EXPERT 1

Insights

1. wanted her husband to be at home than hospital
2. didn't want anyone from the hospital to come and take care of him she wanted to do it.
3. one son was able to make peace but the other didn't get a chances to.


Even though it was a little hard to take care of him she would rather have her husband home than a hospital. i thought that this idea was a good idea because in a hospital you really don't get the rest you need i feel than at home where you feel more safe because you know the people who are in the house on top of that you know your in a safe place. Another good thing that came out of this was that they were able to spend as much time as possible together which made the bonds they had stronger and for them to get even more closer than they were before. Another thing she said which i also like was how she didn't want anyone from the hospital to take care of him, how she wanted to do it herself. I think for him this was good because its better to have someone you love and trust taking care of you than some random stranger that you really don't know. The other insight that she said was how when her husband pass away the youngest son was able to say his final goodbyes and also make peace with his dad, but the other son didn't get to. I understood that the oldest son was really close to his dad and she didn't think he could handle seeing him like that but i think that he still should have had the chances to make peace and say the final goodbyes because not doing that kind of leaves the oldest son with bottled up emotions that he never really got a chances to let out, and maybe be able to see his dad and make peace could have helped in a way.

HW 18

When it comes to thankgiving for me its pretty much the samething every year where we all go to my grandmothers house everyone tends to make alot of food and from there we just talk and eat. i think that the food is the main event because thankgiving pretty much just revolves around food. what we do before we start eating is that someone at the table would say grace and that person would usally pray for love ones that they might have lost or other things they feel they need to pray for. Also the other thing thats tend to happen is we watch football while we are eating because at the time we are sit down to eat thats the only good thing to watch every year. One thing that happens afterwards is that people tend to get very lazy afterwards and they just want to sit down and not do anything or just watch TV and the main reason for that is we see all this food there so we try to eat as much as we can than we overdue it to a point where we get really lazy.

HW 17

My experences to illness and dieing hasnt been that extreme i can say. when it comes to the illness part i can relate a little bit because i get the common cold once and a while which is normal because mostly everyone gets the cold here and there. other than that i havent really experenced any real bad illness besides that. when it comes to the death part i can also relate as well because a few years ago my godmother died. it was a big deal to be because i was close to her so the day that she died was a very sad day. besides that i havent experences any other deaths in the family. the way i was tought to think about illness and dieing was not to really talk about it because there both of those things are not something you really want to talk about. because when you do it kind of gets depressing and sad depending on if the person is really sick or if the person has passed away. The social norm i feel is the same as i learn where you really tend not to talk about it and sort of ignore it because these topics are depressing. I think that the reason people dont like talking about both of these things because at one point or another its going to happen to all of as where we might get really sick or we might pass away and life so short that people try to ignore it as much as they can because they dont want to think about it happening to them.

HW 12 - Final Food Project 2 - Outline

Thesis: fast food company's take advantage of there workers and people

Claims: how they mistreat there workers

Evidence: "food inc"
Evidence: "fast food nation"

claims: the effect of eating fast food

Evidence: "food inc"
Evidence:"fast food nation"

HW 11 - Final Food Project 1

For this part of the project i was going to change my diet which was going to be not eating meat for a few days. The first day was pretty Ok for breakfast i didn't eat anything because i Dont really eat breakfast and i woke up late. for lunch i had a soup which contained no meat. One thing i did notice after eating the soup was i didnt feel to full i felt just right which was cool. in between lunch and dinner i didn't have anything. for dinner i had pasta. after i ate it i felt a little more fuller than how i felt for lunch but not over doing it. The next day i didn't eat any breakfast, for lunch i had a a slice of pizza which was good. for a snack i ended up having a banana. for dinner i ended up having cereal which was also good.
My experience even though it was a short one was that being a vegetarian is not that hard when you eat something different each time. if i were to keep going with this it might start getting a little harder just because you haven't eaten meat for awhile and other people around you are and you kind of feel like doing it, but other than that if you keep doing this and not eating meat you will end up not feeling the need to eat meat anymore.

