week ten

this weeks material i found to be especially sad. it focuses so much on dying and how to cope with it or different ways of dying. though the thing that i think stuck out to me was the two different types of euthanasia. one was active and one was passive. active euthanasia is when a doctor assists a patient with a terminal illness to commit suicide and passive is when certain things needed to sustain a body are taken away. both types of euthanasia are very controversial. i think that if used properly and with all the correct guidelines are followed they can be very beneficial. why would you want to make someone in great pain suffer?  i would also really like to know more about euthanasia and what are the specific guideline, are there other states that are going to start allowing it and so on?

i cant think of anything in this section that pertains directly to my life right now. im pretty stoked on that, not having the people around me dying and all. but i have experienced loss of many very important people in my life and the anguish felt from it is just devastating.

week nine

                This week was all very interesting.  I rather enjoyed the article about the medical care for the elderly. The basic idea of the article was that places other than America have amazing health care for their elderly citizens.  I found this interesting because I feel as a whole our country has a lack of respect for our elderly. And it’s really cool to think that there are other countries that hold their elderly in high regard.

                The thing I can most relate to is the Alzheimer’s I have a grandmother that has passed away from it and another grandmother that is suffering from the effects of it now. It’s a terrible disease that has a grip on so many of our nation’s older citizens. It is a heart breaking thing to have to hear your grandmother call you by your dad’s name. Or to watch her struggle with remembering her grandkids and kids names that she doesn’t have a chance to see on a weekly basis.

                I think I would like to know more about Alzheimer’s and what can be done to help reverse the effects it has on people? Or how could they help to prevent it? How genetic is it? In my case would I have a significantly higher chance of developing it when I reach old age? If I had a chance to do unlimited research on the disease I think I would because no one else should have to go through watching their loved ones go through what ii watched and am currently watching my grandmothers go through.

week eight

The thing that caught my eye this week would have to be the how the role of work plays into the  shaping of  us into who we are and end up becoming. i also find it interesting in how we decide on what we want to do when it come to our jobs. When the book says  that we choose our occupation to best fit our individual traits and occupational interests, does this mean any job we get or just after we choose the job well be in for hopefully the rest of your life?

 I think the part about how the grandparents interact and impact the children's life relates really well to my life right now. and i dont mean by myself being a grandparents but watching my parents interact  with my niece and nephew. and how important it is to both my parents and the kids to have these interactions and what it can do to help the kids to feel loved and belong. its also amazes me to watch my mom teach the kids about different things and see waht they are learning from her.

week seven

What drew me in this week was the article “Should you stay together for the kids?” I found it interesting because coming from parents who are still together it makes me wonder how big of a difference staying together if you’re fighting all the time or getting a divorce and staying civil with each other will have on children. I find the research on the mental health of children of parents who divorce very interesting. It bring up a lot of question for me. Does it affect the children more or less that we as a society think it does and is it really better to put the kids in an environment where the parents are constantly fighting? According to the article anything short of abuse and the parents should stay together. Though I think if my parents were fighting all the time and them not being together could solve the problem then they shouldn’t be together. But I feel my thought may be slightly skewed because I grew up with my parents together.

What I can relate to really well this week is stereo typing. In that when I was younger I was stereo typed as being a drunk punk. This due to my piercings, tattoos, pink hair and, partying, a lot of people around me put me in that stereo type and had very strong opinions on who I was, though I did like to party I was not a drunk I held steady jobs.  I feel that this can be related to this weeks studies by the brief details they give in the book on it.

week six

The thing I found interesting this week was the personality type theory. This is a theory proposed by John Holland stating that people find the work they are doing if the main features of the job fit well with the person’s personality. He based this of finding 6 different personality types and what career fields go along best with the personalities.  The thing I would like to ask John Holland would be why these personality types are so vague and where do I personally fit in and how do you pick a career path off of something when you fall into so many different personality categories?

I would say I have a lot of experience with the time school started and how much I slept while I was in high school. I hardly slept during my junior and senior year, this was mostly due to the fact that I had a job and had to find time after work to do school work. I understand the concept of going to bed early is good for your health and schooling, but what about all the homework that doesn’t get done if you go to bed earlier instead of staying up to do it. There would have been a lot that I didn’t learn if I would have gone to bed earlier in the night.

The thing I would like to learn more about this week would be what they talked about in the Frontline video about teen’s brains. Specifically what I would like to know more about is the amount of sleep and how it correlates to grades. That the more sleep and better sleep you get the better your grades will be. Does this go for adults in college to or can we sleep very little and still learn as much? I would also like to learn more about how starting school later can be good and bad for students.