hw 36 comments

Juan said...

Hw 36 was very fascinating to read. This piece had alot of depth into it. I could tell that you put in the time to get the infromation you did. The line that most stood out to me was where you said, "The topic i would further like to investigate would be, How does teen pregnancy affect the parents? However i am also interested at, how much teen pregnancy has increased by over these past few years and what the majority of teen guys go through during this process." This stood out to me because it showed that you are taking this unit seriously and coming up with question that you want to know for this unit. Overall it was a good piece.
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Kane said...

The Post above is very very interesting. I cant believe that your having a unit about birth. This was very informative because i learned new things about what people tend to experience during birth.The line where you said, "He told me that it is very stressful. He has to deal with her mood swings and he says that it is the the worse thing he has ever gone through was very insightful. I am only 13 and i know that teens do have babies. I am not ready for a child so i can't even imagine how stressful it must be for the 17 year olds.

HW 36- Pregnancy and Birth Stories

        The first person i decided to interview about their experience with pregnancy was my mother. When my mother found out she was pregnant she was very shocked. She was also kind of scared and didn't know what to do. The first thing she decided to do was call my father who was in the army at the time. However being pregnant wasn't going to stop her from working so she continued to work for several months more. After about 6 months of being pregnant my moms belly grew a ton so she decided to take a break from working and decided to take classes where people would tell her what she should do and what not to do while being pregnant. My mother also told  me how every single one of her friends came to visit her and gave her presents and gave her alot of extra attention because she was pregnant.
        The description of the process of pregnancy that my mom was telling me did fit into my initial viewpoint of the subject. This is probably because my mom tends to remind me of what she went through while i was born and while my brothers & sisters were born. However the way my mom was telling me her story It seemed like it that was in the past and none of that matters anymore. She did tell me though how it was a bit hard going through pregnancy because the father wasn't around during that time. How she wished he was with her during that time. My parentswere about in there mid 20's when they were dealing with this and the way my mother told me her story it made me realize that mid 20's would be a pretty good age to have a child because 25-30 year olds tend to be responsible and can handle the taking care of someone else.
        The second person i decided to interview was my father. he told me how he was shocked when he heard the news and how he was a little fraustrated and worried for my mother because she was all alone only with her mother. While my father was telling me this i realized that both my mother and father were kinda going through the same mental stress and they were both worried and missed eachother. My father also told me that he wanted nothing more than to be with my mother at that point and he sad because he didn't end up seing his daughter(my sister) until after she was born and 6months old .
        According to my initial opinions about birth my father wasn't the typical guy during my mothers pregnancy. His stroy is probably the most unusual story i have gotten of a guy dealing with the birth process. Of course this wasn't my fathers fault that he  couldnt be wityh my mom during her pregnancy. However i believe that if he were with her he would have stayed with my mom during her pregnancy and they would have gotten through it together.
        After talking to both my parents the last person i decided to interview was my Friend who is 17 and got a girl pregnant and is currently going through the process. He told mee that it is very stressful. He has to deal with her mood swings and he says that it is the the worse thing he has ever gone through. However he told me that he is very happy he is going to have a baby and cant wait to be a father. This lead to me realizing that alot of people that have gone through birth try to look at the positvie things as a way to make the negative things seem less worse. 
        The topic i would further like to investigate would be, How does teen pregnancy affect the parents?  However i am also interested at, how much teen pregnancy has increased by over these past few years and what the majority of teen guys go through during this process.

HW 35- Other People's Perspectives 1

        While visiting one of my closest friends (who is about to become a father) I asked him how he was doing and how the mother was. He responded by saying, "i am good and my girl is also good. I then asked him if he was scared of the new born baby that's coming on the way. He Then responded by saying, "i'm a little scared but i am ready to have this baby and i will do everything to give it a good life and keep it healthy." This came as a shock to me because he is only 17 and most teenagers would be fraking out looking for a way out of having that baby. 
        Another person i decided 2 interview was my older sisters friend who has given birth. She seemed like she didn't want to answer any questions so i kept the questions at a minimal. However one of the questions i did ask was how was the birth process like? She replies by saying, Giving birth was one of the most depressing times and was so much to deal with. And i wish that i could have gotten more support from the baby's father  and my family." After hearing this i couldn't help but feel bad for her because she had to go through all of that. So then i decided to ask her how her child is and she replied she is good and very beautiful. The Strange thing i didn't understand was even though she had a hard time while pregnant she seemed to be happy she had a child.
        So this lead to my conclusion being that some people are luckier than others. However one thing in common that everyone goes through is through Emotional problems. All of these people i spoke to are pro-choice and support the option of abortion, because they think that some pregnancy's are accidents and just happen. So they shouldn't suffer for a mistake.  Also all of the people i talked to do think birth is a beautiful thing. They think it's the most beautiful thing of life.  

