Final project

Final project: Oatmeal porridge.

Part I: The recipe.

Traditional porridge as defined in Wikipedia:

a thick mixture made with uncooked oatmeal (or medium oatmeal that has been dry toasted by stirring it around in a dry pot over heat until it turns a slightly darker shade and emits a sweet, nutty fragrance) and then adding butter or cream.

I have made this delicious dish because everyone knows the oatmeal, and how it helpful to stay our bodies healthy. People from different country use the oatmeal in huge numbers of recipes like cookie, rolled, cruel, porridge and so on. I like to eat this porridge every morning. In my country, Russia, the oatmeal is allegory of Hercules who was great strength man. It means that oatmeal gives power or strength. The original recipe is from England.

You will need:

Oat organic, organic milk, organic sugar, organic butter and any dry fruits and nuts (dry apricot, dry mango, raiser, cranberry, walnut, and so on).

Part II: The Shopping

This “Natural” store with organic stuffs is located on 72-56 Austin Street, Forest Hills.

It’s my favor store which I always buy healthy food. For my final project I went there and I took some pictures and bought the necessary ingredients for oatmeal porridge.

Here are the costs of all these stuff:
Organic oat $2.49
Organic milk $4.39
Organic sugar $4.99
Organic butter $3.49
Organic green tea $3.39
Some dry fruits and walnut I already had at home.

Part III: The Cooking

You have to wash the oat few times with water.

In saucepan pour little water and add washed oat and turn on the stone.

When water evaporated to add milk and constantly stir until it’s finally cook.

After 10-15 minutes the porridge would be ready, and add a small piece of butter.

Then, depends on your taste you can add some dry fruits and nuts.

Enjoy your oatmeal porridge.

My final note:

Before I was careful to choose some food, but now, after semester I became double careful when I start to buy food. I don’t want to waste money on food that makes me and my family unhealthy. I like to have this porridge for my breakfast. Fairly often I’m used to make porridge on water without any other ingredients to decrease calories in dish. People who want to lose weight can use it because oatmeal contains rich set of nutritious substances, vitamins, and minerals. I am not upholder to eat out side of home. I like to eat at home because it cheaper than in restaurants and I know from which food the dishes made. Also, preparation meal at home makes me satisfied and I enjoy eating homemaking dishes.

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Final Class Reflection

From this course I learn more and I started to think deeply over some important things. Whole course we had learned about reality and how people become the reason of this reality. A lot of ads help the products to be sellable. People have been buying the all ads stuffs that increase to produce customer goods. At the end, people become suffer about their health because these customer goods are unhealthy and producing these stuffs can be a reason the increasing huge numbers of cancer, diabetic, obesity and so on people. However, we can little a bit help own self to avoid some diseases; we just have to choose the health lifestyle. Therefore when I reread all my blogs and I think some of them like “Truman and Me,” “Bottled Water,” and “Meatrix, and food additives” are best examples of my critical thinking. I’ve been continuing to think about truth and reality we live in. I was learned more about bottled water and food additives, and now I carefully learn the ingredients before I think to buy some stuff.

During this course we used writing online and I think it’s different than I had before. Writing online is better because it’s paperless and we can see and read the writing’s other students that allow us to make up proper imagine how to write essay and improve our writing ability. I liked to read other students blogs and I was glad that some students read my blog. Some of them left some comments that allow me to correct my mistakes and achieve some improvement in writing.

From this class I like the themes what we learned whole semester and I cognized more about our reality life and I will take these lessons to my future. I can completely say that I am leaving this class with a basic understanding of writing strategies, but I know I still have some problem with grammar and this up to me. The most memorable moment is thinking about reality. It’s touched my soul. We are living in the time where rhythm of life so fast that we sometime even doesn’t have time to think about some simple things. I will recommend taking this class because they can learn more about writing essay, and other skills like critical thinking.

Blog 17

Planned Obsolescence/Perceived Obsolescence

In “The Story of Stuff” Annie Leonard states us how the whole system of stuffs have arranged. “The stuffs move through a system from extraction to production, to distribution, to consumption, to disposal.” The author mentions Victor Lebow’s statement, which was retailing analyst, who said that to increase economy of country need to create a lot of consumer goods. For this thing needs two main strategies are “planned obsolescence” and “perceived obsolescence.”

“Planned obsolescence” is for creating stuffs that we can use them short time and throw away, is another word bad-quality things. These goods will fast become unusable, and people can buy others to substitute them. If many things will frequently destroyed, and people will spent a lot of money that allow increasing economy. For example, most of the cell phones are an imperfect quality. Every one or two years I have to change my cell phone because battery of it becomes obsolescent.
“Perceived obsolescence” is condition when things that we bought a couple years ago looks like so old generation, or so ugly not fashion. For instance, last year, a fashionable color was yellow, and people started to buy clothes of that particular color, but in this year are gray so, people shop clothes of this color.

