Amazing view.

Majestic and tall, made of rocks with steep slope. I am struck by lightning and filled with snow. I am at the top of the world with every view possible. I do not know how I grew so tall, but I am what I am. I am assaulted by storm and tempests.  Pieces of me tumble down. Rain and mist comes down and hits me at a million miles per hour. Not many have been able to climb me and many desire to do just that. Yes many have died on their way up to my tip and I am not to blame because I am just nature. I stand still, but never firm. Rain, snow, thunder comes down on me and tumbles rocks down hills. Avalanches are just beautiful seeing them rush down to the ground, they sound like thunder when they touch the grounds. I am twenty nine thousand and twenty nine feet tall off the ground; I can hardly see the ground, just tiny pieces of white from snow. I cause altitude sickness, weather and wind. I am part of the Himalaya mountain range along the border of Nepal and Tibet. It is located 27° 59' North latitude, 86 ° 55’ East longitudes. I am in China. I blow with the strength of a hurricane at 118+ miles/hour. I have seen myself throw others right off my mountain sides, and I have claimed about two hundred and nineteen lives in one year. As my latitude increases, for humans oxygen decreases, the higher the go up the less they have oxygen. Many have made it to the summit with out all the oxygen they should have and many haven't. I am the tallest and coldest mountain, I am Mount Everest, entirely beautiful. Many have climbed me and many wish too. I desire to be admired and wanted, I love the breeze, winds and snow and I am amazing the way I was created and am.

Expository Essay

Fast Food

One third of the nation’s children eat fast food, can we say that this is something normal or a situation that is very unreasonable. In “Don’t blame the eater” it states that most teenagers, who live on fast food, will not turn their lives around. They are right. As a teenager I know what it is to enjoy junk food and fast food places. At the moment you try to enjoy your so call “meal” but once you are done you tend to realize the fast food you just ate was no meal but just junk. Also in don’t blame the eater it says, “Shouldn’t we know better than to eat two meals a day in a fast food restaurant?” This statement had me thinking for a minute, and I believe we should know better than to eat at two fast food places a day.

Older people, as in adults believe and some say, “I don’t have time to make breakfast or lunch so, I decide to buy a meal on my way to where I am heading.” Others as they take their children to school they purchase not fruit, or a healthy sandwich, but a bag of chips, donuts, or as in some cases Mc Donald’s. I have been through similar occasions where I sometimes decide to eat out with friends because I want something good and delicious, or satisfying, not veggies that are from home. When a situation like this happens I blame myself for it. I was raised by good parents, and they are in fact healthy. They do enjoy eating out but it is no daily routine or common thing. They consider the best meal is found at home and I strongly agree. Fast food is like a drug, an addiction; it feels like certain things are put into your meal to want more. In reality fast food does not contain enough fiber for a kid, or adults to feel full, so it attracts them to want more food later. Over the last thirty years fast food has infiltrated every nook, and corner of American society. There is no where one can hide. It is like you are literally being chased, and chased into what... obesity and heart problems. That is fast foods most caused problems. What do Americans do about all these fast food places, nothing. I do believe there is nowhere to hide, but we can avoid it.

In a book called “Obesity” Edited by Sandra Alters it shows a cartoon picture of two obese kids, one says” My mom doesn’t like the vending machines in schools selling ‘unhealthy snacks’ she wants us to have a choice!” The other boy responds by telling him “I thought we did have a choice… we can choose not to eat it!” This cartoon by Darkow showed me and proved to me how much of an option we have as kids, teens, and adults. We declare freedom in this country. We should take the freedom and action of being able to eat what we want not just what we want but what will benefit us to a better living healthy life. So far obesity is a growing problem in the United States. Every state in America has experienced a rise in obesity since nineteen ninety one. In that time the highest percentage of obesity was fifteen to nineteen percent, which was rare, found only in about four to five states in America. Now after the year two thousand and three, there is more than twenty five percent in obesity in about four states and twenty to twenty four percent obesity is very common now. The biggest rate of obesity in nineteen ninety one is now the lowest from the year two thousand and three and so far growing till this year, seven years later.

