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observation

I decided to go to the union and choose one of the restaurants on the second floor as the observation position. I ordered a bubble tea, and sit in the center of the rest area. Most people with their friends were sitting in the dining area, enjoying their dinner and chatting happily. I looked around to find my target. After a few minutes, I saw a middle-aged man wearing yellow clothes, carrying a gray vacuum cleaner. It made me very surprised because I never noticed how the restaurant was cleaned. Just when I was ready to start watching, there was a situation that made me very embarrassing, and there was a waiter dressed in red clothes from time to time around me. At that time, I did not care, and when I drank pearl milk tea, he suddenly walked quickly to the table, a pair of milky white rubber gloves appeared in front of me, I was shocked, looked up and saw a pair of brown eyes, and with brown curly hair waiter, because there is no reaction, I just kept looking at him, he was like a v...

A Gringo in the Lettuce Fields

I think A Gringo in the Lettuce Fields is particularly interesting when we were discussing in the class.  This article is mainly about a New York Times author-Gabriel Thompson, in his first visit to the United States on the Mexican border field, observing and learning how to cut vegetables. The author describes in very detail how his companions cut lettuce.  in this observation, he saw every few seconds, Manuel bends over and grabs a head of lettuce with his left hand and cuts the lettuce with his right hand and separates the lettuce from the root.  Next, he picked up the lettuce, cut the second cut, and trimmed the trunk.  He shook the lettuce and let the outer leaves fall to the ground.  He took the blade in his hand, then brought the lettuce to his waist, and with a flick of his wrist, the head was wrapped and landed on the machine.  And then the author started the first attempt as a participator, At the beginning of the time, the author the action...

soup

This article describes a famous Armenian chef who uses only the best of the freshest ingredients to make the soup, and he has almost harsh requirements for his own restaurant environment and his staffs, and even for those who buy his soup, he also has a strictly bound.  The article 4 to 6 depicts his attitude towards the customer.“I tell you, I hate to work with the public.  They treat me like a slave.  My philosophy is: The customer is always wrong and I'm always right.  I raised my prices to try to get rid of some of these people, but it didn't work."  And he is very particular about the tastes of all kinds of soups, but also he has a well aware for a lot of the ingredients, he put all his time in making perfect soups, "At home, I have several hundreds of books. When I do research, I find that I don't know anything.  Like cabbage is a cancer fighter, and some fish is good for your heart but some is bad.  Every day, I should have one sweet, one spicy,...

the danger of a single story

The storyteller is a woman. Because she had read the story of the British and American life since childhood, So the people in her story are all white,  they play in the snow, eat apples and ginger beer.  But the fact is that she grew up in Nigeria, and she even has not seen ginger beer. Thus, she concluded that children are easily influenced by a story.  From then on, she began to write everything she was familiar with.  For the only impact of Fide's family was very poor, however, they have their own production of things.  and also, her american roommate had the single story about Africa,  she had been labeled as an African.  after a few years, she also influenced by media in mexico.  But when she really dissolved into the Mexican life, was surprised to find that most of the original Mexicans are kind, life is comfortable, happy. In other words, whether it is the girl or her American roommate, because the geographical differences, people und...

Rick

the story talks about the childhood of author, by a friend's introduction, he started his first practice in high school water polo team. to start with, when author saw his coach, he spent a lot of time to describe the coach's appearance in details. it was different than the writer's impress. and then, after training the coach said the author was too skinny, too young, too stupid, too weak to be on his team. furthermore, the coach began to "torture" the author in the last week, added more push ups and wind sprints, the coach kept angry whenever the boy failure.  no matter how tried the author was, the coach still asking writer to keep fighting without sympathy, even though fight with old and experiential players, hit it back, and never cry or look out coach.  Apparently, by a period of time training, author won the first game perfectly. when writer ready to blame his coach after game, his coach laughed and be very proud of author, suddenly, author understand that t...