final project :))) buon appetite

                                                     French baked potatos



This recipe is one of my favorite from home. Now I´m not sure if it does belong to the french culture or just our moms start called these potatos by this name, but for sure u will love them. Its little difficult in time but very delicious.Let´s go by some ingredients

    for some reason I love this foods market.They have a lot of organics food and not so crazy prices.We will need :

first step is cook the potatos and eggs.When everything is done we will need bacon for the bottom of the roaster.

this is not in the original recipe but I do it for better taste.Then cut the potatos and put them on the top of bacon

on the top of the potatos cut the eggs and sausages

on the top we have to  mix a sour cream with mustard, pink salt and fresh ground black pepper.

cover the potatos and eggs with one layer.

repeat this until you done with layers.So long story in short bacon one time,potatoes eggs sausage sour cream,potatoes sausage eggs sour cream until you fill the roaster. Don´t forget on every layer of potatoes put salt.When you finished you have to cover the potatoes with  mixed sour cream as last.

cover it with and put it in the owen on 350 degrees.Bake it fo an 1 hour and 1/2.

it needs more 1/2 hour and we r done :))

 it is ready to eat, sory for the picture but my husband was sooo hungry.So he stealed a bit from it. :DDD

I know it doesn't look good on the pic. but believe me it taste so good.

So what we need is:

7 to 8 pcs cooked potatoes  

7 to 8 pcs hard boiled eggs

2 pcs sour cream

2 tea spoons of mustard

pink salt or sea salt

3 or 4 pcs of sausages (i have them from local polish store)

black pepper

bacon

and owen :DDD ;)

How cell phone hurts your relationships

The article "HOW YOUR CELL PHONE HURTS YOURS RELATIONSHIPS" by Helen Lee Lin is nicely explaining how far and how deep can cell phones ruin our real life, what we are building. I mean the real life where the feelings can be hurt by the "unreal" life that most people build trough the cell phones.One study by Netta Weistein of the University of Essex showed that cell phones can ruin our real close relationships. Netta gets her point when she is trying people aware of the cell phone´s cobweb.I would do the same and would support studies like this. WHY? What I think is, that this new technologies is really taking away our real life and attention. Also is stealing our time from us which could be spent much more effectively.


As I have mentioned  " THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES" knew as an cell phones, I pads,computers. All these fakes build life inside them are taking away our attention from the real life. There are two examples on what I can show how really it matters! Let´s say that you are on the street and checking your phones for the news on the facebook  or any other web sides and your love of your life just passing you without knowing that she just crossed next to you. And now try to imagine that your life is going in different way without cell phone. You are on the same spot on the street and you two just run into each other. You got that look when you see each other and fall in love at first. It can continue with coffee and end up with a kid and real life together like a buying a house and to become a parents. Thus these important moments in the life you could miss! There is other  example from mine life. My sister in law she is addicted to her cell phone.Many times when we are having a lunch or whatever, she pays more attention to the life in her cell phone. It´s making me upset when I´m telling her a story or I´m having a question and there is no reaction back. It´s sad to me but I´m here two years and still don't know each other.We are sitting like two strangers next each other for a few hours because of her addiction to the cell.Thus we have no closeness between us. Shame, but this how it is with these new technologies. So as in the Weinstein´s study when she ask two strangers to report how they felt when they chatted with somebody who was close to the cell, results were low relationship and closeness.

My following example is, that time what we are spending on the cells could be spent much more effectively. For example, if you need some relax from the hectic life around and wanna spent some time in the nature, why would you take your phone with you?!! Don´t do it ever. This is how I´m surviving these days. I wanna spent at least one or two hour if is possible without any connection with the fake life. Like example if I do working out I don't bring my cell to the gym. Other people does and i´m freaking out. My two hours are just my to clear my body and my mind from the pressure. Once in the week me and my husband are going for a walk to the beach to charge our self with energies so no phones are allowed! We leave them in the car and enjoying our conversation and time together .


In my personal conclusion I do think that these new machines called cell phones hurts our close relationships or even doesn´t  let them mature already staring relationships. It´s sad that people are more interest in the fake life like in the real person next to them. To me these kind of people are needy and destitute.

