In the passage " the $2 camisole: How cheap is ruining our lives" by the author Mary Elizabeth Williams she states how things that are worth of something should be valued more. Desperate marketing and because of the bad economy resulted low prices every year. Also even if these are low prices there is a big cost because for a person having to buy a glasses that were only 2 weeks used still broke. Even the kitchen cabinets which were brand new had to be replaced. The iphone can't even last in crack-free marks even though 2 years went by but it was usable.
I do agree that things should be cheap anyways.
Reason 1 If I buy something expensive it still wont work.
I keep on buying earphones every year and it takes only 8 months or so for it to stop transmitting sound.
Reason 2. Discounts are good so I don't have to buy from the original price.
I bought this xbox chair for my brother to sit on while he plays his xbox games. It had a bass speaker on the sides that we can use with a connector to connect to the xbox and to the TV so it can give out a high pitch sound like being at a movie theater. Great isn't it and the chair looked cool also. But, after one month it stopped transmitting sound and even the handles that came with the chair lost its nails and the handle broke. I replaced it again and again it went down. I bought this on the holiday season for $70 luckily at Target because the original price was $120! Worthless item for kids.
Overall this women should not be concerned about this problem and is overreacting because I do agree with her on some items having value because you can still get a TV for $300 at least that can last for 5-10 years. Not bad. A wide-screen TV which is around $2,000 and can last 10 years. On the 5th year somehow cracked. Not bad. I can go on.. She should be concerned about the Metrocard hikes or many other problems in this country. Hopefully she doesn't want any value on those!
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Ninth Lab/Blog 17: Reflection on Blogging
No, I still need to complete like probably 3 or 4 more labs but I usually get it done later on when I have my thoughts put together.
No, I just checked other blog entries instead "Living in the Matrix". Doesn't just have to be Living in the Matrix. I have checked some blogs sometimes to get ideas although most of the help came from me listening.
I would say some of the differences are that I now put in more specific details on my response and even if I'm pissed off, well not necessarily pissed, I still never write my opinion in my summary because even just a few words like "this is unforgiven" can screw it up! These are the changes I've made according to what I learned from the professor. I hope to learn my final errors this Tuesday.
I think blogging has helped me in probably many different ways that I would have a hard time explaining. One of the things that pops up in my mind is that usually I would check the comment sections under my blog entries then I would mostly check my errors in my CATW and realize the errors I have done so I can correct them. Sometimes because I just don't seem to have that much errors it has limited me to check back that often on the blog entries but I still think the blog process procedure was a great idea. It has given me the chance to go check other student's blogs and I realize that every student can have a different starting sentence on their personal response. I usually don't look at summaries because they seem easy and something I learned to correct within the professor.
In my responses I usually use the "I agree with this" or "this is is significant" method then use my own personal two examples which is more easier for me and gives me the opportunity to write more. For example in my last set of blogs or CATW's starting from Blog 11 until now, I wrote like this in "Let Them Eat Fat", "another example out is that statistically the low-income areas have less healthy organic supermarkets. This is why there are more reports of diabetes and other related sicknesses in the low-income communities". So as you can see this is a method I have been using nowadays and when I check back to my comment section to check how I did my tutors and professor advises me to use more specific examples for my response. I guess what I could have done in my blog even more differently is to proofread my blog again and to annotate from the reading which sometimes I'm not used at doing. For example, as I happen to check my blog entries I knew I had it all right but one student who commented on my blog tells me that I should check my grammar next time and to my surprise she was right. I actually don't even know what happened to me when I wrote this in blog entry for "Let Them Eat Fat", "In Let Them Eat Fat by the author Greg Critser discusses how, fast-food companies because of the cheap need from poor people in the meals the innovation known as supersizing was born".
Eventually this is just one of the types of errors I have to deal with now so blogging has helped me in checking for my minor errors because as of today according to them and thanks to my tutors and professor it seems like the only errors I need to correct. Even though it can be hard to find some students who finished their blogs I looked within the comment section from other tutors and some students only. Overall, according to the help I received from the blog comments mostly I have to recognize that having my own blog for my essays has been of great help.
No, I just checked other blog entries instead "Living in the Matrix". Doesn't just have to be Living in the Matrix. I have checked some blogs sometimes to get ideas although most of the help came from me listening.
I would say some of the differences are that I now put in more specific details on my response and even if I'm pissed off, well not necessarily pissed, I still never write my opinion in my summary because even just a few words like "this is unforgiven" can screw it up! These are the changes I've made according to what I learned from the professor. I hope to learn my final errors this Tuesday.
