The Root Cause of the Fast Food Epidemic Fast food is so addictive that Connecticut College found it to be comparable to cocaine and morphine (Schroeder, et al., “Student-faculty research suggests Oreos can be compared to drugs of abuse in lab rats”, 2013). Bad choices have led fast food to become so integrated into American culture that one of the most popular fast-food chains, McDonalds, has become an informal symbol for America. Many social scientists are been investigating why fast food has…
The most interesting and unusual nutrition facts! When it comes to nutrition, there’s a lot of information out there. With the advent of the internet, we have access to millions of ideas at the press of a button and we have the ability to truly educate ourselves on any topic we desire. With this ability, however, we encounter a couple problems. With so many bold claims out there, how can we know what to trust? In this article, we’ll go over 10 interesting and unusual nutrition facts that you…
Roof, Roof, Roof! Too often I heard this coming from my neighbors’ backyard at three o’clock in the morning. They had a little Shih Tzu named Oreo, because of his black and white fur. They would leave their dog outside at night and poor Oreo’s bark would keep me up all night long. I would always tell my mom that it was not right for them to neglect their dog the way that they did. I always would think to myself, “What if I just hopped the fence and brought the dog to my house … would they…
engineered to be addictive. I feel we can all agree that addiction is damaging. More and more ingredients are replaced by genetically modified addictive substances. For example, when eating Oreos, you can’t just open up a pack of Oreos and just eat one. Your body will demand you eat them all. Why? Because Oreos are engineered to be…
interact with their customers is by getting involved with them using social media. For instance, Oreo is a product well known by many people and the people in charge of making Oreos have come to an understanding that people, especially teens are always on their social media checking new things. Therefore, the company Oreo has an account on Facebook that asks the public what they think about a certain Oreo and if they liked it. This basically proves how they are manipulating the public into…
isn’t what causes people to buy it; the advertising is what matters. Two similar products that might not be much different in quality may have completely opposite sales records. Oreos, for example, yield plenty of profits. There are many cookies out there like oreos, but they likely don’t produce as much revenue as Oreos do because they are not advertised. This is not to say that those cookies aren’t delicious, but not as many people are aware of the off-brand cookies. Also, when looking at two…
as teenagers, Rushkoff communicated to teenagers crossways the country around in what way their desire to recognize by what’s casual, though, say, “fondness” the Twilight film sequence Facebook page or else retweeting communications as of Nabisco’s Oreo brand can fit into cash intended for those corporations. Rendering to Rushkoff, susceptible teens who have substituted the habit of covering their favorite group or film pictures on their bedroom partitions are now occupying the numerical space…
standard English, I realized that the language I most identify myself is the one I should focus on. Although my friends continuously called me “white girl” and “oreo”, I started to accept that name and enjoy the name of being called an oreo. I started being myself and my double life disappeared because I realized that I identify with who I am through my use of the English language. The battle between black vs. standard English became easier and…
to get a new home called the group house. An example that shows this is “Ernie loved watering indoor plants, and it was this pleasure which finally drew him outside”(Rylant 70). This shows that Ernie changed from being stuck in the indoors eating Oreos and nutter butters and being afraid of the outside world to watering indoor plants and finally going outside to the real world. Ernie is also learning more about plants and actually watering them because he didn’t do any of that when he was in his…
Gunnar Kaufman, the main protagonist in Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle, is removed from comforts of white Santa Monica and relocated into a foreign setting, the ghetto of Hillside. Gunnar considers himself to be the “whitest Negro” and as he begins his journey in his new surrounding he realizes how true this title is. He may have held some expectations to what life in a “ghetto” what be like but he never believed that he would have to live it. Beatty creates a character that is able…