Summaries – MoneyTrees4

Posted on February 7, 2015 by moneytrees4

1) Do MultiVitamins Really Work?

It seems counterintuitive that an agency that was created for the betterment of societies health may be a detriment to it. The FDA for example is in existence to make sure that the foods and supplements we ingest regularly are not harmful to the population. It would seem they are not doing that job too well since separate studies in 2009 and 2011 indicate that their recommended amounts of vitamins are not only futile but can cause health complications.

Unless a person has a deficiency for other reasons, it is believed that we generally get all the nutrients we need from the foods we eat. Therefore supplements would be an excess and waste of money. To elaborate, water soluble vitamins such as B & C are absorbed through the intestines; an excess would be excreted by the kidneys. With that said, in the literal sense, you are pissing away money. An excess of fat soluble vitamins such as A & D remain in the liver and can build up to cause health complications.

Studies also show that nearly a third of adults take multivitamins. That is clearly billions of dollars being spent on these supplements every year. This is even more shocking because since we get all we need from foods, vitamin deficiency has been rare especially in America. So with all these people taking an excess of vitamins, one can only imagine how the future of human health will look.

2) Childhood Euthanasia

It seems counterintuitive that institutions that were created to improve people’s lives are now cutting them short. Most people would not view this as murder because there is a bit of a legitimate reason and the government is doing it. The term they give it is euthanasia. By definition euthanasia is the act of painlessly putting someone to death or allowing them to die.

This has been legal in the country of Belgium for patients 18 & older since 2002. It was not until recently the country lifted all age restrictions on the practice. This came about in a senate vote that resulted in 50-17. There is no doubt that this decision has other countries population wondering when their nations will allow the health care systems to take their children lives when they feel it is necessary.

One also has to wonder what the boundaries of the severity of these diseases are and who decides who is too sick to be alive. Perhaps this is the future of our world where we simply get rid of who we think is of no use.

3) End of Life Care

It seems counterintuitive that a person would pay more attention to health in their final days than throughout their lifetime. According to healthcare reporter Charles Ornstein, about a quarter of all medicare payments are paid in the final year of a patients life. With that said, medical companies know people will pay just about anything to keep their loved ones alive. Knowing this, they send patients and families through multiple doctors and clinics that often times produce no results.

Perhaps the most devastating factor is that these are not oversights or mistakes. The many “hoops” people must hop through to keep their loved ones clinging to life are tactics set in place by large medical companies. Tactics to keep families emotional and throwing dollars their way. End of life care needs to become early/entire life care for people to avoid these tragedies, at least the ones that can be avoided.

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Quick Writing Tip

Posted on February 7, 2015 by davidbdale

If you write paragraphs like this . . . :

My reaction to the use of this version of Charlie Brown in association to the recent Charlie Hebdo attack is that it shows disappointment. Charlie Brown is a famous cartoon character from the famous Peanuts comics, with Charlie Brown being the focus character. In these comics and cartoons, Charlie is a young happy child. He’s always with his friends and dog, having fun and just being a child. In the heading of this blog, he is portrayed as an older, unhappy version of himself. I see him as a middle aged man who is starting to give up on himself. He is starting to grow a gut, he looks unkempt, bald, and looks very disappointed.

. . . consider revising them like this:

Charlie Brown, the happy cartoon child of the Peanuts strip, seems an unlikely emblem for the massacre of cartoonists at the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine, except for his name. But the older, balder, unkempt version of Charlie that appears in the header of this blog, is a disappointed Charlie, growing a gut and largely disgruntled.

The purpose of both paragraphs is the same, to indicate that while Charlie Brown is ordinarily associated with childhood joy, friends, and pets; the coincidence of his name—and the possibility of drawing him other than as we remember him—makes him a convenient symbol for what happens to actual humans when they age and learn that their world cannot be frozen in time like a cartoon strip.

Both paragraphs do that. One does it more precisely, names the disappointment more specifically and concisely, and omits the needless words.

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Summaries — skyblue

Posted on February 5, 2015 by skybluecomp2

Elephant Cruelty

It seems counterintuitive that what claims to be “The Greatest Show on Earth” whose main goal is to bring smiles to children’s faces uses the cruelest tactics to train their elephants. But that is what is happening as the helpless elephants go on countless tours year round.

