Chapter 20 Response

I think it is great the cigarette companies put warning labels on their packages, because you can only blame yourself if something happens to you. I think anything that can be harmful to someone should have a warning label, so that people know exactly what they are putting in their bodies and the consequences that follow. Now, I have thought a lot about which law I would like to pass, and I know many people will not agree, but I find it quite necessary. The law that I think should be passed is the drinking age. I honestly think that we should lower the age to 18. Everyone tells us that we need to be adults, think on our own, get jobs and pay bills, but yet tells us that we are not responsible enough. We as adults are not responsible enough to make the right decision when we are faced with alcohol, but yet we are aloud to smoke cigarettes. How can you tell us to grow up when you don’t trust us enough? This forces kids to be stupid and hide it from their parents. Having the legal drinking age at 21 just pushes teenagers into binge drinking in dangerous environments. Everyone says that as an 18 year old we do not know how to tolerate the alcohol. Well, tolerating alcohol doesn’t come with age; it comes with experience. You can’t tell us that we are not old enough to tolerate our alcohol when adults over the age of 21 still can’t hold down most of their drinks. Other countries that have the drinking age lowered to 18 have fewer alcohol related deaths than anywhere else in the world. No matter what the legal drinking age is, there will always be problems with alcohol. I just find it very amusing that as an 18 year old, they are capable of making every other decision as an adult, but yet they are not allowed to decide whether or not they can drink.

Social Media

I have a Facebook and Twitter account. I love Facebook because it keeps me in contact with relatives from other states, and friends that have moved away. Just like what the author said, I am also very careful what I put on the Internet, because I know that anyone can see it. My parents have taught me from a young age that my future employers can see any pictures I post and any rude remarks I make. I don’t have many close friends, but I have over 500 hundred friends on Facebook. Many of those people just want to be my friend so they can judge what I post, or go run to their friends and talk about what I did. You see it all the time on the Internet, people gossiping about the latest drama that happened on Facebook or Twitter. It makes it very hard to have any privacy when everyone knows all your secrets. I also think that Facebook has made it extremely hard for relationships and friendships to be true. To have a certain bond with someone you need to be able to have a normal conversation with him or her in person. It is so hard for people to talk with someone nowadays, because we are not used to the face-to-face interaction. There is always a computer or a phone in-between him or her making things easier, so how do we know when someone is telling the truth? Everything that I have said does not mean that I hate Facebook or Twitter, because I actually do enjoy both of them. It just means that I understand that I need to be careful what I post, because you never know who can see your profile. Do I think social media is good? No, not necessarily, but it is the easiest way for people to stay in contact.

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

I thought this was a perfect examination between men and women. The writer used transition words in a lot of his paragraphs. First explaining how women react to something, and then how men react to the same situation, and vise versa. For example. in paragraph 13 through 16 he talks about what men value and how they understand things, and in paragraph 16 he explains what women value. He did a very good job on using different transition words, so I understood exactly who we were talking about and what problems were being stated. I think it was a great idea that Gray did a subject-by-subject comparison, because it was easier for me to compare the differences between the two subjects. If he did a point-by-point comparison then I would constantly have to keep looking back to see if there was actually a difference between the subjects.

I think I would add a better conclusion, because I honestly thought there was going to be more to the essay and then all of a sudden it was over. It just ended talking about only women. I think that the conclusion should be explaining the overall difference between men and women. If they would have combined the last two paragraphs together I think that the essay would have benefited. I thought the essay was very well written, and I enjoyed reading the entire thing. I thought everything he said made a lot of sense to how women and men think about and respond to different situations. It would be so much easier if both women and men could understand how we both think about things. There would never be any problems in the world!

