Fast Food Nation Reading Part Two

Fries is a main part of the fast food culture. But not many people actually know about it. To me fries do not taste that good. However back in the 1960s fries were greatly appreciated. It was only benefiting the fast food companies because the French fries that they were selling were frozen. These French fries were made by a man named John Richard Simplot. What he developed was the same exact flavor for French fries except it was frozen making it able to be sold at different places. Fast food companies saved a lot of money selling these cheaper fries that taste relatively the same. All the fast food companies started competing on which has to cheapest and best tasting fries after that. Now McDonald is not the only one serving frozen fries.

Meat in the fast food companies were also very bad. An example is the McDonald McNugget. It is the breaded chicken breast. These were VERY bad for you because it was cooked in beef oil and the chicken that produced those breast were genetically enhanced. What they did to the chicken was enhance them with chemicals that made them lay more eggs. After being to old to lay anymore eggs the enhance their breast and then use them for McNuggets.

Slaughter houses were also created for efficiency of killing cows and extracting the meat from it. However that is a dangerous job. Killing the cows was just not bad enough and now the working conditions are even worse. They have to work in freezing temperature to keep the meat as fresh as possible. All of the employees were also not getting enough health care and treatment. When they injury or lose a body part they receive money and that's it. It is also relatively not that much at that time too. Their hourly wage is also one third the average amount a normal employee. Many of the slaughter house workers had a family to support and if they get injured they would still have to go to work. The doctors at the factory does not care and all they would say is "it is a pulled muscle". When in fact it is something much worse.

Some things frighten me even more that is know that you don't know what is exactly in your meat patties or whatever you are eating. There are many cases where someone got sick of eating meat and to later find out that it was infected with some kind of disease.

School And Sports

So this is kind of late and I don't know if I still get credit but it still do this anyways.

So I have been going to track for about one and half months already. I have been getting really sore from it. But I really do like running. It is just that rarely anyone runs it with me now. What I'm trying to say is everything is falling apart in the track team. If you look at other schools their track team is so committed. But in our school most of the people go once a week now. It really pisses me off when I see people like that on the track team. In fact, my friend is rarely going now because he complains that it is boring. Well if nobody goes it gets boring. Last year was really fun when everyone would go everyday just talk, run, and hang out. Now it is just run and go home. There's no fun time in between.

On top of that our coach has also become more light on track members. He used to make us do nearly impossible work outs and no it is a piece of cake. I think it is because of the fact that most of them are freshmens and they aren't as good as the seniors last year. We also don't have that much seniors and juniors this year too. There is about 60 people left on the sprint team and around 30 thru 35 show up for practice on average and 20 of them are freshmens. I have to admit it is really boring with out the upper classmens. Last year on the track team everyone was in one huge group and now its all in separate smaller groups. Sometimes I wished I joined a different sport like badminton or something. That sounds really fun to play. But I can't really do that now because I'm already in varsity and I have to be in the 4 by 4 next year. I really hope more people would join track and everyone just mingle so that everyone would know each other more.

In fact, it has been one and a half months and I still don't know some people names. This is really sad because last year every body knew each other. This year for track wasn't as great but I'm still satisfied that I am getting a lot faster. However, I have more problems like sores and what not. Track consumes a lot of my time too. Since I'm in varsity I have to run the late practice which from 5 to 7 or so. Leaving me very little time to do anything else. I always tell myself I would do it from the time between I get off of school and start practice which is a good 2 hours or so but I never do it. This leaves me with very little time and makes me stay up very late. I don't mind it but my parents say that I don't get enough sleep. I sleep around 12 or 1 everyday so that's around a little over 6 hours of sleep every night. I think the average person SHOULD get is 10 right? So I'm ONLY 4 hours off. Sarcasm.

School has also been a pain in the ass. It's that time of year again. Near the end. All there is left is testing, testing, and testing. What am I doing tomorrow? Testing. The day after that? Testing. It really sucks. I'm not a junior or a senior so there's no special party for us. The year is almost over. I can't believe it. I also still have to find a summer school to go to. Panic mode is turned on. I really want to go to a summer school that I can actually learn from and I also want to find a part time job to have my own spending money. My family is really Asian and they don't believe in allowances. So what I get is what I can spend EXCEPT the first pay check because apparently it HAS to go to my parents. I don't know why and I don't want to question them because they will give me a long list of money used on me. Right now it is 1:45 AM and it is a Sunday so that means I have school tomorrow. I should really get some sleep. Chow!

