Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Journal 8
Overall I thought the class was decent. This was completely new to me as far as the blogging and peer critiques went, although I did enjoy them both. I liked being able to see what everyone's thoughts were compared to my own on the subject. I did however feel lost quite a bit when it came to the essays, I feel like there wasn't any guide to follow. The videos gave way to broad of a subject to write on and felt it was hard for me to figure out something to pinpoint and write on. I feel that a better way for the students to communicate besides the blogs would be a good way to improve this class. I also think for the this being a trial it turned out pretty good, there are always ways to improve.
FINAL
Jared Wilson
Professor Kelly Warren
ENC 1102
4 April 30, 2013
Holocaust
impacts felt today
“A single landmark of justice and honor does not make a
world of peace.” —Former U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson, January 1947. The
holocaust was undoubtedly the most horrific time of the 20th century
and a watershed event in human history. The world’s eyes where opened by the
events that took place, the holocaust showed the horror’s that apathy can
cause. The impacts from the holocaust shaped the world we live in today; Strict
laws were emplaced to prevent genocide from happening again, the creation of
Israel, and the Nuremberg trials set a precedent for war crime trials today. Although this was a very dark time for Jews,
these actions the Germans took changed the world in a good way.
Immediately following the end of World War Two
the world was faced with a challenge, how to seek justice for an unimaginable
amount of criminal behavior, the annihilation of the European Jewry. The term “Genocide”
came from a Polish-Jewish lawyer by the name of Raphael Limpkin in 1944. December
9, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the “Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide” (commonly referred to as
the Genocide Convention (Holocaust). Laws now strictly pertaining to genocide
that were formed by the Genocide Convention made the crimes of genocide
punishable under international law. This set the standard that is in affect
today.
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Even
after it became known that Hitler was committing unspeakable acts of genocide
against the Jews, many countries, including the United States and Britain,
still refused to allow unlimited amounts of Jewish refugees into their land.
Thus after the war the creation of Israel was mandated. On November 29th, 1947
the UN voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Palestinian states (as
England had initially, but unsuccessfully, attempted to do in 1937), and the
vote passed, giving Israel 55% of the country. (Creation of Israel) However, War
broke out between the Arabs and Jews soon after. The 1948 Arab-Israeli War,
established the state of Israel as an independent state, with the rest of the
British Mandate of Palestine split into areas controlled by Egypt and
Transjordan. The establishment of the state of Israel was seen by Christian
Zionists as a sign that God was fulfilling his promises to Abraham and Jacob.
After the war, some of
those responsible for crimes committed during the Holocaust were brought to
trial. Nuremberg, Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in
1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied powers -- Great Britain, France, the Soviet
Union, and the United States -- presided over the hearings of twenty-two major
Nazi criminals.(Nuremberg Trials). Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to
death. Most of the defendants admitted to the crimes of which they were
accused, although most claimed that they were simply following the orders of a
higher authority. Those individuals directly involved in the killing received
the most severe sentences. Other people who played key roles in the Holocaust,
including high-level government officials, and business executives who used
concentration camp inmates as forced laborers, received short prison sentences
or no penalty at all. Adolf Eichmann, who helped carry out the exportation of
millions of Jews was found in Argentina and brought to trial in Israel.
Eichmann
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was found guilty and
hung in 1962. The reality is that in the long perspective of history the
present century will not hold an admirable position, unless its second half is
to redeem its first. These two-score years in the twentieth century will be
recorded in the book of years as one of the most bloody in all annals. Two
World Wars have left a legacy of dead which number more than all the armies
engaged in any way that made ancient or medieval history. No half-century ever
witnessed slaughter on such a scale, such cruelties and inhumanities, such
wholesale deportations of peoples into slavery, such annihilations of
minorities.(U.S Prosecutor)
The holocaust has brought forth light to an area that was
dark. The suffering that the Jews endured and the wrath that man can create was
brought to the attention of the world after the war. It’s hard to imagine being
involved in something to that nature on either side of the fence. The tragic
acts that conspired during those times impacted the world greatly, even today
we see the effects from the holocaust. Before the holocaust genocide wasn’t
punishable under international law, Israel was not yet created and the Nuremberg
trials set forth the trials of today.