The article revolves around a young three year old elephant named Kenny. Kenny became very sick during a show on tour. Sickly elephants require prompt medical care to make sure that they are able to preform to the best of their abilities. What seems like a safe and intelligent precaution is where it goes south. Kenny was observed and the veterinarian recommended that Kenny skip the evening show that night. Ringling Bros ignored this request and forced Kenny to preform even though he was deathly sick and incredibly week. That night Kenny died as he was shackled to his suffocatingly small pen.

The circus wanted desperately to keep this hush hush so they payed off or “donated” 20,000 dollars to elephant causes. Kenny’s death is just the tip of the iceberg for elephant cruelty within the circus.

Before each show these endangered, beautiful, smart elephants are beaten with bull hooks as well as slapped in the face with whips. The circus claims this is for “positive reinforcement” Hurting and beating an animal is never acceptable, especially those who are endangered.

Since Kenny’s death 3 more young elephants have died by causes that were not disclosed to the public. It is our job to put an end to this cruel and unusual punishment. We must end support of circus’ and use our voice to speak for these defenseless animals.

The idea of children given the choice of euthanasia in terminally ill cases is counterintuitive because it can be viewed as irrational to give such power to such young lives.

Childhood Euthanasia

Belgium the first of all the nations to bring this concept into play. A majority of the Belgian Senate voted for the childhood euthanasia, and it is likely to pass. Many countries have been opposed to allowing terminally ill adults let alone children to end their lives. This may be due to religious reasons, but also the horrors that the Nazi regime murdered thousands of handicap or mentally ill children.

Well the question poses, is allowing children to end their lives ethical? It is becoming more and more common to allow euthanasia for adults with terminally ill diseases to choose to end their lives world wide. If children are just as susceptible to these diseases as adults, they should not have to continue to suffer when their is no hope for recovery. Also, it is not solely the child’s choice. In Belgium the parents must sign off on paperwork and give their consent for the euthanasia.

If a child is mature enough to understand the severity of their illness and cope or try to fight the illness, they must be mature enough to know the extremity of choosing euthanasia.

Do Multivitamins Really Work?

It seems counterintuitive that something that is promoted as preventing disease and making healthy people healthier could really have no effect at all.

The billion dollar industry that vitamins provide for people who pop them daily claim to improve breast, heart, lung, and colon health along with many other benefits. But is this just a ploy to get people to spend their money? Studies show that in 39,000 women who took vitamins daily found that they had no beneficial qualities, and they did not protect against any of the diseases they claimed vitamins did.

This may not only be a scheme to get peoples hard earned money, but many users may believe they are being proactive by exceeding the recommended vitamins. Thinking “the more the merrier” they begin to take more than one vitamin a day. This can actually do more harm than good. The article states that studies show an excessive amount of folic acid may be dangerous to the user, and can go so far as to cause birth defects!

Something as innocent as a multivitamin may hurt us more than help us, think twice before handing away your treasured dollar bills away for a possible birth defect.

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Grade Levels

Posted on February 4, 2015 by davidbdale

I won’t always be able to tell you why your essays don’t quite achieve the grades you want. Even after you respond well to feedback and make your essay grammatically correct, provide good sources, and make reasonable arguments, you might still not earn the highest grade. Writing beautifully and persuasively is more than a matter of following rules, and you may simply require more practice or more skill than can be achieved in a single semester.

Nobody wants to be told: “You just don’t sound as if you know what you’re talking about,” or: “You spend so much time proving the obvious there’s no room left for new insight,” but that may be the truth of the matter, and it may be the unspoken reason your grade didn’t improve as much as you hoped.

Following are some writing samples I hope will illustrate obvious differences in writing quality. The differences are enough to be worth a letter grade. These are relative values, of course, not absolutes. Not every writing course requires exactly this level of accomplishment for an A grade. Neither would the worst example necessarily earn a D grade in this course. Still, the comparisons should be helpful

A Grade
Reasonable claims, nicely transitioned to guide reader through a persuasive argument:

The “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for gays enlisting in the army is just one example of the discriminatory laws that deny freedom of speech and expression to the homosexual community. Overturning that wrongheaded legislation as unconstitutional was a good first step toward awarding gays the equal rights a majority of Americans favor for them. It’s time for our government to stand up to religious zealots who oppress sexual minorities and to pass humane laws that grant all citizens their constitutional freedoms, such as the right to choose a spouse.

