...just to collect your own small bowl --or tray-- of heaven we call school lunch? SMART lunch should be a time to study, finish homework, or unwind. But how can a person focus with people crashing through the hall in the fashion of a herd of elephants or screeching not unlike chimps fighting for the ripest banana? My only escape is the chorus room, nevertheless, even the brief fifty-foot walk down the hall is unnecessarily difficult and occasionally dangerous. On one occasion, due to the behavior exhibited in the hallway, I was almost provoked into creating a scene of my own. As expected, the cafeteria building was chaos necessitating me to weave and dodge through the crowd, however, this time after paying for my lunch, little did I know, I would be...
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...Lunch Dilemma | Advanced Composition | Ramon Hernandez | The Midday Meal Dilemma For many years, students, employees and mothers alike have experienced the daily dilemma of what to do for lunch. Most people in the United States are in a hurry for a midday meal that is appealing, nutritious, inexpensive and easy all-around. Bring lunch? Buy lunch? Skip lunch? For certain, this is a daily quandary. The quest to eat healthfully and economically is as current today as it always has been. To meet all criteria for the affordable, portable lunch, planning ahead and shopping accordingly solves the dilemma and reduces costs while satisfying both nutrition and satisfaction; planning for a five day work or school week is a worthwhile investment. Today’s economy has surely put pressure on this dilemma. In the working world, people frequently go out for lunch or run down to a food truck. In an attempt to save money, many people have realized that the costs of eating out may outweigh the ease and allure of buying lunch each day. Reeling in out-of-pocket expenses has become a necessary trend and people are more often than not making and bringing their lunches each day, investing in lunch containers, shopping for groceries and in general doing more cooking at home. Planning this meal helps to keep costs under control and also helps to plan and prepare other meals as well. For students, the challenge may be that they do not have lockers to store lunch containers, so they are forced...
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...Do You Want Longer Lunch? Are you tired of having stomach aches after lunch from having to eat too fast? Trust me I know you are I feel your pain. I have had to throw away my food one time before I could finish it so having a short lunch is wasting money. So I think we should have a longer lunch! I will tell you why in the next paragraph’s. One reason is, Most average schools have 30 minutes for lunch but we only have 25 minutes and we don’t have recess after or anything. So it’s kinda like our only break besides 5 minutes between classes. And you might only have 10 minutes to eat by the time you sit down somewhere. Another reason is, When I did my research I found that even 30 minutes is to short for lunch. And here at SJMS we only have...
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...All schools have rules that in theory sound good, but do not end up working out very well. At Conroe High School, there are lot of rules. A rule that needs to be changed is lunch being only twenty minutes. (Which for athletes who are released late it is even less than that.) Some will say, if lunch is longer, it will leave more time for people to cause trouble. However, that is not actually the case. As it would be more time to do positive things. Having a longer lunch would allow students to get help from teachers, speak, with a counselor, etc. All of which normally take up class time. If those things were to be done in the short lunch time there is now, no one would even have time to actually eat! A problem I, and many other students...
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...Are you tired of the same old thing at lunch? Would you like to see some changes to your school lunch room? To begin with we should have true cafeteria style.We should have TVs,Booths,Ice cream bars,And all you can eat buffet with meat and jerky.We should also have fireplaces and wooden floors.We should also have ceiling fans. At the same time,we should have restaurant style tables and booths.It would be more comfortable and you could also sit down,talk to friends and have more social time.We could also sit where ever we want with our friends and not have to sit at certain tables.The tables should have fancy tablecloths on them to.We should also have salt and pepper on the middle of our table. Above all I think we should have...
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...consuming? Of course we do! Well, with the help of our First Lady, and Programs like “Let’s Move,” and recent changes in breakfast and lunch programs, we may be finally getting somewhere. The recent changes in the breakfast and lunch programs to improve nutrition and health have had an economic impact on individuals, have served much of the population, and there are many benefits of the change. The recent changes in the breakfast and lunch programs to improve nutrition and health have had an economic impact on individuals. Economically, the United States has been through a recession, which has caused difficulties for a lot of families trying to keep up with life’s necessities, food being one of them. By making changes to the breakfast and lunch programs at schools, more children are afforded the opportunity of having meals at schools. This is an important aspect, considering children consume most of their daily calories at school. So, the changes to the menus have helped ensure that children are not only eating, but they are eating the right foods. Also, for some children, the meals they are given at school may be the only meals they have all day, so it is important to make sure that school meals are affordable for all families of every financial situation. Also, a great number of the population is being served by the recent changes in breakfast and lunch...
