Panera Bread is; a baker of bread, fresh from the oven, a symbol of warmth and welcome, a simple pleasure, honest and genuine, a life story told over dinner, a long lunch with an old friend, your weekday morning ritual, the kindest gesture of neighbors, home, family, and fiends (Panera Bread). Panera Bread is a restaurant that is between a fast food, and sit-down. Panera Bread has a great atmosphere, food, and is involved with the community. Overall Panera Bread is a good place.
LS- I thought that the opening was good but maybe you need to state your position in thesis more specifically. The intro did make me want to learn more about the place though, even pulling me into somewhat loving this place even though I the reader don’t even know what this place is. Your position did seem arguable to me. Use more specific wording at the end of the intro it was good except for near the end.
AN – Your first paragraph is good overall, you don’t need the semi colon after is in the first sentence. You have an arguable position, however, be careful in using good and great as your words to describe the place as it is somewhat ambiguous in nature. What does good mean, what does great mean? I like all the description you use to set a scene, so we feel what Panera is, but try adding description of what you see at the location.
T.M. – I too like your open paragraph. But I like what A.N. said so u should look at that.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Panera Bread Review:
Panera Bread is; a baker of bread, fresh from the oven, a symbol of warmth and welcome, a simple pleasure, honest and genuine, a life story told over dinner, a long lunch with an old friend, your weekday morning ritual, the kindest gesture of neighbors, home, family, and fiends (Panera Bread). Panera Bread is a restaurant that is between a fast food, and sit-down. Panera Bread has a great atmosphere, food, and is involved with the community. Overall Panera Bread is a good place.
As you walk up to Panera Bread you see table outside with people enjoying their meal and the summer weather in the shade. The sidewalks and parking lot lack any debris that would have blown in or have been discarded by a careless customer. This shows there determination and effort the employees put forth to make the customers experience just that much more enjoyable. As you walk in the door you encounter a very homey feel. Everyone is satisfied with their meal and enjoying it peacefully. The colors that you see are shades of green, orange, brown and tan, along with the lighting, not too dark but not too bright, enhance the homey feel. I was greeted as I came in the door; my order was taken at the counter by a very nice associate. The associate started talking to my about current events, and before I knew it my food was ready. I walked down to the counter to pick up my food and noticed how clean the floors and counters were, another example of Panera Bread’s associates determination and effort. When I received my food the associate preparing the food said “enjoy your meal.” After I ate my food I walked up to the manager and ask for information on what Panera and its associates were about and the manager handed me a card with the rules that the employees go by.
This card has in words what I experienced in coming to Panera Bread; everything from coming into the store to getting my food.
Panera Bread believes is giving back to the community. They do this by showing their appreciation for the customers, sponsoring events, participating in charitable events, and Operation Dough-Nation® programs (Panera Bread). Operation Dough-Nation was instated in 1992 and formalized Panera Bread’s involvement with the community. Operation Dough-Nation has two parts the Community Breadbox, and the Day-End Dough-Nation.
The Community Breadbox program is a place where customers or anyone can donate money to feed back into the community. Panera Bread matches a part of the donations made and directs the money to non-profit organizations.
The Day-End Dough-Nation program packages the unsold bread and allows non-profit organization to sign up to pick up bread at the end of the day. Local food banks and charities are the normal groups who take advantage of Day-End Dough-Nation. Over the past few years Panera Bread has donated more that $12 million worth of bread (Panera Bread).
Panera Bread offers a wide verity of foods. They have deserts, sandwich bread, bagels and many other types of bread. All of their bread is made fresh every morning by trained artisan bakers. In addition to the bread baked in the morning before the store opens more cookies and baguettes are made during the day to ensure the product is as fresh as possible.
Work Cited
Panera Bread. 2008. 23 Jan. 2008.
