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    Ever wanted to eat healthy and tasty food at only ~USD3.00? The catch: you only get leftovers and can only collect the food when it is approaching the closing time of the restaurant. This is now possible thanks to the geniuses behind the not-for-profit social enterprise: Too Good To Go (“TGTG”). Through the TGTG app, one can order food that may otherwise be thrown away at reduced prices. It is a social initiative addressing a 3 of the UN Sustainable development goals: Responsible Consumption and

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    Grossman English 104 24 March 2017 Leftovers “Thanksgiving is a holiday which contains a solution to one of our greatest problems today: our eating” (Adler). Many would think that Americans struggle with eating because of lack of time or because food is too expensive, when in reality, they just don’t use ingredients to their fullest potential, wasting time and money. Thanksgiving seems to be the only day in the year that people eat correctly—by using leftovers. In the article “Thanksgiving Thrifts

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    It was our first trip to Disney World, and we were visiting what I thought, was the scariest ride in the world. I thought that certain ride was scary, because ever since I was five I would always throw up on the roller coasters, or even car rides. I hated roller coasters ever since I threw up. I thought to myself, ‘This is Disney World we’re talking about, I have to go on this ride, I need this. I promised myself I would go on every single ride here. I will get over this fear.’ After that thought

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    China Leftover Women

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    have compiled my sources related to feminism in China into four categories: historical, political, and social issues contributing to the leftover women crisis; intervention examples and incompatibility; modern issues and discrimination; and state and non-government organization controlled feminism. Historical, Political, and Social Issues Contributing to the Leftover Women

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    what appeared to me, at first, an unfathomable interest into a television program, The Leftovers, has rather enthusiastically catapulted this investigation from what appeared to some from obscurity to a macabre obsession. With this in mind I have proceeded to pull apart and feast upon the positives and negatives of death, bereavement and our coping mechanisms for these events. The first series of ‘The Leftovers’ delves into mass bereavement and how the remaining people cope with a loss of 2% of

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    restaurant cleans up the remainder of the mess and throw away the leftovers. From there, it’s off to a landfill and starts the process of decomposing. Unfortunately, this happens everyday throughout the United States. Thousands upon thousands of pounds of leftover food is thrown away and left to waste. Meanwhile, millions of Americans rely on the government to provide food stamps, and are unable to reach the monstrous amounts of leftover food. In 2010, the USDA estimated that 133 billion pounds of food

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    Xiao Yun Leftover Woman

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    from a woman’s body after she swallowed them half a year ago when her parents forced her to get married. The parents of the woman nicknamed "Xiao Yun" feared that she may never find a husband and pressured her into marrying so as not to become a "leftover woman" - an embarrassing term often used to describe single Chinese women over the age of 30. Despite being only 31, the woman from Ningde City in East China’s Fujian Province was set up on a blind date and introduced to a man who her parents believed

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    Jinzhao Li WR098 Steinberg Sept. 20. 2014 Christina Larsen's article "The Startling Plight of China's Leftover Ladies" (2012) can be said to be a presentation of the pervasive efforts of society to control the bodies of women. It should be noted that in many societies women can even be forced to be married even against their will under pain severe punishment such as death. In this case, in the Chinese situation as reported by Larsen, the means of control is more of persuasion with the use of

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    My literature review is on the Gender Matters set of essays. The first essay is The Startling Plight of China’s Leftover Women by Christina Larsen.This essay is about the unmarried, educated women in China and why they are still unmarried.. The second essay is The Invisible Migrant Man: Questioning Gender Privileges by Chloe Lewis. This piece is about the struggles and issues that married male migrants face and have faced.The last is Body-Building In Afghanistan by Oliver Broudy.It is about the

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    Kingston, and Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. In each of these examples, an abused woman is hiding behind her reality but consequently, rebels to seek equality. In Nervous Conditions, Tambu 's parents chose to send their male kid to school while she was ignored and forced to work to pay for her education, in No Name Woman Kingston 's aunt had an adulterous affair and, even worse, probably produced a female child from the sexual encounter, and in Leftover Women, the narrator

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