I Am Aware Writing It Down

The clouds blocked the beaming sun from reaching the inside of the cornucopia in which my cousins all smiled and posed. Some of them were kneeling, others standing behind them. All of them seemed to be having a good time together. Then there was little me in the background wearing my pink summer dress with my little red, yellow and blue backpack dangling from my shoulders. I stood with my arms folded in front of me; a glare beamed from my face in the direction of the camera. My sassy attitude seems to have no affect on my cousins. It was the day of our annual family trip to Chicago. A day filled with family fun, Garrett's popcorn, and walks through Chicago’s many parks. These family-fun packed trips have dwindled from being anual to being non-existent as everyone grew up.

Fast food might be easy and cheap but people do not realize how harmful the food is for their bodies. The problem is the food that is served at these types of restaurants, especially McDonalds, are high in fat, salt, processed, and can have harmful ingredients included in the food. While home cooked food takes time to plan and make people know what they are eating, that isn’t the case at McDonalds: “McDonald’s burgers retain its fresh appearance for a very long time. This can easily fool customers who do not have a hint of this alteration in their burgers. The use of excessive preservatives is harmful for your health which McDonalds seems to overlook for gaining more and more

In the piece “Don’t Blame the Eater” by David Zinczenko, he discusses the topic of fast food restaurants and the issues, as to why kids today are suing McDonalds for making them fat. In his article, he starts by recapitulate a familiar time from his past where he also suffered from fast food restaurants. Zinczenko was a latchkey kid who was at the age of 15 and weighed 212 pounds. As any child, he didn’t have much money. Therefore food options were very limited. It was either McDonalds, Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken or Pizza Hut. Pretty much the only affordable meals you could eat everyday and that are open late. Later on, Zinczenko went off to college. He got to join the Navy Reserves and be apart of a health magazine, teaching himself

I glance amusedly at the photo placed before me. The bright and smiling faces of my family stare back me, their expressions depicting complete happiness. My mind drifted back to the events of the day that the photo was taken. It was Memorial Day and so, in the spirit of tradition my large extended family had gathered at the grave of my great grandparents. The day was hot and I had begged my mother to let me join my friends at the pool. However, my mother had refused. Inconsolable, I spent most of the day moping about sulkily. The time came for a group picture and so my grandmother arranged us all just so and then turned to me saying, "You'd better smile Emma or you'll look back at this and never forgive yourself." Eager to please and

This photo captured one of the best moments of my life, the moment that I will remember for rest of my life. That was the most joyful and emotional moments of my life when for the first time after 10 years I held my mother and father in my arms. None of us could stop crying. It was also the first time in my life I saw my father’s tears. We need it sometime to calm ourselves down to be able to say something.

This is a very ironic circumstance considering the McDonald's corporation prides themselves on the fact that everything they do is uniform. It looks the same it tastes the same, and it was thought to be made the exact same way.

When I was twelve years old I was sexually assaulted in the back alley of a liquor store in the City of North Hollywood. Many bits and pieces of my story are but a blur in my memory. According to psychologists, this memory loss is a type of psychogenic amnesia that occurs as a result of the body attempting to cope with stress to survive. This causes certain stressful events to be blocked, this is also known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (American Psychiatric Association, 1980). On October 15th, 2009 my family and I were visiting my aunt’s house in honor of my mother’s birthday which was the following day. My family is accustomed or I should say prefers to eat cake with a glass of milk, why they do this I do not know. Nonetheless, we had ran out of our precious milk, so I was sent out to buy a gallon at the corner liquor store. Never in a million years would I

Mcdonald's is one of the most commonly known and visited fast food restaurant in the nation. In the non fiction text, Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want To Know About Fast Food, by Eric Schlosser, Schlosser clearly depicts the downside of fast food restaurants to healthy food. In America, fast food affects the society because because it has changed the lives of many family owned businesses and portion sizes. Many fast food industries try to find young, attractive girls to work behind cashiers and in the kitchen.

The majority of the nation is on the go, always heading to a different destination. This makes in immensely easy for a person not to forget to eat. However, McDonald’s has gained negative feedback on their products due to what they choose to make them out of. Many people avoid this establishment due to this reason. Positive values of fast food restaurants are the ability to consume ready-to-eat, fresh, portion-controlled foods. However, the “potion-controlled” foods can easily be over looked by a person’s mind being bigger than their stomach. I do not think that children gain anything from eating at fast food restaurants like McDonald’s. However, they lose a slight part of their health due to if consumed too often, can cause some health and weight related issues in the long

All of these things – and the whole book in general – has turned me off of fast food forever I think. I’ll never look at McDonald’s in the same way again. The food is full of grease, fat, and bacteria that could kill. The food also has hundreds of chemicals in it to make it taste the way it should,

Dan Harris claims that McDonald’s deceives their customer’s with their marketing strategy. “He (Hirsch) says McDonald's lures young people with toys and playgrounds, without saying how

"It was horrible and there is no way I'm going back tomorrow!" I exclaimed to my mother. I felt that I had done every possible thing wrong and was greatly embarrassed by it. I explained to her all of my mixed emotions and recounted everything that had gone on. As I talked, I realized

I love Happy Meals. Opening the house-shaped box, getting my free toy; it’s one of the best things about being a kid. And who hasn’t begged their parents to stay an extra fifteen minutes to play in the playground or laughed at a commercial with Ronald McDonald and the Hamburgler? McDonald’s is a part of childhood, and it’s a part of life. There are McDonalds’ all

I recently visited another McDonalds in my area with my kids and my little cousin, then I have another disappointment. I ordered the kid meal for him; it came with a toy and a drink with the meal. I asked for milk, which to me is more nutritious than soda. Soda does have gobs of sugar in them, which is not healthy for any human young or

McDonald has been a well-known and valuable brand for over half a century. The company’s mission and vision is striving to be the world’s best quick service restaurant and formalizing their beliefs into “People, Vision, and People Promise”. “Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value” also became the company’s motto. The company’s first McDonald store was built “in 1940 by the original McDonald brothers, Dick and Mac. Later in 1954, Ray Kroc became the first official franchisee appointed by Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California” (Chandiramani, Ravi). Soon after, Mr. Kroc opened his first restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois, and the McDonald’s corporation was created. The new franchise began to grow rapidly as a result of its