Fast Food Nation Reading Part One ( Arghhh Way To Much Information )

Fast Food Nation a book written by Eric Schlosser tells the true story about fast food, from where it originated to what's in the food. The book tells about how fast food originated. Fast food came from street stands that were selling hot dogs, hamburgers and soda. The trend started in Los Angeles. Those stands started expanding and started to buys lands for restaurants. However it did not stop there. Restaurants back then had to be sat down using fork and knives. So the restaurants made a even quicker service having carhop where the people would just order and eat in their cars. They also invited the Drive- Thru speeding it even more. However McDonald found the most efficient way to serve burgers and that was to change the system that would not require Waitress, Dishes, Bus Boys, and Car Hops. They also wiped out the fork and the knife making everything into burgers. To add onto the speed they changed their equipment so that it only requires one person to do one task making the food much faster like a factory. Fast food restaurants were not the only ones who used this system through building things such as a burger. Many other company followed this method for the efficiency. Soon after that more and more branches went to other states and countries making it into a large corporations.

Not long after that Walt Disney made their first appearance. Disney made many movies and films that attracted kids and they were going to make a Disneyland. McDonald and Disney combined together to make Disneyland a place for kids. Kids could enjoy bring on the happiest place on Earth with the "happy meal" from McDonald too. This also made Disney company bloom quickly. To make more people eat at a fast food chain the food cost was decreased and during the time after the World War II it left a depression so cheap food was liked. Most fast food has practically made kids their only targets for their food because they get attracted the most. After many companies started noticing this other companies tried to copy it such as cigarette companies. They have gone so far to practically bribe kids to get good grades to get fast food. McDonald also made a playground just for kids.

There are also something Fast Food Chains aren't telling their customers like how they make their food. Everything is pre-made and gets shipped to the restaurant and from there they just heat it up. Everything is frozen and all the drinks come in a syrup. Taco Bell is even worse all they do is just add hot water to everything and put it all together. Teenagers are also working at these places for around 7 hours being over worked. Everything is made from the lowest amount of price making the food not as healthy. Fast food mangers that manage the money are not cooks so they do not know the price of food and in their eyes is the money instead of the final product itself. Teenagers are also getting hurt more than adult employees.

Not to mention the fact that fast food is becoming unhealthier and unhealthier. The creators of new burgers are making them solely through its price range instead of how it taste. For an example KFC released a new product the other day called the Double Down. It consist of a chicken patty, cheese, bacon, cheese again, and then another chicken patty. No buns at all. It sounds really good but when I tried it, it tasted horrible. No mention how bad it is for you. This is why makers of fast food products are business men and NOT COOKS.

Fourth Quarter Goals

I have seventy-five cents and almost to a dollar. The last quarter is always the funnest and the hardest. It has almost been a full school year. Looking back at it, it seem like I didn't accomplish as much as I would have wanted. But then again you don't notice what you have learned as time passes. Sophomore year has gone by really quickly and there are a few things I really want to improve on. One thing I would love to improve on is my writing. All my life my writing has not been my strong point and I don't think it will ever be. But I can actually feel myself becoming better.

Blogging has truly changed my life. I also use tumblr now so I just blog about random things that go on in my life and I usually end up writing three hundred or so words each time. When I first started blogging I wanted to only stick to one topic but now I like to free write and express what happens in my current life. My current life sometimes gets boring but blogging can save all those memories of what happen whether it is good or bad. What I want to do is keep blogging until the end of high school and just look back at all the things I have written and reminisce my high school life. I definitely will continue blogging but on tumblr because it seems a lot more organized. ( No offense Blogger ).

It seems like I am addicted to blogging now. Even if I do have a lot of homework and it seems like I don't have enough time I always take a break and just blog about my day. Something this simple can add on. Blogging 300 or so words a day seems like a big jump because in the beginning of the school year, my thoughts on blogging every week was just homework homework homework. Blogging is actually fun if you get use to it. It's sort of a routine and habit now to blog. One thing I would love to do but never do is reread them after I write them. I usually just write the blog and post it until a few months later I read all of them and discover all of the grammatical errors.

Next year I will be taking all these hard class such as AP calculus and APES and it WILL require a lot of time. Making it harder for me to blog about random things. There's also one really important thing I want to do. FINISH my blog before a Friday instead of leaving it to the last minute.( Like right now. ) This has a been a really bad habit for me because in tumblr no one really cares when I post another article so I do it whenever I have spare time. So my goal until the end of the year is to post my posts before Friday. I would also make my post seem like I'm actually talking to the readers because some of my post seems like I'm writing it for a teacher even though I really am. Lets see how those goals will works out!

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time Review

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon talks about a boy, named Christopher Boone, who goes on an adventure finding who killed his neighbor's dog. But little did he know it ties in with some secrets about his parents and friends.

2. For what audience(s) is this book intended, and how can you tell? (In other words, for whom would you recommend this book?)

I think that this book was written for young adult readers that are looking for more of a adventurous and detective story. The story has a plot with in the plot. Christopher finds that someone has killed his neighbors dogs. That ties in with other things that ties in with another things. So once Christopher finds out one thing the domino all fall and he finds the truth about everything.

