Final Project

My project: Bacon & Eggs

I love to have bacon and eggs for my breakfast. The reason is they taste so good and they have the nutrition that human needed. Plus, i do not have to spend a long time to prepare, just around 10 minutes. Then, i can get a delicious and wonderful breakfast.

Bacon & Eggs
2 bacon
2 eggs
tomato ketchup, pepper








Methods to cook:
How i cooked this breakfast? The first step is i reheat the pan and put some oil on it. At the same time, i put the eggs into a bowl and mix it. After that, i put the eggs into the pan and fried it. When i cooked, i will add some pepper and ketchup. After 3-4 minutes, i took it out and put it onto a plate. Then, i put some oil in the pan again and this time i fried the bacon. Bacon needs more time to cook so i used around 6-7 minutes. If you like to eat more crispy, then you need to take a longer time to cook it.

Moreover, i will have grapefruit for my breakfast too. There is two ways: make it become a cup of juice or just cut it and eat it.






Where did i buy it? I bought this food from the supermarket which called stop & shop. Inside there, i could find all the food that i needed. The bacon, eggs, also the grapefruit. Plus, they are not expensive at all.

Furthermore, this breakfast is suitable for my schedule. It is because every time either i go to school or go to work, i always so rush and do not have much time left. But, the time that i need to prepare this breakfast is only 10 minutes. So, i able to cook it and finish it before i leave my house. However, i always just have the breakfast by myself, because almost every morning when i wake up, two little cousins go to sch and my aunt goes to work already. Therefore,there is no one at home and having breakfast with me.

The New Industrial Migrants

            According to the passage new industrial migrants (Part I), it is talking about the immigrants and the employment within the industries. Many of the people which are from Mexico, Central America, and Southeast Asia started to immigrate to rural Colorado and some of them were hired and worked in the slaughterhouse. In this passage, it also talks about the hiring process. In 1980s, more than five thousand people were employed during one eighteen-month period. But every three months, the average worker quit or was fired. Moreover, the passage talks about the turnover rate is keep on increasing. The reason is the companies wanted to keep their insurance cost low. It is because the health insurance is now offered to workers after six months on the job. Therefore, if the workers quit or be fired in three months, then the companies do not need to pay the insurance fee. Furthermore, the other reason high turnover rate can help maintain a workforce within an industry. For instance, in the meat packing industry, it can control their employees easily and avoid them to unionize.

            According to the passage new industrial migrants (part II), it is talking about what IBP will do when they recruit migrant labor.The company used to employ the refugees, asylum-seekers and homeless people. IBP will hired buses to drive them and promised the workers that they will have steady work and housing. However, problems started to appear. The Immigration and Naturalization Service said that about one-quarter of all immigrants are illegal, but IBP just deny it. Also, IBP and GFI America wanted to employ as more as workers to work for them with paying less money. Therefore, the company used the homeless shelter to be their housing and just give the workers some burgers. Finally, this plan was failed. Many new recruits were angry and refused to stay at the shelter. At the same time, the advocates for the homeless were wrathful because they misuse the homeless shelter. Last but not least, the passage also points out there are some problems that brought by the immigrants. For instance, more crime because of the drug problems.

            In my opinion, the companies which are recruited migrant labors should respect them and give the workers the basic benefits. It is because they are same as the American citizens and they are doing the same things when they work. According to the two passages, we can know that most of the companies will just use any methods to make themselves earn more. For instance, they will promise the workers to have a stable work and housing, but after that the company just use the homeless shelter to be their home. Also, they will fire the workers every 3 months, so they do not need to pay the insurance fee instead to keep its insurance costs low. However, even the workers are not well educated, they will still work hard and do what they need to do. Therefore, the companies cannot treat them as a kid and lie to them. Company should benefit all of the workers no matter where they come from.

CAT 3

              According to the passage "Let Them Eat Fat", Greg Crister points out that how do the fast food  companies make themselves keep on growing up and the effects that bring by fast food. He says that everyone knows fast food is a bad thing for health, but what is the reason that the fast food companies still can be so successful? It is because they know who and where should be their target, For instance, the poor inner-city communities are the fast food companies' target places and the workers and the teenagers are their target customers. Furthermore, Greg Critser demonstrates that the fast food is far more important for the communties nowadays, so the companies keep on innovating and "supersizing" is appeared. However, we should recognize that the trend of fast food companies keep on incresing is good for the business and our economy, it is toxic for people because it will cause a lot of health problems on them.