B Grade
Unconnected but reasonable declarations:

Denying same sex couples the right to marry is discriminatory. The “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for gays enlisting in the army was an example of an unconstitutional rule because it took away the rights of freedom of speech and expression from the homosexual community. A majority of Americans favor gay marriage because it treats all citizens equally. Although religious groups may be against it, the government should make laws based on how the majority believes.

C Grade
Poorly connected unclear or contradictory claims:

A large percentage of American couples are same-sex couples. If heterosexual couples have the right to marry, then homosexual couples should have that right too. When the Army wanted to have a policy about “don’t ask, don’t tell,” they should have enforced that for heterosexual soldiers too and not just homosexuals because if one group has the right to express itself, then every group should have that right too. A majority of Americans favor gay marriage except for some very conservative religious groups who may be against it. We are a democracy that’s based on majority rules, so if a majority of Americans want equality for homosexuals, then that should be the law of the land for this great nation.

D Grade
No clear claims:

A large percentage of Americans are homosexuals, or at least they’re willing to say they are. Nobody should be allowed to tell them that they can’t serve in the Army if they’re brave enough to go to war, so it’s not fair to make them admit to being gay because it’s not relevant to their ability to serve as soldiers. The Army’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy would probably not be passed by a majority of Americans because most Americans know somebody who is gay and they don’t have prejudice against them. The religious groups don’t like “don’t ask, don’t tell” because they think if gay soldiers are allowed to be in the Army, then who can say whether they would create problems for the other soldiers? And not just whether they would be brave enough to be in combat; we have to wonder how they would behave when there was no actual fighting.

I hope the value differences among these samples are obvious, and that you feel inspired by the differences to strive for the most specific, most logical, most persuasive writing to achieve your goal—not better grades, but an enhanced ability to get what you want from people by persuading them.

I don’t know any better way to demonstrate the difference between essays that earn different grades than to provide examples like this.

Please evaluate the effectiveness of this illustration with a Reply below. Thank you.

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Agenda WED FEB 04

Posted on February 4, 2015 by davidbdale

Cows and Chips was on the Agenda for two classes. Covered the material MON FEB 02. Never assigned the brief in-class exercise.

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Assignment: Purposeful Summaries

Posted on February 4, 2015 by davidbdale

When I ask you to make purposeful summaries of articles that just happen to have counterintuitive themes, I want you to be able to read some examples, and at the same time, gain a better understanding of what I mean by counterintuitive.

A “purposeful summary” doesn’t bother to recount the entire subject matter of an article. It may in fact share very little of the content of the original source. It does, however, remain true to the original, or to a credible version of the original. It is possible, for example, to produce a summary of an article that proves the opposite of what a misguided author intended. A propaganda film might glorify war, but your purposeful summary of the film might prove that war is in fact the ultimate inhuman act.

Illustrations are always superior to explanations.

1) Ethics of a Three-Parent Baby

It seems counterintuitive that human life, which everyone knows gets DNA from two parents when male sperm fertilizes a female egg, could ever require, or even make use of, the DNA of three parents. But that’s exactly what is happening.

The UK will soon allow in vitro fertilization of female eggs that include contributions from a second woman’s healthy egg to replace defective mitochondrial DNA in the first woman’s egg. While the amount of DNA is small, it nonetheless permanently alters the DNA of all female children born to the (well we can’t say couple any more!) three parents.

The contribution of healthy mitochondrial DNA to the fertilized egg will prevent birth defects that could result in seizures and decreased muscle formation in the absence of the healthy DNA. As usual, critics worry that this first tiny advance in promoting healthy babies will open the floodgates to every sort of god-playing, frankenstein-creating unscrupulous experimentation imaginable.

Others fret that only the rich will be able to afford healthy babies. In all likelihood, both these scenarios will play out just as they fear.

2) Africa Should Screen Americans for Measles

It seems counterintuitive but is possibly true that Africans have more to fear from American visitors than we have to fear from them. Nigerian writer and lawyer Elnathan John earned 35,000 retweets or favorites by tweeting that he was concerned for “measles-ravaged” America and hoped Africa was screening American visitors.

His comment was a sly rejoinder to the demand heard often in the media during the Ebola scare that all Africans should be screened for disease before visiting America. While Ebola is certainly scary, measles is nine times as contagious, and while it isn’t usually fatal, it killed 430 children a day in 2011 worldwide.