HW 10 - Food, Inc. Response

The main points of the film that we watched i think were to inform people on what these big companies were doing to the food that they are eating. not only does this film show the harmful things we put in our body each day but also show as how corrupt these major companies are as a whole, from making laws to protect them self from people ban mouthing the company or to avoid laws that can harm them. these company's do not play fair and do not really care about anyone else but them self.
One major thing that the movie Food Inc had over the book "fast food nation" was you were really able to see some of the horrible things that these companies do to the animals and also to the workers. Its one thing to read about these things happening but in a movie they can really throw it in your face and you really get to see what's going on. What the book can offer though is very rich information because for a movie there's only so much information that they can put inside a movie and they tend to only put the major issues and cut out the rest. But in a book there is no limit to how much information a person can put it in so your not left with losing some information like a movie.
I feel like these company's really get away with a lot. No one really calls them out on it because there such a big company that they can afford lawyers and they also have people working in washington DC for them that its hard to fight them. The only way i see a change happening if the a lot of people like most of the country stop eating at these fast food places. In doing this you would see a big chance because they would be losing money and end up not affording people they hare in washington which will end up forcing them to comply to the rules like health guide lines and other things. I don't see this happening anytime soon though so for now companies will just keep doing what they do even though its wrong.

Chapter 10

Chapter 10

One major thing that the fast food companies were wanting to do was to expand there chains overseas to make more money. The first major company to do this was Mcdonalds. Since mcdonalds was able to do this thats what lead the way to other company's reaching out and expanding there chains overseas as well. which in the long run helped all the fast food company's because there were not longer making just money in the US but now overseas as well.

"we've got the fattest, least fit generation of kids ever" (Pg240)

Its kind of crazy the power that these fast food people have when they set a goal they really try to finish it at any cost. also they are very good at avoiding problems without getting in to trouble.

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

One of the popular foods in america the hamburger started to become deadly. what started to happen to the meat was that it was being effected by a number of things one of theses things were E. Coli o157:h7, and if a person were to eat meat which had it they could get very ill and in some cases can also lead to death.

"those who survive are often left with permanent disabilities such as blindness or brain damage" (Pg 200)

I feel that the meat companies are never out for anyones safety they just want to make the most money as possibly and by doing that they are willing to cut corners. The sad part about it is the corners they to tend to cut are the ones that get people very sick or even end up killing people.

Chapter 8

Chapter 8

In this chapter it talks about the jobs and how dangerous some are, One major dangerous job is the slaughterhouse many workers that are working in these are immigrants so the working conditions to start off with are not good but another problem that happens with being immigrant workers is that accidents that happen in the slaughterhouse gets covered up and never reported.
"the fine was $480 for each man's death" (178)
when i read this quote i could not believe that a person life would only be worth that much its sad how these big company's can get away with murder in away without worrying about it effecting anything they do, the real victims to this would be the family's of the person who died because they really wont get any justice.

HW 9 - Freakonomics Response

There were a few intellectual moves i felt that was put in to the movie Freakonomics. One of those moves that they did a lot in most of the film was when ever they would be talking about something like a good example would be about the names they would have different view points about it. One view point they had talking about how your name doe not decide your future and even if you have a different name than other people you can still do what ever you would like to do in life. The other view point of this was a name does effect your future the example to that was getting a job how a person with a normal name like george Vs someone with a name like Tyrone, George would get more call backs about the job quicker than a person named Tyrone. Another example they did was the crime. There was a time where the crime rate was very high in NYC and than a few years later the crime rate started to drop most people thought the reason to that was because there were more cops on the street and also the Mayor was cracking down on crimes as well. But they had a different view on this and they think another reason that the crime rate drop was because of abortion being more easy to get, making it so that people who didn't want kids would not have and overall having less crime because of it. I think the reason they did it this way was because they wanted to give you all the view points about this and make you think for yourself and from all these different views you make your own answers.
I agree with the whole hidden in plain sight and this movie was a good example of it because a lot of the things in this movie had things hidden that people wouldn't normally think of or if they do they tend to ignore it, like the whole fixing of sumo wrestling and how some of the match's were fixed depending on the solution but many people ignore it because they didn't want to believe that they were fixed.

Chapters 4+5

Chapter 4

A inportant thing i find in this chapter was when it talk about becoming a francheisees it said "The franchisor wants to expand an existing company without spending its own funds. the franchiess wants to start his or her own business without going it alone and risking everything on a new idea" they pretty much go hand in hand because one is giving there brand name and a plan they want to do while the other is the one who adds the money to make it happen

Chapter 5

This chapter talks about french fries and it gives alot of infomations about it, one thing they said was how lets say you pay $1.50 for fries out of that money only 2 cents would go to the farmers who grew it. which shows again how these big companys just take advange of people not only there workers but people they buy from as well and at the end of it all it comes down to greedy companys trying to make the most profit out of there items.

