The Power Team

I really liked this reading. I think what the Power Team does is really inspirational. They take a different approach of how to bring God and Christ into peoples lives. In one of their areas of trying to reach out is teenagers. The appearance of the Power Team is also another approach of how to reach out to people. The men in the Power Team are very muscular that shows that they can be powerful while acting as a manifestaion of the Spirit of God and Christ. I think what Jacobs does for the people is very emotional because when he speaks he wants to be a father to those who are fatherless. Jacob also speaks of how real fathers should build his family the way God would want to see a family. The Power Team want to get people out of their seats and get close to the edge and give themseleves to Christ. The was that this is written is very sophisticated and in the writing shows how important this topic really is and what it can do for people. Jacobs takes this very seriously because in the one performance where Jacobs pointed out a group that were laughing and told them that they should take this seriously. To him their devotion to Christ is no laughing matter and should be respected. The Power Team reminds me of when I use to go to this big Christian performance of Christian bands and speakers that wanted to speak out to the teenages by putting on performances that would make them get out of their seats and become one with Christ.

A Plague of Tics

I really liked this short story. It wasn't what I thought it was going to be about from just reading the title. Sedaris showed how to keep his personal voice in his writing by writing about his obsessive compulsive behavior in detail and was not ashamed to tell it. It made me realize how I should, when I am writing, to make sure that my voice does not get lost in my writing. Sedaris let us know that this story was about him and wanted to tell his story. He gave good examples of him being hilarious at times, like when he would count each step on the way home from school, or he would lick every light switch that he passed. He put his voice out their but he also made it in an intertaining way to keep the reader in his writing. It made think that when I write my research paper I cannot lose my voice in all the information. My voice is as important as the information that I will be providing. My voice can show my opinion or even tell a story that can help support my paper even better. Plus it will make it more appealing to the reader if I use my voice because no one likes to read a paper that is all information.

Research Topic

The specific question that I hope to answer through my research paper is how the human health is being affected by diseased meat that is being sold out to the markets. Because of diseased meat is being sold it not only shows the lack of care for the animals, but also it can affect the human health, and how a human can be viewed as a "true human." What I already know about this topic is that I have seen bad meat being sold to fast food resturants. At a cow auction there were people from a fast food resturant that were buying cows that were in poor condition because they were cheap. I have also read from articles of how certain food companies that observe the meat to be passed, for it to be sold, allow diseased meat to go out onto the markets. Their are also books that I have looked up that contain information about how animals in factory farms and slaughter houses are treated that affect the human health when the animals are sold for meat. What I need to find out about this is different cases of crisis from a situation like this. I also need to find out all the different companies that the meat must go through to be allowed to be sold. One of the main things I need to find out more about is cases of people that have gotten sick or died from eating diseased meat to prove that this crisis is serious. Some arguments against my topic are, food companies do not allow diseased meat to be sold because they eat meat to. The food companies know that we have a lot of trust in them so they would not put the human health at risk. If their was diseased meat being sold on the market people would know about it and would be put out on the news because it affects humans. Some of the sources that i have looked at on about my topic are:

1. Wilkins, David. “What does society expect of veterinarians?” World Society for the

            Protection of Animals. London, UK. 19 August 2008. Reading.

This is a source where a person is giving a presentation on how veterinarians can help stop meat being sold. In a way it should be their duty to protect the human health. They talk about how people that raise animals to sell to markets do not take care of them properly which cause the animals to become sick. When this happens the farmers then hurry up and try to sell the animal and not letting people know how the animals illness and when the meat is processed it can affect the humans that consume it.

2. Bauston, Gene. “Diseased Animals Are Being Marketed for Food.” USA Today Magazine

Mar. 2002: 64. Print.

This source talks about how diseased meat is being sold even when the meat goes through the U.S department of agriculture to be inspected. It also talks about how farmers can be cruel to their cows and letting their cow be sold so they can make a profit.

