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Is Hip-Hop terrible nowadays or am I getting old? Time makes fools of all of us. I’m not the same stallion that I used to be. The days of me drinking until four in the morning are far behind me. I mean I can still do it but instead of a cheeseburger to recover, I need three days of rest and IV bag. Just like my drinking tolerance my music tolerance has changed. This is something that will happen to all of us. We get older and our bodies change and our music palate also changes. This leads to…

It is self-evident that the topic of minimum wage has had quite the controversy between numerous groups of people including politicians, employers, employees and many more. The reason being, the raising of minimum wage affects every individual either in a positive or negative way. However, many individuals do not recognize these either harmful or positive affects the raising of minimum wage would affect them. To better understand the influence of raising the national minimum wage, it is…

Disney Fairy Tales Vs Reality Once upon a time there were two universes. One universe contained every female child’s dream, while the other universe contained the harsh reality of life. They both showed all the signs of a functioning mankind. People roamed the streets, couples meet up to talk about their day, and the environment around them carried on without a glitch. All of these signs were completely different in these two universes, though. The first world was one created by…

The food industry has kept the world in captivity for many years now as people do not realize the multiple changes it has endured, as the film Food, Inc. portrays. From farms to factories and natural grown food production to antibiotic filled mutant food. The illusion that our food is produced on these farms is only an idea and the fact that the only way people even take notice is through a documentary or story shows how alienated many individuals are to the food industry. It is the entrenchment…

In “Don’t Blame the Eater,” David Zinczenko warns the consumer about the dangers of eating fast food because it is a main cause of childhood obesity. Zinczenko states that he can relate to the kids suing McDonald’s because as a kid he gained a lot of weight from eating fast food. Many children live in families where it is hard to get an affordable healthy meal when in a hurry and away from home. Many parents go for the cheaper options like McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, and Taco Bell because…

McDonalds is somewhere everyone has eaten at, at least once in their lifetime. What they do not know is what they are eating. People today trust anyone with their food in order to save time for work and other important tasks. The time spent on cooking meals in America has "fallen by half since the mid-sixties" (Pollan, "Cooked" 3). Nutrition has been put in the hands of fast food corporations around the world. Unfortunately, fast food corporations such as McDonalds are mainly concerned about…

The majority of my lifetime (which is not the long) I have been in the high normal weight to the low overweight category for most of my life for according to the BMI or Body Mass Index. It was not until recently, when I started to gain more weight because of my not playing sports and working at a pizza parlor. All the way up to about the age of 14, I was very active, played sports year round, and was one of the top students in stats for P.E. Then I suffered an eye injury which left me to quit…

Andrew Warhola, otherwise widely known as Andy Warhol was a pop artist during the early 1950’s up to the late 1980’s. He created works like Campbell’s Soup Cans, Shot Diptych and Green Coca-Cola Bottles. This research essay will explore the life of the artist Warhol himself, while also looking at how he influenced pop art and how that came to be. A single painting of his will we examined, that painting being the Green Coca-Cola Bottles. The details like when, where and what media was used will…

seem a bit melodramatic is when he is selling newspapers to make money and what he does is of someone who in a way could care less “I sold five in one hour, dumped the other forty-five in a garbage can, and walked into McDonald’s, ordered four cheeseburgers for a dollar each, and slowly ate them.”(pg. 6). If you really wanted to make money why would you literally throw out one of your only chances. This behavior that the protagonist displays from beginning to end is a bit excessive so that who…

Survivor: Scared White Family Edition There’s a running tradition in my family. Every summer we go to Lake George, NY for a few days. Lake George is the birthplace of some of my most treasured memories with my family. My most treasured, and I must say most traumatizing, memory was the hike of our 2013 trip. This hike had my uncle going on about it hiking on a scenic trail in the mountains with a gorgeous view near where we were staying There’s a running tradition in my family. Every summer we…