My Response on a Website to Obesity & Smoking

Well it seems that most people have this debate on track.


Here, I may just be reiterating most of the things other people have said.


Okay I'll start with smoking since I don't have much to say about that. There' another college about 5 minutes away from the main campus. Smokers stand right by the door and smoke. One day some lady got mad because someone walked past her waving her hand like the smoke was bothering her. That just made ME mad because how can you be mad when you are doing something around other people who don't smoke... I have asthma and I used to smoke, and I found myself having trouble breathing with 2 cigarettes a week. Luckily I never became addicted and I stopped. but some people have more sensitive lungs and cannot handle the smoke, so you can't be mad when you something you do irritates someone else. That's just very ignorant.


Now, Obesity. I have personally taken it upon myself to change my eating habits. I'm on a dining plan and it's very hard. We have Subway, McDonald's, Hungry Howie's and a convenience store. These are the places within my convenient walking distance since I don't drive. McDonald's is cheaper and when I spent money at the Convenience store and Hungry Howie's buying healthier foods, lower in sodium, McDonald's is a better alternative in Price. There's also taco bell. (We have some random places to go eat as well but so I dont bore everyone I'm leaving them out).


Imagine being a single mother, who works two jobs, whose kids come home to no one. Taco Bell, and McDonald's is cheaper for your budget. If America wasn't so damn cheap and would stick to locally grown (and imported since apparently locally grown can't sustain America's size), and fund fresh produce, rather than overprocessed foods, it would make problems a lot easier to solve. We have cars, and washing machines, and all these things I'm thankful for, but we just have less and less to do around the house. Parents don't have time now to take their kids out to play. It's hard to keep up your activity level also, when most of your town is full of flat surface. We are building homes so close together, leaving no yard room for kids to even play. A park with hiking areas is probably out of reach. And people can't afford to go to the gym.


Being a lazy bum and eating these foods we GREW up on is easier than trying to get our taste buds to adjust to something unfamiliar. Many kids are probably raised on these overprocessed foods and that's what we like, because that's what mom ate while we grew in her belly and that's what she fed us. Tons of salt, butter, and candy. There is so much more wrong with America than being "lazy". And it's funny how when it begins to look alarming that all of a sudden it's a problem. It's too late for it to be a problem. We should have studied the effects of overprocession, and fats before tossing them in our food to "save money". Are we saving money now? Apparently not. I care/feel for all the people who are trying the best to "get better" and get healthy, but America is just really confusing to me sometimes, and I can't feel for a problem only because it's starting to tug at the Govt's pocketbook. We as Americans are Guinea Pigs. Sure the FDA approves things, but we can't even get spinach without the possibility of e. coli.


Back then we should of thought of why something was "natural" for a reason. We should have thought why some fruits are small, instead of pumping them up with sprays and other crap. Just Can't.

Upon Request: My English II Rhetorical Analysis

Dating Between The Shades
Marriage is meant to be a lifelong commitment between two people. This therefore should not hold constraints on specific aspects of what these two people are like. What makes it so hard to date outside of your race or culture? There are so many questions when it comes to interracial dating. In the articles “Love and Race” by Nicholas D. Kristof, and “Making the Case for Teaching Our Boys to…’Bring Me Home a Black Girl’” by Audrey Edwards, they approach the issue to interracial dating in very different views, one supporting, and the other against. In this essay I will approach the topic of interracial dating, provide a rhetorical analysis on these two texts, and end with which essay provides a more valid argument. In doing this, this essay will show Kristof and Edwards view miscegenation.


What is marriage? Marriage as defined by Merriam Webster Online as a state of union between 1) opposite sex, or 2) same sex couples, that is recognized by law. Miscegenation is “marriage or cohabitation by persons of different race.” (Britannica Online). During Thomas Jefferson’s time in office, he pleaded miscegenation between Whites and Indians and Patrick Henry even persuaded them with cash incentives (Cruz & Berson). This did not provide hope for African-Americans who were considered a far cry from the English, and also “below” them. Among the many fears the Whites whom had migrated to America had, one of the fears were that if American-Indians and African-Americans banded together, they would be more powerful than they would have separate.

Throughout time, miscegenation laws prohibiting such marriage grew in every state. To help with dividing races after the mulatto – defined by Merriam Webster Online as “ a person of mixed white and black ancestry” – generation began to grow, Whites imposed the “one drop rule” saying that if you even had one Black ancestor, you were Black. Beginning in 1967, one couple was about to help to change all of this discrimination or interracial couples. Perry Loving, went to Washington D.C. to marry his African-American/American-Indian wife Mildred Jeter since it was illegal in their state of Virginia. When they returned they were arrested and told their marriage had no validity in Virginia. When on trial the judge gave them the choice to move or spend a year in jail. To Loving, the judge was ultimately saying that God made separate races, and put them in separate places and did not plan for people to mix. After moving, the couple filed an appeal and it reached the Supreme Court where miscegenation laws were deemed unconstitutional.
Audrey Edwards…

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I Grasp My Chest,
And Yell Out To The Skies,
I fall To The Ground,
Surrounded By Eyes,
No One Comes To Help,
They Go On With Their Lives,
I Begin To Sweat, And Pant,
I'm Losing My Mind,
Why Won't I Be Helped?,
They All Pass Me By,
Even The Ones Thought To be My Friend,
They Turn A Blind Eye,
They Leave Me Here,
And I Cry.

But Wait,
They Can't See,
I Have Bottled My Pain,
My Face Masks, What Deceit!,
They Can't Help,
My Body Refused!,
For My Mind Knows Well,
No One Wants To Hear,
When You Go Through Hell.

I Curl In A Ball,
And Close My Eyes,
Wait For Me To Be Taken,
In The Bright Blue Skies,
I Don't Want To Live,
Where My Own Body Tells Lies,
Get Me Out Of Here,
No One Realizes...

Caster Semenya: Has the media gone too far?

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20090912070058596C972313

Take a moment to look at that link.

A young woman who is doing more than most Americans, is devastated. I am hurt FOR her. How can people be so shallow? If she were to see the nasty comments people here in America and beyond have made on her ordeal....I don't know what to say. I am so hurt for her. I do not understand how people think, and as time goes on, I lose my faith in the human race. How can your quick buck be more important to you then someone's well being? Now all of a sudden these people are suddenly feeling "sorry" for what they've done? Right..... All of sudden because she is actually HURT, people CARE NOW!? Bullshit. Fucking. Bullshit. No one THINKS before they act, and yet that's the mantra parents instile in their kid's heads.

This is bullying at its best. This woman is...I just don't even know what she could be thinking. But I think her family, friends, and her whole village are doing a lot more for her emotionally than Americans could have. Imagine if she did live in America. When she went to school...that would be the end of it, especially since the whole world knows now!!!

Good Job Media. You've done what you normally do. Without a care in the world. The media would report this before they reported little girls being kidnapped! Jerks.