Happy Meals

To begin somewhere with Pollan´s advice, I wanna start with me and my family.How do we live and surviving in this US big factory called fast food or grown quickly.This food is attacking us everywhere sometimes I have feeling is" impossible mission" to run away from it. You have to really work hard to find the right meat close around. It´s take lot of reading about the products and a knowledge what ingredient is factory using in his products, because it´does matter. You are what you eat!!! All this big supermarkets are trying to sell us something and they don't care how much chemicals are in their product. They are selling cheap products over quality. And shame but most people don't know nothing what they have on the plate for a dinner. If those strawberries are so huge because somebody grow them with love and care or they are just full of chemicals thus root-proof (by the way those strawberries stays in the fridge for a weeks where-there naturally grow strawberries get root very fast almost next day if not the same day) . Me and my husband are trying to eat healthy and naturally. I´m so sick of these huge animals and fruits what are some supermarkets selling. I could not ever feed my family or me with hormones grow animals. I just simply cant it´s against me.We are so happy that we have one contact trough my friend who is living in Pennsylvania and has his own animals. Every week he is comes to NYC to bring what you ordered. Raw milk and all this milky staff what I love and fresh meats. Thus this way we do surviving and of course enjoying the real taste of food. In my household it´s impossible that there is no home made food. It doesn't matter how stress and fast life we live at least the food must be enjoyable and prepared at home.Very rarely we do go to restaurant. I know my grandmother would be so proud of me that I learned to cook at home and from natural ingredients.

My second paragraph is about why Pollan´s advice would be hard for me or for my family. I think at this time it´s almost impossible for us to grow our veggies. Right now we do live in apartment where there is no balcony or private back yard. So it is very hard for us to grow our veggies or fruits, but it did crossed my mind. In the future when we will have our house i will definitely do something about it. There is no better feelings when you cooking and need something so you can jump to your garden and take it from there. Like me and my grandmother used to cooperate. I just loved it, when she made veggie soup from fresh veggies. I think there is no other Pollan´s advice what would be impossible for us. We do live almost like his advises. So I´m very happy for that.

In the third paragraph I should mention what is impossible for me and why. I dont think so that there are some Pollan´s advice which wouldn't work for me. I love to eat healthy and I´m really working hard on to keep it this way. So in one word I totally agree with his advice and all people should walk with open eyes and read more and care more about on what they spending money. How many negatives it can bring in the future in their health. Everybody should think like this!!

Bottled water tastes better than tap water.

Bottled water tastes better than tap water. Really? It is a joke of the day. I cant agree with this article and I never will. I think the bottled water is a silent and slow killer. It doesn't taste after any chemicals until you keep already open bottled water in the car in the summer and then you can feel the real taste of plastic.As I did once, when I left my unfinished water in the car. I went with my friends out for a lunch so we spent couple hours talking.When I get back to the car I was so thirsty,was summer, I saw my opened bottle of water so with big excitement I took a deep shot. You should see my face, "it was so refreshing taste".All poisons did slowly contaminate the water inside the plastic bottle and I almost drank it.That day I learned, plastic bottled water are definitely worse for our health.  People play death and blind just to  ignore the truth.I think it is more easier to go and buy bottled water( which we don't know exactly how long is it siting in the plastic bottle) then to make your own water from home without BPA. It´s so easy, buy one BPA free bottle and do your own water at home at least you know what you drinking and believe me it will taste much better after you know what are in those plastic bottles.Stop preferring the plastic bottles of water like other people does because their brains are washed by commercial. They buy a water which in the real is also a tap water thus, to me, they only pay for the plastic bottle and for advertisement. In one month without the bottled water they could save money and their health as well. I hope everybody´s day will come to see the real facts about these poisoned water in the plastics.  With tap water I think we can run for a much longer distance in the life.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/30/want-to-be-more-creative-take-a-walk/?ref=health

Want to be more creative? Take a walk by Gretchen Raynolds say that if we feel that our mind can´t think anymore we should do exercise or take a walk. Also some studies showed that people and animals can covert better after exercise or walk.Some famous artiest or writers get the best ideas when they did some exercise or they took a walk. Dr. Oppezzo was curious if the walk really help people get better thinking and more creative.Thus she set up a group of student which took a walk and were tested after. These student did better then those who were only sitting.To make it more validate that walk really matters and no matter where it is inside or outside.She tested some students who were walking indoor and outdoor and the results were pretty same. It is the walk that is helping to be more creative.

Blog 8: Midterm Reflection

When I look back what I did write in a past few months I think I can be proud of my essay of Allegory of the Cave, blog 4. In this essay i showed my true feelings about the people who ignore the truth and wanna be ignored by the truth. I wrote good examples where is easy and clear for the readers to understand what are my points of this essay. Also I´m interested in this theme so that´s why it´s mine favorite one. It wasn't just me who liked the essay.When I gave it to my husband to read he was proud of me and surprised how good I´m doing.


