Thursday, June 11, 2009

Possible cause for our Collapse

From our 4-day unit i believe that from what ive been told and introduced to, the main cause for our collapse within the U.S economy will be due to a shortage of oil. No matter how much we try to limit ourselves as individuals to help create a unity as a whole group to fight against oil usage, we will still fail to succeed. Those who drive electic cars or hybrids believing they are all for the economy and doing us all a favor, are unaware to the face that the roads they drive on is made from ashphalt or other materials that is mixed into and made with oil.

Also i learned that Saudi-Arabia is in control of most of the world's Oil supply. Whether there economy collapses alone, due to a revolution or civil war, we all go down with them. They also have different beliefs that we see as unethical and would mix ourselves with that type of crowd, except because of they're high status due to oil we need them at times. Also from what ive learned through our filmclips in class, we, as americans, havent yet tried to find another alternative to oil for a replacement to help save future generations.

I remember when i went to the Bahamas i was able to see first hand the kind of lifestyle that the americans and bahamians who lived in Cape Eluethra had kept for so many years. They ran they're camp with solar-energy and used fish poop as nutrients to plant crops and such, they also used corn oil as energy for they're cars. I saw it then in 8th grade and wondered to myself why dont everyone try this.

Easter Island Response

After reading the Easter Island article i thought one of the most interesting points found in the history of Easter Island was that the statues were only discovered in the late 1700's. Who knows how long ago they were actually built and placed. My first historical connection when reading about this was that the Aztec Empire was always admired and seen as an advanced civilization, especially for they're time period of existence. The differences i thought about between our civilization and Easter Island was that our huge models or statues that are found in our country are only buildings or skyscrapers or sightseeings that represent our power or high stature, such as the World Trade Center, or the Statue of Liberty. For art to be placed in a land that is isolated and left to be unseen but only by true art-pursuers and travelers to apreciate is actually very interesting aND its exciting to know that something like that is even out there and ready to be valued.

Monday, June 1, 2009

industrial vs natural

To end this year’s history class we’ve been doing a small unit on FOOD. We’ve watched multiple videos or film clips including: "Our Daily Bread, and "VROOM - Farming for Kids". The unit has mainly been focusing more around Industrial Food/Natural Food, and Americans eating habits compared to Europeans. Just as our last unit, focused on Health Insurance within the US, when compared to Europeans us Americans seem to be in for the worst. To get started on this assignment, I read an article called "The Worst Mistake In the History of the Human Race", and it expressed the author's opinion of Humans today exploiting the use of agriculture that past centuries have carefully tried to spread for much years to come. I also viewed a video showing the abuse of farm animals that are used for industrial producing. Of course I was familiar with slaughterhouses and etc. but there were other arguments that went deep past the main argument of killing live animals, those that I never took into consideration before. One argument the video placed on viewers that really caught my attention was how when animals are batted with metal rods, breaking they're bones, or leaving them in extremely tight rooms with other animals, leaving some already dead before they are actually executed leaving some with natural diseases or curses such as cancer. Also those who have died from the group are taken and placed directly into food producing, without checking into they're physical conditions and whether they are eligible for digestion after purchase.

One huge worry people have about industrial food is shortage. Whether the person is a vegan or a meat-eater the question remains in ones head. That is why all we ever hear about is cloning or insemination. In the video of farm animals and they're abuse, they claimed that turkeys or hens are one of those who have it the worst. After reviewing, it does make a whole lot of sense as Americans all crave a huge turkey for Thanksgiving, or Christmas, both holidays being back to back from each other. Because today's turkeys have a huge section in today's supermarkets, they are needed and sold immediately, although today's turkey's have breast that are too huge and get in the way of the male turkey's chance of actually mating with the other turkey in order to reproduce. So today’s "urgency" means that we must make order quicker and industrialized rather then natural. Humans take the male turkeys and take they're sperm in order to place it into the females, creating artificial insemination and keeping up with today's production. It also explains the turkeys, after being cooked and prepared, dryness in other ways.

