Author: socrateslee13

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1) Are Multivitamins Dangerous ?

It seems counterintuitive that the multivitamins that claim they improve our health, actually can cause more harm to us then help maintain our health. Data has revealed that people who take multivitamins compared to those who do not take them are not healthier, rather they’re around the same health. The only true benefit to multivitamins would be for the companies who produced and manufacture multivitamins.

Therefore, those who have faith that the multivitamins they are consuming is helping improve their health are mistaken. In fact the multivitamins themselves are either not making someone any healthier compared to if they have not taken them at all or possibly worst. For example a study in 2009 has informed us that some women who have taken some multivitamins have resulted in such diseases as heart disease, lung, breast and colon cancer.

Furthermore, multivitamins not only lack the healthiness we desire from them instead they are a lucrative business for the companies who produce them. With all the people within America who buy vitamins, the effect is the vitamin companies such as The Vitamin Shoppe have billions of dollars. We yearn for healthiness from these vitamins to provide us with the nutrients we need in order to maintain good health however the vitamins that are available are not as healthily as they seem to be. Rather than going into the store and buying the multivitamins we perceive to be beneficial, we should stop and think about the effects some these multivitamins have on our bodies and realize that people who do not eat multivitamins are just as healthy and find an alternative to multivitamins for example if someone takes vitamins for iron instead of consuming the vitamins, eat meats, fish and poultry because contain a good source of iron.

2) Organ Donor Vultures ?

It seems counterintuitive that we portray organ donors in such a positive light such as its good to be a organ donor because people get the chance to save another person’s life however sometimes doctors are so quick to try to obtain a donor’s organs they ignore the donor’s health. If being a donor is such a positive thing, one would believe that organ donors would be treated greatly and the donor’s  health and condition would be a top priority for the doctors.

On the contrary the doctors are not so concerned with the health of the donor but more so concerned with getting the donors organs. By doctors going about organ denotations in such a way they fail to see the flaw in organ denotations. The flaw being created is that people become organ donors with a positive perspective of organ denotations however when the time comes a doctor may ignore the health of the donor and be anticipating the death of the donor.

Nevertheless when it comes to the health of the donor the doctors become skeptical because their priorities are not as the same as they typically assume them to be. Rather than to more so about making sure the organ donor is in good health, the doctors ignore the donors health and wait upon the organ donors death for their organs so they can take and use them how they please.

3) Improve Doctor Accountability

It seems counterintuitive that we look towards doctors for medicines and cures, however when the prescribed medicine fails to work we don’t give the doctor enough credit for the failure. Whenever people make a mistake we hold them responsible, so why do doctors not receive the same treatment. Rather than hold them accountable we discuss other factors that could have effected the failure. The issue doesn’t lie with us pointing out the different factors, the issue that stands before us is we only praise the doctors and seek their help for medicines and cures instead of also holding them accountable because they are people as well no one is perfect every one is bound to make mistakes and when this occurs they should be held accountable for their mistake.

Likewise to the doctors being human and being capable of making mistakes, a study revealed that an estimate 1 million people were harmed in the hospital every year from infections to injuries to surgical mistakes. We are too focused on how we embellish doctors by constantly bringing up how doctors save so many lives and cure diseases. Doctors have such a positive reputation at one point in society many people desired to become doctors as their profession. While doctors maintain such a good reputation they do not express the real issue. How can we allow people to maintain a profession to not be held accountable for the mistakes they c0mmitt?

In essence, to go along with the positive reputation doctors uphold that allows them to receive little to no credibility for their mistakes, a flaw may also be in the system itself. This situation has been occurring for years and perhaps the system doctors used has a role as well. Rather then doctors have a focus on curing the patient the doctor’s system is designed to focus more so on prescribing medicine to a patient instead of the patient’s results and whether or not the patient is healthy. Hospitals, also tie into the situation because the longer a person may stay within the hospital the more that person is charged. Not everyone person is financially stable or capable of staying in a hospital for a good length of time. By people leaving due to hospital bills being to high the duration of time that a doctor has to cure or give this person medicine is cut down as well. For example if a doctor has a patient who only stayed for 2 nights then the doctor must rush in order to find a cure because the patient is not staying for a long duration of time. Whereas another patient who stayed at the hospital for a week may get better treatment because the doctor has more time to treat this patient. Due to the hospitals effecting the doctors to work within a curtain amount of time it can affect the outcome of a patient and for this to change the doctors must speak with the hospital and change this because it may not completely be the doctors fault that they only have but so much time to work, however they must fix the system that they are in, because by them rushing it has caused many mistakes that have taken the lives of people.

Moving Image – socrateslee13

0:00 – 0:03) The commercial begins by stating the date and time of that particular day. Within the first scene is a man of Caucasian decent who appears to be wearing a short sleeve polo shirt with the buttons undone. He is also wearing shorts, with a hat and he has a low cut hairstyle with a beard. In his hands is a little boy, the two of them are smiling at each other. They appear to be inside a garage or storage room with the door open because the sunlight is beaming down on his shoulder indicating it is mostly in the afternoon between 12:oopm and 3:00pm.

