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Frozen food in the 1920’s Q: Who invented frozen food? A: Clarence Birdseye was given most credit for frozen foods Clarence Birdseye invent the frozen foods because so food can last and you don’t have to can so much food. They froze almost all foods. They froze like spaghetti noodles, to green beans, to sweet corn, to pizza. They made the meats and froze it.

The owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins is Penguins legend, Mario Lemieux. In his NHL career, Lemieux played 19 seasons with the Penguins, had 690 goals, 1033 assists, and 1723 overall points.

Harrison Bergeron "If I tried to get away with it, then other people'd get away with it—and soon we'd be right back to the dark ages again…" This statement by George Bergeron sums up Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s short story "Harrison Bergeron" in one line. "Harrison Bergeron" is the story of a futuristic United States in the year 2081, where all individuals are made equal regardless of what their natural born characteristics were. They are made equal both mentally and physically, all to the same measure of intelligence and strength. In "Harrison Bergeron" the society has become apathetic and equally conformed because of the power of the Handicapper General, the forced use of handicaps, and the people within the society who continued to let

In 1976 Rene Levesque won the provincial election and became premier of Quebec with his party, Parti Quebecois. The separatists wanted to strengthen the French language and didn’t care about official bilingualism. So not long after taking office, the Parti Quebecois passed Bill 101, which is also known as the Charter of the French Language. It decreed that French was the single official language of the province of Quebec and that employees of the government had to work in French. Outdoor commercial signs had to be in French only and the children of immigrants would have to go to French schools. The Quebecois likes this new law because they thought their language and culture was becoming endangered. Birth rates in Quebec had gone down and the

When Bobby Adedge was 18 years old, he had already won two Olympic gold medals. By the time he was twenty-two, he had been a well-known goalie on a prestigious professional hockey team. He had married an even more famous supermodel, who had her own budding career as

Fred Korematsu was standing up for thousands of japanese-americans including himself even though no one else was helping him and having faith in him, even his family thought he was an embarrassment. According to Justice Robert Jackson, “the court for all time has validated the principle of racial discrimination … The principle then lies about like a loaded weapon, ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need.” What this is trying to explain is that Fred Korematsu was never taken seriously in court, because of racial discrimination, that just because they are authority they think that they can load a weapon or because they are judges they have the right to discriminate and put citizens in

The Prize was excellently written by Dale Russakoff. In this short non-fiction, she describes the current state of Newark, New Jersey’s public education system. Newark has one of the poorest education systems and because of that students have experienced failure upon failure. Many have worked to improve this system including philanthropist, administrators, teachers, and even members of the community. Through The Prize, she shows the different perspectives of individuals who have these titles and what they did or believe they can do in order to improve the system. It is very interesting how so many people have different ideas, though they are connected in the same system, and no one seems to listen to the other, which shows the lack of communication

During the Great Depression many people were left with nothing after the market crash. In “The Nations Asks, “Is it to Be Murder, Mr. Hoover?” argues why the states are getting relief but the people are starving in the streets. The author complaints of the lack of responsibilities the government has throwers the people by saying “lack of food and undernourishment must be charge up against the government of the United States” (195). During WWII many Japanese resident that were located in the west coast were force out of there house because of fear. In the source “Dissent in Korematsu v. United States” the author shares the court case of Fred Korematsu the violation of his rights as an American. Korematsu was arrested for refusing to leave his

The Canadian-born hockey player enjoyed a 21 season career in the NHL. Gary Roberts was a first round selection of the Calgary Flames, 12th round, in 1984. He retired with the Tampa Bay Lighting in 2009.

Clarence Birdseye is commonly known as the founder of the modern frozen food industry. An entrepreneur, American inventor and naturalist, Birdseye began his career as a taxidermist. Birdseye's next field assignment, off and on from 1912 to 1915, was in Labrador in the Dominion of Newfoundland (now part of Canada), where he became further interested in food preservation by freezing, especially fast freezing. He was taught by the Inuit how to ice fish under very thick ice. In -40°C weather, he discovered that the fish he caught froze almost instantly, and, when thawed, tasted fresh. He recognized immediately that the frozen seafood sold in New York was of lower quality than the frozen fish of Labrador, and saw that applying this knowledge would

Josh Sweeney Brings Sled Hockey to Portland Sled hockey was invented in the early 1960s at the Stockholm rehabilitation center. A group of Swedes wanted to continue to play hockey despite their disability. The game follows the ice hockey rules with a few exceptions. The players sit on specially designed sleds

After the 9/11 attack, Americans became enraged with those from the middle east, specifically Muslims. Raisuddin Bhuiyan, who goes by Rais, was a Muslim who immigrated to The United States, was unfortunately a victim of this hate. After being shot and nearly killed by Mark Stroman, Rais's faith after the shooting became very strong, realizing he was given a reason to live.

Can you imagine a world in where your equal to every other individual and one that you are put in an arena to kill others in order for you to survive for entertainment? If you are,the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and the short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut,Jr might be some really good insight to what a world would look like if that all was a reality.These stories are both conveying an image of what the future is going to look like, as terrifying as that thought may be but thank god its only a story. In the The Hunger Games the author showcases a great use of imagery displaying the government versus people dystopia topic and so does the short story Harrison Bergeron. They also have a character that essentially is the

For my final sense of place, I decided to watercolor my experience in my sense of place. It’s an expression of what I’m thinking so my face is in the middle. The top layer, painted in red and yellow, is Arizona. There are two sides to this layer- that with

YETI’s mission is to“Build the cooler we’d use everyday”. The current objectives are in line with the mission statement, and are building new sizes and increasing product lines of the best coolers available. The whole line of YETI coolers uses only a few materials mainly plastics and polyethylene and these resources are abundant.Yeti has performed extremely well financially with no slowing down insight.