Also counterintuitive are the rules for immunizations in the United States. All US immigrants are required to prove they’ve received the full protocol of immunizations, including one for measles. But many American jurisdictions permit US citizens to opt out of vaccinations, including the measles vaccine, on religious or philosophical grounds.

When tens of thousands of Central American children crossed the US border from Mexico last year, they were all forcibly immunized against measles, even though their countries of origin have higher immunization rates than the US (El Salvador, 94 %; Guatemala, 93%; United States, 91%).

Nevertheless, we remain as a country more irrationally afraid of “disease-carrying” immigrants and visitors than we do of our own “anti-vaxxer” citizens who could be immunized if they chose to but choose not to.

[Bonus Source: Here’s how Slate.com reports on the recent US measles outbreak, as part of a series of posts in which American events are described using the tropes and tone normally employed by the American media to describe events in other countries.]

3) Is this Photo Ethical?

It seems counterintuitive that we send photographers into scenes of grave danger on the basis of our need to see, to fully understand, the catastrophes of natural phenomena or disastrous human choices, but then accuse them of sensationalizing their subjects when they deliver precisely what we have asked them to produce.

When the sudden earthquake of January, 2010, killed 230,000 Haitians, nature was not the only killer. Concrete structures built according to lax building codes (or built without oversight of any kind, or after bribing code officials) contributed thousands of deaths when they crashed down on their inhabitants. And when lawlessness and looting followed the quake, flawed humans killed one another; property owners, thieves, and police all clashed until even more blood was spilled over what few valuables remained.

Photographers rushed to Haiti in droves to record the chaos and devastation, perhaps to raise awareness, certainly to assist in the fundraising efforts for disaster relief, perhaps to win themselves some photography or journalism awards.

The images of 15-year-old Fabienne Cherisma, shot by police while crossing a rooftop with an armload of stolen framed pictures, appear to have been taken by a lone photographer who happened on the scene and shot them with frank detachment. They are shocking but perhaps have value in engaging our passions and our compassion.

But the “other” photo, the side view that reveals seven photographers all crouching to capture virtually the same shot of the fallen Fabienne (one of which was named the best International News Image at the Swedish Picture of the Year Award) shocks everyone who sees it for an entirely different reason: it makes them look like vultures waiting to feed off her corpse.

Consider what we demand of the people we send to do this job. We insist they share us truthful images we can trust to tell the real story of human triumphs and tragedies. But we also want them to disappear, to not be part of the story, to keep their hands out of the situation so that we can believe it. And when they do what we ask, we condemn them for their inhumanity, for their very “professionalism” in the face of suffering.

The Assignment

Before class MON FEB 09, create your own summaries of three counterintuitive articles. You may make use of the topics linked to the sidebar, or follow those links to find sources of your own. In either case, provide links inside your own post to guide me to your sources.

  1. Read the models above carefully.
  2. Choose articles that might sustain your interest for many weeks.
  3. Most likely, you will choose your semester research topic from among these three.

Notes: You don’t need to be sincere. As long as your writing indicates an understanding of the counterintuitive nature of the topic, and summarizes the source material in such a way that your entries emphasize that counterintuitivity, I will be consider any crazy conclusions you come to.

Strategies to consider: Is there anything further to say about this topic once I have completed a summary of the first source? Does the topic interest me enough to spend two months investigating? Will I be able to find a range of sources (not just a number of sources) from both academic and non-academic publications?

ASSIGNMENT DETAILS

  • DUE: Midnight Sunday (11:59 pm SUN FEB 08).
  • Publish your assignment in two categories: Purposeful Summaries and the category for your username found under Author.
  • Give your post the title Summaries–Username, substituting your own username, of course.
  • Word count is irrelevant, but thorough analyses of whatever length will be graded higher than superficial writing that wastes words. Complex ideas briefly expressed are rewarded best.
  • Start each summary with the statement: “It seems counterintuitive that . . . .”
  • You will receive just one grade for this draft, which is intended to diagnose your abilities and needs. If you request feedback, you’ll receive guidance to help you improve your grade, one time, with a Rewrite.
  • Customary late penalties. (0-24 hours 10%) (24-48 hours 20%) (48+ hours, 0 grade)
  • Minor (Non-Portfolio) Assignment (10%)
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Moving Image — skyblue

Posted on February 4, 2015 by skybluecomp2

I chose the Ad about Fatherhood Involvement for this visual rhetoric piece.

