Response to Jamie Olivers Food Revolution

Jamie Oliver is a man on a mission in his tv series, a man on a mission to change the way we eat. In theory his ideas are good and the steps he is taking to change the way we eat as Americans, however Jamie as a person is very unrealistic and quite frankly immature.
 
Jamie's "Food Revolution" as he calls it is well grounded in reality. The facts are that the United States is becoming more and more unhealthy, and the processes of how food is produced and where it comes from have drastically changed in the last 50 years. Jamie's simple ideas to know where the food comes from and revamp the way that food is prepared in schools is something that everyone can get behind, however, when it comes down to the practicality of his methods in doing, Jamie begins to turn much more radical.

When it comes to being practical, Jamie really struggles in this respect. One of his goals is to change the way fast food is prepared. He goes to a small family owned restaurant that has been in business for over thirty years where he is given a chance to see how his practices work in actuality. When given this opportunity he proposes to switch to meat that costs three times the price and argues with the owner when Jamie tries to make a milkshake with no ice cream. A milkshake has ice cream in it, if it doesn't it's just a smoothie. Jamie gets very upset about this because he says it tastes like a milkshake, however, it isn't and that's a fact. For example a veggie burger will never be a real burger no matter how much it tastes like one.

Overall Jamie has good ideas and is on a mission for good. He however is very easily upset and is unable to accept basic facts. He is short tempered and immature with trying to get his way at any cost. In the long run I believe these things will hurt his passion, and that is a very sad thing to see. I wish him luck in his mission and hope that he can also begin to see things from someone elses perspective.

The possiblilities of research

As I'm thinking of problems or issues with America, one of the first things that comes to my mind is healthcare. Healthcare in general is just the relationship between doctors and their patients, but recently it has become a web of bureaucracy and controversies. As a career field that I am looking to go into I am concerned with these issues as they are amplified daily. My father is currently a physician's assistant at veterans clinic. However great a service that we as a country provide to the ones who defend our freedoms, it has it's issues. Another issue within this healthcare realm is privacy laws. If you have been to a doctor recently you know how strict these are and you have to sign your life away just to make sure your eye doctor doesn't share the fact that you need glasses. There are many more things that I haven't even started to cover such as socialized medicine and Obamacare, but these make great research topics as well.

Response 6,The Social Network

The movie The Social Network follows one of the great entrepreneurial endeavors of this generation, and how it came to be. Along the way to becoming what it is today Facebook and it's founders had many different conflicts which made for a good story. Within this story there are many different views that can be analyzed. The two views that I found evident in the movie where the Marxist and Moral/Philosophical perspectives.

The Marxist or Economic perspective becomes apparent as soon as you understand what is going on in the lawsuit. Mark Zuckerberg is the original creator of facebook who physically wrote the first code. However the idea for Facebook came from two twins the Winkelvosss'. They as well as Zuckerbergs founding partner are suing for both intellectual property theft and unfair business practices respectively. When it comes to the Winkelvoss twins. Their lawsuit is directly connected to the amount of money and fame that Mark Zuckerberg. They believe that Zuckerberg stole their idea for an online network where college students can interact naturally, and profited from the idea greatly.

In the Moral/Philosophical perspective the story of Mark and his founding partner Eduardo Saverin comes into play. In the movie and real life Zuckerberg and Saverin were feuding over the direction of the company. While Saverin stayed in New York, Zuckerberg was in Palo Alto, California turning Facebook into a multi-billion dollar company. When the company is reincorporated in Delaware, Saverins stocks were diluted down to minuscule numbers basically removing him from the company. No one truly knows why Zuckerberg did this, but there have been many speculations such as jealousy and influence by Sean Parker. Regardless of motives, this was just one of the immoral things that Zuckerberg did on his way to the top.

