Waste your life in the gutter just to impress your class mates? Teenagers all over the world seems to think that it is necessary. The use of drugs has become very popular between teenagers, and it varies between all ages and all types of drugs: cigarets, alcahol, marijuana, and even worst ones, like cocain and heroin, for example. Some of the reasons why drugs are used by teenagers relate to fife riscks it causes, the idea of beeing included from society, and because it is addictive. 

First, the advancements in medicine, the life expectancy increased. Because of that, teenagers feels that they need to take riscks, in order to enjoy their life. Julian Mcgregar, for instance, a seventeen-years-old boy from New York, started to use drugs because his life seemed too boring as he felt safe all the time, he had a routine imposed by his mother, and he couldn’t feel any adrenaline by living like that. Everyday new teenagers start using drugs because of the security they have that nothing is going to happen to their lives, what they don’t know though, is that life is already riscky without drugs, specially in the violent world we have today.

The pressure of being included in the society is higher than ever; if a teenager is left outof the school groups, he faces a lot of psychological problems. Nowadays everyone who is considered “cool” in highschool uses drugs, and the only way people find to be accepted in this popular groups is by using drugs too. Kelly Stuart, a fifteen-years-old student, started to drink and to smoke marijuana when she was fourteen, she complains that she really wanted to become friends with the popular girls, and this was the only possible way of calling their attention. Students think that they need to use drugs to be accepted in a nice group at school, because of that, many teenagers have started to use grugs.  Parents should try to show their children, together with school teachers, that drugs are not “cool”, and that the popular group in school should actually be the one that doesn’t use drugs.

Why do people try drugs?

Drugs such as marijuana and cocain have become more popular between teenagers each day. (Marina, this first sentence sounds a lot like the first sentence of the background information of your paper. You would something catchier to grab the reader’s attention to your text.) It has been proven that drugs can cause a lot of negative consequences to the people that use it. However, they continue making use of it, because of the society´s pressure, personal curiosity, or because of their problematic lives. 

Teenagers are very complicated and there is a time that they want to forget their troubles or just run away. Some people believe that the solution is to use drugs to make to aliviate their problems instead of facing it. Paul Smith, a 16 year-old-boy, recently lost his father at a car accident. He couldn´t go out anymore, because he was very depressed. He started to use marijuana. After that he started to meet his friends again and socialize, but always by the effect of drugs. He said that it was his way to continue living. Teenagers should realize that the drugs won´t solve their problems. The drugs can even create more problems to this people, because it harms the human body and it is addictive.

 Some people are curious about the effects that the drugs cause. This people want to feel the sensation that drugs provide. A research showed that 70% of teenagers try drugs such as marijuana once and they had never used it again. Why? Because they just wanted to know how is the sensation of using marijuana. As they have satisfied their curiosity, they don´t need to try it again. The problem is the other 30% that try it and like it. Teenagers have to be warned that their curiosity can become an addiction.

 

Pollution in Scope

Rick, sorry it took so long but I am whithout time and I made an effort for this essay of cause and consequence to be good….hope you like.. Daniel 

Air pollution is a growing problem. Everyone in the world can feel the effects of the use of natural resources without the necessary control and caution. According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, air pollution is the human introduction into the atmosphere of chemicals, particulate matter or biological materials that cause harm or discomfort to humans or other living organisms, or harm the environment. Therefore, the consequeces of air pollution are related to the diseases caused on men and to the damage caused on the environment.

         The diseases caused on men are one of the main effects why air pollution is so dangerous. The World Health Organization believes that 2.4 million people die each year from causes related to air pollution, which may also be indoor air pollution, a toxic chemical found in every American home and three times more likely to cause cancer than outdoor air pollution. According to Dr. Ray Romano, asthma is one of the most common diseases related to air pollution, it makes you more sensitive to its triggers and twice as many people suffer from asthma today compared to 20 years ago. There are two air pollutants that can affect this disease, ozone and particle pollution found in haze, smoke and dust. Most of the deaths caused due to air pollution are related to abusive use of fuels and cars.

John McGuire, 35, who lives in San Antonio, Texas, has asthma since he was born; he claims that since the rise of the air pollution his asthma has gotten worse that it was.” When I was younger I did not have to use inhalation medicines but since the industry boom my asthma is getting worse and worse and I have to use four kinds of medicines everyday to control it’’. Therefore, air pollution has to be reduced and a way to do that is not to use cars and fuels as much as they are being used now, so the diseases caused due to air pollution, such as asthma, may decrease.

