Final project

My project: Chicken, russian salad and brown rice.

I usually like to have this dish for lunch because it is healthy and easy to make it. I went to a local market where i only find fresh vegetables or fruit, and i have to go to another market to find chicken. The chicken that is selled there is organic, at least it is what they said but i really dont know i just trust the market and producers. In the picture below are some of the ingredients.

For the Chicken
- Flattened chicken fillets
-olive oil
-salt nad comin

Season the fillets on both sides with salt and comin, fry in a bit of olive oil until golden on both sides, then drain on paper towels to remove the excess oil. This is how the chicken looks.

Russian salad
- Beets
- carrots
- peas
- mayonnaise
- salt and comin

Boil the beets, carrots and peas for about 8 minutes, peel and cut them into cubes, then mix the boiled beets, carrots and peas with a bit of mayonnaise, salt and comin.

For mayonnaise
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons of lime juice
- 1 cup of olive oil
- salt and comin.

Put all the ingredients, except the oil, in a blender, blend in a medium speed and add the oil gradually until the mayonnaise gets thick.

This is how the dish looks like and i served with brown rice. I usually cook like this with a lot of vegetables and the cost is not so expensive as it is in a restaurant, in a restaurant this dish cost around 15 dollars for one person, but i spent 10 dollars to cook it at home, for two persons.

Playtime is over catw practice

      Many people like that their children interact playing with other kids bacause it is the way their children can relax from many shores at schoool or at home. According to the article playing time is over, many schools have eliminated recess in favor of more time for classes, and one consequence of these changes is the disappearance of activities like singing, dancing, acting, games. These activities are the ones that children enjoy mostly. I think that schools dont need to eliminate recess because children can feel too much presure, they are not going to be interested in going to school.
     Schools are places where children learn important assigments like reading, math, and science, which are good for children's future, but learning only kind of things can turn boring for children. They also need freedom to chose what they want to do in order to relax from presure of assigments, homeworks. When i used to be a child all that i wanted was to play with my friends at school, after working hard on math or reading. That was the way how i could relax and forget about the presure of homeworks. When i used to be a child all that i wanted was to play with my friends at school, of course after work hard on math or reading. That was the way how i could relax and forget about homeworks ans tests for a while. I used to play many game which i enjoyed a lot.
   Children can lose interest in going to schoool if they dont enjoy the activities there, so i dont agree with schools that want to eliminate recesses. School should be places where kids are happy to be.
    In conclusion, schools dont need to turn their activities so boring for children. It is better that they look for ways to make happy children than to make children lose the interest in going to school, so they need to make children participate in activities that they can enjoy because children dont enjoy learning only math, science and reading at all.

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      Many people consume products after seeing advertisements on the media. After a long time of advertisiment, they think that they already know the products and they start to trust them, but they dont research if these products are good for them how advertisements say. I think that buying bottled water is a waste of money and it is harmful to the environment.

      For many years we have bought bottled water because some companies made us believe that consuming bottle water is secure and tap water is dirty, they controled our choices through different kind of advertisements. I have many friend who buy twenty bottled water a week, and they dont know that they are buying the same water that flows from the tap. I always drunk tap water and i never had any healthy problem.

    the most serious problem is that consuming hundres of bottled water a month is harmful to the enviroment, because we are acumulating a lot of garbage and there is no place anymore to throw them out.

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    According to the article:"Mom, Dad, Buy the broccoli" Junk food advertisements have gotten out of control. A group was formed to run a program and promote healthier foods, they want to limit these kind of advertisements in schools, and they want to cut back on advertising junk food. The obesity among the young is also mentioned and related with these junk food advertisements. I think that parents have the major responsibility to control what their children eat because children learn, imitate, and obey what their parents say.

    Since children were born, they learn everything they see. They taste everything that parents give them to eat, so it is very important that parents teach their children to eat healthy food since they are little babies. When i was a kid i didnt  like to eat vegetables or anything that was related with healthy food, but my parents used to be hard on me, they used to force me to eat fruit instead of candies or chocolates, they allow me to eat some candies but not frequetly, so i learned that fruits were good for my health.

Parents are most of the time with their children at home so they can show them how to eat healthy food like vegetables,fruits, or food low in fat. It would be good if children learn how to compare healthy food and junk food. I see many parents take their children to eat at McDonald's very often and they dont explain them that eating at McDonald's is not healthy. Parents have most of the responsability seeing what their children eat because their are adults and know what is best for their kids. Children imitate everything that adults do, they pay attention and learn fast all they see specially from their parents, so it would be good if parents eat healthy food during the lunch time, that way they would be attracting kids' attention .


Children who know how to choose healthy food tend to grow up healthy and with less probability to become obese or have diseases like diabetes. I think that these diseases are serious consequences of eating junk food. Nowadays i like to eat vegetables, fruits, instead of candies, chocolates or the kind of food that some companies like MacDonal's used to provide us, but this is only thanks to my parents who control my eating habits all the time.

