The Cheese Monkeys

From my understanding "The Cheese Monkeys" is about a boy who goes off to college and finds himself in college. FRom The book it selfs seems like a puzzle that is made to make the reader think and remind us of what we do see in Chipp Kidds eyes. From the first pages of the book i enjoy how he describes waiting in line for hours and then the course selector chippy asks him what classes he is taking. He talks Biblically torturing the man, which I found hilarous because I have felt like that after standing in line forever. But what I noticed through my critical lense was the references to south american revolution. I think he refers to south America frequently because I believe that he himself is rebelling by going outside his normalcy. 

Jurassic Park 1-181

Jurassic Park either the blockbuster or Micheal Crichton's best selling novel both follow Paleontologist Alan Grant who in the novel does love kids, Ellie Sattler a paleobotanist, Ian Malcolm a mathematician who specializes in chaos theory which explains why life is so, a whimsical old billionaire John Hammond, a kind lawyer Donald Gennaro, and Hammond's' two grandchildren Tim and "Lex" Murphy. The book opens on a close to third world clinic off in Costa Rica and an American Doctor Bobbie Carter. When on a quiet night a helicopter with inGen painted on the sides flies to the small clinic bring a limp body to her and tells her it was a construction accident, because he was so mangled. An the boy dies, because his attack was so bad, but he manages to whisper one word raptor.  She ask her nurse what a raptor is  and she tells her that in Mexican folklore a raptor is someone that takes your children in the dead of night. Then she looks up in her English dictionary raptor. This chapter is one of my favorites but it still surprises me that no one would think of a dinosaur because dinosaur bones had already been around for a hundred years. Then this book and movie helped set the scene for genetic revival. The next chapter explains what inGen or International Genetic Technologies. Which in the book was the first to experiment with genetic technology. Then another dinosaur attack happens on a little girl on a beach. The attack cause a lot of speculation, which then leads to them sending a sample of the dinosaur being sent to Alan Grant. A paleontologist who receives research money from John Hammond the owner of Ingen, who is an " A five year old boy with a wallet full of gold".  During his dig John Hammond comes and invites them to his new to his new wild park reservation or theme park. which" will make the one at San Diego look like a petting zoo". At first Dr. Grant and is colleague Dr. Sattler refuse until he offers to pay for their dig for the next 10 years. They are put on the jet with Hammond and Donald Gennaro who is a lawyer and represents  Ingen investors.

This Lullaby 1-80

In this Lullaby By : Sarah Dessen tells a story of Remy Starr who experiences her last year in her hometown before moving to Stanford for college. Remy doesnt believe in love because she seen her mother who is a writer failed eight marrages. With her friends by her side for the rest of the summer they celebrate thier last summer together by going to the Qik Zip for extra large cokes and going to their favorite club the Bento Box. Remy's relationship cycle is ending when she goes to break up with her boyfriend Jonathan but instead she finds out that he has cheated on her and messes up her whole system. The summer starts off nicely when her mother gets married to a car dealership owner who Remy thinks is fat and doesnt deserve her mother. At her soon to be step-fathers office a "lanky and annoying" boy will not leave her alone so she yells at him telling him to leave her alone. At her mother wedding the lead singer is the boy whom she met at the dearship. After the wedding Dexter and her bond oon how their parents multiple marriages affect one another. Remy believes that love is real and that's it only affection which only last for while. While Dexter is a true believer in love and sees only the good in life.

Fast Food Nation 150-200

Until 1985 Mcdonlands used meat fat in thier oil when frying their famous french fries. Now the resort to artifical flavored meat infused with thier oil. Many fast food companies now turn to artifical flavoring for the extre ump in thier food. Artifcal flavorings are cheaper and are able to sneak under the radar of the FDA. When ERic Schlossser visit the manufacture of these flavors, he meets the head sciencetist he changles him to a little exprienment to guees what the flavors of the chemicals are. "The first one smelled like warm chocolate chip cookies that my mother jsut baked, the second I was transported to the New York Harbor I could smell the hot dogs grilling on a busy city street, the third overwheelmed me with citrus, I could smell Florida fresh orange groves. I opened my eyes and just see a smiling chemist smiling back at me."

Fast Food Nation 100-150

Now one the single thing that made fast food so popular is the food itself. Mcdolands is the number buyer of meat and potatoes and second of chicken (second is KFC). One of the main reasons fast food is so successful is because the availbiltilty of cheap food. Fast food restaurants cluster together so there competion is close by and they don't have to worry about who has the better food because the food is all the same. So they compete in other ways like who has the better play scape or kid's meals. Ever since the opening of their first drive- through McDonald's has always promised quality and cheap food and they still keep that promise. Thanks to the Green Revolution and the compact farming food is cheap. Thanks to the drive through food is made and can be eaten in a hurry. The size of the nuggets and burgers are perfect for eating quickly. The food is all uniform and the ratio of food prepared to cooks is 2000:1. With the help of machines not as many workers are needed to help prepare the food.

Fast Food Nation 50-100

What happened in San Bernardino revolutionized the way food was bought and made. Instead of having drive hops and waiters coming to windows, now all you did was drive through and ordered and instead of having customized food, food was cooked uniformly and at the same time. When Carl came to the McDonald's he couldn't believe the high quality of the hamburgers that were fifteen cent cheaper that his. The speed and accuracy of how the food was cooked and prepared. Soon hundreds and thousands of people came to McDonald's the first drive- through fast food restaurant. After his pilgrimage to McDonald's Carl went to his restaurant and completely ordered new cookers, deep fryers, and firing half of the staff he went to join McDonald's in the fast food race.

Fast Food Nation 1-50

A Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of an all American Meal is written by an investigative journalist Eric Schlosser that examines the local and global influence of the United States Fast Companies. The story opens up on a mountian hat was converted to a military base in Colorado Springs. The Base is one of the most protected military bases in the world and houses close to 1000 people yet the base has become dependent Fast Food. If a apocalyptic event were to happen and people had to take shelter in this base everyone would die in a week because they would starve because that's hoe dependent our nation has become on fast food. One of the founding fathers of fast food Carl N. Karcher who started Carl's Juniors was a poor farm boy from Ohio who moved to Irvine, California in hopes to find his wealth instead became a car sales man for ten years until he had enough money to buy his own land and opened his own barbique restaurant at first his business took off until many of his costumers went San Bernardino for 15 cent hamburgers 20 cents less than Carl's Drive- in. What he saw there changed the way food was made.