My Search on The Hershey Company

I am very interested in how food is produced and made, especially candy. I love to watch the show Modern Marvels on the History Channel whenever they have one about candy and snacks, especially holiday food. I was trying to think of a specific type of candy I could do my search on, and then I saw my Hershey's pillow on my couch that I got from the Hershey's store in Chicago last Summer, and I decided that The Hershey Company would be a fun topic to search. Here is some information that I found:

Some facts about the history of the Hershey Company:

• The Hershey Company was created in in 1894 by Milton Hershey, a candy-manufacturer who desired his caramels to be coated with a sweet chocolate
  
• The first products of The Hershey Company were milk chocolate in the form of bars and wafers
• The Hershey's Kiss was created in 1907. The started out as being individually wrapped squares in silver foil, but when machine wrapping came to be in 1921 they took on their current form with the signature "plume" to represent it as a genuine product.
• The introduction of new products in the 1920's (Mr. Goodbar, Krackel Bar, Hershey's syrup, and chocolate chips) helped the company through the Great Depression helping them avoid lay offs.
  
• The Hershey's Company supplied chocolate to "Harry" Reese's Company to coat over his peanut butter. In 1956 seven years after Harry's death, the H.B. Reese Company was sold to The Hershey Corporation.
• Today, the Hershey Company holds the spot of the top North American manufacturer of chocolate and non-chocolate products.
  

Products that I didn't know were produced by the Hershey Company:

• Cadbury's Creme Egg
• Kit Kat Bars (ususally made by Nestle except in the United States)
• Mr. Goodbar
• Rolo
• Whoppers
• Whatchamacallit
• Koolerz and Ice Breakers gum
• Good & Plenty
• Jolly Rancher

How the Hershey Company makes a difference in the world:

• The Milton Hershey school, founded in 1909, provides an education from students coming from families of financial or social need.
• Each year, the company donates to hundreds of community organizations.
  
• Employees have volunteered and raised millions of dollars for the children's Miracle Network.
• Have made a five year $500,000 commitment to the United Negro College Fund.
• in 2005, the company turned York Peppermint Patti packaging pink in support of Young Survival Coalition, a group of breast cancer patients and survivors.
• Recycle 90% of their waste through their own recycling company
• Uses energy-saving technology
  
• Sponsors Hershey's Track and Field Games which encourages youth fitness

Sweet Facts about Hershey's Kisses:

• The lamps in Hershey, PA are shaped like Hershey's kisses
  
• It takes about 95 Hershey's Kisses to equal one pound of chocolate
• The world's largest Hershey Kiss stood six feet nine inches tall and weighed 6,759 pounds

What I learned about Internet Search:
Before I officially learned how to operate a search engine properly, I would just type in a lot of words and use the first websites that came up. Learning about the different types of search operators has made my searches so much more specific and has brought up more reliable websites for me to obtain my information off of. I think my favorite search operator and the one I most frequently use is the ~operator to put in front of a word to gets its synonyms. I also like the + operator because it gives me no variations of the word and allows me to search for the exact word or phrase that I am looking for. I feel like searching is now much more efficient and reliable for me, and I am excited to use these operators and the tools that I learned in class in searches for school and for my personal searches like the one I did above.