Another effect why air pollution is so harmful is the damage it can cause on the environment. With the destruction and burning of the rain forests more and more CO2 is being released into the atmosphere and new kinds of environment issues are appearing. One example of damage air pollution can cause is the smog, which is the result from the irradiation by sunlight of hydrocarbons caused primarily by unburned gasoline emitted by automobiles and other combustion sources. This smog is common during the winter in cities such as London, Chicago and Pittsburgh. In London, England it has killed 4,000 people in one year.

          Acid precipitation is a kind of rain, which has harmful effects on the environment. More known as acid rain, it is mostly caused by emissions due to human activity of sulfur and nitrogen, which react in the atmosphere to produce acids. It can destroy and/or change the forests by changing the pH of the soil. In recent years, many governments have introduced laws to reduce these emissions. Thus, the air pollution can damage the environment and change the world as we know today, so new laws by the government and awareness of the people must start.  

A clean air is essential to our own health and to the environment. But since the industrial revolution, the quality of the air we breathe has deteriorated considerably – mainly as a result of human activities. Rising industrial and energy production, the burning of fossil fuels and the dramatic rise in traffic on our roads all contribute to air pollution in our towns and cities which, in turn, can lead to serious problems.  

The Search of Perfection (by Eliana)

Why plastic surgery is becoming more widespread? Nowadays it seems so easy to correct a body imperfection because plastic surgery is no longer a hidden procedure made only by wealthy people. It’s common to everyone to know someone that have made or intend to make some kind of plastic or cosmetic procedure. It’s becoming more frequent among people to talk about this kind of procedures likewise undergoing them. The main reasons why so many people have been undergoing plastic surgeries are the financial facilities, the low self-esteem, and the search of perfection.

            The financial facilities are bringing more and more people to the operation room. In the past few years, plastic surgery has become possible for those who don’t have enough earnings or savings in order to make such an expensive intervention; clinics and financial aid are helping many people with the payments. Erica Darrow, a 24-year old Chicago waitress wanted to blast away small acne marks on her face, as she didn’t have $ 4,425 for laser resurfacing, she loaned the money from the Unicor Financial, paid $ 500 she earned in tips as a down payment and the rest in $ 178 installments per month. Therefore, many people who weren’t financially able to do cosmetic surgeries have now hope on that.

            A low self-esteem state is something that brings many people under the knife. Those who have real imperfections, like born marks, scars, and other imperfections made by car accidents for example, have in plastic surgery the only hope to become “normal” again. Luciana Oliveira, 39, a friend of mine, had her self esteem back after doing several number of surgeries in order to reconstruct her face after she had it burned when she was opening an oven to light a fire at the age of 35. For these people, plastic surgery is a real miracle, it’s the only way to get their self-esteem back.

            The increase in the number of people that are willing to take the risks of a plastic surgery is also due to a new generation whose search for a perfect body is above all the other values. The teenagers are the ones that undergo plastic surgery even when they don’t have any imperfection; they want to look like models and achieve the beauty standards imposed by the fashion industry. Last summer, Amber Reeves, a 16-year old girl, wanted to be like Madonna. When she realized that even exercising and dieting weren’t getting her hips smaller, she decided to do a surgical procedure to reduce them. Even not having a visible imperfection, teenagers are undergoing plastic surgeries just to reach perfection.

            Therefore, many people are going under the knife because of varied reasons. If one looks after them, more reasons will be found. The increase in the number of clinics and plastic surgeons are proofs that plastic surgery is becoming more and more frequent.

The boom of the 21th century

By Marina Gemperli and Marcella Ziccarelli

 

Fast food is the boom of the 21th century and each day it becomes more popular. Fast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly. Eating fast-food has been criticized a lot by a group of people that created a movement called slow food. This movement defends traditional meals, that are eaten slowly, and they affirm that fast food is harmful to human’s health and it shouldn’t be eaten. However, the number of people that eats fast food all over the world increases every day and it has become more popular in the last decade, because it is practical, chip and addictive.