             First of all, by using the passage "The total caloric content of the meal has been jacked up from 680 calories to more than 1340 calories," we can know that how much calories that we will receive when we eat a surprize meal. It is always much more than we need. Also, because of the calories added, people always contain a lot of fat and carbohydrate which is not good for health, but out of protein that which should be contain most in our body. As a result, people will have disease easily. For example, one of my friends, she eats fast food almost everyday, so her body contains too much fat that makes her not only over-weight, but also has a heart disease.

            Morever, people always have excues for themselves to eat fast food, just like fast food is convenient and cheap, so easy to get and quick, etc. But, do people should think about the effects that will be bring by eating fast food? The answer is yes! Everyone should concern this problem. It is because the fast food companies do not care about people health, what they will concern is only the profit. They use any methods to attract people to spend money on buying their food, for example"super-size your meal!" or "supersize is free!" which are from the passage. Therefore, we need to pay more afford on caring our health by ourselves.

             In conclusion, from the passage, we clearly know that the reason of fast food become indispensable is related to our need on them. Therefore, the only way to stop them is we should stop eating fast food immediately. Do not let the fast food companies "make us eat fat".

Happy Meals

            The first one "Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food", i think it is almost impossible for me to do. It is because there is a lot of new product of food coming out nowadays. Also, maybe there is only a few types of food that my great-grandmother can recognize. Therefore, if i just eat something that only my great-grandmother can recognize, it will be not enough for me and i never have chance to try the new food which is so delicious and maybe full of nutrition.

          The second one "Avoid food products containing ingredients that are a) unfamiliar, b) unpronounceable, c) more than five in number or that include d) high-fructose corn syrup, i think it is possible for me and my family to do. It is because the food which is contain those ingredients maybe are not good for our health. For instance, the food product which is unfamiliar may harmful to is that w do not know. Also, the food which is contain high-fructose corn syrup is bad for our health. So, we know that these types of food are not good, that's why it is possible for us to stop eating them.

         The third one "Avoid food products that make health claims", i think is do-able for me to do. It is because somehow when the food product promoted that it may make your health claim is not true. We never can sure that the food really have this function. Also, this type of food maybe turned out to give people negative effects, for example, heart attack.

          The forth one "Shop on the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle", i think this is very hard foe me and my family to do. It is because every time when we go to supermarket, we must walk through all the places. Sometimes we do know what we want to buy, that's why we need to walk line by line to look through all of them. Therefore, we cannot just shop around the peripheries of it.

         The fifth one "Get out of the supermarket whenever possible", i think it is almost impossible for me and my family to do. It is because when we need to buy some food, we will just go straight to the supermarket which is near around us. That's why it is difficult to us to get out of it.

         The sixth one "Eat mostly plants, especially leaves", i think this is possible for me and my family to do it. It is because all of us know that vegetables are good for our health. Also, we know that it is one type of food that we cannot miss for our nutrition.

         The seventh one "pay more, eat less", i think it is do able for me to do it. It is because i understand that if i want some food which has more nutritional quality, i need to spend more money on those food. Even the food which is with more care is more expensive, it is worth because it is good for our health.

         The eighth one "Cook. If you can, plant a garden. Eat complete meals, at a table, if possible not alone", i think this is hard for me and my family to do. It is because today most of the people just demand on the food which is cheap, quick and fast. Furthermore, the members in our family are busy and our time always cannot match each other. All of us have our own things to do. Even we can complete meal at a table, we also eat so fast. Therefore, this one is not easy for us to do.

Manufactured Damand

             The myth: the bottle water is more convenient is talking about is it real that the water which is coming from our kitchen tap is not convenient against the bottle water.  From the passage, it states that the reason of why people will think that bottle water is more handiness is because of "disposability". After they finish the water, they can just throw away the bottle and do not need to carry it anymore. Thats why most of them prefer to buy bottle water than use reusable bottle. Also, people just think about themselves, just care what benefits they can get, but they never concern about the consequence. "There is nothing convenient about shipping water thousands of miles from its source, or all the waste and other
costs associated with needless production and disposal of plastics" which is from the passage is clearly showed that the effects which are brought by drinking the bottle water instead of drinking the kitchen tap water. As a result, we can figure out that there is no advantage for drinking the bottle water. It will just mess-up our world, destroy our planet and polluted our environment. Therefore, from now on, we should change our habit and stop drinking bottle water.

