A Netflix original series boasting only eight episodes. Four child actors huddled around a ten-hour Dungeons and Dragons game. A mother communicating with her lost son via Christmas lights. A budding romance between the smart, pretty girl and the resident weird kid. A supernatural young girl with an affinity for Eggo waffles. It does not sound like it should work, but it does. While this summer’s Ghostbusters revival became the new punchline to every science fiction joke, Stranger Things brought…
The Ubiquitous Indian Breakfast Considered as the most important meal of the day, breakfast is the meal consumed in the mornings after a night’s sleep. It is the amalgamation of two words literally meaning breaking (break) the fast undertaken during sleep (fast). Carbohydrates are an important source of nutrition in most breakfast preparations all over the world, and the same holds true even for Indian breakfasts. It is a vital element in the dish preparation, another important attribute to the…
I. Gain the attention of the audience: By a show of hands, how many of you are familiar with stevia? This type of sweetener is naturally two-hundred times sweeter than table sugar. II. Establish credibility: According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1989). Americans consume one hundred and fifty-six pounds on artificial sweeteners each year on a per capital basis. Because you might not know what is too little or too much. III. Adapt the presentation to yourself- the speaker: So, what’s…
favorite and most popular cereals being advertised today? For years, the extensive marketing efforts of food companies have reached all-time highs, especially when it involves children. “Trix” cereal is one of America’s most hearty cereals, because not only does it taste great, but the appearance of the actual box of cereal just looks promising. The Trix Rabbit first appeared on the box of “Trix” cereal in 1959, as just a fluffy, white hand puppet. If you are a fan of this cereal, then you…
Australia has a vast range of foods and cuisines, expanding and evolving since the first fleet arrived in 1788, from then on many other migrants from different ethnic groups have settled in Australia, this has resulted in increased food availability as each group has introduced, grown and prepared their own native foods from their homeland. Australia is recognized as one of the most multicultural countries in the world and the food component is heavily responsible for that reputation. The first…
time, was to provide food, “Chow”, for farm animals. The company later began producing breakfast cereal, with endorsement by Webster Edgerly, the founder of Ralston breakfast cereals. The cereal products became so successful that in 1902 the name of the enterprise was changed to the Ralston-Purina Company. From 1902 to 1986 the Ralston-Purina Company prospered in the animal chow and breakfast cereal markets. Not only was Ralston Purina focusing on dog food, but they later created cat food and…
Kotler splits the product life cycle into 4 phases: Introduction, growth, maturity and decline. Introduction is described as a “period of slow sales growth as the product is introduced in the market”. Growth is described as a “period of rapid market acceptance and profit improvement”. Maturity is a “slowdown in sales growth because the product has achieved acceptance by most potential buyers”. Lastly, decline is when “sales show a downward drift” (p. 310). The chasm lies within the growth…
In the essay “Possible Worlds: Why do Children Pretend?” by Alison Gopnik she explains her theory of counterfactual thinking and the result of that being possible worlds. Gopnik suggests that counterfactuals are the possibilities of what could have occurred in life. These counterfactuals are the cause, and the effect is the creation of possible worlds. Gopnik defines possible worlds as “the productions of hope and imagination” (163). Possible worlds are seen as the result of a counterfactual;…
During this essay, I will explain why Lewis’s understanding of counterfactuals develops the need for transitivity, and argue that although the notion of causal transitivity is useful to us (and necessary under Lewis’s 1978 account of counterfactual analysis), Lewis himself fails to provide an adequate response to meaningful counterexamples against it. Finally, I will present and evaluate an alternative rebuttal to these counterexamples, concluding that the transitivity of causation is not as…
EGH318: Assessment 2: Impossible and Unnatural Text Worlds in The Five People You Meet in Heaven’ In order to understand and conceptualise all language we encounter, we construct mental representations. These representations; known as text worlds, may be shaped differently depending on the individual, but are a part of how all linguistically adequate people process language. It is these text worlds and how humans make sense of them that is the underlying focus of what has been coined; Text World…