The Devil 's Excrement By Jerry Useem

The article “Don't Blame The Eater,” written by David Zinczenko evokes readers the crucial impact that fast food restaurants have in today's nation's youth causing them to be over weight and have type 2ndiabetes. Throughout Zinczenko's argument he makes the reader view the consumer as a victim yet on the other hand, what he is trying to persuade us to believe by using logos,pathos,and ethos in his argument is that the food industry is the one making the nation's youth to increase obesity. The capacity of impressive questions and personal experience, he composed in the text he is able to comprehensively argue against the fast food industry. The author persuades us right away by starting of with a question: “Kids taking on McDonald's this

The quote "Character is what you are in the dark" - Dwight Lyman Moody has a few meanings. Mostly it means that you're different when you're alone. When you're around people they are influences of some sort. If you get into a situation when you're with people you might react differently than if you were alone, resulting in a different outcome. A lot of the time people aren't their true self around friends, or family, or whoever it may be for many reasons. A big reason is they don't want to be judged. Maybe they wanna look "cool" or get popular for something. Maybe they think they'll be looked at differently for being who they truly are. So basically fear of what others think keeps us from being who we really are. Fear can make us act different,

Another country that resembles this heavy reliance on a specific resource is Venezuela. Venezuela is a large oil exporter, but 95% of the country’s income is from oil exports. They have the largest oil supply in the world, but the country still suffers

Laughter and tears follow the journey of those who faced immense hardships and prevailed. One such individual is Francis McCourt, who wrote Angela’s Ashes, and gave readers a recollection of stories and lessons learned through his difficult childhood. The story starts in New York City, where his parents, Malachy and Angela, married and started a family with five children: Francis, Malachy, twins Oliver and Eugene, and Margaret. Seven weeks after Margaret is born, she passes away, sending Angela into a crazed hysteria causing her and family to move back to Ireland and resettle in her hometown, Limerick, a town known for hating those that seem different. Tragedy strikes again with Eugene and Oliver passing away, causing Malachy to fall back into his alcoholic and neglectful habits, leaving Angela and Francis to financially support the family even with hostile discrimination. Along with that, two more children are born, Michael and Alphonsus. However, over time Francis manages to save enough money to stabilize his family and to go back to New York City. Francis’s success story is a result of overcoming trials and tribulations, showcasing how society was hypocritical and discriminatory of any person that was not Irish, white, Limerick Catholic during the 1930’s and 1940’s

The term genocide means terminate an entire race or group. In the Holocaust, millions of people were murdered by the Nazis under the order of Adolf Hitler. The main target during the Holocaust were Jewish people, or more specifically those who did not fit into the Aryan race (Adolf Hitler’s picture of how a person should be). Adolf Hitler and his army the Nazis tried to commit genocide by eradicating the Jewish race, but luckily they were not successful in doing so. The story “Terrible Things” by Eve Bunting and the poem “The Hangman” by Maurice Ogden show in very different ways a lot of the same themes about the Holocaust.

The novel, “Afterlife” by Gary Soto was mostly about how this guy named Chuy who was killed in a Club, Club Estrella to be specific. He was killed in the men’s bathroom for complimenting someone else’s shoes, which were yellow. He got stabbed 3 times, and was left there till dying. He then became a ghost, a ghost who couldn’t be heard, seen or touched. He could see everything that was going on, but couldn’t do anything about it. After the ambulance had taken him away, he was already dead, or i mean the body was already dead. When his parents got the news Chuy went to visit them to say one last goodbye, he also visited his school, and the girl he used to like for a long time. He then found this girl named Crystal, who had killed herself taking

In this essay I intend to explore the narrative conventions and values, which Oliver Smithfield presents in the short story Victim. The short story positions the reader to have negative and sympathetic opinion on the issues presented. Such as power, identity and bullying. For example Mickey the young boy is having issues facing his identity. It could be argued that finding your identity may have the individual stuck trying to fit in with upon two groups.

In the article “Don’t Blame the Eater” by David Zinczenko , he argues his point of view that Fast-food companies are a health issue. What Zinczenko focuses is the topic on how kids are becoming obsessed and the reasons connecting to Fast- food chains. This article being in the “New York Times” means that there must of been a broad audience who read this article. For those who did stumble upon to read it, they were probably agreed with Zinczenko because he composed a well supported article. He was able to communicate his point of view across to convey his audience with a variety of methods.