I think blogging has helped me in probably many different ways that I would have a hard time explaining. One of the things that pops up in my mind is that usually I would check the comment sections under my blog entries then I would mostly check my errors in my CATW and realize the errors I have done so I can correct them. Sometimes because I just don't seem to have that much errors it has limited me to check back that often on the blog entries but I still think the blog process procedure was a great idea. It has given me the chance to go check other student's blogs and I realize that every student can have a different starting sentence on their personal response. I usually don't look at summaries because they seem easy and something I learned to correct within the professor.
In my responses I usually use the "I agree with this" or "this is is significant" method then use my own personal two examples which is more easier for me and gives me the opportunity to write more. For example in my last set of blogs or CATW's starting from Blog 11 until now, I wrote like this in "Let Them Eat Fat", "another example out is that statistically the low-income areas have less healthy organic supermarkets. This is why there are more reports of diabetes and other related sicknesses in the low-income communities". So as you can see this is a method I have been using nowadays and when I check back to my comment section to check how I did my tutors and professor advises me to use more specific examples for my response. I guess what I could have done in my blog even more differently is to proofread my blog again and to annotate from the reading which sometimes I'm not used at doing. For example, as I happen to check my blog entries I knew I had it all right but one student who commented on my blog tells me that I should check my grammar next time and to my surprise she was right. I actually don't even know what happened to me when I wrote this in blog entry for "Let Them Eat Fat", "In Let Them Eat Fat by the author Greg Critser discusses how, fast-food companies because of the cheap need from poor people in the meals the innovation known as supersizing was born".
Eventually this is just one of the types of errors I have to deal with now so blogging has helped me in checking for my minor errors because as of today according to them and thanks to my tutors and professor it seems like the only errors I need to correct. Even though it can be hard to find some students who finished their blogs I looked within the comment section from other tutors and some students only. Overall, according to the help I received from the blog comments mostly I have to recognize that having my own blog for my essays has been of great help.
Blog 16: The New Industrial MIgrants
Part 1
In the passage "The New Industrial Immigrants" from Fast Food Nation by the author Eric Shlosser he states that during the late 20th century what the meatpacking district used to be about has changed from wages to a large turnover rate in hiring immigrants. Immigrants came pouring to the USA from the poorest countries. A lot of them were employed. But the pay now is more lower than a few decades ago. This would be due to the rise of turnover rate where Monfort just hires people to fill the jobs fast. Knowing that the pay is low and their vacation never happens most of the workers quit. What the executives claim is that this turnover rate helps with keeping insurance costs low. But a turnover rate for them is their benefit for it makes jobs an advantage for them to control and not get them on union. Part 2
In the passage "The New Industrial Immigrants" from Fast Food Nation by the author Eric Shlosser he states that a way for the meat companies to maintain the flow of new workers in the meat slaugherhouses the company IBP has for many years sent out a team to recruit more workers in the United State's most poorest communities. It has hired refugees, homeless people. Even buses to take the workers far away. Now they have their own labor office in Mexico City, ads. Buses which will take from Mexico to the jobs in America. Immigration services already has an idea that many who work in the meatpacking industry are mostly illegal immigrants but the executives deny this. Even if they deny they have already admitted to paying them the lowest wage. Another company which was GFI also sent recruiters to hire for work. They then rented the bus to send from Texas to Minnesota and left them at a homeless shelter. The company would pay them and give them free hamburgers which was denied and soon this story would go to the news because since they were promised free rentals everyone was angry about it, even the advocates because they knew they shouldn't be assisting companies that transport low-cost labor.
Response
It doesn't surprise me even that much that this has been going on. In my opinion I think after 9/11 it has been more easy for me understand how this country plays the game and it ain't beautiful. This passage is just another part of the game of how the elite play. It makes me think that this world, not just America especially with this topic is almost like a food animal chain. The insect gets eaten by the mouse, mouse gets eaten by owl and it goes on and on. So if we try to educate them about this chain they should be cautious of the person who is at the top of the chain. If not then unfortunately you die or you get played.
An example I can give about this is that right after the attacks on 9/11 the workers who volunteered to work in the clean up were lied to by Rudy Guliani claimed that the "air would be safe". But the workers LIABILITY to this was imminent as they complained about respiratory problems. Some even catching cancer. The workers have finally sued the city for this. I guess there is a reason why the pyramid exists where you group the upper to the lower and this almost reflects the "the new industrial migrants" article.
This is in my opinion also happens in sports entertainment at least that I know of because when Mike Tyson started getting more high in the game and more popular he claims how Don King was an asshole who took 1/3 of his money, humiliated him and betrayed him. He also claims how he did this to others. Now maybe we can say that this being BORNE by the bosses of the companies to gain a lot of profit and yes I know if I was one I would do this for a limited time but I can't understand why be so unfair. Yes we know life is unfair but why be so cruel. Maybe of course in the meatpacking industry it could be overcrowded and there is no choice but we all know they use this excuse to control them so they can be RELUCTANT to join union by turnover rate so obviously something is not right here. They even admitted this. We do understand that in business we are taught then when business go down then companies have to fire their employers. But still they hire anyway and if this was necessary then why they have to be creeps and fake-laugh about it in interviews. Not just these bosses from the food industry but I have seen this kind of response from other elites when confronted.
