1. Grocery stores in wealthy vs poor areas
2. Food inequality
3. Fast food

1. Eating disorders
2. Fast Food
3. Unfair farm labor towards migrant workers

1.) Pandemic’s effect on food industry

2.) Bad working conditions inside restaurants

3.) Impacts of online food ordering

1. Pandemic effects on restaurants
2. impacts of food allergies
3. delivery apps

1.Fast food

2.Media effects on diet

3.Food desserts

1. Fast food – we’re living in a food desert
2. GMO vs Non GMO
3. Food addiction

Don’t forget to complete your Mid-Semester Reflection!  You can access the form HERE.

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I have to say, Ice cream never fails to be by my side when I need it the most. From heartbreaks, to accomplishments and overload of homework, Ice cream has always been there to comfort me. Something about the overload of sugar gives me an adrenaline rush, it brings me back to life and lifts my mood. There have been far too many times where icecream has been the only push to keep me going and for that, I owe it my life. 

Ice cream has been a reward for me my whole life. In elementary school, whenever it was a parent teacher conference and my parents were happy and satisfied with my grades, I would be treated with three scoops on Ben and Jerry’s cookie dough ice cream. I was never able to finish it but just looking at the worker scoop up three huge scoops onto my cup made my mouth water and I couldn’t wait to devour the ice cream. Whenever it was my birthday, I would always get an ice cream cake that day and I couldn’t wait to hide the left overs in my fridge so I could be able to eat it the next day for breakfast, an act my mother only allowed me once a year to do, which was on my birthday week. Whenever I was sad over something or just genuinely had a bad day, my mom would be so understanding and bring me ice cream to lift up my mood and make me feel better. To me, eating ice cream is more of a comfort to brighten up my best and worst days. 

I have always been on top of my classes in school and school has always been pretty easy for me. The first time I ever had difficulty was in the first semester of my freshman year in college. I was genuinely struggling with learning online and adapting to the changes that come with transitioning from high school to college. I was especially struggling in math. 

Every time I had to take a test for my pre-calculus class, I would study every single day prior to the test. What motivated me to continue doing this was that I always treated myself with some ice cream at the end of the day. I wasn’t the healthiest choice but it kept me going. Knowing that at night I was able to treat myself to a soft, creamy, cold vanilla ice cream made me want to keep studying. 

I could never understand those who say they don’t like ice cream. How could they not?! They say it’s too cold, but don’t realize  how much ice cream can warm up someone’s life. What is so amazing about ice cream is the fact that it is not seasonal, and comes in all different types of flavors.  It is never a bad day to have some ice cream. Ice cream may be a bit unhealthy and high in calories but the amount of happiness it brings makes it all worth it.

As an accompaniment to the sentences I distributed to you on Monday, I wanted to offer you some brief explanations of some of the important categories of error you may discover through this exercise and in your own writing and that of your peers.  This is meant to be a very quick review; more more detailed explanations as well as the opportunity to practice working on these concepts, I recommend the Purdue OWL, Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab.

I.  Sentence Fragment:  A sentence fragment, as the name suggests, is a sentence that is grammatically incomplete.  In order to be grammatically complete, a sentence needs three things:  a subject, a verb, and to express a complete thought.  A sentence fragment is missing one of these three things.

Subject in grammar refers to the person or thing doing the action.  For example, in the sentence  “The chef cooked the meal,”  the grammatical subject is “chef.”  In the sentence, “Her mood seemed tense,” the grammatical subject is  “mood.”

Verb in grammar refers to the word or group of words in a sentence that expresses an action or a state of being.  The word predicate is sometimes used as a synonym for verb. In the sentences I used above (“The chef cooked the meal.” and “Her mood seemed tense.”), the verbs are cooked and seemed.

Express a  Complete Thought: Sometimes we may encounter a group of words that contains both a subject and a verb, yet fails to express a complete thought.  For example, if the sentence were “After the chef cooked the meal,” that would be a sentence fragment.  There is a subject and a verb, but it doesn’t express a complete thought.  The same would be true if our sentence were “Because her mood seemed tense;”  we have a subject and a verb, but not a complete thought.

How to fix a sentence fragment? Sometimes in order to fix a sentence fragment, all you need to do it to attach the fragment to the sentence it properly belongs to – which could be the one that comes right before or after it.  Another way to fix a fragment is to provide whichever of the three elements I mentioned above  (subject, verb, complete thought) is missing

II. Comma Splice: The  verb “splice” means to join or connect.  A comma splice is a type of error in which the author has connected two independent clauses with a comma rather than using more appropriate punctuation.  You know you have a comma splice if you read the words that come before the comma and see that they could stand on their own as a complete sentence and then look at the words that come after the comma and see that they could stand independently too.  For example if I wrote, “Many students have questions, the instructions were not clear,” that would be a comma splice.  I can tell that that’s the case because I could have a sentence that read, “Many students have questions,” and I could also have a sentence that said, “The instructions were not clear.”

How to fix a comma splice? Fixing a comma splice is pretty straightforward.  You have three options.  You can simply replace the comma with a period. Or you can replace the comma with a semi-colon:  Many students have questions; the instructions were not clear. We use a semi-colon to join two sentences that are closely related in meaning.  It is a slightly softer break than a period.  A third option to fix a comma splice would be to add a word or group of words to create a complex sentence.  This could look something like: Many students have questions because the instructions were not clear.

I hope this short post helps to clarify these two types of sentence error.  Please post any questions in the comments.  You can also use the comments to let me know what other grammatical or mechanical issues you would like us to cover in ENG 2150!