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Work Cited Page
Marian J.
Bakermans-Kranenburg, et al. "Surviving The Holocaust: A Meta-Analysis Of
The Long-Term Sequelae Of A Genocide." Psychological Bulletin 136.5
(2010): 677-698. PsycARTICLES. Web. 30 Apr. 2013.
"How the past
catches up with you." New Statesman [1996] 28 May 2012: 10+. Academic
OneFile. Web. 30 Apr. 2013.
Ozick, Cynthia. "Life Isn't Beautiful."
Newsweek 15 Mar. 2010: 54. Academic OneFile. Web. 30 Apr. 2013.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Miss Represented
In today's society we have a on going saying “Sex Sells” and
the media exploits that. Lets face it, a pretty woman dressed in skimpy clothes
will prevail in most situations. I don’t agree with the way things are on this
topic but its true. I have a perfect example of this, just the other day at
work I was talking to a guy that was telling me at his previous job he hired a
woman because she was attractive, however this girl had no qualifications for
the job while he passed up 10 other candidate’s that were fully qualified for
the position. The video wasn’t a eye opener to me as I have seen this type of
stuff going on at every place I’ve been.
Women use this to their advantage and to be honest I cant say that I
blame them. Everyone is fighting to survive including women and they are just
doing what they have to do. However I do not agree with it I understand why
woman are so miss represented in our society today.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Society of waste
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Food
Waste Essay
Jared
Wilson
Professor
Kelly Warren
ENC
1102
March
12, 2013
One’s
waste is another’s fuel
Eating the food found in dumpsters
might sound like a terrible way to survive, but is it? Every year in the U.S.
roughly 96 billion pounds of food is thrown away. As I saw in the documentary
‘DIVE’, a good portion of that food isn’t spoiled and is very much edible. To
me, this is mind blowing that we waste so much food, yet, the there’s a
staggering amount of hungry people struggling to find their next meal. These
are often hard-working adults, children and seniors who simply cannot make ends
meet and are forced to go without food for several meals, or even days. Grocery
stores often over stock the perishable items making it nearly impossible for
the food to be sold before the ‘best by’ date. It’s not only commercial
industry’s that are wasteful; nearly half of the food prepared in the United
States goes to waste. We not only have a problem with people going hungry but
this amount of waste causing environmental issues as well.
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While
dumpsters behind grocery stores fill up with food, millions of Americans are
struggling
to find a meal. In 2010, 17.2 million households, 14.5
percent of households (approximately one in seven), were food insecure, the
highest number ever recorded in the United States 1 (Coleman-Jensen 2011, p.
v.) Why is this? Why wouldn’t they
donate this to the food banks or mark it down a few days before it’s out of
date? America’s Second
Harvest – The Nation’s Food Bank Network, a group of more than 200 food banks,
reports that donations of food are down 9 percent, but the number of people
showing up for food has increased 20 percent. The group distributes more than 2
billion pounds of donated and recovered food and consumer products each year.
Still an incredible amount is wasted. Such is the volume that according to the
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), if just 5 percent of Americans' food
scraps were recovered it would represent one day's worth of food for 4 million
people. (CNN. Food left overs) I think a big reason for all of this waste is
lack of knowledge.
Even though grocery stores have a
tremendous amount of wasted food, they are not the only contributor to this
growing problem. Households also waste a tremendous amount of food. According
to a study by the University of Arizona Garbage Project, Americans throw away
1.3 pounds of food every day, or 474.5 pounds per year.(Food Waste) It seems
like the old saying “ eyes are bigger than the mouth” is true. I know for my
family it’s always easier to make more food than we need because I say I will
take the left overs to work. Like most people I end up forgetting them, they
spoil in the fridge and end up in the garbage. Nearly half of the food made
never gets consumed and ends up at the landfill. It seems if we all did just a
little better about
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this,
we could make a big difference. Generally speaking, consumers fail to plan
their food purchases properly. That means they often throw food away when
"best-before" dates expired.
