P. Terry's review

A great place to eat in Austin is the local hot-spot called P.Terry's. P.Terry's has several locations around town and is a fast food burger joint. The food is very good and fast. The service given is excellent and if you have a dog with you as you drive to up to the window to get your food, they will even give you a dog blonde.
There are some great thing about P. Terry's. For one, the food is very cheap, but it is also delicious. I would recommend the fries and any flavors of their milkshakes. I would however not recommend going if your trying to keep a healthy diet. A small milkshake is over 700 calories and its fries are around 386 calories. And be prepared to not get exactly what you ordered. You may have to remove the tomato or lettuce yourself.
The most popular P. Terry's is the one downtown. It definitely has that fun, relaxed Austin attitude with it, but being downtown does come with a price. If you want to grab a bite don't go during the regular lunch or dinner rushes. You will be waiting for 15 minutes in your car for a while while the many other people try to get their food at the delicious drive through.
And even though P. Terry's may be busy, and slightly inaccurate, the pro of the delicious food definitely outweighs the con.

The useless coin

In Robert Whaples opinion piece, "Why keeping the penny no longer makes sense", the author writes about how pennies are useless and literally worthless.
Robert Whaples uses ethos to support his claim when he says, "Harvard's Greg Mankiw, former chairman of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, has said: "When people start leaving a monetary unit at the cash register for the next customer, the unit is too small to be useful."" This is useful to his argument because Mankiw was a chairman on former president Bush's council of economic Advisers, and he said that the penny is useless. Another example of ethos is that in the same quote he added the part that he is a Harvard graduate which means he is smart.
Also, Robert Whaples uses logos to support his claim in the paragraph when he says, "Conservative estimates of the value of our time lost using pennies exceed $300 million per year." This is basically saying that we lose 300 million dollars per year because it cost more to make pennies then the actual penny is worth.
I agree with his article because the U.S. government is wasting unnecessarily large amounts of money on they penny, which you can't even buy anything with. The penny was useful in the past when one cent was an actual difference, but in the present a one cent difference is unimportant. Also, Canada got rid of their equivalent of the penny and nothing bad has happened to them. The only question I'm left with, is when are we going to get rid of the penny.

Taking

( Art Done by Anonymous)

POEM #3

These empty hands,

Are they giving nothing,

Or asking for all,

Greedy,

Rough,

Cupped together,

But at who,

Or for what,

The green grass,

Is he asking Mother Nature,

Wanting more than what we already take,

We steal,

Strip,

We give nothing back,

After so much taking,

We don't even have unless,

All we have is if,

No hope,

No future,

Nothing.

PARAGRAPHS 

I really love writing poetry. It's very entertaining and though they may not be great the words come easy. In class we were revising our poems and I realized I didn't Chang much but that's just because once I start something and I think it works or is good its hard for me to change it, obviously there were some things that I changed, or that I just got rid of because I didn't like it, but I would say having to revise my poems were the hardest thing about them. My favorite of the three poems, is well either the one about the moon landing or the Harry potter one- I like the first one because its interesting even though it is kind of negative which wasn't my outcome in the beginning. I also like the latter of the two because it's fun and simple. My least favorite was the poem about the art piece because I hate someone making me write poetry it really just kills the point of it at all.

I added style to my poems with sentence structure, diction, and voice. The voice to my poems actually ended up being slightly negative, which wasn't really my outcome but the diction I used really made it seem that way, there were probably more positive words to use, but I like what I did. And last but not least i feel that my sentence structure was really conversational, because I used shorter sentences, and mostly because of the  words like we, I, and you that I use a lot. 

The moon

              

POEM #2

One step,

Right after the other,

The perilous landing,

Finally complete,

After reporting to home,

Which is miles away,

He takes the first step,

A step immortalized in history,

For years to come,

We,

The First Nation,

Show our pride,

By thrusting a flag into the ground,

The red, white, and blue,

Stands static,

A monument frozen in time,

We,

The first country,

We won the race,

Showing our importance,

By being the first flag that was placed,

And shoving it in everyone's faces,

We,

Passed the test,

And seemed so excited,

Every child knows the name,

Neil Armstrong they say,

But ask who is the second,

And the silence rings loudly,

In your ears,

The second man is,

Unimportant, excluded, uninvited,

To the history lesson,

I,

Wonder how long he thought of those words,

Was it in the moment,

The day,

A month,

Or for years,

THUNK,

He lands on the ground,

This piece of rock,

People have looked up to,

Stared at,

Is now conquered,

Finished,

Done,

What will be our next aspiration,

The moon,

Is,

One small step for man,

One large step for mankind.

Poem #1 

 



Lightning on his head,

He defeated Voldemort,

Harry Potter YA!

