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.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
HW 12 - Final Food Project 2 - Outline
Many of the dominant social practices in our society - practices that define a "normal" life - on further investigation turn out to involve nightmares and industrial atrocities.
The food industry doesn't care about the workers or animals, they only want the money.
supporting claim #1:workers are treated unfairly by their employers and work in unsafe conditions
evidence: movie clip about workers getting injured
evidence: http://www.organicconsumers.org/irrad/slaughterworkers.cfm
evidence: mexican workers are treated like slaves in a movie clip
supporting claim #2: the treatment of the animals both physcially and what they are fed.
evidence: Pollan book, page 219 (Animals suffering)
evidence: movie clip about cruel punishment to cows and pigs
evidence: Pollan book, animals living in there own mess
evidence: Pollan book, animals are fed to othere animals
The food industry doesn't care about the workers or animals, they only want the money.
supporting claim #1:workers are treated unfairly by their employers and work in unsafe conditions
evidence: movie clip about workers getting injured
evidence: http://www.organicconsumers.org/irrad/slaughterworkers.cfm
evidence: mexican workers are treated like slaves in a movie clip
supporting claim #2: the treatment of the animals both physcially and what they are fed.
evidence: Pollan book, page 219 (Animals suffering)
evidence: movie clip about cruel punishment to cows and pigs
evidence: Pollan book, animals living in there own mess
evidence: Pollan book, animals are fed to othere animals
Friday, October 22, 2010
HW 10 - Food, Inc. Response
The main ideas of this film were to show the people what is in there food, where there food comes from and what they can do to be healthier. It showed the evils of the corn industry. People think corn is a healthy vegetable, but there are dark secrets to this corn. To farmers, they prize corn like we prize money. Farmers give corn to the factories to be processed, farmers know what the factories do to our corn, but they don't care. The only thing that these farmers care about, is the money that they get afterwards. They think we are just walking bags of money just handing them a piece every time we leave the supermarket,
The movie showed a lot of things that the book couldn't show inside of your head. The movies showed the people's on the farms reaction when in the chicken places where all of the chicken were bunched up. They showed how it looks inside and people's thoughts based upon what they do everyday. The book just told us how the chicken were living when they were inside of those pens before being slaughtered. The movie also showed ho the animals were slaughtered with actual graphic videos, were the book just showed them holding up a chicken being prepared to get slaughtered, and after the slaughtering already happened, with the gets and how they get rid of all the extra parts of animals.
I already knew that they put chemicals inside there food to make it last longer, but after watching the movie, I never knew that the chemicals were this dangerous to our bodies. These chemicals aren't 100 percent safe. Some kids are getting bigger by eating these chemicals, and some people are dying. The fat in this food plus the chemicals when eaten gets stuck around your heart (the fat parts) and forces your heart to pump harder to get more blood. This results in a lot of people having heart attacks.
The movie showed a lot of things that the book couldn't show inside of your head. The movies showed the people's on the farms reaction when in the chicken places where all of the chicken were bunched up. They showed how it looks inside and people's thoughts based upon what they do everyday. The book just told us how the chicken were living when they were inside of those pens before being slaughtered. The movie also showed ho the animals were slaughtered with actual graphic videos, were the book just showed them holding up a chicken being prepared to get slaughtered, and after the slaughtering already happened, with the gets and how they get rid of all the extra parts of animals.
I already knew that they put chemicals inside there food to make it last longer, but after watching the movie, I never knew that the chemicals were this dangerous to our bodies. These chemicals aren't 100 percent safe. Some kids are getting bigger by eating these chemicals, and some people are dying. The fat in this food plus the chemicals when eaten gets stuck around your heart (the fat parts) and forces your heart to pump harder to get more blood. This results in a lot of people having heart attacks.
