Cookbook

Defining “McDonaldization” and Its Effects on Individuals and Society McDonald's has become the essence of our laziness and childhood obesity. In our society, Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburgers has had to change their focus to giving the buyer a higher quality product in a fast amount of time. Wendy's still caters to a McDonaldized society in terms of giving them a meal as fast as possible but making quality their number one priority to give people a feasible option from McDonald's. First,…

From a young age, I’ve always loved to cook. When I was little I would go to my grandma’s house and help her make bread and sarmale and at nine years old she gave me my first cookbook. However, as much as I love cooking, it could never come close to the love I feel when I am with my family and friends and the joy it brings me to make them smile and laugh. Through this class and really thinking about what is important to me, I have realized that my purpose is to make people feel loved and happy…

Air control and traffic control systems The air travel connects every part of the world. Air transport is very risky in the case of information issues. The aircrafts are controlled through systems of coordinated information systems. Any loss or misinterpretation of the information from the ground results into tragic accidents, loss of lives and resources. Such cases have been evident in many parts of the country where the crafts get lost from the system and crashes on the ground. The riskiest…

Big Data Introduction In approximately 2007, IBM (International Business Machines) researchers set out to create a computer system that could compete with humans on the popular television game show Jeopardy (Clive, 2010). Most search engines, like Bing or Google, generate a list of sources from a keywords search. The sources direct users to webpages that may or may not contain the information sought by the user. IBM researchers aimed to develop a question and answering system that could…

On October 4, 2016, I went and saw Mamma Mia at 8:00pm at the Lutcher Theatre. This show was performed by Work Light Productions. Mamma Mia is a musical about a girl who is about to get married, Sophie, and wants to know who her father is so he can walk her down the aisle. The only problem is that her mom hasn’t told her much about her father so she doesn’t even know a possible name until she finds one of her mom’s old journals. She finds three possible father’s and invites them all. Her friends…

the London press. He also was even given the title the best amateur actor on the stage. As for his private life, he loved his family and tried to spend as much time with them as he could. Dickens was also a proud householder; he once even wrote a cookbook. To his children he was a great father, until their adolescence, where their lives proved less happy, Dickens wasn't around much as his children began to grow up, but he tried his best for how busy and popular he truly was at the time. Besides…

For health, religious, or ethical reasons an increasing number of people are becoming vegetarians. However, even without practicing this diet, according to studies concerning this issue, many health-conscious customers prefer to order vegetarian dishes in a restaurant. Consumers expectations are changing; they are becoming more curious about novelties. They want to experience something new; vegetarianism becomes a form of experiential marketing. After studying consumers’ opinion, I looked at the…

They were fine and informative. Just refreshed my memory, but it was stuff that I had already learned from watching Dr. Oz, the other doctors, reading cookbooks, because its pretty much all the same thing. If you have a good diet, and you have exercise, then I really believe we can keep the diabetes in control. The fats, I did learn that and it was informative, but I just don’t like having to count every…

For the first time in history, Americans spend more money eating out than buying groceries per Fox News (2015). Since December of 2015, I have been eating out, which has impact my income and my overall health. In my self-study, I decided to chart how much money I was wasting by eating out, how much I was wasting by eating at home. I also started learning how to cook and monitoring what I put in my meals. I have found that I am saving a great amount of money. I am also learning how to cook. I do…

In Sable and Dark Glasses Joan Didion remembers her distaste for being a child and her yearning for a glamorous, grown up life. I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage. When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with which my cousin Brenda, a year and a half younger, accepted her mother’s definition of her as someone who needed to go to bed at six-thirty and finish every bite of…