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Reiterate a term or concept you learned in Anatomy this week.
~This week in anatomy we learned about 2 types of process in the bones 1. ossification which is bone formation and intramembraneous which is the membrace foremd into bone.
Ø List a few pleasant events that happened during your first weeks at NMU.
~Some pleasant events from my first weeks were i met my roomate, who is awesome i couldn't have asked for a better roomate really also i met so many people and have made so many new friends that i became not nervous about being on my own and now i am excited and loving everything here at northern.
ØWhere do you want to be (academically) in six months?
~Academically i want to be with all a's and b's in my classes and with about a 3.5 ish gpa if not higher.
Ø List habits you already possess that make you successful in college.
~ I have very strong study skills, learned from my hard classes during highschool, also i am very organized and focused, which helps me force myself to do homework and focus on my studies rather that what is going on around me.
Ø List habits (timewasters?) you can change or modify, or need to lose.
~I need to learn to do homework more on the weekend instead of waiting till sunday nite and monday to do all my homework. I need to find a balance between having fun and going out on the weekend and doing homework. I know its possible I jsut have to figure out how to balance that.
Ø Explain how you approach studying your a) textbook and b) notes.
~I approach studying my textbook by sitting down and reading it ahead of time and taking some notes and highlighting. Then going over the key concepts i highlighted and wrote down. I approach studying my notes by having the basic background of information in my mind from the book then i add to the notes in my head from the book with the notes from class.
Ø Explain how you determine what to write down in notes during lectures.
I determine what to write down during lectures by clues in the teachers voice or stuff the teacher writes down. Except in anatomy becuase everything Froiland says is important otherwise he wouldn't say it soo his class i write everything down.
Ø FAST FOOD NATION:Ø Watch this short 1980’s McDonald’s commercial. McD’s reps have actually claimed they do not target children in their ads.. Pay attention to the tagline: “The Hamburglar is very clever and very sneaky!” Why is this ironic?
~Its ironic becuase the Hamburglar and Ronald McDonald are charachters that kids would identify with or look to or identify with better than adults would. Its ironic becuase the way they worded seems to be more towards children, becuase with adults you could use bigger words.
Ø Over the last several decades, fast food companies have aggressively targeted children in their marketing efforts. Should advertisers be permitted to target children who lack the sophistication to make informed decisions and are essentially being lured into eating high fat, high calorie food through toys and cute corporate mascots?
~Advertisers should not be able to target children becuase by targeting them they are setting up a lifestyle that will affect them for life. It starts the problem younger than it should. Advertisers should only target adults because they are able to make decisions themselves, where as children have adults that make their decisions for them and therefore don't get decide things on their own. So targeting them is unfair becuase they will be swayed because toys and mascots immediatly grab the intrest of children regardless of how bad it is for them. They don't know any better they just know they want that toy.