For this paper, I read the graphic novel, One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry. Barry’s novel is similar to Kochalka’s series, American Elf since her life is the main plot and focus. Like the title, Barry divulges into instances from her life that could be considered a demon, or something negative. For example, the first demon she discussed was about her first love and how much he differed from one of her boyfriends. This was considered a demon to her because of how he treated her and how she felt better off without him. In a way, this novel is Barry’s method of expressing her negative moments and sharing them to the public. Not only does this graphic novel encourage others to speak about their demons, Barry is healing herself from her negative

This then relates into the fact that these resources in this area will be mishandled and used in non-beneficial ways. Poverty can be unruly and with these natural resources they can fall into the fight between using the responsibly r blowing it away in order to make the current moment better without thinking about the future. Surplus of resources is not always a good thing.

This economic modernization in the Middle East, could only be a short term success which does not guarantee the successful and stable economic development of oil rich states and the region as a whole in the long term. The Middle East, despite its vast reserves of oil, is still considered a developing region due to the high reliance on oil revenues and rather weak production sector of the economy as well as due to some political factors such as lack of democracy, corruption, reluctance to the reforms and other issues. There are various reasons as to why the Middle East is still considered a developing region despite its oil wealth. Natural resource revenues have also been linked to slow economic growth rates, inequality, and poverty. One culprit may be "Dutch disease," which was discussed earlier. Other factors may include the volatility associated with commodity prices, which can have especially negative impacts on weak-state economies; and the underdevelopment of agricultural and manufacturing sectors during boom periods in resource-based economies. And even when oil abundance produces high growth, it often benefits only a few corrupt elites rather than translating into higher living standards for most of the population. Corruption is one of the economic deficiencies which can weaken economic growth and development; thus it is considered as an important impediment to economic growth and political stability, particularly in developing countries. The dependence on a

As an illustration, Brazil has had the chance to jump on the boat in comparison to China, and India as a result of development as mentioned by Collier . As for the notion of the resource curse, Brazil is not effected much by it now as compared to previous years before. For example, in the mid-17th century when Brazil was the leading distributor

If a person receives a loan they are obligated to pay it back and in order to do this they need to use resources to keep up with interest rates. To keep up with the interest rates issued by the banks there has to be expansion. Expansion means more resources. When the possibility of becoming broke hangs above someones head they tend to forget about their morals. This is a huge problem for natural resources because they do not care about things like the rainforest as long as they can make a profit. But we have created an economic system that encourages shortsighted behavior- behavior that is so shortsighted that the costs of the breakdown in rust are never take into account” (Stiglitz 289). When the vision of an economy is only short sighted people are not going to care about what happens to all the resources being used up or the current environmental issues. Nobody wants to go bankrupt and they are always going to desire more and the only way they can do

Oil is an important component in many industries and the majority of global energy needs are generated by oil. Hence, it is unsurprising that the annual global consumption of oil is around 30 billion barrels and it accounts for around one-third of all energy consumed . According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA),Venezuela and Saudi Arabia are the top 2 countries with the most proven crude oil reserves and over 90% of their export revenues come from oil . In addition, since 1980, OPEC’s share of oil revenue in total exports has been consistently over 60%, with the net export revenue at US$730 billion . Hence any disturbance in the oil sector will cause a drastic impact on these economies. This can be illustrated in research where it has provided evidence for a negative relationship between resource abundance and growth. For instance, since the 1970s, Nigeria has been exporting around $10billion worth of oil annually but during same period the proportion of its population living on less than $1 per day has doubled from 36% to 70% (Sala-I-Martin and Subramanian, 2003). Nevertheless, recent studies have shown that there can also be a positive relationship. Countries rich in oil, such as Malaysia and Norway have managed to achieve sustained economic growth.

The widespread of negative impact of natural resource abundance lead the world to explore possible ways to tackle the problems effectively and turn these resources into the welfare of countries. The new conventional view is that the resource curse can be explained by equating good outcomes from oil revenues with good governance and good institutions.