The Peaches

In the USA Today article provided, minimum wage workers and the protests for a higher pay were highlighted. Similarly, a major theme throughout the book, The Grapes of Wrath, was the constant struggle to make ends meet and find a well-paying job. Towards the end of the book, Tom obtains a job while the rest of his family is forced to worry about when they will receive a job and stress about the wellbeing of the family. In today’s society, jobs are easier to come by in my opinion because they do…

After the Spanish conquered Mexico in 1521, many of their food traditions were integrated into the Mexican food culture. Also, with the Colombian exchange many new form of livestock and fruits and vegetables were introduced like, sheep, pig, horses, peaches, bananas, grapes, and sugar cane. The Columbian exchanged helped to pave the way for a larger food pallet. Everything that the Spanish had introduced to Mexico really transformed the way in which people in Mexico eat…

My cultural artifact is a painting made by my uncle here at Fresno State over 20 years ago. Since I was a little girl I’ve always loved my uncles paintings but this one has just always been a little more special to me. Before this assignment I had never known or asked him his inspiration behind the painting or it’s meaning, but it never stopped me from having my own meaning for it. To me this painting represented my very young grandma in Colima Mexico, cooking, hand made tortillas for her…

independence of the consumer. Many of the foods that are already common in our diet are obtained from plant varieties that were developed using conventional genetic techniques of breeding and selection. Hybrid corn, nectarines which are genetically altered peaches, and tangelos which are a genetic hybrid of a tangerine and grapefruit are all examples of such breeding and selection. Bioengineered foods and food ingredients including food additives must adhere to the same standards of safety under…

It was summer in Tucson Arizona and my stupid little sister was bothering my older brother and my mom was cooking breakfast and my dad was outside talking to the next door neighbour about something as for me I was going to spend time with my best friend kat and we were going treasure hunting on kat granddad's land kat granddad was a old funny kinda man he let us dig up so many holes on his farm in till we were too tired to dig anymore but that was last year but this time we have to sneak…

the Grapes of Wrath we watch the Joads make sacrifices along the way and even as their family shrinks they still struggle to support all of their needs. Pregnant Rose of Sharon claims she needs milk to help her baby, as does Winfield after eating peaches and getting “skitters”. Granma was in need of serious medical attention, but passed before she could be helped. Ella May Wiggins was a mother of nine children who required constant support. Family Members recall medicine being a necessity she…

The two areas I felt confidently on were my comparisons of Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck and my grammar. The reasons Guthrie and Steinbeck were similar were solid and cohesive. It was a different topic than any of the examples and I wanted to present an idea that was not hackneyed. There was an abundance of material that proved their similarities that I could explain. My grammar was also accurate and I feel it made the essay polished. It also gives off the impression that I take serious…

novelty pertaining to life in the United States in 1830. Attempting to assume a standpoint of reasoning to support his views of a new and improved lifestyle, Downe explains, “They do not think of locking the doors in the country, and you can gather peaches, apples, and all kinds of fruit by the side of the roads.” Downe continuously juxtaposes America and England, and through Downe’s rather optimistic prospect, it may be inferred that he enjoys the quoted freedoms, a new concept opposing the…

Throughout the year our planet Earth rotates along an axis of rotation around the Sun. Over the course of a year, the angle of tilt does not fluctuate. This means that the Earth’s hemispheres are always pointing at their respected directions in space. However, the orientation of Earth’s tilt with respect to the sun does change as we orbit the sun; thus giving us our source of light and warmth. The Southern and Northern Hemispheres take turns being oriented toward the sun for half of the year and…

“Careers and higher education are leading to the masculinization of women, with enormously dangerous consequences to the home, the children, and our country. When our boys come home from war, what kind of girls will they be coming home to?” This quote is taken from the film A League of Their Own when a woman on the radio, Maida Gillespie, is disgusted with what is happening to the “role” of women in America. However, its not only her that is appalled at what is happening, but also most of…