Mr G
ArielleDavidoff
October 1st, 2003.
C block
Hunger
(meat time!…)
| An urge
A longing But what? It’s coming Coming Get it- Yes! An idea! You caught one Keep going Finish what you started Sit down Get ready To begin
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A hunger
A need Where is it? Search Nothing Then Yes! A mouse! You found one Keep going Finish what you started Hide behind grass Get ready To begin
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| Pencil poised
Wait Wait Wait Hard to catch Harder than last time See it coming Wait Then… |
Claws flexed
Wait Wait Wait Hard to catch Harder than last time Timing must be perfect Wait Then…
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| POUNCE!!!! |
How Many MRG
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Potato Chips Ms heep
11/12/03
The Original Potato Chip
By Arielle Davidoff
For centuries, the potato has been the most popular food staple next to rice. It has been eaten in a variety of ways and styles, including boiled and baked. In the late eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson introduced fried slices of potatoes to America in the late 1700s, on his return from a voyage to Paris, France. Said Jefferson: “ I was kindly invited to a fancy dinner in the SavoirFaire Restaurant by a French duke. They had many unrecognizable foods, and the most curious thick wedges of a soft, cooked potato coated with spices. It was eaten with a fork, and it was delicious, so I brought it back to America.” The next major culinary style to transform the potato was the potato chip.
Have you ever wondered where potato chips came from, and how they were invented? No? Well then, I’ll tell you. Potato chips happened to be invented by mistake. It all started in the summer of 1853 in Saratoga Springs, New York, a fancy resort area for the wealthy, at Moon Lake Lodge. The chef that night was Native American George Crum. Millionaire diner Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt rejected his fries, complaining that they were too thick. So Crum reluctantly made another batch, thinner than the previous one. But again, these were not good enough for Vanderbilt, and again they were sent back. By this time Crum had had enough. To mock Vanderbilt, he cut the potatoes into ridiculously thin slices that were too thin to spear with a fork. “He deserved it,” says Crum. “He was a stubborn old food who always complained and was never thankful for what he had. Served him right.” However, instead of being enraged by Crum’s sarcastic reply to his complaints, Vanderbilt was delighted. The plan backfired. Vanderbilt was ecstatic over the browned, paper-thin potatoes, and soon others diners requested them. Saratoga Chips appeared on the menu as a house specialty. And thus came forth potato chips, America’s favorite snack food. They also were known as potato crunches.
Not long after the first potato chip was invented, they were sold throughout the New England area. As stated above, potato chips are America’s favorite snack food, and the first potato chip was invented in 1853. So you are probably thinking that it took no more than two years for potato chips to become popular? Guess again, because you are wrong. Potato chips became really popular in the 1920s — almost 70 years after their invention. The problem was that people then had to peel potatoes by hand, which obviously had an effect on the profit earned. But in the 1920s, when the mechanical potato peeler was invented, the true potato chip came out and we appreciated it. Pennsylvania is the capital of potato chip manufacturing in America today.
It was not just Crum, and perhaps Cornelius Vanderbilt, who are responsible for what potato chips are now. William Tappendon is said to have built the first potato chip factory. Herman Lay was a southern salesman who made a business of marketing potato chips, and Earl Wise, and Bill and Sallie Utz all helped to take part in making chips more popular. They helped turn the potato from animal fodder into the most popular snack food in America today.
Bibliography
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question579.htm
http://www.dmgi.com/chips.html
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/story007.htm
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Comparison Creation Composition Randolph
The Stories from the Beginning and The Creation portray the G-d of creation with some fundamental similarities. In both creation writings, although there are differences in the manner in which G-d creates, the actual result is extremely similar. G-d creates light and darkness, the heavens and the earth, vegetation, celestial bodies, birds and fish, animals, and finally humans. Also, G-d creates man in His image in both creation stories, although for seemingly different reasons. G-d expresses satisfaction after each of His creations, and His approval is repeated throughout each piece of literature; in the poem The Creation, G-d exclaims ‘That’s good!” and in Stories from the Beginning, “…G-d saw that it was good.”
Despite these similarities, the conveyed character of G-d also differs drastically between the two stories. In The Creation G-d is vividly humanized. He has eyes, hands, feet, and a head; He smiles, reaches out, rolls light in his hands, flings, hurls, trods, spits, bats His eyes, walks, kneels, and toils. These verbs are exceptionally dissimilar to those used in the more traditional creation story, in which G-d creates, speaks, names, makes, blesses, gives, and rests. Spitting, toiling, kneeling, and flinging are not typically holy actions, and they make G-d seem earthier than and not as sophisticated as the distant and regal G-d in the Bible, who royally names, blesses, gives, and speaks. In the poem, the apparent cause for the creation of the world is the Lord’s loneliness (which is also the cause for the existence of humanity) whereas in the conventional Biblical story there is no specified reason; G-d merely decides that He is going to create a world. In The Creation G-d is lonesome, so He thinks with His head In His hands and then kneels in the mud, “Like a mammy bending over her baby…toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image…” It seems as if this personified Creator explains the phrase “He shaped it in His own image” to signify that He made somebody physically similar to Himself for company. Conversely, in the classic story, G-d says “Let us make human beings in our image, after our likeness…” There is no announced reason for the initiation of humanity, and this lack of explanation coincides with the more distant, unreachable
G-d in this story.