Project Reflection This project was about your relationship with food, how your relationship with food was built, and what has altered your relationship with food. Another way of saying your relationship with food would be your food ethic. We started the project by reading the omnivores dilemma which was a book that recorded the adventure that Michael Pollan went through as he was seeking to become closer to the food he eats. It included a lot about the food industry that is not generally known by the public such as the health of livestock on factory farms or some of the hardships that farmers go through to keep up with demand.
Not to mention that we were learning about food in both humanities and chemistry. So during the same semester, we learned about the ethics and morality of food creation and consumption as well as the science behind what we eat. This works great for me because I have a one-track mind and struggle when working on multiple paths of learning at the same time. Sometimes even understood what I was learning in humanity on the scientific level.
In my opinion, the main goal of this project was to raise awareness about what you are eating and where it came from. However, I already grew up in a household that is very careful about what food we eat and we grow as much food as we can ourselves. So for me, the parts of the project that affected me the most were the little things such as the debacle with GMO corn or the use of drugs to keep cows alive on factory farms. It was the additional information that really stood out for me and drove me to involve myself in this project more. In conclusion, in the beginning, the project seemed to be bland but it kept me invested throughout the semester.
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My Own Way of Eating
I was born with the miraculous ability to eat almost anything and I can proudly say that hasn’t changed throughout my life. This paired with my family’s “grow your own food” lifestyle my food ethic was developed in a very organic manner. So being not picky was a huge blessing. Not to mention my family has always been very forceful about healthy eating habits so I grew up with a mixture of homegrown and organic food. In a way, my food ethic is like a plant that has grown from the cow, goat, and chicken manure that makes up our garden. However, as I get older, I am slowly becoming more independent and with that, I am experiencing foods that I would never have been able to try before. With this, My previous ethic is being altered to accommodate these newfound foods.
With this new change in how I decide what to eat, I am faced with a conflict. Whether I should expose myself to a new world of unhealthy food or keep going strong blissfully ignorant. In my opinion, there are downsides and upsides to both and I should consider all of them. for example, I do want to stay healthy however I do not want to condescending to others because of it. I would like to be someone that people look towards for becoming healthy- not someone who seems to look down on others because of the eating habits. This has happened to me before and I don’t want to put people close to me through that.
There are aspects to a person’s food ethic that I want to address, such as their views on the treatment of livestock meant for consumption or even their denial to eat other creatures. For me, it would be the former. As I do understand the sentiment behind being vegetarian I believe that as long as you source your food from good places you are both supporting the farmers that cultivate those animals and eating in a more healthy manner. I value the farmers and my health over the life of an animal, this is how I was raised and how I plan on living my life.
Witnessing the death of an animal for the first time is a strange experience and can very much change a person’s food ethic. The first time I witnessed the butchering of a fellow-creature took place back when I was only 4 feet tall and just getting out of elementary school, before then my parents sort of shielded me from the butchering process of our cows. This was the first time we killed the cow on our property and we did it by slicing its throat in a controlled manner that put the cow down quickly and painlessly. This was a bizarre experience for me mainly because I didn’t feel much fear or disgust as much as how intriguing it was to me. I was fascinated by how the grain that we had used to fatten the cow up for the last few months of its life had spilled out of the open wound on the neck. This may seem gruesome to some people and thinking back on it very much was but what I felt back then can hardly be explained with words.
I have a always had a deep connection with my food sometimes they were individuals I raised or were almost like pets. I believe I have had enough personal experience with the food I consume to determine what is right and wrong when it comes to food production, my family raises and cultivates that food. I believe that eating meat and consuming dairy products does not bring any suffering to the animal as long as you are sourcing your food from the proper facilities. In conclusion, I eat meat and most other foods without any worries about whether I am causing pain to another being. I have experienced the death of numerous animals that had their life taken from them for the sake of feeding my family.
your life on earth
Project Reflection My project was very personal since it pertained to a concept that I struggle with. It was on how boring and repetitive life is for me and many others around the world. I will admit that I exaggerate reality to get a more dramatic feeling to the project but I did that so it would connect both with the average joe and the people who suffer from this type of existentialism. The project is meant to open up people to a new realization and expose them to a dark place. Because I think that many people don’t realize that they are living every day over and over again.