In don’t blame the eater it says that before nineteen ninety four diabetes was not a common thing. How children ended with obesity was generally caused by a genetic disorder. Only five percent of childhood cases were obesity related, or type2 diabetes. Now type2 diabetes accounts for about thirty percent of cases like those are very bad, and let’s not say that some aren’t cause by how children eat, because in reality it is. In my twelfth grade English class we went over student sample essays on fast food, and some wrote essays that were very reasonable and understanding. The highest scored essay explained that responsibilities go along to the companies and parents. They both have impacts towards children obesity. Also parents are the start to a child’s eating habits. The government is also part of what they allow companies to sale in the United States of anywhere else around the World. It all begins at home, with the parents.

In the United States today fifty percent of the adult population and more than twenty five percent of Americans underage nineteen meet the definition of being clinically obese, figures that have doubled over the past thirty years so far none of this are beneficial to neither adults as parents or teens. In “If you pitch it, they eat” begins with ‘Mc Donald’s wants to be everywhere that children are.’ To tell you the honest truth it is the truth and reality. In New York, there is a Mc Donald in your way after every mile. That is insane! They have a big obsession on wanting to be all over the place. Most children start off being addicted to Mc Donald’s. From the beginning it is an addiction then on it is a long steep downhill for them. Fats, sugars, and salts in fast food drag kids like a huge magnet. None of those ingredients are beneficial in any way. Also, children’s ‘primordial taste’ attracts those types of foods, which affects a child very much. Kids are kids as always told, but they aren’t born to live with diabetes or being obese, they are here to live a healthy life and many don’t see it. Fast food is the main source of twenty nine to thirty eight percent of children. That is a very high percentage and very wrecks less.

Kids that eat junk food from the ages of four to eight years old gain six percent more than a kid that does not eat junk food in one day. Can you believe that! That is a very big impact and very upsetting. From the ages ten to fourteen years old they eat about seventeen percent more. That is horrible. I have an eleven year old brother. He is a tall kid, and a bit wide. How he eats and for how athletic he is helps him keep his weight at a well known level. It is a good way to help him as well. In ‘Obesity’ the book, it says that scientist who study over weight twins/relatives concluded that fifty to seventy percent of tendency obesity is inherited. My family is not obese but we are a generation of tall people, but at the same time we need to watch what we eat, because anyone can begin to eat unhealthy and turn obese.

Obesity also affects infants. Yes babies are fed well, but how much they are given is sometimes too much. Studies show that infants who are overweight may be slower than thinner babies to develop motor skills. In newswise, they explain that things like these are very concerning. Children with motor skills that delay may be less physically active and thus less likely to explore the environment beyond arm’s reach. Situations like these are very important and should be taken care of immediately. Notice how they are infants, who’s care are they under? Under parents, like we have said at first, how a child eats, begins at home. Also newswise researchers and numbers of studies show that weight status during infancy and toddler years can set young children on an obesity trajectory that may be hard to change. Even for babies it can be complicated to change. These are drastic issues. If each person takes a word in it as parents especially, children can be raised well, with normal amounts of food in a meal, and healthy ones too. This will help infants in the way they are fed. We need to make that change in how each and every one of us eats.

How children eat begins at home. That is my opinion, and I will follow it. As a teenager I understand the reasons why and I truly agree. We should all enjoy the meals we eat but we need to understand that the most delicious is not always the best for us. It is the road to obesity, heart problems, or death. None desire to be in any type of situation like that one. Make a change, one person can start, and help others. We can each help ourselves as well. No one would like to be obese in this world; we can still change that, starting at home.

