Rotunda Project (blog 10 or 11 ????????)

For my rotunda project I worked with Christi Raia. We did gender rolls. When Christi was like "lets do gender rolls i was like what even is that? (which is probably the question youre asking yourself). But gender rolls are a set of social and behavioral norms, that basically say what is/ isn't appropriate for certain genders in different cultures to say and do. Basically its stereotypes. We collected info from the websites below and put it all together. I think it was cool to see all the different topics, it was like blog posts but in real life

https://www.boundless.com/psychology/textbooks/boundless-psychology-textbook/gender-and-sexuality-15/introduction-to-gender-and-sexuality-75/gender-roles-and-differences-296-12831/

1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/gender-roles/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_role
3. http://www.cliffsnotes.com/sciences/sociology/sex-and-gender/gender-roles

Rotunda Project response

    Reading and looking at mostly all of the projects a lot perked my interest but the project explaining school lunches really got me interested. I have always questioned school lunches, there are posters that show a plate broken into the quantity of the food groups you're supposed to eat but we don't get some of those options.

    I understand that getting quality food is expensive but maybe we use the food in different ways. The chicken doesn't even look like chicken and the chicken that somewhat looks like chicken tastes worse than the "chicken" that doesn't look like chicken. We don't get offered fruits and vegetables everyday, what grains and protein do we get? The only thing we get is the dairy, and  I am lactose intolerant so I can't even drink that milk. 

    I bring lunch to school and it is great. I don't have to spend $1 on a snack or a water. I can actually eat a sandwich instead of "chicken", I bring fruit everyday and sometimes vegetables but I have a vegetable everyday at dinner so i am not missing out and I bring almonds, or a yogurt with granola.

    I hope I am not the only one who thinks about this....

Rotunda Project Response

I really enjoyed the project of media consolidation.  Demonstrating the change in network ownership and who really owns the channels was pretty unsettling.  In a market where only 5 or 6 massive corporations own tens to hundreds of channels, there is no other viewpoints besides those of the owners.  It also gets way too commercially driven, but the interest of their sponsors before that of the public.  When all of the T.V providers offer hundreds of channels, for all we know we could only be getting a couple hundred.  If one company owns 1/5 of those channels, we only receive what the company wants us to, so the themes and shows may be very identical.  Consolidation of media is an issue all must be aware about, and I feel like most don't take the issue as seriously as it should be taken.  Thank you to whoever did this to spread awareness of the issue

What triggers Conspiracies to Arise?

That is something that always caught my attention.  Sometimes the theories are arguable, such as the J.F.K magic bullet theory. While some are just plain stupid and very oddly specific, like how some believe that no planes were used in 9-11.  To the oddly specific, how lizard people rule the world and are in disguise.  Why lizard people?  Why not ducks or ants or birds?  So now, instead of me writing a page on speclation on what we discussed in class and what Professor Harris has said, here is an interesting article I found on why conspiracies exist and how they arise.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-people-believe-in-conspiracy-theories/

Personally, i think the theories arise from a lack of believe, something that we don't want to happen has happened.  The death of J.F.K was so tragic, people did not want to except the fact that he is dead and tried to find other explanations.  But with the lizard people, i have still have no idea

#9 Pixar Theory

     So Sam Quinn Showed me this video that explains the Pixar Theory. This theory explains that all pixar movies from the movie Toy Story to the movie Brave are all connected. Some characters are in other movies but we never find out their names. Like the witch in Brave is really Boo from Monsters Inc. like what?! I am a huge Disney fan because well I grew up with it and i just love those kinds of movies! But hearing how all these different movies are related is crazy. There is apparently a Human, Animal, and Machine struggle where they try to invade each others way of life. It explains it better than i can in the video. I highly recommended you watch it!





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SQcrVoAsVQ

Link to the Video

Rotunda Project: Walking into Adulthood Blinded #10

      I analyzed Anthony DeFeo's project on healthcare and Gabby Calise's group project on addicting junk food, both to be found very interesting. but I'm going to talk about Anthony's project.
      Even though I was in Anthony's video it's weird to see that other people don't know the same stuff I don't know. I find it kind of ridiculous that the school doesn't provide a class that is mandatory in order to learn about the future. Things like insurance healthcare taxes mortgages, people our age know nothing about and are going blind into to as we become adults.
        I learned so much from just an interview with Anthony. Like I didn't know that when you turn 26 that you are dropped from your parent's healthcare plan. LIKE WHAT! What if that age was 18? Then in a year I would be without healthcare and have no idea what to do and what to consider. Anthony also mentioned a Healthcare Marketplace, where you can go and speak to other healthcare providers.
         The point of his project was to show how little adolescence know about healthcare and probably about a lot of other things that we don't think or hear about. I think it was a very well put together project and has a very clear point that happens to be true.

Project Review: Misconception of food

The McDonalds Sugar Misconception Project was totally up my alley. As of lately I have been paying some serious attention to the foods that I consume simply because i want to be in the best shape possible, so I thought that is why this project peeked my interest. Seeing studies that revealed McDonald's Big Mack had less sugar in it than their SouthWest Chicken Salad wasn't all that surprising. In no way am i saying a Big Mac is healthy, but you would automatically think that a salad is the smarter choice right from the start. In truth the amount of dressing, cheese, croutons, ext., compromises the "healthiness" of the salad itself. On the poster board there was a comment about how it is such a common misconception that people hear the word salad and they automatically think that its healthy and i can totally agree with that statement. A salad is as healthy as you make it. I did some research on the matter for myself and discovered that a Chicken Bacon Ranch Salad from Mcdonald's with grilled chicken and absolutely no dressing is around 230 calories. On the same website it showed the amount of physical fitness that you would have to participate in in order to burn the salad off and a variety of activities were given; 60 minutes of walking, 26 minutes of jogging, 31 minutes of cycling or 19 minutes of cycling. Now keep in mind that is still without the dressing, croutons, and all the extra goodies that make salads taste good. Although the calories may look like a decent number, you must also take into consideration that there is 700 mg of sugar in the salad as well. Now for McDonald's Premium Southwest Salad with grilled chicken. There are about 110 more calories in this particular salad and about 200 mg more sodium as well. So in total that comes to 340 calories and 910 mg of sodium. Now given the fact that most people don't eat their salads without dressing, these estimated numbers truly mean nothing. As i said before all the extra additions to the salad jack up the calories big time. Just by adding ranch dressing to the Southwest Salad with grilled chicken makes the calorie count shoot up to 530 calories and the sodium to 1440 mg! The calorie count is the exact amount of McDonald's Big Mac, and the sodium level exceeds the Big Mac's by approximately 200+ mg! If you are serious about turning around your diet, you should cut out all fast food as a whole. Perseverance is what separates the strong from the weak and when you are on a diet  self discipline is whats going to get you to where you want to be.