Author: btb100

Summaries – BTB100

Vancouver combats heroin by giving its addicts the best smack in the world

It seems counterintuitive that addicts of heroin are getting treated by having clean heroin injected into themselves. It seems strange that people believe that the cure to the addicts is giving them clean heroine.

In Vancouver, they are being known as one of the worst for having drug addicts in particular heroin. It is weird to think that doctors are describing there patient heroine 2-3 times a day based on the doctor’s order. They won’t subscribe medicine that cure the need to help your need to take a needle or anything.

Vancouver has heroine shipped to them where they can monitor it  by nurses to make sure the needle are clean and everything has no harm to it, also so that the addicts won’t get arrested by the police if they take it in the safe zone which is where the nurses can give you your heroine.

 

Francine Prose Explores Anne Frank’s Literary Genius

It seems counterintuitive that Anne Frank’s diary was more of a piece of literature rather than an own personal journal where she can write down her day to day experiences.

In her diary she would use words that would help paint an image for the reader’s head rather than just saw what happened when she reread it and have imagination about what happened but she was looking for the full vivid image. The way she would write was almost more looking for a reader’s opinion and interest rather than just telling her story for her future self.

Many interrupted her diary as a novel for the people rather than just a diary for her self to look back on as she grows up.

 

Is PTSD Contagious?

It seems counterintuitive that one can obtain PTSD without even going to war. PTSD is now being said that it is contagious and there is a chance that one can obtain it without going to war.

Branna Vines is believed to have PTSD without going to war, but her husband on the other hand has been to war and came back with PTSD. Brianna had an incident as CVS were it was claimed that she believed she had a case of PTSD. The sound of money flickering around triggered her PTSD, nerves in her brain made her snap and freak. There are even times where she hears loud noises such as her washer and dryer, the noise from that triggers her PTSD and she freaks.

PTSD should not occur to the ones who don’t go to war, but by being around loved ones it is starting to be contageous.

 

Moving Image – Btb100

0:01-0:02

The ad starts as a mail lady walking to a house with mail in her hand looking as if she is about to drop some mail off to the door. Then something continues to catch her eye and she takes a look. The look of the neighborhood is very nice and as if they live in a middle class town.

0:03

The angle of the camera changes almost to a first person perspective and looks like the mail lady is looking at a grown man flexing his arms, also as well as that there was someone else in the room with him. But due to only getting a quick glimpse we were only able to see the man in the window.

0:04

The angle of the camera is again being pointed back to the mail lady, she looks very impressed with what she saw in the window. Believes the man in the window is a good, and caring person.

0:05-0:06

Its goes to now being in the room with the man still flexing his arms, but now he is singing as well a child song which makes you believe that he is a father singing to his little baby. He has a smile on his face which shows he enjoys time with his kid.

0:07

The angle of the camera is now behind the mail lady so we get a look of the mail lady and the window with the man still being seen, as he is doing a little dance now still with his arms flexing in the air.

0:08

We are now in the room with the grown man as he is now dancing and singing. It looks again as if someone else is in the room with him and based off the tone of the song I would still guess it was his kid.

0:09

the camera goes back to facing the mail lady and she has a grin on her face as if she is very happy and impressed with what she saw. Her emotion on her face shows that the man in the room is a good guy doing a good thing.

0:10 – 0:11

the camera is now on a little girl in a pink dress her body is in the same position as her dad which show that they are doing a routine. The girl is singing along with what would be her dad, her face shows that she is really enjoying what going on, her tone of her voice seems very happy. This is something that I would believe her and her dad do a lot because they both seem to know what the were singing.

0:12 – 0:17

The camera is viewing both the girl and her father as they are singing a tea pot song and enjoying time with each other, as the continue singing you can tell that they are living in a nice house seems to have a lot of toys and well furnished room. They continue to sing as they both drop to the floor and end singing the song.

0:18 – 0:21

The angle of the camera goes to just the girl as she pretends to pour tea into her cup. She has a good imagination and seemed to be having fun with her dad.

0:22 – 0:31

The camera goes to both the father and daughter as they are both on the floor pretending to drink tea. A voice narrated in the background is saying that a father is something important in ever girls life, that fathers should be there for daughter.

Stone Money—BTB100

The value of money for a german colonized island called Yaps, this island value of money was based off a large stone which was never moved or was touched just left there and had different owners. Based off exchanges and trades made the stone would have a different owner. “They often talk about the stones themselves not changing hands at all, “Fitzpatrick says. “In fact, most of the time they wouldn’t.” No matter where the money lied on the island it was yours. They even had an occasion where the stone had fallen off a man boat and laid at the bottom of the ocean, and the people of the island still agreed the stone had value to it. The Yaps never had a different system of money and they believed that their system worked they knew what stone they owned and how much it was worth during and exchange and never saw a problem so they kept with their logic. While in the U.S they used money as a monetary value for gold. France felt as if the value of money would fade and that France wanted there money in gold. U.S bank if New York just placed the gold aside and had it labeled for France. As time went on Frances banks increased while U.S banks collapsed which cause a major problem in the economy. Frances power of money increased while U.S drops even though France didn’t have physical possession of the gold or no where near them, meanwhile the gold is just sitting in a U.S vault while the U.S suffers but they can’t use the gold because it technically not theirs.    

For me I believe I should have possession of my money, if I wanted to make an exchange for a product I would want to be able to hold my side up which would be providing the money,  and be given the necessity I need to complete the transaction. I wouldn’t want to be like my money is down the street it is yours now. I would want to be able to show the money to make the deal. As well as the other way around, if someone is trying to buy a product off me such as milk I would want the money while the exchange is happening. In today’s world people don’t even carry money on them, they just have a digital showing of how much money they have in the bank by an app on there phone or a bank statement. Most people don’t care too much about having the hard cash on them as long as they look into there bank account and see the money rise they are satisfied which is something I don’t like. People today are paying in checks and credit cards and the seller could have no idea if the person really even has the money to make an exchange but they could care less as long as they see something in exchange that could help validate that the person may or may not have the money.

 While in Brazil they were having problems with inflation of money and keeping a stabilized economy. No one was able to figure out what was causing this inflation but it caused the people of Brazil to spend money instead of saving it due to the prices raising everyday. Then four economists, and they went on and had to create fake currency called URV. They believed people of Brazil needed to regain hope in the faith of a stable cruzeiro, and believed the URV was the thing to trigger a more stable economy. “But, just as important, you have to stabilize people’s faith in money itself.  People have to be tricked into thinking money will hold its value.” They went on to change all cruzeiro into URV, such as wages, taxes and food. By doing so whatever the inflation rate of a given item was the URV would stabilize it so that there was no inflation. The people in Brazil were using fake money that really meant nothing to them. Since it brought down the inflation of the economy no one cared and just brought happiness back to the people of Brazil.

I thought this would be a good idea in this type of need happiness to me comes from money because there are so many things you can do with it such as travel and buy nice and fancy stuff and just be able to enjoy some aspects of life that many aren’t able to do. But when you have to worry about spending your money because prices will increase I due in fact believe they should figure a way to find stability. Even though it was fake and means nothing me, I guess in a time of need every little aspect that can benefit you is worth a shot.

Work cited

Friedman, Milton. “The Island of Stone Money.” Diss. Hoover Institution, Stanford                         University, Feb. 1991. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.

Country Studies. “Brazil- The Real Plan.” Brazil- The Real Plan. U.S. Library of Congress,         2012. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.

Novus, Stella. “The Megalithic Money of Yap.” Ancient Origins. Ancient Origins, 04 Jan.                   2013. Web. 12 Sept. 2016.