Imagine your body being consumed by a drug. You would do anything to get this drug and you don’t worry about the consequences that come with it. Have you ever wondered what a clean life is like? One where you are fixing your habits. Well Vancouver, is trying to help the heroin problem in the area by giving addicts clean heroin and a safe way to use them. The doctors hope that this will help.
Author: collegekid9
Polio Notes
In 2015, there was an outbreak of polio (measles) in Disney there was a lot of people which makes it easier to spread the virus and start an outbreak. I believe that the worlds scientists are all working diligently to come up with a vaccination to cure polio. Although polio isn’t a major threat to the United States, it is in many other countries. Children are at a higher risk of contracting this virus and need to get the shot between 0 and 5 years of age due to their low immune system.
Safer Saws- Collegekid9
1a. Gas says, “Well, we’ve looked at it, but we’re not interested because safety doesn’t sell,”.
1b. This claim states that manufactures aren’t 100% worried about the safety of the customers.
1c. This claim is judgmental because there a most likely some manufacturing companies that do care about the safety of the customers.
1d. This claim is un sustainable because it is just the opinion of one manufacturing company not all of them.
2a. “All saws should have this technology, Wheeler says. “I mean, we’re dealing with human beings.”
2b. This customer claims that all saws should be inventing things like Safe Saw.
2c. This claim is the customers opinion.
2d. This claim is sustainable because it is logical.
3a. Susan Young, who repsresents Black and Decker, Bosch, Makita and other power tool companies, said,”Many consumers won’t want to pay for the SawStop technology.”
3b. This claim says that customers won’t pay more for the safer technology like the Safe Saw.
3c. This claim is her opinion because she dents know what people think about when they purchase saws.
3d. This claim is unsustainable because is narrow and one minded .
4a. The National Consumers League wrote, “Approximately 40,000 Americans go to hospital emergency rooms every year with injuries sustained while operating table saws.”
4b. This claims that 40,000 Americans go to the hospital because of injuries that happened while using table saws.
4c. This claim states factual evidence that people are injured by table saws pursuing companies to make saws like the Safer Saw.
4d. This claim is sustainable because it is a simple fact.
5a. “Wec says his permanent and “traumatic injury” could have been prevented if Bosch and its competitors had not rejected and fought against the safety technology.”
5b. This claim states that Bosch and its competitors should not have rejected the safety technology.
5c+d. This claim states an opinion that is most likely shared between many customers making is sustainable.
6a. Richard Sullivan, whose firm has been involved in most of the cases, says ”SawStop was a “game changer,”.
6b. This claim states a change in newer and safer saws for the customers.
6c+d. This claim is an opinion but is still sustainable.
7a. The Commission voted unanimously (4-0) to approve publication of the draft notice in the Federal Register that will announce an extension of 60 days for the comment period for an advance notice of proposed rulemaking for performance requirements to address table saw blade contact injuries
7b. This claim states that they are making the decision time longer for safer saws.
7c. This is a factual claim. I personally believe that they should make safer saws.
7d. This claim is sustainable.
8a. Chris Arnold, author of the article If Table Saws Can Be Safer, Why Aren’t They?, wrote “But as well as the technology works, the major tool companies have failed to put this kind of device on any of their table saws — even eight years after Gass offered to license it to them.”
8b. This quote claims:
- This technology works.
- The technology works well.
- Major tool companies have failed to use this technology on any of their other table saws.
8c. The first two claims state factual evidence that the product works and that is works well. The third claim is that the company has “failed to use the technology on other table saws” but the problem with this statement is that this news reporter is assuming this. how does he know that they haven’t been in the process of installing this new technology on their other table saws.
8d. The first and second claims are sustainable because they are simple facts. The third claim is unstainable
Visual Rewrite-Collegekid9
0:00 – Ad starts with a shot of the lower half of a man on a rocking horse in the park on a sunny day. It makes us wonder why there is a grown man at a park. This can also make people uncomfortable.
0:00-0:04 – The camera moves up to show the man bouncing and rocking back and fourth with a huge smile on his face. The man, who appears to be of hispanic decent, is wearing a navy blue sweat jacket, a grey t-shirt, kaki shorts, white socks, and black sneakers. It seems as if his smile is saying “Aren’t we having fun?” It also seems if its hhis day off due to his casual clothes
0:04-0:05 – The camera moves to a white woman who is sitting on the park bench with a baby stroller. She looks at him and smirks but then diverts her attention back to the stroller.
0:05-0:08 – The scene changes to a white man, in a green jacket, makes a weird face and presses it against the glass of hot dog both while looking to the right as if looking towards some one. When it hits 0:08 seconds, the man removes his face from the glass and has a blank expression as if trying to see what the booth owners reaction was.
0:08-0:10 – An African American man, who owns the hot dog booth, looks up at the white man with a puzzled face as if wondering what had just occurred.
