...The ability to improve academic performance by simply changing the nutritional value of school lunches has sparked an increased interest in providing free meals for all students as New York City has motioned to do. In the city, approximately 75% of students had already qualified for free or reduced meals leaving the majority of food expenses to fall on struggling communities (Piccoli, Sean). Other major cities such as Boston, Chicago, and Detroit have begun subsidizing more of the school lunch programs and entertaining the idea of providing it entirely free of cost (Piccoli, Sean). By utilizing a federal program that enables school districts whose students reach a certain economic threshold the ability to subsidize the entire district as New York City elected to do. The long term stigmas associated with receiving government assistance prompted many students and families...
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...Think of what students are learning at school and how it affects their lives. School lunches can in turn, affect what students eat outside of school in a potentially hazardous way. This in turn can be a major hazard to many students in many ways. My school can improve its school lunch system in three ways. The three ways are: 1. to serve healthier and more nutritious meals, 2. to have more sanitary practices with the cafeteria workers, and 3. improve the seating arrangements in the cafeteria. My school cafeteria lunches serve meals that can potentially be dangerous to one’s health. On a typical day, we may have a Mexican pizza and corn. These are two carbohydrates and are not two good food choices or a balanced meal. My school offer salad and a fruit if you want to buy it; but as you know most middle schooler's will not choose to buy either. Fruit, salad, and a vegetable should not be an open option but part of balanced school lunch. Again, school cafeterias should provide healthier lunches for students. Schools need options for students that can in the end benefit their health. Providing healthier school lunches can decrease the obesity rate around not only at my school but around the world. Statistics say, “Healthy lunches would help decrease the rate of childhood obesity and health effects” (“School Lunches”). Secondly, my cafeteria should serve more sanitary foods. I say this because sometimes we find small human hairs in our food during lunch time. My friends and I find...
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...this issues which didn’t happen in the past which is now having diabetes, overweight, and obesity. It has been said that all over world that school lunch program are serving this healthy meals but in my school its different. Today Corcoran High School has a lunch program that is serving this reused, processed, and unknown ingredients. For this reason, I would like to propose the lunch program that their food are having us be in danger of being obese and having diabetes. For that, I propose the school board that the following changes should be made if the school intends to have a healthier school system and less students with diabetes and obesity. In the “New York Times”, by Lucy Komisar, she stated that “school lunch programs are using their food for unhealthy choices.” My essay will argue why this approach is better than what is currently taking place on our campus because issues such as homemade food, stop serving fatting foods, and unknown ingredient , will not be solved by simply serving unhealthy meals which is increasing obesity....
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...Every year lunch sales at school are increased by $1,000 because of the variety of tasty food choices available. Some may argue that school lunches could cause health problems for kids in the future. Our school lunch should continue to focus less on the health value and more on the taste of its food, to raise lunch sales, attract more students, and keep students happy. Lunch sales will continue to rise as long as school foods continue to make delicious meals for hungry students after a long day of school. As previously stated, every year lunch sales exceed by $1,000. This gives the school more money to pay for students favorite foods. When students are able to eat their favorite foods some will come back for seconds which increases lunch...
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...Our Youth? An Explanatory Essay Giovanni Atkins Goldey-Beacom College Obesity: The Killer of Our Youth An Explanatory Essay Everyday across the country, children practice unhealthy eating habits. Throughout the day they indulge in fatty foods that greatly affect their health, especially during school lunch. Schools lunches normally consist of quick and easy options like pizza, chips, soda, etc., all foods that when eaten regularly can lead to serious health problems. Children are prone to these eating habits everywhere and have learned from school. It’s for reasons like this that obesity in children has doubled in the last 25 years. What was once known, as Adult-Onset Diabetes is now common within our youth and caused from childhood obesity. An article from USATOADAY titled “Unhealthy Risks for Kids Tip Scale” explains this, also going into detail about the debate between enforcing healthy lunches for students and keeping junk food in schools. Though fattening foods may be easily prepared, is the timing really worth the lives of our kids? Could a healthier diet at school make for a healthier lifestyle? These questions need answers. Let us begin. In order to get something accomplished, you must involve the government. An article from the Washington Post titled “Junk Food Widely Available at U.S Elementary Schools Despite Anti- Obesity Push” explains this and how federal regulation is necessary in order to enforce healthier school lunches. With childhood obesity increasing...
