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startling numbers, it is a fact that the poorest Americans typically eat the most unhealthy foods. This is because the cost of healthy foods such as fresh vegetables, fruits, and nuts are much more expensive than foods such as starchy potato chips, popcorn, and…

murders has to be sick in the head or just outright possessed. Within twenty minutes of the movie, it is easy to figure out not only why the murderer is committing heinous crimes, but who the murderer is. Discovering who the killer is before the popcorn is even close to being finished is a telltale sign that the plot needs work. The movie picks up with Oswalt’s discovery of the gruesome home videos that have eerily innocent titles. Unfortunately, Oswalt’s choice to slowly pick the films apart…

could have a purpose for, that is until Percy Spencer. One day while Percy had been standing near the magnetron and he noticed that the chocolate that he had always kept in his pocket had melted. After that he made a connection, he asked for some popcorn kernels. And as he had predicted, they popped! And finally after twenty years he made the microwave. This all happened because of a simple being in the right place at the right time moment, and because of a bar of chocolate. This…

For this discussion, I am going to stretch the thought behind it a bit, meaning the history I am going to discuss will include the last eleven months. For a little background, I am white/Caucasian and so is my husband, and in turn our two children, to be honest my husband and I are made up of seven different nationalities that we are aware of, it could be more, English, Prussian, German, Greek, Irish, Scottish, and French, but I guess all considered white. One of my son’s best friends is…

Personality Profiling The study of personality types and generalization is known as an enneagram. The connection and description of these nine known types of personalities are found in the book The Enneagram Made Easy by Renee Barton and Elizabeth Wagele. Throughout this book I came to understand all personalities as well as determine my own. I tested highest and relate closest to the sevens personality group making me, an adventurer. I am an adventurer, I avoid unpleasant feelings such as…

Reber Compare/Contrast 2/13/2018 Grocery Shopping As a little boy, my mother would always take me to the farmers’ market to buy groceries every Sunday morning. I thoroughly enjoyed it for the fact that my mother always bought me a large bag of popcorn every time and I was allowed to try many free samples. Now, times have changed and I don’t go to the farmers’ market anymore, but rather the grocery store. Supermarkets have always been popular in America as it is known for its vast quantity…

Brain Time Throughout history movies have always been used as a way to escape reality. Movies are created with out of the world story lines in order to catch the attention of the audience. Eventually, this phenomenon picked up and directors and producers were on a mission to become the best in the business. One in particular that has taken over the animated movie world is Pixar which is a section to Walt Disney. In 2015, directors Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen released a heartfelt movie named…

put to the test. The heavy helmet and the bulky pads all begin to seem light as if they were not even there. Butterflies seem to fill the entire stomach. The band plays, lights all aimed at one spot, the football field. The smell of freshly popped popcorn flood the night air. The rumble of the crowd becomes a roar. Grass cut earlier in the day feels wet with the night already laying its sheet of the morning dew. The whistle is blown and the ball sent soaring through the air, and the game begins.…

John Locke endorsed the idea that all men are created free and equal by nature. The founding fathers of America understood the significance of John Locke’s timeless philosophy of government. Considering human nature, the men embraced the fact that Locke’s view would stand the test of time; it would be true throughout all the ages of mankind. His proposal was adopted and implemented into the Constitution of the United States of America. The Republican Party has constantly honored John Locke’s…

The portrayal of Arab Muslims or Muslims in general in the past thirty years- in cartoons and films- has reached Nazi like proportions (see fig 1.1). In 1996 the Miami Herald pictured a bearded ape creature with the word Islam tatoed on his turban saying “we bomb innocent women and children to smithereens” ;( Hurley 127-28). Greedy, hook-nosed, vicious, violent, rapacious, and turbaned or kaffyiehed […] Arabs have replaced the cartoon Jews of Volkischer Beobacher (a Nazi newspaper that…