0:10-0:12 – Camera is angled upwards where you see the tops of the trees and the sky. An African American man, in a white short sleeved button-down, tan trousers, and a blue with whit polka-dotted tie, is bouncing up and down while smiling and waving to something/someone. It seems as if he has just come home from work. At this point in the video we conclude that the three male adults are acting childish as if showing that no matter what age you are you can always have fun.
0:12-0:15 – The shot shows the back of a neighbors head as they are looking over the fence at the man. He continues to jump in circles while smiling and then he does a ballet spin with his hands above his head.
0:15-0:21 – The camera goes to a little white girl, wearing a pink jacket and glasses, laughing at the man making faces pressed up to the glass. The white man then sticks his tongue out, puts his hands up to his head (as if making moose antlers), and wiggles side to side. The little girl (assumably his daughter) then proceeded to put her thumb up to her nose and wiggle her fingers at him. The African American man then looks at them both and smiles at them. The white man stares back at him and then continues to make another weird face at the little girl.
0:21-0:24- The camera shows the African American man jumping on a trampoline with his son. The little boy is wearing a brown, white, and green stripped short sleeved shirt with jeans. The pair are both smiling and jumping over one another.
0:24-0:27- The shot shows a little Hispanic boy smiling and bouncing on a rocking horse. The camera then pans over to the father doing the exact same thing int the rocking horse in front of him.
0:27-0:31- The camera shows the neighbor looking over the fence at the African American man bouncing on the trampoline.
Missing Dollar-Collegekid
There is no missing dollar. Each lady paid $9 which will bring the total to $27. The bill was $25 dollars so the waiter keeps the $2 to make it even and then gave the table back $3 which would be a dollar for each lady. 25+3+2=$30
A05: Proposal+5 -Collegekid 9
For my paper I decided to write about Vancouver’s growing problem with heroin. Vancouver is giving addicts the best heroin on earth for free as well as clean needles, supervision, and assistance. The city believes that what they are doing is actually helping these addicts problem but that it is also lowering the rate of crimes that these addicts out do in order to get the drugs. By supplying the clean heroin, they are keeping them off the streets and preventing many hospital visits.
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-02-04/vancouver-combats-heroin-giving-its-addicts-best-smack-world
Background: This article gives general information about what is happening in Vancouver as well as things that are being provided with the clinics.
How It Will Be Used: I will use these general details of the issue so I can get a better understanding of what is going on.
Background: This article covers the cause of many addicts overdoses are due to another drug that is being sold as heroin.
How It Will Be Used: I will use this to show the clinics are keeping addicts from running into this other drug in the streets.
http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1926160,00.html
Background: This article displays where this idea manifested. It also discusses the effects of weaning people off of heroin.
How It Will Be Used: I will use this article to show how it can work and that it has worked before.
http://sciencenordic.com/heroin-clinics-improve-addicts-lives
Background: This article shows that the heroin clinics have lower dropout rates and that many positive things that have come from them.
How It Will Be Used: I can use this to show the positive side of giving heroin to addicts.
https://www.drugs.com/illicit/heroin.html
Background: This article explains how heroin is about 2-3 times more potent than morphine. It also provides information on how it is taken and what the effects are.
How It Will Be Used: This shows the idea of providing heroin in a safe way and with safe tools.
Critical Reading-Collegekid9
You can’t see Caleb’s other wound, either.
- We can assume that it may be a head injury.
It’s called traumatic brain injury, or TBI, from multiple concussions.
- Had a few concussions.
In two tours, he was in at least 20 explosions—IEDs, vehicle-borne IEDs, RPGs.
- Being in 20 explosions can do serious damage to the human body.
- We don’t know how serious each explosion was.
- He was on two tours.
In one of them, when a mortar or grenade hit just behind him, he was thrown headfirst through a metal gate and into a courtyard.
- He definitely suffered a lot of head trauma here.
- His head went through a metal gate which probably weighed a ton.
- Blunt head trauma like this can cause severe concussions.
His buddies dragged him into a corner, where he was in and out of consciousness while the firefight continued, for hours.
- In and out of consciousness for hours.
- Never specified how many hours.
- We don’t know what the extent of his injuries were.
- Was he bleeding from his head?
When it was over, they gave him an IV and some Motrin, and within hours, he was back on patrol.
- Not given enough time to let the body heal.
- Not given proper check up.
- He most likely need something with a higher dosage than Motrin.
The Army has rules about that sort of thing now. Now if you’re knocked unconscious, or have double vision, or exhibit other signs of a brain injury, you have to rest for a certain period of time, but that rule didn’t go into effect in theater until 2010, after Caleb was already out of the service.
- Finally made it a protocol to have a longer rest period.
- Took a long time to have the rule passes and go into effect.