What kind of class activities helped me? I think all these classes with Dr. X were so helpful. I had no idea how to write an American essay. I didn't know how to start and how to end.When I went on a placement exam I did ask some of my friends how to write an essay. Their explain was very short, maybe in five words?! Thus classes with our prof. X were just on the write place in the write time for me. I started from begging and I learned a lot. I´m very happy that we have such a cool professor who has the talent and right tools to explain and teach us on the easy way. I have learned how to summarize, how to quote and use examples which was my night mare. I had no clue what examples to use, but when you start thinking deep there is always something what connects to your life or to your knowledge from history. Thus I have learned a lot in this class and also it gave me a lot.


 I have to really focus on my vocabulary and grammar. My big mistake is that I don't read a lot so my vocabulary is kind of poor. I´m not sure if it´s enough time to fix it but i will try my best. I already finished the book The last Lecture by Randy Pausch and looking forward to start new book. Books are very helpful specially for me because I have photogenic memory, it´s easier to remember the words. So I will believe in my self that I can do it no matter what. Hope will succeed.

Does Knowledge Make You Happier?

Does knowledge make us happier? It´s very good question! I think it really depends who you are and from what angle you wanna see your future. At some point everybody know that knowledge is power to proceed and see what doors can it open, but there are humankind who ignores the sagacity and there are who love devour it.We have three kind of people.The first kind are happy on the level let´s say zero. Second kind are not satisfied on the level where they currently, but they balancing and deciding what to do. Last one are the people who know what they want and very soon they reaching the PEAK and not just one.

      In the short movie "Allegory of the Cave" Socrates points on the people who are in  the cave. Happy with the poor knowledge. The first kind of people are just exactly the mirror of the Allegory of the Cave. I think these people are too lazy and comfortable with the life what they live. They don't like trammel and trying to escape if any shows up. Definitely they are missing some points in their life for what they should move on. For example when i was eighteen and just graduated I didn't have the drive motor in me for what to continue the college and also the people who surrounded me, they never had the goal to start the college and get wiser. So I stayed in the cave for a while with them. Later I start feel that I´m loosing time for a nothing. The years just past and past and I felt on the same level if not lower then I was when I graduated. I wasn't happy at all anymore. I couldn't find myself. So I decide to do something about it. I start study. It wasn't easy after all these years to start again but I feel that I can brief finally. The new knowledge makes me more happy in my life and it makes me feel the I´m moving forward. These feelings I can liken to the prisoner´s feelings in The Allegory of the Cave, when he got free and start know the real life outside of the cave.

     As I mentioned these tree kinds on humankind let´s talk about the second kind. These people are so undecided. They would love to move from the level 1 to level 2 but they cant find the real reasons why to do it. What I think, they need somebody to lead them to the goal. For instance one of my friend went on the college, but not because he wanted, he went because of his mother. She was always leading him what to do. He start the college in the Prague which was far away from his home. Let me tell you that this college was five years college, three years Bachelor and two years Engineer. It took him finish the school eight years. He never was sure if he really want to finish it. His mother wasn't around him anymore and he get lost. When he was done, I talked to him if he is happy now that he went trough this painful way for such a long time he said : its nothing bad to stay a student for a long time,but it definitely worth it to finish the school!

      The third kind of people are those who nobody can stop. They are curious and hungry after knowledge. For them the knowledge it´s  easy walk. They know that knowledge will open them the new doors in the life.Like in the Matrix when Leo had choice to take red or blue pill. He had that opportunity and he went for it without thinking. Really nice example is my cousin. She start he college, now she is finishing last year. She already start another college. I´m so proud at her. She seems to me never satisfied with her level and hungry  after more and more knowledge. She knows that more knowledge will open more doors for her and gives her more opportunity in the future.

    In conclusion I think the knowledge is very important not just to get better paid job or to tell friends ohh I had finish college. The knowledge it´s about us how our mental life can grow and bloom and to be proud of our self. It is painful journey but it definitely worth it.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/18/travel/european-ritual.html?hpw&rref=travel

In the article WALKING THE BRIDGES author Lauren Frayer is describing the capital city of Hungary. He is explaining how are the two parts of Budapest connected with bridges of different  names.Also this bridges are very easy to walk without entering the city and in the same time you can enjoy the beauty of the river called Danube.All this bridges have different names like Elizabeth bridge,Chain Bridge, Margaret bridge or the famous Liberty bridge. Sadly this bridges were bombed by Nazis in 1945. I do agree with author that Budapest is one of the most amazing city in eastern Europe. It has such fascinating charm.


