Coffee The Magical Elixir - 750 Words

Coffee: The Magical Elixir Topic: Coffee Specific purpose: Being students, many of us drink coffee throughout our days to get to the weekend. I want to give some insight on the history of coffee as well as the positives and negatives it has on our bodies. I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: Who here drinks coffee or other forms of caffeine? B. Relevance: For the most part, many of you drink a caffeinated beverages in your daily lives and today we are going to explore one specifically, coffee. C. Credibility: I myself am an avid coffee drinker and have been researching it off and on for the past week. D. Thesis/Review of Main Points: We are going to explore a brief history of coffee along with the negative and positive effects that it has on us. Transition to body: Let’s begin with where it all started. II. Body A. History of Coffee a. Origins i. The earliest evidence we have of coffee is during the mid-15th century in Yemen. Throughout the next century, coffee makes its way all over the Middle East to turkey, Persia and northern Africa. It is not long after that coffee eventually ends up in Europe. In 1645 the first coffee house is opened in Venice. By the 1720’s coffee has found its way to America. Coffee was not a very popular drink among the colonists until after the Boston Tea Party of 1773 when it was believed to be unpatriotic to drink tea. b. Coffee today i. Did you know that with the exception of Puerto Rico and Hawaii, no coffee is grown in the United States orShow MoreRelatedSpain With Great Hopes Of Returning1777 Words   |  8 Pagesand off buses for two days, providing us the flexibility to further explore locations which caught our eye for a nominal cost. Popping in and out of little shops of eateries of sweet pastries for breakfast and washing it down with strong aromatic coffee filled heavy cream and served in tiny little cups, just like Alice in Wonderland who drank the potion making her substantially taller. It was blatantly obvious how Americans portions are man sized piles compared to the Spanish tiny dishes and portionsRead MoreA Picatrix Miscellany52019 Words   |  209 Pageson Planetary Ritual Clothing Twenty Two Benefic Astrological Talismans Astrology, Magical Talismans and the Mansions of the Moon Ritual of Jupiter An Astrological Election of Mercury in the First Face of Virgo for Wealth and Growth XIV. Invocatio n of Mercury On the Decans and Tarot XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII. A Brief History of Tarot The Decans in Astrology Overview of Recent Tarot Works That Reference the Picatrix Magical Uses of the Tarot Colophon VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. ON THE PICA TRIX IRead MoreBusiness Environment of Pre-British India13645 Words   |  55 Pagesroots that we have been able to absorb any outside intervention with ease. Be it the Muslim Kings or the Mughals, we have integrated everyone into our culture. â€Å"Everybody looks different and dresses differently. Complexions range from white to black coffee; noses from Biblical spurs to Mongolian pugs; some people are very tall, others very short. Dress, like a botanical classification, reveals the exact identity of the bearer his or her religion, caste, region and occupation. The variety is endlessRead MoreMarketing Mistakes and Successes175322 Words   |  702 PagesAmericans, just under Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. How did they do it? Starbucks is also a rapidly growing new firm—not as much as Google, but still great—and a credit to founder Howard Schultz’s vision of transforming a prosaic product, coffee, into a gourmet coffee house experience at luxury prices. Boston Beer burst on the microbrewery scene with Samuel Adams beers, higher priced even than most imports. Notwithstanding this—or maybe because of it—Boston Beer became the largest microbrewer. ItRead MoreManagement Course: Mba−10 General Management215330 Words   |  862 Pageshas taken them. Workers here, in â€Å"the cage,† must process three envelopes a minute. Nearby, other women tap keyboards, keeping pace with a quota that demands 8,500 strokes an hour. The room is silent. Talking is forbidden. The windows are covered. Coffee mugs, religious pictures and other adornments are barred from workers’ desks. In his ofï ¬ ce upstairs, Mr. Edens sits before a TV monitor that ï ¬â€šashes images from eight cameras posted through the plant. â€Å"There’s a little bit of Sneaky Pete to it,† he