Friday, October 15, 2010
HW 9 - Freakonomics Response
Question 3: The people in Freakonomics mostly rely on the evidence in front of them given to them by the kids. Like when they tried to pay kids $50 each month if they were able to pass there classes. It wasn't successful but they still had quite a bit of evidence to test if it was successful of unsuccessful. 5-7 percent of kids passed when they thought they weren't. Some other pieces of evidence they found was they were trying to determine if someone name had determined how there personality was. But it was proved that your name doesn't make up your personality. It was really the neighborhood that you grew up in. If you grew up in a bad neighborhood, then that is what you might become, but if grew up in a good neighborhood then maybe you might turn out better. One more piece of evidence was how when they said when someone is cheating, you can look in the numbers. LIke when sumos fight in like a tournament and there si someone who is 7-6 vs someone who is 6-6 the person who is 7-6 would most of the time lose, but in the next round, 95 percent of the time the person 7-6 would win against the person who beat him last round.
Question 2: The people in Freakonomics had very interesting points. One of the points they brought up was when there is a white person looking for a job, and a black person looking for a job. They would send out job applications to people but the outcome wasn't right from my perspective. On the application, the names of the person filling out the application determined how long it would take for a person to take a look at their application. What they considered a black name like, Deshawn, Tyshawn, etc compared to someone like, Chester, Todd, etc made it easier or difficult to find the same job either race was trying to get. It could take the white person only 3 weeks to get hired. Where it takes a black person up to 11 weeks to get hired.
Question 2: The people in Freakonomics had very interesting points. One of the points they brought up was when there is a white person looking for a job, and a black person looking for a job. They would send out job applications to people but the outcome wasn't right from my perspective. On the application, the names of the person filling out the application determined how long it would take for a person to take a look at their application. What they considered a black name like, Deshawn, Tyshawn, etc compared to someone like, Chester, Todd, etc made it easier or difficult to find the same job either race was trying to get. It could take the white person only 3 weeks to get hired. Where it takes a black person up to 11 weeks to get hired.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
HW 7 - Reading Response Monday
CHAPTER 1: My version of corn is a special one. I am here today to tell you how corn has evolved over the period of time. Corn has spread all over the world really fast and it is really successful
CHAPTER 2: Corn isn't just another vegetable that people eat. Corn is everything that you basically eat. Corn is in the meat you eat, the meat that you buy. Corn has spread like gold across the world and continues today.
CHAPTER 3: Corn doesn't have all natural ingredients that you people think. I am her to tell you that corn actually has nitrogen inside of it.
CHAPTER 4: The leftover corn is wasted and thrown out somewhere by emptying it and letting it pass through elevators, pipes, mills, and laboratories.
CHAPTER 5: We feed our cows mostly corn and sometimes other cow parts, but that backfired on us. In England the people started dying because of what they called mad cow disease. It was a infection inside of the cows brain.
CHAPTER 6: Do you want to know where your food comes from. Sure it comes from animals but do you want to know how we make it stay fresh. We put preservatives inside of our/your food so that we can make it stay fresh longer. It doesn't do anything to your bodies, like increase fat around your heart, nothing like that
CHAPTER 7: Corn isn't as healthy as some people think it is. Most childhood obesity com from eating food, but inside of that food os what we call corn. Mcdonald's use corn in there food and tried super sizing there meals. Because, they found out people tend to eat 30 percent more when they have a bigger tray of food.
CHAPTER 8: There are many types of food in the world, there is sweet, sour, spicy, tender, bitter, hard, and juicy food. Most people decide what they eat and decide whether they like lit or not.
CHAPTER 9: Fast foods have a lot of chemicals inside of here food. Take the chicken nuggets for example, o r the chemical nuggets, they have chemicals inside of them. One chemical called Dimethylopolysiloxene is suspected by people of causing cancer.
CHAPTER 10: Not all corn is bad. There is in fact some healthy food out there, we call that organic food. 100 percent organic food are products that contain only certified organic ingredients
CHAPTER 11: Not all corn is healthy like we were making it out to be. Your actually eating oil that is put in some food. in 2003, researchers studied the crops of two types of corn, strwaberries, and blackberries. These plants were identical and grew side by side. One set of plants was grown using organic methods, but the other set was grown conventionally with chemical fertillizer, pesticides, and herbicides.