 

Nowadays, the population has been facing a growing need for places to eat near their office as they are under the constraint of time. Because of such limitation, people have been switching their traditional lunches for sandwiches and fast food. Since employees believe that “time is money”, they are always in a hurry, looking for quick meals to avoid wasting time. A research has shown that 86% of workers eat outside their houses every day and just 7% of them are able to avoid eating fast food during the week. Most of these people eat at least twice a week at McDonald’s, Burger King or Subway, which are the most popular fast food restaurants in Brazil. When food is eaten fast, the organism doesn’t have time to process all the food, and it doesn’t communicate to the brain that the amount of food consumed is enough; for that reason, people eat more than necessary, which is one of the main reasons for the weight gain. Therefore, companies should provide their workers more time to eat so that they can have a healthy lunch, halting this increase of fast food consumption.

 

Another reason why people search for fast food is that it is financial feasible. The price of healthy food, like vegetables and cereal is rising, while the price of fast food has remain stable for over twenty years. When people have to eat everyday outside their houses, they need something chip, otherwise they are going to exceed their budget in the end of the month. Because of that, people usually choose fast food. A chip restaurant charges about R$30,00 per kilo , while in McDonald’s, for instance, it is possible to have a complete meal for only R$9,50. It is not financial feasible for a worker to eat everyday at a restaurant that serves healthy food, that’s why fast food has become so popular in Brazil.

It is not only people’s choice to eat fast food everyday. Scientists have proved that hamburgers and french fries can be as addictive as heroin. The main reason why people feel necessity of eating fast food is because of the great amount of sugar and fat that causes chemical reactions of pleasure in our brain. Fast food increases the sugar taxes in our blood to the highest level, after that it decreases so fast that causes a natural desire for more fast food. Jonathan Stuart, a 12 year-old-boy, is addicted to fast food. He can not spend a week without eating at McDonald’s, which is his favorite fast food restaurant. He said that when he eats a hamburger or french fries he feels an amazing sensation of satisfaction and for that reason, he always wants to eat more and more fast food. People should be warned that fast food is addictive, so they would try not to make this a habit.

 

The search for fast-food restaurants increases in Brazil everyday; these restaurants are seen as the only option for workers that need something quick, practical and chip to eat. What people don’t realize, thought, is that by making fast-food a habit, they are perhaps submitting themselves to a new addiction. The new boom of the 21^st century, fast-food, have everything to keep rising if people don’t get conscious of the harms it can perform to the human body, such as obesity, diabetics, and heart diseases. For that reason, the number of people that eat fast-food, must be reduced and movements like the slow-food should be created in protest to such habit.

 

Fome Zero #6

Donation is a way to perpetuate poverty . Giving money to poor people as the only way to help them instead of giving good fundamental education or job opportunities is not the right path to face and solve the situation, creating a poverty-stricken group of people. The Brazilian government social program named Fome Zero consists of a monthly voucher of R$ 200,00 given to poor people, mainly in boondocks, in order to give them at least the minimum living conditions, like eating in a daily basis, buying some clothes, having personal hygien. Unfortunately, Fome Zero has been working as a palliative solution for people not to try to find work, it has been making people comfortable with the receiving money situation, and it has been encouraging these people to sign up their siblings permanently in the program.

The first major problem with the Fome Zero program is that poor people enlisted in it do not look for a job with the intention of becoming self sufficient in life. Many of these people are trying to put themselves in a comfortable situation by just receiving the money and not making a real effort to improve their life quality, assuming Fome Zero will last forever. João da Silva, 35, recently unemployed who lives is Itapipoca, Ceara, one of the poorest states in Brazil, decided to quit his menial job one month after having received his first Fome Zero voucher. ” There is no reason for me to work for working 8 hours a day on a daily basis if I can stay home with my family for the same period of time earning an equivalent amount” , João said. Although giving money is a way to help these people, it does not solve the poverty problem.

The second problem of Fome Zero program is that staying at home goofing off instead of trying to improve the work capacity, taking courses in order to improve job abilities is not a smart decision to make, because people can not handle the money dependence situation. At the moment the donation ends, the poverty will increase again.  This situation happens a lot in cities involved in Fome Zero. It’s commom to walk around the streets and see people playing cards, chatting with friends and doing nothing, as they have settled in their own lifestyles due to the confortable situation of receive money to stay at home.  To a person without a good level of education, which is the bulk of people in the Fome Zero program according to IBGE, it is difficult to understand why it is wrong stay at home receiving donation. Having a decent job depending on himself, is much better than depending on government mood. Governments can change, programs can be finished, but a good worker will last decades. They are unable to grasp the concept that if government changes or simply call off the program, they will face a lot of problems, probably more than they had faced before joining the program. For instance, Marcos Abreu, 45, former farm worker, is so satisfied with the program that he quit his job, deciding to just receive Fome Zero donation. “ I was tired of my job. I had a terrible boss and a very low wage . I preferred to quit and spend my free time with friends. Fome Zero is my retirement program”, Marcos laughs. Unfortunately, situations like these happen, and people like Marcos will regret when the program ends, finishing his retirement program. Not trying to improve work abilities can sounds good at the beginning, but at the end it will only increase the gap between poor people and the ones that live above the line of poverty.  