Intertextual connection of Ferris Bueller

1.) In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ferris fakes sick and then sneaks out of the house to do whatever he really feels like. He is an icon at school and in the community who everyone loves and thinks is perfect at whatever he tries and is the pinnacle of excellence. His best friend is shy and tries to hold Ferris back from doing the crazy things he does to no avail.
2.) The connection we made was to the movie Van Wilder. In the movie Van is in his 8th year of college and has no plans to ever get out. His father decides to stop paying for his tuition and that his son has become a complete failure. Van doesn't want to leave so he tries to raise money by planning parties, in the end someone sets him up to be expelled, however at his hearing he persuades the panel to allow him to leave, but graduate.
3.)The connection between the two of these movies is that the main character is an icon in his community and school and inspires a lot of people even though they really don't know what to do with their lives. They both have best friends who are largely submissive until the end of the movie where they come out and take a stand. In Van Wilder this is Taj when he figures out that Van can appeal his expulsion and in Ferris Bueller it's Cameron when he decides to take the blame for ruining his dad's Ferrari.
4.) Having this connection really allowed me to see how sometimes being the cool guy is great, but sometimes it's really awful, at some point when you need to move on in life no matter how much you love where you are or how much people love you where you are. This is evident in both movies where Ferris realizes that his run of high school is coming to an end and when Van is forced to realize his run is college is over. This is important to see in real life and here at memorial it is often seen with sports. Many people who play sports in high school and that are really good feel that's life, and it's not. They get out and realize that high school isn't real life and they flounder.

A Moral Look on House

The show House brings up many different moral and ethical dilemmas in the way Dr. House practices medicine. He rarely actually sees patients and when he does he doesn't show any real care into their problems, he just looks at each patient as a biological problem that needs solving. When dealing with patients he does some pretty unethical things in the eyes of modern medicine. When treating a woman who has come in with unexplainable symptoms, he treats her based only on his judgements without any clear prognosis to back him up. In the end he figures out what is really causing her problems, in this case a tape worm in her brain, and treats her accordingly. Dr. House also has a problem with prescription pain killers and uses his power as a doctor to feed this addiction. In this first episode he sees a patient who he suspects is an addict and is taking about things such as fibromyalgia, he is really just looking for pain pills so house goes to the pharmacy and fills a prescription for vicadon which he pours in his pocket, then he fills the container with candy and gives it to the man. All in all Dr. House's antics are unusual and sometimes very unethical, but he is one hell of a good doctor and solves mysteries many others fail to. If i were to be a fictional character in a medical show, I would want Greg House to be my doctor.

There Will Come Soft Rains

In this short story by Ray Bradbury, the world is a much different distopian version of it's current self. When he was writing this in 1950, his setting of August 2026 was very futuristic. There are no characters in his story really, just a house with artificial intelligence. All of it's occupants are gone while the house continues on with daily life. If I had to relate this to a moral I would connect it to nuclear weapons. This story was written shortly after the second world war came to an end and the cold war was just taking off. Bradbury wrote this to illistrate the possible effects of a nuclear attack and how the advanced world of 76 years ahead of his time would be affected. The lack of characters is a point in itself, everyone is dead, and this would scare people during the time it was published.

#2 My moral philosopy

My moral philosophy is simple, be a contributing member to society, keep out of trouble and if your morals are different from mine that's none of my business. I have my values to study yet have fun, be social and smart, but if others want to be super smart and nerdy that's fine with me, if some people want to never do anything and party all the time, that's their choice. My values are to take care of myself and help others take care of themselves. Summed up into one sentence my business is none of your business and your business is none of my business.

Now that being said, there are times when I've had to learn lessons the hard way. In my relationships I got stuck trying to take care of an ex girlfriend who had some deep issues. I thought I could fix her and I spent a lot of time trying to. However, after wasting a lot of time, nothing changed, so I had to give up and walk away. In the end people can't change people, people have to change themselves. Nothing can make someone change if they don't want to so it's not worth the time if they don't want it too.