...Jesus Gonzalez The Cost of Cuts I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: Video of a blacksmith forging a knife (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3nojb-gFH4). It shows of one way on how to make a knife while adding some new thing to an older way. B. Audience Relevance: There are knives in almost every home and people use knives almost everyday. However not many people know how a knife is made and the way that was use to make it. C. Credibility: I have use a knife and have many of the same troubles as every else. I have interest on how a knife is made. D. Thesis: There are two different types of ways on how to make a knife and they have many similar and differences. E. Main Point Preview: First, I am going to talk about the first way on how to make a knife in which people know more about. Second, I’ll tell you one more modern way on how to make a knife. II. Main Point 1: Thought out the way of making a knife using forging takes time and take a lot of work people still like to use these way. According to More knife making basics. (10, 2013 17). Retrieved from http://www.knife-making-supplies.net/knife-making-basics.html ,talks about how to make a knife using forging. A. The first thing is the tools that you need to make a knife which are a hammer, coal or wood , a block of steel, a vise, furnace, tongs, file and steel. To start off first start up the furnace with your coal or wood. Then put in the block of iron and let it heat till to the steel turns yellow...
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...business, it is essential that we research and implement any innovations which could give us such an advantage. CURRENT KNIFE SHARPENING METHODS Currently, our kitchen uses two different approaches when sharpening our knives which are: periodic sharpening by a local knife sharpening company and hand-held sharpening stones used to hone the edge when necessary. Both of these methods have advantages and disadvantages. ADVANTAGES OF PROFESSIONAL SHARPENING All of our knives are sharpened at the same time: when the knives are returned, all of them are sharp and ready for immediate kitchen use The blades are honed to a razor edge: all of our knives are as sharp as the day they were purchased Edge lasts for a long time: if not abused, the edge stays sharp for three weeks on average DISADVANTAGES OF PROFESSIONAL SHARPENING No periodic touch-ups: the sharpening company will only sharpen our knives on our scheduled date Two day turnaround time: we deliver our knives on Saturday morning and they are not returned until Monday morning Expensive: with a cost of $5.00 per knife, it costs $250.00 every month to sharpen all fifty kitchen knives ADVANTAGES OF HAND-HELD STONES Knives do not need to be sent out for sharpening: our knives stay in our kitchen where they can be used by our staff Touch-ups as needed: regardless of the day of the month, our blades can...
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...You state that ‘’ people carry knives to get their reputation up’ ’or ‘to win respect’’ I force fully disagree with this because carrying a knife is not the only way to increase your reputation or to look cool carrying a knife is a ridiculous way to look cool or to fit in. Also there are other ways to increase to increase your reputation simply by wearing expensive clothing and by having popular new gadgets which also portrays them as cool. If teenagers start to carry knives they would find it okay and normal now teen agers are carrying knives who know later on they may start to carry a gun which leads them on the road of crime. Is this what they want for their future? In your article you stated that knives and all weapons can all maim and ruin human lives. This is true and I strongly agree with this because carrying a knife causes a high probability physical and mental damage. Someone who is barbarously stabbed can have a permanent scar, which will take them back to the past and previous event. This will cause a great distress and mental pain that will always be nagging and hovering at the back of their heads you tell me who wants to live an grievous and torturous life? You also stated that people carry knives ‘’just for protection’’. I forcefully disagree with this because you are doing the complete opposite by carrying a keen edged precious knife which causes a disastrous situation to develop. This is stupid and ridiculous as they are not only putting their lives in danger...
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...complained about the poem, stating that it was ‘Vulgar’ and resulted in the aforementioned ban. 400 years ago when Shakespeare wrote plays like ‘Macbeth’, you didn’t see ‘Ye Olde’ teachers complain and ban it. Is it really so different now? Shakespeare has been studied in schools for years now, which contains blood, gore, and knives and it probably isn’t going anytime soon. Knife crime is a very big problem in Britain at the moment, with over 277 stabbings per year, that’s nearly 5 per week. This shocking statistic just shows the state at which Britain is in. The main concern is that Teenagers may relate to the poem and carry out the deeds mentioned. Which may end up to something similar to the dreadful ‘Columbine Massacre’ in 1998? 2 years later, 8 year old Damilola Taylor was stabbed in the leg and bled to death. Many people say that this was the spark that started the fire in the media reporting knife crime. Young people in today’s culture are under pressure to have a ‘hard’ status- especially young male. In a recent survey, nearly half of teenagers have been involved or affected by Knife crime. Violent gangs are also a major issue, many of them glamorise knives and guns as if they were toys. Also, many famous celebrities claim to have something to do with gangs or weapons. Some of these include 50Cent, Snoop Dogg and other famous Rap artists. Probably the most controversial of these involved the singer Katy Perry, of whom posed with a...
