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Ø Reiterate a term or concept you learned in Anatomy this week.
Ø List a few pleasant events that happened during your first weeks at NMU.
Ø Where do you want to be (academically) in six months?
Ø List habits you already possess that make you successful in college.
Ø List habits (timewasters?) you can change or modify, or need to lose.
Ø Explain how you approach studying your a) textbook and b) notes.
Ø Explain how you determine what to write down in notes during lectures.
Ø FAST FOOD NATION:
Ø Watch this short 1980’s McDonald’s commercial. McD’s reps have actually claimed they do not target children in their ads.. Pay attention to the tagline: “The Hamburglar is very clever and very sneaky!” Why is this ironic?
Ø Over the last several decades, fast food companies have aggressively targeted children in their marketing efforts. Should advertisers be permitted to target children who lack the sophistication to make informed decisions and are essentially being lured into eating high fat, high calorie food through toys and cute corporate mascots?
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sorry that the last answer is so long..i just feel(obviously) so strongly about the subject =]
No problems Natasha, you are RIGHT ON. I love passion, it's what drives us to seek the answers we would never have otherwise known!
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
I must admit that I find it deceptive and devious to target the youth of any society in order to sale a product, but we must not forfeit our accountability as parents to censor what our children watch and the responsibility attached to being a parent. It's apparent to me that a parent should parent! And corporations will do whatever they can to make a sell.
Chris, you're right on too! Parents need to parent. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't think twice about what they feed their children (or themselves)either out of ignorance or just innocent bliss.
Yea, corporations will do whatever it takes. More on that later. Shudder the thought..
My response to that was snarky and libertarian. I also believe that parents have a responsibility to parent - but parents are people too, and most people are lazy. And parenting is WORK. MANY Americans have a weak work ethic, and that shows in the fact that fast food is king.
Parenting sure is work, amen to that! And when your 2 year-old is screaming in the backseat for "french fries", it's easy to give in. Shame on me. But again, I brought it on myself by introducing it to him in the first place. Bad mommy.
Know what else sucks? In the middle of winter when it's too cold to play outside and kids are running their parents ragged, a great place to go is the patented McD's Playland. Shameful. I'm sure that's just the way our "trusted friends" want it too..
The mass brainwashing of children doesn't stop with fastfood. Just this morning my little boy was shouting "tommy gun! tommy gun!" because on NickJR during an educational show, thank you very much, they actually advertissed a new Nerf Tommygun. :(
Yes, I agree with everyones comments about parenting and fast food. It plays a huge role in the childs life and some people just don't get it.
does anyone know why my Blog #2 doesn't come up on my page.. I have to click under september or something like that to see it.
I'm done with Blog #2.
I finished my Blog #2
The volunteer program that I signed up for is over the summer for anyone. You can either work with animals and the environment or with the community in your host country. We have been hearing about in several classes all week.
done with my blog #2 =)!!
Yeah, I totally think it sucks that Fast Food places can target innocent kids like that, but it can easily be avoided if the parents just don't take their kids to eat at those places. If they are complaining that the industry is targeting their child, they simply just have to avoid taking their child there day after day.
I just finished my blog, sorry i was slacking. I have been my usual self and freaking out about anatomy.
Anyways, I really wish FFN was a little less advertisment based i suppose, i wish it was more fact oriented toward the food.
Oh we'll get to the food ingredients soon enough and then you will all be complaining that you are literally sick to your stomach ;)
What happens when parents are just as ignorant and/or uneducated and really don't know any better? What happens when they are at or below poverty level and can only feed their families on the $1 menu? What then..?
i finished my blog...i also find it really funny that every class someone walks in thinking its their classroom, not realizing that by the 3rd week of school i mean we are a whole month into school they still don't realize that its not their classroom, honeslty how do you still not know where your classroom is. it just makes me laugh.
i finished blog number 2.
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