I work at a Doctors office so I asked random questions to the employees at my workplace Allergy Asthma and Immunology Associates, which includes doctors, nurses, and office staff.
Everyone at my workplace always tells me the worst part about working in the Health Profession is dealing with the insurance companies. There are not very many pitfalls with the economy that would prevent me from having a job in the future, since supply and demand always promises doctors will be a neccessity, yet the insurance crisis may have doctors making less in the upcoming years.
Socialized Healthcare may make working as a doctor more difficult. There is always going to be job advancement in the medical field which is something to look forward too with the bettering of technology and new scientific discoveries.
The doctors say the greatest way to get prepared for this industry while in school is to acquire jobs/internships with hands on experience, not just jobs in a doctors office with paperwork, but real clinical experience. This is what Medical Schools look for when accepting college students, and one cannot become a doctor without graduating from medical school, so this is the most important way to prepare.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Paper Outline Assignment
SOURCES AND OUTLINE FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS/ENVIRONMENT ESSAY
www.ivu.org/animals/
Peter Singer essay: "All Animals are Equal"
Michael allen fox essay: "The Moral Status of Animals"
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianvegan101/f/fossilfuels.htm
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianvegan101/f/forestclearcut.htm
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianvegan101/f/waterpollution.htm
http://vegetarian.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=vegetarian&cdn=food&tm=10&gps=255_87_1276_520&f=00&tt=12&bt=0&bts=1&zu=http%3A//goveg.com/veganism_environment.asp
Proposal Outline:
Introduction: Briefly introduce the main points of your proposal. This introduction should introduce:
What you are investigating: whether or not animal’s rights is a legitimate reason to stop eating meat and how the meat industry negatively affects the environment.
Why this issue is a problem. This issue is a problem because animals are moral agents and deserve to not be tortured and killed and the environment affects humans health and quality of life as well as future generations.
What community your problem affects the most and why. I have no idea what this question is asking, perhaps because of the way the grammar is arranged.
1) Identify a Focus:
Identify and describe all aspects of your issue.
State your research question : do animals have rights to not be slaughtered? How does slaughtering animals effect the environment?
Define the issue the question represent: Animal Rights, The Environment.
Explore the history and context of the issue.
What is the issue within this community? Whether when we grow older if we will have enough resources to live valuable lives.
When and why did this become an issue within this community? When people started realizing that nonrenewable resources will eventually be gone and what will happen once they are?
How does it resemble other issues both in other communities? Meat consumption and the environment is an issue all over the world. Some countries have more concern and awareness of it than others.
What are some illustrations that show that this is an issue? What are some of the possible solutions that have been proposed in the past? Some propositions have been Hybrid Cars, ways to “Go Green”, ending animal suffering, etc.
2) The Research Process: Succinctly set out the important facts which you have found out about your project. This should be a brief summary that only includes the facts that are relevant to the issue and which bear on your final solution to your problem.
What research have you collect so far? What are some of the limitations of your research? What are some connections? What needs more evidence? What do you find interesting? So far I have researched how animals are abused in slaughter, some philosopher’s opinions if animals have rights or not, how meat consumption affects the environment, etc. What needs more evidence is if certain environmental issues such as global warming are legitimate or not because there is evidence that goes both ways. I found it interesting that becoming vegetarian/vegan is better for the environment than buying a hybrid car.
Based on what you have read, what have you observed as overall continuing threads in this research? What are the patterns? What conclusions can you make about the research you have collected? The patterns are that people who support animal rights are normally environmentalists as well. I never realized how much being vegetarian positively affected the environment.
3) Viewpoints: Over all the conflicting viewpoints on an issue, you should address only the most important of these conflicting viewpoints. Try to distinguish or reconcile the viewpoints and explain why you think that people should following your line of reasoning over another.
Discuss the range of viewpoints/differing perspectives from your field research Some believe animals don’t have rights so there is nothing wrong with torturing and killing them for consumption.
Identify their claims, their evidence, and their assumptions, and their supporting audience/communities I do this through Analysis of the Philosopher Michael Allen Fox’s essay “The Moral Status of Animals” in my essay.
Who are the audiences/communities who support each of these positions?
The audience of people who support animal slaughter and destruction of the environment are people who are not educated on these issues or just simply don’t care because animal torture does not affect them and the destruction of the environment wont take full effect in their own lifetime.
What assumptions do they make about the issue? They assume that these environmental issues are made up or dramatized by the media and that animals do not feel pain.
4) Defend/Purpose: Try to reach a conclusion (one way or the other), both on what the facts of your topic is and what the answer of the overall question. People prefer to have a clear answer in a proposal rather than a wishy-washy discussion that does not come to a strong conclusion. Trust your judgment and be sure that your other sections fully supports your solution/conclusion.
Describe a possible solution(s) to this problem My solution is that everyone lower their meat consumption to 1 meal a day. Eventually, people will probably want to become full vegetarians but there is no requirement to do so.
Defend the solution among the critical viewpoints. You can still eat a meat dish once a day, it is not depriving anyone of anything but would greatly help the environment and the wellbeing of animals.
