Final project

 Shrimp & Asparagus Salad Recipe

This salad is one of the most heart healthy salads you can eat. Perfect for light supper or lunch, and the most convenient part that it can be prepared quickly. Because of my schedule and that I don’t know how to cook as well. I made the decision to make this easy and healthy salad.

Ingredients:

Fresh shrimp

Asparagus

Romaine lettuce

Red and green peppers

Tomatoes

Feta cheese

Sea salt and black pepper

Olive oil

Garlic

Note:  the amount of each ingredient will be depending on how many people you’ll feed.

The first step: wash very well the shrimp, than put some garlic on it along with a little bit of black pepper. Put it on the pot to cook like this:

Than, when the shrimp turn out into red color that’s means that is ready. Remember shrimp should be cook in about 5 minutes or less. Per example like this:

Second step:

Wash the asparagus and cut the bottom of them to get away of the ugly part. Than put a little bit of garlic, black pepper and olive oil on the pot to cook it as well.

Last step: 

put into a bowl the washed romaine lettuce, tomatoes, red and green peppers. Mix it up like this:

And finally the healthy salad is ready to eat J

It was a nice experience by trying to cook but it would be better if I could share this recipe with you guys. The shrimp came out a little salty but at the end it tasted good because I didn't add any dressing.  

Blog #14 the New Industrial Migrants

As many industries that allows undocumented immigrants to work. The IBP industry is not an exception. This company recruits immigrants to work as meat packing all over the country.  Eric Scholosser, makes sense when he states that, IBP industry recruits immigrants to work for a low salary. Many immigrants accept to work for a low salary because they have no other option. Even though is beneficial for both parties by immigrants getting employed and have the job opportunity to make some money to support their family. And the industries by gaining more money paying less salary to their employees. There are many reasons of how these types of industries are taking advantage from illegal immigrants.

Most of the industries don’t pay the salary that they supposed to pay. It shouldn't be like this; because those people should be treating the same as others human beings. In life anyone should deserve to get pay depending in the type of work that they are doing. If the job is hard, industries should pay more because it’s a kind of complicate job. What’s more, industry that hired illegal immigrants doesn't offer any type of work benefits to them. Per example: when my sister was illegal her boss was trying to abuse of humiliate by trying to make her to work more and paying less. Because after she worked 40 hours he supposed to pay overtime and he didn't do it just because he knew that she was undocumented immigrant and that anyways she had to stay in this job. Afterwards, is very convenient for them because they won’t have the obligation to pay any sick days, vacation, health insurance and union benefits. It’s very unfair that these poor people are working without any benefits just because they are illegal.

Nevertheless, I believe that in life everybody is the same and for a simple paper we cannot discriminate anyone. Everyone should get pay according to the work that they do. We cannot take any advantage and try to abuse any person just because they are illegal and they are in needs plus we can’t either do to others what we won’t like others do to us.

Blog #13 " XXXL: Why are we o fat?

In “The fattening of America” Eric Finkelstein states, that in the past few decades fattening food has become cheaper. Which, is the main reason of why most of the people are getting fatter by consuming oily foods instead of being eating healthy food, along with beverages that has dropped more than twenty percent than it was before. However, the lower price of food it’s not the only reason of why people are getting too fat nowadays.

The hectic schedule, because of a very busy schedule most of the people don’t have the time to eat and when they do they just swallow the food to go back to what they were doing on time. They either have enough time to cook fresh food at home and because of that they don’t have any other option than buy fast food. Where, I completely agree when the Finkelstein says that Americans become fatter because of cheaper food because that kind of food is very rich in bad fat that will help them to gain more weight.

The lack of exercise is another reason that helps people to gain more weight. Many people become lazy that they don’t even want to walk to the train station and they rather to take a cab to go anywhere. What’s more, the majority of people they rather to take the elevator instead of climb stairs. Including myself because it’s not that easy to go to the third floor by using the stairs than just take the elevator and don’t have to sweat. In general people rather the passive way than active way, which is not going to help to maintain a proper weight shape.

