THE MEATRIX ISSUE

The meatrix issue: FEED

1. Animals are given feed formulated to speed their growth to market weight and supply them with essential nutrients, while minimizing costs to operators.
2. Concerns have arisen about the content of these feeds, however, as grain-based diets can produce serious and sometimes fatal digestive tract problems in food animals such as cows, goats, and sheep whose stomachs are best suited to digesting high-cellulose containing plants like grass.
3. The use of hormones to growth an animal faster than normal.

It is important to consider how livestock feed affects animal health, and by extension the health of people who consume these animal products.

As a meat consumer is very shocking to read or see this type of information. Our increased meat consumption is making this factories farmers use cheap food, mixed with antibiotics to accelerate their grow and fatten them quickly.  
I will recommend to reduce meat in our diets. If meat demand gets lower, meat industries will produce less and they will feed animals regular food and animals will grow at a normal time. 
I will recommend to eat more vegetables less meat.
We should care because it will not only affect our health it will affect our environment too. Because a big production includes more industries, less green spaces, more pollution, new bacteria's, new illness. It will affect the future of our new generations more than ours. 

Truman Show Syndrome: Why People Think They're Living in a Reality Show.

Mayra Delgado

Dr. Smith

         Truman Show Syndrome: Why People Think They're Living in a Reality Show.

   
According to Colin Lecher in the article "Truman show syndrome" the Truman Show Syndrome is a new phenomenon where people think they are living in a TV show and they became famous overnight. However, I think people should enjoy TV shows, social media, and the internet as a form of relaxation, and also to be informed. However it's important to don't make this phenomenon part of our life's.

     Social media is impacting every single day of our life. Almost 70% of U.S population has any social page such as facebook, twitter, instagram, printerest, etc. Every day people sign in to this pages to check updates, status, pictures, comments or simply to gossip about their friends life or public figure, as I do. Now days, most of the information found it on the web impacts our life's, sometimes I do get impacted. Few days ago I saw Megan Fox on facebook with a different hair color, I  felt tempted to change mine, or when I see Mila Kunis photos, I think that I need some diet. At that first moment, I'm not assuming that reality is different, those photos are edited and even  hair colors are different in real life.

       Women all wish that we could  wake up looking fabulous but unfortunately most of us don't. I work as a hair colorist in a small hair studio in Woodhaven, Queens. I had seen almost all my clients impacted for a beautiful, bright and perfect celebrity hair, specially photos from magazines and photo sessions such as Jennifer Aniston, Shakira, JLo, etc. It takes me few minutes to explain to them about how the flashlight impacts a photo, or how a hair color change depending the photo background and lights. And that most of those pictures are edited.  What it matters is, to explain and let them know that all of us are different. Therefore we all have different hair types, textures, color pigmentation and even our race has a big influence.  It takes a whole explanation to bring them back to their reality.

        Some young minds are easy to be influenced. I remember almost three and half years ago, three of five clients used to request  Kim Kardashian hair look.  They wanted so bad to have at least something similar to her, because of  Kardashian's reality show.  They fanaticism made them forget that Kardashian's had a hairdresser, makeup artist, fashion adviser as a everyday need, making them look beautiful at any single activity, even when they are working out. Some girls just want to be popular as their favorite celebrities are. My beautiful client Martha was one of them, but now she changed her mind, finally identifying her personality and her own style, making her unique.

           Entertainment is good, it turns wrong when we take it too serious, creating our own show in our daily routine. It is necessary to learn, analyze and to build our self-steam. Knowledge is never too much. If we achieve this, our mind will change and we will modify our way of living and thinking. It's necessary to don't be influenced by reality shows or entertainment that make us see, just what they want us to see. It is better to have a good self-teem, that way we will avoid any manipulation or influence by others. It feels great to live a life instead of seeing how others live theirs. 

    

Truman Show Self determination

3. Self-determination

Truman struggles between what his society (and his "god," Cristof) tells him to do and be, and what he feels he wants to do and who he wants to be.

Paragraph 1: Consider your own life (or the life of someone you know well): Have you ever disobeyed society’s rules because you were trying to follow your own instincts? What made you want to disobey the rules? Explain the situation.

Paragraph 2: What did you expect to gain from your disobedience? Did the consequences  to your disobedience confirm that you made the right choice?

Starting from zero is not easy. My lovely friends Marie and John decided to move from New York to Florida. She was seven months pregnant and they had two kids already, they were nine and seven years old. They went to a small town in FL at their friends house with no jobs and a small pocket. All their friends from New York we're telling them that it was a big mistake to move, that they will lost all the money and time, and that they will be back to New York in two years because of that. Their friends comments were all negative. My friends were looking for a better environment for their kids. A bigger house, a quiet place.  New York is an expensive city. They had no time to spend with their kids because both of them had to work full time to cover the bills. They were tired of a struggle life and they moved to Orlando, Florida.

Taking a chance risking all sometimes is the right choice. Marie and John are living in Orlando for about three years, happy and successful. Their kids are happy, they love going to Universal and Disney land. They live in Orange County, I had visit them few times, walked  around the lake,  saw the birds and ducks. They feel very happy abut the choice they did. It has hard at the beginning but with some effort they got the life they wanted. Seeing them happy made me realized  that taking risk is worth it. Doesn't matter what others think or believe what matters is the actions we take. 

"The Allegory of The Cave"

Summary

        The Allegory of The Cave by Plato, is a metaphor that represent the way we perceive reality. This narrative story express how most of people get comfort in their cave getting set up. The cave is a stage of knowledge and believes  than either are false or true. And only few people will take the chance to step out of the cave to investigate and prove the true of their believes and the knowledge they acquired of whatever they were told. Furthermore represents how people get scared of knowing the truth. I believe that "The Allegory of The Cave" represent the way we go through our life acquiring knowledge and true of reality, because a better understanding can make me a better person.