This project has expanded how I see my everyday life. I have been trying to live my days differently since I started this project and it has actually improved my overall mood. It can be a little stressful at times I will admit but I think that it is legitimately improving how I view a new day. My hope is that my work will make people question whether they are living there life to the fullest. As well as making them think “could I make my day better and or different from the last. However, I don’t think that it is for everyone, realizing that every day you live is a repeat of the last May cause more harm than help. It could send people into a state of endless worry and trigger them to go into their own existential crises. I still think that it would be healthy to expose people to this idea though. In a way, I believe that experiencing an existential crisis may make us into stronger humans that may seek to make a difference in the world.
I myself will continue to ponder this concept and find new ways to give my life more worth. I still don’t know if this is a healthy way of seeing the world. Would my ideas hurt people if they took them to hart or would it make them stronger? Is it better to recognize all of life’s faults and try to correct them or is it more healthy to continue to remain blissfully ignorant.
Repetition artist statement by Milo Ethridge one strange abnormality that I have not started to notice until recently and that is that we are living the same day over and over again. We all have a process that we go through every day that we rarely stray from, wake up, go to work, go back home, and back to bed. This may be a broad example but I would argue that we follow it religiously. With the industrial revolution, this Daly prose came to life. Before then we still had a fairly strong dependence on ourselves to make a living but now we almost completely rely on a job or workplace for our livelihood. The endlessly repeating days continue like a wheel on a bearing. The daily routine that we live our life following never differs and slowly but surely we grow bored of our life.
In my opinion, that is what existentialism is and that is what I based my art piece on. My piece is a carving of two poisonous snakes each one latched on to the other’s tale. Dew to the snake’s backward-facing teeth they can't detach from each other but can’t possibly eat there pray while it is alive. Both snakes have to wait for their poison to kick in to eat the other snake. The two snakes have no choice but to move in an endless circle trying to escape the other’s grasp but neither of them can get loos. So they will continue to repeat the same circle until the poison does its job and kills them both.
I think that this is a good representation of the life of the average American. We live our lives trying to escape the indefinite grasp of death. Escaping it is impossible yet we live our lives repeating conducting the exact same efforts to fight the endless progression of time. It is all futile but we remain blissfully ignorant to such a concept. We are all bound to death but we continue to live or repetitive and boring day to day life as if it is normal. It is as if we are not aware that every action that we take will eventually become forgotten and cease to exist. Give it time and the world will forget you and what you have done in that short and boring life that you valued so much. Now let me ask you a simple question what makes your life worth living.
The future of work in america
project description
This project has been centered around labor in America. We studied how labor has evolved throughout our country’s lifespan. It has gon threw farm life to the industrial revolution and finally to modern-day education. We discussed trials past America has put its self threw and predicted what we will be experiencing in the labor market in our lifespans. Our class has developed new ways of handling the situations of the future my looking back at the past. The world will not be the same work as it once was and we will have to adapt to it. We discussed different proses that people during the industrial revolution were going threw to combat adamaition, Such as the invisible hand theory. We had in-class timed writing where I discussed how the textbook can only tell part of the story and when you hear the whole story it can give you a completely different impression. Some of my peers and I presented a slideshow discussing automated work. At the end of the project, we created a podcast in a group under a topic of our choosing.
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Industrialization
The industrial revolution was full of brake threw and essential discoveries that we need for modern-day life but it was also a time of suffering for many people. My goal in this writing is to challenge the textbook with author writings. I will be talking about how the textbook only tells snippets of the whole story and fails to go any deeper. But sometimes if you dive deeper into the articles you find that those snippets can only tell a little bit of the story and reality can vary greatly. Many people came to big cities to make a home for themselves only to find that they had been polled into being nothing but a wage slave.