As an author mentioned in his article in 1945 World War II. the Nazis blew all this bridges. Shortly all of them after war were rebuild in the original form except Elizabeth bridge which was ruined too heavily. Let me tell you something about this bridge and my memories of it. In 2005 when i used to live in Budapest I do remember in the summer me and my friend used to have the night walk trough the city and of course we couldn't left out the Elizabeth bridge. I know for sure that this bridge was my first which i past by walk and the view in the middle of the bridge was amazing. On the one side you can see the part of Buda and on the other side you can see the part of Pest. Its so interesting that this one bridge connect the city of Buda and Pest. So in one word it´s Budapest. if you will plane the trip to Budapest you have to walk trough this bridge for sure.

According to this article let´s say something about the oldest bridge in the Budapest - Chain bridge. This bridge      


  

                                                            
                                                             

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

It is great to see my classmates different point of views. Mostly they share similarities to the topics given, but with their own unique perspective, which makes it more interesting.Since I may check out what my classmates been working on it gives me chance to get different ideas,it also help me to get my work done.I learned that this blogging is good information wise.

blog:4 Socrate´s message in " The allegory in the cave"

           In Plato´s "The allegory in the cave" Socrates tell a story to the student how unenlightened and unexamined life we live. Its a life in the cave, where everything is simple,comfortable and without the question marks ( what if? ). It´s kind of closed life where everybody is doing the same,knowing the same and acting same, in one word, non upgrading life. Pleople staying on the same level of the knowledge and never being able to grow more as they are. Sadly, that we are happy in our closed dark cave and we are not even trying to bloom. We are satisfied and we are more then sure this is right for us.Most of the time these illusions are created by those who benefit from keeping us blind and ignorant, these are society and culture.



 As an Socrates trying to tell to his student ones you try the air outside the cave and will be able to see the beauty of the outside world you became different. This journey could be painful and thorny way how to became more happy and more wise by every day. But there is  no way back to the cave anymore. Why? Those who dare step outside of the cave and start the thorny way become more wise and experienced. It simple wouldn't be enough to continue life as before. They become more hungry to know more and more, which is giving them rewarding feelings. Also they would be very different from the people in the cave. They would never understand what happened, why they behave strange and why they became aliens.This people with knowledge are dangerous. Also there is a another human trait like jealousy. Ones you become smarter then the other it´s a problem. There is an example when I started a college back home few of my friends start dissuade me to begin the school. In my country even if you finish the college you don´t get a good paid job if  you get any.So they were thinking for what you need the school?? I said I need to get more knowledge because I feel that I stopped on one level and cant move forward. In this moment I saw the jealousy in their face.They realize that I´m not doing it for a money but only for myself, to grow, to bloom. This girls stays on the same level like I left and it was a few years ago.Their advise to me was find a man and make a family.Until today they think that man has to make money in the family and woman has to raise kids. So from my perspective, women can´t get any knowledge and get independent because of the old traditions??!! I wanna say that what Socrates was trying to tell  is a 100 percent true. I do see my self in this story.


In addition when Socrates was trying to explain by who are made this closed caves full of blind people, these are those people who have a benefits from our ignorance and blindness.This are the society and culture.Is no need for a change here. For the society is comfortable when we stay death and blind. There is no need to get wiser and bolder. Just stay the way we are.In considerably is only one think important for them, move the economy and work hard as an horse. As soon we get some deep knowledge and can see the thinks trough we became dangerous. In the example in 1960, when Martin Luther King (by the way, he was an doctor of philosophy) was trying defend the civil rights for the black people.He was fighting hard for their rights that´s why he became their leader. Here we can see the dissatisfaction of white people,who don´t want the black people became equitable with white people.Let say they want them in the dark cave. Which means no knowledge, no rights for the black people. White people start upheaval. For them it was an end of comfortable life where the black people have no rights they were working as an slaves for them. In the April 1968 was Martin Luther King shoot  on the balcony by a white shooter. In this example we can clearly see what can happen when we get wiser,smarter and trying to to some changes in this life,not everybody can accept this.


In conclusion I do agree with Socrates, I think everybody should step out of the fence and do your best in your life. The knowledge just make us more develop and wise. It´s for our good.This way we can only grow and germinate.

Hype.

Today´s  advertisements  are covering most of the world, they are very toxic and poisonic for the people. Since when  we start our day in the morning, they are ready to influence us. It´s enough just step out from the home and we can see them already on the buildings or on the bus, taxis. Ads are trying to affect us on every corner in every minute and disrupting are thoughts. Their main point is allure and grab us into their cobweb. The companies are spending huge amount of money to make most impressive ads. Approximated numbers of ads, for each day, is 12 billion, 3 million radio commercials and more 200,000 TV commercials only in North America. Just a fast question : how much money they must spend per day??!!

