Subway

So today I had subway not once but twice, yes I really do like subway subs. But today I'm not writing about how much I enjoy their food or how for five dollars you can get any sub you want, today I would like to talk about their employees. I have been to several subways and noticed a trend amongst them they all seem to hire incompetent thuggish looking individuals. Now I'm not one to pass judgement because I wouldn't want it done to me but when I go to subway and the person making my sandwich has a tear drop tattoo on their face and a name in old English on their neck it makes me think twice about who these people are and how they got hired. I have spoken to some of these individuals and they tell me that they are ex cons and some had recently gotten out of jail. I don't mind so much that they do have tattoos but I do mind when I am ordering my sandwich and the individual can't listen to what I say. If I have to repeat myself once or twice that's fine but when I have to say the same thing four to five times and they still get it wrong then it bothers me. How many times do I have to say no onions for them to understand but yet they still put onions! These issues will not stop me from eating at subway again even if I have to continue to repeat myself over and over to get my sandwich right,but it is just some food for thought. Eat fesh.

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Effects of smoking on non-smokers

·         The U.S. Surgeon General and the International Agency for Research on Cancer have classified secondhand smoke as a known human carcinogen (cancer-causing agent) (4, 8, 9). Inhaling secondhand smoke causes lung cancer in nonsmoking adults (

·         Approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths occur each year among adult nonsmokers in the United States as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke

·         The U.S. Surgeon General estimates that living with a smoker increases a nonsmoker’s chances of developing lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent

·         http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco/cessation

brainstorming

Why there needs to be a ban on smoking in public places.

Writing Workshop

When seeing someone you don’t know for the first time don’t judge them solely based on their appearance.

Many people get judged by their appearance and are profiled to be a certain way just by their looks. I have had it done many times the most memorable was at Dillard’s when I was accused of stealing based solely on my appearance. I was wearing a hoodie and Dickies pants and apparently because my outfit was one of what a shoplifter would wear I was profiled as one. I have never in my life been in any kind of trouble but because I didn’t fit the “non shoplifter” image it was automatically assumed that I was one. Staples uses examples of this in his essay, when the gentleman is walking down the street behind the young white woman she gets scared because of his appearance. He is described as being a “youngish black man – a broad six feet two inches with a beard and billowing hair, both hands shoved into the pockets of a bulky military jacket.” The lady perceived him as being dangerous based on his looks when in reality he posed no threat to her at all he was walking at night not to catch people and hurt them but to catch some sleep since he was suffering from insomnia. Staples goes on to say that the gentlemen had to change the ways in which he conducted himself the guy had to start whistling classical tunes as he walked at night to make others feel at ease or would have to walk by a building

walk on by journal entry

I can’t really think of a situation where I knew I was perceived as being threatening but I can remember a situation where i was profiled for how I looked. It was the day after Thanksgiving and I was on a break from work I decided to go the mall with some friends to kill some time and look around. I did not go home and change I didn’t think it would matter I found that out the hard way. As we got to the mall we entered through Dillard’s I looked around at some clothes and tried some shirts on we decided to go out into the mall. As we entered the mall I felt a tug on the back of my hoodie I turned around to see three police officers standing in front of me. They didn’t ask me my name first or who I was but asked where the merchandise was. I looked at them with a puzzled look I did not steal anything but was profiled because I was wearing a big hoodie because it was cold outside and I had on my work pants which were dickies.

just walk on by

I think what stands out to me most are the precautions the gentleman has to take, he really can’t live his life normal. If he is walking to a business and the people in front of him are going to the same business he can’t walk in like a normal person he has to continue to walk passing the business up then return and enter so it doesn’t seem like he is following anyone. Also for him to walk the streets at night he whistles classical tunes so others will be calm around him. It sucks that someone has to live life this way

Reading Tattoos

1.       The heart tattoo with the name is large it has the name “Lisa” on a banner with a line through it to show it being marked out, under it there is another banner with the name Karen. What obviously stands out the most is the name that was there that has a line going through it also to me the heart seems very plain and boring. The heart almost looks like a weird circle, the name with the line through it is right in the middle of the whole piece, the line through it seems to be darker than any other part of the tattoo.

The next tattoo is one of a rose on a shoulder it looks old and the lines look somewhat blurred together. To me this tattoo looks very old the lines look blurred together and don’t have much definition.

The next tattoo is one of Jiminy Cricket it is also on the shoulder and shows him holding an umbrella. This tattoo looks to be not very old you can see most of the detail you can really see his top hat and the lines in it.

The last tattoo is a whole back piece and looks to also extend to the front; it is of a samurai holding a sword. There is so much to this tattoo there is shading everywhere no part of his back is left untouched. The giant samurai in the middle is decorated by intricate designs and shading all around him.

2.       I think people get tattoos to express who they are and how they feel.

3.        For example the first tattoo of the hearts with the names was probably done when the gentleman was with an ex-girlfriend named Lisa things who he cared about very much he expressed his feelings for her by getting her name and heart on his arm, things probably went bad and they broke up. The guy then got with another woman named Karen he wanted to express his feeling for her and had her name tattooed on him to show her and scratched out Lisa’s name. This was all done for him to express how he felt for these women. The guy with the samurai tattoo had his done to express himself and be different