I can tell that this book is for young adult readers because it has some imagination in it and it also contain curse words. There are also affairs and all those are stuff that are inappropriate to younger readers. There are also some violence in between making it a story that shouldn't be for kids.

3. What are the weaknesses of this book, in your opinion?

I think that this book was confusing in many ways because every other chapter it was talking about something else. The main story is actually much shorter than it really is. The side story that was told every other chapter was about Christopher's lifestyle and his personality. Its not that is it bad it is that its not as important than the actual book and story line itself.

The book itself was some what repetitive because that would explain how Christopher can't talk to people in some ways and say certain things and as you read on the next chapter it would say the same thing but rephrased. One things I really didn't like about the story was how it was separated into the section it was because every other chapter that wasn't talking about the main story had nothing to do with the story itself. The other so called side story was sort of a filler. It only talked about Christopher's personality. I mean it is good that the author is doing that but the author did that throughout the book. Sometimes the author would talk about Sherlock Homes and how Christopher idolizes him.

However the book is no all bad there are some unique difference in this book that other books many ways. The main character Christopher has a goal like to write his own book about his investigation and the author explains in fine detail about his personality. I thought that the author did an excellent job on that and Christopher also ways referred to Sherlock Homes which was basically his idol. Christopher's life is also not that complex to understand in his point of view because he has only a few things in mind throughout the whole entire book. One is to finish his investigation on who killed his neighbor's dog and two is to go into Math A level.

8. Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth.

Christopher Boone. He is the main character in this story. He finds out that someone has killed his neighbors dog. So he decides to go on an adventure finding out who killed him. He is rather strange because he sets his mood depending on cars. Five red cars equal to a "super good day" and black cars equal to "bad days". On the good days h usually finds out clues because he wants to write about the killer and he is the detective. He also idolizes Sherlock Homes because he is a smart man and a really good detective. However he is different because he looks at large pieces of information and Sherlock looks at one thing to deduce a lot of things.

Christopher also never tells lies but he tells white lies to get pass things he shouldn't do but wants to do. He also doesn't like people touching him without permission. Another critical thing about Christopher is that in the beginning of the story he ALWAYS listens to the rule but by the end of the story he is much more independent and can think for himself more. He is also a lot more courageous because he went all the way to London to see this mom by himself at such a young age and his father set a bad example for him thus making him confuse. At one point in the story he has to do something even if it is wrong so he is rebelling against what is use to believe in like his father. He develop his own mind set to do what ever he need to be finished like finding his mother.

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night - Time Part Three

Dear Linde,

Hello I have now finished the book "The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time". Christopher is on the train going to his mother's house. He has a great adventure finding it and he is reunited with her. She later on tells him to stay but he doesn't want to because he wants to go back home and take the grade A level math.

This father later on gives Christopher a puppy as a gift as an apology. Christopher's mother and Mr. Shears broke up and his mother is always depressed. I think that this was aright because it was kind of confusing in the beginning. He also mixed the chapters with everything other ones making is very different. If your boil down to the part where it is only talking about the story line the book is much shorter than it is.

Christopher also has a hard time finding his way to his mother's house because there are so many things he couldn't do and things he didn't want to do. He later conquers his fear from the things he doesn't like to do to the things he has to do because he has no other choice. He was also very scared of the police. But they are one of the reasons why he was able to get to his mother's house. So in the end he was able to take math A and get a A grade.

Track Vs. Life

Track is something I love to do. The enjoyment of it is outrageous. However, lately because of track I don't have enough time to do any of the other stuff I do. Which is like homework, chores, and sleep. In fact I have a track meet tomorrow at 10 and I have to wake up at 6. My time schedule is not big enough for track. Track is five times a day from three through five or six. For the special varsity runners it is five to seven.

My normal schedule with out track is wake up go to school, get out of school, and then straight home and repeat. So during track season it squeezes my time even more. Track is said to be one of "easy" sport. I think that is some kind of joke. I hear a lot of people say "oh I can do that too". It is when we actually do the hard stuff people DON'T want to be in track. In fact I am injured because of track right now.

Another great impact that track has have on my life is grades. Oh man where to start? At the starting line Ha Ha Track joke. Anyways, my grades has definitely dropped because of track. I am not studying as much as I have wanted to. Every time I go to sleep I tell myself that I would go to the media center to do extra work but that never happens. I also have to sacrifice my weekends sometimes for track meets and practices.

Track is hard on the body, soul, and mind but there are some good things about it. Some good things are meeting people and racing people. I also loved running against fast people. The thrill of it is unexplainable. I also love the feeling you get when your in zone. Where you block out all other sounds you just focus. Last but not least the track COACH. He is one of the funniest guys I have ever met. He is just so cool with everything. Occasionally he gets mad but it is mostly our fault.

Overall track is a good thing. It has kept me occupied so I'm not always bored of having the same old routine. It's nice to have a change once in a while. I also love all the end of the year parties too. Okay I should sleep now wish me luck!