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...Section 1: Enquiry in to the citizenship issue (10 Marks) a) Choose an issue and say why the issue is important locally and nationally. Attach issues based evidence. ------------------------------------------------- The issue we chose was the issue of gangs and knife crime. A gang is a group of people who hang round together in a certain area. Many are involved in crime and they are intimidating to people in their area. Many gangs are also connected to knife crime. ------------------------------------------------- We chose gangs and knife crime because these issues directly affect a large number of young people living in the United Kingdom today. When we looked into our issue we found many interesting facts about gangs. For example we found in 2013 there were 15,000 individual gang members in London and 35000 across the UK. Gangs are also connected to lots of knife crime. Knife crime is a very serious issue in London and the UK. The London Standard newspaper reported that there were about 1000 victims of knife crime in London per month. ------------------------------------------------- We discovered other important information about our issue such as knife crime. ------------------------------------------------- Our issue is important locally because it will help reduce knife crime in the city and it is really important to make sure knife crime is stopped in certain areas because young people are becoming victims of knife crime. ------------------------------------------------- ...
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...Definitions: Braising (from the French “braiser”) is a combination cooking method using both moist and dry heat; typically the food is first seared at a high temperature and then finished in a covered pot with a variable amount of liquid, resulting in a particular flavor. Braising of meat is often referred to as pot roasting, though some authors make a distinction between the two methods based on whether additional liquid is added. Cream is a dairy product that is composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. In un-homogenized milk, the fat, which is less dense, will eventually rise to the top. In the industrial production of cream, this process is accelerated by using centrifuges called "separators". In many countries, cream is sold in several grades depending on the total butterfat content. Cream can be dried to a powder for shipment to distant markets.Cream skimmed from milk may be called "sweet cream" to distinguish it from whey cream skimmed from whey, a by-product of cheese-making. Whey cream has a lower fat content and tastes more salty, tangy and "cheesy".[1] They are also used in variety of food products.Cream produced by cattle (particularly Jersey cattle) grazing on natural pasture often contains some natural carotenoid pigments derived from the plants they eat; this gives the cream a slight yellow tone, hence the name of the yellowish-white color, cream. Cream from goat's milk, or from cows fed indoors on grain or grain-based...
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...Dammylyn Onuoha 5/15/2015 Forks and Knives There were many interesting facts I discovered while watching the movie Forks over knives. To begin I never knew we spent trillions of dollars on healthcare (2.2 to be exact) each year yet we are sicker than ever. Also that every minute a person dies from a heart related disease. But what shocked me was the fact that cancer growth can be affected by the percentage of animal protein in one’s diet. When discussing what aspects I found interesting I should begin with the fact that you could get all your daily nutrients and vitamins from a plant and veggie diet. Also the stomachs receptors that tell you when you have had enough to eat could be altered when you eat unhealthy food resulting in you eating more to fulfill your desires. Lastly I like the fact they took it into Greek history and talked a little about Hippocrates. I would recommend this video to my cousin because he thinks proteins only source is meat. I also would recommend this video to my mom because she is trying to lose weight but doesn’t know how. And finally my sister because she to is getting obese and wants to know how to cut weight. I could use this info to improve my life by not relying on milk and meat for protein. I could search up meal plans based on those professor studies to find the one that’s right for me. Lastly I could use the scientific research for example thing about the stomach receptors to know that if I eat a meal and I’m still not full it because...