Why should people take this course of action? Why is this problem worthy of further investigation? I propose they should take this action with the utilitarian argument: sacrificing one to two meals of meat a day is far less difficult than slaughtering innocent animals and destroying our natural resources.
www.ivu.org/animals/
Peter Singer essay: "All Animals are Equal"
Michael allen fox essay: "The Moral Status of Animals"
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianvegan101/f/fossilfuels.htm
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianvegan101/f/forestclearcut.htm
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianvegan101/f/waterpollution.htm
http://vegetarian.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=vegetarian&cdn=food&tm=10&gps=255_87_1276_520&f=00&tt=12&bt=0&bts=1&zu=http%3A//goveg.com/veganism_environment.asp
Proposal Outline:
Introduction: Briefly introduce the main points of your proposal. This introduction should introduce:
What you are investigating: whether or not animal’s rights is a legitimate reason to stop eating meat and how the meat industry negatively affects the environment.
Why this issue is a problem. This issue is a problem because animals are moral agents and deserve to not be tortured and killed and the environment affects humans health and quality of life as well as future generations.
What community your problem affects the most and why. I have no idea what this question is asking, perhaps because of the way the grammar is arranged.
1) Identify a Focus:
Identify and describe all aspects of your issue.
State your research question : do animals have rights to not be slaughtered? How does slaughtering animals effect the environment?
Define the issue the question represent: Animal Rights, The Environment.
Explore the history and context of the issue.
What is the issue within this community? Whether when we grow older if we will have enough resources to live valuable lives.
When and why did this become an issue within this community? When people started realizing that nonrenewable resources will eventually be gone and what will happen once they are?
How does it resemble other issues both in other communities? Meat consumption and the environment is an issue all over the world. Some countries have more concern and awareness of it than others.
What are some illustrations that show that this is an issue? What are some of the possible solutions that have been proposed in the past? Some propositions have been Hybrid Cars, ways to “Go Green”, ending animal suffering, etc.
2) The Research Process: Succinctly set out the important facts which you have found out about your project. This should be a brief summary that only includes the facts that are relevant to the issue and which bear on your final solution to your problem.
What research have you collect so far? What are some of the limitations of your research? What are some connections? What needs more evidence? What do you find interesting? So far I have researched how animals are abused in slaughter, some philosopher’s opinions if animals have rights or not, how meat consumption affects the environment, etc. What needs more evidence is if certain environmental issues such as global warming are legitimate or not because there is evidence that goes both ways. I found it interesting that becoming vegetarian/vegan is better for the environment than buying a hybrid car.
Based on what you have read, what have you observed as overall continuing threads in this research? What are the patterns? What conclusions can you make about the research you have collected? The patterns are that people who support animal rights are normally environmentalists as well. I never realized how much being vegetarian positively affected the environment.
3) Viewpoints: Over all the conflicting viewpoints on an issue, you should address only the most important of these conflicting viewpoints. Try to distinguish or reconcile the viewpoints and explain why you think that people should following your line of reasoning over another.
Discuss the range of viewpoints/differing perspectives from your field research Some believe animals don’t have rights so there is nothing wrong with torturing and killing them for consumption.
Identify their claims, their evidence, and their assumptions, and their supporting audience/communities I do this through Analysis of the Philosopher Michael Allen Fox’s essay “The Moral Status of Animals” in my essay.
Who are the audiences/communities who support each of these positions?
The audience of people who support animal slaughter and destruction of the environment are people who are not educated on these issues or just simply don’t care because animal torture does not affect them and the destruction of the environment wont take full effect in their own lifetime.
What assumptions do they make about the issue? They assume that these environmental issues are made up or dramatized by the media and that animals do not feel pain.
4) Defend/Purpose: Try to reach a conclusion (one way or the other), both on what the facts of your topic is and what the answer of the overall question. People prefer to have a clear answer in a proposal rather than a wishy-washy discussion that does not come to a strong conclusion. Trust your judgment and be sure that your other sections fully supports your solution/conclusion.
Describe a possible solution(s) to this problem My solution is that everyone lower their meat consumption to 1 meal a day. Eventually, people will probably want to become full vegetarians but there is no requirement to do so.
Defend the solution among the critical viewpoints. You can still eat a meat dish once a day, it is not depriving anyone of anything but would greatly help the environment and the wellbeing of animals.
Why should people take this course of action? Why is this problem worthy of further investigation? I propose they should take this action with the utilitarian argument: sacrificing one to two meals of meat a day is far less difficult than slaughtering innocent animals and destroying our natural resources.
Friday, November 21, 2008
END OF TIME OF BEING ECO FRIENDLY
My day of being eco friendly simply included me unplugging everything after I left my house, which was a pain, and taking one bath that day instead of two!
I don't think the carbon footprint website helped me. It was too vague. Perhaps if it asked much more specific questions it would have made more sense in giving helpful tips.
I feel like in the world we live in I do the best I can to be eco friendly (and save money which results in being eco friendly, ie: carpooling) but in this world we live in there is only so much we CAN do. Most of the destruction of our world had to do with constant construction which I personally have no control over and dont even like. The website told me I use 3.1 worlds if everyone lived like me but even the perfect scenario used 2 worlds so it is a lose lose situation as portrayed by the website.
