What impact do you want to have on the world and why? (500 words maximum)
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“School lunches taste so bad,” Max complained from the table behind me, eyeing his chicken burger with disgust. “I can’t wait to go home and eat real food.
I gripped my chicken burger slightly harder and continued eating, savoring the tangy barbeque sauce and warm chicken patty. My stomach thanked me for the nourishment but grumbled for more food, knowing that this was probably my only meal of the day. Subsidized school lunches gave a hot meal to look forward to on days when my parents worked until late night or lacked money.
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Cocooned in my blankets, I drowned out the sound of my parents’ arguing with earbuds blasting soft, indie music. Their abrasive words filled the air, bickering because my older brother was failing out of high school, our family always didn’t have enough money, and my dad was just caught cheating on my mom with her best friend for the past 6 years.
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I fell for STEM like Augustus fell for Hazel – slowly, and then all at once – when I started high school. Starting off as a flirtationship, I took Honors Biology and Geometry freshman year. By the end of senior year, I had taken and loved AP Computer Science, Calculus BC, and Physics I - they made me look forward to school.
However, it was glaringly obvious that in a school of 3200 people, I was one of the only females in my STEM classes and interested in becoming an engineer. Los Osos High School had zero clubs for olympiads or engineering, so I started the first Engineering Club and High SChool.
Today, I’m the only student to ever to attend MIT from my high
One of the most controversial issues today is the question of how to address childhood obesity. Because of the large proportion of meals that children, particularly low-income children, consume in schools, cafeteria food has been targeted by dietary reformers as in need of a major overhaul. However, while many different types of new school menus have been proposed, the extent to which healthier foods can be offered remains controversial. Opponents to reform state that children will not eat healthier lunches, and that changing the food that children eat will have minimal impact, since the children will either bring food from home or eat food at home that is more 'kid friendly.'
This article by Great Schools is addressed to parents considered about the current school lunches provided to the children in their district. Unlike any other source, this one focuses solely on 3 organizations that advocate. The diversity of the listed projects gives an opportunity to expand on different approaches to solve the various problems of the lunch program. However, there is no attempt to address the current issues of our system, requiring a previous understanding of how the school lunch system currently operates.
Is school lunch actually feeding America’s children? (1. Rhetorical Question) Today, many students are reporting that they are unsatisfied with their school’s lunch. Strict guidelines set for America’s schools control what exactly is going through cafeterias in order to maintain healthy and happy students. However, students are disappointed in these guidelines and disagree that they are of any benefit. School lunches still lack nutrition, limit food choices and proportions, and neglect appeal. (2. Parallelism)
Students are taking it to social media to demonstrate against the meal rules lobbied by First lady Michelle Obama. Lunches include tiny portions, mushy and unrecognizable menu items, a lettuce-and-cheese sandwich and chicken nuggets void of any chicken. School nutrition directors say the rules have proven to be costly and restrictive. House Republicans are making a final push this month to give schools a temporary break from the meal standards. School lunches have never been known for being appetizing — but these ones are particularly disgusting. Students across America are taking it to social media to demonstrate against the school meal rules championed by First Lady Michelle Obama.They're using the sarcastic hashtag 'Thanks, Michelle Obama'
a) The motivation is to convince the readers that school lunches have become healthier as to erase the perception that cafeteria food is terrible. As well, these statistics are being used to determine if healthier school lunches "will help ease the obesity epidemic among the nation's children." This study was done as to determine the influence of school lunches on the obesity epidemic and to show whether the government has taken the right approach to lower obesity rates or need to take a different approach.
My acceptance into the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) program became one of my greatest experiences at North County High School. Throughout my STEM classes, I had learned to think more critically and creatively. STEM required us to collaborate to solve problems. This collaboration taught me proper communication and strong leadership skills which I utilized effectively during summer bridge projects and the community challenge projects that we did each year. One of the most significant community challenge projects that I did with a partner was design and print, using a 3-D printer provided from my school to create a cookie cutting prototype that helped modernize the production of cookies for a local bakery owner. Through
The student’s spending in school can sometimes be very strict and money doesn’t come very easily, and the temptation of the junk food at schools isn’t helping. Reporters from TIME state that although 1% of schools are dropping out of the National School Lunch program, kids aren’t buying the healthier options, which is the main cause of the school’s decision to drop out of the program. Although this affects the school in negative ways, it reduces the overall money spent by the student. Alexandra Sifferlin also states that after the program had gone into effect, the participation of buying healthy foods drop from 5% to 3% by the end of the year. It’s an important decision to make that decides the importance of student’s decision-making between
Did you know that in the 1990s, many school struck deals with fast food companies, including McDonald’s and Taco Bell, allowing them to sell their products in the cafeterias? In the article “Cafeteria Wars,” written by Rebecca Zissou, there are 2 perspectives on whether or not school lunches should be healthy.
With many delicious main courses such as: Mystery meat sandwiches, spongy chewy ribs, and surprise casserole. It’s a wonder how more kids don’t choose to eat with the school every day. In fact we should make eating at the school a requirement because who doesn’t like not knowing what exactly they’re eating. The taste of the food shocks
In numerous incidences around the country schools have reportedly denied their students school lunches because their lunch accounts are overdrawn in some cases by only a couple dollars (Green). Also, traditional packed lunches are under fire, in part, because some administrators who feel that the lunches are not nutritious enough for students have banned them (Eng, Hood). Because some school children are going hungry and have no other means of obtaining a meal during the school day, the school lunch program needs to take additional measures to ensure that the needs of all US students are being met.
The most essential part to the future success of America is the children of America, and
Researching about school lunches, really made me view the school lunch system differently. I always knew that the meals served in schools are the not the most delicious or the healthiest, but I never realize how bad it was. I was born and raised in Mexico and when I came to America I remember I did not like pizzas, hamburgers, French fries, and other processed foods they gave me because in my country we didn’t eat these types of foods. But now I crave all of these foods. I feel like I was forced to eat all of these foods. My mom always thought schools served healthy foods and that I was so lucky that I got it for free. As I kid, I never realized all the damage that I was doing to my myself by eating all of these foods. Schools should teach
There have been on occasion when I was at grade school that I have seen at least one of the teachers giving a student money for the student’s lunch. Another close encounter that I can recall is when one of my close friends couldn’t afford a school lunch and I told her I would share my free lunch with her, and that we could just split the whole thing, thus she wouldn’t go famished through the rest of the school day. There has to be way more incidences such as these in Americas public schools because these public schools are reporting that they lose an estimate of about $350,000.00 dollars in school funds annually in unpaid debts , and one of those reasons is teacher giving students money when the students need it. If we could provide free lunches
I began to question, is STEM still a boy’s club? As I am finishing my third semester at my local community college, the answer is a resounding “yes!” Not only
School lunches have gotten worse throughout the years. Food comes out of packages instead of the kitchen, food is filled with preservatives instead of vitamines. Health problems are rising for children as early as the age of ten because of their unhealthy eating habits. To solve this growing epidemic, school lunches need to be cooked with a large quantity, that way everyone gets the lunch they want.