CHAPTER 12: Unlike animals, we humans can't eat grass, but we don't always need to kill animals in order to get meat. We can put plants such as corn into meat like w already do in order to make corn into everything that you eat. A Naylor farm is industrial, has annual species, monoculture, fossil fules, a global market, and imported fertility. The polyface farm is ecological, has perennial species, diverse crop species, solar energy, a local market, and local fertility.
CHAPTER 13: Have you really actually looked at grass? When we humans look at grass, all we see is the samething over and over agian, but we never looked at grass form a cow's perspective, to a cow, grass is like a open buffet, where they get to eat everything/anything that they are able to find. My farm was abused for 150 years, and today I am still restoring the land. I wish my dad was here to see what a great job we done to make the farm what it is today.
CHAPTER 14: When we let or chickens go loose in pasture, we rely on there natural instincts to clean up after the herbivores. During the winter our cows and chickens leave there pastures and head into the barn. But our polyface farm doesn't stop, so we just move our work indoors. We must leave the manure the cow's leave wherever it falls from. This usually stays beneath the cattle.
CHAPTER 15: We round up the chicken in the morning and put them in big plastic crates. We kiil them, take out there guts, and plucker them by taking of all of there feathers. We put all of this stuff in a big pile and prepare it for extraction. The first thing you must do is cut off its head.
CHAPTER 16:
CHAPTER 2: Corn isn't just another vegetable that people eat. Corn is everything that you basically eat. Corn is in the meat you eat, the meat that you buy. Corn has spread like gold across the world and continues today.
CHAPTER 3: Corn doesn't have all natural ingredients that you people think. I am her to tell you that corn actually has nitrogen inside of it.
CHAPTER 4: The leftover corn is wasted and thrown out somewhere by emptying it and letting it pass through elevators, pipes, mills, and laboratories.
CHAPTER 5: We feed our cows mostly corn and sometimes other cow parts, but that backfired on us. In England the people started dying because of what they called mad cow disease. It was a infection inside of the cows brain.
CHAPTER 6: Do you want to know where your food comes from. Sure it comes from animals but do you want to know how we make it stay fresh. We put preservatives inside of our/your food so that we can make it stay fresh longer. It doesn't do anything to your bodies, like increase fat around your heart, nothing like that
CHAPTER 7: Corn isn't as healthy as some people think it is. Most childhood obesity com from eating food, but inside of that food os what we call corn. Mcdonald's use corn in there food and tried super sizing there meals. Because, they found out people tend to eat 30 percent more when they have a bigger tray of food.
CHAPTER 8: There are many types of food in the world, there is sweet, sour, spicy, tender, bitter, hard, and juicy food. Most people decide what they eat and decide whether they like lit or not.
CHAPTER 9: Fast foods have a lot of chemicals inside of here food. Take the chicken nuggets for example, o r the chemical nuggets, they have chemicals inside of them. One chemical called Dimethylopolysiloxene is suspected by people of causing cancer.
CHAPTER 10: Not all corn is bad. There is in fact some healthy food out there, we call that organic food. 100 percent organic food are products that contain only certified organic ingredients
CHAPTER 11: Not all corn is healthy like we were making it out to be. Your actually eating oil that is put in some food. in 2003, researchers studied the crops of two types of corn, strwaberries, and blackberries. These plants were identical and grew side by side. One set of plants was grown using organic methods, but the other set was grown conventionally with chemical fertillizer, pesticides, and herbicides.
CHAPTER 12: Unlike animals, we humans can't eat grass, but we don't always need to kill animals in order to get meat. We can put plants such as corn into meat like w already do in order to make corn into everything that you eat. A Naylor farm is industrial, has annual species, monoculture, fossil fules, a global market, and imported fertility. The polyface farm is ecological, has perennial species, diverse crop species, solar energy, a local market, and local fertility.
