My favorite blogs
I believe that one of my best blogs I have written in this class is blog number twelve. It is called "Happy Meals". This is because of the simple fact that it's very personal and simple written. I like to share personal experience and it's extra fun times like this when it makes you warm inside. In this case because it made me think about the three things I love; food, my grandma and my mother. I believe I understood the assignment and discussed the food advices that Michael Pollan gave us and explained how they could work in my own life.
The second blog that I like is a remake of one of the cats that we wrote in class for practice. It's called "imitation of film; here's smoking at you, kid". I like it because I remember putting a lot of work into it, trying to fix the mistakes that I had made originally. I tried real hard to structure the text as we learned in this class using claim, reason and evidence. It didn't come out perfect but I think it was when I wrote that text I started to understand what claim, reason and evidence are.
Last but not least I liked the one i wrote about Platon's Allegory and the cave. It was really fun sharing my interpretation. I thought the text was pretty hard to understand so I'm pleased with the result.
Using internet in class
When I found out that I had to take English 099 I didn't feel happy about it. I thought we would have to do everything the old fashion way with reading a boring text and write a paper by hand every single class. After my first lesson i changed my opinion completely. This was when I found out that we would be discussing interesting topics, creating a blog to write blog entries instead of writing papers. I think its a cleaver idea to educate by using technology that young adults are very familiar with. The best thing about it was that I could go online whenever and where ever I wanted to, I only needed to have access to internet. Some times I would even use my phone. The second thing that is super cool with working online is that I could go online to your blog and prepare myself by reading about next class. It was great to be able to go there to check information that I had missed or forgot about.
My Eng099 class
This class is one of the best ones I have had in a long time. I feel that my classmates are all very sweet. The energy in the classroom is very positive and it makes everything much easier. The first day I met you and my classmates I knew this was going to be a fun, interesting class. I have to give you the biggest cred, being able to keep me awake and engaged (this is my last class of a 12 hour school day). You are very positive and I love how engaged you are with us and the subjects we discussing.I have learned a lot in this class for example how to structure and compose a good text. My biggest problem that I had been struggling with for years was being able to write a longer text and now I don't have any problems with that anymore. Today is the big CAT test and even though I really enjoyed this class I hope that I do not have to retake it, only time will tell.
/Zandra
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Saturday, November 26, 2011
blog15
In the text "The new industrial migrants (part 1)" The Author of the text Eric Schlosser is discussing the striking similarity's he has noticed between the meatpacking and the fast food industry. This is because of the high turnover rate the industry's both have. Schlosser explains that what ones used to be a well paid job is now four decades later paying their hard workers as little as $9.25 an hour. One thing that he mentions in the text is that two third of the workers are immigrants who cannot hardly speak English. He believes that the high annual turnovers can be a tactic from the companies to get more control over the workers.
In “The new industrial migrants (part II) Eric Schlosser write about the fact that IBP are interested to hire immigrants cause they don't have the same requirements as American citizens has. For example; they will work hard for a lot less money then 'ordinary' Americans will. By doing so the IBP will earn a lot more money and they will decrease their spending's significantly.
I actually watched a documentary about this this summer when i was back in Sweden. The company hired immigrants from Mexico to come and work for them for a short period of time and then they called the United States Immigrations, and they came and took them away. By doing so they always kept a fresh set of employes, and they never got any trouble from them cause they where never there long enough to actually have demands. The most interesting thing was that the United States Immigrations never said anything about the fact that the company used illegal immigrants to work for them. It's almost felt like they where bribed. I for one think this is very wrong. It's against everything i stand for and i hope that things will change soon. It's so wrong that they pay these workers almost nothing for 5 days, and then just ship them back to their countries, and in some cases they never paid them anything.
Hopefully in the future this will come to and end and they will start treating their employes as human beings instead of treating them like 2 dollar signs.
In “The new industrial migrants (part II) Eric Schlosser write about the fact that IBP are interested to hire immigrants cause they don't have the same requirements as American citizens has. For example; they will work hard for a lot less money then 'ordinary' Americans will. By doing so the IBP will earn a lot more money and they will decrease their spending's significantly.