Finally, Fome Zero fosters generations to become permanently dependent on this governmental program. Assuming that Fome Zero will last forever, siblings will follow their relatives’ paths by staying at home with their family. This attitude will only amplify the social disparity problem by making people stay in the program and not to make an effort to develop his job skills and then making they live the same lifestyle they have always lived. These extra people on this program will be the second generation and will face a new kind of challenge by already being born in the program they will think that Fome Zero is the only way they can live and will totally settle. Washington da Silva, 16, is João’s oldest son and he talks about not wanting to work because he already has a house to live and he will be able to keep on living under with Fome Zero program. If these new people that are entering the program do not have the parents’ guidance working as a good model, they will continue making the same mistake and will permanently stay in Fome Zero.

 

A nation who wants to get bigger, increasing the number of smart people and decreasing the number of people in the line of poverty, can not just give money. Good fundamental school, job opportunities and equal life conditions are the right way to go. Providing good resources is much better than just give the money to low education people, generating dependence. Humanity is bring people to society, is not buying them. 

Touching the Sky

I’ve been traveling a lot since 2002. Sometimes on a vacation trip, sometimes on a business trip. The honeymoon trip, on August 2006 was the most amazing one. My wife and I spent 20 days traveling around Italy. We visited more than 10 cities, coming into churchs, knowing wineyards, eating great food. The most-likely city was Rome.

In my opinion, Rome is the most interesting city on the world. Walking in Rome streets is live living inside history books. I remember first time I saw “Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele” a huge bulding, built 100 years ago on a tribute to an emperor. The amazing build’s architecture, thousands of white stones combined making a 21 century construction on 1900. Then, walking around Fontana di Trevi. I almost can feel that feel that fresh air now. The shinning sun, soft wind, the sound of the watter invading my ears, my wife smiling to me, enjoying this unique moment.

As a catholic couple, last days of trip we decided to go to Vatican. I will never forget that days August 30th, 2006. Every wednesday at Vatican, the Pope celebrates on open eventon atheatrs inside Vatican. My wife and I woke up very early that wednesday trying to take a good place in the theatre.

At the moment that we arrived Piazza San Pietro, which is in the front of Vatican, we saw an enormous line. Thousands of people trying to come in. We were disapointed. We were expectingf that moment for 6 months. I thought to gave up then I looked my wife, in the line, smiling to me, satisfied, a dream come true. This scene I’ll never forget too. At that moment I cried happy tears. I coudn’t  for her and for me. We were stand in the line for 3 hours when the door opened. A lot of noise, screams, we had to run to take a place not a good one, but at least a place. The theatre was full, we were at the last 2 chairs seated, finally. Suddenly, the door opened again. Screams again, but this time higher than the other one. A lot of cameras taking pictures. The Pope come in, deciding to walk between people. Unbeliveable! He walked slowly in our direction and we could touch him, receiving a bless. A personal one. I cried again. Many catholics cruising the world just to see him and I had received a bless. Since that day, everytime I go to the church I can feel the same sensation, which I’ve been calling faith. What a wonderfull trip!!

Fome Zero #4/5

Donation is a way to perpetuate poverty . Giving money to poor people as the only way to help them instead of giving good fundamental education or job opportunities is not the right path to face and solve the situation, creating a poverty-stricken group of people. The Brazilian government social program named Fome Zero consists of a monthly voucher of R$ 200,00 given to poor people, mainly in boondocks, in order to give them at least the minimum living conditions, like eating in a daily basis, buying some clothes, having personal hygien. Unfortunately, Fome Zero has been working as a palliative solution for people not to try to find work, it has been making people comfortable with the receiving money situation, and it has been encouraging these people to sign up their siblings permanently in the program.