HW 34 - Some Initial Thoughts On Birth

        When i come across a topic such as Birth the first bubble that comes to mind is the woman carrying a baby for nine months, as well as the option of getting an abortion, and the people i know that have given birth already.  This lead to me thinking how birth is actually a beautiful process (maybe not at the time being because of all the pain the woman goes through and all that the man has to put up with) almost always leaving both the mother and the father happy in the end. This idea lead me to the question, "do all woman that have given birth feel a sense of relief when they finally see there babies?"   After brainstorming i came up with the answer that most mothers do feel a sense of relief after giving birth because they dont have 8 extra pounds on them which comes from the baby, and they dont have to be careful with what they do so that they dont hurt the baby.
         This topic could bring up alot of very interesting questions. Another questions I thought of was, "Why do some teens decide to go through with having a baby when they know that they are not yet ready to take care of a child and dont necesarrily have all that is needed to take care of a baby?" After brain storming i came up with the answer that maybe the pregnant teens feel pressured into keeping the baby or maybe some teens think that having the baby will change there life for the better and make them a to better person. So as one can see there can be multiple questions asked about this topic. I personally have a lot of questions that I would like to know the answer to for example, Why is it that the pregnant woman gets extra moody, why does the pregnant woman get such wierd cravings, and what causes her to be more likely to throw up when pregnant? I hope all these questions get answered throughout this unit and i'm very curious to see what i will learn next in this unit.

hw 33

Juan said...

This piece was very intriguing to read. This hw assignment made me think of illness and dying through a different lens. "The most nightmarish thing about our culture's practices around illness & dying is how the big insurance companies care more about benefiting themselves more than they do helping the ill and saving peoples lives. This made me think, How could this possibly be changed and come up with a few ways. This reminded me of how bad our system works and how it may not get better.
kane said...

johnny i liked your writing. It's sort and it gets to the point. The line that really stands out, "What i might address differently is why all the doctors seem like they have no say on the unjust practices that are going on in our country.This made me realize that maybe our country really is corrupt and that there is some bad things going on that the govrenment doesnt want us to now about
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For Arden
          The depth of your work was very good. You put alot of depth into it. The line that really stood out to me was when you said, "Lets change the focus of our attention from trying to heal those who are sick to trying to prevent people from getting sick in the first place." This is very true and stood out to me because instead of having so much advertisements for going and eating at Mc. Donalds the govt should be telling us to stay healthy and actually promote this way more than they do. This also made me realize that the way the govt. is running things doesn't seem to be helping us stay healthy.
For Shariff
            You put alot of depth into your piece. I could tell that you took this course very seriously and put alot of effort into this piece. The line that stood out to me was when you said, " I feel that Preventative medicine is something not taken seriously enough in today's culture, we talk about being healthy and eating well but how many of us actually do that? First i would like to say that this is probably very true for most. Alot of people probably aren't as fit and as healthy as they should be.Which made me realize that our culture has probably changed over the years.

HW 32 - Thoughts following illness & dying unit

        The most nightmarish thing about our culture's practices around illness & dying is how the big insurance companies care more about benefiting themselves more than they do helping the ill and saving peoples lives. What i might address differently is why all the doctors seem like they have no say on the unjust practices that are going on in our country. And maybe do some research where the doctors do go against what the big insurance companies want and do what they feel is write despite all the money the hospital might be losing. Dominant social practices around illness & dying connect to DSP around food in our culture because in both these pactices there are corrupt ways of doing things just so the boss's could save more money. Also these two are connected because the people in charge try to do the least amount of work possible while the price stays the same.