I actually watched a documentary about this this summer when i was back in Sweden. The company hired immigrants from Mexico to come and work for them for a short period of time and then they called the United States Immigrations, and they came and took them away. By doing so they always kept a fresh set of employes, and they never got any trouble from them cause they where never there long enough to actually have demands. The most interesting thing was that the United States Immigrations never said anything about the fact that the company used illegal immigrants to work for them. It's almost felt like they where bribed. I for one think this is very wrong. It's against everything i stand for and i hope that things will change soon. It's so wrong that they pay these workers almost nothing for 5 days, and then just ship them back to their countries, and in some cases they never paid them anything.
Hopefully in the future this will come to and end and they will start treating their employes as human beings instead of treating them like 2 dollar signs.
blog17
In the movie "The Story of Stuff” Annie Leonard argues that our material production system is in crises because at the moment it works like a linear system instead of a circulation system that goes round and round. She want us to change this so that everything works just like life does; mosquitos are alive so that birds can eat them, so that wolfs can eat the birds, so that bears can eat the wolfs and then it continues on and on just like a rolling wheal. The system that we are in right now does not work like that. We are not recycling the stuff that we buy, we use it and then we throw it away. Big companies out there are using a marketing strategy that makes us consume a lot more stuff than we used to. This is because they are consciously using bad materials that easily break so that we have to buy new things. This is another smart way of tricking the costumers so that they can earn more money. They become winners and we losers, but wait a minute, if you really think about it we are all losers. The whole human population is hurting from the pollution that this linear system brings from producing so much without recycling it. The problem is that most peoples think that they can buy happiness. The American dream is to become rich so that they can wear their favorite designer and fill their homes with fancy shiny things. Are we not supposed to value health over money? If we’re not healthy it does not matter how much money we have, then we are nothing.
My dad always said to me “health is the most important thing, cause money has no value if you are dead".
Even though i know all this, and i think about it every day i fall in their trap. I always have a craving for buying new things. The way they built the system is that if you don't buy enough things you will fall behind. For example; the new facebook trend on smartphones. If you don't have the newest iPhone or blackberry you can't stay in touch with your friends the way other people can, you fall behind and you actually loose some of your social life. But the companies that provides all of these unnecessary things want to make money, so they trick us all. They make millions of dollars every day and ordinary people, such as u and i pay the prize. If we just look back 50 years we see a huge difference. The things they made before where made to last you a lifetime, cause the companies wanted to provide you with something good. Nowadays, the companies work together to earn more money. One company make the batteries, another make the chords & another one make the product. They design the product to last you about 2 years so you have to buy a new one when it breaks, cause they don't make spare parts for the 'older models'. It's an linear system where less then 1% of the population benefits.
If we all thought about this every day and actually wanted to make a difference, we could. Cause remember this; if we don't buy anything they don't make anything. The power have always, and will always be with the people.
My dad always said to me “health is the most important thing, cause money has no value if you are dead".
Even though i know all this, and i think about it every day i fall in their trap. I always have a craving for buying new things. The way they built the system is that if you don't buy enough things you will fall behind. For example; the new facebook trend on smartphones. If you don't have the newest iPhone or blackberry you can't stay in touch with your friends the way other people can, you fall behind and you actually loose some of your social life. But the companies that provides all of these unnecessary things want to make money, so they trick us all. They make millions of dollars every day and ordinary people, such as u and i pay the prize. If we just look back 50 years we see a huge difference. The things they made before where made to last you a lifetime, cause the companies wanted to provide you with something good. Nowadays, the companies work together to earn more money. One company make the batteries, another make the chords & another one make the product. They design the product to last you about 2 years so you have to buy a new one when it breaks, cause they don't make spare parts for the 'older models'. It's an linear system where less then 1% of the population benefits.
If we all thought about this every day and actually wanted to make a difference, we could. Cause remember this; if we don't buy anything they don't make anything. The power have always, and will always be with the people.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
blog14
In a movie called "sleep dealer" one of the main characters are selling videos of her memories and other memories in cyberspace. This makes me think about the possibility's and downsides that internet-blogs has. A blog is a portal where you can share information about you or any other human being. For example, we have personalized blogs where writers write about their everyday life's. The writer share videos, photos and thoughts. Most of the blogs are kind of basic in a way, the writer does not share anything to private and are therefore able to keep his or her private life an unrevealed secret. On the other hand there are people who like to share their lives completely, like an open book for anyone to read. Just like in the movie, Luz chose to sell her memories to whoever for money and that is exactly what most of the top bloggers do today. My concern is that the top bloggers does not only have the power to harm their own repetition but also others. The problem is that they get paid by how many readers they have and there are bloggers who likes to provoke to get more subscribers.
