FOOD

Christian Juarez

McPherson, Gaylene

English: R101

28 September 2014

Food

               Fast food has been a part of my life since a very young age. I remember being five years old and wanting McDonalds because of the toy they would include in the happy meals. I wouldn’t even finish my meal because of how eager I was to play with my new toy. Being young at the time, I didn’t know that McDonalds would become one of my favorite fast food restaurants of all time.

               As a child, rarely would I eat fast food. It was always my mother’s meals and about once a month it was a meal from a fast food place. As I entered my teens, I found myself eating at fast food restaurants more regularly. About once a week I would find myself at a fast food restaurant. Although eating at several fast food restaurants, I always found myself going back to McDonald for that Big Mac Meal. I have tasted several burgers in my life, from burger king to In N Out to other fancier restaurants but I found myself loving the Big Mac more. Every Friday after school, my friends and I would head over to McDonald to eat. They would get their chicken burgers, Chicken McNuggets, fish burger, but I would always get the number 1, which was a Big Mac Meal. It was something about that burger that always made me want it even more. It wasn’t the loads of salt and sugar they add to their burgers that made me love it because Burger King, In N Out, Carls Jr add about the same amount of salts and sugar into their burgers but yet I don’t find them as tasty as a Big Mac. McDonald will continue to be my favorite fast food restaurant of all time. “Im Lovin It”

               As a current college student fast food is a part of my daily life. Being always on the go, I always find myself at a fast food restaurant drive-thru. Although unhealthy, I eat at a fast food place about twice even three times a week at times. Since I know all those calories are unhealthy, I try and stay active on a daily basis. I tend to go out for a jog every other morning and try and build a little muscle. Since last year I have been trying to distance myself from fast food restaurants because diabetes is no laughing matter. All those diseases I hear of people getting due to the food choices they make scares me. I have been finding healthier alternatives rather than eating at a fast food place. Every so often I tend to crave my all-time favorite burger, the Big Mac. The craving begins and I try to overcome it and reach for something much healthier for my body. As of now, I have been eating more fruits and veggies and will try and remain eating healthy and avoiding all unhealthy foods for the rest of my life.

Essay 1

Christian Juarez

McPherson, Gaylene

English: R101

15 September 2014

Car Accident

                      Your heart begins to race and palms begin to sweat as you feel panic flowing through your entire body. We have all seen or hear of these severe automobile accidents that occur. Most of us personally know of somebody that has been through one but yet we believe that one will never occur to us. Most accidents can be prevented if we as drivers focus more on the road and take driving seriously. I had to learn the hard way and has forever changed my driving experience.

I had just received my driver license and was very excited to begin driving. My first year of driving went excellent, I didn’t crash nor did anybody crash into me. I was very cautious while driving always respected the signs and would always try and be aware of my surroundings. As time went by and I drove around with my friends, there bad driving kind of rubbed off on me. My good driving habits were beginning to fly out the door. Seeing how my friends drove, sort of in a way influenced me in the way I should drive. While driving, I would be distracted looking at my phone or found myself speeding a times. One of the things I would do the most is tailgate other drivers. While driving, I never really found myself in a hurry when I was traveling from point A to point B, it was just I never liked being behind slow drivers. What I found worked was to tailgate them to try and make them speed up a bit, which I found worked at times. That bad habit of tailgating other drivers will soon come back to haunt me.

          It was a cold sunny day in January when my driving experience will forever change. It was an early Thursday morning and I was heading to my sister’s house. I had been in Santa Paula since the AM taking care of some business and once I finished it was off to my sister’s home. As I was leaving Santa Paula, I noticed there was no traffic and everything was flowing smoothly. As I entered the freeway, I escalated my speed to be at the current traffic speed. Everything seemed fine, until I saw from a far that I was catching up to a red SUV truck. As I got closer to the truck I began to tailgate it to try and make the person go faster. Changing lanes was not an option, because right next to the SUV was another car. They were going approximately around the same speed, so I was stuck behind them.

As I continued to tailgate the driver, the person driving wouldn’t increase speed. About five minutes into the tailgating, the person in the SUV suddenly hits the brakes. I didn’t know this until later but in front of the SUV was another car that I couldn’t see thus the reason the truck couldn’t speed up. The smaller car in front of the SUV hit the brakes first then the SUV and I was behind the SUV. Two choices had to be made, either hit the truck in front of me or crash into the metal fence that was on my right, that are on freeways to separate the directions in which traffic is flowing. In the little time I had to react, I quickly jerked the steering wheel to the right, into the fence. I couldn’t just slam the brakes because doing so would make my car spin out of control. Thinking to myself, I thought maybe if I gently begin to brake and while scraping the side of my car on the fence will make the car slow down to a complete stop. As my car began rubbing against the fence, I can see from the corner of my eye orange sparks flying out all over the place. Something of my car got caught in the rusty metal fence making the car begin to tip over.