Part 2

    Comparing my life to "The Allegory of the Cave" I was chained to my fears and conformist because I waited to long to start college. I'm not chained any more, this year one of my goals was to start college, and  I am  glad because I stared right. I'm not afraid anymore, I'm doing well step by step, it was kind of scared at the beginning because it was new for me but I'm not anymore.  Also asking people before, how hard is college for them didn't help, because most of them told me it was complicated and I used to see them struggling, making me feel insecure about college. Now I'm learning and  seeing things different trough my own experience.
  I am improving my English, also I'm learning about business. I'm applying this knowledge on my personal life, because I have a small business and all I learn helps. I know that getting a degree will open doors for my future. Now I'm focus on my Business Administration degree. I feel like the prisoner that escape the cave and saw a different word, by his own discovered that the reality is different. And opening our mind to learn will transform my life for better.

"Individuals in Groups"

    Individuals in Groups.

  

   We all act different when we are in groups. Carol Witz on her article "Individuals in Groups," wrote about  Psychological studies that demonstrate  individuals in groups are less alert during dangerous situations, than an individual alone. Many people have die in front of people without receiving help. Honestly I don't  feel safe being  around of many people. Why? Because I know people in groups feel less responsibility and they will wait till see someone else assisting me in case of danger.

   Being alert make me feel secure.  Most of the time I'm alone, in my commute to work, school, therefore I have to be alert about my surround. I keep my cell phone in hand just in case I have to call 911, or any of my family members. Also I learned to be attentive, there is always someone that needs help. It could be a senior citizen crossing the avenue or someone with disabilities. Few days ago I was on my way to work, and a blind woman was trying to cross the avenue, while the light was green. There were people looking at her but no one assisted her. I went close to her and I held her hand and told her to wait. We crossed the avenue together. I felt great to be able to help and she was very grateful. There were people looking at her but no one assisted her.

  Some individuals risk their own life to help. There was a good Samaritan killed while trying to help a homeless man being harassed for a group of individuals, in California. Few years ago another good Samaritan was killed in the Bronx, while helping a woman being assault. And we keep hearing this type of news, all have a common factor "a person died trying to help" it doesn't said " a group of individuals." It is easier to count with one person than many.

  We feel so confident in groups that we don't pay attention in who needs help. Our responsibility is less. We become careless. In my personal opinion i had been careless person when I was younger. I used to wait for my friend first, to have a reaction. I'm not like that anymore, I think  is part of our maturity too. As we grow we develop our real personality, also we are not surround of many friends as when we were very young. Being helpful is important as part of our develop.





  

I Know the Truth so Don't bother me with Facts

I Know the Truth, So Don't Bother Me with Facts

    In the article " I know the Truth, So Don't Bother Me with Facts," adapted from Jeffrey Kluger, point out how humans have been easily gulled by rumors, beliefs and "flat-out lies."  In a new study realized by R. Kelly Garrett and Erik Nisbet assistant professors at Ohio State University concluded that, first at all is easy to manipulate people beliefs, because is easy to influence on people that don't know the facts or basis of their beliefs.  Secondly a very few percent  will keep their beliefs even if they see a contradictory evidence, because they feel sure about their beliefs. As a matter of fact it could be ego too because none of us like to admit that we could be wrong. As well I think our beliefs play a huge role in how we view our life. 

    As human been some beliefs are acquired by culture, such as religion, political, superstitions, etc that aren't necessary right. I agree with the author, because most of people change their mind easily, by influence or proofs. As a cosmetologist I have the opportunity to interact with different people and their own beliefs. I had the opportunity to get to know more about their beliefs and it is strange but all  of them assume that they're right even if they are not. For example few of them believe in cutting their hair by the phases of the moon, because they believe that will help their hair to grow faster.  As I know moon has nothing to do with our hair growth system, because this depends in our diet and health. 

     I think beliefs have a big influence in our life therefore we have to develop  our brain to learn and get knowledge. I know that our beliefs grows with us from childhood because as children we will believe whatever get taught in an early age, we don't even determinate the reason of our beliefs. By my own experience I'll say that I used to be the type of person that easily believed without questioning. But after my brain started developing and getting more knowledge I changed my mind, supporting my beliefs by logic. 

     As a conclusion,  I think beliefs have a big influence and how we live, what we do, and what kind of life style we have and some cases even our dress code is based on it. In my opinion is good to have beliefs that could be supported by truth or facts. It is easy to believe in whatever you can prove  and whatever you have had. I assumed that as I learn and grow I find out that many of my beliefs will no longer serve me. I free myself of some false beliefs that I was taught. 

"I Know the Truth, So Don't Bother Me with Facts." Summary

I Know the Truth, So Don't Bother Me with Facts

In the article " I know the Truth, So Don't Bother Me with Facts," adapted from Jeffrey Kluger, point out how humans have been easily gulled by rumors, beliefs and "flat-out lies."  In a new study realized by R. Kelly Garrett and Erik Nisbet assistant professors at Ohio State University concluded that, first at all is easy to manipulate people beliefs, because is easy to influence on people that don't know the facts or basis of their beliefs.  Secondly a very few percent  will keep their beliefs even if they see a contradictory evidence, because they feel sure about their beliefs. As a matter of fact it could be ego too because none of us like to admit that we could be wrong. As well I think our beliefs play a huge role in how we view our life.