Another year another thanksgiving. Although this thanksgiving was a lot different from last years one. There were a lot of empty chairs, my family members aren't dead, it is just that they are all getting older, so it is harder for them to get up and travel to different places like they used to. The food was the same, the same amount, but every year only one thing changes, and that is the amount of people that show up there. Before we start eating, all of us gather around the table, join hands, and thank the lord for this feast that is in front of us. We also think of those who don't have all the materials needed to make a nice Thanksgiving dinner. Then we go and eat, I eat, and get more, I don't really watch football, if everyone is crowded around the game and watching, then I will watch, but most of the time, i just go in the room, and play video games. I usually do this every thanksgiving. I am not active on thanksgiving, my body is put on park for the whole day-the anti-body.
Once thanksgiving is over, everyone hangs around and starts talking because this is the actual only moment that our whole family could spend time together and see each other. I mostly play video games after talking for a couple of hours with my cousins. They all arrive around 6:30pm and leave about 11:30pm, by the time they leave, it is about time for everyone, and e to go to bed, but me and cousin stay up thinking about the next day and thinking about another past thanksgiving. I see Thanksgiving as not another holiday, but a time for family to be together. The food and football are not really what is important, it is about family gathering together.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
HW 17 - First Thoughts on the Illness & Dying Unit
1) I have never really did anything in the past that has to do with illness and dying.
2) I have always seen illness as a consequence of not taking care of your body better, like eating healthy and exercising when they are young. But some illnesses are preventable and just come out of nowhere. Also most young kids and people are diagnosed with these diseases. Most people start taking care of themselves when they are young, and say I am never gonna get fat or big. But as they get older, there food metabolism slows down and they don't know it and just keeps on eating. Then they get lazy, its not a lot of extra fat, just a couple of walks and jogs will get rid of it, but then you say, i will do it tomorrow, but your lazy, and forget, and eat like you would normally eat, then you get bigger, and all that fat surrounds your heart. And then the next thing you know, you probably get diabetes, and the fat stays around your heart, and forces your heart to pump harder, and that leads to heart attacks.
3) There are more poor black people than white people so a lot more people can't afford to pay for a yearly check up, resulting in a lot of sick black people. I don't know why, but most black people are born poor, and a lot of there jobs are taken away.. like in the Freakonomics movie, it takes about a week to 2 weeks for a white person to find a job, and it takes up to about 12 weeks to get there letter answered, and when they work at the same job, the white person would get payed more.
4) My family especially approaches this seriously. Especially my older sister because she had wanted to become a doctor, so she knows about these illnesses and knows how to approach this situation if it had ever come up. My dad has diabetes, he was skinny and thin when he was younger, but than he stared to let go and became bigger, but now he is starting to take care of himself and sets goals for himself. But those goals sometimes he forgets, and doesn't do them for a while and then he'll say that he'll do them again, but he forgets again, and today he says he sets goals fro himself. But I don't know how long he'll keep it up before he stops.
5) I never want to become so sick that I was going to die, for some reason I am scared to die. Most of those sicknesses are most of the time a slow and painful death, for every second that those people are sick they are sad and miserable. We can get most young adults to take care of themselves by telling them that healthy food is good too, and show them down the path thay they are heading if they continue to eat and not exercise. Once they see how hard it is too do this, maybe they will have a change in there food ways and eat healthier.
2) I have always seen illness as a consequence of not taking care of your body better, like eating healthy and exercising when they are young. But some illnesses are preventable and just come out of nowhere. Also most young kids and people are diagnosed with these diseases. Most people start taking care of themselves when they are young, and say I am never gonna get fat or big. But as they get older, there food metabolism slows down and they don't know it and just keeps on eating. Then they get lazy, its not a lot of extra fat, just a couple of walks and jogs will get rid of it, but then you say, i will do it tomorrow, but your lazy, and forget, and eat like you would normally eat, then you get bigger, and all that fat surrounds your heart. And then the next thing you know, you probably get diabetes, and the fat stays around your heart, and forces your heart to pump harder, and that leads to heart attacks.
3) There are more poor black people than white people so a lot more people can't afford to pay for a yearly check up, resulting in a lot of sick black people. I don't know why, but most black people are born poor, and a lot of there jobs are taken away.. like in the Freakonomics movie, it takes about a week to 2 weeks for a white person to find a job, and it takes up to about 12 weeks to get there letter answered, and when they work at the same job, the white person would get payed more.
4) My family especially approaches this seriously. Especially my older sister because she had wanted to become a doctor, so she knows about these illnesses and knows how to approach this situation if it had ever come up. My dad has diabetes, he was skinny and thin when he was younger, but than he stared to let go and became bigger, but now he is starting to take care of himself and sets goals for himself. But those goals sometimes he forgets, and doesn't do them for a while and then he'll say that he'll do them again, but he forgets again, and today he says he sets goals fro himself. But I don't know how long he'll keep it up before he stops.
5) I never want to become so sick that I was going to die, for some reason I am scared to die. Most of those sicknesses are most of the time a slow and painful death, for every second that those people are sick they are sad and miserable. We can get most young adults to take care of themselves by telling them that healthy food is good too, and show them down the path thay they are heading if they continue to eat and not exercise. Once they see how hard it is too do this, maybe they will have a change in there food ways and eat healthier.
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