The title essay shows how enslaved Africans used their creativity to adapt and put together a cuisine that helped them to meet the conditions of the New World. ... As a nation we depend on fast food because we have little or no time during our day for cooking. However, most Americans use their time inefficiently which forces them to depend on fast foods which are health damaging yet time conserving. ... Our focus needs to steer away from fast foods and processed foods and gear more towards healthy foods that we can cook ourselves. ... We homogenize these cuisines because our nation is heteroge...

• Word Count: 2043
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

For more than fifty million Americans, fast food has transformed into something much more significant than a meal or a bad habit, so much so that it has become a way of life. ... Supersize Me, a film dedicated to exploring the impact of the fast food industry on the average American, utilizes powerful rhetorical strategies to argue that the abundance and accessibility of fast food chains in the United States is a prominent factor in the obesity of its citizens. ... This is the nation's most significant cause of preventable death, second only to smoking. ... This inspires emotion as well,...

• Word Count: 1471
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Steven Johnson, in his essay, "Listening to Feedback," delves into the topic of how positive and negative feedback plays a role in our society. ... Consumers continue to eat foods by the food industry that is unhealthy for them for a verity of reasons. ... Moss stated that, "At Cargill, scientists are altering the physical shape of salt, pulverizing it into a fine powder to hit the taste buds faster and harder, improving what the company calls its 'flavor burst'. ... Food companies will go on and on about how they are promoting new healthy foods in their company. ... No on...

• Word Count: 1836
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This essay will use secondary resources to define, explain and critically evaluate the impact of globalization on McDonalds. As well as demonstrating the effects it has had on the fast food giant, this essay will examine some positive and negative aspects that globalization has had on the brand and the fast food industry, with some examples relevant to China. ... McDonalds has obtained sheer dominance within the fast-food industry and thus is a company which is particularly relevant when exploring and discussing the topic of globalization. ... Ritzer suggests that McDonalds is continuing to do...

• Word Count: 2073
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Graduate

Throughout the essay it will be illustrated how today's current society is reaching a point of no return and we need to put a stop to these trends of overconsumption before it's too late. ... By 2040 we would need to triple the global food supply in order to meet basic food needs, but doing so would require a 1000 percent increase in the total energy expended in food production. ... Our species has flourished, but we've changed our environment too fast for other species to adapt. ... We're approaching a point where the world's ecosystem will change too fast for even...

• Word Count: 1527
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The essay Brave New World Revisited was written by Aldous Huxley in 1958- twenty- seven years after the publication of Brave New World. In this essay he discusses the forces that he believed would lead the world to the organized society that he prophesied in his novel. ... In 1958 he felt that the prophecies he made twenty-seven years earlier were coming true faster than he expected. ... Since 1984 world food production has slowed and new technologies do not promise a great increase in world food output (Brown and Kane 24). ... In his essay "Environmental change and Violent Conflict", Thom...

• Word Count: 2421
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This essay discusses these points and compares them to situations shown in two Korean fictional stories: JSA and Lee Mun-Yeoul. ... Korea, committing war crimes and robbing the nation since 1945. ... Despite this devastation to the North's economy, the North had been able for some time able to sustain its own food production. In fact for a period of time, the North's economy was growing faster than that of the South's. ... North Korea thus ended up as a nation under severe shortage of food, and official figures state that at least 250,000 people die each year from starvation. ...

• Word Count: 2092
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Adam Smith In the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith employs his theory of the division of labor; a task that has many different components can be divided and separated. ... Smith was a promoter of national liberty and wanted to promote the wealth of the entire nation in his Society of National Liberty. ... Thomas Malthus Thomas Malthus stated, in his "Essay on the Principle of Population," that both food and sex are necessary for the survival of man (11). ... Why Capitalism Didn't Die Out The first Americans held fast to their credo of "rugged individualism...

• Word Count: 1442
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From there, in case the retention of traditional industries is necessary, this essay will delve into the cultural and sustainable aspects of maintaining traditional industries. ... Previously, the origin of traditional industries is to cater all the local needs including food, clothes, household in an adaptive way to fit in the agriculture cycle: low-wage, working in leisure period. ... They explain why industrialisation transformation will affect the economic growth and lead to the classification of successful fast-growing and low-paced countries as a consequence. ... For one instance, cell ...