CHAPTER 13: Have you really actually looked at grass? When we humans look at grass, all we see is the samething over and over agian, but we never looked at grass form a cow's perspective, to a cow, grass is like a open buffet, where they get to eat everything/anything that they are able to find. My farm was abused for 150 years, and today I am still restoring the land. I wish my dad was here to see what a great job we done to make the farm what it is today.
CHAPTER 14: When we let or chickens go loose in pasture, we rely on there natural instincts to clean up after the herbivores. During the winter our cows and chickens leave there pastures and head into the barn. But our polyface farm doesn't stop, so we just move our work indoors. We must leave the manure the cow's leave wherever it falls from. This usually stays beneath the cattle.
CHAPTER 15: We round up the chicken in the morning and put them in big plastic crates. We kiil them, take out there guts, and plucker them by taking of all of there feathers. We put all of this stuff in a big pile and prepare it for extraction. The first thing you must do is cut off its head.
CHAPTER 16:
Monday, September 27, 2010
HW 4 - Your Families' Foodway
People in older generations didn't really care about what they had/were consuming at there time period. But as time had went on, people started becoming curious about what they were eating. And that is a study that continues into the world today. My grandparents didn't care what they were eating when they were young, but as they got older, it started to affect them in ways such as diabetes and heart problems. They use to eat a lot of sugary treats and fast foods. Now in the younger generation such as me and my cousins like my age, care and watch what they eat, and think twice about what we eat most of the time
In my house usually/most of the time, my mow gets the food and cooks the food, also she does the dishes, but sometimes, my does all those things too at different times of the day. My mom usually does this for lunch and dinner, but my dad 95% of the time makes us breakfast, gets the food, and then washes the dishes. When My dad was younger he also was eating like my grandparents, and now he is working out, and exercising trying to get more healthy and to lose his stomach. I actually thought all healthy food was like salad and whole grain this/that. But then there are pastas that are healthier than the original, there are cereals that are healthy, and there are drinks that are healthy also. That changed my opinion on healthy foods, because I actually enjoy eating those foods most of the time
In my fridge I mostly have healthy foods such as, salads, water, apple juice. I have these things because my mom and dad are exercising to stay healthy so they cleared the whole fridge to get rid of all the junk food that they liked to not get tempted by all of that unhealthy stuff. I don't mind these things in our fridge because there actually really good. I think my mom sticks to exercising more than my dad because my mom actually does it everyday twice. She'll actually park further from her job so she could get in a nice little walk before she goes to work. My does it sometimes a week, mostly 3 times a week. The only time my mom doesn't work out is when we go to church, if she is sick, if something has come up unexpectedly, or if she is sore from the work out before.
In my house usually/most of the time, my mow gets the food and cooks the food, also she does the dishes, but sometimes, my does all those things too at different times of the day. My mom usually does this for lunch and dinner, but my dad 95% of the time makes us breakfast, gets the food, and then washes the dishes. When My dad was younger he also was eating like my grandparents, and now he is working out, and exercising trying to get more healthy and to lose his stomach. I actually thought all healthy food was like salad and whole grain this/that. But then there are pastas that are healthier than the original, there are cereals that are healthy, and there are drinks that are healthy also. That changed my opinion on healthy foods, because I actually enjoy eating those foods most of the time
In my fridge I mostly have healthy foods such as, salads, water, apple juice. I have these things because my mom and dad are exercising to stay healthy so they cleared the whole fridge to get rid of all the junk food that they liked to not get tempted by all of that unhealthy stuff. I don't mind these things in our fridge because there actually really good. I think my mom sticks to exercising more than my dad because my mom actually does it everyday twice. She'll actually park further from her job so she could get in a nice little walk before she goes to work. My does it sometimes a week, mostly 3 times a week. The only time my mom doesn't work out is when we go to church, if she is sick, if something has come up unexpectedly, or if she is sore from the work out before.
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