Overall it's an issue people are already protesting about and I think by buying more healthy foods it takes an affect for the better.
In the passage "The New Industrial Immigrants" from Fast Food Nation by the author Eric Shlosser he states that during the late 20th century what the meatpacking district used to be about has changed from wages to a large turnover rate in hiring immigrants. Immigrants came pouring to the USA from the poorest countries. A lot of them were employed. But the pay now is more lower than a few decades ago. This would be due to the rise of turnover rate where Monfort just hires people to fill the jobs fast. Knowing that the pay is low and their vacation never happens most of the workers quit. What the executives claim is that this turnover rate helps with keeping insurance costs low. But a turnover rate for them is their benefit for it makes jobs an advantage for them to control and not get them on union. Part 2
In the passage "The New Industrial Immigrants" from Fast Food Nation by the author Eric Shlosser he states that a way for the meat companies to maintain the flow of new workers in the meat slaugherhouses the company IBP has for many years sent out a team to recruit more workers in the United State's most poorest communities. It has hired refugees, homeless people. Even buses to take the workers far away. Now they have their own labor office in Mexico City, ads. Buses which will take from Mexico to the jobs in America. Immigration services already has an idea that many who work in the meatpacking industry are mostly illegal immigrants but the executives deny this. Even if they deny they have already admitted to paying them the lowest wage. Another company which was GFI also sent recruiters to hire for work. They then rented the bus to send from Texas to Minnesota and left them at a homeless shelter. The company would pay them and give them free hamburgers which was denied and soon this story would go to the news because since they were promised free rentals everyone was angry about it, even the advocates because they knew they shouldn't be assisting companies that transport low-cost labor.
Response
It doesn't surprise me even that much that this has been going on. In my opinion I think after 9/11 it has been more easy for me understand how this country plays the game and it ain't beautiful. This passage is just another part of the game of how the elite play. It makes me think that this world, not just America especially with this topic is almost like a food animal chain. The insect gets eaten by the mouse, mouse gets eaten by owl and it goes on and on. So if we try to educate them about this chain they should be cautious of the person who is at the top of the chain. If not then unfortunately you die or you get played.
An example I can give about this is that right after the attacks on 9/11 the workers who volunteered to work in the clean up were lied to by Rudy Guliani claimed that the "air would be safe". But the workers LIABILITY to this was imminent as they complained about respiratory problems. Some even catching cancer. The workers have finally sued the city for this. I guess there is a reason why the pyramid exists where you group the upper to the lower and this almost reflects the "the new industrial migrants" article.
This is in my opinion also happens in sports entertainment at least that I know of because when Mike Tyson started getting more high in the game and more popular he claims how Don King was an asshole who took 1/3 of his money, humiliated him and betrayed him. He also claims how he did this to others. Now maybe we can say that this being BORNE by the bosses of the companies to gain a lot of profit and yes I know if I was one I would do this for a limited time but I can't understand why be so unfair. Yes we know life is unfair but why be so cruel. Maybe of course in the meatpacking industry it could be overcrowded and there is no choice but we all know they use this excuse to control them so they can be RELUCTANT to join union by turnover rate so obviously something is not right here. They even admitted this. We do understand that in business we are taught then when business go down then companies have to fire their employers. But still they hire anyway and if this was necessary then why they have to be creeps and fake-laugh about it in interviews. Not just these bosses from the food industry but I have seen this kind of response from other elites when confronted.
Overall it's an issue people are already protesting about and I think by buying more healthy foods it takes an affect for the better.
Blog 15/ Eighth Lab Greenmarket Farmer's Markets
Especially, what most caught me was not only that these people could help each other to make a difference, creating projects to build rainwater harvesting systems to help grow gardens, is one example, but also that they would provide us with healthy turkey and we can call them to order it. Also, that you can find fruits or vegetables easily where it is cheap. So its not only fruits or vegetables that we can look for but fresh turkey provided to us rather than the ones sold up front already cooked which might only contain drugs and which is probably not healthy. Now that I'm aware of this I think that for the first time I can buy my first fresh turkey from a market and the last I heard from my old-generation family is that they always claim that if they do go back to their country they always want to eat the original corn, meat or soup,etc because it is much more "better" or "fresh" which I always wondered what they meant since most of their cultural food comes from agriculture and the ones sold here on Trade Fair has a different taste. Let's see if this turkey I buy at Greenmarket Farmers Market is any different than the ones sold at Trade Fair, etc.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Blog 14 Ideas for Improving My Performance in the CATW
Improving My Annotation
1. I should identify my examples or details.
2. Annotate the main points of what the passage is mostly talking about
3.Check each paragraph in order to not miss out anything.