I don't think the carbon footprint website helped me. It was too vague. Perhaps if it asked much more specific questions it would have made more sense in giving helpful tips.
I feel like in the world we live in I do the best I can to be eco friendly (and save money which results in being eco friendly, ie: carpooling) but in this world we live in there is only so much we CAN do. Most of the destruction of our world had to do with constant construction which I personally have no control over and dont even like. The website told me I use 3.1 worlds if everyone lived like me but even the perfect scenario used 2 worlds so it is a lose lose situation as portrayed by the website.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Carbon Footprint
The website says it takes 3.1 planet earths to provide enough resources if everyone lived like me. (wow i must be evil.) It takes 13.9 acres of the world's productive acres. And i take up the most in the category of services.
It is funny that one of the suggestions it made to me was to become vegitarian when I already am one!
I also already use the least amount of gas possible and carpool because I am cheap and don't like spending all my money on gas. So I guess tomorrow I will attempt to reduce my trash and recycle!!!
It is funny that one of the suggestions it made to me was to become vegitarian when I already am one!
I also already use the least amount of gas possible and carpool because I am cheap and don't like spending all my money on gas. So I guess tomorrow I will attempt to reduce my trash and recycle!!!
Thursday, November 13, 2008
END OF NO TECHNOLOGY (LAST NIGHT AT 7:30)
Wow. Going without technology for only one day proves how dependent each of us are on it. After that ONE day, I honestly feel like I have an addiction.
When I first started it was a pain to have to text the people who matter to me and my work and let them know I would be without a phone for 24 hours. Lets just say nobody was happy. And the first question they asked after that was if they could reach me on myspace! Every person in America has to be reachable 24/7 it seems. Do we not have any privacy in our lives?
I also had to do all my online homework before hand. Since I did 2 days worth of homework in 1 day, it took me a couple hours. USF is one reason I am very dependent on the internet as well. All of my classes require me to have a computer and internet access much of the time.
I realized when I was without texting for 24 hours that I have a compulsive habit of texting when I am bored or in an awkward situation. Without my phone I was FORCED to interact more with the world around me, and people I did not want to, because i couldn't just take out my phone and start talking to someone else. I'm so used to having conversations while texting but I was forced to listen to that ONE person's voice and give them my undivided attention. I think this is a good thing. I always get so annoyed when I am talking to someone and they start texting, but I do the same thing.
When I didn't have my phone for a day I realized how much everyone else uses their phones! I was getting so annoyed. It was a drunk trying to sober up and seeing everyone drinking around them. I know that is dramatic but I was getting so aggrivated at how much everyone relies on technology. Like, go outside, or read a book, or something.
I realize the only reason I rely on technology so much is because the entire world does. All my work information, school information, keeping in touch with friends, even my parents is on the internet. It is almost impossible to be a productive citizen without knowing how to utilize these tools.
My mom always says she is jealous of my generation because I am technologically savvy and I can survive better in the work world, but I'm jealous of her generation! I hate technology, I think it is so obnoxious and people use it as a crutch. I wish I could grow up in a generation where people had ACTUAL conversations. I feel like all my relationships and friendships, a BIG portion of them were texted haha.
SO basically, I liked being without technology for a day, but it was very stressful because everyone else used it and no one would work around me.
When I first started it was a pain to have to text the people who matter to me and my work and let them know I would be without a phone for 24 hours. Lets just say nobody was happy. And the first question they asked after that was if they could reach me on myspace! Every person in America has to be reachable 24/7 it seems. Do we not have any privacy in our lives?
I also had to do all my online homework before hand. Since I did 2 days worth of homework in 1 day, it took me a couple hours. USF is one reason I am very dependent on the internet as well. All of my classes require me to have a computer and internet access much of the time.
I realized when I was without texting for 24 hours that I have a compulsive habit of texting when I am bored or in an awkward situation. Without my phone I was FORCED to interact more with the world around me, and people I did not want to, because i couldn't just take out my phone and start talking to someone else. I'm so used to having conversations while texting but I was forced to listen to that ONE person's voice and give them my undivided attention. I think this is a good thing. I always get so annoyed when I am talking to someone and they start texting, but I do the same thing.
When I didn't have my phone for a day I realized how much everyone else uses their phones! I was getting so annoyed. It was a drunk trying to sober up and seeing everyone drinking around them. I know that is dramatic but I was getting so aggrivated at how much everyone relies on technology. Like, go outside, or read a book, or something.
I realize the only reason I rely on technology so much is because the entire world does. All my work information, school information, keeping in touch with friends, even my parents is on the internet. It is almost impossible to be a productive citizen without knowing how to utilize these tools.
My mom always says she is jealous of my generation because I am technologically savvy and I can survive better in the work world, but I'm jealous of her generation! I hate technology, I think it is so obnoxious and people use it as a crutch. I wish I could grow up in a generation where people had ACTUAL conversations. I feel like all my relationships and friendships, a BIG portion of them were texted haha.
SO basically, I liked being without technology for a day, but it was very stressful because everyone else used it and no one would work around me.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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