  • The ad opens up and we immediately see a man on a childhood playground going back and fourth on a toy golden horsey ride
  • The man has hairy legs, implying that he is for sure a middle aged man, he is smiling from ear to ear and looks very happy and excited to be getting the opportunity to play on this playground
  • As he is going back and fourth on the toy a younger mother with red hair pulls her baby’s stroller in closer to her
  • This seems like she is kind of in fear or freaked out by the grown man on the playground
  • It sort of implies that the woman is fearful of the man being  pedophile or not mentally stable because it is not normal for a guy all alone to play by himself
  • The ad then moves to another middle aged man with his face pressed up against the window making funny faces, he quickly stops when another middle aged man catches him and gives him a weird look
  • The ad skips to a man jumping alone on a trampoline but quickly returns to the man against the window making funny faces, but instead of a man catching him he entertains a young girl who finds the faces hilarious
  • The middle aged man who caught him the first time now sees that he is just doing it to be funny and make the girl happy, and the man gives him a smile
  • The clip then goes back to all the events that occurred, the man on the playground, the trampoline
  • But now there is a child with each of them in all the events enjoying their time together
  • The ad may be implying that fathers’ are more like the kids themselves
  • I got that from the little girl laughing hysterically at the man making faces, fathers joke around and can be silly with children
  • Fathers know how to be a kid themselves and that is important in children’s lives growing up.
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Learn from Peers 01

Posted on February 4, 2015 by davidbdale

From Sall’s Stone Money post, here’s a very insightful analysis of the relative benefits of checks and cash in an economy where we can be paid in either.

The median of exchange is very similar to what is presently used. If we a cut a check for someone, the ink on that paper makes it valuable. The check can be ripped but the money will remain in the owner’s bank account, which is very similar to the “Fei underwater.” Nobody may have seen the actual money, but there is a written statement that convince us of its presence. But this is different for an actual dollar bill. A dollar bill is made with paper and ink, just like a check, but if totally ripped or burned, the value is reduced to zero.

From Albert’s Stone Money post, this fascinating observation that whoever owned the first fei, however small or low-grade it was, owned all the wealth of Yap.

Whoever discovered the limestone first from the Yaps might not even have had the biggest fei or the most valuable one; at some point a fei might not even have had a hole in the center. Nevertheless, as more Yaps had the facility to go 400 miles overseas and come back with fei, the value of the fie decreased and, therefore, the difficulty of getting the best limestone was increased. For example, coming home with the biggest fei, or making the hole in the center as proof of the quality of the limestone, gave the rock more value and as a result, more power to the owner.

Again, from Albert’s Stone Money post, here’s another smart observation, that the very uselessness of the fei for anything other than as symbols of wealth, made physically owning them irrelevant.

The uselessness of a fei made the idea of not having to physically possess the fei acceptable. The acknowledgement of being the owner of a fei that was more difficult to make than others, or more difficult to bring home, or with a hole that proved its superior quality was enough to have more power than other Yap islanders. Therefore, when “a violent storm arose, and the party, to save their lives, were obligated to cut the raft adrift, and the stone sank out of sight,” there wasn’t any problem accepting the owner’s power of the unseen fei because “it was all chipped out in proper form.”

Please don’t be upset if your own brilliant observations are not noted here. I’ve been impressed by much of what I’ve read from you so far. It just so happens these appealed to me as I was writing feedback today. I hope you find them instructive.

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Je Suis — skyblue

Posted on February 4, 2015 by skybluecomp2

When I first glanced at the header and graphics on the home page I had a feeling that it may have something to do with the Charlie Hebdo massacre of cartoonists that recently occurred in Paris.

As I began to analyze the picture and different meanings that it may portray I picked up that Charlie Brown’s character in the Peanuts series is usually a happy child who is usually hanging out with his friends and best pal Snoopy. When we are children it is almost like we do not have a reality or a care in the world. The new charlie posted on the page is viewed as an older, dirty, unhappy, middle-aged man who looks very disappointed and angry. This may be posted as the header and blog theme because of it accurately describes how a majority of the public views the Hebdo attacks. The cartoon, although not drawn as a reaction to the massacre it provokes a reaction out of the viewers to let them know how angry and hurt the public is about Hebdo tragedy. Charlie is famous as an innocent young child, his innocence is abruptly taken away because of the tragedy and horrors that age and time have placed upon him. These responsibilities of the real world leave him unhappy and disgruntled. This is shown in his face as his eyebrow is shrunken down into his eyes, and his frown is dramatically drawn.

