Saturday, April 12, 2014

Eating Healthy

I eat healthy food most of the time because I workout, I care about my diet. I don't eat fast foods or unhealthy food. I like to have variety of colors in my plate all the time from vegetables. I think I'm healthy eater, but after watching the video " Secrets and Deceptions at The Supermarket" now I have to think twice before I buy anything from the supermarkets like how they showed in the video in how the chickens in the farm factory get treated and look like and how they feed them hormones to make them gain weight and transfer from a chick to a big chicken in 42 days like according to owner of the factory farm.
I also think that those animals are not being treated humanely because of the way they showed us at the beginning of the video "Secrets and Deceptions at The Supermarket" how that machine put that huge amount of small chicks on the farm ground, and how they do they look them all down in that spot without letting them move around so they can sit in the same spot and get big faster for them to sell it.
In the video "Secrets and Deceptions at The Supermarket" the professor of animal welfare from Cambridge university Donald Broom said " what we see here is a bird with spread legs and he is not able to stand up very well. Every farmer should manage their bird so there is no bird is in that situation where it can't walk or move anywhere."  that means that there birds are not being treated humanely and not being checked by the farmer every day in that situation birds die because they are not being treated.

Thursday, March 6, 2014

The Struggles of a Young Black Man in America



Jamal is a 16 years old black kid who grew up in Bronx, New York, a neighborhood that had high level of poverty. Jamal lived with his mother and older brother in a small apartment, he could hear his neighbors talking through the walls. He really smart kid who wanted more than playing basketball, but he was trying to fit in between his friends she he had to act like he is careless and not good in school. For example; when the teacher asked him in class and she knew that he knew the answer but he acted like he I didn’t know so he won’t look like he knows in front of his friends. Jamal is a smart kid for example; when that guy who bring the food for William parked his car in the streets and saw Jamal looking at his car “BMW” he was making sure he had it looked, but then Jamal started talking to him about the history of “BMW”, that showed how smart and educated Jamal is. Jamal faced a lot of obstacles like he didn’t have a father he grew up without a father. Jamal’s and William’s relationship was really good because William became like his father later on through the movie. I think it’s really hard for a person to grow up in poverty.

Sense: “The Window”
Jamal and his friends were playing basketball outside. Then, suddenly one of Jamal’s friends mentioned “window” Jamal asked what the “window” is. At that time William was looking at them from the window. One of Jamal’s friends says “he sees us, but we can’t see him”.  Liked that sense because that what got me interested in the story I got excited to see who that guy is, and why he was looking at them from the window.
Quote
“he sees us, but we can’t see him”.