Lovin Food

I believe in sharing food with others. I really love cooking food and I also like baking, but I don't find it as interesting or as fun as cooking. There are so many more things to do with cooking. I love cooking for myself and I'm always happy when I make something that tastes good. But, something always tastes ten times better when you share it with someone else' and when I hear people tell me that something I made was good, than that just makes me so happy. Once, I was in the kitchen cooking chicken, and I decided to try and make my own sauce to put on it. I literally just grabbed random ingredients and spices that I thought would taste good together. I mixed them all together and asked my dad to try it and he loved it so much he ate it plain and even before the chicken was done. Another example of good things to come from sharing food was one from when I was in kindergarten. I became good friends with  Cade Stone because we shared our snacks together and were still friends today. Sharing food on a small scale is great, but something that's also very important is sharing food with others on a large scale, especially when there is a surplus of food. For example the U.S. gives food all over the world to people and places who need it. Food is something we and with a huge increase in people we need to share our food wisely. 

A Heavy Question

Should the government be able to step in to its peoples lives when it comes to obesity? I think that they should be able to too some extent. Obesity is a huge problem in the United States and one that could be easily cured. In 2010, no state had less than 20% of obesity prevalence. And not only are adults obese but childhood obesity is a huge problem as well.

The "First Lady, Mrs. Obama in 2010 launched Let’s Move!, a campaign to bring together community leaders, teachers, doctors, nurses, moms and dads in a nationwide effort to tackle the challenge of childhood obesity. Let’s Move! Has an ambitious but important goal: to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation." (http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/first-lady-michelle-obama)

             I think that if you exercise and eat right, obesity could be easily cured. I believe that the government should not control how many calories kids eat like Michelle Obama's new plan "the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which limits the calorie count of school lunches to 850. The policy, which was intended to not only wipe out hunger and malnutrition among American students but to encourage healthy eating, also calls for more fruit and vegetables and fewer sweet and fatty foods. But some say the amount of food you get in 850 calories simply isn't enough -- especially if you're a rapidly growing teen… Kirkham's colleague Linda O'Connor penned the video, which features students criticizing the calorie restrictions, passing out in the classroom, on the football field and in the gym, and going to great lengths to feel full, such as sneaking out of class to a locker stashed with snacks. The video opens with a stat from KidsHealth.org's "A Guide to Eating Healthy for Sports" that says active teens require 2000 to 5000 calories per day to adequately meet their growth and energy needs… In an interview with Scholastic News earlier this year, she told a reporter that 'Let’s Move!’ is "not about having government tell people what to do." "I don't believe in absolute 'no's' to anything, because that wouldn't make life fun," Obama said." (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/michelle-obamas-low-calorie-school-lunch-video_n_1914394.html) But, I do believe that they should take out all the unhealthy food items and restrict how much sugar and fat is in the food itself. The key to balancing out the power is to not restrict the kids and how much they eat, but to restrict what is put in to the food. The reason I think that is because how much a kid eats is based off of the kid themselves and what their physical attributes are or if they play a sport. But, Americans do have to play a part in this too, like "only one-third of high school students get the recommended levels of physical activity." (http://www.letsmove.gov/get-active) And if everyone ate only what they needed to sustain themselves then we wouldn’t even have this problem in the first place. And if we ate only what was necessary than we would have a huge surplus of food and we could give food to the starving and the needy or sell it and make a profit.

            Another thing about food is that in America we use high fructose corn syrup in everything, but there are many studies to show that it is terrible for you. "A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.  In addition to causing significant weight gain in lab animals, long-term consumption of high-fructose corn syrup also led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen, and a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides. The researchers say the work sheds light on the factors contributing to obesity trends in the United States."Some people have claimed that high-fructose corn syrup is no different than other sweeteners when it comes to weight gain and obesity, but our results make it clear that this just isn't true, at least under the conditions of our tests," said psychology professor Bart Hoebel, who specializes in the neuroscience of appetite, weight and sugar addiction. "When rats are drinking high-fructose corn syrup at levels well below those in soda pop, they're becoming obese -- every single one, across the board. Even when rats are fed a high-fat diet, you don't see this; they don't all gain extra weight… "These rats aren't just getting fat; they're demonstrating characteristics of obesity, including substantial increases in abdominal fat and circulating triglycerides," said Princeton graduate student Miriam Bocarsly. "In humans, these same characteristics are known risk factors for high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, cancer and diabetes." In addition to Hoebel and Bocarsly, the research team included Princeton undergraduate Elyse Powell and visiting research associate Nicole Avena, who was affiliated with Rockefeller University during the study and is now on the faculty at the University of Florida. The Princeton researchers note that they do not know yet why high-fructose corn syrup fed to rats in their study generated more triglycerides, and more body fat that resulted in obesity." 

(http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/)

Even though there are many studies like this one to show that corn sugar is bad for you the real problem is that we consume so much of it and it is because of this that I believe that we should be more like Europe and ban the corn sugar completely.

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