HW#18

Thanksgiving is pretty much a big deal for me and my family we actually have a family football game. We play every morning on thanksgiving and we play for about 2-3 hours. Its more of the body centered part of our culture. We usaully fight about who is the fastest, or who can throw the farthest, or who can cath the football the best. What people dont realize is that football is actually more anti body as it is body centered because to actually be good at your position you have to outsmart the quarterback or outsmart the wide reciever or the defender. For example the defender tries to get an interception by reading the eyes of the quarterback and sees where the quarterback wants to throw and then they react to it.

The man in my family actually watch football before, during, and after the dinner while the woman in my family talk about what is going on in their lives. Its always been like that and nothing really changed ever since I've been born. What effected my thanksgiving is that my grandfather wasnt their because he died 3 years ago and that actually effected our thanksgiving because my grandma came to my house without him for the 3rd staright year. Thanksgiving is a holiday that we come together and dealing with death on a day that our family comes together isnt really fun to deal with. Also my dad got rotator cuff surery so he needs help doing things and needed help getting food becuase he strrugles to move his arm in certain ways and if he is touched on his shoulder in a certain way

After eating the food everyone was satisfied and enjoyed the food. Everyone actually looked a lot tired and they looked like they wanted to rest after they ate. My mom cooking was a big deal becuase when ever thanksgiving roles around she needs the house to be cleared and needs everyone to say in one spot becuase she doesnt like people moving around in our kitchen becuase she takes cooking the food very seriously. taht is the body centered part of our culture.

HW#17

I have dealt with illness and death in my family. One is my grandmother she is really ill she is really old and suffers from dementia and she also has insane panic attacks my grandmother has about 8 children including my mother and they all suffer a lot taking turns taking care of her and also taking turns staying over at her house. I've seen every single one of my aunts and uncles cry and they deal with the whole situation in different ways and this is why I find this unit to be really interesting and I have a feeling Andy will talk about how different people have different ways with dealing with death and illness. I haven't really been taught how to see illness and dying when i was really young my parents never really taught me how to see illness or dying I just knew what it was and how to deal with it. I saw a book about death and how to properly teach your kids about the death process and some of the experiences kids have with death and what they think about where the person or the animal goes after it dies and it just really interesting to see the thoughts other people have about the situation.

I guess you can that people dying in my culture is a big thing but i am only talking about the people i know and the people my family I really speak for every body in my culture. When my grandfather died in Puerto Rico everyone came every single person he knew or met once it didn't matter people respect the dead. Even when your sick any body who knows you would come visit. My family thinks of death as letting go they never really hold it in or take it really hard because they know its life and every one dies. The feel i really hard the day or and the funeral but they try not to keep it in for a long time. 

I would really like to know how other people think about death and illness and how other cultures think about it and I would want to know what they would do when a family member dies or they become seriously ill. I have a feeling this unit is going to be a good unit because I'm really interested about dying and interested in how people changed because of the death or a leader or president of a country and how their whole entire government and or country changed.

HW# 12

Thesis: Sustainable and humane alternatives to nightmarish dominant social practices in our culture fail the tests of scalability, achievability, and/or desirability. 


Major Claim: When you try to stop nightmarish social practices it doesn't pass the achievability and it doesn't pass the test and usually a failure


Supporting Claim #1: Despite the fact their are many organic foods there are still more people buying fast food 
Evidence: Fast Food Nation 
Evidence: Expansion of Fast Food Companies 
Evidence: Diabetes and other diseases created by food 


Supporting Claim #2: The food movement is gaining a lot of attention from the government and the press


Evidence: Kevin's Law 
Evidence: Slaughter House owners also are connected to FDA
Evidence: Worker from Monsanto incident


www.opencongress.org/bill/109-h3160/show
Fast Food Nation Book 
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Goliath_and_David:_Monsanto's_Legal_Battles_against_Farmers
www.diabetes.org › Diabetes Basics