I'm currently reading the book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (published by DoubleDay in 1997). A couple of insights that i noticed throughout the book is that Mitch Albom is dealing with illness and dying throughout the book, because his professor from college is dying slowly and getting ill at the same time. I noticed that once the professor got ill that people started paying more attention to him and he was the center of attention to Mitch and the news cast also. Once you start dying or start to feel very ill that's when people start to pay more attention to you and then they start to cry once you die. The way i see it is why cry when im dead you should of been crying and missing me when i was alive, now you cry and miss me when im dead.
On the chapter Audiovisual Ted Koppel(ABC TV's Nightline host) came to visit Morrie because he wanted to interview him. As soon as Ted Koppel came to Morrie's house all of Morrie's friends came to his house because they all wanted to meet Ted Koppel the family and friends were all estatic except for Morrie. Throughout Morrie was talking about his life and how he's going to die and all the guy could ask was if Morrie watched his show. Towards the end of the interview Morrie asked the guy for permission if he can samething on tv and the Ted responded saying sure, so Morrie stated " Well, Ted, one day soon, someone's gonna have to wipe my ass." And the show was aired, Mitch was flicking through the channels and that's when he came to realized that he forgot all about his professor.
On pg. 19 when the book stated that all of Morrie's friends and family were filled with excitement to meet Ted Koppel and when he came in through the door the crowd of people were buzzed with excitement. This made me realize that they all didn't care about Morrie's situation they all just came to see Ted. As i realized while reading the chapter that the crowd was never mentioned again throughout the interview; which made me realize that the family and friends ignored Morrie like he was just some "oject" and nothing more.
On pg. 23 while Mitch was flipping through the channels he heard the news mention about Morrie and he went numb. This points out that Mitch the professors old student, apparently forgot all about Morrie until the news mentioned his name, and that's when Mitch came to realize that he forgotten all about him and that he should go visit him. Which means that of course Mitch lied and apparently forgot all aboout his professor, after he promised Morrie that he would always be there for him.
On pg. 27 while Mitch was driving his car he noticed Morrie in a nearby park on his wheelchair, Mitch then suddenly sank down on the car seat because he was scared to come face to face with Morrie. This shows that he was scared to come face to face with his old professor becasue Mitch realized he broke his promise and that he was never there for him until sixteen years later. Which shows that people forget about you once you alive and well but once you get sick and are close to dying that's when people remember you all over again.
Throughout my expierences i can say that i myself see that people forget about one another once they alive and well, but once they die they remembered them. Once when my cousin was alive people were never asking about him that much maybe like once in a blue, but once he was diagonosed with cancer people started to always ask for him and always be there for him, and always smiling and making him laugh. Once he died though people were all sad and crying for him, which made no sense because they should of cried and missed him when he was alive not once he's dead. As you can see with Mitch and Morrie's case, that Mitch forgot all about Morrie until he heard his name on the news and how sick he was, and then that's when Mitch started visiting Morrie a lot more than before.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
HW 21 - Expert #1
The three most important sights that i've listed from the guest speaker yesterday was:
1)Eventhough he was a stay home dad he still became a neighborhood dad. Which is pretty cool because being a somewhat neighborhood dad or you can call it father figure in a way would make him feel happy and more powerful. And what i mean by powerful is like he has a lot of attention and is well known and aware by the people surrounding him.
2)It took him years before he saw a doctor which was a bad thing because of him not seeing the doctor while he knew he was sick, he got worse and the cancer got to advance. Which a lot of people do now and days they think that they're okay and they ignore modern medicine and when they get to sick that's when they start to realize what's going to happen next.
3)My last important insight that i have listed down is that his attitude was never bad Erik never had a bad attitude eventhough he knew about his condition. Which helped him as a person and helped his family and people around him the most, and his emotions were pretty good since he was a fighter it made him not give up on cancer and try to defeat it anyway that was possible, which made him a little less worried about death.
