Blog 4

BLOG #4 – due by midnight 9/29/08

Ø What is your plan to get involved on campus? What are your interests? Will you or have you joined any student organizations? Which two events besides UNITED & Career Major Fair do you plan on attending?
My plan to get involved on campus is to be active in my hall and do intramural sports with them. My interests are playing sports and doing something active. I plan to attend sporting events, i've gone to a football game and then next thing i plan to attned is a hockey game.
Ø Fast Food Nation - Chapter 6:

Ø What are some of the problems facing cattle ranchers?
They face a host of economic problems: rising land pirces, stagnant beef prices, oversupplies of cattle, increased shipments of live cattle from canada and mexico, development pressures, inheritance taxes, health scares about beef.
Ø What are “captive supplies” of cattle? (“The four major meatpacking companies now control about 20 percent of the live cattle in the U.S. through ‘captive supplies’” (138). (See also p. 142).
Captive supplies are cattle that are either maintained in company-owned feedlots or purchased in advance through forward contracts.

Ø What was the impact of the Chicken McNugget on the poultry industry?
It was that it turned a bird that once had to be carved at a table into something that could easily be eaten behind the wheel of a car. It turned a bulk agricultural commodity into a manufactured, value-added product.
Ø How does the nutritional value of a McNugget compare to a hamburger?
A McNugget has double the amount of fat than a burger does.

Ø How does the suicide rate for ranchers and farmers compare with the rate for U.S. citizens in general? Why?
The Suicide rate for ranchers and farmers is about three times higher. As ranchers traditional way of life is destroyed so are their beliefs.

Ø Do you feel as if there is any healthy fast food available to consumers? If so, where and why? Give specific examples of products.. Please be honest and support your opinions. For example, I feel that Subway's Veggie Sub is extremely healthy due to its freshly-cut produce, cheese, and fresh-baked breads. I actually talked to a friend who works at Subway and he said in MQT, they slice their own produce. (My fear was that it arrived pre-sliced and filled with preservatives). It's not organic, but it's a start.
I don't think that there are many fast foods that are healthy becuase of all the preservatives they put in them that are not healthy. But i guess there can be some, like with subway, some subways cut their preduce there and then others have it already cut, so it can vary if fast food is healthy or not.

Blog 3

Ø Describe your ideal Instructor/Professor.

My ideal instructor/professor would be someone who you can relate to about things, and who doesn't go so fast that you can't understand them. Who would also let you turn in things late if you have a good reason why you can't turn it in on time. They just have to be someone that isn't so uptight about everything.
Ø “I knew it when I studied it, but I forgot it on the test.” How can students study differently to prevent this from happening?
When i study for a quiz or test and I think I know it, then I get to taking it and I forget what I studied. When other people quiz me i think i retain it better because when i don't know it i can't just look at my notebook real quick. I have to try and figure it out even if i get frustrated. And i think that when it comes to taking tests people get nervous so they can't think straight, so that probably has a big part to it to.
Ø How do you study for quizzes/tests?
When i study for quizzes or tests, i usually read over my notes over and over so that i can memorize them. I haven't really figured out any other ways that would help me study for quizzes or tests yet.
Ø What do you have trouble with on quizzes/tests?
When i take a test i'll sometimes drift off and think about other things, then i read the question about 5 times and still not understand what it is asking. Also if i don't know the material really well, then i'll sit and contemplate what answer i should put down.
*Please go to the website listed below, which is a "Letter to McDonald's" from a former employee. Read it and write at least a paragraph reaction on your Blog site.

I think that this person has a very good point in this letter. It isn't fair to people when the managers are letting some people come in late and do whatever they want or even when they don't show up time after time, they don't even get a warning. If that was happening to me, i would come in late or not come in at all. Then maybe they will realize that they can't keep letting people do that because one day no one is going to show up, then what are they going to do. Work places need to be fair, because if they're not, they are going to end up not having any workers at all. The part about the spatula is disgusting, dropping it on the floor and only wiping it off. That makes me not want to eat at a fast food restaurant again.

Blog 2

I have learned so much stuff in anatomy so far, it's hard to just pick something. But i'm going to use the term called Osteoprogenitor Cells. These cells are stem cells, and they input bone growth. There really hasn't been that many pleasant events yet. My roommate and i got our room decorated which was really nice because it was a mess. I have met a lot of knew people in my classes and in my hall. I would like to have A's and B's academically in six months, becuase i know it will be really hard to get all A's. I might even have a C or in the, but i hope not. I have been studying for my quiz's that i have about a week before so that i have been doing good on them, which has been nice. I am always on facebook and myspace or something like that when i know i shouldn't be. I need to be studying more than i am for exams. And i need to stop procrastinating things. I usually write down everything that the instructor says, or if it does not sound important then i do not write it down. The McDonald's commercial targets children because it is a children's class room and he is talking to the hamburgers like they are little kids. So children will be more likely to watch this then want to eat McDonald's because they think it looks good.

Blog 1

My favorite saying would have to be, "Where you start is not as important as where you finish" because if you start off in the lead doesn't always mean you will finish there, but you have to keep working at it. I am at NMU because i want to pursue a degree in Radiogrphy and i would like to meet new people. I chose NMU becuse they have a really good Radiography program that i would like to get into. Also it's not too far from my hometown. I noticed that the campus is pretty clean, which is really nice, and my dorm hall is really clean because it just got renovated. So that makes it more like home. An observation in my classes is that some are really big and some are small. The smaller classes are nicer becuase it's easier for the Intstructor to help you. I haven't made too many observations about other students, but some of then would hae to be that while in class while your supposed to be learning, theres students on facebook, myspace, or texting, which is not smart becuase they will probably end up not doing too well. The Intructors that I have are all really nice so far and are willing to help you if you go and ask them questions. My biggest challenges this year will be studying and trying to fit all my homework in. I never studied in high school, but i still did fine in all my work, but now i actually have to study all of the time and read the chapters in all my classes, which i never did before. So that will definitely be my biggest challege. The goal I am going to set for myself, is to do good on all of my quiz's next week.