1. A vegetarian is a person who doesn’t not eat meat, fish and sometimes other animal products for moral, religious or health reasons.
2. Vegetables are good because they don’t have cholesterol which can lead to cardiovascular disease. They also have many nutrients including potassium, fibre etc. They can help maintain healthy blood pressure.
3. Being a vegetarian helps the environment by reducing the amount of meat consumption and this can lead to more healthy growth of plants since there are less animals to eat them.
4. If the school forced students to eat more vegetables, this may be a violation against their human rights but it does help them gain their daily nutrients and helps them grow.
One characteristic of Enlightenment that is seen in this excerpt is that people should be guided by the reason and not irrational fears, however serious they may seem to be. The protagonist/author of the diary seems to be the only cool-headed person in this terrible situation. Everybody else is freaking out, running about and screaming. He notices multiple times that nobody is making any effort to actually quench the fire. He is the one who goes to warn the king and suggests that houses should be pulled down. There is one very interesting remark about Lord Mayor, who is in a panic just like everyone else: "To the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman..." Misogyny aside, this comment shows the speaker's manly, reasonable, commendable attitude. He is an active person who does something to undo the damage, and not just a passive observer or a coward who runs away in panic.
A diary entry was a fitting form during the Enlightenment period because that was the first time that the words and opinions of a more or less ordinary person were deemed important. A diary has this risk of being a subjective collection of personal impressions. But Pepys' diary pretends to be highly objective because its author sees himself as a reasonable man, important in his own right, competent enough to keep a diary and record some important things that happen around him, to other ordinary people.
Another word for no regrets is impenitent.
Impenitent means to not have any regrets or feel any shame about one's attitude or actions.
Examples of impenitent in a sentence :
-The bully was impenitent when he pushed the little boy off the swings.
-Julie's impenitent attitude after reading Sara's diary in front of her whole class, led to detention from the Headmistress.
They engaged in welfare capitalism to encourage employees to socialize.