In the textbook, it tells us that the industrial revolution increased the wealth of the nation but the workers at that time claimed that the wealth of a nation is also the wealth of its people. In the text (proclamation of the striking textile workers of Lawrence) many workers went on strike so that they could save themselves from becoming nothing but a wage slave. The united states indeed got more wealthy but the people were struck with poverty. Plagued by long hours and hard work many worked 14 hours a day and still barely got by. And in all of that, the top one percent was living a dream and controlled most of America's money. But some jobs require special skills and the workers that had those skills had a bit more power to strike but in modern times they are losing that bargaining chip.
Back in the industrial revolution workers with special skills such as carpentry and engineering were valued in a worker so workers with those skills were missed greatly when they went on strike. however in modern times some of the jobs that require those workers are being filled in by matenes. The text (work) is centered around that idea and discuss just how close we are to replace high skill jobs with machines. The author talks about how many mistakes that happen in high skill jobs are due to human error and can be negated by replacing them with a robot. Plus machines don't need to be paid and don't need to eat or sleep all they need is a little electricity. However, is it better to be a wage slave for a big corporation in the industrial revolution?
in truth, the revolution did create many jobs for people who had never worked anywhere except there dads farm, but those jobs were often mindless and made workers dependent on their wages to survive in the city. In the text (industrial union manifesto) it tells this quote “the worker wholly separated from the land and his tools, with his skill of craftsmanship rendered useless is sunk in the uniform mass of wage slaves. The worker in an uncomfortable situation where he is separated from all the things he grew up with, he becomes dependent on the job and loses his freedom in a way. The once independent farmers has become one of the many unfortunate souls that have become trapped by the job that pays him. And this has happened to many workers who came to the city seeking money but lost their way.
Project reflection
What Was the greatest challenge you faced in the project and what did you do to ovor come that challenge. The biggest challenge in this project was getting the sound perfect. Our mick acted up a lot and we struggled to work around it. We tried our best to achieve perfection to the point that Garrett brought in a higher quality mick that he uses in his oun recordings so the sound wouldn't just cut off sometimes. In the end, we got it as best as we thought possible but we were still nervous about it. There were some spots that we weren’t satisfied with but we just went with it.
If you could go back and do the project again what would you do differently and why Personally, if I were to do it again I think I would just add a little bit more humor to it. Our podcast I thought was very interesting but would benefit from a couple of spots where the listener could take a little break from the information and have a little laugh. For example if we had added a little joke directly after the onslaught of percentages we it may have lightened the somewhat depressing part of the podcast. It seemed to get vary tuff to keep up with at least for me when I have listened to it. I would have a more comedy oriented podcast if I were to do it on my own but I think that it was more based on information. Either way, I am varying satisfied with the end product and have little desire to change it much.
What is the greatest insight you gained about the state of labor issues today? Think back through the entire project, historical context, the presentations, globalization, and your podcast production. In the beginning of the project I came to the fact that we are innovating ourselves into poverty. We have been doing this since the Aztecs, it's just that adamaition has just been replacing those jobs till now. As we continue to advance we give our own jobs less a reason to exist. Personally, I don’t think that we will ever automate ourselves out of existence as sum say we will but I do not doubt that we will get to a point where we will have to find a way to make a way to feed the masses because so many people are living in poverty. I think that this fact just raddled me in a way that I haven’t experienced ever before.
What are you most proud of in your project? This could be something very small and not visible to me or the audience. Help me understand why you are so proud of this piece. I am really proud of our interviews Especially our small business owner interview. She had a lot of points that me and garrett wouldn't have thought. For example, how she chooses her employees biased on there interests and ideals. I think that if all small and large businesses choose there employees that way maybe people that may not have the best education but are experienced in a specific field. That way we may have less of a problem with judging people with there education.
Explain 1 way you grew as a student during this project. It is not when we are comfortable and know how to do a task that we grow, it is often when we are the most challenged or have struggled through something that we grow. So what will you be better at now? I think the project gave me a little bit of a wake-up call. It made me want to push harder on my school work and long term goals in general. I think towards the end of the project was when it really started to take hold of me and I started to realize what I needed to do to make my goals into reality. I started to work harder and really focus on how I could raise my grades. I definitely felt like this project put my own ideals in jeopardy by almost attacking my inner defender.