HW 30- Illness & Dying- Culminating Experimental Project

         There are many Aspects of the dominant social practices around illness & dying that few people look into. Practices such as Giving us pain killers so that when the segeon's perform the operation on the patient's body, the pill would have already taken it's course causing the body to have bein reacting differently resulting in the patient not feeling pain. Or how the big insurance companies really care about themselves and only do things to benefit the big insurance companies and to ensure that the ill people get less health care. However there is another aspect of the dominant social practices around illness & dying that even less people look into, such as looking into other countries health care. In countries such as Canada, France, and England where they have a socialist health care system. Now one might find themselvs asking themselves, "But what flaws could these countries possibly have." Well in the Movie Sicko by Michael Moore, he did a great job of explaining there health care system too and how even though there is no such thing as a "perfect health care system" it did show how those other countries have way better health care systems then us and have way better method of doing things than us. 
        The first piece of research I got was by watching the movie sicko by Michael Moore. In this movie something he did was he wanted to compare our health insurance methods to other countries health insurance methods. He went to Canada, France, and England to do this and found that there methods of doing things is very different to our ways of doing things. For example while talking to the people in those countries they told Michael Moore how if they got ill  and couldn't go to work because they were still ill they would still get paid. Anothere example would be how in those other countries the doctors will go to your house and treat you at your house if you can't go over to the hospital. However the most shocking thing that stood out to me was that doctors in Canada, France, and England get paid more for telling people there patients in the U.S only try to do what is needed with the least amount of time possible.
        I have wondered can there be a perfect health care system in the United States. Michael Moore answered my question, when he said that "it is impossible to have a Perfect health care system," However Everyone is entitled to health care. Now even though this is true the down side is the wait may be ridiculously long to actually be seen by a doctor and get the medical attention needed (http://healthcare.procon.org/). Now Britian's health care system has a main principle of the British health care system, being that, "there should be a free, comprehensive health service for everyone according to need, regardless of their income." (http://neamh.cns.uni.edu/MedInfo/bhs.html). 
         While i was talking to my grandmother and asking here questions about illness and dying. I found myself asking her a very deep question. I asked her, "was there a time where the doctors were unjust and didn't seem to care about your medical problem." She then responded by saying yes i have and she then told me how when she was in her mid 30's she didn't have health insureance and because of that everyone that worked in that hospital didn't seem to care about her or her medical problem. She told me how she had to wait about 3-5 hours just to get medical help. She then told me how when she finally did get called to get medical help the doctors didn't really seem to want to help her. And how the doctor seemed as if he wanted to move on to the next paitent and didn't really answer her questions thouroughly or thoughtfully enough.
(http://www.hospitalcomplaint.com/).
         This is clearly a violation of everyone being treated the same while being saught medical attention. This makes me very mad however this is just the tip of the iceberg because this must happen to alot of patients without health insurance. "Back in 2006, The Wall Street Journal told another such story: that of a young woman named Monique White, who failed to get regular care for lupus because she lacked insurance. Then, one night, “as skin lesions spread over her body and her stomach swelled, she couldn’t sleep.”(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/opinion/11krugman.html)  This pice of evidence shows that my grandmother wasn't the only one that has to deal with being treated unequally because they didn have health insurance. This makes me think, will the United States health care change and become as good as other countries health care such as britain or france. Even though i am not sure it's safe to say by the way things are going that the health care of the United States will not change for a while.
        The pieces of evidence i found that are listed above show that the health care of the United States is not similar to that of Canada, France, or England. My granmother has visited France before and unfortuanantly she was telling me how she got sick there and had to go to the hospital. She told me that unlike here the medical care was superb and they treated her really good and answered any questions she had very thoroughly and thoughtfully. After telling me this I then asked my grandmother, how does the health care system of France compares to the health care system of the United States. She then responded by saying that it didn't and how she doesn't think the United States health care will ever compare to that of Frances. I then asked, why and she said because the doctors of France seem to actually care about you and you are the patient meaning that you are their 1st priority. 
           So i was correct when  I said that The United States health care system is not as good as  Canada, France, or England. However I was also right when I said that there is no such thing as a perfect health  care system. Thus proving that those countries really are reliable and you can count on the medical health care in those countries not like thie curropt medical system we have here in the United States.