In conclusion, Food industry have made unhealthy food for many years, and they always promoted their food on everywhere like tv,schools, streets,  so i dont think it is going to help if they reduce to advertise their Junk Food, but the only thing is going to help children learn to eat healthy is that their parents start to be concious in what they teach them.

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     we all like to eat fresh and healthy food, without chemicals like pesticides, antibiotics, or additives, but we usually dont know where our food comes from. According to the article Family Farms, there is an alarming rate of small family farms that were forced out of business because it is difficult for them to compete with big corporations like farm factories. In the article Family Farm, one of the things that it is also mentioned is that Family Farms are very important because they provide fresh, nutritious, and high-quality foods. Unlike Farm factories, which pollute communities with chemical pesticides, noxious fumes and excess manure. I think that it is not fair that some companies make us believe that the food they provide us is good and healthy because they hurt the economy and hurt our health.

    Since big corporations like farm factories expanded their production the economy of the rural comunities have been affected because these big corporations just employ as few workers as posible and purchase suplies, equipments, materials from outside the local community, leaving rural areas with a high rate of unemployment and a low opportunity for economic growth.  Some corporations purchase equipment that replace workers, but these equipments dont do the same job as workers do, they just provide us food in bad conditions. For example these big companies process a lot of meat everyday, faster than a farm family can do, to make this possible people are exposed to work in fast lines in order to pack the meat, workers usually get injured thanks to the insane need for speed, instead of hire more people to help the community and provide food as it has to be.


Farm Factories just want to make money, and they dont care about the damage that the food they provide us can cause us.They add antibiotics to the animals' food to keep them alive, and these antibiotics can cause us many diseases. Nowadays we suffer from many sicknesses, and maybe this is thanks to the bad conditions factories process their meat because in this process the meat get also infected with manure.

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The main points of The Meatrix.
In the movie"The Meatrix" Family farms were being destroyed by factories. Morpheous wants that  Leo chooses between living in the fantasy or discover the real world. Leo chose to discover the real world which was terrible because all that Leo believed is a good life, was a lie and Leo decided to scape from The Meatrix and avoid that The Meatrix destroys the family farms.

The Meatrix: Revolting
Morpheous, Leo and chickity expose the bad conditions of the dairy industry. Where cows are pumped with antibiotics and hormones that usually get them sick. So millions of people are waking up to where their food are coming from and are starting to buy healthy food with no antibiotics, no hormones, or additives.

Meatrix II 1/2.
the heroes show us how fast and insane the cows are processed to feed our nacion. The workers are injured because of the insane speed they have to pack the cows and the meat is processed under bad conditions because the manure is leaking from the intestines rigth into the meat.

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We need to live the harsh reality of daily life to try to be save. Living in the real world is better than living a lie the whole life. In the movie "The Matrix" Neo was living an unreal life where the matrix controls his life and makes him believe things that are not truth. But Morpheus wanted to show him what real life is and he also think that Neo is the person who can save the humanity. I think that it is always better to know the truth than to live under a lie because the truth makes us happy, the truth sets us free and people who accept the truth lead solid families.

First, the truth make us always happy for example: In the movie "The Matrix" Neo has felt in his entire life that there was something wrong in his life which didnt allow him to find happiness, that is why Neo wanted to discover the truth and he followed things which could show him the real world. He found many things and althouth he realized that the truth was terrible and too hard to accept it. He prefered to go forward. I am agree with Neo because althougth the reality is terrible we have to face it. When I discovered my boyfriend had a child i got too disapointed and i felt so bad like if i waste too much time making a life with him. The relationship end because i was no happy anymore and i was not able to trust him again.

Second, the truth set us free althoug it is hard. Cypres from the movie"The Matrix" didnt like to be out of the Matrix because the reality was too hard  taking orders from Morpheus. Cypres couldnt do whatever he wants, he didnt feel free and he wanted to go back to the unreal world, where everything was easier but unreal, he prefered to ignore the reality. But I think we also need some control in life because sometimes we choose to do things that are not rigth. For example: In high school i used to be with my friends all the time, some of them were not good friends, they wanted me to drink every weekend so my parents used to control me and help me to understand what was wrong and rigth. they made me understarnd that i had to follow the rigth things to feel free in life, one of those are the truth.They used to tell me that i always have to follow the truth to find freedom.

I also learn in life that a person who lives near of the truth, leads good families, with solid values and less problems. When we are always hiding the truth we are increasing argues with people we love, we can hurt them and we can loose them. A lie always give us more problems, it is one of the reasons that many relationships have end up in divorce. I have too many friends who divorce after they find out that their partners were lying or keeping too many secrets.

In conclusion, I think that it is always important to follow the truth. Although it is hard and difficult to accept it, we have to face the truth and keep us far from problems that a lie give us. To keep a good relationship with ourselves, we need to look for happiness, freedom and a solid family. So one of the important things that give us all this, is the truth.