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...Forks Over Knives is a documentary that tells us how a plant based diet helps the body maintain a healthy status and prevent certain diseases from bad eating habits. This documentary caused me to understand that we have to change our eating habits because many people in the United States are at high risk of developing chronic diseases due to poor eating habits. It has been shown that a vegetarian diet is one of the best choices for staying healthy because this type of diet contains high nutritional value that helps the body fight against chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer, high cholesterol and heart disease Among these preventable chronic diseases, diabetes has become one of the most common due to the rise of obesity. Diets high in whole fruits, vegetables and grains may help the body manage insulin more efficiently and includes the benefit of losing weight. Certain types of cancers are also preventable with the intake of plant based food because they are rich in vitamins and minerals that help the body to develop defenses against certain types of carcinogens agents. Plant food contains a high source of fiber that helps the body’s process of eliminating toxins and preventing cancer in the digestive system. Vegetarian diets are low in saturated fat which helps reduce cholesterol levels in the body by preventing or reducing the chances of developing heart and cardiovascular disease. Plant based diets are good for the individual as well as for the economy...
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...A Thousand and One Knives A story about a group of friends that include a paraplegic soccer coach name Jafar who lost his legs in the Iraq-Iran war, Jafar’s sister-in-law, a butcher, and the narrator who was once a player on Jafar’s soccer team. Each of the have unique abilities to cause knives to disappear, with the exception of the sister-in-law’s ability to make knives appear. Jafar makes a living selling pornography on the black market, but he is inevitably arrested and tortured by the police. As the police attempt to cut off his arms he causes their knives to disappear, rending them unable to cut him. The police profess him a devil and ultimately amputate his arms with bullets instead of knives and then set fire to him. The reflection of his torture is told with a straightforward sincerity, reflecting that this is something that just happens to men such as him. Rather than surrender to sorrow for his lost friend, the narrator gives him new life by naming his newborn son Jafar. An Army Newspaper A government journalist takes credit for a fallen soldier’s short story. He is even promoted as a result and as if in retaliation, hundreds and then thousands of short stories by the...
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...It Might Have Gone Something Like This In “Queen of Knives”, Neil Gaiman exemplifies how unreliable our narrator is in dealing with death and derangement. Through this naïve narration, we are presented with a story in which the narrator; a young boy at that time, recalls how a magician vanishes his grandmother during a magic show. Upon closer analysis we will see that Gaiman actually implies that the grandmother has died causing the grandfather to go crazy from the death of his wife. In order for our narrator to cope with traumatic experience of losing a loved one and witnessing his grandfather lose his mind he blends the story with memories. The poem is set up as a flashback which further gives credibility to our narrator’s erroneous memory. My analysis will scrutinize the diction used throughout the poem as well as the crucial symbolism in order to uncover the hidden meaning behind the text. When someone reads “Queen of Knives” for the first time it is likely that they will ponder the outcome with confusion. They may also conclude that the grandfather murdered the grandmother or that she ran off with the magician. It is understandable to arrive at this conclusion when the literal meaning of the passage points to such answers, but once we examine how dynamic this piece of literature is we can conclude much deeper meanings. Gaiman himself stated that this poem was like his other work “Mr. Punch;” a story in which a young boy’s grandfather went mad. The songs Daisy Bell and...
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...“The Actions of Von Papen and Hindenburg were the main reason why Hitler became chancellor” how far do you agree with this statement? I partly agree with this statement but not 100% in the next few paragraphs I will explain to you why. Firstly the main reason in which I think Hitler became chancellor was because of the depression, Hitler gained 33% of the votes in 1932, this was a third of the votes making the Nazi party the largest party in Germany, however this didn’t mean that Hitler could become chancellor because he didn’t have the majority of the votes, even though Hitler wasn’t chancellor because of the votes I believe that Hindenburg and Von Papen were starting to consider him. In the early years of the Nazi party they only gained 12 seats and 810,000 votes this meant they were only the 7th largest party in the Germany (before the depression) but then in 1932 the party gained 230 seats and 13.7 million votes making them the biggest party in Germany(after the depression). The reason that the Nazi gained all these votes was because during the depression the working class were mostly voting communist and this would make the middle class angry and not wanting to lose there money so they voted for a party that would get rid of the communists and that would be the Nazi. The second reason why was because Von Papen being the adviser to Hindenburg was good friends with Hitler. Von Papen told Hindenburg that he would create a new government and allow Hitler to become chancellor...