Her insights about erik wood and my insights were of course different in many ways. Eventhough him not seeing a doctor because he probably thought he was okay and that he would heal by himself was eventually a bad idea for him, because if he would of found out sooner about the cancer in his body he would of most likely been cured faster and became better. But since the doctor's caught the cancer most likely late it was bad for them and for him. Him being a fighter though i think was a good attitude to have around people regardlessly if he had cancer or not. Being a fighter helped him as a person and like i mentioned before a less worried person about his cancer, because he had an instinct in him that knew that he could fight off this cancer by himself, which is a good attitude to have eventhough he was scared and nervous.
Beth's presentation made me think a lot, because my cousin recently died of cancer it he found out about it when it was to late to make any cures, and erik also had cancer and he decided not to go to the doctor on time which made it worse for him. But Beth's presentation made me think of this particular question which is why do people decide to wait eventhough they know they feel sick? And i thought of that particular question because i know a lot of people who were sick and they thought they would get better overtime but they got worse in the end instead of getting better, and then they finally went to the doctor and by that time there is very little that the doctor can do.
1)Eventhough he was a stay home dad he still became a neighborhood dad. Which is pretty cool because being a somewhat neighborhood dad or you can call it father figure in a way would make him feel happy and more powerful. And what i mean by powerful is like he has a lot of attention and is well known and aware by the people surrounding him.
2)It took him years before he saw a doctor which was a bad thing because of him not seeing the doctor while he knew he was sick, he got worse and the cancer got to advance. Which a lot of people do now and days they think that they're okay and they ignore modern medicine and when they get to sick that's when they start to realize what's going to happen next.
3)My last important insight that i have listed down is that his attitude was never bad Erik never had a bad attitude eventhough he knew about his condition. Which helped him as a person and helped his family and people around him the most, and his emotions were pretty good since he was a fighter it made him not give up on cancer and try to defeat it anyway that was possible, which made him a little less worried about death.
Her insights about erik wood and my insights were of course different in many ways. Eventhough him not seeing a doctor because he probably thought he was okay and that he would heal by himself was eventually a bad idea for him, because if he would of found out sooner about the cancer in his body he would of most likely been cured faster and became better. But since the doctor's caught the cancer most likely late it was bad for them and for him. Him being a fighter though i think was a good attitude to have around people regardlessly if he had cancer or not. Being a fighter helped him as a person and like i mentioned before a less worried person about his cancer, because he had an instinct in him that knew that he could fight off this cancer by himself, which is a good attitude to have eventhough he was scared and nervous.
Beth's presentation made me think a lot, because my cousin recently died of cancer it he found out about it when it was to late to make any cures, and erik also had cancer and he decided not to go to the doctor on time which made it worse for him. But Beth's presentation made me think of this particular question which is why do people decide to wait eventhough they know they feel sick? And i thought of that particular question because i know a lot of people who were sick and they thought they would get better overtime but they got worse in the end instead of getting better, and then they finally went to the doctor and by that time there is very little that the doctor can do.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
HW 19 - Family Perspectives on Illness & Dying
When i asked my mom about how she was brought up and how she was raised around illness and dying she told me the normal stuff people will usually say. My mom stated that when she was growing up her parents were strict and took disrespectfulness serious. So when ever she went to a funeral she would sit there quietely and listen to the priest talk about good and stay there for a hour or so and constantly walked over to the casket, but not to much since she didn't want to feel weird or in other terms out of place. She also felt the mood the everybody else was feeling since at a funeral its almost a sad environment she fit in within the environment so people won't look at her strange. Like she stated "I wouldn't be there smiling while everybody was there sad and crying it would be to akward." People would just be like what the hell...