Let´s explain how these ads are working. There are some products which have a really impressive commercial, it´s alluring people to buy them, just because of good commercial. But in real, this product is overpriced. Why? Somebody need to pay for the ads. Thus we can say all these ads are misleading people about how high quality this product is. Most people think if the product is expensive then it must be good. People are hazy and brainwashed just because of the ads which is very effective on most population.  Even if we don't want to buy anything and don't need it, ads are effective, they make us to buy. We losing time, we losing money. I must say this big companies never give up. They are improving their technics very fast. Just an example, company called VIDEOCARTE installing screens on supermarkets carts. It´s the most dominant micromarketing medium today.

Also ads have very negative effects on a society and children. Moreover commercials have very dreadful effects on children, they are easy to  manipulate. They are naive and more open to believe. Every day they are affected with ads as we are, but for them is more dangerous and have more fatal consequences. I know just by myself, when I was child, the commercials had very strong effect on me. I was begging my parents to buy me a doll what I saw in the TV. And it start with watching an innocent cartoon, but it was interrupt by commercial. Also last Year I remember, I was on the beach, when I was watching the sky and relaxing, it didn't take a long and my relax was interrupt by the plane which has behind a big commercial. Today we more watching commercials then some movies. In a funny way I can say : " I´m watching peacefully commercials and BOMM,a movie interrupt my commercial again". It´s too much for us and it´s getting more massive and more annoying.How Kalle Lasn said : there is nowhere to run.

In conclusion I want to say that I´m absolutely agree with Kalle Lasn. Its really hard to get relax in the city where you are not interrupt by any ads. Moreover it´s no way how to stop this. Hopefully in the future, we will see more positive commercials which will propagate a good thoughts like instead of this drink, drink water, less sugar. This commercial would help to society and better healthier world.




       

blog3 : I KNOW THE TRUTH SO DON´T BOTHER ME WITH FACTS

            Author Jeffrey Kluger, in "I Know the Truth so Don't Bother Me with Facts", has a deep meaning which clearly  [wordy and grammatically awkward] describes the humans weakness when it comes to the truth and lies. People are simply entertained by rumors,as the author is trying to tell us. How easily  people are manipulated by  different opinions that they hear or read.[this statement should be phrased as a question] The Ohio State  University  carried out a study on how people do not challenge  the false belief and how long it takes to believe in them. The professor R. Kelly Garrett and his assistant recruited 750 people where they present them [who believed] rumors about the Islamic Culture. Most of this people fell for these rumors in a heart beat. Even if they were faced to the facts, they were even less open to them.Why is it like this? I think people are closed minded and ignorant to the truth because fear of truth,ego or just simple laziness play a big role.

            As an author Jeffrey Kluger already mentioned, in his article, this human weakness for rumors was presented on the planed mosque at the Grand Zero which never happened .It was just a big RUMOR which somebody let it out from their mouth. I can´t believe that these bad rumors spread like speed of light to people!! For humans it´s much easier to fall for these stupid rumors and spreading them among others, instead looking for the facts or the real truth. It´s human´s trait called laziness and comfort. [why start with the last reason? you are not following your own organization] Why should they worry, right? Until the rumor doesn't hit them, they don't see the need to make an effort to realize the truth from the lie. People can realize, only, how dangerous rumors could be when it comes one day to their life and can ruined everything they build.  For an example,  author J. Kluger describes in his article how Islamic culture was effected in the negative way by made up rumors after September 11th. Every Arabic or Islamic culture since this day became a big struggle in their life .Every day in every way was a big fight to survive. They lost jobs and for a long time it was a big problem to find any, nobody wanted to hire them. If they had businesses  people burned them out and ruined them. The air was filled of hatred and judgments.The whole world started to look down on them. I think people shouldn't judge the whole culture by the few individuals. They should face to the facts and start think different way.

             In additional the J. Kluger´s article, there were done some studies, that even if the people were faced to the truth or facts they stubbornly stayed with  their beliefs. Few people had just fear of truth or their Ego doesn't let them break down the wall. Many times people seems to me like they are afraid of the facts or even if they know they are wrong they scared what the others will say if they would take the truth. They scared to stand out from crowd. Also sometimes to face the truth hearts, people don't like it, so in this case is better to believe in false. It´s comfortable and without pain. It is very interesting how rumors get us in different states of mind. [only arguments here; no examples]

          In conclusion I do agree with J. Kluger, people are just so weak and indifferent. They are easy to manipulate but then it´s more difficult to turn them on the right way how to think correctly.People should care more how to discern the false information and what is truth. I think that if  they would devote more time to look for the truth then they would have different angle view of the world or cultures.