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...The initial consolidation of the Nazi power in 1933The initial consolidation of the Nazi power in 1933-34 The initial consolidation of the Nazi power in 1933-34 takes form in three points: the German situation, the Nazi rootlessness, and the political acts and people that made it all possible. The German situation helped account for the initial consolidation of Nazi power in 1933-34. Due to the Wall Street Crash in 1929 the economy crashed all over the world, but none worse than in Germany. Due to the World War 1 payback, Germany was already suffering economically and they were only keeping afloat with the funds from US investors, but with the Wall Street Crash the investors withdrew their money from Germany resulting in businesses all over Germany collapsing; bankruptcy becoming nationwide and unemployment levels leapt upwards. The economic impact of this led many counties to move to protect their own domestic industries, resulting in high tariffs. In March 1930 and May 1932, the German Chancellor, Heinrich Bruning, pursued an orthodox economic policy of ridge deflation. The deflation involved increasing taxation and decreasing government expenditure. Then in July 1931, Germany suffered a major banking crisis. The country’s biggest banks, the Danat, went bankrupt. The impact this had for families meant that they were forced into poverty, Living on the streets, Health levels deteriorated, Children were forced to leave school early, Families broke up as men left to seek work...
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...Forks Over Knives Americans are consuming sugars and fats at an alarming rate that are killing and costing millions. Foods like these are becoming main food groups for a lot of people and families. The film Forks Over Knives, is an eye opener to what these types of foods are do to he health of the body. The film points out the specific contributions to many health related diseases, and directs it at the foods that are being consumed. Lee Fulkerson and Joey Aucoin are living proof. Their lifestyles were very similar, they both ate foods with high amounts of fats and sugars, as well as drinks with high amounts of sugar. Their lives take a major turn as they are followed in the documentary. The three main components to the film that caught my attention were the nutrients that our bodies were being deprived of such as essential nutrients that the whole foods plant based diet can give, diabetes and health related problems can be reversed with a healthier lifestyle, as well as how a whole foods plant...
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...How important was fear of communism in explaining why President Hindenburg invited Hitler to become Chancellor in 1933? Intro Communism was a political idea which was beginning to become popular in Germany. However it was very much disliked as communist were seen as unruly because of street battles with police. People feared the way the USSR discriminated against the middle class and in the process of becoming communist countries had taken land away from farmers and many peasants had been killed or imprisioned. Hitler was appointed chancellor on the 30th January 1933 and this was partly to do with the publics fear of communism however it was not the most important factor. One way the fear of communism explained why Hindenburg invited Hitler to become chancellor was pressure from big businesses. Originally Hindenburg had not wanted to appoint Hitler as chancellor, he feared he would dismantle democracy and as a former leader of the imperial german army Hindenburg strngly disliked the S.A. However he was getting older and struggling to keep the republic together. The army favored Hitler to protect the state from communism and the former president of the reichsbank, Hjalmar Schacht, made it known that the business and finical world saw Hitler as the ‘lesser of two evils’. This put huge pressure on Hindenburg to pick Hitler as chancellor because he needed the support of the army and business world. Along with the army and business world, support for Hitler in the public was...
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...The young men that Hiltler chose to create the Sturmabteilung had no importance in their society and were treated inferior by the educated and rich of their society. Young men that do not feel dominant in their situation will usually try to find a way to be superior and have dominance. Hitler was part of the Nazi party and was very dominant. While Hitler was persuading them to join that paramilitary wing the young men were not considering the issue or the position they were taking. The young men were persuaded on unrelated factors, such that they would not be inferior anymore in society. The Attitude they were using is called peripheral- route processing. Hitler was a very smart man and knew exactly who to target. Which is why he chose these young men that were very hungry for power and dominance. Also since Hitler was such a powerful figure the young men would easily follow his command. Hitler asked them to join the group and they young uneducated men became obedient because of the commands from Hitler. Hitler spoke to the young men’s emotions, which stirred them, and helps convince them to join the group. Once the group was together the individual thinking was thrown out and they used groupthink. This is one reason why normal individuals joined Hilter and continued to terrorize other people. They followed the will of the group and it continued to get worse as the groups got larger and the Nazi party included many...
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