Nevertheless, as the author referred that “for most of the people, an ice cold coca cola used to be a treat reserved for special occasions”. Nowadays, its seems normal to have a couple bottles of coca cola in the fridge, just because of the big amount for a cheaper price. Many people don’t stop themselves to think that depends of what they put in their mouse it would be their body. This is the sad part; because of the ignorance they are just killing themselves by eating fast food and beverages such as “coca cola” when instead of have this killer in their fridge they should have a bottle of water that would help to weigh fewer pounds less. 

Blog #11 "Happy Meals"

According to the article “Happy Meals” pollants states, how we can avoid eating unhealthy food to start eating healthier food. In the country that we are living right now is very difficult and sometimes is impossible to bring fresh food to the table and its converts not easier to eat healthy diet every day. It requires a lot of time to find the correct food, pay more money for the food and the most important thing is the personal disposition to try to eat healthier. Bases on pollants suggestions of how we can eat better, my family and I can follow his suggestions by:

Staying away from anything incapable or rotting, like Twinkies, because in my native country we didn't use to eat those types of snacks. Which, is good for us because they are very rich in fat, sugar, artificial colors etc. completely affecting our health. What’s more, we can also avoid food products that make health claims. Such as: margarine, because it’s very heavily processed, leading heart attacks along that it’s not healthy for me because it makes me get a lot of pimple on my face.

As I mentioned before, it’s not easier to have a healthy diet every day. Even thought, eating mostly plants, especially leaves provide antioxidants, fiber, omega 3s and fewer calories than regular food. We cannot keep them in our food dispense. Because every time we try to eat this type of food we feel like we are not eating anything plus are like an unflavored grass that we are eating, not making feel our stomachs full. Neither stop going to the nearest supermarket to go to buy to farmers market. Because New York life is so stressful that the little time that we have free is to do grocery and spend time with the family.

Nevertheless, I really appreciated pollants suggestions by trying to help us to have a healthy diet, because what we eat is what we are. But there still suggestions that my family and I would like to do right now and because of the circumstances we are not able to do it. We would like to plant a garden to eat completely healthy but it requires enough space to plant and in order to do that we need to have a yard or own private house. Another thing is try to eat slowly to have a better digestion and enjoy more the food. Which is a big deal because in New York life we are always in rush to go back to work.

Blog# 9 Part I: summaries of the films, Part II: Responding to a Factory Farming Issue

                                                     Part #1 Meatrix films

Back In the days of the year 1950, the meatrix showed to us the reality of how factory farms reproduce a big amount of food. Basically what they do is crow all the animals at the point that they can’t even move. And by having no space to move and breathe animals get sick very often. Then, they have to treat the animals by giving antibiotics, which cause bacteria to the environment affecting human health.

In “Revolting”, shows how the baby animals are separated from the mother. They feed them with a milk replacement made by the cow’s blood to save more money. In addition, to make animals grow up faster they inject to them growth hormones.

The meatrix II ½ shows, the average of the cows that slaughterhouse factory uses to prepare fast food such as: tacos, hamburgers, meatballs. This is around 5000 cows per day. By processing that many cows per day leads several contamination with cow’s feces, affecting to all the humans that consume the meat because they can be expose to e-coli epidemics.

                           Part #2  Responding to a Factory Farming issue

According to the sustainable table, the website for the film the meatrix, nowadays in the United States of America, the issue about water pollution is affecting our society even more than back in the days of the year 2000. Water pollution comes from industrial farms by storing animal waste for a long period time in big containers known as “Lagoons”. Those big containers are liable to collapse by any natural storms, causing environmental damages. Nitrogen and Phosphorous are the most common water pollution caused by the fertilizer runoff that can liberate antibiotics remaining bacteria which risk people health.

The sustainable table, the website for the film the meatrix, makes sense when the inferred that “water pollution not only damages the environment and kills wildlife, but it can also sicken and kill people”. Because there are many side effects behind the water pollution, such as: nutrients, antibiotics and hormones, making water unsafe for human consumption.

Nutrients: are composed by minerals like nitrogen and phosphorous that even when in a positive way they increase the plant growth, can lead detrimental to the plant growth called “Algal bloom”, along with the nitrogen that creates an acid water facilitating death of aquatic plants and fish.