Panera Bread is; a baker of bread, fresh from the oven, a symbol of warmth and welcome, a simple pleasure, honest and genuine, a life story told over dinner, a long lunch with an old friend, your weekday morning ritual, the kindest gesture of neighbors, home, family, and fiends (Panera Bread). Panera Bread is a restaurant that is between a fast food, and sit-down. Panera Bread has a great atmosphere, food, and is involved with the community. Overall Panera Bread is a good place.
As you walk up to Panera Bread you see table outside with people enjoying their meal and the summer weather in the shade. The sidewalks and parking lot lack any debris that would have blown in or have been discarded by a careless customer. This shows there determination and effort the employees put forth to make the customers experience just that much more enjoyable. As you walk in the door you encounter a very homey feel. Everyone is satisfied with their meal and enjoying it peacefully. The colors that you see are shades of green, orange, brown and tan, along with the lighting, not too dark but not too bright, enhance the homey feel. I was greeted as I came in the door; my order was taken at the counter by a very nice associate. The associate started talking to my about current events, and before I knew it my food was ready. I walked down to the counter to pick up my food and noticed how clean the floors and counters were, another example of Panera Bread’s associates determination and effort. When I received my food the associate preparing the food said “enjoy your meal.” After I ate my food I walked up to the manager and ask for information on what Panera and its associates were about and the manager handed me a card with the rules that the employees go by.
This card has in words what I experienced in coming to Panera Bread; everything from coming into the store to getting my food.
Panera Bread believes is giving back to the community. They do this by showing their appreciation for the customers, sponsoring events, participating in charitable events, and Operation Dough-Nation® programs (Panera Bread). Operation Dough-Nation was instated in 1992 and formalized Panera Bread’s involvement with the community. Operation Dough-Nation has two parts the Community Breadbox, and the Day-End Dough-Nation.
The Community Breadbox program is a place where customers or anyone can donate money to feed back into the community. Panera Bread matches a part of the donations made and directs the money to non-profit organizations.
The Day-End Dough-Nation program packages the unsold bread and allows non-profit organization to sign up to pick up bread at the end of the day. Local food banks and charities are the normal groups who take advantage of Day-End Dough-Nation. Over the past few years Panera Bread has donated more that $12 million worth of bread (Panera Bread).
Panera Bread offers a wide verity of foods. They have deserts, sandwich bread, bagels and many other types of bread. All of their bread is made fresh every morning by trained artisan bakers. In addition to the bread baked in the morning before the store opens more cookies and baguettes are made during the day to ensure the product is as fresh as possible.
Work Cited
Panera Bread. 2008. 23 Jan. 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Blog #2 Comp II
Success
Success is a very ambiguous word. It has many different meanings ranging from, very materialistic ones to the complete opposite. Many people have chosen their definition of success to be having a great deal of money, power, and anything else they can think of. I think that definition does not encompass the total, or entire meaning of the word success.
One definition of the word success is the attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like. There are many people that have chosen to adopt this definition of the word success. This is a very materialistic view of success. The people in this category either look in a dictionary for the word, already have wealth, a very prestigious position, and high honors, work very hard to get what they want, or are the kind of person that sets there hopes way to high and always have them come crashing back down on them. This view includes some of the parts of the definition but leaves out a good deal.
There are other versions which better explain success. Some of those are, favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors, and the achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted. These two definitions include all the possible ideas that anyone would want to call success. The people who choose these definitions as their own have a higher probability of being successful, and feeling good about it.
My idea or definition of success is similar to the last two definitions. My idea of success is accomplishing, fulfilling, or finishing goals that you have set for yourself, and having someone in your life that you can share the success with. The goals that you set for you should not been not be impossible to reach but they should not be easy to reach either. If the goal you set for yourself is impossible to reach then not only will you not be successful in it, but you will also feel bad about yourself and make it harder to be successful in other things. If the goal is too easy you will not have to work for it and part of feeling satisfaction in being successful is know the work that you put into it and appreciating it.
