LE Reflection Blog

 In today's class, we learned about how 25% of the American milk industry uses a drug to increase milk production from a cow. We were told that the FDA approved of this atrocity and had fooled American families for years. In the discussion, we consulted about rather the public should have the right to know.  In my opinion, I believe that yes the consumers should know what kind of milk they are consuming. The video stated that RBGH (the drug) was approved by the FDA because they were told that it would not have a negative effect on either the cow or the humans though, in reality, the cow has to suffer from an overload of milk compiling in their bodies.  On top of that after a bit of research, I found out that having a large intake of this substance can lead to a high risk of cancer. I am not sure of the regulations and criteria for their inspections but I thought that this should have somehow come upon the FDA's radar and I don't think that it would be too late to check as...

 Today in class we talked about the Propaganda Matriz and the 5 filters. I learned that there were several factors that companies required when releasing an article on a topic. The one that stood out to me was the first component, where the ownership of the company would greatly influence the stories that the press would release. This is because I felt that the people who should be the most honest in releasing reliable information to the public were being swayed by the choices of one or few people. The third and fourth components were also ones that were really important. The reason why I thought so was that Mr. Paterson told us that they were more prominent in Japan. Things like the Kisha Club and Dentsu information made me skeptical of Japanese new organizations. I would like to find out how these networks are linked with each other and be able to take in more information from different companies to gain a more wide perspective on a certain topic.  Today's notes  Noam C...

Today in class we looked at a few people's bio and pointed out the good and bad points of their bios. I was fortunately picked in class to get advice from Mr. Paterson and there were a few points in both my writing and in my picture that I needed to change. Firstly in my picture, the fact that the picture was blurred in the back was a good thing, but the fact that I was facing forward in the picture and not slanted gave it a too formal look and was too boring to be a picture in a bio. Another thing I should have focused on is taking a picture of where I am doing something.  I thought that because I mentioned doing football in the bio, I wanted to have some pictures of me doing a sport so I would like to get a picture like that. Secondly, on the writing part, I had one part where I wrote, "mostly white population" and Mr. Paterson pointed out that just because someone is white doesn't mean that they were going to speak English.  

 This is the first blog since year 4 and we started by talking about democracy on the first day. But today, we started our bio where we were supposed to introduce ourselves in a way that would make us look better. The example we were shown by Mr. Paterson talked about his past experiences in different places, but we were told that because we probably didn't work so we were just expected to write what kind of education we have been through and the advantages of receiving these varieties of education.  I thought it was important to write these experiences we had in the past into our bios as it would be practice for when we need to write resumes in our future careers. On the other hand, it was hard to think of experiences we had so it made us bluff the small chances to write on our bios. I think that polishing these skills would be important in the future and can be used in many different situations in the future.