• Word Count: 2421
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Unfortunately the Great Leap Forward (GLF) was a huge disaster and this essay will explain and evaluate the positives and negatives of the GLF and Mao's uneducated decisions. According to Josh Brooman's 'China since 1900', Industry was the main focus of the GLF as Mao's plan was to make China one of the world's leading industrial nations. Mao thought that by simply producing masses of steel China would be able to solve its economic problems, therefore he wanted as much steel produced as fast as possible and started the Backyard Steel Campaign. ... In 1959 he dec...

• Word Count: 1287
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Bank of the U.S. controlled much of the nation's gold and silver. ... National Literature Before the war of 1812, there was basically no true American literature besides political essays. ... Many families stopped raising all of their own food, and spinning their own wool. ... Turnpikes and steamboats were first used to make traveling faster and cheaper. ... It was fast, reliable, cheaper than canals to build, and not stopping in winter. ...

• Word Count: 1767
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

This essay further scrutinizes these delineations and how different facets of lifestyle quantify each. ... In the world of fast-paced technology, where jobs involving agriculture and livestock production is shrinking compared to industrial employment, these occupy the biggest bulk of professionals and industrial workers. ... It should not be mistaken that lower class citizens would only include people living among the slums of Metro manila because agricultural workers are also part of this although their poverty is not as magnified as those from the slums since food and natur...

• Word Count: 1753
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Jared Kaplan 9/13/03 AHAP Essay The Beginning of Separation in 17th Century Colonial America When the colonists settled in America in the 17th century, many of them had different reasons for coming, believed in various religions and set goals and accomplishments both for themselves and their families. ... This seemed to be the theme of all Chesapeake colonies; making money as soon and as fast as possible. ... People in New England grew most of their own food. ... Economic prosperity didn't occur as fast or to the degree that it did in the Chesapeake colonies. ... It w...

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The main aim of this essay therefore is to examine the impact of tourism and globalization on indigenous peoples. The essay submits that tourism and globalization may be argued to be a deadly mix for indigenous peoples or host communities due to the negative impacts it has brought about such as commodification and erosion of culture, loss of cultural identity, social problems such as diseases and environmental problems to mention only a few. However, the essay also acknowledges that tourism and globalization have brought with them positive effects such as, increased revenues and foreign curre...

• Word Count: 1995
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

In the essay "Imagine a country" the author describes inequality in our country based on the perspective of a functionalist, conflict theorist, and social interationist. ... It states that according to the Census bureau "Family income inequality is at the highest level ever recorded, and the income gulf Between rich and poor is growing faster here than in any other industrialized nation. ... This theory of stratification is certainly debated today and was also debated as far back in the early mid eighteen hundreds when Karl Marx his theory in his pa...

• Word Count: 1944
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Even though the federal government has passed civil rights law in an attempt to equalize education, these laws having been "designed to end segregated education [, they like a lot of other laws and policies,] have been consistently undermined and defeated by white resistance and refusal (Lipsitz 34). " Lipsitz not only discusses the implications of the possessive investment in whiteness on blacks but because is America a nation full of different ethnic backgrounds, Lipsitz also includes the implications for Latino and Asian communities. ... "A counter attendant at a fast-food restaurant refus...

• Word Count: 1644
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Cuba also ranked among the highest in Latin America at that time in terms of literacy rate, food consumption, and access to mass media. ... This essay reviews Cubans economic fortunes since 1994 up until 2002, grouping the most important events into three broad categories: Cuba during the 1940's-1950's, Cuba during the 1960-1989, and Cuba during 1990-2002. ... This, in turn led to higher costs and lower levels of production, high food prices, and chronic food shortages, exacerbated in 1998 by drought. ... The Helms-Burton Act allows a US nation to sue any foreign company tha...

• Word Count: 2137
• Approx Pages: 9
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With astounding facts like this, one should consider why and how the Japanese were able to recreate a booming and wealthy nation despite all of its adversities. ... In the shape and size of this essay (limited by 2500 words), I am going to discuss about the influence of culture on the development of Japanese capitalism and to what extent culture impinge upon this development. ... "Japan is eternally at nature's mercy, vulnerable to the sea that surrounds it, to earthquakes of the soil beneath it and a real shortage of raw materials, particularly food and fuel. ...

• Word Count: 2410
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Any good writer documents the social situation of their time and helps to project the future of their society, whether through political essays, poems, or short stories. ... The ape does things all backwards compared to those around him, but it's okay because he doesn't understand that he should stand in line for food, or that he should follow authority. ...

• Word Count: 2390
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School