In my opinion nothing of this course that I've learned can actually change my eating style because I’ve eaten so much of it already, and we've also established in class that there are two different kind of eaters, those who eat to experience new taste and such as to those who eat only to refuel they're energy. I would label myself as only an eater who eats to refuel energy. Sure, I know now how deep into right and wrong it goes but I think that something as evil as slaughtering animals does serve us a good purpose since in reality those who don’t always eat healthy have relied on this habitual for so many years, and odds are they will rely on it for many more.

Vegetables and fruits and other healthy sources of nutrients and such are always available and probably always will be, at least until this land is used up to its last straw. But in order to get the full amount of nutrition that one needs from eating vegetables one would need to eat probably an excessive amount compared to what they are used to getting from just maybe 1 -2 servings of meat. Also, one would get much less Iron from plants then from a normal serving from Meat, something humans should maybe capture as much as possible. I just think that if we lived in a perfect world where animals lived in farms or wildly and humans only ate plants and gathered they’re nutrients from them and maybe only ate dead road kill since it is an animal already passed, I believe if this perfect world did or once again happened then only complications would occur because how long would it take until we get greedy as a whole and create shortcuts into our eating habits and tamper with mother nature and exploit plants and other things eatable.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Response to "Industrial Food"

After looking over some of the suggested websites reviewing Industrialized food and its cost, it helped me to better understand how everything we eat and/or purchase having to do with food is only apart of a huge chain of costs that we as americans suffer through once again just by being citizens of this great country. before, when i would go food-shopping with my mother i would look at the price of the fresh meat and see that each was different only by a couple of cents. i thought that was only because of weight of the animal, not because of its shipping, its packaging, its corporation costs etc.

I watched the "animal cruelty" video and watched some of the actions that the workers do to the chickens, turkeys, hens, cows, and pigs. I always knew that they suffered and were killed for our own eating habits but i didnt reallythink of the other debatable things that they do, such as skinning them alive, or branding them w/o painkillers, or stuffing them into enclosed boxes and etc. The way they treat them is just plain wrong i thought, and all i could think about during, besides the killing, was how can those workers do they're job for 8 hours a day 7 days a week without being bothered by the squeling and fighting of the dying animals.

1.) http://www.alternet.org/story/13904/
2.) http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty.asp

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Food Assignment 7

Find a simple and delicious sounding recipe using one of your favorite foods - one with easy-to-find and not-that-many ingredients. Could be a dessert, appetizer, soup, or main course. Post it up online now, and then gather the materials and make it. Post a picture of how it turned out and your (and friends) response to it. Bring it in to class and share it with a few people for a couple points of extra credit on the assignment.

Upside Down Pineapple Cake
2/3 cup butter - 3/4 cup brown sugar - 1 can pineapple slices - maraschino cherries
...(if not using regular yellow cake, recipe for scratch cake)
1 cup flour - 1 teaspoon baking powder - 1/2 teaspoon salt - 2 eggs - 2/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup milk

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Grocery store and Habitual Food

Whenever my mom goes food shopping and i accompany her, i notice that she starts off at the fruit and vegetables section, mostly because it is the first section you see in the Trade-Fair entrance that we go to. She'll buy both bananas and plaintains, both having sales that usually look like "10 for $1". we also buy mangos, which is mainly for my Macaw Bird. W get grapefruits that is meant for my Brother's new diet, but i eat them too. We buy lettuce, tomatoes, and many more that is listed from my in-class list. Most of these vegetables go into our dinner meals as my mother includes them into her cooked meal. We eat alot of vegetables and fruits throughout the week. In my job, we have asparagus so i eat asparagus maybe 4 times a week. fruits i eat maybe every other day. I eat alot of side vegetables as well in my meals, corn, beets, lettuce, w.e. I also eat alot of salad.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Response to 'Mayday'

After reading up about Mayday, and hearing Andy's short version in class, i thought it was silly of how they came up with Laborday. As Andy compared it, to Mayday, a day where people would rome the streets with they're fists in the air for something that is seen as a huge accomplishment towards the average worker, to Laborday, a day where people celebrate a three day weekend with barbeques and days spent at home or ordering out for lunch and dinner. The event that occured in 1915 celebrating Mayday is remembered and mourned rather then celebrated to this day in other countries Except the one in which the event had occured in. i think thats very interesting and for that to happen so close and near times where people in New York and other places were becoming victims of unemployment. Only question is why were there police present at a rally that has been happening for the last 20 years then. If no incidents had occured then why show after? if my research is correct that is...

