Friday, May 20, 2011

Blog 11

The article "the woman who die in the waiting room" by Jeneen interlandi explains that here in the u.s are only a few psychiatric hospitals which many of them are careless with poor peole. The article also states that here in one the Brooklyn's psychiatric hospitals a woman died because of the staff uncaring act the woman died in the waiting room.
First of all, i agree with the article that that in the u.s there a bad service towards poor people.for instance, a woman died in Brooklyn' psychiatric hospital due to the staff members negligence who ignore the woman when she was having a stroke. These incidents are common in today's society. For example, I have a aunt who is mentally Ill, so when we take her to the hospital we have to wait for alone period of time to be attended. The members don't worry because when u go there and ask them why is it taking so long to the members to see my aunt and do something, they just say that we need to wait because the doctors are busy with others patients, but the true is that they are in the lunch room or talking in a meeting instead of working. I think that this is very unfair for people with low income since they have to wait until they almost die for doctors to see them.
Furthermore , the article states that there are not enoug beds for patients due to the few psychiatric hospitals in u.s for intense when a patient goes to the hospital he can't take be served because there is not space for them. The author is trying to say that it is not only about the staff members it is also the lack of humless in our nation.
In conclusion the article "the woman who died in the waiting room" talks about the negligence situation in which we live right now in psychiatric hospitals. The government should do something about this otherwise more people will die in these areas.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

blog # 15 Type CATW practice # 3

The article "How to Do One Thing at a Time" adapted from women's health maggazine, states that when we multi-task our brains tend to work less productive, due to we lose concentration by doing more than one thing at a time. Therefore, the article also shows us prove of how we do better when we focus only on doing one thing at a time.
First of all, I agree with idea that when we are chatting, talking on the phone or on the internet while performing a task, it make us  work less efficient. it is because we are made to do things in sequense, in order to give one hundred percent on whatever we are doing. For intance, at my job i always multi task. I'm most of the time sending texts to my friends, family and girlfriend. even though my job requare a lot of concentration. I work cheking freights when theyy come out of the aircrafts. So sometimes by multi tasking i miscount the merchandise that i'm giving out. My boss lately told that if i keep doing these same mistake by being on the phone and working at same time, he is gonna fire me. so i personally think that multi tasking is really a negative habit or hobby to prictice.
Another thing that shows that multi tasking is not benefitial in our lives is that when we want to learn some thing like getting ready for a exam we can't be like the article says chatting, palying musicand writing a short essay because to write a goood essay, we need to be focused otherwise what we are writing will not satisfy the public who's reading it For example my girlfriend always tellls me that when she writes an essay and then she hears the phones ringing she feels like she wants to answer it. making her lose concentration and then have to start all over again.
in conclusion, the article "how to Do One Thing at a Time" from women's  health magazzine, explains the difference between how doing things in sequence is way better than just doing all at once. i think that everybody sould read this article so they can see that multi tasking can even cause them get hurt or killed speciallly when we are driving.

Blog#8

The article Red pill and Blue pill: Is Ignorance Bliss? adapted from The Matrix, liberal education, and other splinters in the mind by Christine Cornell and Patrick Malcolmson. this article explains about how some people prefer living in their own world and wanting to know the truth about other humans. some humans choose to come out of their world and face the real world like Neo from The Matrix, he choose to drink the red pill and was brave enough to face the real world even though he wasn’t ready. Most of the people chose to stay in their own illusion and don’t want to see what is the reality about.  Once people find out the real world they feel good knowing that the real worl is different from their illusion.

Blog#6 "I Know The Truth, So Don't Bother Me With Facts"

According to the article "I Know The Truth, So Don't Bother Me With Facts," people get easily influenced by rumors even when we know the facts that they might be wrong instead we still stick to our own beliefs because when it comes to beliefs human beings only believe what they want to. The article gives an example of the Abdul Rauf was criticized because there were some rumors that he was a terrorist, but once he was seen in pictures dressed as an American, people then rejected the rumors of him being a terrorist. In fact, shows how people believe in something they wasn't one hundred percent sure because it makes them more happy and comfortable.        

                 first of all, the article refers to a study by "Garrett showing that when subjects are presented with data that contradicts their beliefs, they often — paradoxically — respond by cleaving to their biases even more tightly." it means that believing in yourself is being sure that you are going to do whatever you put your mind to, even if others are against you. Usually, when you decide to take a big challenge or do something that they failed to do, you will find that everyone is putting you down.

blog 5

The passege the Allegory of the Cave talks about prisoners that were living in a cave since their childhood, having their legs and necks chained as if they were slaves excluded from their rights so that they couldn't either move or, see what was behind them. Furthermore, they were prevented by the chains from turning round their heads, which means that they were living in a world of illusions where they didn't know about the real world outside the darkness that waited for them outside. In fact, as the story went by, it explained that one the prisoners got out from the cave and discovered that the world he used to live in under the ground was only an illution of what he thought the real world looked like.So when the man saw the light outside of the cave, he couldn't see anything for awhile because the man was living in the dark almost for his entire life. After the man was capable to open his eyes, he couldn't believe in what he was seeing because he never imagined that the life he was living in the cave was just a lie. he didn't want to want to go back to the cave after all.

blog 3

In "I Know The Truth, So Don't Bother Me With Facts" article, Jeffrey Kluger that even when people know the fact, they still stick to their believes because the feel scared of knowing that they might be wrong. it also says that people believe whatever they hear instead of believe in the real facts. therefore, they ended up doing a lot of mistakein life.

Blog# 14

          I think that post 1 is the best CAT-W practice essay because it explains better what's the importance of "reality TV Shows" as a whole. He first give us an explation of how "Reality TV Shows" attract our attention in today's world. Then, he begins with the introduction follow by the first and second paragraphs in which he shows prove of how people are better accepted in television because of their looking not by their skills they have. then post 3 and 2 follows