For my food essay, I wanted to connect my essay to my culture. Since I was young, food has played an important role in understanding my heritage. My mom always made it her priority to make sure that I knew that I was not only an American, but also Salvadoran. One way she has done this is through her cooking. Salvadoran dishes have played an important part in my life. Among my favorite dishes my mother makes is pupusas. They are tortillas stuffed with cheese, beans, or other ingredients. They are always served with sauce and curtido (cabbage relish).

I remember the first time I went to El Salvador, the first dish I had was pupusas. I felt a great sense of pride and honor knowing my family came from this amazing country. I am beyond thankful for my mother doing her best to make sure I was aware and proud of my heritage. For that I am always thankful, and every time I am home, she also makes sure there are pupusas. For my essay, I want to show the importance of how food can have a significant impact on getting close to our cultures. Food always plays an important role in helping us understand our heritage.

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I had watched this documentary before, and I am still surprised that Morgan Spurlock took the initiative to eat McDonalds fro 30 days. It is horrifying to see what fast food can do to the human body. The United States is known as the most obese country in the world. These food corporations are found all over the country, even in hospitals.

What needs to be understood is that people choose to eat this food ( I am guilty of this). These restaurants are found everywhere, and people head to these restaurants for they are so easy to find. Before he began, Mark took all the precautions with different medical professionals. Just watching him eating the meals, especially the super size meals just shocked me. The super size meals are horrifying. I cannot imagine someone being able to see someone eating all that. Not even Mark was able to eat it all, he got sick from it. Obesity is a serious issue in our country, the documentary stated that obesity is the second cause of preventable diseases, second behind smoking.

What also shocked me was how children are affected by this, especially in schools. At an early age children are lured by these corporations to eat so unhealthy. That is scary to thing that such an early age, people are influenced by these large food business. But seeing the severe health affects the food was having on Mark was truly shocking. What we must understand is that we must understand that seriousness of eating so much fast food and the consequences that come from it. The amount of fast food must be restricted to a certain amount, and we must have active lives in order to be healthy.

For my podcast, I am hoping to speak about my father’s journey to the United States. Immigration is a very important topic that is being discussed in our current political climate. I have always been fascinated by my father’s journey to the land of opportunity. I have always admired my father’s life and his struggles. For the podcast I am hoping to interview my father about his early life and the reasons as to why he came to the United States.

My father was born in the countryside in El Salvador. My grandparents were farmers and very poor, but managed to live with what they made. My father grew up under a time of severe repression in El Salvador. The government had begun to commit horrendous crimes against campesinos (peasants). My father tells me stories of how there would bodies on the side of the road, left there by the National Guard. My grandfather died in 1984, and it was around this time that my father decided, at the age of 21, to come to the United States. In my podcast, I will be providing background on the war and what occurred when my father arrived in the States. I will most likely interview my father in spanish and translate what he and I say.

Death is a very sensitive subject to write about. People do their best to avoid writing or speaking of death. It is difficult to accept that death will be our fate one day. For my family and I, death has been close to us for a very long time. For me, I had never fully experienced death before my uncle’s abrupt death. I had lost many members of my family under natural and tragic circumstances. When my uncle was killed, I came to see how much of an impact death can have on those living.

There are memories that stay with us for as long as we live, either good or bad. The memory I am writing about is memorable for the impact it made on my family and I. My uncle meant the world to me, I truly cared for him. Ever since I was a little boy, he was there for me. Since he lived in our house, his death had a very big impact on me. You never know how much you truly miss someone until they are gone. What I intent to write about, is the day when my whole world changed. Easter Sunday, 2019, a day that will forever remain as one of the worst days of my life. I had seen him hours earlier full of life and then I see him a body bag in a hospital. This event had a profound impact on me and one I will never forget. Even now he is always in my mind and I tend to think much of what many have been had he lived.

For my borrowed memoir, I am hoping to write about my trip to Washington D.C with two of my closest friends from high school. Since second grade, I had always been fascinated by politics. My parents had never had the opportunity to take me to Washington D.C. So when my friends decided on taking a road trip to Washington, I was in shock. One of my dreams was to go to Washington D.C and having the chance to finally go was exciting. My friends and I visited the most important sites, from the White House to the Lincoln Memorial. There are certain events in your life that never leave your collective memory, this was one of them.

There are many memories that fade away in life, but there are some that are so important that they stay with you for the rest of your life. Going on this trip with two of my greatest friends was very important for me. From standing in front of the White House to paying respect at Arlington National Cemetery, these memories will last for as long as I live. Memories are important in preserving our past and what they mean to us. This trip meant a lot to me and this is a part of my life that I will never forget. There are memories that will stay with you forever and it is important to cherish them.

In writing about her first piano lesson, Patrcia Hempl creates many fabrications which she admits towards the end of the essay. At the end of the essay, she offers an explanation as to why she fabricated the vignette at the beginning of the essay. She states, ” We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over a period of time… but that’s the implacable judgement of feeling.” She had stated how this was her first draft and that she wrote only what she wanted to remember even if it actually occurred in that particular way or not. She also writes about how no one owns the past, and that it is highly dangerous not to inhabit memory. At the end she writes, ” To write one’s life is to live it twice, and the second living is both spiritual and historical, for a memoir reaches deep within the personality as it seeks its narrative form….”.

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