The letters on the header are orange and in a bold font. This draws a viewers in, demanding their attention on the incident. Charlie is placed dead center in the middle of the header, it gives it sort of a disappointed or sad feeling.

The cartoonist may have chosen Charlie Brown as the choice for this display because his name is Charlie, the same as Charlie Hebdo. The cartoonist also may have picked Charlie Brown because he is a well known cartoon character who everyone seemed to love, and to see him portrayed as a sad angry old man may strike a cord with some peoples emotions, getting a reaction out of them about the massacre.

I believe that the choice of this final product was chosen for a composition course because composition courses are surrounded and based off of writing. Writing in a way is similar to drawing that cartoonists do for a living. Writing and cartooning are a way of freely expressing emotion. It very well could have been an attack on writers if not cartoonists. It could have also been chosen for a composition course because it is considered a controversial topic to write about. Controversial topics are good essay topics because there are so many views and takes on how or why the tragedy took place. It provokes a need to write and respond to the massacre.

My view has changed since I first saw the header of Charlie Brown, I wasn’t aware of all the terrorism and massacre that went along with it that changed my views. I believe the cartoonist did this to grab the viewers attention and draw attention to the Hebdo issue.

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My Notes–Cyphercomp2

Posted on February 2, 2015 by cyphercomp2

Wednesday April 22nd

indoor picnic

Monday April 20th

The White Stripes: Broken Bricks…an odd sounding song…probably good for a commute though.

proposal plus 15 with annotated bib with descriptions and descriptions of intended use. They do not need to be the ones used in paper. work cited is cited, work read and not cited is just annotated bibliography.

self reflected statement

 

portfolios, 2nd draft, visual rewrite, visual analysis rewrite, definition rewrite, causal rewrite

have everything done by wednesday the 22nd.

fix casual so it is causal

http://counterintuitive2015.com/2015/04/20/a10-rebuttal-or-causal-rewrite/

them and they all the way

 

Monday April 13th

Assertion and denial “a clever technique used by skilled witnesses to not lie”

Walter Scott…listening to the second officer describe the wounds to the dispatch, the majority of them were in his thigh, it could be assumed that the recoil of the gun and the nerves of the officer who shot may have caused the one in his butt and the one in his chest to occur.

The wording in each article is very careful to bring certain thoughts to the front. Playing on specific triggers (no pun intended)

If the person reading the writing of these reports just has to have an opinion, let them watch the video and draw a conclusion themselves, rather than being nudged in any direction by another interpretation.

Could have said: A video surfaced of a police officer in North Charleston, S.C., shooting a man as the man is running away. The officer said that, “he feared for his life”.

wrote: The horrifying video of a white police officer in North Charleston, S.C., shooting and killing an unarmed black man — while the man is running away — may still come as a shock to many Americans. But this heinous act, which the officer tried to explain away by claiming that he feared for his life, strikes a familiar chord in communities of color all across the United States.

Tuesday April 8th

did class work before class

Monday April 6th

Attended class

Monday March 30

Apparently more civilians have PTSD than soldiers.

1. True/ unreasonable/ bad

2. True (in that, they should be) / reasonable / right

3. False (over what span of time did he miss them? hundreds of tumors in one patient or many? ten in one or many?) / unreasonable / wrong

4. False/ unreasonable / right (read more)

5. True (only because it narrows the readers down to the highest achievers) but False (because it is not improving the individual, only the group, though the stakes are higher among the chosen) / reasonable results would be produced / ethical

6. true (it would make sense in terms of money) / reasonable to assume / if it is truly the best, it is wrong and unethical, but if it only adds possibilities just like other techniques…it could be considered right

7. False (there would be a lot of problems coming from the thousands of in debt doctors being fired for lack of experience) / unreasonable / wrong (it would cut off any chance of a learning curve in terms of the doctor’s)

8. False (the accuracy may not be known or double checked in the aftermath), reasonable to assume the accuracy is decent / ethical if time is considered, or a lack thereof

9. True / reasonable / still ethical to have all of those doctors rather than not

10. True / reasonable to assume that close would be desired and lucrative both in money and in mind / ethical and right

11. True / reasonable to learn from mistakes and build knowledge / ethical and right

12. if number 9 is true than this is false / however it is reasonable as a teaching tool (but not by shame) / it would be wrong for it to be shameful, this would have a negative impact on judgment in the future, so this is wrong if the intent is to be shameful, but right if it may have been shameful once or twice but the majority accepted the possibility of failure in the past and took the critical remarks

13. True (if the average is less than that by the majority of other readers) / reasonable / ethical to funnel more patients through the highest performing practice

14. True / reasonable / right

15. false / but reasonable to assume / right

16. False / but reasonable to assume / right

17.