Trading Places

If I could trade places with anyone then it would have to be my older sister. She is so driven in life, and she knows exactly what she wants. She has been attending the University of Oregon for three years, and is heading into her last year. She has been taking summer classes since her freshman year, so she could graduate on time. She plans on following her dream by getting into medical school. My entire life I have always hated how great she was at school and how it was not fair that my parents expected the same out of me. As I got older I realized that nothing came easy to her, but she worked hard to get where she is. She has pushed me to my limits in school and in life. Never in my life would I have thought I would be saying how I wanted to be just like her. My entire life I have wanted to be the complete opposite, and now in college I find myself sounding more and more like her every day. My sister is one of the happiest people I know, and she always says “why argue with someone over something stupid, when you could have been spending that time happy.” Sometimes I think it comes to easy for her. I find myself very lucky to have grown up with someone so inspiring. She never judges anyone and is always willing to help. There are so many qualities about her that I wish I had, but we are both unique in our own ways. I just happened to get some of the unlucky genes in life. She is honestly the one person that I would ever want to trade places with. I could not imagine growing up in life, and not having someone like her to look up to.

Learning experience from my Essay

I have been researching about the Paleolithic diet for over a year, and so I always love learning new things about the diet. What I learned in my essay was how terrible my diet has been my entire life. I am definitely not the ten percent who ate my five servings of fruits and vegetables, and I am shocked that barely anyone does. I wasn't surprised when I read about how the population eats less food now compared to our ancestors, but we have more problems with diabetes, obesity, and heart diseases. I don't think I was surprised, because we eat way worse food now then we ever have. I grew up in a house with overweight parents and junk food all over. It was really hard for me to change my eating habits, and I had to take it day by day. I binged on foods, and some days I honestly wanted to go crazy. It was hard, but it was not impossible. I have added some foods to the diet but only in moderation. I always love researching about this topic, and there will always be new information. This essay was fun for me, and I enjoyed sharing it to the people that had a chance to read about it.

Library Source

PONDERING PALEO: Channeling your inner caveperson. By: Schardt, David, Nutrition Action Health Letter, 08857792, Apr2013, Vol. 40, Issue 3
Health Source - Consumer Edition
I enjoyed the library resources because it gave me a lot of different credible sources compared to Google, which gave me opinions people had. I think I have a way broader variety in the libraries database then I do on the internet. I would rather choose to use the library on some occasions, because I can choose from many, but it does take me longer to find the information I need. If I had to have it right away then I would just use Google. I think the library database would be a better tool for schoolwork and essays than anything else.

Two Sources

First Source:
I have been doing a lot of reading and research about the Paleolithic diet, or people may know it as the caveman diet. This was the food that our ancestors 2.5 million years ago were eating. They had been doing this until about 10,000 years ago when we were introduced to agriculture and grain-based diets. The paleolithic diet is made up of mainly fish, lean meats, eggs, vegetables, fruits, and nuts. The diet has shown improved health outcomes and a lot more energy in daily activities. There has been a lot of reports saying that this is the one diet that people do not choose because they never see an outcome. Well, i'm sure that is true because we have no idea how to eat just these foods when we have processed foods, breads, and fast food all around us. In the past 10,000 years, our bodies had to adapt to all the new foods that were never in our diet before. That is such a short period of time for our bodies to evolve, and that is why we have such a problem now with weight and health issues.
I found this source using google, and just typing in "paleo diet." I chose Wiki as my first choice, because it has a lot of background information about the diet, and also has opposing views, which I believe is always necessary to look at. 
Title: Paleolithic Diet
Paleolithic Diet

Second Source:
I have read in this article that the paleolithic diet is what suits us best. It has the proper balance of nutrients to promote health and reduce the incidence of chronic diseases. This diet is very healthy, and does not involve us eating any grains or dairy, because our bodies have still not been able to adjust to those foods. Most people who do the paleo diet are gluten free and eat lean meats, because it is hard to mimic the exact diet since we do not have wild game available daily. This diet is not chosen by many people, because there is no artificial sweeteners. You can sometimes have raw honey or coconut palm sugar but only in moderation. While doing the paleo diet it is also recommended to get good exercise since our ancestors had to hunt and travel for the foods all the time. There is also cheats that come with the diet. You don't have to be extremely strict with foods, some people add peanut butter every once in a while. I think this is a credible source, because the information is coming from WebMD from experts, and I also found this by typing "paleo diet" into google.
Title: The Caveman (Paleo) Diet
Last Edited in 2008
Author: Kathleen Zelman, MPH, RD
Paleolithic Diet