marketing”. “Increase in food marketing to children has closely tacked their increase in weight.” Targeting children is a smart thing, but can result to childhood obesity.
David Zincsenkojin “Don’t Blame the Eater” talks about how its not the fast food whos at fault, but the eaters. “Kids taking on McDonalds this week, suing the company for making them fat.” $100 billion a year for the centers for disease control is stupid. Children who eat fast food, by the age of 15 one is 212 pounds. Before it was only 5 percent of childhood cases were obesity related, not its over 16 percent. “Fast food targets children”, that meaning children influence the adults, because the can only cry and cry about what they want. To shut them up the parents have to give in.
Daniel Weintraub, in “The Battle against Fast Food Begins in the Home.” Stated “it’s the parents-not the government, not the fast food companies, not the video-game manufactures- who are responsible for teaching kids healthy eating and excuse habits.” People try to blame the government, fast- food companies, video- games, but I believe that all of the responsibilities fall on the parents. While people still try to find someone to blame, they should be conserned about their fitness.
The fast- food chain is an epidemic. Since the 1980’s the rate of obesity has doubled. All starting in their childhood years. Student or children are being exposed to more and more fast foods. Children rely on their parents are being exposed to more and more fast food
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Reading Autobiography
In the year 2000 is when I first remember being introduced to a book. In sure that i was introduced earlier when i was younger. In the year 2000 i was in kindergarten, thats when i remember being read my first book, i have no recollecting memories of what story was about. As i went on to elementary, i remember more stories i was exposed to. I was exposed to mostly disney stories, that were in korean, my parent would read them aloud to me.
It was in elementary where i started to read by myself, i remember clearly that i read aloud to the class. of course any other child would be nervous presenting in front of a class, i was one of those nervous children. My English wasn't that proficient so my mom would have made me read newspapers, the little articles they would have. That's when my English got better and my Korean got worse. As i kept on reading i used more and more English, but as i used more English, i used less Korean.
As time went on, i moved on to middle school. Middle school was not the best time for me in reading. I rarely have memories of me reading in middle school. What i read were the mainstream books like harry potter and the unfortunate events. Later on i found out that those books were turned into movies. I was interested in books that were changed into movies, because i realized that not all the specific details were either in the book or movie. Most of the time the movie is made from the book.
Since then i became interested in movies that were originally books. So i read more and more books as i realized they were movies. As i went on in life i became less and less interested in reading books by myself. I wouldn't touch a book unless i had to for a school assignment. I wouldn't read books, but i would read manga, Japanese comics. Through manga i picked up some words, like nostalgia.
In my Junior and Senior year, i realized i had to be more exposed to the worlds newspapers and TIME magazines. I had to be more exposed to the world because, soon i will be in the world all by myself. It would also change the way i talk and be more exposed to words I'm unfamiliar with. So i try to read a time magazine almost everyday, if not every other day.
My uncle who has tutored me in my SAT studies, has introduced me to many things. He has a Ph D. and masters and some other stuff, i dont really care, but he told me about the real world. Now i try to be more involved with more unfamiliar words. I try to visit Barnes and Nobles every other month.
When reading its hard for me to concentrate with a lot of distractions around me. Usually when i read, my mind gets distracted, but once i really get into a book, nothing would keep me away from a good book.
It was in elementary where i started to read by myself, i remember clearly that i read aloud to the class. of course any other child would be nervous presenting in front of a class, i was one of those nervous children. My English wasn't that proficient so my mom would have made me read newspapers, the little articles they would have. That's when my English got better and my Korean got worse. As i kept on reading i used more and more English, but as i used more English, i used less Korean.
As time went on, i moved on to middle school. Middle school was not the best time for me in reading. I rarely have memories of me reading in middle school. What i read were the mainstream books like harry potter and the unfortunate events. Later on i found out that those books were turned into movies. I was interested in books that were changed into movies, because i realized that not all the specific details were either in the book or movie. Most of the time the movie is made from the book.
Since then i became interested in movies that were originally books. So i read more and more books as i realized they were movies. As i went on in life i became less and less interested in reading books by myself. I wouldn't touch a book unless i had to for a school assignment. I wouldn't read books, but i would read manga, Japanese comics. Through manga i picked up some words, like nostalgia.
In my Junior and Senior year, i realized i had to be more exposed to the worlds newspapers and TIME magazines. I had to be more exposed to the world because, soon i will be in the world all by myself. It would also change the way i talk and be more exposed to words I'm unfamiliar with. So i try to read a time magazine almost everyday, if not every other day.
My uncle who has tutored me in my SAT studies, has introduced me to many things. He has a Ph D. and masters and some other stuff, i dont really care, but he told me about the real world. Now i try to be more involved with more unfamiliar words. I try to visit Barnes and Nobles every other month.
