Food for my Theme

I think food is a subject that everyone has a vested interest in, whether you love to cook it or eat it food is some thing people have gathered over since the dawn of time.Me personally i love to cook i have been cooking ever since i can remember so  i have a lot of information.For my observational i would talk to owners of restaurants I've worked and talk to the chefs behind the lines,also talk to food purveyors , manager at save-a-lot. I could also talk to some of the student in culinary at BCC or Diman. Then for the argument i could talk about how the amazon jungle is being flattened to raise cattle for MC Donald's,also how food is being cooked on a molecular level now in labs instead of the traditional way.How food is injected with all kinds of chemicals, price,There are other arguments, observations, and personal things as well.
                                                   

SPORTS

PERSONAL:l:played my whole life,different teams i like,coaching teams,daughter plays,affect it had onmy childhood

OBSERVATIONAL: Talk to coaches,players,radio host,go to game,friend works at ski house


ARGUMENT:Players getting tons of cash to play game,steroids in all sports, head injuries and how there affecting the game,ticket prices,get away with murder

CRIME & PUNISHMENT

PERSONAL:been to jail,courthouse, police brutality,effects on my life

OBSERVATIONAL:police officer,probation officer,lawyer,court room,D.A.

ARGUMENT:justice is not just for all,police brutality,drug war,sheriff hodgson,overcrowded prisons






     

Me and my history of reading & writing, A writer's autobiography

I grew up in Somerset, MA went to Somerset Middle & High School. Right after graduation i started working for my mother at her restaurant, the Water Street Cafe. I had many other jobs in this field eventually becoming a head chef.In between all that i became a father to my daughter Alayna. That's her in the pic on her first day at school, she is my greatest inspiration and makes every day a little better.Up until late June i still was a chef but life happened and i decided to go back to school and here i am. I have always enjoyed reading even when i was very young. The older i got the less i read, with T.V., video games, sports, and everything else keeping me busy. I would usually only read books i had to, most of the time school related. I would still enjoy it but thought it wasn't a proper use of my time. I remember i had a report due on Montana and i was supposed to read all about it, but of course i waited until the last minute and my report was not so great. I really didn't get back into reading until about eight years ago, my girlfriend at the time was a big reader and she pushed me to start. To say the least i was a little reluctant at first and would read very sparingly. What really got me reading were the Harry Potter books, i loved the stories and the characters were so vivid in my imagination that it really stuck with me! From there on i was a reading machine, i just couldn't get enough and it has stayed that way until this very day. I like to read mainly fiction, anything that peaks my interest i take a good look at.One of my favorite things to do is go to Savers and scour the bookshelves to find hidden gems. The bookcase in my room is very important to me and i enjoy filling it with books i've read or look forward to reading.In early years getting a book as i gift would have been a let down, now i ask for them as gifts! It's funny how things change. Now that i am a father i have encouraged my daughter to read since she was alive, i'm happy to say she loves to read almost as much as i do. Writing on the other hand has always been something i love to do, whether writing a song a poem or even a greeting card will have some original stuff from myself inside of it. I do mostly like to write songs which is like writing poetry. It allows me to express myself anyway i see fit, the world around me is full of material and the pen flows without question no matter what your writing. I find that if something is bothering me it helps to write about it to get it into the air, to get it out of my head, so i don't spend to much time in there. I also have encouraged my daughter to do this  as well and her stories or most entertaining, they fill me with so much excitement for her and her future in becoming an individual. That is also something great about both reading and writing they help to make me an individual and not just another cog in the machine. It wakes up my mind to so many different things that had i not begun to read again i would not know. I have to say that my reading has helped me write with much more detail and the ability to express myself fully and completely. Someone very smart said "knowledge is power" and i believe that to be completely true! Sir Francis Bacon was right on the money with that one.Well if you didn't already love to read or write i hope that maybe something in here my give you pause. Pick up a book or a magazine, write a song, story, or maybe a letter to a family member far away or  a friend. I know why write when we can text, email, im, and all that other crap, well i don't have the answer for that. I just know that it feels like you actually accomplish something when you read or write something and maybe that's the reason why!

Back to college for computer networking

So as you can read in my description, i am just getting back into school after a long layoff. I was a little nervous at first but not so much anymore. It seems like only good can come from my experience back to college. I realize now that i do need to get a laptop to bring with me to school. My first class was this English course and i figured that a computer would be great for class but didn't realize how much i would use it in just this one class. The reason i decided to change career was that i had an operation on my foot and i can't be on it for long periods of time.In the restaurant business it is almost always 12 hour day, sometimes even longer.I was never that computer savy until i bought my first laptop two years ago, since then i love just trying to fix or navigate through any problems i have with it.About a year and a half back i got a virus on my computer, brought to a couple of people who said they knew computer and they weren't able to fix it.So i went online and looked and looked for the solution and found some help but i was able to get rid of the virus by working through my computer.I figured,hey maybe i might take a course sometime,a year later i get hurt so no time like the present.This was the right choice and the right time, now i have to take this opportunity and run with it.I hope everyone else is going to have as much fun as i think, no wait i know I'm gonna have! Until next time.