Blog Post 5

                   The first thing I did for my project was create characters. It's my favorite part of writing. Right now, my characters are what's driving me to finish. Writer's block is halting the process, but I am slowly getting through it. It's important to me to work the plot around how I imagine the character's interacting. I do believe I'll have to change something about it, but I'm not sure what. Probably some aspects of the plot or the universe I set up for the story. I've some ideas I want to use, and I'm using them to progress the parts I need to fill the space between them as a solid plot line. I may need advice on plot ideas.
                     For the commercial, I want to try my hand at reenacting a scene from what I have written already. I think the perfect scene is my image of a watchmaker working on a mysterious device and when he finally gets it to work. I've got some actors in mind too, including my grandfather or a family friend I sort of based his looks on.

Blog Post 4

              "Why Kids Hate School Lunch" Response

                   Lunches aren't what they used to be. But what did they use to be? I never got to experience this for myself but my older cousin went to Kennedy and during her years, the cafeteria served Pizza Hut pizza on special days, along with Subway and some select others. Unfortunately the price got expensive and unhealthy so they stopped that in 2012. That's what the article in the New York Times reports as a problem with childhood obesity relating to school lunch. I agree that obesity is a problem, but the "healthy" food served nowadays does not seem like food at all. 

                    The mindsets of the people of America and France are different as well. Whereas America is calorie-conscious, the French see what they want to eat and they eat it. They have the lowest obesity rate in the Western world, so how does that add up? Americans over-eat and that leads to obesity and an obsession over calorie consumption. What I don't understand is how Americans care so much about the number of calories, but still have some of the highest obesity records in the world.

                    The article likes to discuss France quite a lot, focusing on how their food is made from scratch and is cheaper and better in most ways. Schools in France pay $7 per meal at the wealthiest, but no reports were given on the lowest paid for meals. More information is needed to create a more solid argument, but the highest provides that America can do the same because of wealthy families. I agree with that. But the problem is not with the article per say, but with the education system. I have a problem with the way that American schools are "solving" the problem of obesity by using low-fat, flavorless, and even gross processed foods in their lunch plans. There must be a better way. Also, children aren't eating the "healthy" foods because it's not what they're used to. New York Times reports that children learn eating habits from their parents, and if the food is different from what they're getting at home, it's probably why the children are not eating the food provided by the school system. Forcing kids to eat something they don't what doesn't really work, does it?