Wednesday March 25

last song played was “desert melody” in the beginning of class.

Most important rebuttal point learned: do not have a vulnerability kill all weakness in an argument…if the argument is precise…that is easy…don’t pick a vague topic.

Monday, March 23

Coffee filter and water. I didn’t know the right term for what I was trying to say…but I did have it right with my straw analogy.

Wednesday, March 11

Tangerine Dream was played in class.

Elephants suffer torture.

A2, B1, C2, D2, E2, F1, G2, H2, I2, J1, K2, L2, M1, N1 or 2….neither are that great, O1, P1, Q1, R2, S2, T1, U1, V2, W2.

Monday, March 9

Missed my conference time…

Heard an interesting song transition.

Also realized how many different directions I could really go with my topic, honing in and narrowing required.

Wednesday, March 4

Music: Keith Jarrett

Monday, March 2

While heavily engaged in work, which is what enables me to go to college, I stumbled upon my topic. Rather late…

Wednesday. Feb 25

Alien Ant Farm was played, I took note of the logo, interesting name and logo combo

Monday, Feb 23

Replies were requested.

-I think my topic for the paper will be “perception/interpretation”, reality and the constant battle for a young person’s perception of what it is, I think, is what interests me.

-or does choice exist ? are we such a product of our surroundings that nothing in us is our own? at what point does “there is nothing new under the sun” really start raising questions?

Since memory was brought up in class….I think Joy and Fear are the two most influential driving forces behind what we would consider memory in its physical and otherwise bodily form.

Wednesday, Feb 18

“All along the Watchtower” was played on youtube.

We heard about a bloody nose. It is possible that she had consumed coffee earlier…which thins the blood and dilates the vessels (one reason to drink either coffee or pepsi when suffering from a migraine). It is also possible she had the heat on in the vehicle, possibly aimed directly at her face, drying the air and nasal passage while increase blood flow and vessel dilation, all flowing through a thinly covered vessel in the nose…..boom…..flowing blood…….just a thought. (if a person is suddenly cold, the bod will send blood to the most important organs to keep them functioning…if the head is not warm, the body knows….and sends all its got in that direction first)

Monday Feb, 16th

Watched the Chinese internet choir.

Devotedly keeping watch over the space every day,
Taking up our mission as the sun rises in the east,
Innovating every day, embracing the clear and bright,
Like warm sunshine moving in our hearts.
Unified with the strength of all living things, (no need for strength when everything is equally the same)
Devoted to turning the global village into the most beautiful scene.(just something to look at for hours on end)

An Internet power: Where the Internet is, so is the glorious dream.
An Internet power: From the distant cosmos to the missing home.
An Internet power: Tell the world that the Chinese Dream is uplifting China.
An Internet power: I represent my nation to the world.

In this world all rivers flow to the sea,
Assuming the measure of Chinese civilization.
Five thousand years of history condensed to illuminate innovation,
Integrity is the clear ripple of a nationality.
We are unified between heaven and earth,
Faith and devotion flow like the Yellow River and Yangtze.

An Internet power: Where the Internet is, so is the glorious dream.
An Internet power: Thinking of home from the distant cosmos.
An Internet power: Tell the world that the Chinese Dream is uplifting China.
An Internet power: I represent my nation to the world.

Wednesday Feb, 11

Talked about assisted suicide.

Monday Feb, 9

Setting up conferences was explained. First class in college to ever open with “Toxicity”. Mock vaccination ops.

Wednesday Feb, 4.

Professor Hodges played Eric Clapton’s music. The summary assignment is meant to intrigue and force a deeper reading experience before choosing a topic for the semester.

Monday Feb, 2

Hodges introduced a tutor, and played a song by The Front Bottoms.

First few days of class we did not truly start the my notes practice

Wednesday Jan 28

I figured out “My Notes”….Remember to open “My Notes” at the beginning of every class.

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