By the time the car was beginning to tip over the speed was very low but still a scary situation. The car ended up flipping over on to some bushes and came to a complete halt. As I opened eyes and look into my rear view mirror and see I have blood dripping from my cheek on to the roof of the car. It wasn’t severe but at the moment it was a horrific sight to witness. I was in the car for about ten minutes when from a far I begin to hear sirens. The sirens become closer and closer until I hear them right next to me.  A fire man helped me crawl out of the car and into the open. Ambulance soon arrive to the scene to check up on me. They clean my face up from all the blood I had and told me I was going to have to go with them to the hospital to get checked out to make sure there is no internal bleeding going on. So I ride with them to the Hospital and get checked out. I was in the hospital for about one hour when the doctor told me I was fine and I was free to go.

          Since that day, my old habits of driving are out of the picture. I realized although I was okay and nothing happened to me, it could have been a lot worse. I was lucky to only come out of that accident with only a cut on my face, as I hear of other accidents where drivers come out ten times more worse than me. I began taking driving more seriously and know drive very cautiously. No more tailgating other drivers and no more distractions for me. Driving is something not to take for granted. Obey the signs that are in the roads as well as the traffic laws. We should all drive intelligently not brainless.

         

         

         

Marriage

Marriage

               Marriage has been strong for several eras but has changed drastically now in in the twenty-first century. I believe marriage isn’t as alive as it was back in the old days. I believe now a days it the men not wanting to get married, reason being when getting married your wife owns everything you own and vice versa such as properties, cars, bank accounts, etc… As a man we become scared as to if she divorces me she’s getting basically fifty percent of everything I own. Now back in the old days you could just leave your wife and not go through all the massive amount of paperwork we have now a days. I personally know over a dozen couples not wanting to get married and are scared it won’t work out. That’s the reason I like the idea of Rivera’s of being able to choose how long you want to be married. That way if it does not work out you can just wait until the contract is over and leave. Another reason being if the contract is up neither one of you could take the other partner to court and demand properties, cars, or money. I see several couples not married because it’s a big agreement to agree too. You’re living, sleeping, breathing, eating the rest of your life next to that person which from a man’s point of view it’s kind of scary to think of. Everything now a day’s is done by a temporary contract. For example; phone, television service, bank loans, purchasing real estate, so why not make marriage a temporary contract you can renew if you decide you want to. When you open a phone contract with AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint you sign a two year agreement to their service. Once the two years are up you can stay with the company if you like the service or transfer over to a different company if you didn’t. If you want out of the contract and the two years aren’t up yet then you have to pay a fee to get out of it. I believe marriage should work like the phone contracts work. Renew the contract every certain years if you like the person or leave and find a new partner if you didn’t end up liking them.

NAMES

Christian Juarez

McPherson, Gaylene

English R101

7 September 2014

               What does my name mean? Is a question I never really pondered on, until now. The name given to me by my parents is Christian Juarez. I asked my parents why they named me Christian and the meaning behind the name. I received a simple answer “your mom just liked that name”, said my father.  Since my parents were as clueless as I was on the meaning of the name, I hit the worldwide web and began my research.

I began my research on the name Christian and came across some really informative articles of the origins of the name as well as a silly definition. The name Christian has been around since the mediaeval times. I was surprised when I read that the name was given to male and females back in the 1700s. Now a days Christian is mainly used as a masculine name and when they want to convert it into a female name they use Christina. Upon my research I also found out that the name was given to ten different kings in the 1500s from Denmark. As for the meaning behind the name I found out Christian means follower of Christ. The rest of the articles I found revolved around religion except for a funny definition I found. As I searched my name, I came across the website known as urban dictionary which focuses on the slang meaning of words. According to urban dictionary the name Christian and I quote “Someone who is tired of searching their name on the internet and receiving only religion-related results, overall an awesome person, extremely intelligent and attractive.”  I found that definition very comical and it gave me a few laughs. As for my last name Juarez, I found out it’s from German descent as many Spanish and Portuguese last name are.

            In conclusion, I personally like my name. I wouldn’t change my name but if I did I would probably change it to Christopher. The reason being, it just sound like a sophisticated classy name to me. That’s what I’ll name my son one day most likely “Christopher”. I always thought it would be a hassle for somebody to change his/hers first name since you would have to change information in bank accounts, social security, job, etc… Also it would be hard for your loved ones and friends to call you by your new name since they get accustom to calling you another. I don’t have a middle name but have always been curious to why give somebody a middle name. I personally love my name and wouldn’t change it at all.