He wasn’t diagnosed for years after he got back, despite Brannan’s frantic phone calls to the VA begging for tests, since her husband, formerly a high-scoring civil-engineering major at Auburn University, was asking her to help him do simple division.
- Information withheld from the family about his test scores.
- Teaching/helping husband with simple division.
- Most likely to have nerve damage in the brain.
When Caleb was finally screened for the severity of his TBI, Brannan says he got the second-worst score in the whole 18-county Gulf Coast VA system, which serves more than 50,000 veterans.
- Had the second worse score in the entire 18 county Gulf Coast VA system.
- System serves more than 50,000 veterans.
- Suffered severe damage to the brain.
But there’s still a lot about brain damage that doctors, much less civilians, don’t understand.
- There are things we still need to learn about brain damage.
Stone Money Rewrite-Collegekid9
What’s It Worth?
P1. What is the purpose of money? We, as a nation, have grown up thinking that money was a tool for the trading of goods and other services. For some, it is a matter of survival. How we feed each other or how we purchase clothes to keep us warm. However, if you really think about it what does a piece of paper have to do with our worth?
P2. Out in the Pacific Ocean, there is a tiny island named Yap. Hundreds of years ago, their society agreed that they would use the limestone deposits as money. This limestone was usually only used big things and not everyday purchases. The only problem for them was that it was very hard to transport these big stones. During the first transportations, one ended up at the bottom of the ocean. Although you could not physically touch it, everyone decided that it was still good.
P3. The limestone that was used is very similar to Bitcoin, which became popular two years ago. Bitcoin is a digital payment system which allows transactions to occur directly between users without the use of a middle man. As you can see, neither of them can be physically touched but are still extremely valuable. Bitcoin on the other hand, has some people that doubt its value. These people talk about how it has no sense of authority or a central bank. They also bring up that a bitcoin is worth whatever a random person is willing to pay, meaning that the seller will look for the person that is willing to pay the most.
P4. In my 20 years of living, I don’t think I was ever given a straight forward answer on what money was or what the value of money truly is. One thing we know for sure is that money makes the world go round.
Work Cited
Friedman, Milton. “The Island of Stone Money.” Diss. Hoover Institution, Stanford University , 1991.
Renaut, Anne . “The bubble bursts on e-currency Bitcoin.” Yahoo.com. 13 Apr. 2013. 30 Jan. 2015. <https://sg.news.yahoo.com/bubble-bursts-e-currency-bitcoin-064913387–finance.html>.
Planet Money, By. “The Invention of Money.” This American Life. N.p., 7 Jan. 11.
Reeves, Jeff. “Bitcoin Has No Place in Your – or Any – Portfolio.” MarketWatch. MarketWatch, 31 Jan. 2015. Web. 10 Sept. 2016.
Summaries-Collegekid9
Free Heroin to Battle Addiction
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-02-04/vancouver-combats-heroin-giving-its-addicts-best-smack-world
It seems counterintuitive that the best way to treat a heroin addict is by giving them the heroin. The heroin epidemic in Vancouver has been around for a while now. The free heroin program has only been given to those who show little to no chance or having a recovery from their addiction. This program is also preventing many home burglaries.
Is PTSD Contagious?
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/ptsd-epidemic-military-vets-families
It seems counterintuitive that we as a nation allow every day people to join the military where they are exposed to harmful environments. Many of these environments can put a strain on the soldiers which may impact both their physical and mental health just so that they can protect other people. The problem goes beyond a soldier’s state of mental health and spills into the lives of the people around them.
Moving Image-Collegekid9
0:00 – Ad starts with a shot of the lower half of a man on a rocking horse in the park on a sunny day.
That’s a reasonable description, CollegeKid, but not an analysis. How do we react to such an image? It’s a big jarring at first since the horsies are almost exclusively ridden by children, are in fact difficult for adults to mount. Do we register anything? Confusion? Disbelief? Curiosity? Do we think the rider might be unhinged? Bored beyond belief?
The only unacceptable answer is that we register nothing at all—that we simply withhold judgment until more evidence helps us correctly judge the situation. We do not. We jump to conclusions and later alter them if necessary.
0:00-0:04 – The camera moves up to show the man bouncing and rocking back and fourth with a huge smile on his face. The man, who appears to be of hispanic decent, is wearing a navy blue sweat jacket, a grey t-shirt, kaki shorts, white socks, and black sneakers.
Well, yes, but in addition, he changes his motion from an innocent back-and-forth rocking to a slightly demented humping-the-horse motion that, depending on who he’s smiling at, could mean a couple of things.
What are we to make of that smile? Is he simply enjoying himself, or getting someone’s attention? Does the smile say “Look at me!” or “Come join me” or “Aren’t we having fun”?