Now her intake on illness wasn't as serious as the dying part since when your dying its like a final farewell to one person. But she did say that illness was very bad because her mom had diabetes and started losing her eye sight and was then later put on dialysis machine until later on she died of a heart attack. And she was 19 years old when her mom passed away. And i personally asked my mom if she misses her mother a lot and she tells me a whole story for an hour and how she was that she misses her a lot. And now my mom has type two diabetes which isn't that bad as she so call says but i know it can personally get worse, and i wouldn't want to lose my mother at an early age. She drinks soda and eats junk food aparently not caring on what she eats and i warn her and she just states "its my body not yours" so im just like whatever from now on. And when i asked her a question about why she does it and she just states " type two diabetes isn't that bad. If i had type one diabetes it would be way worse." And i beg to differ. http://diet.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Foods_to_Eat_with_Type_2_Diabetes
I asked my dad now about health and visiting the doctor if your sick and what not. And since my dad is more strict and has a marine attitude, he always tells me if your not dying then there is no need to go to the doctor. He tells me about how he got into around 16 car accidents with his bike since he used to race on his bike since he was a big lance armstrong fan. And how he just got back up and rode away except for a really bad accident he had back in 2000 when he went through a car windshield and had to go to the hospital for stitches and for his broken leg. And i asked him if he was sick would he miss a day of work and he said no, he states that if he isn't throwing up blood then there is no need to miss a day of work or a day of school in my case. But his overall intake on in health ain't that big of a deal to him. Since he has that marine like attitude he really doesn't care about a lot of things that my mom would care about.
Now her intake on illness wasn't as serious as the dying part since when your dying its like a final farewell to one person. But she did say that illness was very bad because her mom had diabetes and started losing her eye sight and was then later put on dialysis machine until later on she died of a heart attack. And she was 19 years old when her mom passed away. And i personally asked my mom if she misses her mother a lot and she tells me a whole story for an hour and how she was that she misses her a lot. And now my mom has type two diabetes which isn't that bad as she so call says but i know it can personally get worse, and i wouldn't want to lose my mother at an early age. She drinks soda and eats junk food aparently not caring on what she eats and i warn her and she just states "its my body not yours" so im just like whatever from now on. And when i asked her a question about why she does it and she just states " type two diabetes isn't that bad. If i had type one diabetes it would be way worse." And i beg to differ. http://diet.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Foods_to_Eat_with_Type_2_Diabetes
I asked my dad now about health and visiting the doctor if your sick and what not. And since my dad is more strict and has a marine attitude, he always tells me if your not dying then there is no need to go to the doctor. He tells me about how he got into around 16 car accidents with his bike since he used to race on his bike since he was a big lance armstrong fan. And how he just got back up and rode away except for a really bad accident he had back in 2000 when he went through a car windshield and had to go to the hospital for stitches and for his broken leg. And i asked him if he was sick would he miss a day of work and he said no, he states that if he isn't throwing up blood then there is no need to miss a day of work or a day of school in my case. But his overall intake on in health ain't that big of a deal to him. Since he has that marine like attitude he really doesn't care about a lot of things that my mom would care about.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
HW 17 - First Thoughts on the Illness & Dying Unit
Illness and dying sounds like a very good and interesting topic in my opinion because i always wondering how illness and dying effects us in our daily lives. And i experienced illness and dying in my family and throughtout the years that i was born. Recently i experienced a death of my cousin from his battle of cancer, at the funeral it was sad people were crying and people were all quiet. But it was pretty weird towards the ending of the funeral because people were yelling his name out and laughing i guess he got what he wished for, he wanted people to celebrate and not cry when he died.
I've been taught to see illness and dying as a bad thing and also as a sad thing also. When i was growing up my parents well mostly my mother always told me to act right at a funeral and to show respect for people. And of course to never laugh. In the year 1999 my grandmother died and i cried a lot for three days. My parents showed that somebody dying or being very ill is a sad and also an emotional thing. So i grew up knowing how to act when it comes to these unfortunate situations.
The possible social norms that people follow in our culture really depends on how the person was raised and how their famalies were brought up also. But the most typical norms for us Americans to follow when somebody died and is somebody is really sick is to normally be sad or depressed. Like if your loved one is in the hospital is really sick and the doctor comes out quietly you normally would be scared to hear bad news; once you hear that your loved one has died the people who are there would suddenly cry and go crazy and all the doctor would do is seclude themselves from the family. But usually people would be in a depressed state for a while until they get over it. Once you die people will cry for you but then after the years they will start to forget about you and then they will eventually stop visiting you in the cementary. What a nice price to pay from your own family...
