Pudding

teaches himself the meaning, and decides to try using some to appear more American in the eyes of his co-workers. When the director asks a question during the next meeting, Balcita describes her father as feeling “compelled to say, “The proof is in the pudding!” and that “everyone [looked] at [him], puzzled” (Balcita 2006, 1).…

Look around. Every image around you are observed, process, contemplated, and stored in your mind in an instant. Your eyes are your guide to the world around you and thus, your eyes are one of your most powerful tools. And while images are some of the most influential things in today’s society, images can be deceiving in its many forms. The biggest being the media. Mass media has become extremely popular with young adolescences, and since technology allows everything to be easily accessible,…

Hawthorne walked the path, slow and steady, treading his way up the hill. As he walked, he pondered upon his whole day, from the startling events of the morning, to the unusualness of the uneventful evening. He had been staying at an old castle turned resort in the english countryside, owned by a rich American family. It had been bustling with the guess for many days. It was beautiful, with both a morning room, and a dinner room. Hawthorne recalled meeting her in the morning room, as well as…

In Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, it focuses on a society of distractions. These distractions can range from subtle mechanisms such as television walls, to more forceful means of interaction such as the burning of books to prevent the spread of knowledge. All of these minor mechanisms of control have to stem from somewhere: a corrupted government. Because the government cannot control society by themselves, they use the most important mechanism of control they have: the…

How big is ‘small’? Is it a grain of sand, a speck of dirt, a strand of hair, a drop of water? Is it the size of what humans can see, with our own two eyes? Is ‘small’ bigger than that? Or is it much, much less? For years, people tried to discover the definition of small for the scientific world. Does ‘small’ act the same way as ‘big’? Can the movements of ‘small’ be described and categorized? All of these questions were analyzed over and over by scientist for hundreds of years, to form what is…

The comedy for a change. And Alison Sweeney--she is brilliant at this. And from the very first, we had just a great chemistry. And our director for the last two has been a wonderful actor and actor director named Kristoffer Tabori. And he is just brilliant. So we can trust him to help us with the rhythm. You know, we 've kind of gotten it down now. But especially when we were starting out, most directors have you not ever overlap in dialogue, but Kristoffer brings a reality to it. I think in…

As a project for my Child Development class, I completed an observational child study. I chose a four year old male child of one of my co-workers, whom I had met several months prior to the study. Paxton was born on June 15, 2012 and was six weeks premature. Aside from the requirement of a feeding tube at birth, Paxton suffered no complications. At 30 pounds and 33 inches, he is in the 5th percentile in weight and the 25th percentile in height (Clinical Growth Charts, 2016). His height is…

E-number food additives, their chemistry and role in food Since the dawn of time, humans had using several simpler and yet natural food preservation techniques such as preserving meat using salt, or immersing onions and cucumber in a jar of vinegar to keep the food fresh and last longer. The method of preserving food had been evolved over a significant period of time. (Heldman, 2003) Food additives are either a natural or synthetic substances which was added intentionally to food to improve the…

For as much chaos that may have been ingrained into my family there was something more that we all might have overlooked and that was the life that our family posed. Good, bad or ugly my family was full of life. I recall it was always busy, moving forward with getting the task at hand done - work was essential if not the most pertinent thing. My parents both born during the time of the great depression had grown up in a very changing time in Americas history, it was a time when men were…

his mind that he wasn 't. Now he knew in the front of his mind too. "Hey Grandpa, could you tell us that story of Eagle Boy while we 're here?" "I 'm afraid I don 't remember it anymore. I think it 's these stupid meds these nurses put in my pudding." "Come on, you used to always tell us stories. Why not now?" "I told you, I don 't remember them. Besides, they wouldn 't matter now." A little piece of Dawson died when Grandpa said that. All the stories Grandpa used to tell gave him hope…