HW 7 Reading Response

Fast Food Nation By Eric Schosser

chapter 1

The first chapter talks about a guy named Carl N. Karcher and how he was one of the first pioneer of fast food. It talks a little bit about Carls childhood how he lived on a farm. when he got older there was a hot dog stand for sell he ended up buying it and from there the chain started.

Chapter 2

This chapter talks about the food corporations targeting mostly kids and how they try to do different things to attract kids to there stores, One major image McDonald's put out was Ronald McDonald's making it more kid friendly to come to McDonald's.

I think what the corportaions were doing at this time was kind of messed up. Trying to brain wish the kids in a way to get them to go buy stuff from there company, and they were willing to do what ever it took for kids to always remember them/ always want something from them.

Chapter 3

This chapter talks about Mcdonlds and other companys in away abused there powers when it came to unions and how they were treating there workers. one quote that pretty much wraped it all up was "one of the most anti union companies on the planet" and it shows how they always want to do what ever there want and be in controll without having to worry about other people

HW 6

9/30
Today i went to subway to get something to eat i had a Meatball Marinara which said it was 560 calories which i guess in a way is not that bad but not that good either. when i ate the sandwich i felt pretty good reasons being was because it tasted good and also i didnt feel like i overate i felt just right, meaning i didnt eat to little or eat to much. Another reason that i didnt mind eating this sandwich was because cost wise it was not that bad it costed me about $6-7 bucks which was not that bad as well. what i notice about subway is that most of there sandwichs dont have that many calories depending on what you get on it/ ask for.


10/1
Today i had two slices of pizza the reason that i choose to have that was because i was pretty short on money that day and pizza was something cheep. when i tryed to look up the calories for the pizza it was about 200+ depending on what you get on it and where you buy it. I am going to take a guess that the pizza i ate was about 250 a slice reasons being was since it was cheep they tend to give you less and the crust was very thin which cuts off some calories. I also had some soda which was 150 calories i could have done without the soda because after drinking it i felt more full which which wasnt a good feeling.

HW 5

I would say that eating junk food/ fast food would be in a dominant discourses because it is talked about by people often. The people that are usually in the discourse would be fast food company's because there the one that would be making the junk food. the arguments that would be happening would be blame towards the fast food companys for making unhealthy products and also lowering there prices for the products that they would be making, which makes it cheeper to just go to a fast food place than trying to buy something healthy elsewhere. In the arctle i read "Fixing a World That Fosters Fat" (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/business/22stream.html?_r=1&emc=eta1) talks about these things and how we kind of all have to do our parts to start eating health and how its not just the fast food companys felt.

HW 4

When it comes to families food way's i agree that your family is the major ones to really shape how you look at food. when it comes to ethnic culture for me part of it fits for how i eat when it comes to dinner. since i am Hispanic for dinner we tend to eat a lot of Hispanic dish's, some of the dishes we tend to eat would be rice, beans and plantains. this is just the types of food that we usually eat at home, for my grandmother its the same as well these are some of the things she likes to eat as well. my mom and grandmother are pretty similar in what they cook and stuff. for most families i feel that most of the food ways and stuff they eat is just learnt from there family members and what also tends to happen is it changes sightly ever generation but most remain the same. when it comes to prepareing the food everyone in my family takes turns in that its not like one person just does it we all help out in some way. which was a the same for my mother as well when she was growing up she would help my grandmother cook and prepare food and i guess her doing that kind of passed on to me in some way because i tend to help when i can with prepareing food. i think overall your family is the one who shapes your foodways because growing up you learn most of the things about food and what to eat from them than when you get older you can either change what they told you about it or just add your experence about it.

HW 3

the fast food place that we went to was Mcdonalds. what we notice about this Mcdonald than the other ones was that the colors were different than how a normal mcdonalds would look like and also we notice how the music was different as well. Also Mcdonalds is pretty high tech in some ways because there cash register is pretty much a touch screen where the press what you are ordering and tell you the price. When you compare this to the farmers market it is really different reasons being most of the people who were at the farmers market they grow or make everything that they are trying to sell. also they seem a little more friendly when you are trying to buy something. we tryed to talk to the people who worked at Mcdonld if they were happy but they didn't seemed to happy to answer the question they pretty much just ignored as in a way, But when we asked the same question to a person who was selling milk products at the farmers market he seemed more than happy to answer the question he said that he enjoys being here and he gets to meet different people each day he also said how all the products he sells are organic. overall i think that the green market is a much happier and better place than Mcdonalds you can see it in that in the people to when you compare the people who were eating at Mcdonalds to the people in the farmers market you see that the people in the farmers market were much happier.