I think the government of the country responsible for these marketing strategies because a government works, thinks, and cares of their nation or citizenships. People from a government must to control whole market, and don’t allow to production a bad-quality goods that have created for people. Of course, some people get benefits from these marketing strategies, like producers of these goods, and government exchequer that filled with taxes. Each year, of these strategies are run out of natural resources; increased numbers of production of goods, that raised air pollution; and people get so many and different diseases like asthma, diabetic, cancer, and so on. These reasons are after-effect of those marketing strategies. Who can say that these strategies for people, for our healthy generation? I don’t say that these strategies are right. Every year our generation becomes sicker than a year ago. The reason is the air pollution, and food that content a lot of chemical substances like fast-food, junk food and so on. I try do not eat these food, but nowadays, we face with difficulties to find healthy and proper food. I never had allergy before; but current days, my doctor found out by me the kind of allergy that resists any treatment. He couldn’t say a definite reason of this allergy, besides as the air pollution and nowadays’ food.

In short, “planned obsolescence” and “received obsolescence” advanced the economy of the country, that is an important thing for well-being country, but these both strategies make the people or generation to be sick and unhealthy that also a big problem for suffering.

Blog 16

Let Them Eat Fat

In “Let Them Eat Fat” Greg Critser, the author states that fast-food has been criticized by specialists who responsible for nutrition. Nevertheless, the fast-food restaurants continue their existence. Moreover, they appear more in poor communities, and offer to their costumers extra meal for free by “supersizing.” The author explains to us how the body gets a metabolism after eating fast-food every day. Also, how dangerous it is for teenagers because they get more than twice the calories that they need. I believe that Greg Critser is right that fast-food restaurants allow their customers to eat fat because they seduce them with “supersizing” meal, and increasing calories in the body destroys metabolism that make body to be dependent on fast-food.

Fast-food restaurants chains is business organization that wants only to earn a lot of money. They don’t care about their customers. Obviously, they started to propose “supersizing” even after numerous critical articles about fast-food. “Supersizing” is a seductive product especially for poor people because according the G. Critser “…the supersize is free.” Once, one homeless man told me that he knew what the result would be after eating fast-food, but that he doesn’t have a choice because he doesn’t have enough money. Also, he feels full when he eats a ‘supersize” meal. This show us that fast-food meal occupies at first, people with low income, so their company try to grow in poor communities.

Almost all people know that fast-food is not healthy food. We can see it from “Supersize me,” from articles, or from scholars studies. If we would eat fast-food every day we can get metabolic disease that destroy whole our body. I read about one research that took place in one of the New-York school. Nearby that school a fast-food restaurant was located for few years. Those students were investigated by medical specialists. After two years they compared how students’ healths were changed, and so numerous students were discovered with some different diseases compared to students from other schools. This example said us that fast-food companies also want to hit another layer of society, our children.

Some of additives that contain in fast-food may make people addicted to fast-food like drug or cigarette addiction. People who always eat fat, high-calorie and unhealthy food at soon can discover that them so difficult to refuse of these meals. The brains of those people require the fat food, or other case appears negative emotions when they eat food that dissatisfies them. For instance, one of my daughter’s friends loves to eat fast and junk food all the time. Every time she craves to eat them, and she can’t stop eating this food. I can say that she became addicted. This summer I sent my daughter at a camp with that her friend. I was surprised when I saw how many boxes with junk food were sent by her parents. I couldn’t keep my curiosity and I expressed my surprising by question. Whereat, her parents answered that she doesn’t eat any food besides fast and junk food.

In brief, fast-food companies don’t think and care about healthy their customers. Therefore, it’s up to us. We have to think what we do and what we eat. Fast food, like drug and cigarette addiction, and we have to fight with these “enemies” our health.

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Part I

In “The new industrial migrants (part I)” from Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser states that in the beginning 80 years 20 century a lot of people arrived to Colorado to get job at slaughterhouse from Mexico, Central America, and Southeast Asia. According the article, during one and half year was employed more than five thousand employments at the Greeley Beef plant, and some of them were fired every three months. Author said that an annual turnover rate was about 400 percent. Nowadays, despite of some adjustments regarding salary, insurances, benefits, and so on the situation with hire and fire remains same. Eric Schlosser mentioned Arden Walker’s explanation about having such turnover rate. The reason is because the employers don’t want to pay any benefits that workers can accept after six months such as medical insurance, sick days, or vacation after one year.


Part II
In “The new industrial migrants (part II) Eric Schlosser state that IBP was interested to hire immigrants for meatpacking works because immigrants agree to work for lower money then American citizens, and they don’t require some benefits. Therefore, the company sends their recruiters throughout the United States, and they try to recruit people among immigrants and homelessness.

I agree with these both articles and I also can always observe how employers hire immigrants especially undocumented because they agree to work even for less money that employers can save their money. Undocumented immigrants are usually people, who force to come to another country for earning money for their families who are living in difficult financial conditions. They are satisfied just with money, they don’t ask any benefits. I know most of them have been living in terrible conditions. They are used to sleeping a covered floor by mattress in the room where sleep more than enough people, that room they can use for preparing the meal, and for using a toilet. It’s really an insanitary condition. All of them work on hard job like construction, slaughterhouse, and so on, and get scanty money. Moreover, native people don’t want to get these low paying hard works, so many employers hire immigrants at those position. In addition, the employers don’t need spend money to buy them medical or life insurances. These clauses are convenient for them.

