Patty

Imagine the All American meal, two fluffy buns on either side of a juicy beef patty topped with melted cheese and accompanied by crunchy lettuce, crisp pickles and sweet ketchup. The french fries on the side are the perfect golden brown. Sounds delicious right? As you pick up the burger your mouth waters in anticipation. You bite down and are shocked when the only thing you get is bun. “Where’s the beef?” This iconic slogan from Wendy’s portrayed a sweet old woman asking a simple question…

won second runner up out of 44 contestants. That was the lift she needed. She continued to be a contestant for transgender beauty pageants. She talks about how this pageant was literally in the back of the truck and how it was held in remote rice patty fields and –if it rained- in people’s houses. Transgender is frowned about around the world. When she was 17, her mother contacted her from the United States and told her to move with her. Geena declined at first because she was having fun and she…

The McDonald’s corporation is an ever-so expanding company that is found in 118 different countries and serves sixty-eight million customers each day. It is the world’s largest owner of retail property. McDonald’s was founded in 1948 by Dick and Mac McDonald. The first restaurant was opened in Des Plaines, Illinois and the company’s motto was “Quality, Service, Customers, and value,” in which they still adhere to that motto today. By 1963, McDonald’s had sold one billion hamburgers and their net…

Is fast, unhealthy, and convenient food really the best we can do for our families and our bodies? McDonald’s may be a convenient way to satiate our hunger while on the go, but McDonald’s hamburgers appear to offer little actual meat content. In recent studies, they’ve found to have as little as two percent of actual meat. Even though we eat fast food all the time, most of us never take the time to actually look at what we’re eating and the amount of “real” ingredients in them. Fast food is a…

Ritual is defined as the composition of a pattern of symbolic activities, not part of normal social routines and they are recognized by the members that participate in the ritual. Ritual is not something the current participants usually make up, but has been created over many years and passed down through the generations. The ritual of celebrating birthdays came from ancient Egypt when the date of coronation was honored. The pharaohs actual birth date was not celebrated, but to the Egyptians the…

Leverage is having something that another person wants. Often times it is money. Throughout the book Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain, the main protagonist struggles with leverage, partially because he usually does not have it. Billy Lynn is a soldier in the army. He and his Bravo squad are being paraded around the country before they have to go back to war. Fiona Allon takes uses those ideas in her essay Everyday Leverage, or Leveraging the Everyday and connects them to finances…

Amy Tan’s Argument What is an author’s purpose of creating a work of literature? An obvious reason as to why authors write books is to spark a debate. Authors want readers to have discussions over the text they’ve read. Amy Tan is no exception and succeeded in getting her readers to dispute over her works. For instance scholars argue over whether the narrative beginnings in The Joy Luck Club took a feminist view point or if the beginnings were there to analyze cultural identity (Romagnolo).…

Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) : is an edible flowering plant in the family Amarathacea native to central and western Asia. It is an annual plant (rarely biennial), which grows up to 30 cm tall. Spinach may survive over winter in temperate regions. The leaves are alternate, simple, ovate to triangular, and very variable in size from about 2–30 cm long and 1–15 cm broad, with larger leaves at the base of the plant and small leaves higher on the flowering stem. The flowers are inconspicuous,…

According to Freakonomics “the science of economics is primarily a set of tools, as opposed to a subject matter” (Levitt. Pg. 13). The study of economics involves many different aspects such as societal mores, economic incentives, information asymmetry, and conventional wisdom, just to name a few. As time continues on though the study of economics boils down to humans respond to incentives. How and why do humans respond to incentives the way they do? Are these incentives always for the best?…

96% of families have at least one television in their house (Bigner & Gerhardt, 2014). It is very important for parents to interact with their children face to face. The use of screen time eliminates this possibility because the television and other screens are a distraction to anyone who is watching. Technology has changed significantly in the last fifteen years and has developed more software that is “kid friendly” (Albaiz, Ernest, Essa,Newton, & Sharkins, 2015). Parents need to reduce the…