0:04 – 0:07) The man appears to speaking to the little boy while he is holding the little boy in his arms. The man looks outside and continues to talk to the boy with a smile on his face. As he continues to speak to the boy, the man stepped forward towards the outside. The man then looks back at the little boy and smiles at him, then the man jogged forward outside.

0:08 – 0:11) While holding the boy the man is outside and it appears to be raining. The man looks down for a second possibly because a rain drop may gotten into his eye. While the man looked, the little boy looks around the surrounding area. The little boy continues to look back and forth with the facial expression of confusion and trying to take everything in around him.

0:12 – 0:15) As the boy continues to look around the man turns to face the house, the man and little boy came out of. The man begins to jog back into the house and as the man is doing so the little boy has a smile on his face. Next to the man and the little boy appears to be a white SUV which could possibly be the man’s or the owner of the house because they were standing in the driveway.

0:16 – 0:19) Now they’re inside the house, the man is looking at the little boy has a smile on his face. On the screen, reads the words, “It only takes a moment. ” Then a second later pops up the words, ” to make a moment.” As the words appear on the screen the little boy is smiling looking outside and the man is smiling looking at the boy.

0:20 – 0:23) The little boy begins to clap while smiling as he looks outside. The man continues to clap with the little boy and while the man speaks to the little boy the both of them smile as they look outside. While looking outside with a smile on his face the little boy puts out out his hand towards outside.

0:24 – 0:27) The screen fades black and on the black screen is the words ” Take time to be a dad today” written in white. The T in take is capitalized, however the rest of the phrase is all lower cased. Then the screen remains black but the words change. Now on the screen is the words “#makeamoment” the hashtag and the a in “#makeamoment” are orange, while the rest of the words are white.

0:28 – 0:31) The “#makeamoment” slogan remains up there but slowly fades away to a black screen ending the commercial.

Stone Money- socrateslee13

To illustrate how worthless a dollar truly is, first we must envision the impact the dollar has on an economy. The economy can be affected greatly by the value of the dollar, for example the Great Depression and Brazil. These two examples display that the dollar itself only holds as much value as the people within that region claims it does. During both situations the dollar lost its value and as a result the people in that culture suffered greatly because the economy plummeted. The dollar value changes constantly in actuality the dollar or paper money is not worth much the reason it holds value is because the culture states the value of the money.

Within the essay “The Island of Stone Money,”  by Milton Friedman, he emphasizes a method used for transactions within his story about a cultured known as the Yaps. The Yaps transactions where similar to what the France bank and the United States bank did when the France wanted gold from the U.S. The Yaps transactions never moved however the ownership did. Their currency was in stones and the stone took the place of the limestone that was on a different island. This is relatable to what the France Bank and The United States went through because the bank of France noticed the value of the U.S. dollar was depleting. As a result of the bank of France taking note of this they asked for gold in exchange for their previous transactions with the U.S. dollar. Similar to the Yaps and their transactions the U.S. put a certain amount of gold aside for the French and labeled that the property of France. The French approved of this transaction and likewise to the Yaps transactions the stone never moved, however the owner of the stone changed.

Similarly with the French and U.S. banking situation it reveals how the value of money doesn’t remain the same. Within the Yaps society, the use stones as their currency and the value of their stones can change depending on who is involved in the transaction. The stones held this value due to their society accepting it. However not every person within the society accepted the same amount of stones or accepted what we can get with our stones. Some residents of the society accepted one stone for one cow, while if we walk to another part of the island another person may offer us 2 coconuts for our one stone. Our neighbor may offer us 4 bags of rice for 2 stones, but the person who lives across the river may accept 4 bags of rice for 4 stones. From these different transactions reveals that the value of the stone within the Yap society will vary based on our consumer.

Traditionally people advise us in order to obtain money, we must save our money. However within the article “Back in Power, Abe Aims to Spend Japan Back to Economic Vitality,” by Hiroko Tabuchi, it suggests in order to make money you are required to spend money. This supports within the article when it was stated that those who support Abe’s concept claim his policy will defeat deflation and generate growth. The Japan government has decided they will spend a large amount of money in order to generate a stable economy, while other governments go with a more traditional approach and save their money in order to obtain money. This shows how the value of money constantly changes because Japan is trying to spend more money in order to become stable, however they were put in this situation because they spent too much money in the first place.

Spending too much money doesn’t always produce the same results for each economy. In the article, “How Fake Money Saved Brazil” by Chana Joffe-Walt, she went in depth about how Brazil’s economy was plagued by inflation and each time they tried to spend money the prices of merchandise would rise. Their structure became stable by using a “fake” money system. They used a different currency to take the place of the previous one, however the the new currency the price remained the same. However since no one had euros they used their old currency and used it in place of the new one. For instance, if one bag of chips was one euro last week, it would be one euro this week. Due to no one having any euros that one euro would convert into 7 pounds, however the next week it would remain one euro but it would convert into 14 pounds instead of 7 pounds. This system was able to provide Brazil with the solution to their economic struggle despite the fact it contradicts the concept of the value of money. It is doing so because inflation still was occurring within the economy the only difference was the fact that they attached a physical label to make it appear as if inflation was not occurring. Inflation continued because each week the customers still had to pay more and more, nonetheless from their perspective the price remained the same.