Food Journal

Please post a 24 hour food journal (beginning Tuesday night's dinner) of all the food and drink you consume. Do not post anything you don't want others to read.

Tuesday night, i had fried chicken breast, with homemade frenchfries. I then had some ice-cream like i always do. Wednesday morning i had two pancakes, sausages, and sweet bananas with a cup of coffee. Lunchtime i had Mexican food, the "F-3" meal, including cut up chicken mixed with frenchfries (really good) with an Arizona bottle of Sweet Tea flavor. Dinner i had a lot of junkfood because i dont remember having any dinner prepared. I had some of my stepfather's bought chinese food and some soda and some ice-cream and maybe some chocolate milk. The tuesday night dinner and wednesday breakfast my mother had cooked. The mexican food was made by asians behind the back of a "mexican restaurant". The ice-cream is store bought icecream that comes in a little pint size for one person. Coffee was also made by my mother using our coffee-maker.

Food Culture

Compared to my family's eating techniques, Americans when seen through Movies and other Models of the perfect American image, we eat normally. In movies, a huge dinner is prepared and takes a short amount of time to be cooked, which always seems like a thanksgiving meal. The next day the same steps are taken. In my home, My mother cooks the food just as the average housewife seen would, and she cooks a different concept of food every other day. I say every other day because unlike films my mother would cook alot of food sure, but its not always wasteful, we either save some for tomorrow's dinner, or if no one doesnt want it the next day, we will cook something else, but the food is either refrigerated till someone decides to eat it or we give it to our pets such as my fat male cat and my two dogs. If we do that then we give them that food instead of they're regular cat/dog food. That is another expense we have buying they're food so if food is given to them we save money this way (i guess). My mother also tries to bake all of her food, such as chicken or things in that area, supposedly it is better for people. She also cooks everything at the same time, whether it is rice and beans with chicken (example), the rice is being cooked in a pot, the beans in a separate smaller pot, and the chicken underneath the stove top and inside being baked. My mother when bakng them also uses water i believe and not oil because it is unhealthy. Not saying that we always do it this way, not being a hypocrite but yes.

Internet research

From the questions that others and i have come up with in class, i decided to answer only one, "how much food do americans actually waste? i did some research and found a very valuable source from the "http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/weekinreview/18martin.html".

"In 1997, in one of the few studies of food waste, the Department of Agriculture estimated that two years before, 96.4 billion pounds of the 356 billion pounds of edible food in the United States was never eaten. Fresh produce, milk, grain products and sweeteners made up two-thirds of the waste. An update is under way."

When thinking about it, Grocery stores and restaurants are all over the place, and each play a role when being wasteful. Grocery stores throw away food or gallons of milk over small blemishes or dents on the product. Restaurants throw away food in the end of the day or whatever they do not use. And the comsumers, being us, throw away "anything from a banana turned brown to last week's chinese leftovers". Americans are extremely wasteful and evereything we throw away ends up in our landfills. According to the NewYork TImes, Americans waste 27% of the food that can be consumed.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Refrigerator assignment

In my fridge, i have "diet rite" soda. a gallon of milk. A jug of Ice-tea, a 2-liter of cranberry juice, A purifier water container, i have a pot of seasoned chicken that is ready to be cooked for the next day, i have condiments such as ketchup, salad dressing, mustard, jelly, cream cheese, i have ham slices from the deli, i have lettuce n tomatoes, etc.