4. Get the main idea first and then exclude the minor details.
5.Annotating is a great idea so you can write your essay more quickly without going back to the essay
Improving my Response
1. Writing the thesis first so then you can write your two examples.
2. These ideas you would then use them to develop into multiple paragraphs.
3. Write your conclusion unto that lesson that you experienced or learned about in school.
Transitions to organize your CATW
To show time has passed
Immediately
Thereafter
Soon
Stop and Compare
Whereas
But
In Spite Of
Yet
Give Reader an Example
For example, For instance, In this care
To conclude
In brief, In conclusion Hence, As a result, Thus, Summing Up
Make the reader move forward
And then, Further, Moreover, What's more, Furthermore, Besides
1. I should identify my examples or details.
2. Annotate the main points of what the passage is mostly talking about
3.Check each paragraph in order to not miss out anything.
4. Get the main idea first and then exclude the minor details.
5.Annotating is a great idea so you can write your essay more quickly without going back to the essay
Improving my Response
1. Writing the thesis first so then you can write your two examples.
2. These ideas you would then use them to develop into multiple paragraphs.
3. Write your conclusion unto that lesson that you experienced or learned about in school.
Transitions to organize your CATW
To show time has passed
Immediately
Thereafter
Soon
Stop and Compare
Whereas
But
In Spite Of
Yet
Give Reader an Example
For example, For instance, In this care
To conclude
In brief, In conclusion Hence, As a result, Thus, Summing Up
Make the reader move forward
And then, Further, Moreover, What's more, Furthermore, Besides
Blog 13 Typing CATW 5
In the article, "How to Do One Thing at a Time" by Nancy Jones she explains how multi-tasking can intefere and have a bad impact in our lives. If we end up performing difficult things all at once it is called multitasking. If you are trying to concentrate writing an essay but at the same time watching TV or eating supper then chances are we end up not doing well or neither. If we make one group do multi-tasking like playing chess and have him/her answering the cellphone a lot then chances are they don't do better in the game but if the other group of people are playing chess with no sound around or answering the phone then they do better. This is why Clifford Nass believes that the brain does better when we do things in an organizing order versus than doing them all together at the same time.
One significant idea in the passage is when the author, Nancy Jones, points out about Clifford Nass quote when he says, "a tremendous amount of evidence shows that the brain does better when it's performing tasks in sequence rather than all at once", because for example if you are texting while driving then how can you concentrate when you are being cautious that you don't crash another car in front of you. This issue has been reported on the news every year. It has gotten out of hand that is is now close to the drunk driving accident issue. I don't understand how people can text and drive at the same time. Anyone doing that would have to wait for a red light to text. Instead of texting I would let someone call me because it is much easier to view the cars that are in front of you while you drive and avoid accidents. Another good example I can give about multi-tasking is reading a complex book or doing homework of difficult math and listening to music at the same time because when I do listen to music I realize that I end up finishing later but if I don't listen to music I finish faster, concentrate better and remember more. This is why I think it makes sense that our brains have "cognitive" limits according to the passage. So if I'm doing homework and listening to music then it's more harder for the brain because the brain isn't a machine that can memorize all the steps or remember all the rules that apply to math all at once plus the stimulation that the brain recieves to the music I enjoy can just lead me to errors or forgetting when I don't even realize it as long as I research this matter or go to a yoga class I can cure my addiction to multi-tasking, you can too.
One significant idea in the passage is when the author, Nancy Jones, points out about Clifford Nass quote when he says, "a tremendous amount of evidence shows that the brain does better when it's performing tasks in sequence rather than all at once", because for example if you are texting while driving then how can you concentrate when you are being cautious that you don't crash another car in front of you. This issue has been reported on the news every year. It has gotten out of hand that is is now close to the drunk driving accident issue. I don't understand how people can text and drive at the same time. Anyone doing that would have to wait for a red light to text. Instead of texting I would let someone call me because it is much easier to view the cars that are in front of you while you drive and avoid accidents. Another good example I can give about multi-tasking is reading a complex book or doing homework of difficult math and listening to music at the same time because when I do listen to music I realize that I end up finishing later but if I don't listen to music I finish faster, concentrate better and remember more. This is why I think it makes sense that our brains have "cognitive" limits according to the passage. So if I'm doing homework and listening to music then it's more harder for the brain because the brain isn't a machine that can memorize all the steps or remember all the rules that apply to math all at once plus the stimulation that the brain recieves to the music I enjoy can just lead me to errors or forgetting when I don't even realize it as long as I research this matter or go to a yoga class I can cure my addiction to multi-tasking, you can too.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan Blog 12
I agree with what the author, Michael Pollan, on what he is trying to tell us in his book "In Defense of Food" because most of us people seem to want easy solutions to everything and are deluded in this country about the food we eat. No wonder the news does tell us that "America is the fattest country in the world". For example I would take in consideration his advice on "pay more, eat less" because I think if people can find the time to buy more nice clothes, watch Jersey Shore,etc than we can also take time to bettering ourselves first. Since we are deluded we will listen to what the TV tells us about taking pills. Or since we think it's too expensive to buy fresh food than we give up easily. The problem is we can't take reality but for me since I read this I have to consider how things are and believe on the testimonials given by real people about pills.