In addition to millions of people
going hungry, food waste has a very big impact on our environment. Not only is
all of this waste cramming up our landfills requiring more land to adequately
dispose of it, it’s also creating large amounts of methane gas. Food waste like
all other trash ends up in a landfill, however, food starts to rot and
decompose creating methane gas which is a potent greenhouse gas. Between the
commercial industry and the household food waste we have a growing problem that
needs to be addressed. There are ways to fight this ongoing problem. Food waste
can be used as fertilizer but yet less than three percent of food waste is
recovered for that. Also food waste can be used for production of nature
renewable resources, however like recovering it for fertilizer its simply
discarded. It’s up to each person to make a difference to keep this food waste
out of landfills and use it for something good.
We are a society of waste, it’s
almost as if we are hardwired for it. With 96 billion pounds of food being
trashed every year, we need to stop and think about our actions. We have a
growing problem to deal with and eventually we will no longer be able to look
the other way. Millions of people go hungry while billions of pounds of edible
food are being wasted. In addition to hunger we have the environmental side of
this. Throwing away food that can be used to feed the poor also creates large
amounts of methane coming from our landfills. It’s time to step up and everyone
do their part in curbing this problem.
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Work Cited Page
Bloom,
Jonathan. American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food
(and What We Can Do About It). Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010. Print.
U.S. hunger rate still at historic high. The Christian Century. 127.25 (Dec. 14, 2010) p17. Word Count: 380. Reading Level (Lexile):
1310.
Young,
Mitchell. Garbage and Recycling. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2007. Print.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Journal 5 DIVE
The documentary DIVE is simply an eye opener. I like most people were aware to the fact that we as american's waste food but I had no clue exactly how much food is wasted. In 2010 America threw away 96 billion pounds of food most of that being good edible food. That is an enourmous amount of food to waste while people are going hungry. It's hard for me to go to the grocery store and pay four dollars for a pound of hamburger meat knowing that later that night one hundred pounds would be thrown away. The one thing I have a hard time agreeing with on people about hunger issues is other countrys, I feel that all of these places such as Hati should do something to fix the issue for them. I dont think america's waste is the answere to people in other countrys going hungry when we have people in our own country going hungry. I also think that if you cant afford to feed your kids then you need to stop having them, however with the way america is today the more kids you have the better you will eat thanks to the goverment.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Living A Dream
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American
Dream Essay
Jared
Wilson
Professor
Kelly Warren
ENC
1102
February
26, 2013
Living A Dream
Everyone
has heard the phrase ‘Living the American Dream’ but what does that really
mean? To me, that always meant joining the Army Infantry and serving my county.
In class we attended a lecture conducted by Mauricio Garcia; Mauricio told us
his life story and what it took for him to live the ‘American Dream’. As kids
we often dream about what life we want to live and who we want to be when we
grow up, but as a kid you don’t know the challenges it takes for one to
actually follow a dream and become that person they want to be. More often or
not the American Dream becomes just that, a dream. Often it requires you to
leave your comfort zone and take a path you feel completely lost on and that is
something that is very hard to do, it’s almost as if we are wired to avoid this
path and take the easy way out.
November
14, 2006 I took my first step to living my American dream; I left for Army
Infantry basic training. Growing up I always wanted to be a soldier, every time
I watched a movie about war, I always knew that was my calling. I had to join
the army without telling my family or
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friends as every time I talked to them about it I
always got a lecture about how that isn’t the life I
wanted and it isn’t like the movies. “War
is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest,
easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
It is the only one international in scope. It is
the only one in which the profits are reckoned in
dollars and the losses in lives.”(qtd in MAMA’s) When I told my family I joined
the army they were upset but also proud in the same
sense, proud of me for stepping out of my comfort
zone and leaving everything I knew behind to
follow a dream. It wasn’t until my first day of
basic training that I started to realize what it was
going to take in order for me to stay on this path.
It was that point in my life that I understood
why more
often or not the American dream is something that most people will never
achieve.
