Sweetness

"Leading the witness, Your Honour!" This particular current issue is interestingly phrased, don 't you think? Are you against? Not: Are you for or against?, not How do you feel about…?, but the extremely presumptive Are you against? So, let me answer the question very directly. No. I am not against Tesco banning sugary drinks. I would not be against Tesco banning vegetables, bread, meat, fish, books, knickers, alcohol (in possibly rough order of necessity?) TV sets or anything else that they current sell. Tesco is a shop. So long as it stays within the law it can sell what it wants. There are no laws which say it has to sell anything in particular. It can choose. And so can everyone who currently shops there. Which, mostly, I don 't. Also, just to make sure all of my cards are on the table… I don 't buy much in the way of 'sugary ' drinks either and I don 't have kids or grandkids, whose white toothy-pegs and bulging waste-lines I need to worry about. If Tesco stop selling this stuff, I probably won 't even notice, and if I do, it will be at worst a mild annoyance that I have to go to another shop to buy what I wanted. From the personal standpoint therefore, I have absolutely no reason to care one way or the other. So now let me turn that question around from the provocative "am I against?", to the more interesting: how do I actually feel about Tesco 's "upcoming ban"? I neither support nor object to it. I find it "laughable" and/or "a sound marketing strategy"…

people, because people who are bitter in some ways do exist. When these people come into play, society becomes a different story. Sweet people illuminate the world while bitter people do the exact opposite. Bitter people darken the world due to their arrogance, violence, and treacherous actions. For example In The Kite Runner, it states that, “The man in the hole was now a mangled mess of blood and shredded rags. His head slumped forward, chin on chest” (Hosseini 271). This horror shows that the…

Sweet, faithful and loving are only a few things that describe Misty. She is a four-year-old german shepherd. Misty is the sweetest, but most protective dog out there, at least in my eyes, of course. She definitely is one of a kind and a spoiled rotten fur baby. You are probably wondering how Misty came in to my life. I remember it clearly, as if it had happened just yesterday. It was a cold, windy December night. My friend showed up at my house, I grabbed my coat and went outside to meet her.…

Spongebob Heart shaped gummy Krabby Patties candy. the wrapper is small and rectangular and on the top and bottom the pattern is spiky like the pattern on the teeth of a saw it has a smooth texture the candy is small and it is stacked to look like a burger but each individual piece is shaped like a heart there are four individual pieces it feels smooth except for the top piece which is a little bumpy the colors are a really light brown,a really dark green,a darkish pink,and a tan brownish color…

James Sims Sweetness and Power by Sidney Mintz Sidney Mintz’ Sweetness and Power takes into account a very broad scope of colonialism in Europe and in the New World. This novel attempts to look into the consumption of sugar through an anthropological mindset, starting with the earliest records of sugar documentation through present day. Also, Mintz organizes an efficient introduction to the theory on food and culture, specifically observing the “carbohydrate core” principle that is the…

of red and green affected sweetness perception. An experimental design was engaged where 95 first-year Psychology students voluntarily sampled four 20mL coloured liquids and rated their sweetness on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being no sweetness distinguished and 10 where the liquid was extremely sweet. The major results indicated that light red samples were perceived sweeter than dark red, and that light green samples were perceived sweeter than dark green. It was concluded that colour does affect…

Camilla Gibb, author of Sweetness in the Belly, is the author of many critically acclaimed novels such as Mouthing the Words, the Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life, The Beauty of Humanity Movement, and This is Happy. Sweetness in the Belly follows the life of a white Muslim women, Lily, in 1970s Ethopia and 1980s London. Due to the tragic loss of her parents and the disorder in Morocco, Lily and her brother Hussein moved to Harar, where they are forced to travel their separate ways. While in…

Stupid Sweetness Preston and I have an interesting relationship. We could not be more different, but we also could not be more similar(paradox). He is more outgoing and loud, I am more quiet; he says his opinions and doesn’t care what others think, I am more reserved and like to please people. In contrast, we both act so stupid when we’re together, both have the same humor, and both have the best time together. One big moment does not define our relationship; instead, many different and special…

Sweetness and Power The book Sweetness and Power written by Sidney W. Mintz(1985) was truly an empowering book written about the rise of sugar and how it has truly created a new world culture. The impact of the sugar was the main force of economic surge and the power of a new world order. But over time Mintz, an Anthropologist and graduate from Columbia University, has expressed how sugar has created a new modern problem with the foods Americans consume today and the impact on the human body…

One of the major social issues in the book Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb is racial profiling. This book is set in two different countries from the perspective of a white Muslim named Lilly, and each chapter alternates between countries. One setting is in the city of Harar, Ethiopia, where Lilly lives throughout the very early phases of the Civil War that occurred in Ethiopia during the late 1970s. The other setting is in London, England during the middle and end of the Ethiopian Civil…