Although my great-grandmother is already dead and there is hardly anyone to find that knows or understands this issue in this new generation I think I would also definitely take the "don't eat any food your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize' advice seriously because now I understand why so many die from illnesses and most commonly why so many are diagnosed with cholesterol which I did have. Its unbelievable to think what these companies have done. For example Go-gurt actually wasn't good! But I guess I was deluded by the way it was marketed for kids and since they thought us, which I don't remember where, that yogurt is healthy than I just went ahead and ate any yogurt without reading the back of it. Same thing with cereals. I would buy any cereal because they thought us its healthy but you can't just buy any cereal either. I think the way we live these days on this issue is like an animal chain. In other words if we show the bird the food chain and if he doesn't listen then the owl will eat him. Unfortunately, same thing in the real world! If we don't listen or follow the steps then those at the top of the chain benefit from you with no mercy and maybe you will die also. All we have to do is read and follow the steps. No complaining. Truth is out there. Plain and simple. Overall, for me these are the items that make sense to me in Pollen's advice and the one's I would implement right away!
Although my great-grandmother is already dead and there is hardly anyone to find that knows or understands this issue in this new generation I think I would also definitely take the "don't eat any food your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize' advice seriously because now I understand why so many die from illnesses and most commonly why so many are diagnosed with cholesterol which I did have. Its unbelievable to think what these companies have done. For example Go-gurt actually wasn't good! But I guess I was deluded by the way it was marketed for kids and since they thought us, which I don't remember where, that yogurt is healthy than I just went ahead and ate any yogurt without reading the back of it. Same thing with cereals. I would buy any cereal because they thought us its healthy but you can't just buy any cereal either. I think the way we live these days on this issue is like an animal chain. In other words if we show the bird the food chain and if he doesn't listen then the owl will eat him. Unfortunately, same thing in the real world! If we don't listen or follow the steps then those at the top of the chain benefit from you with no mercy and maybe you will die also. All we have to do is read and follow the steps. No complaining. Truth is out there. Plain and simple. Overall, for me these are the items that make sense to me in Pollen's advice and the one's I would implement right away!
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Blog 10 Where the Whale Be at?
In "Where The Whale Be At" by Terry J. Cole the author alerts us about how people of color should be caring of their environment or keep on facing the consequences. The author informs us about how land areas start as farms. As a result the population have a connection with the land. Since black people were the first and especially the people of the land it has been too difficult to know this in modern times. It also tells us that because we don't connect with the family this results in losing our values to the city. Since we don't seem to show interest on the issues of this matter the only way is reality. Lead poisoning, waste sites, and air pollution are among most people of color which leads to stroke, chronic pulmonary diseases, asthma,etc. Doctors who treat blacks for cardio arrest will least likely be alive because doctors probably wouldn't keep them alive.If there were more grocery stores around for people of color would reduce these illnesses. Just like people of color have been the main on a lot of movements they must also with the environment and they will never see the environment unless they turn on the TV.
Based on my observations, from what I see on the news and from my opinions I think to solve this we first have to look at the roots of this issue and take in consideration. So I do agree with the author, on how colored people need to watch their environment and take caution of what we eat because this has been reported for years and years in the media also. Mostly what is being reported is the obesity rates among latinos in the Spanish media while in CNN we hear "America has the highest obesity of any country". In the newspapers like NY Post they always point out the areas of the most obese and with high risk of illnesses. Usually we can tell that these areas are mostly among blacks and latinos because of my observations. An example I can relate about the startling "more than 600,000 students-mostly African-Americans in New York, Massachusetts, California, who attend public schools located within one-half mile of state-identified contaminated sites" is that not only could this be happening in schools but the real problem may also be in that some of the areas they live in are usually in apartments where the walls or ceilings are cracked and are contaminated with lead as it was reported in the news as well. So I do think that first we need to lift the graduation rate. Then if latinos and blacks are gonna keep on breeding mostly than might as well pass on those values to them. Even if they don't graduate then at least work harder to create businesses that encourage cleaning efforts and get them aware of what is going on or volunteer somewhere. So I do agree when Bobby Seale says "the only solution to pollution is the people's humane solution". Same thing with food. Teach ourselves to make healthy foods or go to a seminar and unwind our mentality off the new generation of Mcdonalds,etc. The information is there. All we have to do is read and take action.