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...Most students are complaining about healthy lunch at school. It is a fact, nine out of ten students surveyed don't like the school lunch, when in fact they should. This year is a mush healthier lunch in cafeteria. There are vegetables and you have fat free milk also. I have some ideas how students can live a healthy life by eating healthy, avoiding fast food, and try to make a limit. First, healthy means having or indicating good health in your body, and being healthy is better way to live your life. If students will eat healty they would be able to do or achieve anything in his/her own way. In body person could be strong and healthy. They will have positive thoughts and not negative thoughts. Second, students should eat healthy and...
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...Is School Lunch Really That Bad? During my early school years, the school lunch was very tasty, but not always healthy. In my younger years there was no act for nutrients at school, then later our present president made it a law to where all schools have to make the food healthier. I noticed the food was not as tasty as it used to be. School lunch will never be the same, but I still like the school’s food anyway. School lunch can be good for certain things; it is good for our health. Pizza, before the act our president made, was full of grease and fat, now there is less grease and little fat. Yet the trash cans are overflowing with untouched food now because people do not like that there is not fat or grease. Unlike me, who tends not...
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...2.1 Business 100 The School board changed the breakfast and lunch programs to help improve nutrition and health of our children. The changes so far seem to be for the best of all the children. There are four major issue dealing with the changes are, economic situations, Health of population being served, process, and the benefits of the program. One of the four major issues is economic situation. The federal government will add six more cents to each lunch to make it meet the new standards. New standards took effect in 2011 for schools breakfast and lunch programs. Also parents are in charge of what their children eat, but kids are in the care of the school a good portion of their life too. From my research on this program, children receive up to half there calories at school in form of school breakfast, lunches, and snacks.( Crawford, 2011) Also with the economic downturn we have been in advocates have proposed some changes, which makes more children eligible for free or assistants on meal prices. Meanwhile, meal providers are having issues with covering program costs. Improving the quality of meals for children is essential, but the hard part is getting the students on board with all the health good food and not all the greasy unhealthy foods. Second issue is the heath of the population being served. There are about 25 million kids that are obese and/or overweight. Obesity rates have skyrocketed by 300% over the last 30 years. (Crawford, 2011) An analysis in 2005 found...
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...Lunch school programs are trying to become healthier across our nation. This initiative is becoming more common at each school due to economic and student needs. In this paper, we will look at meeting the needs of the students with a planned process. There will be two charts to show progress of the effects the changes have done to the student’s food choices. These choices were derived from the guides given by the USDA (“National School Lunch Program”, 2013). Recent changes to the schools lunch and breakfast menus has helped in keeping students more healthy and driving school cost to more efficient levels (“National School Lunch Program”, 2013). Most schools give students choices to choose their lunch or breakfast choices. While this is a common practice in most schools, students do not always choose healthy meals. The goal is to give only healthy choices to students so that they may increase their nutrition level intake. The guidelines set forth by the USDA, on the student meal index, is what will be used to assess the changes in students nutrition levels (Kay & Condon, 2012 pg 9). The first major change that needs to be done is re-asses the snack machines in the schools. Each school more than likely has one or two snack machines that are accessed by the students. The contents of the snack machines need to be changed to more health conscious items. An example is replacing sodas, or high sugar drinks, with water and low sugar juices. Each school needs to replace candy...
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...Lunch In School? No Off Campus Lunch! Do you ever wonder why you children come home hungry? you might think they digested but they just don’t eat lunch. The subject I will be discussing is schools should allow off campus lunch for students. My subject is relevant because there is a new mall being built right next to my school. I wrote this because I thought it was the perfect opportunity to discuss off campus lunch since there is a mall next to us. This effects me to because once I ate cheese pizza (not much) at my school, and my stomach started to hurt really badly. We should have off campus lunch, a lot of people don’t eat lunch because they hate it. An Three reasons are, the school can save more money, can give teachers more time to...
