Essay Topic

What are certain factors that influence obesity?

Vocabulary #2

Obesity: the condition of being grossly fat or overweight
obesity has become one of our nations top problems.

Accumulate: gather together or acquire an increasing number or quantity of 
by eating a lot of unhealthy things fat will accumulate and cause problems in the long run. 

Mass: a body of coherent matter; bulk size or massiveness 
being overweight can cause large amounts of mass on the body. 

Disease: any harmful condition 
obesity is a major disease that can effect anyone. 

Diet:particular selection of food 
my coach decided to put us on a diet after watching how out of breath we were. 

Prevalence: widespread 
there is a prevalence of obesity in the country. 

Stigma: mark of disgrace or infamy 
obesity marks a big stigma on ones self being. 

Adolescent: growing to adulthood: youth 
high school students or adolescents are the primary targets for fast food restaurants. 

Cardiovascular: pertaining or affecting the heart 
its important to keep your cardiovascular health up. 

Excessive: going above and beyond the necessary limit 
its important to excessive your goals. 

Mechanism: assembly of moving parts preforming a complete function 
our bodies are complex mechanisms. 

Sedentary: to take little exercise; to sit or rest a great deal 
most overweight people are sedentary. 

Predispose:  to give an inclination to beforehand 
the lack of exercise my predispose people to be overweight. 

Syndrome:  a group of symptoms that consistently occur together or a condition characterized by a set of associated symptoms 
down syndrome is something that happens when you have more chromosomes then you are supposed to. 

THIS IS PHAT !

"Fast Food Nation" -Eric Schlosser

I read this book last year and its a big eye opener on what really is going on in America. This book lets us know how us as a country are being targeted by these fast food industries and how all of these are causing us harm. Schlosser gives statistics to support his points that he has. Also he lets us know that this industry is world wide but us as Americans have the biggest problem.                                                                                                                                                                  

Vocabulary #1

1.Expository: serving to expand or explain 

You should consider taking an expository writing class. 

2.Composition: act or result of combing parts to form a whole 

The composition of what happened prove that you broke the vase. 

3.Assuage: to lessen 

The cause of the great depression was a great assuage of food. 

4.Decadence: moral deterioration 

Some historians say that the fall of Rome was due to its internal decadence 

5. Hachneyed: trite, made common place 

Everyone now is using the hachneyed old saying from the 80's. 

6. Coalition: alliance 

The Avengers are a coalition. 

7. Transcend: to go beyond the ordinary limits of 

The coach transcended to help his team make the finals. 

8. Meritorious: deserving praise, reward 

The team is meritorious on winning the championship for all their hard work this season. 

9. Lurid: shocking, horrible 

The lurid feeling of someone scaring you is not always fun. 

10. Petulant: showing impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance 

The sister was very petulant when her brother kept throwing things at her. 

My Opinion Isn't a Right

In class we had to participate in a Socratic seminar last week on "The Right to Your Opinion" and these are a couple of notes on it.

• your opinion does not matter 
• people take your opinion seriously and can get offended on what you say 
• in order to validate your opinion you need to have evidence to support it 
• big people make little people's opinion feel small 
• *interdependence: depending on others 
• the limbic part of our brain controls our emotions 
• reptilian part of our brain is not intentional 

Reflections on Week One

we were assigned to answer questions about our one week experience

1.Are there any factors that you think are going to affect your participation or experience in this class? Access to a computer?  Mobile/smart phone?  Transportation?  Friends/family? Schedule?

1. Some factors that are going to effect my participation in class maybe the blog itself but i know that once i start using it more I wont be as hesitant to use it. By having my phone I think it would help a lot because since its a smartphone it would help me by getting to do my homework even if something happens ti my computer. 

2.Think of an awesome best ever learning experience that changed you. What did you learn? Where were you? What happened? Who else was there? Did it teach you anything about how you learn (or pay attention... or remember, or think?) How did you know what was happening? 

2. One of the best learning experiences that I have ever had was my freshman year honors English class. My teacher was a great teacher that explained everything really well. I learned a lot about the Greek Mythology and he broke down Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in a unique way that helped me understand. I think why i learned so much in that class was because he made it interesting and easy to follow along. 

3. What are you most [excited/concerned] about in this class? What do you look forward to in learning?  How do you think it can/will make a practical difference in your life? 

3. What I am excited on learning this year is that its a whole new way of learning. All of my other classes have been the traditional read out of the book class and this one is more hands on and there is not just one way of learning there is different ways. What i am looking forward to learning is on how to improve my writing. I believe that this will make a difference in my life because it will only help me get better. 

5 Go To Sources For Good Non Fiction

There is a lot more but here are five sources

1. The local library
2. Friends and family
3. A teacher
4. Google
5. Kindle