Based on my observations, from what I see on the news and from my opinions I think to solve this we first have to look at the roots of this issue and take in consideration. So I do agree with the author, on how colored people need to watch their environment and take caution of what we eat because this has been reported for years and years in the media also. Mostly what is being reported is the obesity rates among latinos in the Spanish media while in CNN we hear "America has the highest obesity of any country". In the newspapers like NY Post they always point out the areas of the most obese and with high risk of illnesses. Usually we can tell that these areas are mostly among blacks and latinos because of my observations. An example I can relate about the startling "more than 600,000 students-mostly African-Americans in New York, Massachusetts, California, who attend public schools located within one-half mile of state-identified contaminated sites" is that not only could this be happening in schools but the real problem may also be in that some of the areas they live in are usually in apartments where the walls or ceilings are cracked and are contaminated with lead as it was reported in the news as well. So I do think that first we need to lift the graduation rate. Then if latinos and blacks are gonna keep on breeding mostly than might as well pass on those values to them. Even if they don't graduate then at least work harder to create businesses that encourage cleaning efforts and get them aware of what is going on or volunteer somewhere. So I do agree when Bobby Seale says "the only solution to pollution is the people's humane solution". Same thing with food. Teach ourselves to make healthy foods or go to a seminar and unwind our mentality off the new generation of Mcdonalds,etc. The information is there. All we have to do is read and take action.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Blog 11 Typing CATW 4
In "Let Them Eat Fat" by the author Greg Critser discusses how, fast-food companies because of the cheap need from poor people in meals the innovation known as supersizing was born. For example, Mcdonalds which is located in a low-income area attracts most of the low-income workers once they leave work and this is where Mcdonalds begins its "supersize" offer. This is almost similar for black kids because of their economic status which are the majority who purchase the same hamburgers. The rest of teens are doing the same and not noticing that by supersizing your meal you double the amount of calories more than what teens are suppose to be taking because the calories are poor and all it has is fat added.
I agree with the author Greg Critser and how he explains us how food companies have been aiming at poor inner-communities because since it is always reported that low-income communities, which is mostly hispanics, are low in graduation rate and high deaths in obesity then it must be true also that they are the most obese. Same for blacks. It was reported on the New York Post newspaper on a map how mostly in latin and black communities had the most obesisty rates. These areas included the Upper West and East sides of Manhattan. Also Uptown Bronx and Upper West of Brooklyn. Only a few parts in Staten Island.
Another example I can point out is that statiscally the low-income areas have less healthy organic supermarkets. This is why there are more reports if diabetes and other related sicknesses in the low-income communites, plus more deaths. Therefore, huge food companies have more advantage to make more profit with supersizing in meals in the low-income areas than the upper ones and since they are low on economic status there is more demand for fast food. This can stop if we educate ourselves more,read and work harder to put our own healthy food store businesses.
I agree with the author Greg Critser and how he explains us how food companies have been aiming at poor inner-communities because since it is always reported that low-income communities, which is mostly hispanics, are low in graduation rate and high deaths in obesity then it must be true also that they are the most obese. Same for blacks. It was reported on the New York Post newspaper on a map how mostly in latin and black communities had the most obesisty rates. These areas included the Upper West and East sides of Manhattan. Also Uptown Bronx and Upper West of Brooklyn. Only a few parts in Staten Island.
Another example I can point out is that statiscally the low-income areas have less healthy organic supermarkets. This is why there are more reports if diabetes and other related sicknesses in the low-income communites, plus more deaths. Therefore, huge food companies have more advantage to make more profit with supersizing in meals in the low-income areas than the upper ones and since they are low on economic status there is more demand for fast food. This can stop if we educate ourselves more,read and work harder to put our own healthy food store businesses.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Blog 9 Summary of Three Meatrix Films
The Meatrix
In the first Meatrix film we see Leo the pig in his everyday life. Eating and nothing but eating around the farm. Morpheus(awakened cow) appears himself to Leo and tries to explain him about the illusion he lives in. Morpheus convinces Leo to take the red pill. The red pill is the truth. After Leo takes the red pill they are both transformed into the real world where Leo looks around witnessing the horrors of pigs, chickens, and other farm animals.Morpheus explains how in the 20th centruy agriculture factory farm is born and has found a way to profit from us the consumers. All the animals on farms are treated with cruelty. The greedy factory farms began putting pigs, cows, chickens all close together to the point where they can't move a muscle and begin to kill each other. For this reason the cruel factory farms started debeaking chickens with machines and feeding antibiotics to the cows and pigs to keep them alive. But this does nothing but cause diseases and germs. This is why communities near factory farms face the consequences of sickness.
