Blog 7

1) Post your favorite lyrics, poem, or quote for this week.
~My favorite song this weeks is by ANBERLIN and called "Inevitable" Do you remember when we were just kidsAnd cardboard boxes took us miles from what we would missSchoolyard conversations taken to heartAnd laughter took the place of everything we knew we were notI wanna break every clockThe hands of time could never move againWe could stay in this moment (stay in this moment)For the rest of our livesIs it over now hey, hey, is it over nowI wanna be your last, first kissThat you'll ever haveI wanna be your last, first kissAmazing how life turns out the way that it doesWe end up hurting the worst, the only ones we really loveI wanna break every clockThe hands of time could never move againWe could stay in this moment (stay in this moment)For the rest of our livesIs it over now hey, hey, is it over nowI wanna be your last, first kissThat you'll ever haveI wanna be your last, first kissIs it over now hey, hey, is it over nowIs it over how hey, hey, it's not over nowI wanna be your last, first kissThat you'll ever have (that you'll ever have)I wanna be your last, first love (that you'll ever have)Till you're lying here beside me with arms and eyes open wideI wanna be your last, first kiss for all time
2) Develop two reflection questions that you would ask your students at this point in the course if you were a UN100 Professor.
~What are 5 ways to beat procrastination? What are some study habits to improve your grades and help you retain information?
3) What are you passionate about? Why?
~ I am passionate about becoming a radiographer, and about helping people. Because after seing how an MRI saved my moms life by discovering a previously unknown brain tumor i love what radiography can do and i love helping people.
4) How are you going to finance your three years of the Radiology program? If you will be in debt from student loans at the end, calculate roughly how much you will owe upon graduation.
~I am going to finance my three years of the Radiology program by using the money my parents set aside that is going to pay for all of my college and also by having a steady well paying job to help pay for neccesities.
5) Have you changed your mind or do you have any new concerns about your program of study after our guest speakers today (Dr. Foley & Joanne)? Are you thinking of a different major or are you dead set on Radiology? What behavior(s) will you maybe have to change in order to keep up with and make the cut?
~I still want to do radiography, i am dead set on doing that, and will stop and nothing to become that. I am going to work harder, study more, and focus more to be able to make the cut. Also i am going to use study groups more and tutoring more to make sure that i get the best grades i can possibly get. Why not i am paying for it afterall.
6) FAST FOOD NATION (You should be reading through Chapter 7 at this point)Reflect upon the opening lines of Chapter 7:"You can smell Greeley, Colorado, long before you can see it. The smell is hard to forget but not easy to describe, a combination of live animals, manure, and dead animals being rendered into dog food."
~These opening lines give a grafic picture that puts into reality just what the smell is like for the reader. It helps the reader to paint a visible picture in their mind, and really get the point that the author is trying to get across. It might be slightly graffic, but it helps make the reader realize the gravity of the situation.
-Have you ever read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair? If so, how does it relate to FFN?
~ I have never read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair therefore i would not know how it relates to FFN.Sorry?
-How high is the employee turnover rate in the meat industry and why don't the packing plants see this as a problem?
~The turnover rate is 80%. They say its not a problem because it prevents them from forming unions and rebelling against them and also becuase like always they employees are easily replaceable.
-We discussed captive supplies of cattle versus regular farming. Reflect upon this quote from page 150:"To supply the beef slaughterhouse, ConAgra operates a pair of enormous feedlots. Each of them can hold up to one hundred thousand head of cattle..During the three months before slaughter, they eat grain..The grain fattens the cattle quickly, aided by the anabolic steroids implanted in their ear."
~As the reader you know how bad slaugterhouses are, but you realize how truly horrible they truly are by this quote. The fact that they feed them them grain just to fatten them up, the grain is not fully healthy for them, it does not supply them all they nutrients they need. So while they do fatten them up, its not true good fat.
-Do you think that these animals' emotions (fears, stress, anger) affect the meat we eat derived from them? How?
~I do because when you are stressed or angery you tend to eat less and so your body burns more. Also you tend to feel worse when you feel these emotions, and eat less.
-How do you feel about eating steroids via consumption of "USDA Inspected" beef? I probably grossed you out - sorry guys, but knowledge is power! If you still don't see the connection between this course and Fast Food Nation -- let me know. Most of you are going into health professions and will be dealing with epidemics of cancer, diabetes, heart disease etc.. mostly based on the American sedentary and processed-food lifestyle. I am hoping you are thinking more critically about everything at this point.
~I feel like all the steroids are going to catch up to us in the future. At some point its going to affect our bodies in a way like a form of cancer, or some mutation. I feel that the steroids can't be good for us, and although i eat it, i try to eat not much of them becuase i know in the long run they will be bad for us.