The use of antibiotics and hormones on the industrial farms is very common or indispensable. They inject it to animals so the excrement last more inside of the big containers, provoking more bacteria in the waterways and transmitting it to humans.

Nevertheless, for those reasons I believe that water pollution is very harmful for human health. In order to prevent any type of disease or sometimes death, we should do whatever is on our hands to avoid water pollution consumption. One way that would help to promote healthier waterways is by conserving water and applies waste fertilizer to fields which will minimize their impact on local water systems. 

Blog #10 Myth: Bottled water is safer than tap water.

“Bottled water is safer than tap water”. Nowadays, there are people that are still thinking that public or tap water is more liable to bacteria and has less quality then bottlers water. The reason of why those people think that way is because they absolutely trust in bottler’s water company by seeing the safety advertisements in the bottled water  and by thinking that those companies has the equipment needed to purify the water. But, in the reality tap or public water is safer than bottler’s water. Because, bottlers water companies are regulated by the FDA which means that they don’t require the Annual water quality report, at difference of public water that is regulated by the EPA which does require it. It’s surprising how a lot of people spend a big quantity amount of money every week by buying bottle of water, when basically what they are doing is paying for the bottle and making those companies wealthier by drinking public water packed in a clear bottle because as I said those companies aren't require to have an annual check either to label the source of the water. Per example couple months ago my bottle water finished and I was so thirsty that I have no other option of drink the sink water and afterwards I found out that they taste were similar so I researched the difference between tap water and bottle water and the difference was that bottlers water companies makes the water tasty to make it different from the public water. However, what I learned is that in reality we should stop thinking that bottle water is better or safer than public water along of trust in those companies because their purpose is to make money without care about our health. In addition, I suggested that instead of being buying manufacture water and spend that much money every week, we should start drinking public water because at the end is more safe than those companies. And if there are any issues by trusting in public water, we can buy household filters that would do a better job than bottler’s water companies plus it will be cheaper than be paying for just for a plastic bottle.

Blog #8 Midterm Reflection

Looking through all my essays the one that really make me proud of my self was the Blog #4 "The allegory of the cave", the reason of why i choose this essay is because i was living in the same cave without see how beautiful is this world. And seeing myself in the position that i am right now, really make feel proud of me plus what i wrote in that essay was bases on my own experience. Which don't make me feel embarrassed saying that I was an ignorant back in the days. The activities that have helped me in this class are the form or strategy that the Dr. X uses in this class. Which, are: first her example than working in groups and then work by yourself. The reason of why helped me a lot is because i could first see her example, than I interacted with the classmates to develop our ideas to finally work by ourselves. This way is very interesting because won’t let us to get bored in class. Very happy and thankful to God for provide this type of teacher to us that really cares and help us to learn how to write and pronounce the English language that is not our native language. In the last few weeks that we have left i have to improve my vocabulary and grammar. This is my weakness in this class because i don't read enough. But I’ll still looking forward to get better on it. Thanks!

Blog # 7 Does knowledge make you happy?

Does knowledge make you happy?

Knowledge is the information and skills acquired by a person through experience or education. In order to define if knowledge makes you happier, will depends in the type of personality that this person has, the goals to achieve and how this person see itself in the future. In life everybody is different and for this reason there are people that love to study and gain some knowledge to be successful and those that don’t do absolutely anything to progress or improve themselves in personal and education levels, in other words are ignorant people.

In the “Allegory of the cave” Socrates made emphasis and those people that ignorant how is and what exists in the real world, like if they are living in a cave. I believe that those people have decided to live in this way just because they are not strong enough to confront and fight for their future in this real world. As consequences those people become lazy and they got used to live like this because they may be thinking that it’s much easier be an ignorant then smart. By being an ignorant they just have to live day by day without any objectives, any efforts to be better, but the appositive of being smart because smart people are always looking forward to gain some knowledge, which requires a lot of reading, memorize the studies and stay up late to do homework. What’s more, in certain point most of the people had gone through be an ignorant. Because bases in my own experience when I came here I was acting like an ignorant person, where I only got focus in work and home. A similar situation as if I was living in a cave without seeing what was around me. Until one day that I thought about my future and what I was doing with my life, so I decided to go to school to start learning the language and to look forward for a better education. Being an educated person changed my life because even when I feel tired from work and I know that I have to go to school that’s make me happy because I know that 

pretty soon I’ll be in a better position than the one that I was.