Today's world is controlled by internet. It is very easy to get lost in the thought of earning quick money, so some people forget about the consequence's it may bring . People don't think one extra time before they decide to publish a blog entrance. There are stories about people getting fired from their job after their bosses read their blog with pictures showing a little bit to much or even worse, people committing suicide after all the negative response that they got from the outside world. My point is that we should be a little more thoughtful before we post things on internet because once it is out there it will never ever disappear which is very scary if you think that extra time. We have a responsibility over our own life and know that our acts have their consequences. We have the power to decide what we want to share with the rest of the internet users. I think it is fantastic that we can, I just do not like seeing anyone get hurt.
One of the worlds biggest blogger is "www.kissies.se" she is a young girl who decided to go as far as it took to become famous and rich. Her posts are always very revealing, she has done tons of plastic surgery, plays that she is blond without a brain and get millions of readers because she provokes everyone so much. People get annoyed of her behavior and want to go back to se what is the next thing she will do to chock her readers. So now she is famous and very rich but everything comes with a price. Because of how she acts in her blog everyone thinks that is who she is, a mean bimbo who had to much surgery. The sad part is that she has gotten so many mean comments about how she looks so she has developed anorexia and is planning to do a second nose job. Is that really what she wants when she is thirty? When she is done with the whole "blogging-thing"? I feel sad that she has done this to herself. I can only see one positive thing about it and that is that she made a decision to do this to herself without using other people and their mistakes to become sucsessful.
Luz made a living from selling her and others memories and unfortunately there are people in the real world who does exactly the same thing, who take advantage from others, it makes me so angry! That someone can do that just for something as simple as money or recognition. Before you share your thoughts with cyberspace please think again and again, then make a decision if you can deal with the thought that your post will live on forever, in cyberspace. Even twenty years from now your picture and posts will still be out there maybe haunting you from someone you thought you were but not really are.
Today's world is controlled by internet. It is very easy to get lost in the thought of earning quick money, so some people forget about the consequence's it may bring . People don't think one extra time before they decide to publish a blog entrance. There are stories about people getting fired from their job after their bosses read their blog with pictures showing a little bit to much or even worse, people committing suicide after all the negative response that they got from the outside world. My point is that we should be a little more thoughtful before we post things on internet because once it is out there it will never ever disappear which is very scary if you think that extra time. We have a responsibility over our own life and know that our acts have their consequences. We have the power to decide what we want to share with the rest of the internet users. I think it is fantastic that we can, I just do not like seeing anyone get hurt.
One of the worlds biggest blogger is "www.kissies.se" she is a young girl who decided to go as far as it took to become famous and rich. Her posts are always very revealing, she has done tons of plastic surgery, plays that she is blond without a brain and get millions of readers because she provokes everyone so much. People get annoyed of her behavior and want to go back to se what is the next thing she will do to chock her readers. So now she is famous and very rich but everything comes with a price. Because of how she acts in her blog everyone thinks that is who she is, a mean bimbo who had to much surgery. The sad part is that she has gotten so many mean comments about how she looks so she has developed anorexia and is planning to do a second nose job. Is that really what she wants when she is thirty? When she is done with the whole "blogging-thing"? I feel sad that she has done this to herself. I can only see one positive thing about it and that is that she made a decision to do this to herself without using other people and their mistakes to become sucsessful.
Luz made a living from selling her and others memories and unfortunately there are people in the real world who does exactly the same thing, who take advantage from others, it makes me so angry! That someone can do that just for something as simple as money or recognition. Before you share your thoughts with cyberspace please think again and again, then make a decision if you can deal with the thought that your post will live on forever, in cyberspace. Even twenty years from now your picture and posts will still be out there maybe haunting you from someone you thought you were but not really are.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
blog 12
in the text "Happy meals" written by Michael Pollan he gives us some great short advice about how we can improve our eating habits.