Sometimes, some of employers follow the “rule” that describe in the first article that also allows them to save money. I remember one my friend experienced same situation. She was hired in not small company and fired after three months. She didn’t have any bad commends during these months. So, she was surprised by that case. After few months she found out that her friend, which she had made her friend when she came to that company, also was fired from that company after three months her arriving. Then, they both learned that their demission connected with medical insurance that the company has to provide workers after three months. They both didn’t think about it because they both are young ladies and at first, they didn’t care it.

In short, I think the companies have to be honest and to warm people that they need workers only for three months.

Blog 14

Cyborg Life

In movie “Sleep Dealer” shows us how people force to work for helping and realizing their dream. All main characters are Memo, Liz, and Rudy work in different fields, but each of them has some goals. Memo wants to work in high-tech company to help his family which remained without provider, Liz works as writer and dreams to become well-being writer; Rudy wants to be good pilot, so he accomplished all orders that his command officer gives to him.

All of them are cyborg workers. I think this type of job should not be illegal because this job really dangerous. I can compare this job with soldiers or officers who participate on wars or military fighting. These workers have to have better benefits like officers in the US. In the movie “Sleep Dealer” main character Memo was looking job to earn money and then to help his family. I consider that this action is normal. Each person wants to get any job when his or her family assays some financial difficulties. I know even some school students in the US have frequently left the school because they force to get job to help, or support their family if they face some difficulty situations. Also, I can understand Rudy who just executed the order that was given by commander, and what he felt when he found out the man which was killed by him had not been a terrorist. He was so upset and couldn’t be calm down because he conscientious, honest and high-hearted man. Only such men like Rudy can admit fault and try to change something what he did. The perverse was that cyborg workers don’t have any benefits. If they died on the hard job such as we were shown in the movie, they were trough away. Their family has double suffering because they lost a member and a sponsor of family.

Another cyborg being is Liz who sold her memories in cyberspace. I think it is ethical because it was her job like journalists have sold articles, photos. However, an unethical was that that she becomes close friend and she even felt in love at Memo and nothing says him. Actually, what she did, it made happy Memo and his neighbors. Russian people usually say “Whatever you do, it will be for the best” at same situation. In fact, if Liz didn’t sell the memories to Rudy, Memo would never meet him and maybe Memo would never realize his father’s dream.
In conclusion, cyborg life that shows us from movie is not really easy. It more seems on exploitation person by person. So, it is never should be illegal.

Blog 13

I am really glad that I have been studying in this class. Since I started to study here I have gotten a lot of “meal” for thinking. I like this way because we are reasonable existences and we have the ability to think. Earlier, I thought that we are under control by someone. This is God and I didn’t before think about it deeply. However, a few years ago I saw the Peter Joseph’s movie “Zeitgeist.” This movie pushed me to think about real and unreal world. In that movie, the author criticized the version of the act of terrorism World Trade Center. Also, I was wondered about the system of credit; all our money is in the hands of a few people, and how they created the financial crisis. After that movie I found out that we have been living not just under God’s control, but also under other people’s control like in “The Allegory of the Cave,” “The Truman Show,” “Brave New World” and “Matrix.” Part of the people is interesting to earn a lot of money or to reach a high position, and they don’t care about tragic outcomes. Many wars had been placed because of money. Some of people merely get a great amount of money like show maker from “The Truman Show,” or all businessmen who have created and sold junk food, when others suffer and die like the prisoner of the cave who suffered when he reached the real world, or Neo had outdid all obstacles, John, from “Brave New World” was died because he couldn’t live in illusion world, where had been lived impassible people and people who have bought junk food then they feel sore about diseases. The cartoon “Meatrix” clearly explains us what sort of meat we are eaten every day. The maker of “Meatrix” took the base of the movie “Matrix” because there he vividly shows us two different worlds like in the “Matrix,” but there he relate where the meat food from. All these movie give us to find out that we have two worlds. These are real and illusion worlds. In addition, all people should decide by themselves what to do and what to prefer. Aldous Huxley’s characters of the “Brave New World,” Bernard and Lenina, chose the real world despite it was a terrible place where they can to love, and assay all senses. Everything is up to us.

I think all Food Unit items I did satisfyingly. I understood all concepts of this unit and I took some things for reflection such us “The Meatrix” and even I changed my mind regarding bottled water and I started to drink tap water. However, I am still resent about all junk food. Why the Food and Drug Administration allowed them to be sold? I know, in some countries certain organization accepted an appropriate arrangement like to increase the price for food has contained a fat. Consequently, the people won’t try to buy that expensive food. Altogether, I learn enough about food.
For my improvement I need to learn more grammar and to practice to write essay for one hour. About CAT W #3, I didn’t finish again; obviously I couldn’t organize my writing time. I will try my best in next time.