I've been taught to see illness and dying as a bad thing and also as a sad thing also. When i was growing up my parents well mostly my mother always told me to act right at a funeral and to show respect for people. And of course to never laugh. In the year 1999 my grandmother died and i cried a lot for three days. My parents showed that somebody dying or being very ill is a sad and also an emotional thing. So i grew up knowing how to act when it comes to these unfortunate situations.
The possible social norms that people follow in our culture really depends on how the person was raised and how their famalies were brought up also. But the most typical norms for us Americans to follow when somebody died and is somebody is really sick is to normally be sad or depressed. Like if your loved one is in the hospital is really sick and the doctor comes out quietly you normally would be scared to hear bad news; once you hear that your loved one has died the people who are there would suddenly cry and go crazy and all the doctor would do is seclude themselves from the family. But usually people would be in a depressed state for a while until they get over it. Once you die people will cry for you but then after the years they will start to forget about you and then they will eventually stop visiting you in the cementary. What a nice price to pay from your own family...
Sunday, October 31, 2010
HW 11 - Final Food Project 1
What i did was an experimental design on how i myself eat. I Started on Friday and ended it today at 3pm. What i did was three things which were: eat no greasy food, eat only one meal in one day and drink only water, eat an apple when hungry. By all means this wasn't easy for me at all since i ended up hungry later through out the day. And declined my mother's cooking which made her feel bad.
Not eating greasy food for a whole day and eating only healthy was sort of easy in a way since i hardly eat any greasy food, but also it was kind of hard also. I only ate a whole wheat sandwhich with peanut butter and an apple and water for the rest of the day. The only downfall with the drinking of water for the rest of the day was the constant use of the bathroom, urinating every five minutes. The good thing about it though was that i got full faster and felt refreshed.
The next day i ate only one meal which was lunch which was at 5pm since i woke up late. And that consisted of only a sandwhich of turkey on whole wheat bread with water again for the rest of the day. I wasn't full and i was hungry for the rest of the day since im not used to eating heatlhy everyday. Since i do eat fast food once in a blue. I felt good eating healthier but hungry in like three hours or so. Fast food fills you up faster but makes you feel like shit in the end but eating healthier makes you feel good and full way faster but leaves you hungry in like three hours or so.
And on the last day i ate only three apples to replace my three meals throughout the day. And i got full faster for like four hours which made me not as hungry throughout the day. So since i ate apples replacing the three meals that would mean i stood full for 12 hours which made me feel better throughout the day and i wasn't hungry at all.
This experimental design helped me realize that even though healthy food is a better choice to go, then to eat mcdonalds which contains a lot of calories and a lot of other nasty crap just to make you full for longer. A regular mcdonald meal comes with a large soda, large fries, and a large burger which is way more than 1,000 calories. And a single apple or whole wheat sandwhich with peanut butter contains less than 1,000 caloires and keeps you full also at the same time.
Not eating greasy food for a whole day and eating only healthy was sort of easy in a way since i hardly eat any greasy food, but also it was kind of hard also. I only ate a whole wheat sandwhich with peanut butter and an apple and water for the rest of the day. The only downfall with the drinking of water for the rest of the day was the constant use of the bathroom, urinating every five minutes. The good thing about it though was that i got full faster and felt refreshed.
The next day i ate only one meal which was lunch which was at 5pm since i woke up late. And that consisted of only a sandwhich of turkey on whole wheat bread with water again for the rest of the day. I wasn't full and i was hungry for the rest of the day since im not used to eating heatlhy everyday. Since i do eat fast food once in a blue. I felt good eating healthier but hungry in like three hours or so. Fast food fills you up faster but makes you feel like shit in the end but eating healthier makes you feel good and full way faster but leaves you hungry in like three hours or so.
And on the last day i ate only three apples to replace my three meals throughout the day. And i got full faster for like four hours which made me not as hungry throughout the day. So since i ate apples replacing the three meals that would mean i stood full for 12 hours which made me feel better throughout the day and i wasn't hungry at all.