               To help debunk this myth further, i will use reusable bottle instead of the unusable one. Also, i will ask my family and my friends to do so. Furthermore, i may promote the advantages to the others of using reusable bottle. For instance, we can save more money, decrease the pollutants that bring by the plastic bottles, and we can drink hot water by using some of the reusable bottles which are made by metal.

Imitation of Film

             According to the passage, "Imitation of Film: Here's Smoking at You, Kid", Nicholas Balakar states that more and more children the age who are between 10 to 14 start smoking is because the imitation of film. Researchers demonstrated that 38% of children who started to smoke was after they have seen their favorite actors smoked in the film. Nicholas Balakar also points out that "Kids begin to view R-rated movies which contain twice as much smoking at about fourth or fifth grade." That means kids have been affected by these types of movies when they are so young. Furthemore, she says that children who have the greatest exposure to smoke in movies is also one of the reasons that why they start to smoke. Nicholas Balakar also uses the researches to prove that the problem of the youngest's smoke is become much more serious and she suggests that the society need to pay attention on it.

            Today, one of the technologies that the children will be always connected is television. When they go home after school, the first thing that they will do is to turn on the TV. This is the reason why the films which are shown in the television can have a critical effect on youngest. From the passage,"children ages 10 to 14 are much more likely to take up smoking if they have seen actors smoke in the movies", this had proved that how easy for the movies to affect the childish mind and attitudes. For instance, my two cousins who i am living with, they always learn the way that the actors speak. Even the way they speak is rude, also sometimes include the "bad words" that they should not be learned, they still think themselves are so "cool" and keep on saying it. Therefore, we can recognize the actors who are acting in the movies will become a model for the young child to imitate.

            Moreover, children who are so young are the most easily affected. It is because they cannot determine what is good and what is bad. They will just learn directly what they have seen and without thinking of the effects that will bring to them. By using the passage's research, "Our studies show that kids begin to view R-rated movies at about fourth or fifth grade", this shows that because they are not old enough and without ability to make decisions by themselves.

             In conclusion, the effects of imitation of film can be so solemn for the kids. Not only the problem of smoking, but also some other problems like robbing, violence, etc. So, we need to pay attention for those harmfulness. Otherwise, the young kids will be so dangerous.

The Meatrix Issues

             According to The Meatrix website "Food Safety", we can know that the safety of the food is extremely important to us. It is because food will affect our health directly. That means our health is totally determine on what we eat. Also, a lot of people suffer from food poisoning and the cause of this is because we disregard the importance of the food safety. So, we need to pay attention and care about the safety of food.

             From the passage, it says that "76 million Americans suffer from food poisoning each year. 325,000 people are hospitalized for food related illnesses and 5,200 die in that same time period." By using these researches, we can know that there is a huge number of people affected by food. Furthermore, where the diseases and infections come from? Most of them are cause by bacteria, viruses and parasites that can be transmitted through the food that we eat. Other illnesses are the result of poisonings from harmful toxins or chemicals. This proved that those problems appeared were because people have a big blunder on the process of the food production. There is only a few corporations to control the food production process, and because of competitions, most of the companies just want to gain the maximum profits and will push the limits on safe food production.

            Not only the side of production, importation is also one of the reasons. Referring to the passage, we know that food safety issues are not limited to meat. "In 2003, the largest recorded outbreak of Hepatitis A was traced back to green onions in Chi-chi's salsa. Over 600 people in the Pittsburgh area were sickened in the outbreak." On the other hand, this shows that people also have a lapse on the food importation. They do not check carefully when they import food from the other countries.

             In conclusion, we must find ways to protect our food. Corporations need to care about the quality of food, but not only the quantity. Also, we have to minimize the risk of the food production process. Last but not least, if we neglect the food safety, everyone's life will be threaten.