The College Life Recipe: Mac Noodle and Cheese

Ingredients:
pack of noodles
box of macaroni and cheese
half pound of ground beef


Preparation:
Preheat a skillet on medium high temperature. When the skillet becomes hot, add the half pound of ground beef. Cook until it is half way done.

It was my first year of college, and I pretty much lived off of Ramen Noodles. Being a freshman, I had no friends, I didn't have a job, and my roommate wasn't all that great of a person.

The college life I would eat Ramen Noodles for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and for a snack. Some days I would go without eating because I was tired of always eating Ramen Noodles. Some days I would even go to my Momma's house hoping she had cooked.

One day I went to my mother and I asked what she was cooking. "I'm cooking Mac Noodle and Cheese." With a crazy look on my face I ask, "What in the world is that?" Momma just laughed and said "It's a recession out here, you have to survive with what you have. My Granny taught me how to make this." Of course this recipe has been changed from generation to generation because we all use different seasonings and techniques.

While Momma was saying this she was adding the noodles and macaroni to a pot with boiling water. While the noodles and macaroni were boiling Momma took the ground beef off the eye and waited for the noodles and macaroni to soften. When they became soft Momma added the ground beef in the pot with the noodles and macaroni, added the cheese and stirred it together. She added the cheese and seasoning and stirred the pot if Mac Noodle and Cheese again.

I'd never forget this day. Its helped me become more creative with things I was becoming bored with. I would have never thought you could be creative with noodles. I came with my own little recipe that's a replica of Chinese noodles, but I'll save that for another day!

Can You Love An Unknown Deceased Person?

             By reading "The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World," you learn that you can love an unknown deceased person, with a great imagination that is. In this short story, a drowned man washes ashore. The children begin to play with the man until the adults found out. Once the adults had got a hold of the drowned man they went into action. The women freshened up the drowned man and the men finding out if anybody in the village was missing. 

               While the men were checking for missing people in the village, the women freshened up the drowned man. First they took the mud off his face, removed the stones from his entangled hair, and scraped off the crust that was on his body. After that the women cut his nails, gave him a haircut, and even sewed him some clothes because he was too big and tall to fit any of the clothes in the village. When the ladies were finished freshening up the drowned man, they gave him name. They named him Esteban. 

              When the men came back they were a little upset at first because their women were showing this drowned man too much attention. Once they saw the man face they too were left breathless, so the village decided to have a funeral for the drowned man. A few women left to go get flowers, which came back with more women with flowers. At one point they were hurt that they had to return him to the waters as an orphan. Therefore they chose a father, a mother, an aunt, an uncle, and cousins from the best people in the village. 

The Coming Up of Music History

            What has happened to the music? Music is nowhere near as good as it used to be. All these new rappers are just talking about getting money, having sex, and degrading women, which   makes the music boring and lame. The music that our parents listened to is what good music is called. Rappers such as Ice Cube, 2Pac, Queen Latifah, and Biggie defined good music, but 2Pac is who really defined good music.  

           2Pac rapped about things that people could relate to. In one of his song called, “Keep Ya Head Up,” 2Pac raps about mistreating the woman in our society. In this song 2Pac says, “I wonder why we take from our women. Why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think it's time to kill for our women,” teaching young men to treat women right.  Today’s music is teaching the children of the society to degrade women and do drugs. Not all rappers are rap this way though. New rapper J. Cole raps about things that the people can relate to. In his new “Crooked Smile” Cole raps about his smile that is not pearly white and straight, as he says himself in the song, “I keep my twisted grill, just to show the kids it's real. We ain't picture perfect but we worth the picture still. “ J. Cole is trying to remind the people what good music is.

                The article “20 Years Ago, Tupac Broke Through,” tells how 2Pac changed music and how the people could relate, being that he went through Los Angeles riots. J. Cole stated, "There's no other singular figure in hip-hop like Tupac Shakur. He wasn't the greatest rapper in the world. He didn't necessarily have the best lyrics all the time, but there was not a figure that captured what hip-hop is and where it came from: working-class black American and Latino and West Indian people from New York City and black and Latino people from the West Coast. No one captured that the way he did."