Klosterman Response

When I read his argument there were times when I did agree with what he said and there were times that I did not. I do agree that most, not all, Americans don’t really have a true laughter anymore. The one sentence that really caught my eye is when he said, “a real laugh, a fake real laugh, and a filler laugh.” I see many people and even I participate in a fake real laugh. To me this is when someone is laughing but laughing at a fake statement that is not really funny to them. In the end just being “polite” as Klosterman says. I have experienced this fake real laugh myself. Sometimes when I talk to people and they something that that they think is funny, but I do not I just start laughing because I want to be polite because they probably wanted to make me laugh. One of the things that I did not agree with is that laughing tracks are used because “Normal people” don’t really know what is funny so using laughing tracks can show them what to laugh at. To me laughing tracks are just annoying. I feel like when I am trying to watch a show and I hear that laughing sound in the background it’s kind of like when someone’s phone goes off in a movie theater. Also I think that laughing tracks don’t really guide people to what is suppose to be funny. People will laugh at something when it is funny to them.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB7xFzNpImo 

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpy8OO26hCA&feature=related

Topics for Research Paper and Questions

The topic that I hope to do research on for my research paper are cruelty to farm aniamls. From this I hope to show how farmers are being cruel to their animals and how it can affect them and also the human society. Some ways of how farm animals can be abused are bad living environments, not enough food intake, and improper breeding. These are just of the ways that farm animals are abused but there are so many other different ways out there. Searching for animal cruelty is a research topic for the Veterinarian field. I read in an article about how dairy cows were getting produced dieseases, which causes them to have poor nutrient intake. This in the end causes them to not to be able to develop enough milk. This topic affects the farmers because this lamness of taking care of the dairy cows will bring them less income. Also this situation affects customers and retailers because they all trust these farmers to support us with milk. Farm animal cruelty is not really talked about very offten between people. Most people talk about animal testing, which is still a serious issue but most of the products today come from farms. But still being cruel to farm animals in particular is still serious issue. Human society needs to be able to trust the farmers that they treat their animals as if they were their own children. Farmers being cruel is not only unfair to human society but it is also unfair to the animals. If a farmer wants to get animals they need to know that they have to take care of them because no farm animal can take care of themselves.


1. What are the different types of cruelty done to farm animals?
2. How many cases of cruelty are there a year?
3. The different types of neglect that happen to farm animals?
4. How do the cruelty to farm animals affect human society?
5. How do the cruelty to farm animals affect farmers?
6. What are ways that have been created to stop the cruelty?

Annotation and Bibliographic

This article talks about how dairy cows are being exposed to produced diseases that cause them to lose nutrients to support milk production. They believe that some of the produced diseases to cause this are inconsistency of nutrient intake, unsuitable diet and environment, and improper breeding. One of the ways that the dairy cows are more likely to obtain the produced diseases are 3 weeks before they give birth and 3 weeks after they give birth. At the end they hope to have farmers to be more honest about their care for the cows to the dairy industry. Because if they are not honest it shows the lameness of their care for their cows and causes them to bring in less profit. With farmers being able to take care of the dairy cows with proper care the will be more reliable to the dairy industry, the customers, and the retailers. This article applies to my field because I want to be a veterinarian for large animals. With this article I am exposed to an issue that concerns diary cows. From this information I am able to stay alert and be willing to help out this issue by examining different dairy cows to make sure they are not being exposed to produced diseases.

Doherty, Michael. "Production diseases: A major health, welfare and economic problem on dairy farms."  The Veterinary Journal 176.1 (2008): 1-2. Web. 1 Feb. 2011.

Richtel Article

I thought that the Richtel article was really good. I thought that it was really interesting to learn about all the different research that scientist go through to find an answer on how technology affects people today compared to the past. The one test that was done by Mr. Ophir was a test that can be related to many people today. The results for the test showed that multitaskers are less efficient to solve and grasp the event or problem in front of them. I thought that this test could be related to people today because today many people multitask when they are doing things on the computer. When multitasking it is hard for them to focus on just one thing that they are not able to grab the concept of what they are tyring to do in the first place. Some students today multitask when studying and/or doing homework causing them to take longer to do the assignment and not being able to fully understand what they are studying or trying to do for the homework.

The part of the article that got my greatest attention was the story about Mr. Campbell. I felt sorry for what technology is putting him through. Technology is taking him away from his kids, wife, and even work. He does play video games with his son but a father and son bond need more then just video games to keep them at a close relationship. I felt bad for the wife because she has tried to go on vacations where she wanted her husband to unplug from technology and spend time with her and the family. In the end the entire family started using more technology in their lives. The wife was baking cookies and everytime her phone went off she turned all of her attention to the phone forgetting about the cookies and ended up burning them. In the end she couldn't stop going to her phone everytime it went off so she just bought cookies instead. I feel that this family is headed down a bad path of separation from each other. They need to go on a "diet" from technology and try to spend more time together as a family. Because to me family is the most important thing in the world.

My Introduction

Hello everyone! My name is Heather and this is the first time that I have ever blogged. I think it is pretty cool! I am a sophmore and I am a pre-vet major. What I like to do in my free time is listen to music, read, and play the violin or the piano.