Coffee: the Drink of the Gods Behind the Most Important and by Julia Losasso, BP Staff Editor to Buy Your Coffee? Dunkin’
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The Badger Pause Volume 11, Issue 4 14510 North Cheshire Street, Burton, Ohio December 2015 Coffee: the drink of the gods Behind the most important and by Julia Losasso, BP Staff Editor to buy your coffee? Dunkin’. I have like three on the powerful people is one thing: cof- Mr List: “Coffee Corners of weekends” fee. It’s what makes the world go course.....” Do you think that the type of round. In places around the globe, How do you like your coffee? coffee you drink reflects your it’s the driving force behind many Mrs. Hunter: “I take my coffee personality? hardworking individuals. Johann with milk.” Noah McCaskey: “Yes, if I don’t Sebastian Bach once wrote a can- Do you think the type of cof- have coffee I’m not functionable.” tata, a short musical narrative about fee you drink reflects your per- Where is your favorite place his love of coffee, saying, “If I can’t sonality? And if so, how? to get your coffee? drink my bowl of coffee three times Mrs. Hunter: “If you notice, I Noah McCaskey: “Dunkin’ daily, then in my torment I will don’t put any sugar in my coffee. I Donuts.” shrivel up like a piece of roast goat.” wouldn’t describe myself as sweet How do you like your coffee? Same, Bach, same. Voltaire is said and I rarely sugarcoat reality. In Madalyn Timmons: “It’s pretty to have drank around 40 to 50 cups addition, the milk that lightens the simple actually, with just a little of coffee a day, though it was mixed color of the dark coffee represents cream and sugar, both hot and cold. with chocolate. Enlightenment Era my sarcastic sense of humor, as it But when I feel like something spe- mocha anyone? Whether it’s a casu- can serve to lighten a dark or serious cial, iced macchiatos are my fave. al luxury, a usual pastime, or an situation.” Do you think that the type of absolute necessity, coffee drinkers Where is your favorite place coffee you drink reflects your everywhere like it a certain way. Hot to buy your coffee? personality? or cold, with cream, sugar, flavor, or Mrs. Hunter: “I usually make my Madalyn Timmons: “Yes! I’m plain. Each order is unique, as is the own coffee at home, but if I have not picky and slightly simple some- person who delights in it. Written are to go out, I prefer Dunkin’ Donuts times.” some of the ways Berkshire teachers coffee.” Where is your favorite place and students fuel their days. How do you like your coffee? to get your coffee? How do you like your coffee? Mrs Maske: “I LOVE my coffee Madalyn Timmons: “Dunkin’ Mr. Hiscox: “It depends on the with a bit of cream” Donuts.” season. If it is summer, or during the Do you think the type of cof- How do you like your coffee? warmer months, I like my coffee on fee you drink reflects your per- Nathan McFadden: “I like any ice. If it is during the colder part of sonality? And if so, how? form of espresso, lattes, mochas, the year, I like it hot. Either way, I Mrs. Maske: “No, but lack of cof- americanos, cappuccino.” like it with a little cream and sugar.” fee can change one’s personality. Do you think that the type of Do you think the type of cof- Kinda like a “split” personality.... coffee you drink reflects your fee you drink reflects your per- You know like Dr. Jekyl and Mr. personality? sonality? And if so, how? Mia Monroe savors a treat from the gods Hyde” Nathan McFadden: “I don’t think Mr. Hiscox: “I don’t think it Indianapolis there was a Starbucks Do you think the type of cof- Where is your favorite place coffee reflects my personality, but I reflects your personality, but I do on the way to work that I visited fee you drink reflects your per- to buy your coffee? think a lot of people try too hard to think it reflects if [you] have taste- everyday. Coffee Corners is much sonality? And if so, how? Mrs. Maske: “Europe...for sure. make it their personalities. buds or not.” Where is your favorite place better though!” Mr. List: “I don’t really think the They make it strong and foamy like Where is your favorite place to get your coffee? How do you like your coffee? type of coffee reflects my personal- a a good chemical reaction!” to buy your coffee? Nathan McFadden: “I get my Mr. List: “Most of the time I drink ity.” How do you like your coffee? Mr. Hiscox: “I like going to it black, but I will drink lattes & Where is your favorite place Noah McCaskey: “Three cream, coffee from