Another problem we face as Morpheus explains it in the "The Meatrix" greedy corporate industrial farms have been diminishing small independent farm businesses and mistreating communities as a whole. It started mostly in the 1950s with 2 million family farms dissapearing and more continue to do so. After witnessing this Leo is in the quest for revolting and encourages us to do so also.
The Meatrix: Revolting
As Morpheaus, Chikity and Leo continue their mission the good news is that Leo in his first step to revolting has freed at least 10 million people from the Meatrix. People are now starting to buy healthy organic food which supports independent family farm that use no drugs against animals. As they are transported again to the real world Morpheaus shows and explains to Leo how cows instead of using hands to squirt out milk machines are being used pumping milk more faster than using a hand. The calves are separated from their mothers and fed with dead cow's blood through machines also.
So even if some cows are fed with antibiotics which is said to keep them alive they still die. Even if they don't die they still begin to have diseases. Especially mad cow disease which can come from the calves drinking the dead cow's blood. Cows which are supposed to eat grass for healthy production of milk from the mammary glands is not this way in factory farms. As Morpheus tells us agents from these factory farms(the meatrix) use a needle to inject artificial growth hormone to the cow's mammary gland so it can produce more and more milk faster without the cows having to do it naturally! Basically we the consumers eat this type of cheese, milk or eggs because chickens also are given the drug so like Morpheaus and Leo encourages us we should buy and support family farms who don't use these machines to kill animals to gain faster profit from us.
The Meatrix II 1/2
Leo and Chikity(chicken) are ready to save Morpheaus from an ongoing battle between the agents. The agents have kidnapped Morpheaus and Leo is more determined than ever and is on his way with Chikity to save Morpheaus. As they arrive they witness the way employees are treated. Employees are cutting through the meat so fast that they even cut themselves so they have to have caution as the meat machine cutter speeds up. Morpheaus tied up to a chair tells him how insane he thinks he is by treating the employees that way. Agent already knows this because profit is his way when doing this.
Meanwhile dead cows are hanged up and pass by through a automatic suspender where the employees catch big risk because even the agent admits meat packing is the most dangerous jobs but since these employees are expendable there is no stopping it. The employees catch risk because cow manure which contains mostly feces falls on the meat and maybe even them. Another reason why it isn't safe is because feces contains the bacteria called E Colli so the employees could catch it. The agent then tries to get rid of Morpheaus by hanging him up on the suspender where it will transport him to his death on the saw cutter. Just in time Leo arrives to save Morpheaus. Leo kicks the agent right to the suspender and stays there. Leo turns off the machine equipment. Morpheaus is safe. Leo has been a hero and is the one.
Reponse
In the "the Meatrix Interactive 360" in "communities" article it explains how industrial farming can affect us in many different ways. For example it can take away a hog farmer's job out of business. This has been going on for nearly on 40 years or so because of corporate industrial farming. It is fierce competition as well versus of group greedy men who care nothing but fast lazy money using technology and drugs on animals making them suffer. They also lie to the community how industrial farming will have a positive impact on local economy by creating new jobs and investing in the community but its not true due to all the complaints from nearby residents. One example I can point out is that because of all the foul odors that get near the resident's house their house property value drops and other small businesses around.
Another bad impact from industrial farming is that all the the dangerous substance released to the air and water such as hydrogen sulfide or ammonia can have affect on people giving them respiratory problems and children may be at risk to asthma. Not only that but sadly it can lead the residents to have depression or fatigue which results low social status with neighbors, arguments, and lost of trust. Many people would not understand this since they don't live in these conditions and just laugh about it since they are stuck in the Matrix themselves. They think all of this is right since they have never seen it or think money is everything. I think we should read first and then support hog house farms by donating money to them so in a few years they donate then start buying the food healthful supermarkets. By checking the food guide also would be a good idea so we don't die or become infected like the rest who have cholesterol, diabetes, breathing problems,etc. This way we can counter against the system of industrial farming and increase hog farms. It can also save animals from cruelty and we won't need to be their slaves. Or even go to a Farm Aid concert. If the corporation has the nerve to do this America then we can make a difference also and stop them!
