Cooking For One : Top Food Items

Supply and demand are the rulers of price in the capitalist economy of the United States, and farm goods rely on these factors as much as any other commodity. The demand for food remains relatively stable although slightly increasing year to year, but the supply fluctuates greatly depending on

Although some people believe the lunch menu is unhealthy, it is healthy because you would get the healthy items instead of the unhealthy ones, you get a good amount of carbohydrates, and there are healthier choices but people just throw them away. Many teens at Wilson Middle School are getting the healthy foods and throwing them away. Then they just carry on like nothing happened. Also the food at Wilson is very healthy and has the right amount of carbohydrates in all of the food. But do we all know that we could get the healthy foods instead of the unhealthy foods?

Previously, the accumulation of perishable items was unreasonable primarily because of spoilage. The introduction of money, however, permitted perishable items to be exchanged for currency. Thus, money rendered the opportunity for accumulating property without the associated risk of resulting waste. The profits of this exercise were invested in the means by which they were generated – the land.

Participants in competition with one another for scarce resources by exchanging things with others whenever

Do you want to make a fantastic meal? You have looked around the kitchen and in all of the cabinets and there is nothing useful there? Look again. You have cans of Soup, Ketchup bottles and about eight brands of Tuna staring back at you from that kitchen cabinet that you rarely visit. With one, two or all three of these ingredients you are going to compose amazing meals.

Michael J. Sandel starts his article “What Isn’t for Sale?” by listing examples of items and perks we are given the option to buy. Even though you can buy almost everything, Sandel also lists options you can sell if you need some money. He addresses the main problem we face in a society where everything can be purchased and that markets have dictated our lives. However, since almost everything is for sale, capitalism is successful and the market is doing well. The downside to this is that people are beginning to put a price on everything. Towards the end of the Cold War, buying and selling became more of a constant need that consumers unconsciously accepted.

Three major companies are controlling the market for frozen french fries- Simplot, Lamb Weston, and McCain- making the french fry business more competitive. Fast food restaurants make a large profit from these three competitive companies by buying french fries for 30 cents a pound, frying them, and then putting them on the market for about 6 dollars a pound (Schlosser 117). Although the fast-food industry and frozen-french-fry manufactures are making a large profit, the potato farmers are not. This discrepancy of wealth is due to a term called oligospony, which is a market in which a small number of buyers exert power over a large number of sellers (Schlosser 117). About 2 percent of the $1.50 spent on fries goes to the potato farmer (Schlosser 117). Idaho has lost about half of its potato farmers in the past twenty-five years. According to Bert Moulton, “If potato farmers don’t band together, they’ll wind up sharecroppers,” (Schlosser 119).

Madeleine Thien’s “Simple Recipes” is a short story that depicts an immigrated family facing problems of cultural preservation; “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway portrays a couple facing difficulties in decision-making about their unplanned pregnancy. Despite the difference in plots and themes respectively, both stories discuss about relationships are being put at stake as a result of different factors emerge in the plot. In the two stories, competing values, problems with communication and lack of understanding between two people emerge as elements that can ruin a relationship. Therefore, the two stories reveal that selfishness is the initial and eventual cause for broken relationships.

In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montresor is guilty of the cold-blooded murder of Fortunato and should go to jail for his crime. Montresor speaks of the “thousand injuries” Fortunato caused him and, more recently, the “insult” that Montresor cannot forgive. Vowing to seek retribution, Montresor comments on the importance of ensuring his own innocence throughout the process of revenge. He goes out of his way to be friendly to Fortunato. Other evidence that supports the crime as being preconceived includes Montresor preying on Fortunato’s weakness, his love of wine and his conceited nature. He praises Fortunato on his knowledge of wine and taunts him with the full barrel that he just purchased asking him for his expert opinion. In preparation

One of the biggest problems facing American families today is the inability to afford fresh, nutrient filled food. In the United States today over 13 million families don’t have the money to buy fresh food and have to live on unhealthy diets. In the essay Prudence or Cruelty, author Nicholas Kristof talks about how much of a danger malnutrition is to poorer American families. Kristof mentions that the sole reason for such a high rate of malnutrition in poor U.S citizens stems from the lack of money to buy fresh goods. The price of fresh goods is too much compared to the amount of money these families are making. With multiple mouths to feed and a limited budget, going to the grocery store for these families is almost unheard of. These families

Consumerism is the center of American culture. Americans tend to confuse their wants with their needs. With new advances in technology, as well as the help of advertisers, people are provided with easy access to new products that seem essential to their everyday life, even though they have survived this long without them. People cannot live without food, clothing, and shelter. But realistically, according to people's different lifestyles, more than food, clothing, and shelter are needed. Most people need to work to survive. Unless a job is either in their own home, or within walking distance, a means of transportation is needed. Whether it be a vehicle, money for a taxi-cab, or a token for a ride on the subway, money must be spent

see, we maintain a trade, not for gold, silver or jewels... nor for any other

Adolescence is a difficult time period in a young person’s transition into their later stage of both physical and mental development. Mood disorders are often overlooked during this time for the brain becoming more developed; however among children, anxiety disorders seem to be the most common disorders to be experienced (Nelson; Israel, pg 112). Barlow (2002) defines anxiety as a future-oriented emotion that is characterized by the inability to be in control and predict future events that can be potentially dangerous to the individual. Anxiety shares commonalities with fear, but the difference between the two being that fear is the initial response made from a present threat, where anxiety is due to a unknown future event. A common

Eating brings people closer together everyday, and for everyone, there are important memories that have been created because of food. Whether it’s a formal dinner, or an informal picnic, there will always be special bonds between people because food was involved. We need to have traditions with food because they form and strengthen the bonds between us.

Plato was a known and significant philosopher, who studied under Socrates around the 4th century B.C.E., in ancient Greece. One of Plato’s most famous works was the “Republic.” Based on Socrates’s influence on Plato, Socrates is usually one of Plato’s primary characters in his writings such as, “The Allegory of the Cave.” “The Allegory of the Cave,” illustrates the effect of education and the usefulness of describing a scene of prisoner’s in a cave and the one prisoner who became released from the cave. The two sources in book 7, describe the fire in the cave and the sun outside. Both sources represent knowledge, however, they have two different levels of knowledge: the fire in the cave represents the sun, and the sun outside of the cave signifies philosophical truth, knowledge, the form good, and justice.