BREAKFAST FOODS
Morning, for me, is the gloomiest part of the day. I always feel that I am missing about three hours of sleep. Still, somewhere in my subconsciousness, I realize that if I don't wake up and get to where I don't want to be, usually my office, my livelihood as I know it would cease to exist! The car would be repossessed, and Fido might have to go back to the pound! What a prospect! Yet, as a cruel joke, I have to face the dilemma of what to make for breakfast as well. Being at the transitional state between dream and reality, it would help me to be more creative if the selection of breakfast foods is less limited and more enticing, but more often than not, the options include cold cereals, hot cereals, and the artery-clotting forms of food.
One of the quickest and most popular breakfast foods is cold cereal. There's a wide selection and various name brands to choose from. For people with a sweet tooth, the choice is plentiful. For instance, Frosted Corn Flakes, made by Kellogg's, is a grain cereal that consists of fine corn flour, sugar, sugar, and sugar, plus corn syrup, calcium carbonate, trisodiumphosphate, and topopherol to preserve freshness. For the health conscious, Honey Bunches of Oats is one of many alternatives. Made by Post, it is also a grain cereal which comes with a list of ingredients that doesn't sound like Chemistry 101! It contains corn, whole wheat, rolled oats, and brown sugar instead of processed sugar, almond, rice, and of course, honey. Sure, one can disguise a bowl of cereal with slices of banana or juicy strawberries, but that's where the excitement ends! No matter the camouflage, a bowl of cereal has the potential to become redundant quickly.
Another option that might satisfy one's palate in the morning is hot cereal. Perhaps not as popular as cold cereal but just as quick to get to the table, this breakfast food does not fall in the "exciting" category. It does, however, command the respect of other health foods; it is wholesome and known to lower cholesterol levels. The only disadvantage is its extremely fixed quantity of assortment. One can only find three or four selections in any given supermarket. One of the most sold is Quaker Oats. Its ingredient is quite simple: one hundred percent rolled oats! Oats can be prepared effortlessly. With just two parts boiling water and one part oats, breakfast is served. Another variety of hot cereal, grits, is equal in taste but very different in texture. It is made of finely ground wheat and salt. It comes in twelve individual packets to a box which makes it convenient. Grits is prepared in the same manner as oats and just as quickly, so quickly that there would still be time to prepare a bowl of corn flakes instead!
The last category of the breakfast dilemma is the greasy food group which includes the likes of bacon, eggs, and their associates. This type of meal is not the quickest to make, but for certain, is the most desirable. After days of corn flakes and grits, this is a criminal's last meal before the execution! The list of choices is endless. Topping it, of course, is bacon and eggs. Bacon comes not only in different brands but also in different thicknesses, smoked and regular. Some bacon comes with less fat than others, but all comes with much more fat than it should. Eggs come in various sizes and colors: small, medium, large, and extra large. They're packed in half dozen, one dozen, or a baker's dozen of eighteen to a carton. Their shell's colors range from white, brown to pastel blue and pale yellow. Though there's only one way to prepare bacon, eggs can be cooked in numerous ways. They can be scrambled, hard-boiled, poached, pan fried, or made into omelettes. For those who prefer a "hardier" breakfast, a variety of sausage can be added to the menu. Pork sausage and Kielbasa sausage are the most popular. They can be baked and served sliced with warm bread. Although they're delicious, most sausage contains nitrite, a quantity. However, preferable this group of breakfast food is, it contains too much fat and cholesterol and should be consumed with moderation.
As the most important meal of the day, I wish breakfast would have more alluring choices. While cold cereal has a reasonably good taste, it incorporates too much sugar which has the power to transform a sleepy person into a zombie! Also its redundancy makes the draw of sugar less attractive. Hot cereal, though healthy, does not hold its charm for very long due to the bland taste and curdling texture once it becomes cold. The cholesterol-loaded foods, however, prevail over the rest, but because of the excessive amount of fat in these foods, they're not frequently prepared in most households. Moreover, due to the lack of time in the morning, these laborious meals cannot always be prepared. I now make larger portions for dinner and save the left-overs for breakfast the next morning. This is a healthier alternative, and it also gives me more time to sleep!
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Classification Essay
Shopping is something that has to be done whether one enjoys it or not. Throughout malls, shopping centers and bargain basements across the land, one will find several types of shoppers. Three types of shoppers often encountered are the credit card crazed shopper, the list maker shopper, and the bargain hunter shopper.
The credit card crazed shoppers have for their motto: "Shop 'till you drop!" These easy spenders will comb an entire mall and pull out the plastic for every item that catches their fancy. They think nothing of spending in every store they enter because after all, they haven't really touched the cash that is in their wallets. These credit card crazed shoppers are the ones seen leaving the mall with large shopping bags and boxes from every major department store.
The list maker shopper doesn't really enjoy shopping. This person just looks at shopping as a task that has to be done to obtain necessary items. The list makers will diligently go through what they already have and don't have, making a list of the latter. Then they comb the advertisements to see who is offering the best deal on the items on their list. They shop at each place of business to buy only what is on their list. They leave the stores with nothing more or nothing less than what is on the list.
The bargain hunters are more relaxed in their approach to shopping. Meandering through flea markets, garage sales, outlet malls, Goodwill stores, and consignment shops is a pleasant experience for these shoppers. Shopping is almost like a treasure hunt for the bargain hunter. The bargain hunters never know what they will happen upon, and if it is a good deal, they buy it whether they need it or not. These shoppers proudly show off their bargains and brag about the low price they paid.