This experimental design helped me realize that even though healthy food is a better choice to go, then to eat mcdonalds which contains a lot of calories and a lot of other nasty crap just to make you full for longer. A regular mcdonald meal comes with a large soda, large fries, and a large burger which is way more than 1,000 calories. And a single apple or whole wheat sandwhich with peanut butter contains less than 1,000 caloires and keeps you full also at the same time.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
HW 10 - Food, Inc. Response
PRECIS:
Food Inc. states how the government controlls everything we eat at times. And the meat we eat contains a load of diseases because of the farmers and what they feed the animals on the farm. The way the farmers raise their animals are inhumane. When the truth comes out they get pissed since the truth does hurt and they try to sue people even though they know they can't win the case.
The movie offered a load of different stuff that i didn't see in the book, like how when somebody speaks the truth on what they are doing to the people and kids in america they get pissed and try to sue people. (Ex. Oprah Winfrey). And how the government controlls the things we eat and how they make food addicting to eat so that we can keep buying it.
The book offered some different stuff like the book that i read which was Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan talked about how everything we eat and drink is made out of corn. Sadly come to think of that its pretty disgusting seeing how we eat corn and drink corn with our meals. Seriously corn + corn = more corn seems nasty if you think about it. But the movie didn't speak about everything being made out of corn from what i recall they never did. Which i think if people heard that they would be pretty disgusted just the way i am. Which is why i hardly drink soda and always drink water.
Only remaining question i have is why do the farmers need to treat animals the way they do? Like i know they need to in order to make more meat or whatever. But what they do to the animals is cruel. Like this video http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/ go there and watch the video and look how they treat the animals.
Food Inc. states how the government controlls everything we eat at times. And the meat we eat contains a load of diseases because of the farmers and what they feed the animals on the farm. The way the farmers raise their animals are inhumane. When the truth comes out they get pissed since the truth does hurt and they try to sue people even though they know they can't win the case.
The movie offered a load of different stuff that i didn't see in the book, like how when somebody speaks the truth on what they are doing to the people and kids in america they get pissed and try to sue people. (Ex. Oprah Winfrey). And how the government controlls the things we eat and how they make food addicting to eat so that we can keep buying it.
The book offered some different stuff like the book that i read which was Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan talked about how everything we eat and drink is made out of corn. Sadly come to think of that its pretty disgusting seeing how we eat corn and drink corn with our meals. Seriously corn + corn = more corn seems nasty if you think about it. But the movie didn't speak about everything being made out of corn from what i recall they never did. Which i think if people heard that they would be pretty disgusted just the way i am. Which is why i hardly drink soda and always drink water.
Only remaining question i have is why do the farmers need to treat animals the way they do? Like i know they need to in order to make more meat or whatever. But what they do to the animals is cruel. Like this video http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/ go there and watch the video and look how they treat the animals.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
HW - 7
The Ominvore's Dielmma by Michael Pollan
Chapter 3
Corn is in every food product that is known to man. It's in everything we eat and it's in every soft drink that people drink; like soda. The corn that's used is really bad for us. Like high fructose corn syrup or in MSG,s. Corn is part of the food chains in animals and then in the end we eating corn since we eat animals and animals were most likely fed corn inside the farms.
One of the best lines i found but the must interesting was the quote "If you wash down your chicken nuggets with almost any soft drink, you are drinking corn with your corn"
1)Does reading this book make you want to stop eating the way you do?
2)How bad is corn after a while? Do you think to much corn is bad?
3)Do you feel distisgusted to know you eat and drink corn for like breakfast,lunch, and dinner?
Chapter 3
Corn is in every food product that is known to man. It's in everything we eat and it's in every soft drink that people drink; like soda. The corn that's used is really bad for us. Like high fructose corn syrup or in MSG,s. Corn is part of the food chains in animals and then in the end we eating corn since we eat animals and animals were most likely fed corn inside the farms.
One of the best lines i found but the must interesting was the quote "If you wash down your chicken nuggets with almost any soft drink, you are drinking corn with your corn"
1)Does reading this book make you want to stop eating the way you do?
2)How bad is corn after a while? Do you think to much corn is bad?
3)Do you feel distisgusted to know you eat and drink corn for like breakfast,lunch, and dinner?
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