Coffee Corners or Coffee Corners, but when I lived in mochas at times.” three sugar, large iced coffee from Starbucks.” Holiday traditions in Japan by Sam Martinjako, BP Staff Writer photo courtsy of patheos.com “How Does Japan Celebrate the Holidays?” on sale, so it’s not a bad assumption that many eat rice cakes with an orange on top, which “symbol- “Well...” cake on Christmas Day as well. After the day is izes the renewal of light and energy at the start Check out The Japan is a very different country from the United over, all Christmas decorations will begin to come of a new year”. The Japanese will write wishes States. Students go to schools six days a week, down in order to make way for New Years. known as “ema” and will hang them on parts of woman behind people do not wear their shoes indoors, and, for New Years is a much more important holiday in the shrines, normally asking for things like good the man... some reason or another, the flip phone began Japan. For starters, New Year’s Day is a National health or luck, and they will donate money to the making a comeback earlier in 2015. Another dif- Holiday, so schools are not in session and most shrine in order to help their wishes come true. page 3 ference in Japan from that of the U.S. is Christmas. people will not be working. The Japanese do a Children often get money during the holiday, with The Japanese, for the most part, do not normally wide number of things during the “New Year’s the amount varying based on the age of the child belong to any sect of the Christian faith. The most season” in order to celebrate. They will often clean receiving it starting from around 1,000 yen and popular religion in Japan is actually Shintoism, their homes as a form of purification, though they ending at about 10,000 yen. Due to this, many followed closely by Buddhism, and often times will obviously not take down their decorations. stores open on New Year’s, as they expect the they are practiced together. Due to these religious Traditionally soba is eaten for their celebration, children to spend their money on toys or “lucky differences, Christmas in Japan is considered secu- but udon is also a popular alternative. This is nor- bags”, which could contain objects worth around lar and is not a national holiday. mally done around midnight, as they believe it will double the original price of the bag. Christmas Eve is more important to the Japanese “ward off evil spirits before the New Year comes”. This holiday season lasts until January the sev- photo courtesy of flickr.com than Christmas Day, and it is a very popular There is also a ceremony in which a priest will ring enth, which is when Japanese families will nor- holiday amongst couples. Couples will often get “purification bells”, known as Joya no Kane, 108 mally start to take their decorations down. This is Humans of together to look at Christmas lights and have din- times to rid people of their evil desires. This num- also very different from the United States, as some ner together. They will also give presents to each ber comes from the Buddhist belief that humans people here could still have their decorations up Burton... other, not completely unlike what we do here in suffer from 108 evil desires in their everyday lives. despite it being about three months after the fact. Page 7 America. The Japanese media loves Christmas, Sending postcards is popular during their New and singers and performers will often do shows Year’s, and some people even send during the holiday. At home, the Japanese usu- some containing lottery numbers. ally have a Christmas cake for their celebration The biggest event that occurs on New with loved ones. The children hope to get gifts on Year’s Day is something called “hatsu- Christmas from “Santa-san”, which means some- mode”, which is the first time they go thing along the lines of “Mr. Santa”, or possibly to a shrine as a part of the celebration. even from the Buddhist god of fortune. Incense is burned at the shrines, and the As all of the celebrations normally happen the smoke is used for purifying the spirits previous day, December the 25th is actually a of participants by waving it onto them- pretty average day in Japan. As previously men- selves. Wooden arrows are also given photo courtesy of pinterest.com tioned, it’s not a national holiday there, so adults, away for decoration, and to keep away normally, must go to work, and students must go negative spirits. Many of the foods The price of to school.