From the list above, i believe that what it tells me is that My family and they're eating ways are not those that show people to be "on the go." it shows that we are slow-paced home-style meal eaters. We eat together at dinner, at breakfast, at least when everyone is home. We try to eat right while still enjoying the food we eat and not eating things that can be healthy but still disgusting. The chicken that was prepared was prepared with sazon, goya, chicken seasoning, and basil leaves, idk if im mistaken but it sounds like we have a spanish culture thing going on in my home. it might not sound like it now but by the end of the cooking my mother has prepared a whole course that shows our spanish-culture. We also cook a little over extra so that we may have leftovers in our home, that is if no-one has decided to have seconds the first night.
When compared between the two, the Canadian and U.S. healthcare systems have much different spending. The Goverment spending in Canada on Healthcare care last year was 70%, and in the U.S. it was only 46%. In 2,000 , The World Hea;th Organization placed Canada in a rank of 30th and the U.S. became 37th, both judged on their "overall health service performance." (Wikipedia)

From what ive been told, Obama's plan for change doesnt include single-payer even though most americans seem to be in favor of that. Because of his disapproval of single-payer, people are starting to say that he was origninally elected because of his stand for health-care reform, but now that it has been later on in the game people are trying to say that he is turning to corporate
healthcare interests, and completely shutting out advocates of single-payer reform. (prwatch.org)

From what im told, the major problems with the U.S. healthcare system is that its all capital once again. Doctors in the U.S. work on a system that in the quickest answer possible states that the less patients seen the more money can be made. Less patients means less problems and less medical care. If most american's seeking help from doctors have great medical coverage then the coverage can be practically free for them. Thats why when insurance is involved most plans only cover certain things. Its always one or the other, never all. In sicko, the man had lost two fingers, his index finger, and his middle finger, the index was going to be $6,000 to re-connect and the middle finger was going to be $12,000. He was only able to choose one finger to attach because of the expenses, when told about the mans situation to a doctor from Britain who is only familiar with socialist healtcare, he didn't believe it at all because he's never heard of charging anyone to re-attach they're own finger. Another woman in sicko was sick, and had a previous illness that was unrelated to her new situation which called for treatment and healthcare. When told she was eligible for healthcare she was sent a notice a few days later explaining how her healthcare policy has been revoked after just being received due to her small illness from the past. It was seen in the movie as an excuse and just a shortcut in saving the hospital a few extra bucks. Our lack of universal healthcare and lack of vacation time shows that as americans we arent as united of a country as we are seen. We may be a nation with 50 states intact working together, but with 49 partners for everyone to help bail out of any jam as a united country, we are in another recession, we are dropping continuisly in Worldwide healthcare rankings, and Healthcare has people scared to even get sick because of the cost it takes just to be advised for 10 minutes on what medicine to buy. And now that we have another flu going around, the swine-flu, with half of americans having they're mind set on that focus its just another scare of being sick and trying to stay healthy as they can. Meanwhile, Canada's residents seem to be living longer then the lifespan of one average american. (sicko)

All of these things, including Healthcare lead to Capitalist once again because HMO's make killings off of us whether they treat people or not. Theres also no competition in this area so changing the rules of it are not so simple. its just capitalist making money off of us, except "revolutions" that are always predicted in times like these are just too dangerous of a visual to even imagine because it is our own health we are fighting for.

Break HW

Have you had wonderful experiences where you were healed by loving doctors with no worries about payment?

My family's experience of healthcare in the U.S. hasnt run into trouble yet as far as i know. My mother's disability sort of puts us all at an advantage because we get free healthcare and full coverage for most things. We have medicare, and whenever i need to schedule a doctor's appt. or see a dentist, or go to a podiatrist, my medicare is always accepted. Ive spent some time in the emergency room growing up. Ive gotten maybe 5 different places of stitching on my head alone, and grew up with terrible asthma attacks which occurred maybe once a week back then. i also had to take my mother to the emergency room quite a few times during her late trimester in pregnancy. There was one time, where my mother had a terrible accident occur, where i believe doctors had found placenta on her uterus still remaining after her pregnancy, which was origninally supposed to be cut off from the start. She was in a huge emergency room with other people who were being treaterd at the same time and it was just like E.R. the show. My mother wasnt able to speak for herself because she is deaf and i was in the room with her. The things doctors speak about during rough times for others is a bit of a concern. Luckily for us, before we left my stepfather made sure that i grab her wallet with all of her information inside.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

response to "business of being born"