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...Gunderson, Linnekin, Olson and Fischer all have different ideas on how bad this new policy and how it is affecting these kids at school. Each one of these authors describes how these new implications are either wasteful or unappealing to these students. There are a lot of the public schools that are having trouble meeting these new specific requirements for the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) but it is getting more difficult to provide these meals. These new items either cost too much or they are very unappealing to the individuals who have to consume them. This is not a good thing to have these children starving from offering unappealing food items that they won’t consume. There will be many factors that play into childhood obesity and how the schools lunches will be the first...
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... School Lunch Programs With the new and improved “heathier” lunch menu most students and teachers would rather turn down this free meal, and head over to their next period class instead. Others see this change to be remarkable and a great way to help kids balance what they eat. Since this act passed in 2010 and was sponsored by first lady Michelle Obama the disputation of a healthier menu has been a nonstop argument between schools and the NCLP (National School Lunch Program). With nothing but good intentions involved most students would rather stick to their bad eating habits. Trading in those fried potato wedges for a whole wheat sub was not so easy for some, and the controversy of a healthy school menu aroused quickly. Kids and even staff seemed uneasy about the change and thought it was a bit drastic. With unhealthy lunch and snacking taking from kids, they look at lunch to be a disadvantage to get rejuvenated for next two to three classes. Most kids are no longer waiting for the bell to dismiss for lunch anymore because of the unappetizing school menu. With nothing but good intentions involved with changing the schools menu kids feel otherwise. National School Lunch Programs thought the idea of what you do should balance out with what you eat and that idea should apply to students as well. Knowing students have no in school activities that requires major movement like running, jumping, etc. Their school lunch now reflects that. Students look at lunch as their time...
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...The recent changes in school lunches are beneficial to everyone that is involved. Children are becoming obese sooner in life do to not eating the right things at school. If we supply breakfast and a healthier lunch for children, they would be a lot healthier. This brochure should inform you of the benefits for your children to eat healthier. Congress passed the National School Lunch Act in 1946 to support commodity prices after World War II by reducing farm surpluses while providing food to schoolchildren. By 1970, the program was providing 22 million lunches on an average day, about a fifth of them subsidized. Since then, the subsidized portion has grown while paid lunches have declined, but not since 1972 have so many additional children become eligible for free lunches as in fiscal year 2010, 1.3 million. Today it is a $10.8 billion program providing 32 million lunches, 21 million of which are free or at reduced price. The number of students receiving subsidized lunches rose to 21 million last school year from 18 million in 2006-7, a 17 percent increase, according to an analysis by The New York Times of data from the Department of Agriculture (Sam Dillion, New York Times, Nov. 30, 2011). Some children only get to eat food at school. In Dallas, Newark and Chicago, for instance, about 85 percent of students are eligible, and most schools also offer free breakfasts. Now, some places have added free supper programs, fearing that needy students otherwise will go to bed hungry...
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...RESTRUCTURING OF PROTON HOLDINGS BERHAD The Star reported today( 11/12/11) that it is all good for Proton Holdings Bhd as its share price put on 89 sen or 24.6% to close at RM4.50, amidst talk that its largest shareholder, Khazanah Nasional Bhd, is divesting its stake in the national carmaker. It was also reported that Khazanah was likely to ask for business proposals from parties interested in its 42.7% stake in Proton. Last Friday, Proton's shares and warrants were also actively traded with the counter closing 51 sen higher than the previous day. Its share price has shot up by 66% over the past three weeks, reaching a intra-day high of RM4.60 yesterday with 20.16 million shares traded. This is due to the fact that Proton is looking into the possibility of a partnership with an established auto manufacturer with technological capabilities. With Khazanah's entry price of around RM8 and Proton's net tangible asset per share of RM7.62 as of end September, the offer price for Khazanah's 42.7% stake should very well be above the last closing price of RM3.61, which works out to be about RM2bil. If VW could benefit from DRB-HICOM's acquisition; this would give the German marque exclusive access to Proton's Tanjung Malim plant, accelerating its current Asean manufacturing timeline of producing 50,000 units of VW by 2018. CIMB Research motor analyst Loke Wei Wern said that a restructuring could take place, which could ultimately lead to a strategic partnership between VW and...
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