The first thing he said that caught my attention was " Don't eat anything that your grandmother wouldn't recognize as food". I really liked this statment because now when I am on my own, living in my own apartment I have realized that my mum and grandmother have had such an big influence in what I am eating today. They were the ones who thought me what real food looks like. So this is something that is a part of who we are, what my family has eaten on a regular basis for generations. I would say it is very do-able because the diet contains a loot of vegetables, potatoes and real meat. I wish I could have my own garden just like they both have. I would grow my own tomatoes, vegetables, potatoes and herbs. Unfortunately my current living situation makes it impossible. Perhaps some day in the future when
I move back to my home country; Sweden or get an apartment here with a little backyard I could do it. It is something very special about eating things that you have grown yourself, It is all natural without anything else added and it taste like heaven. Right now I do not eat a lot of leaves just by the simple fact of that I have not thought about how healthy it is until I read this text, so even though I cannot grow my own at the moment I feel that it is very easy for me to start buying it to add more vitamins to my diet.
It is funny, he mentioned something I had never thought about before; we should try to stay out of the middle part of the supermarket because most stores are divided in the same way. He is giving examples of that they often keep fresh fruit on the walls surrounding the store while In the middle they keep processed food. I started thinking about how the supermarket I always shop at looks like and sure enough, they keep all the organic food on the edges of the store and the processed food in the middle. I buy organic things because I want to make sure that they did not put anything else in the food that I do not know about. weird numbers and ingredients i do not recognize freaks me out so I do my best trying to stay away from them. It may be a little more expensive but just as Michael Pollan says " those who can afford to eat well should", eating healthy can only do you good. I try not to eat so much processed food that is canned with large amounts of sodium and fat but it is hard to stay away from all processed food because from what I have learned Milk for examples is processed food. So this could be a little more challenging for me than the other advises that I was discussing earlier.
Since I was talking about how the stores are divided it hit me that in every single store they keep candy, twinkies and other snacks buy the cashier. I am guessing that they do this to tempt you to buy sweet stuff while you are waiting for your turn. This brings me to another advise from Michael Pollan "Don't eat anything incabable of rotting". I do not know if candy go bad, it often looses its freshness but it does not start to smell like real food does. So candy I can not stay away from, candy brings stars of happiness to my eyes. Other things like muffins or Twinkies I do not have any problems at all staying away from. To be honest they do not appeal to me at all, I feel grossed out just looking at them, especially after my teacher reviled the truth about them not being cab able of rotting.
I loved most of his tips that he shared with us in the text. The ones I found a little more challenging I will try to have an open mind to and do my best to follow them. Thanks to my grandmother and great advice I am happy to say that I believe that I will have a decent diet to pass on to the next generation of kids in my family.
The first thing he said that caught my attention was " Don't eat anything that your grandmother wouldn't recognize as food". I really liked this statment because now when I am on my own, living in my own apartment I have realized that my mum and grandmother have had such an big influence in what I am eating today. They were the ones who thought me what real food looks like. So this is something that is a part of who we are, what my family has eaten on a regular basis for generations. I would say it is very do-able because the diet contains a loot of vegetables, potatoes and real meat. I wish I could have my own garden just like they both have. I would grow my own tomatoes, vegetables, potatoes and herbs. Unfortunately my current living situation makes it impossible. Perhaps some day in the future when
I move back to my home country; Sweden or get an apartment here with a little backyard I could do it. It is something very special about eating things that you have grown yourself, It is all natural without anything else added and it taste like heaven. Right now I do not eat a lot of leaves just by the simple fact of that I have not thought about how healthy it is until I read this text, so even though I cannot grow my own at the moment I feel that it is very easy for me to start buying it to add more vitamins to my diet.
It is funny, he mentioned something I had never thought about before; we should try to stay out of the middle part of the supermarket because most stores are divided in the same way. He is giving examples of that they often keep fresh fruit on the walls surrounding the store while In the middle they keep processed food. I started thinking about how the supermarket I always shop at looks like and sure enough, they keep all the organic food on the edges of the store and the processed food in the middle. I buy organic things because I want to make sure that they did not put anything else in the food that I do not know about. weird numbers and ingredients i do not recognize freaks me out so I do my best trying to stay away from them. It may be a little more expensive but just as Michael Pollan says " those who can afford to eat well should", eating healthy can only do you good. I try not to eat so much processed food that is canned with large amounts of sodium and fat but it is hard to stay away from all processed food because from what I have learned Milk for examples is processed food. So this could be a little more challenging for me than the other advises that I was discussing earlier.