When reading its hard for me to concentrate with a lot of distractions around me. Usually when i read, my mind gets distracted, but once i really get into a book, nothing would keep me away from a good book.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Internet Essay
People these days think that fame is an important thing. It can control how people can act. They get the fame from creating a virtual self. A virtual self can create a new life or your personality. People in real life may be unsatisfied with how their lives are and want to escape reality, through facebook or avatars. 91% of facebook users go back on facebook because its so addictive. “traffic on facebook has grown 272% in the past year…”
People want to escape reality. They do this because they are not satisfactory with how they want to live. “An avatar becomes ones digital self…”. Avatars can create a “new” you. “ A 27-year-old wife and mother Becky Glasure, who complains of never having being taken seriously.” She didn’t want to be ignored so she created an avatar and escaped reality to the virtual world.
Not all humans are created equal. They wish to all have perfect bodies like the ones that are being advertised. This can make people sad and self-concious of who they are, creating depression. To escape that depression they want to escape to the virtual world. “ there is ample repititon, even among them. For one, quite a number of avatars are just younger, thinner and prettier versions of their creators.”
Social networking sites these days are so popular that millions of people around the world use it. It’s also a recent trend and the government doesn’t have much control over it. It’s a good thing because you can see a long lost friend over facebook. “for students of the generation who have grown up “online” it is easy to take for granted the virtual society we live in.” What the quote is saying is that the kids that were born onto the computer, they don’t understand the risks we live in.
This only shows that danger can lurk anywhere in the internet. There are predators everywhere. Predators aren’t only random strangers, they could be someone you know. “20 students were suspended last month from TeWinkle Middle School for two days for participating in a Myspace group where one student allegedly threatened to kill another…” This quote shows how much thust peopleput onto the mainstream social networking sites, they escape reality to facebook or myspace and share their stories. Not only that , but people these days post many things that might regret. Most not very effective to their goal, but still enough to haunt them.
People want to escape reality. They do this because they are not satisfactory with how they want to live. “An avatar becomes ones digital self…”. Avatars can create a “new” you. “ A 27-year-old wife and mother Becky Glasure, who complains of never having being taken seriously.” She didn’t want to be ignored so she created an avatar and escaped reality to the virtual world.
Not all humans are created equal. They wish to all have perfect bodies like the ones that are being advertised. This can make people sad and self-concious of who they are, creating depression. To escape that depression they want to escape to the virtual world. “ there is ample repititon, even among them. For one, quite a number of avatars are just younger, thinner and prettier versions of their creators.”
Social networking sites these days are so popular that millions of people around the world use it. It’s also a recent trend and the government doesn’t have much control over it. It’s a good thing because you can see a long lost friend over facebook. “for students of the generation who have grown up “online” it is easy to take for granted the virtual society we live in.” What the quote is saying is that the kids that were born onto the computer, they don’t understand the risks we live in.
This only shows that danger can lurk anywhere in the internet. There are predators everywhere. Predators aren’t only random strangers, they could be someone you know. “20 students were suspended last month from TeWinkle Middle School for two days for participating in a Myspace group where one student allegedly threatened to kill another…” This quote shows how much thust peopleput onto the mainstream social networking sites, they escape reality to facebook or myspace and share their stories. Not only that , but people these days post many things that might regret. Most not very effective to their goal, but still enough to haunt them.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Winter Break
During my winter break, I was supposed to study my SAT book. I made plans and everything on what to study and when. So in the end, i ended up not studying the whole winter break, so i wasted precious studying time. I also planned on doing all my homework for the first week, but in the end i procrastinated till yesterday, Sunday. So i didnt sleep at all. Other than homework and studying i ended up having a very relaxing break. Me and my family celabrated me and my brothers birthday's. So i ended up eating allot over the break as well. I would have at least gained five pounds, but thankfully as an athlete i have to keep myself in shape. I train for the up coming L.A. marathon, i also had track and field practice to attend also. So i guess during the break i was fit.
My brother moved out to live with my mom. So i had two rooms all to myself, the rooms are both connected to each other so i can just walk through. I moved everything into the bigger room. The big room included three desks, one for studying, one for playing, and one for the computer. The room also has a nice leather sofa and a huge bunk bed. In the smaller room I transformed it into a workout room. Its the smaller room but i guess its still a big room. I spent over 5five hundread dollars on the new work out room.
My brother moved out to live with my mom. So i had two rooms all to myself, the rooms are both connected to each other so i can just walk through. I moved everything into the bigger room. The big room included three desks, one for studying, one for playing, and one for the computer. The room also has a nice leather sofa and a huge bunk bed. In the smaller room I transformed it into a workout room. Its the smaller room but i guess its still a big room. I spent over 5five hundread dollars on the new work out room.
The Crucible
In the late 1940-50’s the United States found themselves living in the midst of mass hysteria. Hundreds of lives were devastated during the time of Senator Joseph McCarthy. In McCarthy’s time he created the time of devastation. He created mass hysteria causing many Americans to lose their families, reputations shattered for many decades, and also ruining their careers. Mass Hysteria has been used in political rhetorical and popular literature as vivid cautionary tales about isolationism, religious extreamism, false accusation, lapses in due process of law, and government intrusion or individual liberties. This can only show the horrendous power of mass hysteria.