On the other hand, in life there are people that really love to go to school to gain some knowledge because that’s what makes them happier. Those people that think deeply and are dying to find out how things have been made, know that this is the pathway that would help them to be successful in life. Per example like in the Matrix movie, where Leo had the choice to pick the red or blue pill to see the real world or still living in a fantastic world where was not true.

Nevertheless, depends of our knowledge would be our future. Having knowledge does not weigh anything. So we should start learning and get up from living in a cave and being an ignorant to improve ourselves and stand up in the real world.

Blog #6 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/health/diabetes-complications-show-sharp-decline-report-finds.html?src=xps

In the article “ For Diabetics, Health Risks fall sharply, Sabrina Tavernise and Denise Grady states how much diabetes disease had increased. Now a day, it is incredible how in certain way our society have being affected by diabetes disease. As we know diabetes is a chronic disease caused by the high blood sugar. I agree with both authors because there are many reasons of why we should stop eating or drinking sweetness food. Diabetes never comes by it self, always gain more health problems such as: Heart Attack, Kidney failure and Amputations.

According to my own knowledge people tends to suffer more of heart attack because when the blood sugar is high, it block out the arteries. Which, is who is in charge to bring the oxygen to the heart and when the heart cannot get enough oxygen is when the heart attack occur.

Moreover, high blood pressure can damage blood vessels throughout the body. If blood vessels in the kidneys are damaged, the kidneys are less able to do their job of removing waste and fluid from the body. This accumulated fluid can cause the blood pressure to increase even more. Eventually, the kidneys may fail completely.

Nevertheless, between all the high blood sugar difficulties there is one that unfortunately is the most common in people that had being diagnosed with this disease, which is amputation.  An untreated high blood sugar can damage the nerves of our body and once this organ is damaged there is no other solution of cut this organ out to save this person life.

Last of all, diabetes is a very dangerous disease that can take away someone life just by the high blood sugar pressure. In order to avoid this cardiovascular problem and gain more health problems such as heart attack, kidney failure and amputations we have to take care of ourselves more by having a healthier meal and going more often to doctor office to do a physical test.

Blog #5 The Truman Show

In the article "The Truman Show" by Jim Carry, shows how Truman struggled in his life just for listened to what Cristof told him to do. In the world that we are living right now it’s very common to see people that lives and do things just for the society or because someone tells them to do this or even thought when they didn't want to do it and they are unhappy by doing it. Bases on my own experiences and the way I look at the world, we become adults for some reasons and one of them it’s to have the right of freedom to do with our lives whatever pleasure or unpleased us. Moreover, it’s very sad to live under someone rules; because it’s like if you don't value anything as a human being, which is very unfair. On the other hand, I’ll always follow my own instincts, perceptions and beliefs, no matter if it makes other happy or no, because what is really important is my life and whom have to be happy it’s me. Every each head is a world, meaning that each of us thinks differently and for this reason we cannot force anyone to do certain things that they don't want to do. Last of all, before I try to make any type of decision I always think over and over about the advantages, disadvantages, causes and consequences. So, until I don’t feel secure about what I would like to do, I don't run to make any decision, I guess everybody before of make any  decision believes that they going to gain a positive experience  where unfortunately this does not occur all the time.

Blog 4: Socrates' message in "The Allegory of the Cave"

In Platos " The Allergy of the Cave", Socrates tells a story to his students Glaucon to explain that we live an unenlightened life. We live a closed life, always on the same level of knowledge. There are illusions created by our culture/ society (by those who benefit from keeping us ignorant) and we believe these illusions to be "real" "true". When we are given knowledge, we become freer of these illusions, but gaining knowledge is slow, painful process. Gradually, we become wise. When we try to explain that we have learned,what is "real" (true and right) to others, we fail because they deny or cannot understand the truth. They conclude the knowledgeable person is ridiculous, stupid or crazy-and dangerous. Seeking truth is a journey from the cave to the light, and those who have wisdom will complete this journey. I agree with the author because most of the people rather to be an ignorant then an intelligent or intellectual person, the reason is because being an ignorant is more easier, they don't have to worry about any test or memorize any chapter.