Since I was talking about how the stores are divided it hit me that in every single store they keep candy, twinkies and other snacks buy the cashier. I am guessing that they do this to tempt you to buy sweet stuff while you are waiting for your turn. This brings me to another advise from Michael Pollan "Don't eat anything incabable of rotting". I do not know if candy go bad, it often looses its freshness but it does not start to smell like real food does. So candy I can not stay away from, candy brings stars of happiness to my eyes. Other things like muffins or Twinkies I do not have any problems at all staying away from. To be honest they do not appeal to me at all, I feel grossed out just looking at them, especially after my teacher reviled the truth about them not being cab able of rotting.
I loved most of his tips that he shared with us in the text. The ones I found a little more challenging I will try to have an open mind to and do my best to follow them. Thanks to my grandmother and great advice I am happy to say that I believe that I will have a decent diet to pass on to the next generation of kids in my family.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Blog 11
In the film “The story of bottled water” made by Annie Leonard
they are discussing the fact that the American people buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week. They want people to stop purchasing bottle water because we already have great water in our taps. It is better for the environment and you save money. Studies has showed that the water we have in our homes are often cleaner and taste better than the water we pay an awful lot of money for at the grocery store.
I was not surprised at all when they mentioned in the video that tap water is often healthier/cleaner than the water we buy on bottle. I do not know if this is just another home run for the companies being able to fool by scaring the American people that their water is bad in some way because before I moved here I had never heard about bottle water. I grew up in the north part of Sweden and we never had the access to bottle water. They do not sell it anywhere. Everyone is drinking it straight from the tap. If you are waking in the woods you can find the cleanest running water. Some people even have their own water springs for their home. When I started visit my sisters in New York I realized that everyone was drinking water on bottle. This made me think that maybe their water was bad. It did taste a little funny because of the chlorine so I am thinking that this may be a chain reaction. It may have started with companies who wanted to make money, so they spread myths about how bad the American tap water is so that people would start purchasing their bottles. Then people who had not heard about these lies started seeing people drinking water from bottles and just like me, without digging deeper into why, they just decided that is what you should do.
What the process of making these plastic bottles does to our world is just awful. We live in the United States and buy a sick number of bottles every week that they ship worldwide, one brand I know of travels all the way from Island. I think that we should really start thinking green for real. They are fooling us by putting texts on the bottles claiming that a smaller cap on a bottle is green. If people would use the money that they save from not buying water for a week to buy a filter instead they could start making the world a greener place and also save a lot of money to enjoy it.
they are discussing the fact that the American people buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week. They want people to stop purchasing bottle water because we already have great water in our taps. It is better for the environment and you save money. Studies has showed that the water we have in our homes are often cleaner and taste better than the water we pay an awful lot of money for at the grocery store.
I was not surprised at all when they mentioned in the video that tap water is often healthier/cleaner than the water we buy on bottle. I do not know if this is just another home run for the companies being able to fool by scaring the American people that their water is bad in some way because before I moved here I had never heard about bottle water. I grew up in the north part of Sweden and we never had the access to bottle water. They do not sell it anywhere. Everyone is drinking it straight from the tap. If you are waking in the woods you can find the cleanest running water. Some people even have their own water springs for their home. When I started visit my sisters in New York I realized that everyone was drinking water on bottle. This made me think that maybe their water was bad. It did taste a little funny because of the chlorine so I am thinking that this may be a chain reaction. It may have started with companies who wanted to make money, so they spread myths about how bad the American tap water is so that people would start purchasing their bottles. Then people who had not heard about these lies started seeing people drinking water from bottles and just like me, without digging deeper into why, they just decided that is what you should do.
What the process of making these plastic bottles does to our world is just awful. We live in the United States and buy a sick number of bottles every week that they ship worldwide, one brand I know of travels all the way from Island. I think that we should really start thinking green for real. They are fooling us by putting texts on the bottles claiming that a smaller cap on a bottle is green. If people would use the money that they save from not buying water for a week to buy a filter instead they could start making the world a greener place and also save a lot of money to enjoy it.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
blog 10
In the text "imitation of film; here's smoking at you, kid" written by Nicholas Balakar he is expressing his worries about how kids are starting to imitate actors who smoke in movies. From the age of ten to fourteen they are in a dangerous zone of becoming smokers. This is after watching their favorite actors smoke in R-rated movies. R-rated movies contain twice as much smoking characters. A research made by James D. Sarget showed a scary percentage; thirty eight percent of children who watch R-rated movies start smoking for that very reason. In this study James D asked 6522 young kids about their relationships to movies. Results showed that children who watched a lot of movies was more likely to fall in the trap of smoking. Dr Sarget admits that the result of the study only represents the number of the young children but that the percentage should still be taken very seriously.