The first major problem with the Fome Zero program is that poor people enlisted in it do not look for a job with the intention of becoming self sufficient in life. Many of these people are trying to put themselves in a comfortable situation by just receiving the money and not making a real effort to improve their life quality, assuming Fome Zero will last forever. João da Silva, 35, recently unemployed who lives is Itapipoca, Ceara, one of the poorest states in Brazil, decided to quit his menial job one month after having received his first Fome Zero voucher. ” There is no reason for me to work for working 8 hours a day on a daily basis if I can stay home with my family for the same period of time earning an equivalent amount” , João said. Although giving money is a way to help these people, it does not solve the poverty problem.

The second problem of Fome Zero program is that staying at home goofing off instead of trying to improve the work capacity, taking courses in order to improve job abilities is not a smart decision to make, because people can not handle the money dependence situation. At the moment the donation ends, the poverty will increase again.  This situation happens a lot in cities involved in Fome Zero. It’s commom to walk around the streets and see people playing cards, chatting with friends and doing nothing, as they have settled in their own lifestyles due to the confortable situation of receive money to stay at home.  To a person without a good level of education, which is the bulk of people in the Fome Zero program according to IBGE, it is difficult to understand why it is wrong stay at home receiving donation. Having a decent job depending on himself, is much better than depending on government mood. Governments can change, programs can be finished, but a good worker will last decades. They are unable to grasp the concept that if government changes or simply call off the program, they will face a lot of problems, probably more than they had faced before joining the program. For instance, Marcos Abreu, 45, former farm worker, is so satisfied with the program that he quit his job, deciding to just receive Fome Zero donation. “ I was tired of my job. I had a terrible boss and a very low wage . I preferred to quit and spend my free time with friends. Fome Zero is my retirement program”, Marcos laughs. Unfortunately, situations like these happen, and people like Marcos will regret when the program ends, finishing his retirement program. Not trying to improve work abilities can sounds good at the beginning, but at the end it will only increase the gap between poor people and the ones that live above the line of poverty.  

Finally, Fome Zero fosters generations to become permanently dependent on this governmental program. Assuming that Fome Zero will last forever, siblings will follow their relatives’ paths by staying at home with their family. This attitude will only amplify the social disparity problem by making people stay in the program and not to make an effort to develop his job skills and then making they live the same lifestyle they have always lived. These extra people on this program will be the second generation and will face a new kind of challenge by already being born in the program they will think that Fome Zero is the only way they can live and will totally settle. Washington da Silva, 16, is João’s oldest son and he talks about not wanting to work because he already has a house to live and he will be able to keep on living under with Fome Zero program. If these new people that are entering the program do not have the parents’ guidance working as a good model, they will continue making the same mistake and will permanently stay in Fome Zero.

Ok, guys. Here is what I think. As far as structure goes, your introduction is flawless. Very solid indeed. And so is your first argument. Now, you guys will have to develop a second paragraph that is as good as the first one. Also, you will need to revise this third paragraph as far as your content goes, avoiding all the overlapping of ideas with the first one. Also, you will need to work on a concluding paragraph. This is all due until 8:00 p.m. this coming Sunday.

PS: In class tonight, we will start a new rhetorical strategy called Comparison and Contrast. An option you guys have is to abandon the Fome Zero and work on this one together again. It is your call (= decision).

Rick

The 2014 World Cup

B-R-A-Z-I-L, those were the letters that the president of FIFA mentioned in 30, October 2007. Unique competitor to host the Cup, five-time-champion, the biggest cradle of pros, random continents and good avaliation of inspectors. Everything has gone perfectly. The 2014 World Cup will certainly be held in Brazil. The former countries who have hosted the World Cup have had a breathtaking impact on its economy. In countries as the USA in 1994 and France in 1998, the NGP reached an increase of almost 1.5% during and after the competition. In Germany, this increase achieved 2% in 2006 and the championship created over 50,000 temporary jobs. In 2002, Korea’s NGP boosted to an astonishing 3% as the country received 250.000 tourists during that period. In 5 years, Brazil will have the chance to host this worldwide known competition again. Having the World Cup in Brazil in 2014 will be a unique chance to offer temporary jobs to the general population, to spread our culture more assertively to the rest of the world, and to improve our security problem, which has been an issue that has been plaguing our society for years.

