Patty

I am a 10-Gallon person who has been enduring relationships with pint size people! Oh. My. God! This is what I heard Bishop T.D. Jakes say in one of Oprah's Lifeclasses on TV. It resonated so deeply with me and opened my eyes to the reason I have so often felt frustrated. The Pint People may be actually giving me all they have, but to my 10-Gallon self, it feels like, "Is this all you got?!" I cannot change anyone or anything, but what I can control is with whom I wish to spend my energy…

It is universally acknowledged that women empowerment is strong when women empower each other to best fit in the society. In Patty Jackson’s amazing movie Wonder Woman, Princess Diana protects herself and the people surrounding with her courage and martial art skills. Women in the modern world should be taught some sort of martial art for self protection. She was accompanied by an American Pilot Steve Trevor who protected and promised her to be with throughout their end goal. Best on the…

Not all Medals are made of Metal An icy and bitter mist surrounded me. The sun had secreted behind piles of looming clouds, while droplets of water dispensed from the sky. The track bore a vast expanse of puddles, and runners plunged their way through them. I was sitting in the dewy grass underneath the canopy of our tent. Rain trickled down the stadium steps as I heard the booming announcer eagerly bellow, “Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the 2016 State Track and Field Meet.” My heart began to…

Current farming practices are unsustainable, unethical and inefficient and limitations ought to be put in place. The methods used to obtain a large percentage of the food being consumed are environmentally detrimental and will result in long term, high costs such as irreversible damage to ecosystems, overdrawing natural resources, and harms to human health. Alternative methods exist but aren’t chosen because they’re not as cheap. Cheap food doesn’t account for true costs and as long as cheap…

time he told us how our grandmother recalls to others her children’s names. She tells about each child and something special they did. For instance, the names of my five uncles and aunts on the Johnson side are in the phrase: Johnny Jank Penny Wank Patty Saw D.C. Leroy Johnson. I heard the name every year and could almost spell it out in Pig Latin to my brother in my sleep. The crudeness is not the most annoying behavior of Uncle. How he makes fun of grown-ups and children alike is the…

Is becoming vegan actually the best lifestyle or diet? Vegans do not eat or use any animal products. They don't eat any meat or animal products, like milk, eggs and other animal products. They think doing this will help save the environment and help stop the cruelty for animals. Vegans also may think weight loss will be automatic or will make a person healthier, but that is not the case. A Vegan lifestyle will not be the best because vegans are not getting the nutrients they need, vegans are…

‘Burger’ is a word used by Americans to describe a beef or chicken patty stuffed between two buns and cheese. However, in Pakistan it is used to describe someone who wants to be, or is, ‘westernized.’ Westernized here refers to someone who can fluently speak English, goes to a private school, is ‘modern’ and wears jeans. On the other hand is the ‘Bun Kebab’(local food) who can be defined as someone who attends a local school or university with other Bun Kebabs, knows more Urdu than English, may…

I have included a table comparing my diet’s food group servings in comparison to the CFG recommended servings. It is evident that my diet did not conform to the serving numbers recommended in CFG. I’m not consuming nearly enough milk or grain products while my meat and alternatives intake is astronomical in comparison. I predicted that my milk and alternatives score would be very low as I don’t include dairy products in my diet other than chocolate milk and creamer in coffee. Because of the…

When I was a child, every night before bed my mother would read to me. She would lay next to me on my little bottom bunk, while the snow fell in the Maine woods outside and the dog slept at my feet and she would read. The stories she read to me were almost always historical fiction, a favorite of both of ours. We read about medieval Europe, ancient Greece, victorian England, the roaring twenties, the world wars, anything before this century really. One day she read me a book called Brighty of…

The Dangerous Side of Fast Food One out of four people eat some type of fast food every single day (Schlosser). Many families tend to choose this option due to their lack of time or money. Other people choose fast food because it satisfies their cravings. Fast food restaurants are found in just about every town across America. In the United States alone, there are over 600,000 fast food restaurants. The restaurants in the United States had combined food and drink sales of over 740 billion…