Fast Food for a Fast-Paced Nation
By Andreas Renfroe
October 3, 2017
In this day and age, fast food restaurants around the world have revolutionized the way people socialize and eat by being a prime source for a quick and simple meal at anytime. With a majority of the population going to work for long hours, going home extremely tired, then repeating the process the next day, there isn’t much time to conduct a decent home meal or go to a five star restaurant when lunch time hits. These moments are when fast food restaurants become extremely useful in the eyes of busy people. Although fast food establishments are well known for being unhealthy, the positive outcomes of these establishments outweigh the negative ones.
One of the positive outcomes that come from fast food restaurants is the convenience they provide to people. Cheap, fast, and simple foods are a short sum up of the list of conveniences. While people are on a lunch break during work, they have a short amount of time to get something to eat. In these cases, their best option is to head to a fast food restaurant and acquire a meal quickly. This not only gives them time to eat, but also time to enjoy a simple delicious meal.
Another positive outcome that comes from fast food restaurants is the variety of foods that are made at each establishment. Many people claim that these foods are unhealthy, but the establishments have healthier alternatives on their menus. These meals can vary, from a small salad to a low-fat yogurt. This allows for people to decide whether to have a chicken salad with yogurt or a double cheeseburger with animal style fries.
Fast food establishments have changed the way people can eat and socialize whether it’s through a satisfying burger, chocolate milkshake, or a subway sandwich.
Fast Food: The Equivalent of Poison
By Brianna Gallegos
October 3, 2017
In today’s society, millions of people are eating fast food. Fast food is a very common bought resource. It costs less than other food in stores and is quick and easy to get. What people don't understand though, is how unhealthy it is and how harming it can be. Fast food could also be fatal when people aren't watching what they're putting in their mouths. Although it tastes good, its taste can hide the scary consequences to it. The following article, will be referring to how fast food is dangerous and scary.
Fast food has been around since the year 1930. The first developed fast food place was McDonald’s. Soon after that place came out, many other fast food establishments came along like Burger King, Taco Bell, Wendy’s, etc. Back then, people were much thinner and fast food was new. Today, Americans are too chubby to live as fast as the 1950’s idol. Instead, they eat fast food, die younger than they should and leave increasingly obese corpses. Fast food is causing obesity and is killing people. It doesn’t necessarily kill everyone, but it slowly kills most.
Fast food is causing things like risk of obesity, diabetes, strokes, Coronary Artery Disease, unhealthy levels of sodium, and lack of healthy nutrients. Studies have shown that in the US per capita calorie intake increased by more than 300 (kcal) throughout the entire population from 1985 through 2002. The numbers have risen that much over the past decade. It sounds scary how unhealthy it can be and what it may cause right? It is said to also cause cancers. Fast food is cheap, convenient and marketed to us when we’re young, in hope that we’ll be consumers for life. For many companies, that strategy has paid off. There’s a wrinkle in that math though. If people eat too much of this, that occurring consumer’s lifespan could be a lot shorter.
School Spirit or Cultural Appropriation?
By: Emily Jaramillo
In the week of November 13th through the 17th, AHA has chosen the theme of “Native Week” to show school spirit. Each day ranges from Medicine Wheel Monday, Turquoise Tuesday, Rock Your Mocs Wednesday, Cultural Thursday and Fancy Friday. Despite the themes, the question remains: can the majority of our student body participate and if so, should they?
First, let’s look at the demographics of this school. Based on APS’s public records that contain ethnic distribution, our student body is 89.8% Hispanic. In contrast to the 1.9% of American Indian Students. In doing the math, out of 2,423 students, roughly 46 students are of actual Indigenous descent. Going back to the themes of spirit week, I’d like to know how many of the 2,000+ other students are going to rock their mocs on Wednesday, the 15th.
Being a student here and witnessing the talk that goes around regarding the posters put up, most of what I’ve heard was students who were absolutely clueless as to what moccasins were. I fear this will lead to the mocking of a culture. In addition to ignorance or simply not knowing, there also comes the aspect of having absolutely no care in the world, which is not necessarily their fault. For me, it’s very unnatural to not understand where you come from, whether it be because you were not taught or because you caught on to the point to where is does not matter and do not share the same passion. When asked their opinion on this week’s theme, an AHA student, who has asked to remain anonymous said, “I see what they’re trying to do [the Native Club] but they didn’t put enough thought into it. For example, theoretically, I wouldn’t be impressed with a Mexican themed spirit week because that would still be appropriation even though it’s a different culture. Representing yourself is always a good thing, however it seems like they’re trying to get other people’s participation but it will be met with the mocking of a beautiful culture.”
Regardless of whatever reason there is to not care, this is still appropriating a culture because it’s for the whole student body. I very clearly see the intentions by the AHA Native Club, but as a Native student who is not part of that club, I feel it could’ve been executed very differently such as teaching how the medicine wheel works on aspects of physical, emotional, intellectual and community/culture wellness. This is not the way to go about cultural diversity hence this highly respected symbol isn’t something you assign a grade level to wear for a day and call it “pride.”
Secrets Galore
By Elizabeth Muñoz
Fox news says, a judge has ruled that media organizations will not be allowed to attend
the initial court for teenage boy who has
been accused of shooting his parents, his
sister, and a family friend in New Jersey on
New Year’s Eve.
The 16-year- old was due to make
an appearance Tuesday in a Family Court,
where hearings are normally closed to the
public. That was postponed when media
organizations intervened by wanting to
attend. Judge Lisa Thornton declined the
request and the hearing is now planned for
Wednesday. Police haven’t disclosed a
motive but said they will seek to move the
case to adult court. They say the victims
were shot multiple times at close range.
The only survivors were the boys grandfather, his brother and a family friend who escaped the
house in Long Branch injured.
At the residence, they found parents Steven Kologi, 44, and Linda Kologi, 42, their
daughter Brittany, 18, and a family friend Mary Schultz, 70, dead. The unidentified shooter is
believed to have used a Century Arms semi-automatic rifle to kill his family members and his
friend. He was arrested without incident.
During the press conference, Gramicconi said the teen will be charged as an adult and
face four counts of murder and one charge for the possession of a weapon for an unlawful
purpose. He said the charges would come in within 48 hours of arrest but he has not been
officially filed. Authorities did not release the suspects name because he is a minor. The weapon
was illegally owned and registered to a family member but resisted to say who it belonged to.
The incident is believed to be domestic but not motive was given.