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...and prices, school hours, teaching techniques, and discipline along with a vast array of other areas that need attention come to mind. I would not be able to do everything, but I would do my best to touch on the issues that deserve focus. This essay will explain some of the things I would attempt to accomplish as principal for a day. One of the first things I would alter are the hours of the school day. I believe that with the demands such as a heavy workload and extracurricular activities, school hours should be made shorter and more flexible to accommodate these things that are expected of kids. Doctors recommend a minimum of 8 hours of sleep for children and teenagers. Because of these facts, making school start later and end earlier would help ensure kids will have more time for rest and recuperation. This would in turn require the school year to be longer, but I believe it would be a more effective way to get students to perform at a higher level as they will be better rested and better equipped to meet the demands of a strenuous school day. Another topic of interest as being the principal for a day would be a focus on school lunches. Students seem to have a high demand for more appealing lunches from the cafeteria. Items such as nutrition, quality, and prices would all be taken into consideration. In the lunch room currently there are always complaints of lunches being “gross” or “nasty”, and that is absolutely unacceptable. In schools such as Brooklyn...
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...of the school is really needed The Public Needs to Know By you really do not need “by” Seanne Benjamin-Long The professors name should be in line with her name Professor Martha Johnson The course and date should be on different lines English 115 May 12, 2013 The beginning of your essay should start on a new page The implementation of school meals programs for improvement in nutrition and health of children is very is imperative. I’m not sure if this is part of the first paragraph or not but if it is there should not be a space in between. The school breakfast...
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...they will cease having healthy and fulfilling meals, that they would normally have during the school hours. In the essay, “School’s Out for Summer”, written by Anna Quindlen, she addresses the problems families have during the summer months and uses bona fide evidence to persuade the reader to see her own point of view. For some children, summer seconds fly by, but for others, the summer months trudge on slowly and lonely. In Anna Quindlen's...
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...intent is to describe to you in detail the benefits of these programs and the process that is involved in implementing them within the school district, as well as to talk about some of the challenges that may be faced with the adoption of such a program. The Process and Benefits The USDA describes the national breakfast and lunch programs as federally assisted meal programs which seek to provide low-cost or free lunches to public school children across the country every single day. For taking part in these programs, our school district would receive subsidies and also food provided to us for every meal by the US Department of Agriculture. These meals would need to meet certain health standards that are determined by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which currently seeks to increase the intake of items such as fruits and vegetables as well as whole grains within these school meals. Along with the inclusion of more healthy ingredients, there are also specific caloric and sodium intake standards that we would need to adhere to as well. These limits are determined by the age of the children who are being served and would be different for each age group. Although this may seem to limit the freedom that we have within the district to choose what items we serve during meals, it does quite the opposite. Although Federal standards must be met, the school itself does indeed have the ability to choose what specific foods are chosen and how they are prepared (UDSA 2013). In addition to...
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...Mr. Clark, Comp. 1 Formal Essay #1 (Final Draft) 02.09.11 Paycheck-to-Paycheck A popular phrase when out with friends is “I’m so broke.” However, it’s just a figure of speech, right? Most of us are fortunate enough to be well off with finances and have the luxury to have a little shopping spree here and there occasionally. But for the Millers that’s not the case at all. They have to live paycheck-to-paycheck and barely make ends meet. The town of Wanaque, New Jersey is very small, three miles long to be exact. But in this small town there are all types of social and economic classes from very poor to very wealthy. A family with a set of twins and another child just hitting elementary school would certainly be affected by this economy, yet the Millers still fight to keep their family functional. People take many things for granted like food, water, and shelter. Most of us can simply pay our utilities bills, sleep under a safe roof, and go grocery shopping when your refrigerator is empty. For the Millers it’s a different story. Anna Miller, mother of three, works part-time as a nanny for two homes and in retail. Eric Miller has been working at the same job for the past six years, and although he gets a holiday bonus every Christmas, he has never gotten a raise. Their three kids, twins Jason and Justin, and third child Jared are all attending the middle school in town. The family lives on the outskirts of our town in a neighborhood that’s not so great. They live...
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...School can be boring sometimes but fun also. The school work hard to keep everything nice and in order. If they receive a million dollar grant, this is what I fill would help the school as a whole. I wish the school board would spend part of the grant on something that would help the student body. Such as lunch, Books,and more technology advances. First and foremost this is what i feel they should spend the million dollar grant grant on. School needs better quality food for these reasons. Parents are spending more money and time packing their child's lunch because they don't want to eat school food. Some people might just want packed lunch but is the schools lunch is better they might change their minds about school food in general. Better food will not just help the parents it will also help the school,the more students eat their lunch the more money they will get. If the school gets more money then the .Lunch is very important and needs to be healthy. Not all of the food is bad some is good. Those are some of the reasons why they should spend some of the million dollar grant on....