In class we've been watching a documentary which was helped created by Ricki Lake. It explores the other side of delivering babies. As a 16 yr old, I know almost all there is to know about Natural Births. In "Business of Being Born", Midwifery is introduced to us on a newer level. The differences between the taken procedures between a OB/GYN and a Midwife. Watching both deliveries, I noticed instantly the differences between the two. There is much less pain in Midwifery I think, the women delivering their babies always seem so calm, at least when the baby is coming out. In hospitals women are always screaming they're heads off. A french doctor with much experience in his lifetime. He explained the difference a woman experiences when pushing a baby out laying on their back, and squatting down. Laying down is practically impossible for women to deliver as the position they are in affects they're appendix and makes them physically unable to push. This also takes a turn to a whole other argument, as they're limitations of pushing, lead to the new option of giving women Cesearean sections, or Episiotomy's, if taken to another level.

Drugs given to a mother in labor just creates no progress, as the drug given leads to the 2nd drug, which leads back to the 1st drug given, and so on. In the U.S., women are even taking elective c-sections or planning they're birth dates. Midwives attend only 8% of births here in the US. Modern US women aren't qualified to even contribute in they're own births, they just don't know how to birth. In the last 100 years, home-births have dropped by more than over 85%. In Europe and other countries today, over 70% of births are home-births.

Friday, February 20, 2009

comments on the Youtube videos.

i first saw the video on a dolphin giving birth. a humans perspective is always from behind the glass observing the fish, or mammal whatever they are. The dolphin was swimming around constantly back and forth with a small fin sticking out of its vagina im guessing, and everyone there was in amazement. Finally the dolphin stopped at one place and continued all of her pushing there, until the dolphin came out. Afterwards everyone there in the audience clapped for the dolphins, as if they had put up a really good show. The mother and the father were swimming with the newborn dolphin, it was as if the dolphin had been around for years and wasnt new to the whole life thing. I was kinda into it a little it was interesting watching that birth, so i than chose a similar video that appeared on the sidebar and i watched after a killler whale give birth. the same exact concept had occured, the whale swimming everywhere than stopping. everyone there had clapped for the whales once again.

I saw a video of a woman giving birth, i had to confirm my birth of 18 years of age 1st, which i am not. there was no sound in this video, so i couldnt rate the amount of pain coming from her voice. Although what was happening did look painful enough. there was bleeding, which seemed excessive. and the way the doctor pulled the baby out and because of the no sound i almost thought the doctor was careless and injured the baby. But no. I then saw a video of a woman having a c-section. Seemingly enough, the woman wasnt in pain, im guessing she was given drugs. The husband recording wasnt in shock or amazement, and the doctor after delivering the baby brought the baby to the camera, it was nice. the normal way of delivering compared to a c-section seemed worse.

Natural Birth vs. Normal Birth

In class we created a venn-diagram separating normal events thats happen during both Normal and Natural Births. It seems to me that both can be viewed as easier or better for when having a baby. Normal Births seem safer and less painful, because in a Normal birth there are medical professionals around you and they have skilled instruments that make things even easier to deliver, and they also give you drugs which eliminates the pain. A natural birth was a little different, as it is only family and friends around you rather than professionals, there are alot of screams and no drugs are given to you (due to the no drugs policy). In a normal birth, the doctors take the baby away from you and your not able to touch the baby or see them until the next day. Natural births the baby is handed right to you and normal births they take the baby away from you, hardly even leaving you a glimpse of what your baby looks like. In normal births, the birth is scheduled, as to natural births, the baby is expected in exactly 9 months, everyone is just bracing themselves for something big to happen.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

birth stories....