I agree with Balakar when he states that:
"Children the ages of 10 to 14 are much more likely to take up on smoking if they have seen actors smoke in movies".
Actors has a big influence on kids because they look up to them. I believe that the risk of you staring smoking when you are young is way higher than when you are older. Young children should not be allowed to watch R-rated movies. When kids are standing on their feet ready to take a step into the adult world it is hard to know how to act. That is why a lot of kids imitate adults such as their favorite actors. The risk of becoming a smoker when you are young is big because you are really at the point of your life when you want to feel older and grown up. R-rated movies contain material that is suited for adults and should therefor not be watched by kids.
I think one of the most difficult time of your life is when you are a teenager. It is a very fragile period of time because you are still a child but on your way of becoming an adult. I remember looking up to people who was older than me. I would watch them walk, talk and how they drank their coffee. It is so easy to take after things that they do because you associate it with being an adult. When I look back at myself around the same age I used to copy the acts of the one I admire to most; my older sister. I remember when me and my best friend were little. We used to go to the store and buy cigarets that was made out of chocolate. We would go out a really chilly winter day, when the cold air creates smoke from your mouth when you breath and then walk around in in public places with our fake cigarets. We felt like adults tricking everyone that we were smoking. So I know with my own experience that adults and actors has a huge impact on kids especially around the age of 10 to 14 when you are not old enough to understand what is a vise decision or not.
Parents should be more strict about what types of movies they let their kids watch to make sure that they are not exposed to violence or smoking at a young age. R-rated movies are called that for a reason and if the movie theaters take their responsibility of not letting underage kids watch R-rated movies, parents should do the same. I also think it is important to educate children at an early age about the danger of smoking. One thing that a teacher of mine in junior high did was inviting a man who suffered from lung cancer to one of our classes. He made me not even wanna touch a cigaret after listening to how his life turned from beautiful to painful.
We all know that children look up to older people that they admire, I can only hope that adults like myself start taking action because that is really all you can do. whether If it is you as a parent, the man in the ticket window at the movies or the teachers. It starts with you.
I agree with Balakar when he states that:
"Children the ages of 10 to 14 are much more likely to take up on smoking if they have seen actors smoke in movies".
Actors has a big influence on kids because they look up to them. I believe that the risk of you staring smoking when you are young is way higher than when you are older. Young children should not be allowed to watch R-rated movies. When kids are standing on their feet ready to take a step into the adult world it is hard to know how to act. That is why a lot of kids imitate adults such as their favorite actors. The risk of becoming a smoker when you are young is big because you are really at the point of your life when you want to feel older and grown up. R-rated movies contain material that is suited for adults and should therefor not be watched by kids.
I think one of the most difficult time of your life is when you are a teenager. It is a very fragile period of time because you are still a child but on your way of becoming an adult. I remember looking up to people who was older than me. I would watch them walk, talk and how they drank their coffee. It is so easy to take after things that they do because you associate it with being an adult. When I look back at myself around the same age I used to copy the acts of the one I admire to most; my older sister. I remember when me and my best friend were little. We used to go to the store and buy cigarets that was made out of chocolate. We would go out a really chilly winter day, when the cold air creates smoke from your mouth when you breath and then walk around in in public places with our fake cigarets. We felt like adults tricking everyone that we were smoking. So I know with my own experience that adults and actors has a huge impact on kids especially around the age of 10 to 14 when you are not old enough to understand what is a vise decision or not.
Parents should be more strict about what types of movies they let their kids watch to make sure that they are not exposed to violence or smoking at a young age. R-rated movies are called that for a reason and if the movie theaters take their responsibility of not letting underage kids watch R-rated movies, parents should do the same. I also think it is important to educate children at an early age about the danger of smoking. One thing that a teacher of mine in junior high did was inviting a man who suffered from lung cancer to one of our classes. He made me not even wanna touch a cigaret after listening to how his life turned from beautiful to painful.
We all know that children look up to older people that they admire, I can only hope that adults like myself start taking action because that is really all you can do. whether If it is you as a parent, the man in the ticket window at the movies or the teachers. It starts with you.
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