False Dichotomy: A Hot Cuppa Life

Reading another’s life experiences is like accidentally picking up a stranger’s coffee at Starbucks. It’s unexpected and perhaps delightful experiencing and tasting another’s caffeinated concoction. In the case of my memoir, it was bland coffee so I spat it out and asked for a new drink. However, receiving sips of my peers’ selected memoirs was eye-opening and exhilarating, almost like drinking a pumpkin spice latte for the first time. It was so entertaining and engaging that I plan on ordering some of my peer’s choice of coffee (and read a few of the memoirs my peers presented).

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is a very interesting story that brings up a number of thought-provoking issues in a relatively short format. Among these are questions of race, identity, and stereotyping. The narrator of the story is a young woman named Dina who feels lonely and confused in her new surroundings. As a poor, African American female at Yale (which the narrator portrays as a rich, male, and subtlety racist institution) she has difficulty adapting to the expectations of the university. From the very beginning, her differences set her apart from her classmates, until, from her point of view, she becomes a pariah, invisible and despised by the community. Of course, one must view

For a more than half of clan, the fine they free their eyes, they are already rational about grabbing a cup of java. More than 83 percent of Americans drink coffee quotidian, with most consuming at least 2 to 3 topping-bouts a day. Whether you prepare by fermentation it at domicile or clutch some at a topical eatery, coffee seems to have become a mainstay in most people's quotidian life. So what is the foot streak when it comes to whether coffee is deemed of good health or not? With more than 1.5 billion topping-bout being served up quotidian, one can only trust it is a of good health choice.

The caffeine in coffee become an ethical increase over alcohol and have become a fashionable social beverage. It was interesting to see how it started off as this very exotic drink only for the upper class and then turned into what it is now. Coffee is a very fashionable drink that does not cost much that many have led their days with in today’s society.

Coffee is a beverage that is globally consumed, but also a product that has different values in different parts of the world. The role coffee plays in society differs around the world, from the farmers who grew the crops to the people who constantly consume them. Social theoretical perspectives are capable of showing the different roles coffee has in different societies. Symbolic interactionism, functionalism, and Marxism are three theories which show coffee’s role sociologically. These theories show how coffee affects people physically, how it affects them emotionally, how it leads them to have interactions, how it connects different parts of society, and how it’s economically controlled by a select few.

In ZZ Packer’s book entitled Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, we get to see how African Americans cope with their different situations dealing with family, friendship, religion, and the pursuit of prosperity in the world. Within the short story collection there is a story named after the title, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, where we get to see the pressures put on a young African American woman, Dina, that causes her to resort to near complete isolation of herself. Dina says at one point, “We spent the winter and some of the spring in my room- never hers- missing tests, listening to music, looking out my window to comment on people who wouldn’t have given us a second thought”(Packer 140). Dina feels the need

In The First Part Last, Fred, Bobby’s father drinks coffee, and so does Coco, Bobby’s neighbor. When Coco is drinking coffee at the beginning of the book, Bobby is not and neither are his friends. “I took the easy way out and asked Coco to do me a favor. She came to the door… a cup of coffee in her hand.” This is the scene where Bobby is running late and takes Feather to Coco instead of to the babysitter’s home. Bobby is being irresponsible and childish by not doing what he knows he is supposed to do. At the end of the book, Fred takes Bobby a cup of coffee when Bobby is holding and caring for Feather. Bobby is being reliable and is making mature decisions. Bobby has coffee when he is making mature decisions and being responsible, Coco and Fred have coffee because they are adults and make mature decisions. Therefore, coffee symbolizes coming of age, being mature, and being a man or

The Tea that reach America from china inspired new addictions, new trade connections and new forms of luxury, new social critiques and simmering provincial inferiority. Many caffeinated drinks had come before the tea however this was a new drink to the English-speaking world. Nevertheless, this drink did not come without its own problems (50).

explain things that I never even thought of before. The fact that drinking coffee is a cultural

In addition to pierogies being a part of my food identity, there are two additional foods that I associate myself with. These foods are iced coffee and sushi. What makes these foods a part of my identity is the many memories I have with my family regarding these foods. I used to not like the taste of coffee because the only coffee I knew was hot, decaf coffee, the kind that my grandparents drank. I would try to drink it, but the taste never seemed to resonate with me. My thoughts on coffee did eventually change. I do not remember my first trip to Starbucks, but I do know that is when I discovered the cold version of coffee, iced coffee. Starbucks is an expensive treat, so I know that this discovery happened with my family. I fell in love with it. However, I never drank it that frequently because of the expensive cost of Starbucks. Recently, I have learned to make iced coffee using the coffee maker in my house. I wanted to learn how to make it so

I remember as a teenager always complaining about my Mom, as a normal teen I had my chores around the house and she will not let me go out if I didn’t finish them before. I always taught

Imaging if there was no more coffee in this world, how would you feel? Nowadays, coffee becomes an important part of people’s life. People who often work overtime, they drink coffee because caffeine can make you awake; people who have to wake up early in the morning, they drink coffee because instead of making breakfast, coffee is more convenient; people drink coffee during the free time, because it also tastes good.

Specific Detail: To persuade my audience that drinking tea can bring a lot of benefits to our lives instead of drinking coffee.

Relevance: This is relevant to everyone because tea has a lot of positive health outcomes, that are beneficial to all of us.

India, like many other Asian countries, has a tea drinking culture, but the coffee market is catching up and growing fast. This case talked about the stories of Café Coffee Day (CCD), the Indian coffee industry market leader, along with its competitor Starbucks from USA. CCD was founded in 1996 and by April 2013 it had around 3,000 stores within the Indian market. CCD had not faced any severe threat up till 2012 when Starbucks made its entry into the Indian market through a joint venture with Tata. As the world’s largest coffee chain company, Starbucks wanted to get a slice of the cake. In 2013, it opened 11 stores in Delhi and Mumbai.