Nevertheless, that's right exists different kind of society classes, per example poor people, middle class and rich people. i believe that reason of why exists those types of classes is because there are lazy and ignorant people that doesn't want to be better and being successful in life and people that really want to be successful in life. Afterwards, im the best example here, because i when was 18 years old i decided leave my native country to come to NYC to fight for see my dreams come true  (better future), even thought i haven't achieve it yet but i know one day soon i will. There is no excuses when you really want to do something that will locate you in a better place because having knowledge does not weigh. In conclusion, we are here alive to make our lives worst or better and in order to start working on that we have to get out from the unenlightened life and start looking forward to see our dreams come true.

Blog 1: What did you learn from comparing your classmates' responses to the professional evaluations? (just a short blog to get you started blogging)

well, I have to say that it was a new study strategist because if we didn't understand some topic when can look at our classmates work and refresh our minds to start doing our job in our own, along that is pretty cool because nowadays that we only want to be looking on social websites would motivate us more to do our homework cause with don't have to write on a piece of paper.

blog: 2 "Hype"

In the article " Hype" by Kalle Lasn, the author says that, advertisements are affecting us like mental pollutants because they are entirely taking the control of our minds. Nowadays, every where we go there are advertisements, and even when we seat at home to watching TV we have to see commercial advertisements, The author made emphasis in advertisements because they are taking out the peaceful of our minds. Which, lead us to get stress more easier.

Nevertheless, there are positive and negative ways of advertisements. First of all, to sell any kind of product, the company has to create advertisements to show what came new to the marketing place in order to make some money. Moreover, we can get benefits from them in certain way, because will teach us about the latest advance of the technology.

Secondly, have this negative side, because there are different types of advertisements every where, which are for adults and kids. Here is when the problem starts. Because children can watch an inappropriate ads, leading them to memorize and learn things that they don't supposed to learn at their ages. As the author said " Now I hear kids singing Oscar Meyer song" when at their ages they don't supposed to sing adults songs.

In conclusion, advertisements are invading our lives and society. Even thought, companies have the right of advertise, I have to say that advertisements are affecting our society, in the way that we are not enjoying anything, because every where we go there are some ads. Making our lives stressful along with the bad influence to our kids. In order to protect ourselves and kids we should stoppage or ban against advertisements, because too much of something can be harmful for us.

Blog 3: Summary of I know the truth

In the article “I know the truth, so don’t bother me with facts” by Jeffrey Kluger states that, its hard to try to change the way that people beliefs. According to professors R. Kelly Garret and Erik Nisbet from Ohio State University they said, that is easier to deceive people with false information just by showing to them any type of strategies such as pictures and that they'll believe more in false information or rumors, then believe in someone that is telling the truth with facts. People tends to believe in rumors because they just don't want to bother themselves by finding out the truth, becoming dependable from others. Moreover, i agree with the Kluger, when he states that it is hard to try to convince or change people beliefs, because most of the people don't like to be wrong in front of others and they can also have some type of stubborn personality.

Furthermore, there are many reasons of why its hard to manipulate those people that don't like to be wrong in front of others and why people have stubborn personality. Per example, many people believe more in their ego than in anything else. The reason of why they think like that is depending in their lifestyle, culture, religion, experiences or just because the have some type of fear or scared to be tell wrong in front of others. [You are listing reasons rather than supporting one reason with evidence].

Afterwards, stubborn personality plays an important role because those people that they are always right, without known that acting like that they become more ignorant. They completely close their eyes and mind to the world by refusing to change their mind or beliefs about any idea. Stubborn people will always defends their own ideas and the way that they think, even thought, they can see the truth with facts. [General; you need detail here]

Nevertheless, based on the article, i believe that is so difficult to try to change people beliefs, because most of the people have a very hard understanding mind to learn logical thoughts with facts specially when they already known it without facts. Last of all, they way people thinks or believe can also be related with their lives experiences or sometimes just for a simple thing that they wont like to be wrong in front of others.