What do the clothes suggest? Is he well-off? Working today and on his lunch break? Enjoying the park on a day off? Is the patch on his sleeve significant? Where’s the park? Inner-city? Suburbs?
0:04-0:05 – The camera moves to a white woman who is sitting on the park bench with a baby stroller. She looks at him and smirks but then diverts her attention back to the stroller.
She does indeed. Why? Tell us about her. Does she know him? Does his childish horse-humping amuse her? She doesn’t merely “divert her attention” to the stroller, does she? She pulls it closer in a protective gesture. Is the strange man threatening?
0:05-0:08 – A white man, in a green jacket, makes a weird face and presses it against the glass while looking to the right. When it hits 0:08 seconds, the man removes his face from the glass and has a blank expression.
What glass? Is there glass in the playground, or is this a new scene? What is the significance of his “looking to the right?” Can we tell what or who he’s looking at? He fixes his gaze first on something below and to his left. Then presses his nose against the glass (through which he can be seen, presumably, standing as he is at the service window of a hot dog counter). Then checks to see what reaction he’s getting from someone. Then wipes his expression. It’s a game, right, in which he pretends he hasn’t done anything gross like wipe his nostrils on the window?
What can we conclude from his age, size, clothing, grooming? Is it too early to notice a pattern in just two examples? Middle-aged men in casual clothes in the middle of the day acting foolishly?
A figure passes behind him during his act, indicating (like the female observer in the park) that he’s acting out in public knowing he can be observed by adults.
0:08-0:10 – An African American man looks up and the white man with a puzzled face as if wonder what just occurred. (HUH?)
Where is that AA man? On the other side of the glass? Has he seen the goofy face pressed against the glass? His gaze is at first fixed lower (at a cash register or computer?). Then he looks up. Is he making eye contact with the face-presser? In two seconds, how many shades of curiosity, suspicion, disfavor does he register? He blinks. Does that suggest disbelief? A shaking off of the first image and a chance to look at it again?
What do you make of the odd coincidence that all three men so far have sported facial hair?
0:10-0:12 – Camera is angled upwards where you see the tops of the trees and the sky. An African American man, in a white short sleeved button-down, tan trousers, and a blue with whit polka-dotted tie, is bouncing up and down while smiling and waving to something/someone.
You have yet to conclude that three men now are behaving childishly. If you’re trying to be matter-of-fact and strictly objective for some reason, CollegeKid, you should stop that. We judge at all times when watching little movies like these 30-second spots. Your job is to analyze how you’re being manipulated to draw conclusions from what you’re being shown. If you don’t share your impressions, you’re not analyzing, merely reporting.
0:12-0:15 – The shot shows the back of a neighbors head as they are looking over the fence at the man. He continues to jump in circles while smiling and then he does a ballet spin with his hands above his head.
Once again, the waving indicates that the man knows he’s being observed (so the other cast members are not accidental.) The woman in the park, man behind the glass, and neighbor are all essential to make the men’s actions Public Acts.
0:15-0:21 – The camera goes to a little white girl, wearing a pink jacket and glasses, laughing at the man making faces pressed up to the glass. The white man then sticks his tongue out, puts his hands up to his head (as if making moose antlers), and wiggles side to side. The little girl (assumably his daughter) then proceeded to put her thumb up to her nose and wiggle her fingers at him. The African American man then looks at them both and smiles at them. The white man sales back at him and then continues to make another weird face at the little girl.
From which we conclude what? That his intended audience was the girl, but that he was willing to appear idiotic in front of another adult for the sake of amusing her?
0:21-0:24- The camera shows the African American man jumping on a trampoline with his son. The little boy is wearing a brown, white, and green stripped short sleeved shirt with jeans. The pair are both smiling and jumping over one another.
From which we conclude what? That his actions were intended to amuse the boy, but that he was willing to appear idiotic by striking ballerina poses in mid-air in front of his neighbors for the sake of amusing the child?
0:24-0:27- The shot shows a little Hispanic boy smiling and bouncing on a rocking horse. The camera then pans over to the father doing the exact same thing int the rocking horse in front of him.
From which we conclude what? That we were wrong to assume in the first take that the Hispanic man was trying to get the attention of the woman with the stroller? His attention was always focused on the boy in front of him, and his glee was joy shared with a child, most likely his child?
0:27-0:31- The camera shows the neighbor looking over the fence at the African American man bouncing on the trampoline.
From which we conclude what?
Spend a short paragraph after the time-stamped material to draw any overall conclusions you can after considering the impact of the entire 30-second spot. You may discuss its particular effectiveness or its shortcomings as visual argument.
You may also (following your visual analysis) report on any dialog or soundtrack elements that influence your reactions to the argument when you combine the audio with the video.
Thank you for permitting me to invade your space this way for the sake of all.
—DSH
Rowan Counterintuitive 