Academic Autobiography

I was born and raised in a well known city, Los Angeles, California. I was born on Halloween and sadly for my friends, I dislike it. I have always been such a talkactive little girl, but raised by great parents that made me realize how to appreciate life, be respectful and patient with things and people. I am a Seventh Day Adventist Christian, and for some they have never heard of it. They think it is horrible that I can not party Saturday's or wear Jewelery and what not, but to tell you the truth, I love where I cam from, what I believe in and what I respect. I am a very active young lady, I swim and enjoy reading. I have the greatest patience to sit and make bracelets all day long in which my friends or family find that for them to be too stressful. I go camping whenever I have the chance and never regret one moment in the wilderness. I have such great friends in which I rely on. I love the colors Navy, Burgandy, and Green, and I truely love Photography.

The greatest support I have had in my life has been my mother. Throughout my childhood I recieved the greatest advice, support, and love from her. Where would each and everyone of us be without our mothers support and love for each of us. My mothers name is Alba, but I call her by her middle name Veronica. Most people tell me calling your parents by their name is very disrespectful, but in my case me and my mother have an even closer bond between us. She can truely understand what I go through at certain times and I love that. Never have I ever been embaressed of her and never do I hope I ever will be. Most of my friends love her, and respect her in every way possible. It is not because she is mean or ungenerous, because the love she shows them in every way and how she truely respects and cares for them. I truely love her and appreciate her. My father is Otto, and he is one of the main people in my life that I show the greatest respect to. I am truely glad for him and for every sacrafice he has pulled for me.'

I have always liked going to school and learning, but I have not always been the brightest student around. I went to Queen Anne Place Elementary, I did well in my classes and was ahead in school a grade level. By the time I had started second grade I needed glasses and my teacher had never taken my problem of sight into consideration with my mother. It took my off track from my learning and I was held back a year back to my regular grade level. Although it was a great dissappointment for me it pushed me harder to try and do better and level myself out in school. I then continued on at Mount Vernon Middle School, which then became Johnnie L. Cochran Middle School. I did pretty well in Middle school, never failed a class and never had D's. I was proud of myself. I then came to West Adams Preparatory High School and did well in my classes. I tried my best and had a lot of help from all my teachers, special from Mr. Garcia-Lara and Ms.Crawford. I had moved out for about 3 months to a Private school my Junior year, Glendale Adventist Academy. I tried my best but they were already ahead in their classes, it was very difficult for me but I then appreciated all the help I had and made me realize I needed to put even more effort in school, I had then decided to com back last December.

I have never really thought of what subject is my favorite, but I have always enjoyed reading so I believe English is something I enjoy. I have received good feeback from teachers on my writing and reading and I truely appreciate that. Ms. Crawford has been a great English teacher for me. She taught me English for two years and taught me so much that I never believed I would really learn. She pushed me to the limit and never gave up on me. I did my best to do well and I did do well. It was a lot that I was taught and what I truely remember learning was how to write essays.

I see myself doing well in my academic future. I believe in myself, and I do know and believe I will accomplish what I put myself to. I want to study Psychology, Behavioral Science and recieve my Masters in both. I know it will be very difficult and a big leap for me in life, but I do believe I will accomplish it, on my own or with help. I have thought about becoming a Writing Editor, but sometimes I think it twice because I am not the best at Editing. I do believe in myself if you have not noticed, and I know I am a good student. I like to learn and focus myself, but I also sometimes distract myself and let life, friends, family, and any situation get to me and my studies. I am someone that needs a push from friends and family sometimes. I recieve whatever good opinions I am given and take it into consideration. I learn from my good decisions, not from my mistakes.

I was born learning Spanish as my first langauge, but began to learn English right after. I speak English fluently and I am very proud of that. I learned to speak early in my childhood which I believe is why I am a very talkactive young lady. I always did well in my English classes from Elementary until now in High School and never have I recieved a Fail. I want to do well throughtout this new year of English and I believe and know I will do well. I want to accomplish well and do good. I want to learn a lot from this class and believe my teacher is a very good teacher to teach and I hope I am taught a lot.