In the first Meatrix film we see Leo the pig in his everyday life. Eating and nothing but eating around the farm. Morpheus(awakened cow) appears himself to Leo and tries to explain him about the illusion he lives in. Morpheus convinces Leo to take the red pill. The red pill is the truth. After Leo takes the red pill they are both transformed into the real world where Leo looks around witnessing the horrors of pigs, chickens, and other farm animals.Morpheus explains how in the 20th centruy agriculture factory farm is born and has found a way to profit from us the consumers. All the animals on farms are treated with cruelty. The greedy factory farms began putting pigs, cows, chickens all close together to the point where they can't move a muscle and begin to kill each other. For this reason the cruel factory farms started debeaking chickens with machines and feeding antibiotics to the cows and pigs to keep them alive. But this does nothing but cause diseases and germs. This is why communities near factory farms face the consequences of sickness.
Another problem we face as Morpheus explains it in the "The Meatrix" greedy corporate industrial farms have been diminishing small independent farm businesses and mistreating communities as a whole. It started mostly in the 1950s with 2 million family farms dissapearing and more continue to do so. After witnessing this Leo is in the quest for revolting and encourages us to do so also.
The Meatrix: Revolting
As Morpheaus, Chikity and Leo continue their mission the good news is that Leo in his first step to revolting has freed at least 10 million people from the Meatrix. People are now starting to buy healthy organic food which supports independent family farm that use no drugs against animals. As they are transported again to the real world Morpheaus shows and explains to Leo how cows instead of using hands to squirt out milk machines are being used pumping milk more faster than using a hand. The calves are separated from their mothers and fed with dead cow's blood through machines also.
So even if some cows are fed with antibiotics which is said to keep them alive they still die. Even if they don't die they still begin to have diseases. Especially mad cow disease which can come from the calves drinking the dead cow's blood. Cows which are supposed to eat grass for healthy production of milk from the mammary glands is not this way in factory farms. As Morpheus tells us agents from these factory farms(the meatrix) use a needle to inject artificial growth hormone to the cow's mammary gland so it can produce more and more milk faster without the cows having to do it naturally! Basically we the consumers eat this type of cheese, milk or eggs because chickens also are given the drug so like Morpheaus and Leo encourages us we should buy and support family farms who don't use these machines to kill animals to gain faster profit from us.
The Meatrix II 1/2
Leo and Chikity(chicken) are ready to save Morpheaus from an ongoing battle between the agents. The agents have kidnapped Morpheaus and Leo is more determined than ever and is on his way with Chikity to save Morpheaus. As they arrive they witness the way employees are treated. Employees are cutting through the meat so fast that they even cut themselves so they have to have caution as the meat machine cutter speeds up. Morpheaus tied up to a chair tells him how insane he thinks he is by treating the employees that way. Agent already knows this because profit is his way when doing this.
Meanwhile dead cows are hanged up and pass by through a automatic suspender where the employees catch big risk because even the agent admits meat packing is the most dangerous jobs but since these employees are expendable there is no stopping it. The employees catch risk because cow manure which contains mostly feces falls on the meat and maybe even them. Another reason why it isn't safe is because feces contains the bacteria called E Colli so the employees could catch it. The agent then tries to get rid of Morpheaus by hanging him up on the suspender where it will transport him to his death on the saw cutter. Just in time Leo arrives to save Morpheaus. Leo kicks the agent right to the suspender and stays there. Leo turns off the machine equipment. Morpheaus is safe. Leo has been a hero and is the one.
Reponse
In the "the Meatrix Interactive 360" in "communities" article it explains how industrial farming can affect us in many different ways. For example it can take away a hog farmer's job out of business. This has been going on for nearly on 40 years or so because of corporate industrial farming. It is fierce competition as well versus of group greedy men who care nothing but fast lazy money using technology and drugs on animals making them suffer. They also lie to the community how industrial farming will have a positive impact on local economy by creating new jobs and investing in the community but its not true due to all the complaints from nearby residents. One example I can point out is that because of all the foul odors that get near the resident's house their house property value drops and other small businesses around.
Another bad impact from industrial farming is that all the the dangerous substance released to the air and water such as hydrogen sulfide or ammonia can have affect on people giving them respiratory problems and children may be at risk to asthma. Not only that but sadly it can lead the residents to have depression or fatigue which results low social status with neighbors, arguments, and lost of trust. Many people would not understand this since they don't live in these conditions and just laugh about it since they are stuck in the Matrix themselves. They think all of this is right since they have never seen it or think money is everything. I think we should read first and then support hog house farms by donating money to them so in a few years they donate then start buying the food healthful supermarkets. By checking the food guide also would be a good idea so we don't die or become infected like the rest who have cholesterol, diabetes, breathing problems,etc. This way we can counter against the system of industrial farming and increase hog farms. It can also save animals from cruelty and we won't need to be their slaves. Or even go to a Farm Aid concert. If the corporation has the nerve to do this America then we can make a difference also and stop them!
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