One of the advantages of helding the World Cup is the huge number of temporary jobs that will be created for the population. Among the FIFA’s demands there are: evaluating, planning, investing, mapping, controlling problems  with intelligent and preventive actions and preparing the country to enjoy the most the event, before it, during it and even after it. To accomplish all these requirements, a big team of employees will be involved. Our country needs a big change on its infrastructure. Works on soccer stadiums to seat the cheerers, improvement of means of transport including a new highway planning, mending roads and corrections on the airports are indispensable. As well as a development on the telecommunication systems to divulgate the event and broadcast it to the rest of the world and building hotels to accommodate the tourists. But all of these are some temporary jobs necessary before the games. During the event another ones will come up as information assistant for the tourists, hotel extra employees for cleaning and preparing the food, public drivers and other ones to transport the teams, police and so on. So, the population, besides being able to see his country hosting an international and important event, can also collaborate with his works and profit from it too.

Moreover, the fact of the world cup be in Brazil can help our country to spread the Brazilian culture among the world. The expectation is that in a month 500,000 tourists of all over the world – 10% of the total that the country received in a whole year – will arrive in the cities where the games will be placed. This will be a great opportunity to show  that Brazil is a polite country, with ravishing landscapes and a carefree population, diminishing the prejudice that develop countries have about Brazil. Rubbernecks who visited for the first time our country say that they thought that nation was only about forest, carnival and football. Now, once in Brazil, the tourist will have the willing to came back to spend the vacations with their families and friends, causing development in our economy. Therefore, hosting the world cup will help Brazil to take off the bad ideas the world has about the land, disseminating our culture worldwide.

Finally, to be the seat of a vasty event that the world cup is, lot has to be done to improve the security. Violence has been the number one issue in our society. And in this period of intense circulation of tourists in the country, the security has to be strengthened, especially in places near the stadiums and in the tourist points. For this to be possible, a group of Brazilian policemen was in Germany to follow Pantry 2006 and to study the project of security adopted in the competition.  The main highways and the accesses to the competition places will be under responsibility of the Federal Road Policy and the airspace and maritime will be fiscalized by the Armed Forces. All these measures need to be taken so that unfortunate examples of violence against tourist do not occur as of an Italian youngster who was in vacation with his family in Rio de Janeiro, when reacting after an assault, was beastly killed. For these reasons, the security has to be guaranteed for all the people so that the 2014 World Cup can be a beautiful and peaceful event.

Therefore, the World Cup in Brazil, 2014, will be a huge opportunity to approach our security system, disseminate our country towards the world and give temporary jobs to the population. Besides being a sort event, Brazil has to go beyond the sporting range as a right and chore and reassert the soccer as a cultural endowment. As Mauricio Murad, a 57-year-old sport sociologist it is not because we have flaws on security, transports and infrastructure that we can’t host the Cup, on the contrary we should host it to improve our conditions. This huge and known event is the first step for the improvement. Sport is identity expression and factor of social promotion. A Cup doesn’t solve basic and structural issues, but can help. It only depends on us.
 

INTRODUCTION

Nowadays, it is noticed a rising necessity of the population for a place to eat near their office, as they don´t have much time to eat. Because of that, people are changing traditional lunches for sanduiches and fast food. Employees usually keep in their minds that “time is money”, therefore they are  always in a hurry ,looking for quick meals to avoid wasting time. A research has shown that 96% of workers eat outside their houses every day and just 7% of them are able to avoid eating fast food on the week. Most of the people eat at least twice a week in Mc Donalds, Burger King or Subway, that are the most popular restaurants of fast food in Brazil. This boom of fast food is caused by the short time given to employees to have lunch. Companies should provide their workers more time to eat, so they could have a healthy lunch.

Another reason why people search for fast food is that it is financial fesiable. The price of healthy food, like vegetables and cereal is rising, while the price of fast food has remain stable for over twenty years. When people have to eat everyday outside their houses they need something chip, otherwise they are going to exceed their budget in the end of the month. Because of that people usually choose fast food. A chip restaurant charges about R$30,00 per kilo , while in Mc Donalds, for istance, it is possible to have a complete meal for only R$9,50. It is not financial fesiable for a worker to eat everyday at a restaurant that serves healthy food, thats why fast food has become so popular in Brazil.

It is not only people´s choice to eat fast food everyday. Cientists have proved that hamburgers and french fries can be as addictive as heroin. The main reason why people feel necessity of eating fast food is because of the great amount of sugar and fat that causes chimical reactions of pleasure in our brain. Fast food increases the sugar taxes in our blood to the highest level, after that it decreases so fast that causes a natural desire for more fast food. EXEMPLO CONCLUDING SENTENCE