Eat Like A Peasant And Feel Like A King

      Nutrition has played a very important part in my life even prior to my coming to the United States. In the United States, people pay too much of attention to what to eat, and when to eat. Furthermore, coming to America forced me to keep track of what I eat, and when I eat more and it also made me realize what I had before I came to affluence country. I was raised in a country where everything you eat is organic and no one ever talks about conventional foods. watching the movie "Supersize Me" in health class back in high school, taught me the more people eat unhealthy food the closer people get to risk of heart disease, obesity, and hypertension. That undeniable fact compelled me to promised myself never to eat any fast food or processed food at all. Sometimes it is really hard to suppress the temptations of the unhealthy food but remembering its danger and side effects helps me stick to my decision.

            I was raised Nairobi Kenya,where people plant their food or do their grocery shopping every morning. When it comes to animals people are assured that their animals were raised in a good farm and someone like them slaughter the animals and not a machine. As for my case my uncle himself was a butcher and that assured me not to worry about the meat I was eating. It's rare in Nairobi to see anyone putting any fruits or vegetables in the fridge over nights. In contrary, people get their freshly harvested fruits and vegetables straight from the farmer's shop.

   

      After coming to the affluence land of America I try to eat as much organic food as I used to but it's not easy to do that because all the processed food are easy to get and affordable. Even though I want to buy organic foods the price stops me.Organic foods are not available in a lots of supermarkets I go to, such as Aldi, Wal-Marts and Target, and they are very expensive. Now that I can't afford to buy organic food only I  try to buy third of processed food and two thirds of organic food. 

                                 

                   Is The Food We Are Eating Healthy And Safe

      The foods that are available for the consumers are not mostly healthy food. they are a lot of things that are not healthy but they are still been sold as if they were healthy, for instance the advertisement says it's hundred percent healthy but if you read the label it's totally the opposite. Sometime we should be alert of what we are putting into our cart because it says it's organic doesn't mean it's healthy "Organic junk food is still junk food," says my Marion Nestle. If I take the organic cookies as an example just by hearing that people forget the unhealthy recipes such as sugar,and butter that are used for the cookie.

Finding Forester Journal

Do Not Judge Book by Its Cover

Why is it so easy for us to assume things hastily about people before we even get to know to them? Why are we so judge mental and think because certain race or people a famous of doing something so anyone from that race will do the same? Why do we discriminate between ourselves instead of giving everyone a fair chance? For instance, if you watch the movie Finding Forrester, you will learned that Jamal was accused of plagiarism and another white guy assume that Jamal will either damage or steal his car because of his age and racial color.

Jamal began to write his first essay but he could not come up with an essay title so Forrester angrily said to him “Forrester: No thinking - that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is... to write, not to think”! Before he gave Jamal, a story wrote prior to his refrain from publishing his writings. As time passed by Jamal finished his essay but could not come up with a title so William gave his title but forgot to tell Jamal that he published a story with the same title. Jamal had an assignment that was overdue so he turned in the essay he wrote in Forrester’s apartment. When the English teacher read Jamal’s essay he assumed that a sixteen year old could never write such a good essay. However, Jamal did not easily accept the accusation but he showed us his bravery by being assertive was not guilty of plagiarism, he could not prove himself innocent because he turned the essay in without Forrester’s permission.

Jamal’s literature teacher, Robert Crawford, was a bitter and arrogant white old writer, who failed to get his book published. One day in class the while Crawford was rudely questioning another student Jamal interferes and Crawford gets very angry and they started arguing. Crawford: “Perhaps your skills do reach farther than basketball” Jamal: "Further” Crawford: “What”? Jamal: “You said that my skills reached "farther" than basketball” “Farther" relates to distance, "further" is a definition of degree. You should have said "further”. Crawford: “Are you challenging me, Mr. Wallace”?  Jamal: “Not any more than you challenged Coleridge”. Crawford may tried to accused and humiliate Jamal but in Jamal character we learned that it is essential to sometimes stand up for what you believe even if the person you are going against is your superior.

In another scene, we saw that a white man with a BMW assumed that since Jamal is a black teenager in Bronx he would either steal the car or damage it. However, Jamal did not remain quiet and watch the man humiliate him but he stood up for himself in a clever way by telling the man what BMW is and how it started. 

Although all obstacles were in Jamal’s way, he never gave up on himself or his dreams. He always kept with him Williams saying, “Someone I once knew wrote that we walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail or worse yet, afraid we may succeed. You need to know that while I knew so very early that you would realize your dreams; I never imagined I would once again realize my own. Seasons change young man, and while I may have waited until the winter of my life, to see the things I've seen this past year, there is no doubt I would have waited too long, had it not been you”.