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Filipino Food For Thought

... cooking and baking into an art form. Of course, through the help of modern inventions, cooking has evolved so much that it doesn't even take you the whole day to prepare a meal that tastes like a feast! Microwaves and electric stoves replace all those clay pots and stone oven used a long time ago. Everything we need comes in neat little packages that just need to be opened, reheated and, Voila! Dinner is served. It wasn't this easy during the time of our grandmothers although there were many improvements in the culinary arts. Women still ...

Number of words: 1397 | Number of pages: 6

Mankind As A Problem

... capabilities have sunken to a level below any seen before. While capable of such acts of beauty and wonder, they instead choose to act selfishly and without reason. The human race is, like every living thing, an animal. However, the human race is unlike any other animal on the face of this planet. The human race is more brutal then other animals. The human race is the only animal that will set out to commit genocide or slaughter its own kind by amounts I can not begin to fathom. The human race has done this many times through it’s pa ...

Number of words: 898 | Number of pages: 4

Sci-fi Gibberish Or A Glance A

... elements of a classical myth. The question then arises: why science fiction is not treated and valued as such? The answer probably lies in the conservatism of the senile members of our society who are sickly attached to biblical legends. Times do change, people do change, so why can't we accept the variation of a myth? Sci-fi, as a part of mythology, is a reflector of our comprehension and the fruits of self-exploration. As myths, sci-fi stories don't have to be specimens of refined literature. Its literary form is not the essence. As a fam ...

Number of words: 584 | Number of pages: 3

Boxing-A Safe Sport

... sports, but that is not true for there is more safety taken place than there is given credit. On the amateur level boxing is one of the safest sports, because the main idea of the game is to score points, not to knock the opponent out. In amateur boxing, the force of a blow or its effect on the opponent does not count. A punch that knocks a boxer to the mat receives no more credit than a regular blow. A knockdown is scored as a single punch and does not necessarily make the boxer a winner of that round. When scoring this way, there is ...

Number of words: 675 | Number of pages: 3

Cigarrette Advertisements

... that promote cigarette smoking cover dozens of magazine pages each month. With a variety of brands to choose from, including Marlboro, Kool, Winston, and Newport, advertisers compete with each other to target every age, gender, and career profession to successfully convert smokers to their brand of cigarettes. Before a person decides on what brand of cigarettes to purchase, he/she must ask and be able to answer one question; Which cigarette advertisement most effectively urges people to buy their brand of cigarettes? The first cigarett ...

Number of words: 1222 | Number of pages: 5

How To Become A Less Aggressiv

... when you are aggressive, you put yourself, passenger and everyone around you in extreme danger. When you are an aggressive driver, your blood pressure goes up, your grip on the wheel tightens, your eyes are strained, and your thoughts are spinning out of control. You would feel a lot worst than before you get into the car. But when you make the right decision to become a less aggressive driver, you start using your time in the car to relax. Driving is not like on the racetrack, plus you don’t own the road either. On the other hand try to s ...

Number of words: 829 | Number of pages: 4

Ahold In The Czech Republic

... operator in the US (mainly on the East Coast under the BI-LO, Giant, Tops, and Stop & Shop names). It will grow even bigger in the US with its purchase of Giant Food Inc. (unrelated to its existing Giant stores). Ahold also has liquor and confectionery stores, an institutional food supply company (GVA), and a majority share in a leading Dutch wholesale food distributor (Schuitema). The holding company is rapidly expanding in Asia and Latin America. Besides in these countries, Ahold is recently also active in Central Europe and Russia ...

Number of words: 2353 | Number of pages: 9

Gods Grandeur 2

... poems we see an attempt to capture the obscurity, beauty and knowledge that are ever present in human beings relationships with the Divine. Hopkins and Yeats use a variety of method to express these views and in many ways differ in their attempts to capture this special relationship, but essentially they are trying to explain the same thing: the interconnection between the Divine and humans. In many aspect human and Divine relationships are very obscure, since it is often difficult to remain faithful when God does not appear to be apparent ...

Number of words: 1544 | Number of pages: 6

An Explanation Of

... in life if they are willing to swallow their pride, admit their mistakes, and ask for forgiveness. The younger, rebellious son, the story’s protagonist, discovers the forgiveness which is key to this parable, as he moves from ignorance to knowledge despite his pride. The stage is set for his fall in the beginning when he asks his father, “Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me” (8-9). He wants his inheritance in advance, which seems inappropriate and is an obvious foreshadowing of the mistakes that are to come. It ...

Number of words: 909 | Number of pages: 4

American Football

... m) apart. The football is an inflated rubber bladder encased in a leather or rubber cover. It is an extended spheroid in shape. A game of football is divided into four quarters, each consisting of 15 minutes of playing time. Between the first two quarters and the second two quarters is a rest period, usually lasting about 15 minutes. The clocks stop at the end of each quarter, when particular events occur, and when designated by the officials. Two teams of 11 players play football. Each team tries to move the ball down the field to score in th ...

Number of words: 1111 | Number of pages: 5

The 1966 Impala Vs. 1996 Impala SS

... car. During the mid-sixties, engines started to get bigger and more powerful. One option for the Impala was the Super Sport model, more widely known as the SS. This option gave the car a 396 cu. in. engine, four speed manual transmission, heavier duty suspension and all of the SS insignias. If you were buying any car in 1966 you could order it with each individual option that you wanted. They built the Impala SS in 1996 with many standard options. It came with bucket seats, a console, automatic transmission, shifter on the floor, leat ...

Number of words: 667 | Number of pages: 3

ABRAHAM MASLOW

... his family and a special friend and cousin, Bertha Goodman. Maslow eventually married Bertha despite the concerns of his friends and family. Finally he would enroll in the University of Wisconsin where his love for psychology flourished. Maslow created the theory of self-actualization assuming that all people are good by nature or at least neutral. He believed that the encouraged development of self-actualization helps individuals to reach their full potential. Maslow stated that a healthy development is only possible if a society "offer ...

Number of words: 1100 | Number of pages: 4

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