After graduating from basic training
I was stationed at FT. Lewis, Washington, until that point I lived in Orange
Park, Florida my entire life. Although one step closer to living my dream I was
going to have to live this dream without my friends and family and that never
crossed my mind. “Any time we open ourselves up to vulnerability, it’s a very
uncomfortable mirror,”. (qtd by MS. Brown) While at FT. Lewis I like everyone
else was lost, I had to completely start over I didn’t know anyone, I didn’t
know where anything was. The weather there was cold and raining all of the time
it was just a complete shock to me and I started to second guess myself on if
this was really what I wanted in life. Like everything thing after a few weeks
I was comfortable with where I was and what I was doing but I still wasn’t sure
that was the American dream.
However two months after arriving at
FT. Lewis my unit deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. It
was the middle of the night and I was on a helicopter flying to our base in the
middle of Baghdad when we started taking fire from the ground. Once again I
thought this isn’t the America dream I thought it would be, I was a 19 year old
kid riding in a helicopter that was currently getting shot. It wasn’t until my
boots hit the sand at my base that I realized this
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is
the dream I wanted. Although I wasn’t sure up to this point I never gave up and
it just clicked. I spent fifteen months over there and never once had a change
of heart on my dream.
In addition to my first deployment I
was deployed again and spent another 12 months in Iraq. After my second
deployment I decided that it was time for me to hang up my boots and come back
home to Florida where I could continue to live the American dream. Only now I
had a family so my idea of a perfect life was spending time with them and being
home at night to sleep in my bed. My life to that point had taken me to parts
of the world and seen things I could have never been involved in. I was very
happy that I followed my dream and was able to do the things I always wanted. Achieving
the American Dream remains very important to those who have yet to achieve it,
especially the younger generations. However, the study reveals that Americans
no longer place importance on traditional elements of the Dream: 70% say you
don’t have to be wealthy to achieve the Dream; 65% say you don’t need a college
degree; 71% and 70%, respectively, say marriage and children aren’t essential;
59% percent say you don’t have to own a home.(‘DO-IT-YOURSELF)
Everyone is capable of living the
American dream the only question is how bad do they want it. I was able to live
my American dream because I didn’t give up, it wasn’t the easy road but it was
the road I wanted. The biggest problem I see with people is the ability to step
out of the comfort zone they have barricaded themselves in. This is a major
obstacle for us as people to overcome and it takes a lot of work but the reward
can be great. The reward of doing this just might be LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM.
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Work
Cited
Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Soldiers
Article by Cindy Sheehan CO founder of Gold
Star Families for Peace
July
13, 2006
Tiptoeing
Out of One’s Comfort Zone
New
York Times by Alina Tugend Author for NY Times
Feb
11, 2011
THE
AMERICAN DREAM IS NOW DO-IT-YOURSELF
Fifth
Annual MetLife Study
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Journal 4 American Dream
February 19 2013 I listened to a man’s story about his life,
his American dream. Mauricio Garcia’s
lecture focused on the area’s we all have trouble with in our life. Mr. MO is just an ordinary person like me and
you, however unlike most people MO followed his dream and did whatever it took
for him to live the life he thought he wanted.
He was on the path to being a veterinarian until he met his maker, a
class he had to pass for that degree. MO took the class two times failing it
both times before he realized that his dream of being a veterinarian was going
to have to be just that, a dream. This is where his story really got
interesting to me because most people would simply give up and settle for the
next thing that came up. MO realized at that point he had to make a change, a
change that he wasn’t comfortable making he had to step out of his comfort zone
something that we are hardwired not to do. He got more involved in school and
the opportunities seemed to be endless at every turn he had another door to
open and with every door he opened and walked through something better came
from it. Mauricio Garcia is now a very successful person doing something he
loves to do and getting paid for it. His story is very inspirational as every obstacle
he faced are the same obstacles we all face while going through life. Most of
us take the easy way and end up with a job we hate living a life that we don’t want
to live, as MO said it takes more than just the minimum if you really want to
have the life you dreamed of. MO gave me a lot of things to think about and was
very helpful , it’s not every day you meet someone who is actually doing the
things they want to be doing but when you do it’s nice to be reminded by them
that the life you want is closer then you think.
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