Shoppers vary one from another, having different personalities and characteristics. Various types of shoppers can be found anywhere that merchandize is being sold. The three types of shoppers, the credit card crazed shopper, the list maker shopper, and the bargain hunter shopper are all probably as close by as the nearest mall.
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Shopping at the Pig
(revised classification essay)
Working part-time as a cashier at the Piggly Wiggly has given me a great opportunity to observe human behavior. Sometimes I think of the shoppers as white rats in a lab experiment, and the aisles as a maze designed by a psychologist. Most of the rats--customers, I mean--follow a routine pattern, strolling up and down the aisles, checking through my chute, and then escaping through the exit hatch. But not everyone is so dependable. My research has revealed three distinct types of abnormal customer: the amnesiac, the super shopper, and the dawdler.
The amnesiac stops his car in the loading zone, leaves the engine running with the keys locked inside, and tries to enter the store by crashing into the exit door. After dusting himself off and slipping through the entrance, he grabs a cart and begins hurtling down the aisles against the normal flow of traffic. "Peaches or potatoes?" he mutters to himself. "Doughnuts or Ding Dongs?" He has, of course, left his shopping list at home. When he finally makes it to my register and starts unloading the cart, he suddenly remembers the jug of milk or the loaf of bread that brought him here in the first place. He then resumes his race around the store while the customers waiting in line begin to grumble, tap their feet, and rattle the rack of Stars and National Enquirers. Inevitably, of course, when it comes time to pay for the goods, the amnesiac discovers that he has left his wallet at home. Without saying a word, I void his receipt and lend him a coat hanger.
The super shopper has been planning her assault for days. She enters the store with a pocketbook on her arm, a coupon purse around her neck, a calculator in her pocket, and in her hand a shopping list that makes the Dewey Decimal System look downright chaotic. With military-like efficiency, she trundles her cart from one sale item to another, carefully organizing them in her basket by size, weight, and shape. Rarely, however, does she make it through the store without a breakdown: either the Charmin has been moved to a different shelf or else some poor stock clerk has forgotten to replenish a supply of Cool Ranch Doritos. Usually the manager has to be called in to settle her down and set her back on course. Then, when she reaches my lane, she begins barking orders: "Double bag the Creamsicles! Twelve-cents off on Jell-O! Don't put the grapes in with the Nutty Ho Hos!" In the meantime, she glares at the prices blinking on the register, just waiting to pounce on me for making an error. If my total doesn't match the one on her calculator, she insists on a complete recount. Sometimes I make up the difference myself just to get her out of the store.
The dawdler wanders in as if he had been looking for the library and arrived here by mistake. He tours the aisles slowly, pausing often to read a box of Froot Loops, squeeze a dinner roll, or sniff one of those lemon-scented rubber blobs of room freshener. However, he seldom ends up buying many of the things he picks up. When he finally strolls up to the checkout, the dawdler likes to settle in for a chat--about my hair style, his bunions, or that nice Yanni tune tinkling out of the ceiling speakers. Although the people waiting behind him in line are fuming, I try to be friendly, knowing that this must be the major social event of the dawdler's week.
To be truthful, most of the people who pass through my checkout are quietly efficient and polite--and a little boring. Though the abnormal ones may try my patience, they also help to make a dull job more interesting. So, for your own amusement keep an eye out for these characters the next time you pull into the parking lot of the Piggly Wiggly: a fellow trying to unlock his car with a coat hanger, a woman fussing at the bag boy for squashing a grape, and a sweet old man who may try to tell you about the arthritis in his knees or the expiration date on his buttermilk.
Questions for Discussion
1. Define each of the following words as they are used in this essay: dawdler, hurtling, void, trundles, replenish.
2. Does the introduction attract your interest while clearly suggesting the purpose and direction of the essay? Explain your answer.
3. Point out how the writer uses specific details and examples to distinguish each of the characters and maintain our interest.
4. Has the writer drawn clear distinctions between the different character types she describes? Explain your response.
5. Is the concluding paragraph effective? Explain why or why not.
6. Offer an overall evaluation of the essay, pointing out its strengths and weaknesses.
· You should take some time to think about a simple element that you want to classify. Once you decide what you want to classify, be sure to find at least two to three ways that you can divide this element. Dividing the element into 2-3 classifications will allow you to have a springboard for your thoughts when writing about the different sub-types of one item. Follow the recipe in the next 5 steps for a clear example.
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I. A Format/Recipe for an Introduction.
a). Start off with about 3-4 sentences of general discussion of the topic that you are classifying.
b). In about 2 sentences, mention what you like to classify and then mention various ways that other people would classify the element that your are discussing.
c. In 1 clear, state your thesis. Your thesis will be the one element that your are classifying and the three sub categories that you divide that element into. Doing this will allow you to have a solid and organized guide to follow for your up coming 3 body paragraphs. Each paragraph will discuss the 3 sub- categories of your element.
A student Sample of an Introduction: The lower case letters are a guideline to show how the above format pieces together to form a well-developed paragraph. Use these letters for every body paragraph.
(a) Every person has many household items that they like to categorize. People like to classify their household items because it helps the person stay more organized, and it makes it easier for the person to find things. Some of the things that people like to classify can include various collections such as, books, CDs, DVDs, jewelry, pictures, clothes, etc. (b) I am one of those people who like to categorize many of my household collections. The one thing that I really like to make sure I classify is my shirt collection. (c) I have many shirts, and I classify them by work shirts, t-shirts, and recreational shirts.