Some people fear not being successful. There are a few ways these people can go about being successful at all times no matter what. The first way is the person always chooses easy activities to do. This way he will always complete what he starts and always is successful if successful just meant finishing what you started. If this type of person really thinks about what they are doing then he will see he put no effort into what he was doing so he can not enjoy the benefits from what he did as someone who put something in to what he does would get out of it. The other way that most people, who never what to fail and always succeed, go is putting all of themselves into what they do and have none leftover for anything else. This person is leaving out a main part of being successful, being able to share it with people in your life. A person can not fully enjoy something without being able to share his joy with other people.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Blog #1 Comp II
Most of the time my relationship with writing has been forced. The first writing that I did was with a pen and a paper in preschool. I was not a very good example of writing but it was still my first. I never much liked anything to do with writing. I especially do not like writing anything out by hand. I have poor penmanship and not the greatest spelling, so you can see why I do not like writing by hand. Whenever I was given the option in classes to either write out a paper or type it, I always chose to type it. Every paper that I have been giving the choice on I have typed. I have become a pretty sufficient typist.
Writing has never been one of my strong suits. Whenever I go to write anything it seems to take me a long time to formulate my sentences and the whole paper. I have trouble spelling words. That has always been a problem and it has not gotten much better of years of practicing. Typing on a computer with spell check helps a great deal. My grades would have been substantially less if it were not for spell check. I had troubles with correct punctuation markings in the past, but Composition I helped with that. One of my strengths in writing is that once I get an idea, and have the layout, for the most part, planed out I can type the paper rather quickly. I think that is the only strength that I have it writing.
In elementary school I was singled out as a child with reading, and writing difficulties. The instructor would have me do reading exercises both out loud and in my head and then give me quizzes of what I just read. I also did writing exercises. My reading improved a good deal from that but my writing exercises did not help my penmanship. In high school I hand one English class, it was required otherwise I think I might have not taken it. I did not try to hard in that class and got a low A. Last semester I took Composition I, this class was required and I know I would have taken even if it was not. I need help with writing college level papers for future classes. I tried hard in that class and came out with a B. I liked all of my English teachers. I have not yet found an English teach that I did not like.
I am taking this class to help my writing abilities. I hope this class creates better writing habits and reinforces good writing habits I already have. I want to be able to write quality papers for my engineering classes in the future. I want to learn better researching techniques, where to do to get information, what pieces of information I should use and which pieces to not use. I would also like to learn how to length my papers out and add more descriptive words.
Writing has never been one of my strong suits. Whenever I go to write anything it seems to take me a long time to formulate my sentences and the whole paper. I have trouble spelling words. That has always been a problem and it has not gotten much better of years of practicing. Typing on a computer with spell check helps a great deal. My grades would have been substantially less if it were not for spell check. I had troubles with correct punctuation markings in the past, but Composition I helped with that. One of my strengths in writing is that once I get an idea, and have the layout, for the most part, planed out I can type the paper rather quickly. I think that is the only strength that I have it writing.
In elementary school I was singled out as a child with reading, and writing difficulties. The instructor would have me do reading exercises both out loud and in my head and then give me quizzes of what I just read. I also did writing exercises. My reading improved a good deal from that but my writing exercises did not help my penmanship. In high school I hand one English class, it was required otherwise I think I might have not taken it. I did not try to hard in that class and got a low A. Last semester I took Composition I, this class was required and I know I would have taken even if it was not. I need help with writing college level papers for future classes. I tried hard in that class and came out with a B. I liked all of my English teachers. I have not yet found an English teach that I did not like.
I am taking this class to help my writing abilities. I hope this class creates better writing habits and reinforces good writing habits I already have. I want to be able to write quality papers for my engineering classes in the future. I want to learn better researching techniques, where to do to get information, what pieces of information I should use and which pieces to not use. I would also like to learn how to length my papers out and add more descriptive words.
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