I was born in Beth Israel hospital on union sq. My parents and older brother were living at 14 st. at the time, where i also lived for the next 11 years. it wasnt a far ride to the hospital, it was about 2 avenues away. I was born arnd 9:45 a.m. and was delivered very fast from what im told. My head was too big supposedly to come out so the doctors performed an episiotomy on my mother.

Someone in my class said that they're mother went into labour with them and they drove all the way to queens to be delivered because they had a family doctor who was to deliver her.

Another friend of mine, also in my class told me that his mom's water broke and she was alone and had to wait for his dad to come and pick him and his mother up and drive them to the hospital.

I saw a tv show one time where the group of people had just thrown the pregnant mother a very late baby shower, late because as the party ended and the mother was heading home, an earthquake had occured (california) and the elevator car she was in had lost power along with the rest of the building. By the time they could get the power back on The baby was delivered in the elevator by two people that had been escorting the mom.

My feelings on old ppl...

I remember when i was younger i used do community service with the Boys club at the Cabrini nursing home over in the Lower East Side. I met a whole group of old people and each one had interesting stories to share with me. I met one man named Mr. Beach, who played checkers with me, and was playing wrong, i didnt say anything to him tho because he was old and in his bed and gown. It wasnt that he didnt know how to play the game, but that he forgot alot of things in his life. He wasnt the only one i had met like that. I went back the next month to visit Mr. Beach with the Boys Club group, but had to spend my hours with another elderly woman instead because i remember the receprtionist telling me that Mr. Beach had to be rushed to the hospital just the night before. which was weird for me, seeing how i was really young and was prepared to play boring checkers again but instead he was hospitalized, idk how to explain but anyways, i met an elderly woman who was telling me a little bit about herself. she told me that she was 27 years old, and was telling me something that had happend to her recently, but in reality happened to her when she was 27. She also told me of how she ended up in the nursing home, which was because of her son. She was walking down the street and fell on her back behind a car, and a man entered the car and was ready to pull out of the parking spot when he noticed someone behind his wheels through the mirrors. It was her son and his car, and found his own mother lying on the ground, not taking care of herself. He then put her in a nursing home because she was unable to tend for herself. I dont have comments on the story although when writing it now at this very moment i rethink this memory i have, and hear the story to be almost made up as to what really happened to her. it probably was just her way of thinking at her late age, just as she told me she was 27 years old, she looked to be about 67 idk.

Questions we came up with

What are the percentages of women who become pregnant from rape?
Do abortions create risk for women and they're future pregancies?
Do epidurals effect women or they're babies after pregnancy?
How much does abortion cost?
What are the percentages of women who get they're tubes tied, and how many children do they have before they get the procedure?
Do women who have babies at a very late age create a risk for the newborn child?
What are the percentages of those women who have babies at a very late age?
Do those women who are pregnant at those late ages take or ever have taken forms of epidurals?
Those who have had they're tubes tied and still become pregnant, is there any effects towards the baby?
what are the percentages of those who get they're tubes tied before even having they're 1st child?

research on 10-12 questions on AWOL/AWOB

Most of the questions asked in our class were related to each other or slightly, just slightly different. I did research on some on some of these questions, and also the questions that were created within my own group. Questions that were considered were revolved around Tubes tied, Abortions, Drugs in labour, And percentages of different kind of pregnancies.

Tubal Ligation, or having one's tubes tied, is considered to be a permanent procedure because of the small chance of getting pregnant even after a reversal. Even becoming pregnant after having your tubes tied can occur. It happens to 5 out of 1,000 women over 1 year. Over a total of 10 years, about 18 of those 1,000 women will report their unexpected pregnancy after having there tubes tied.
(http://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/tubal-ligation-and-tubal-implants)

A study pf 11,800 women supports researchers on their hypothesis that medical abortions do not increase the risk of future miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies (complications in pregnancy), or low birth-weight. The cost of an abortion depends on the stage of pregnancy, where you live, insurance, etc. a first trimester is roughly about $300-$600. a second trimester is roughly about $500-$5,000.
(http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/abortion/AN00633)
(http://www.fwhc.org/qa/ab-cost2.htm)

