Reflective Writing

October 26th 2007.
We watched a movie based on teen safety, that most of us had seen many times before. The man named Plitcher goes around to schools to talk about what teens go through everyday with parents not understanding, peer pressure, relationship pressure. The movie was set in like the 70's. Plitcher believed in vision initiative perspective, and called it VIP teens. He went into depth about each thing and why he thinks that it should go along with teens.

October 24th 2007.
Today Charlene presented qiutting smokeless tobacco. She didn't get to finish it because she had to leave. James presented nicotine withdrawl and what happens to your body. Josh presented why you should quit smoking or smokeless tobacco. What are the benefits to your body to quit tobacco use.

October 16th 2007.
Today we discussed missing work and who needs to stay after. You went onto the computer and showed us websites and we went over again testicular cancer.

October 4th 2007.
Today Ricky came in again and talked to us about using birth control, and what methods would be good for birth control. You can use pills, patches, injections, and condoms, having all the same efficiency rate. There are also diaphrams, which are 94% effective. While condoms are 99% effective.

October 2nd 2007.
Ricky came and talked to us about STI's and preventing them. You need to always use some sort of prevention to protect against the infections because once you have them, they are hard to get rid of.

September 28th 2007.
Today we worked in the computer lab and just worked on some of our stuff.
It was a good day.

September 26th 2007.
Today you demonstrated on how to juice something. I stepped on the cord and Micah hit it too so it un plugged it. Sarah Ebare presented her vitamin again. We drank apple juice. Some people drank the foam and ate the skin. nasty.

September 24th 2007
Today we went to the computer lab to give everyone a chance to get caught up for the marking period. Two kids got in a fight about looking at computer screens. Worked on projects.


September 20th, 2007
TILT

Today, we had a guest speaker. His name was Jim Carter. He came in to talk to us about organ and tissue donating.
He told us lots of important facts about donating. And facts in general about your organs.
You can live with only 30% of ONE kidney working good. No one really knows for sure who has 2 kidneys unless you have been ultra-sounded for anything. You can see if you have one or two when your looking at it. You can only have one, and be completely functioning. However if both of your kidneys or your only kidney doesn't work, then you need to be put onto a machine called a dialysis. You lay down on a bed, and a tube goes into one arm, and comes out the other one. It circulates all of the fluids in your body. You need it to live, and you need to go to it monday, wednesday and friday. So every three days. It takes four hours, and also costs 75, 000 dollars a year to have it.

He gave us time frames that organs can be without a host, being transported to someone else...
heart- 6 hours
liver- 4 hours
kidneys- 72 hours
cornea- 14 days.
When you get your organs transferred, you need to take these pills called immune suppressant pills so that your body doesnt try to fight and kill your new organ.

Alcoholism effects your liver most importantly because constant drinking makes your liver break apart. However if you stop drinking soon enough, your liver can repair itself with the medication that your doctor would give you. But if you continue to drink, your liver can go to stage 3 cirrosis. If you are stage 3 cirrosis, that means that you are pretty close to death. The liver is the largest organ inside of your body.
If you're braindead, your body can not continue to function without a machine to make it breathe and make the blood circulate.
The guest speaker told us about his daughter, and it was such a sad story. She died because her seatbelt wouldn't function correctly, and she was only driving a little ways down the road, when they went head on with another car. It was a really sad story.

In 1964-ford was the first to put seat belts into American cars
In 1950's-volvo did it too.
In 1968-US gov't made a law so that all cars MUST have seatbelts
In 2001-the law "click it or ticket" was enforced.

Neils Bjorn designed the shoulder strap for the seat belt.

I think that you need to get more guest speakers. Way more often.



September 17th 2007
Today we played on the computer again. Micah presented for the whole block as you had him go and look up things on the internet to find out what they meant. That was the class. Then you had Micah go to my blog and had me read Vitamin B-1 again.

Tonight i went and posted all of my work that I havent had time to post, but did tonight.

September 13th 2007
Today we learned about our next project, and how people need to post others work into the shared projects area.

You told us what groups we were in, and who was in it, and what we had to research. People asked you questions that needed to be answered.

September 7th, 2007
Today in class, we took a health risk survey. The survey was educational, in showing mine that some of the things that I do in a daily basis are not healthy for my body. I think that some people learned something from that survey including me in some of the things that I should do.

We also watched two videos, and took notes on Juicers.
One juicer was called the Breville Fountain Elite Juicer. That jucier was stainless steel, its durable. It also has a titanium cutting disc, and makes 8 ounces of juice in 5 seconds. There are only a few parts that you need to take apart to clean, and easy to reassemble.

Another juicer was the Jack Lalanne. The commercial for this one wasnt that professional. It has a high out put motor 30% more juice than store bnought juice, and the pulp is taken out dry. There are more vitamins and minerals, and a supersize pulp catcher.

September 6th, 2007
What is juicing and why would you want to have juicing be part of a healthy lifestyle?

Juicing is a way to lose weight. It is said to be better than the water way, where you just drink a lot of water. Juicing is also extremely cleansing and healthy for your body because all of the juices in a juice that you make are always natural and really good for you. There are no chemicals in fruit, as there are in some meats that come off farms, or anything. Juicing is extremely good for you and if you use it correctly, then you can lose some of your weight. But dont count on juicing directly to make you lose all of your weight. You have to excercise, and keep your physical health in really good condition. If you excercise with other people, then you get the chance to socialize and that is extremely healthy since people need to interact with others to be good. If you are healthy, then you are mentally healthy as well. Your brain is an important part of your body and juicing really helps you be healthy. Your emotional and spiritual well being is also affected by how you treat your body. If you beat on your body all the time and dont give it a break, then you probably wont be that healthy.

September 5th, 2007

Five Major Components of Health
Today we went outside and thought of things, that just randomly happened as we stepped out into the bright day. The categories were Physical, Social, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual. I found a lot for Physical Health. For example, the sun can make your skin healthy, but it can also give you skin cancer. There was litter everywhere. A person getting a bee sting if they are allergic, and needing an epi-pen. People are excersising up at the sports field. There was a path for the emergency vehicles to make their way up to the fields.
Social Health is working on a team, and talking and interacting with other people, getting comfortable to talk to others.
Mental Health is forcing your self to make time. Stress can effect a lot of your mental health, and can be damaging, but sometimes for sports be good for you.
Emotional Health should always be positive. Stress can normally make you in unhealthy situation with yourself.
Spiritual Health should make you happy.

August 31st 2007

Today we had to make our accounts for the wiki site from the school. That makes it so that I can go back and check on my account, check on assignments from mr cohun. I had to change my password from my username to something else. I had to go to blogger.com/start and create account. I had to make a 5 sections reflective writes, my projects, shared projects from peers, homework, and type 1 and 2 writes. I made two links on my blog. . .One to the class blog and one to the school website wnesu.org.

Then I had to post this blog to show that I know how to use the blogger.

Going to the class blog is really easy because its right there on the blog so its easy to check assignments.