Title: The Adventures of Gin-Ging in the Veggie Landia Ging-Ging is a very picky eater, she hate vegetables and other healthy foods. All she wants to eat are oily and junk foods. Every time her mother prepared foods with vegetables she always separates it. If you look her, she is skin-and-bone, and you don’t need a weighing scale to know that she is under weight.
One day her mother cooks a sinigang everyone in their house was excited to eat their mother’s specialty, however Ging-Ging is frowning because sinigang is full of different vegetables she hate. “Ging, stop frowning. Here have a taste.” Her brother Jose said while trying to feed Ging-Ging a spoon full of Water Spinach, but Ging-ging was quick to knock the hand of his brother, and hit a bowl full of sinigang and it fell
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Ging-Ging and the vegetables are staring to each other’s eyes. “She is the picky eater.” Said a Labanos. “She threw a whole bowl full of vegetables, she deserve to be punished.” An angry Water Spinach replied. Ging-Ging is on the edge of crying, because she can hear the vegetables talking. “I am dreaming... This is just a dream... I need to wake up. Mommy!” Ging-ging said in panic. She swayed her hands and hit all the vegetables and fruits around her. Everyone was so scared and the great vegetable armada came and tied her to a tree. And then Mayor Rody Brocolli appeared, “Welcome to Veggie Landia.” He said, but Ging-ging keeps on crying. “Stop crying kid, your mother was begging all Gods, just for you to change.” He said and the mayor raised his hand and a radish come close to him “Laila Radish released her and bring the magic cart here. We will teach this picky little kid a lesson.” Laila Radish released her and a sparkling cart made of different vegetables had arrived. “Look at yourself Kid, you are not healthy and you need to know the importance of eating healthy foods.” Said by Mayor
In the United States today, a large part of the average person’s life is food. Each individual consumes nearly one ton of food each year, but never knows what they are truly putting into their body. Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle, was one of the earliest works that provided people an insight to the production of their food. The novel was originally written to show the mistreatment of the workers, typically immigrants, but instead resulted in the passing of the Pure Food Act of 1906. The movie, Food Inc. provides today’s people the same insight that The Jungle gave the people in 1906.
Food is the fuel for humans, supplying energy and nutrients to get them throughout the day. But how has the way of getting food changed as a result of industrialization? Consider the tomato; it is ripe, farm fresh, and transformable to any desired recipe. However, today’s tomatoes are grown in places that consumers would probably not be able to locate on a map, ripened with assistance of ethylene gas, and picked while they are green. The process of obtaining food has undoubtedly changed.
Certainly, Zeena’s attitude isn’t of the most merry of personalities. When the pickle dish shatters, this can stand to represent Zeena’s bitter personality. Nonetheless, “...Zeena’s face stood grimly” (Wharton), relates
Caitlin Flanagan 's piece “Cultivating Failure” appeared in the Atlantic 's January/ February 2010 issue. The Edible schoolyard program teaches students to grow food. Instead, Flanagan is trying to persuade the reader that having school gardens will help students in school. It also talks about “ A Garden In Every School’(420) She added this quote, because she thinks adding a garden to every school could improve graduation rates.
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants" the first sentences of Michael Pollen’s book “In Defense of Food”. The author mentions the food to our life in a various different way. The author makes the reader to curious the critical meaning of sciences, diet and product.
Nutritionalism is a topic that is widely researched around the globe, but even more so in America. The topic of healthy food is not only being researched but also heavily debated upon: whether one kind of food is any healthier than another. The debate surrounds an idea that food is the reason for many health disabilities. Because of the debate about food people have been formulating their own ideas and theories about the nutrition of food. Two articles about the nutrition argument are Escape from the Western Diet by Michael Pollan and Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating by Mary Maxfield.
Go on, George! Tell about what we’re gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it.” (Steinbeck 14) Lennie, who is a big man; that does not know his own strength, wants to be on a farm with his companion, George. He wants the farm to have different things such as a garden, pigs, cows and most of all rabbits. He likes rabbits because they are soft, so he can pet them, but big enough to not get hurt when he pets them.
In the story, Ethan Frome, by, Edith Wharton, Ethan and Zeena Frome’s broken pickle dish is a symbol of their dysfunctional relationship, of the unusual setting under which it is destroyed, and the ideas of matrimony. The
Article “If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?” was published in 1999 in the Kenyon Review. The author describes her childhood life growing up with Indian immigrants. She feels a deep separation from not just her parents but her culture as well. Writer Geeta Kothari explores her personal identity through food. Kothari uses unique writing structure and personal stories to form a well-written piece.
George keeps losing his jobs because of misunderstandings caused by Lennie’s disability. In weeds they got run out because Lennie was accused of trying to rape a girl, when he was trying to feel her dress. George is patient and repeats himself when Lennie does not understand or when he forgets. George looks out for Lennie and he gives Lennie hope. At the start of the book when Lennie was drinking water from the river George told him to”” .
How come Americans are obsessed with food (new diets, restaurants, television shows, the list goes on and on) but no one cares or knows where their food came from and how it got on the shelf at the supermarket? The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan teaches readers about the importance of being educated about where your food comes from and how to make your own decisions about what and how to eat. Humans, as omnivores, have too many options for food and we don’t know what is good for us. Pollan argues that many diets and information from professionals are false, Americans have no tradition or cultural foods, and the human instinct of not eating bitter foods is no excuse to stop eating nutrient packed foods. First, Pollan talks about how many people throughout history that were supposed to be experts, for example Dr. Kellogg, came up with some strange theories that many people believed, but we later discovered were not true.
It took a lengthy and embarrassing Christmas dinner, and many years after to make Amy discover that “the only shame you can have is to have shame. ”This remarkable quotation from Fish Cheeks shows that you must be yourself if it even makes you have shame because “the only shame you should have is to have shame. ”Also,this theme finally applies to when many middle schoolers hate something they like because “the cool kids” hate it. I believe there is no such idea like shame. The theme of having no shame applies to the author’s life as well as my life too.
After George again took a mouse from Lennie, George “ heard Lennie’s whimpering cry … Lennie’s lip quivered and tears started in his eyes” (Steinbeck 9-10). Lennie is incapable of having his mental standing ever match his physical. He is almost child like with George taking care of him. Throughout the novel George views Lennie as a burden while Lennie views him as a loyal friend to which he reciprocates this loyalty. When he mentions to George that he wanted his beans with ketchup, George explodes and proceeds to tell Lennie how much trouble he is and how much better his life would be if didn't have to tend to him.
Once the dinner began, Amy got more and more embarrassed with her family as some of their actions are rude and gross to most cultures but not to theirs. “My relatives licked the ends of their chopsticks and reached across the table, dipping them into the dozen or so plates of food”. Her father then reached across the table and poked into one of the fishes cheeks and said “Amy, your favorite”. This made Amy so embarrassed that she wished she would just disappear.
‘No,’ said George. ‘Well, I can go away,’ said Lennie. ‘I’ll go right off in the hills an’ find a cave if you don’ want me.’ “ (Steinbeck 104) Lennie can tell George is upset.