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makes you mouth water, the music that puts you in a nice mood, the smooth touch of the napkins and utensils, and finally the taste of the delicious food. The complete experience actually starts from when you make the reservation, ends when you walk out of the door or upload your food photos on Instagram. However, is the experience designed in a way that is optimized for the diner? Let’s take a look. You and your friend show up at the restaurant two minutes before your reservation. The place is…

To say the most, he was enjoying his time with his little sister. He had little time to spend with Hazel and Frank was pretty cool, even if their conversations either went to Hazel or to a mutual interest in a card game. It was at that moment in nearly every film, when the romantic tension is finally cracked open with a dramatic reveal that the movie flickered out of view and the lights began to turn on. “Ladies and gentlemen, please excuse this…

Cotton Candy You've always known about cotton candy. The fluffy, sweet circus treat everyone has always loved and looked forward to when they go to the county fair. Although it may not be as popular as chocolate, skittles, or your favorite candy, cotton candy has a unique history that many do not know. The main topics that are discussed, is the how was it made? How is it made inside the machines today? And how has the flavor of cotton candy evolved? Cotton candy may be simply mostly sugar, but…

with their wet, mass body that constitutes the beach. The Blue recedes again, carrying off the flecks to cast them over the shore once more. The crests are pathetically low for a day on the Causeway. Shelter surrounds me as I watch the repetition out of the heat- breezes noisily siphon through the sizable shack, blowing bits of shortened hair to tickle my cheeks. Flat on the wood, I sit on a pillow displaced from colorful others spat in groups about the open-ended room, a drastic contrast…

“And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.” (Hesse p.g. 132) The Book Out of The Dust was written by Karen Hesse and is a Historical Fiction novel about a young girl named Billie Jo going through life in the dust bowl. As in accelerated reader, it is worth three points and the grade level is 5.0, there are 277 pages in the novel. The book is about a young girl named Billie Jo…

“Land, land!” I was out playing with my childhood friend when we heard shouting. What we caught a glimpse of was the strangest thing we could possibly think. We were hidden behind the trees so that ‘it’ could not see us. What could they possibly be? As my curiosity grew stronger, I could no longer help it and went out to meet them. My friend tried to stop me, but was unable to, so he had no choice but to follow me in my adventure. Once they noticed us, they tried speaking to us in a language we…

wire electrified me, but it was really quick, so it did not hurt as bad as I thought. Then I saw a sign with a riddle on it. It had a riddle on it about left or right. I quickly derived information out of it, and I surmised that the right passage…

After the quality of the food is considered, the next logical thing to look at is how it is being served. The service is another important factor when eating out because it sets the stage of how the meal will go. If the employees are rude or disrespectful it will ruin the rest of the night because even after the issue is solved the customer will still be fuming after the encounter. On the other hand if the service is wonderful the customer can then focus on the quality of the food. It is already…

follows the journey of Alfie Byrne, and his theatre group at St. Imelda’s, as he figures out who he is in Dublin, Ireland in 1964. Given the setting of the play being in very Catholic Dublin, Ireland, especially in 1964 the lives of the characters are impacted in many different ways. The hold that the rules of the church have on them impacts all of their lives differently. Alfie doesn’t feel comfortable coming out as gay to even his closest friends and family. Lily is left waiting for Alfie to…

and can’t get anything to come out. This is why it is the scariest and most dangerous silence because there is nothing more frightening to humans than not being able to do or achieve something. The image above depicts a “silent scream” referring to the atomic bombs that were dropped in Japan. In this scene in the movie, the Butoh dancer is obviously showing that he is going through a painful and horrific event. While it appears that the dancer is screaming his lungs out, he can’t seem to muster…