Given epidurals during a woman's pregnancy are said to have some side effects well after, or even during labour. Epidurals can take up to an extra hour longer to deliver than natural childbirths. Blood pressure may drop severely, 1-2% of cases only, drop in blood pressure may lead to a drop in the baby's heart rate. The woman may be unable to feel contractions or be ablwe to push, which can increase the possibility of having to have a c-section. Also, very rare, but woman may develop a seizure.
(http://www.parentingweekly.com/pregnancy/pregnancy_information/epidural.htm)

There are said to be different terms used for rape. "assualt rape" and "date rape". Pregnancies from assault rape are extrememly rare. A study take in Arkansas, which was said to have been the lack of available studies and accurate studies, is said that 5-10% of women become pregnant due to assault rape.
(http://www.christianliferesources.com/?library/view.php&articleid=461)
This link was so helpful and useful. there is so much said information and goes very deep into the topic that it jumps into other categories as well. To get a deeper understand of what is said above you should really read the last article.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

My feelings on Birth...

Birth is supposed to be a beautiful thing. A child being brought into this world is always something special. I've never been asked before how i feel about it though. Ive never heard anyone ever say before that they 'hate' the process of birth. Everyone in this world is brought into it through natural birth. Ive never saw a birth take place yet, but im pretty sure that one day, possibly when it is myself having the child with a woman, ill see the process take place and i wont think nothing of it. I would be mature about the entire thing and hold my ground, unlike those silly fathers in movies that you see faint to the speck of blood that is shown to them.

Ive always hated the saying by mothers "I brought you into this world, and i'll be the one to take you out", a common phrase used when their children are acting up. I also hate when woman beat their husbands in arguments debating that nothing they do is as difficult as 'giving birth'. i understand that carrying the child for nine months is difficult but so if having to wake up at 3 in the morning and get your wife some chicken with eggs or w.e. weird meal she is craving.

Learning now about all the terms for pregnancy in Andy's class is molding my thoughts to be more sharp and precise about it all. I didnt even know there was another procedure to be done when delivering a baby besides a C-section, but now i am aware of other things such as an episiotomy. This semester's unit is based on Birth and the question we are trying to get answered through its lessons are whether Americans really need doctors to deliver peoples babies. I am eager to get this question answered. Although i already have a slight idea to what the answer is.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Supplement Sessions on Marx's Critique of Capitalism

Our lessons in class have given us an understanding on the average political mind always thriving for better. Even since the beginning of our lessons, including middle school, we are exposed to events that are labeled as the processes of capitalism. Karl Marx, said to have been the most influential socialist thinker to come out of the 19th century. All historians who emerged after, such as Martin Luther King, are all men with similar creative thinking are known to have Marxist Ideas. The first chapter of his book, Communist Manifesto, based on the accumulation of capitalism, tells his ideas of how he believes society is distinctively splitting into two different classes,

Saturday, January 3, 2009

ebay purchase

i decided to purchase an atlanta hawks snap-back starter cap which i won for 15.75. There were only 4 bidders total in history. I made the last bid of 15.25. i think it jumped 50 cents on its own afterwards. No1 seemed to pay much attention to the hat. i won it with ease. although just because i won doesnt meani will be sending the seller a payment. i didnt think spending money for an assignment was neccessary. especially since i would be constantly bidding, what if the hat rose to almost 50 dollars for no crazy reason, and i was the miraculous winner. spending that much for some hat would be ridiculous. My ebay rating is now effected by my lack of payments, but i dont care much for that. i wown easily, but it made me think how maybe the bids are so quiet lately because people were planning to do a last minute counter-offer, possibly with j-bid or some other program out there people use because they dont like the computer stalking i guess. it would really suck to stare at an item for hours or even days, to just be defeated by someone with a last minute stick. i plan on buying sumthing on ebay tho seriously next time, something i really want. a rookie-year jersey of Jason Kidd no.5 on dallas mavericks. Its a hardwood classics jersey, and probably extrememly expensive. but i plan on taking my chances..