Jelly bean

The black bean episode, or the black bean lottery, was the result of the Mier expedition. Alexander Somervell had led his militia to raid border towns, such as Guerrero and Laredo, and decided to quit due to the fear of a deadly clash with Mexican troops. Only 189 troops listened to his orders and went on the long journey back home. Over three hundred troops continued on their journey with their new leader, William S. Fisher. The Texans decided to cross the Rio Grande River and enter the town…

What is a meme? One would think that the answer would be simple and easy, after all majority of people think of memes as simple things. They are images that show up regularly on their social media sites and most of the time the response they elicit is laughter. Memes make people laugh and that is their purpose, so surely something with a simple purpose wouldn’t have a complicated nature? Well that’s where Limor Shifman would have to disagree with you. She offers a novel definition of memes:…

supply are: Input costs such as labor and other things that are used in the production of a good or service (Hubbard and O’Brien 2015). Keurig Green Mountain has input costs of labor, K-Cup production, brewer manufacturing and purchasing coffee beans from independent coffee growers. Number of firms in the market – more firms in the market will result in more product available at a given price (Hubbard and O’Brien 2015). Keurig Green Mountain has a large number of competitors in the same…

Robinson Crusoe Literary Criticism Essay Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is a tale based of the real survival of a Scottish merchant marooned on a Caribbean island during the early 1700s. In Expanding Empires, Expanding Selves : Colonialism, the novel and Robinson Crusoe by, Brett C. McInelly (2003 John Hopkins University Press). Brett C. McInelly, talks about British and European colonialism of the era, religious conversion, expansion of trade, and the mastering of oneself and destiny In…

into our own with whole-bean coffee, which has burst into our lives with the satisfying flavour that we long for and love. The choices are many, and there is most definitely a flavour to suit your individual tastes. Here we take a look at some of the coffees produced in the Americas. Hawaii Although their coffee is farmed throughout the Hawaiian Islands, the best known form is Kona, and is grown on the main island of Hawaii. The environment is ideal for this particular bean and comes from the…

Due to the fact that Italy didn’t have anywhere to keep the mentally ill, in 1922, the island was transformed into a mental asylum. The highly disturbed could be kept isolated from the mainland. The hospital was large and had a very impressive bell tower. Right when the asylum opened patients immediately began reporting sightings of the ghosts of the plague victims. Patients would be kept up at night because they were able to hear the tortured cries of the suffering spirits. These complaints…

affinity for robbing banks at high speeds. Ultimately, family is what people make of it, and it can be the ‘traditional’ two parents, one brother, one sister, and one dog, or it could be a girl and a baby she was left with. Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees is the story of a poor Kentucky girl with small town thoughts and big town dreams who escapes her hometown without getting pregnant, but manages by the hand of fate to be left with a child that was never her’s in the first place. The story…

A local Blanchard family took the song lyrics “anything you can do I can do better” to heart and created their own business. After tasting a homemade salsa, a natural competitiveness caused Lori Redmon, her husband Bill Redmon and her mother Diane Cooper to create Killin Time Canning. “My mother works at a nursing home and she brought some salsa home that a resident’s family member had made. Just out of the competitiveness of our family, we said we could do better and that’s where it started…

Lately, my crew and I have had a very crazy journey. We have done a lot of traveling lately and it has been very frustrating because my crew has not been listening to my commands of what I tell them to do. My crew and I started out our journey my sailing all the way from the land of the Cyclops to the land of Aeolus. I got the chance to meet Aeolus and he is the God of the Wind. I was also very fortunate to receive a tremendously nice gift from the God Aeolus. This gift made me very happy…

Kingsolver is correct about America’s degrading basic survival competencies but comes off as a pretentious wide eyed idealist which leaves the reader reluctant to admit that she is right. Why? The argument presented by the text is compelling with examples of children who associated the dirt of growing food with something that is unsanitary or unsafe to consume. She further alludes to what we now call the “Purell Generation”, people so afraid of bacteria and germs they neglect or ignore the…