Ben & Jerry's

“You wish you had a pretty tummy like me!” My grandmother sassed in her thick Jamaican accent as she lifted her worn t-shirt and patted her stomach: round, smooth, and undeniably a bit chubby. I was just 13 at the time and my grandma was trying to make me laugh, yet she meant every word. In their youth, my mother and grandmother looked as I do now: 5'7", 124 lbs. But like clockwork, in their late 20s they each developed their “pretty tummy” — a disproportionately large, yet soft fat deposit…

then it ends, and they go on with their lives. For depression, however, people have the emotion of sadness constantly. (What 's the Difference between Sadness and Depression?) It’s not just crying all the time and sitting around eating a tub of Ben and Jerry’s. It is so much more. Depressed people tend to have excessive fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, loss of interest in activities or hobbies they once loved, apathy, overeating or undereating. There are so many signs of somebody being…

Most people dread going to their jobs. They hate putting on their plain uniform, and dealing with crabby and ungrateful people, not to mention the drive to work for these people is almost as terrible as work itself. I am nothing like this. Every day before I work, I put on my athletic shorts, t-shirt, socks, and I am excited to start my job. I enjoy my drive to work, and when I get there I am greeted by a few co-workers. I then put my bags in the office, and make my way to the gym. The other…

Final Writing Assignment 1. No, I’m not a consumer of Blue Bell, I have always preferred Ben & Jerry’s or Baskin Robins instead because I grew up in Dubai and I was most familiar with those ice cream companies. It didn’t necessarily affect my consumption, but I actively tried to prevent my friends and roommates from buying it after the Listeria recall news spread. 2. The coverage that Blue Bell is receiving so far seems to be all negative, it doesn’t help that they recently made another recall.…

What some people do not understand, is the word “natural” is not defined in the food industry. Which means that no one is regulating any requirements for manufacturers to be able to place “natural” on their labels. An example of this is Ben & Jerry’s ice cream who claims to have “All Natural” ingredients in 48 of their 53 ice cream flavors. When in reality contain ingredients such as, “fake vanilla, alkalized cocoa, corn syrup, and partially hydrogenated soybean oil” (Gosselin, 2010, p. 1)…

The people who you chose to be apart of your life are essential to to knowing what kind of person you are. I am a firm believer in the saying you are only as good as the people you surround yourself with. This belief has always stayed in the back of my mind when deciding who I wanted in my social circle. I have learned that it was never about the quantity of friends I had but more about the quality of the people that I was surrounding myself with. It is true friends come and go and nothing last…

Word Count: 1372 THE ‘B’ GRADE Matthew S. Tapper loved the taste of maple syrup. He had no clue how it was made, and would salivate whenever he saw the ‘B’ grade pasted on a plastic half pint jug. (Backstory: Not too many years back and for most of his millennial life when money flowed, the good Mr. Tapper went through gallon jugs of ‘B’ grade faster than the 4 or 5 at full throttle between 59th and 86th.) Deep into his man purse he would dive for the errant coins that vacationed way…

Created in October 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Kreiger, Instagram is an online mobile photo sharing and social networking application service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them. The distinctive feature about Instagram is it confines digital filters that users can apply to their pictures before sharing them on the platform. Like tweets, Instagram pictures are indexed by both @persons and #subject matter. By April 2012, Instagram has accumulated 100 million users…

Unilever is a multinational fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) company. It is a British-Dutch company which operates in four main categories; Health and personal care (HPC), Refreshments, Food and Home Care. It is the world’s third largest FMCG company operating in several companies. Unilever is the largest producer of food spreads eg. margarine and it’s products are available in around 190 countries. It has research and development facilities in the United Kingdom (2), the Netherlands, China,…

 Stay as professional as possible. While the customer may seem in control of the situation, diffuse it by not responding the same way.  Use direct eye contact, be sure to smile, and let them know you will be with them as soon as you are done with the customer you are currently assisting.  Don’t respond to them in a derogatory way. Other customers who may witness this situation may see your response as inappropriate and decide to go somewhere else. There are people who want to make you a…