In the story The Crucible there was Mass Hysteria in Serbia, where they believed in witchcraft and eventually led to Mass Hysteria. “… the Salem folk believed that the virgin forests was the devils last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand.” This quote shows that they believed strongly in their religion. Only to show that whatever they believe in strongly they will eventually believe it. A Puritan belief of the 17th century is that the devil and other demons live in the forest, and that witchcraft is performed there as well, Its because they believed so strongly in the devils forest, led them to lead to Mass Hysteria. The false accusations would only lead to, and caused panic and eventually unneeded deaths.
The Crucible was based on the witch trials in Salem. The trials were against the girls who did the witchcraft in the forest. Which led to Mass Hysteria. The way the girls would follow each other, like they pretend to be bewitched, which spreads. The girls acted as if they were possessed by the devil. They used that as an advantage to show that they were the only ones to see the devils. By doing that it was either to join them or to be seen as a witch. It also plays a role of sexism showing that only the females would be possessed and not any man. A quote from the book shows “ …the witch hunt was not however, a mere representation . It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicity his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.” So what the text is saying, is that the people had to uncover their own misdoings to show that they or whoever they wanted to protect were not a witch. This wasn’t mass hysteria itself, but it was cause and effect, which led to that.
A real life example of Mass Hysteria in action would be when Joseph McCarthy had created the “red scare”. McCarthy did something like the witch trials. The term McCarthyism was created from Joseph McCarthy. He would use his power and knowledge to scare and make accusations to people without the proper evidence. He had the people scared to do what he wanted them to do. Instead of witchcraft he would use “communism”.
The “red scare” strongly supported anti- communism. The first red scare was between 1919- 1920 which lasted about a year. It was to the workers (socialists). It was on revolution and political radicalism, this was a case of Mass Hysteria that would change Church, home, marriage, civility, and the American way of life. The second red scare was between 1947- 1957 which lasted about 10 years. The second scare was on the national and foreign communists influencing society or infiltrating the federal government or both.
The developments in The Crucible and the real life actions of Joseph McCarthy both ended up creating Mass Hysteria and ended up killing people without reason. Both the, Salem witch trials and the red scare both were the starting point of McCarthyism. The women from the crucible would be accused without reason and be sent to execution, the same thing with the red scare, you would be executed if you were under the suspicion of being a communist. In the end Mass Hysteria can lead to many thing, and that would be what the countless people had felt, the cause and effects of Mass Hysteria and McCarthyism itself.
In the story The Crucible there was Mass Hysteria in Serbia, where they believed in witchcraft and eventually led to Mass Hysteria. “… the Salem folk believed that the virgin forests was the devils last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand.” This quote shows that they believed strongly in their religion. Only to show that whatever they believe in strongly they will eventually believe it. A Puritan belief of the 17th century is that the devil and other demons live in the forest, and that witchcraft is performed there as well, Its because they believed so strongly in the devils forest, led them to lead to Mass Hysteria. The false accusations would only lead to, and caused panic and eventually unneeded deaths.
The Crucible was based on the witch trials in Salem. The trials were against the girls who did the witchcraft in the forest. Which led to Mass Hysteria. The way the girls would follow each other, like they pretend to be bewitched, which spreads. The girls acted as if they were possessed by the devil. They used that as an advantage to show that they were the only ones to see the devils. By doing that it was either to join them or to be seen as a witch. It also plays a role of sexism showing that only the females would be possessed and not any man. A quote from the book shows “ …the witch hunt was not however, a mere representation . It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicity his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.” So what the text is saying, is that the people had to uncover their own misdoings to show that they or whoever they wanted to protect were not a witch. This wasn’t mass hysteria itself, but it was cause and effect, which led to that.
A real life example of Mass Hysteria in action would be when Joseph McCarthy had created the “red scare”. McCarthy did something like the witch trials. The term McCarthyism was created from Joseph McCarthy. He would use his power and knowledge to scare and make accusations to people without the proper evidence. He had the people scared to do what he wanted them to do. Instead of witchcraft he would use “communism”.
The “red scare” strongly supported anti- communism. The first red scare was between 1919- 1920 which lasted about a year. It was to the workers (socialists). It was on revolution and political radicalism, this was a case of Mass Hysteria that would change Church, home, marriage, civility, and the American way of life. The second red scare was between 1947- 1957 which lasted about 10 years. The second scare was on the national and foreign communists influencing society or infiltrating the federal government or both.
The developments in The Crucible and the real life actions of Joseph McCarthy both ended up creating Mass Hysteria and ended up killing people without reason. Both the, Salem witch trials and the red scare both were the starting point of McCarthyism. The women from the crucible would be accused without reason and be sent to execution, the same thing with the red scare, you would be executed if you were under the suspicion of being a communist. In the end Mass Hysteria can lead to many thing, and that would be what the countless people had felt, the cause and effects of Mass Hysteria and McCarthyism itself.
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