Joel McHale

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    During my time at New Life Community Development and at the St. John’s Bread and Life Mobile Soup Kitchen, I learned quite a few valuable things. When I first started my academic service learning, I went in with the attitude of getting the job done and leaving. I had no intention of enjoying the experience. Although that changed when I walked into the Mobile Soup Kitchen on a grimy Monday afternoon with a whole line of people waiting outside the truck. I immediately started to prepare for the long hours inside the truck. The people standing outside looked mainly like minority groups such as Blacks, Hispanics, etc. There are four stations in the truck. Three volunteers are assigned to putting the food into the plates and there is one main person to hand the food to the people. I was given the job of handing the food out to whoever needed it. After giving out meals to the first few people, I was able to grasp the feeling the supervisors and the people receiving the meals were giving off. It was a warm feeling that surrounded the atmosphere of the truck. Seeing the smiles and hearing the heartfelt thank you every time someone received a meal. This gave me confidence in what I was doing because I was able to see the direct impact of my actions. Throughout my service at the mobile soup kitchen, one woman stood out to me out of the rest. She came up to receive her meals and she said “Thank you for everything you do. I know it’s only a few hours of your day but it really means the…

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    but in a different sense. We work for money in which we pay someone else to get our food for us, nowadays many American’s don’t hunt or garden ourselves. We have become very dependent on others for almost everything. Wendell Berry recommends those who live in the city that are not able to farm themselves to “eat responsibly.” He believes that eating is an agricultural act whereas we think of food as an agricultural product; we don’t think of ourselves as a participant in agriculture but simply…

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    This type of farming understands the use of natural resources/ chain where all the species benefits from each other. In the example of Joel Salatin’s Polyface farm. The Polyface farm was built to feed and produce goods naturally where their use natural resources to raise their animals ”....chicken crap feeds the grass that feeds the cows…… the birds dine on the insects,picking their larvae and parasites out of the animal’s droppings, breaking the cycle of infestations and diseases”(Pollan…

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    Racism In John Grisham's A Time To Kill

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    the Deep South take place and based on a true life experience of John Grisham. The novel, like the movie, opens with a very brutal rape scene. It’s the socio-politics that give this film an energetic and confrontational feel of southern racial politics. Racism was still very strong even some 20 years after the civil war (Ponick 2011). Hollywood and John Grisham wanted to make bold statement about racism and they accomplished this in the closing argument of the courtroom scene. The setting for…

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    Chapter 1: After reading the first chapter I can tell that I 'm going to enjoy this book. The book is set up in an interesting fashion. I like how each story is told in a segment. The author’s tone in the first chapter is interesting. He is talking in a calm tone. This juxtaposes the title of the book because I would think that Slaughterhouse Five would entail a book with extreme violence. He 's telling background about his life in an interesting way, he finds ways to tell the reader specific…

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    The Trance of The Piano Man “Sing us a song you 're the piano man, sing us a song tonight.” Here I am laying on my cot, listening to my one of my favourite songs. Whatever grievances I was still holding onto now seems like an insignificant speck; whether it be homework, exams or even my social life. The absolutely captivating words of Billy Joel are hypnotic, and before I know it I slowly drift asleep falling under the Piano Man’s trance. I opened my eyes, disoriented and dazed; with no idea…

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    Omnivore's Dilemma Summary

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    These huge organic farms do not operate like Joel Salatin’s farm. In fact, a spokesman from Grimmway said that they are in the organic industry for the profitability. Unlike Polyface Farms, these large corporations are not bound by the seasons. Instead, they make use of extreme amounts of energy in order to distribute their food around the world: “The combined company now controls seventeen thousand acres across California, enough land that it can, like Earthbound, rotate production up and down…

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    Song And Song Comparison

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    language may be different, the message remains true. An example of such a pairing is the 2nd century poem from Basavanna, “Before the grey reaches the cheek” and the 20th century song by Billy Joel, “Piano Man.” At first, the poem and the song seem like they don’t correspond with each other, but at a closer glimpse, the similarities are astonishing. “Before the grey reaches the cheek” is about living life before one becomes old and decrepit, while “Piano Man,” tells a story of people who have…

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    as successful. Granted some farmers use pesticides and other chemicals. It 's just costing farmers money. The EPA states, "farmers spend approximately 4.1 billion dollars on pesticides annually". That 's a lot of money and there are risks to using pesticides. People can get acute poisoning, harm animals and contaminate the groundwater. The meritocratic model is best suited, when it comes to organic farming. It ensures that regulations are being followed for the safety of the peoples…

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    The weekend my boyfriend began seeing another woman, I walked into a megachurch for the first time. My girlfriends and I didn’t go to praise Jesus. We went for fun. (I didn’t know about the boyfriend yet.) My two friends, both 20-something journalists like me, were visiting me in Houston, and we considered Lakewood Church — the largest house of worship in the country and home to controversial superstar pastor Joel Osteen — a tourist attraction. We parked in a crowded underground garage and…

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