Food Ink

Food Ink is a documentary movie that talks about food today and where it comes from. When I first saw this movie, I hated myself for not considering what I eat. I used to believe that every food I eat is grown and is natural, but this movie proved me wrong because companies have changed the processes from which our food comes from. Our food chain has changed from natural, healthy to industry. Farmers who want to protect us from eating harmful food are constantly criticized. They are kept on the thumb by companies, forced to raise their crops faster than the crops’ natural cycle of growth. They are enslaved by companies because companies want to feed the world, but they don’t care what they feed the world; they just want money. I believe the outside air is cleaner than the inside air, but companies instead say “outside air is not good for food”, which is not true, so they treat all our food away from nature and the atmosphere. Corn became cheap and because of that, it is fed to animals. Companies benefit from this because corn makes cows, chickens, and pigs fat and it also makes them grow faster. They like that because they want to keep producing meat. There are no seasons in the super market. Most foods are genetically modified, so that they may be in stores early. Unhealthy food is cheap and tastes better, so people buy it because they just don’t have enough money to buy healthy food. I recommend everyone to watch food ink because it reveals secrets companies will never reveal to us the consumers. For example: the fact that farmers suffer greatly because we take all their food and they get little money from it. As a result, they cannot buy materials to grow more food and they also cannot feed themselves. The movie calls us to think about what we eat and where it comes from.

Sciences

Science is the subject and the field of study that most people do not normally choose because they think that it is hard. When one mentions looking into the science fields for studies, they are thought of as extremely smart people. I do not know if it’s true or not, but I happen to believe that sciences are harder than other subjects and fields.  Although they may be hard, people who choose to pursue them have passions for them. That passion is love. They love them and want to benefit from them; therefore they keep their hope and passion positive in order to not give up. The science subjects I am talking about include: Biology, Physics, Chemistry and many more subjects that apply. Scientists are thought of as nerds by people who cannot wrap their brains around the idea of studying science, but they are seen as geniuses by people who somewhat have a passion for science. I used to think that anyone who learns and works with science is absolutely smart, although I have come to a conclusion based on my knowledge and experiences that anyone can study and learn sciences if they have a passion for it. Science professions also have a factor of attraction to people because they are great jobs from which one earns a lot of money. For example doctors are in school for a long time, but they make a lot of money and that brings more people to that profession. In other words, love for sciences should be stronger than that of money in order for the exchange between the two to be fair. You can achieve anything you want as long as you trust and strongly believe that you can. Believe that you can and strive for it because that’s what scientists do.

Work

Work in the normal world is not the same as work in the physics world. In the normal world, work is doing anything as long as it is productive to you or to others, however in the physics world, work cannot be anything that did not move. It also includes math, i mean calculation to find out the amount of work you have done while in the normal world you need not number, you know your own work. When people think of work, they think oh that’s hard, but there is hard work and simple work and it’s up to a person to decide the kind of work they do. In our world, hard work is never the best choice to take, but it is on the other side the most credited type of work. Simple work is considered to be for lazy people because of the word simple although it might not be simple sometimes.  I do not know if there is simple work and hard work in physics but I would suspect that it is all hard work because it takes time no matter what it is and it also requires your brain to get involved in the process of work that you may be accomplishing. Work in the science world also needs mass, but the work in today’s world does not need mass. Working is a huge responsibility in our lives and is necessary for one’s survival, but in physics, it is not necessary for an object or body to survive. In order not to confuse one self, it is best to know that work in this world and the physics world is different.

We are learning about work and energy and it is an exciting chapter.  I hope that it will not be complicated in the end.

Last Week in the Quater

The end of quarter week is not preferred by many students because of the unpleasant gifts that come with it. These include: tests in every class, checking power school to make sure you have all of your work turned in and correctly recorded by the teacher, and making sure you do all your make ups or missing assignments. I don’t know what teachers think about this week but I would suspect that it is a bit of a hustle for them too because they have about four days to grade and enter all the tests and assignments that were recently turned in. This week would not be as bad if teachers didn’t all give tests on the same day. When I add all the tests that I have on that, it is a total of seven tests, which follow each other back to back. This does not do well for my brain; it destroys and weakens it because it is just too much information to process every fifty minutes. And that’s the reason as to why I don’t like the end of quarter week. Another reason is also that it causes stress, sleepless nights and confusion. My suggestion to solving the negative that come with this week is that we do less in classes in preparation for the tests and that teachers should  give their tests on different days to allow students time to process the material for every single class. Taking seven different tests in one day leads students to failing most of them because their brains get tired after a short time. These tests are supposed to help the student’s grades, but in the case of failing them; they kill or decrease their grades. In order to make these tests more effective, they should be given earlier and should not contain new material for example material covered during that week.