Final Blog Entery: My Project

I went to farming market on monday. I have been in here for 3 years and it was my first time to visit there.  When I got there first time, there were many people and they were trying to buy things. I was surprised that all these people were here to see and buy some foods in here, not other stores around their home.There were a lot of different kind of things such as fruit, grocery, bread, and meats and these were so fresh. They put some signs like all of these are organic. The prices of foods was more expensive than other places. I usually don't buy the expensive foods and I like the cheap foods that I could get around my home. However, I could understand these people who were trying to buy things in there because these would be good for their health and have more benefits on them.

 I bought a cabage and I cooked a fried dish called " cabage buchimgae". This is a famous korean food. It was so good and easy to cook. There are few steps to make this. First, wash the cabage and take out few leafs. Next, mix egg, flour, and two cups of water to make puff paste. Last, put oil on the fry pan and fry the cabage with the puff paste for few minutes.

Through this project, I learned that how foods change when these come to our table and the difference of the original foods and the store foods. I also realized that organic foods are good for our body and it is worth to buy these foods even if these are more expensive than others.

Blog entry 21

As going back through your blog entries for the semester, I think that "the meatrix", "allegory of the cave", and " Truman show". These 3 works are all related to the enlightenment about the true. Before I do these assignments, I couldn't realize that there is always true behind the reality I believe as the true. So I'm interested in these essays and I think that these are the 3 best works for me in this semester. 

In this class, writing online was a little different form other writing experience I have had in the past because I didn't use online for writing that much and I have never used the blog for writing before. Writing blog entry helps me a lot. The blog entrys have many theme and it affects my idea and helps me to write creatively. I think that online work was a shared experience. Everytime I write the essay, i can see others and also comments on their essays so it was a shared work. I often read other's essay and  I often get the impreesion form the other member of the class. It helps me to try some new expression.

I take new lessons that how to summury and how to organize the essay form this class. I would have liked to discuss about how the factory farming is processing. When I write about factory farming on the bloig entry, I really wanted to know how does it processing in detail and I was shocked about the true of the meat we eat. I feel like I leave this class with a basic understanding of writing strategies because I know how to organize the essay and what things should be in each paragraph. The most memorable moment in the class was when I was watching the matrix. I knew that movie before the class but I didn't know what this movie wants to tell us and what is about exactly. So as I watch this movie again in the class, i could understand deeply about the movie than before. I would give some recommendations that not cutting the class and try to understand the theme of the class to a student who plans to take this class next semester.

Blog entry 20

As johusan lin explains in her blog entry 18, I strongly agree with her point that the technology will have many benefits for our world. In "sleep dealer". many people work in any place through the node which makes people to connect their body to the machine. They work in California even if their bodies are in Mexico and they get paid well enough that they can afford to pay for their family. It helps to create more jobs and makes our life more convenient. Even though it has some dangers, if people use the technology properly, it has more benefits for our world.

Blog entry 19

People exploit the planet's resources to make stuff  but the reality is that  people who live in the country with the resources do not have value because they don't own the resource. The country with resources is usually   an underdeveloped contry and many companies from  advanced contry gets benefits from it. The companies can get it in much cheaper price than they get in their country. People who live in the country with resources just work for the companies and get paid a little. they can't even afford to buy stuff from their resources. For example, in africa, there are many natural resources like wood and mine. However ,these places do not belong to the people who live there but to the companies from developed country. The more companies make stuff using these resources to make money, the more people who live in this area become poor. I strongly believe that this is wrong and it should be stopped.  

Blog entry 17 reflection

According to this semester, I think that the content of food unit has a close connection with the previous text which are the allegory of the cave, the truman show, the matrix. The common theme of these texts are all about knowing the truth beyond the fake. In the truman show, the truman lives in the fake world that is created by a director and he finds the truth at last by getting over fear of water. In the allegory of the cave, a prisoners who has been in the cave for almost his life escapes from the cave. He sees the real world which is the truth and realizes that all things he sees in the cave was not everything in the world. In matrix, neo face the situation that he needs to choose one of the red pill and blue pill. He picks the red pill to know the truth whether the truth is bad or good.

The maker of meatrix makes the film based on "matrix". The world is now industry society. people make things so fast and they want to make more money so that they don't really care about how the process is. the truth is covered by money like the matrix covers the real world to control the people. The maker wants us to know the truth about how the meats we eat are made and where the meats from like the neo finds the truth in the matrix. As I look back over my works for the food unit, I think that the theme of this class is the truth and enlightenment and I realize that I'm also one of the people who are afraid of knowing the truth.

I think I have done well on my essay structure through the practice CAT test but I need more practice about managing the time. The one big challenge that I face in this class is using variable words in the essay. I think that I need to do more freerice whenever I have time so that I can use more new words on my essay. I also need to develop my thesis and claim on practice CAT test. I hope I do more practice so I pass the CAT test.

Blog entry 18

I choose this photo as the theme of the movie. In the movie " sleep dealer " there are many Mexicans who works for the united states. They connect their body to the machine using the hole in their body called "node" in California to work there. these people get paid a little and they have a lot of risk that they can die or lose part of their body. I think that this photo speaks about the film that the outsourcing of labor has some problem. The reality is that the outsourced labor get paid much less than others and the work environment is horrible which is very dangerous like the place in the film. many people lose their fingers and they get paid like few dollars a month even if they do much works than others who are not outsourced labor. I feel that they are not labors but slaves. I believe that they should be treated as well as they do.

source:http://frickej.blogspot.com/2010/02/outsourcing-and-job-market.html

Blog entry 16

There are many fast food restaurants these days. People like to eat fast food because of time and its convenience. In the article, author talks about the reality that people like to eat fast food and how the fast food restaurants get into the public favor. The author also explains that what kind of nutrition problem it has. The problem is that eating fast food is not good for health. I strongly believe that people should stop eating fast food every day. There are 3 reasons that I believe are because nutrition, chemicals, and uncleanness.

First of all, the fast food doesn't have enough nutrition for people. Basically, human needs 3 nutrition which are protein, fat, and carbohydrate to live. Fast food has enough calories or more than recommended calories. However, it just has a lot of fat and carbohydrate but it doesn’t really have protein which is very important nutrition to live for human. If people eat these foods every meal and every day, they will die. Therefore, I think that people should not eat fast food every day.

Second, the fast food has a lot of chemicals. When they make the food in the restaurant, they usually put some chemicals on food to taste better and to keep for long time. However, in the fast food restaurant like McDonald, they put too much chemicals on hamburger when they make it. As a result of putting too much chemicals, the hamburger is never spoiled even after few months. I can't even imagine how it works in my body if I eat. So I think that fast food is never good for people's health.

At last, the fast food is dirty. Customers of course think that the fast foods they eat are clean and these are made in good environment. However, the reality is that the food is nasty and it is made in dirty place. For example, I used to work in McDonald and I was shocked when I saw the environment to make hamburgers first time. It was nastier than I expected and most workers don't even wash their hands and the stuffs for making hamburger are not clean. There are also some people who died because of eating hamburger which has a lot of bacteria. I think that having fast-food is not a good idea

In conclusion, I emphasize that having fast-food is a horrible idea. I hope people to be aware that fast food has a lot of problems and to be careful about it.