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...College Sample Essays: Discovering Ivy U Discovering and choosing a university that fulfills all of my needs was a rigorous yet exciting task. The Ivy U clearly emerged as the best choice for me and I, as a great match for the university. After visiting the campus, reading the information pamphlet, and researching the university Web site, I realize that Ivy offers what I hope to gain from my college experience. In return, I will contribute to the university as a person with leadership qualities who takes initiative and enjoys participating in school events. For many years, I have wanted to become a midwife, and the Ivy School of Nursing stands out as the premium institution for such training. The university's close proximity to many hospitals will familiarize me with patients and hospital life, allowing me the best training possible. As an individual, I will thrive in the intimate and familiar environment of the nursing school, one of Ivy's smallest schools. Coming from a small high school, I was greatly impressed by my visit to the campus, where I noticed the close relationships between the professors and students, and the strong family feeling within the nursing school. The location of Ivy's nursing school within the large campus of Ivy's other schools offers myriad benefits. Firstly, I will have the opportunity to take classes in any of the other schools at Ivy, and this seamless academic integration will allow me to pursue my interests outside of nursing. In...
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...previously explained in our essay plans why we are doing the charity links but the information we have lacked to present to you is how we will put this on. we have a commons area in front of our cafeteria and it is common that clubs and events sell products out there so this just what we plan to do. We will set up a table out there and sell links between lunches and even possibly classes. Just like all good fund raising stragies we will advertise that we are selling these charity links for a good cause and explain briefly why and how. We plan to make announcements during lunch and hang posters around the school and even possibly get in contact with the media kids to make an announcement for us. That’s how we plan to raise money by using our charming charity links in school so we can make a reasonable sized donation to Special Olympics through BPA we hope to raise at least $100. Senior Project The point in a senior project is to relate back to your tech area, we have taken BFM for the last 4 years starting at the end of our freshman year and ending in may of our senior year. To understand BFM you have to understand how far we have come. My freshman year the program was just beginning to take off and new responsibilities were being added to the teacher and his new students. So how does raising money for Special Olympics relate back to my tech area you might wonder? Well that’s what we will describe and depict for you step by step in this essay. Every year we have prepared...
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...School Environment Analysis Essay Brandon M. Myers Grand Canyon University EDA-575: Educational Leadership in a Changing World Professor Harkins April 16, 2014 School Environment Analysis Essay There are a variety of contextual factors that can affect the teaching and learning process in a school or classroom. There are four main environmental factors that affect the learning process in a school that is located in a rural area. When setting up a positive classroom environment and school for learning, educators must consider the environmental factors of their community, school, and district; in addition to the classroom and student characteristics that are associated with those environmental factors. Environmental Factors of a Community The four main environmental factors that can affect a school located in a rural area include, but are not limited to community support, geographic location, socio-economics, and political climate. My community is located in more a rural area, where there is a lot of farming; therefore all of these environmental factors affect my learning community. There are mainly low to middle class people that live in my community with the majority of them being a part of the Democratic Party. My community is a very supported one. With that being said, many members of the community look out for each other and are involved in many activities in order to show their support. Due to the low socio-economic status of the community, the school has several...
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...Essays and the Work Environment Craig Woods University of Phoenix Business Literature ENG/120 Paul Renaud October 13, 2013 Essays and the Work Environment Frustration was the perspective that I found in the “Jobbed” and “McDonald’s – We Do it all for you” essays. Each essay had at least one character that dealt with some degree of frustration. It was enough to affect their decision making. Andrew Griffin from the “Jobbed” essay was accused of stealing ball bearings. He quotes “Worked nine years for the man and he still don’t trust me.” Andrew packed his tools and left. Trust was his frustration. He could have stolen half the warehouse out the backdoor. He never went beyond his 30 minute lunch break. Jason Pratt and June Sanders is frustrated with the treatment they received working for McDonald’s. Jason is a retired griddle man. June worked on the fries. Jason’s frustration came from having no creativity on the job. He is treated as a machine. The beeps and bells from the griddle told him what to do. He is known as a legend with the other outlets in the area. Jason is the fastest griddle man around. On his last day, Jason took out the trash. Instead of coming back, he got into a car with his friends and drove off. He never came back. “I WOULD NEVER GO BACK TO McDONALD’S,” said Jason. June’s frustration is her schedule and unpaid training. June is a college student staying with family. She worked one day at McDonald’s. Her schedule was from 4p.m. to 10p.m.She was pleased...
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