blog 25 UNION SQ. FARMER MARKET

What a great market in our neighborhood! Having a farmers market in the middle of the biggest city on the earth was an interesting experience for me. Wonderful selection of local farms were selling great fruit, and vegetables. Even though they had limited selections of food over there, the ones there were all high quality and mostly organic.  You can always find freshest in season produce here.If you are a home cook or the person who likes to try local products, I can easily say that this is the right place for you.

It took me about 30 minutes to get there by R train. Unlucky, It was the hottest day of the year so far, so the weather gave me a hard time when I was walking around the market. From what I saw, I can easily say that people just did not care about the weather, and kept their shopping even though the weather was extremely hot. Other thing that I would like to say that strawberries from the picture were super delicious. I highly recommend those wild strawberries, they literally melt in your mouth when in season.

Walking through the market made me feel as if I live in the country. However, it makes me really happy when I see all those people sell their own product. Because, I know that those people worked very hard to bring their products, and sell them in the market. I felt real good about seeing the people who produce those products that I bought. Forget about the whole foods across the street. You can get everything you need from this gorgeous farmer market.

I definitely believe that Union sq farmer market is the smartest place to market in the city, especially for college students. The prices are cheap, fresh products, and you are helping small family farms, which is really the backbone of the agriculture industry. Therefore, I bought some french been, green onion, and tomato from this farmer market for my dinner which had reasonable prices and fresh..

Actually it is not a customary thing for me to buy some fresh food from the farmer market, and cook it at home but at the end, I found myself cooking a green been for my dinner at home. Himmmmmm( I am tasting my food now :) ) this is super delicious. It really make me feel like a master chef with these ingredient. I will definitely go back the farmer market next week to buy some more fresh, and healthy food for my dinner.

   

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  I believe that as other unit this unite was very helpful for me, I have written a lot of new essays about new topics such as about immigrants who work in America. However, every each essay gave me new ideas and improved my writing skill.

  I can definitely say that blog 15, 21, and 22 are my best works. Because I believe that those topics from blog 15, 21 and 22 are truth about the reality, and they are part of our life. Therefore it was not very difficult for me to find examples about those specific topics. For instance, as I person who live in New York it was very easy to write en essay about immigrants, because I can say New york is a city where has been invaded by immigrants. Thus, I was dominated to essay.

  I think that there are some little differences between my online writing and other writing experiences that I did before. I can say that online writing has negative and positive effects on me. Negative effect of online writing on me is for some reason computer's screen light makes my eyes tried very quick therefore takes my concentration away, and it becomes really hard to focus my essay. On the other hand, online writing makes my writing very easy because when I have mistake I can erase it easily or I can move my sentence from one line to other line with out using an eraser. However, I definitely believe that online writing improve my writing skills a lot. Because, as I mentioned above each time I write an essay I have learned how to spell vocabularies and how to use punctuation marks. Of course reading other students essays have gave me new ideas and I have compared my essay with other students essays.

  I have learned many new things in this unit. I found all topics very interesting and helpful for us. I will definitely feel good when I finish this class because now I can see a big difference between my first and last essay in this class. According to me all class was very memorable to me as a foreign student. I was learning new things on every step of class which are going to be very helpful for my next steps at the college.

  As a recommendation for students who are planing to take this class, I can easily say that they have to study hard and write a lot in order to fix their spelling and punctuation mistakes.

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GROUP 1

  Rudy Ramirez, the Mexican-American drone pilot, lives in The American Dream. Memo dreams os participating in The American Dream by getting nodes and living in the city. But the brutal killing of Memo's father reveals that America/The American dream is dystopia.

  A) Describe how Sleep Dealer Represents The American Dream as a dream that is really a dystopia. How does Memo imagine it at first? How does his brother see it? How does his father see it? How is it represented on TV? How does Memo see and experience it as a worker in the cybermaquilas? What is Rudy's role in The American Dream?

  B) The end of the film has Memo and Rudy come together to create a new dream. What is it? What clues from the film do you have to support your interpretation?

ANSWERS

  A) Memo was very interested in technology devices, but after he saw his house on the TV his mind has changed. Because, he realized that his father was in there, and the TV show was given like an entertaining action show on the TV. He kept working in this factory to support his family. His brother liked the American dream and it has seemed to him very funny. Rudy was a soldier in the film and he was killing people in the movie.

  B) At the end of the movie, Memo realized that Luz was collecting some information about him for somebody, and it was Rudy. Because, Rudy was a soldier who killed Memo's farther in the movie, and he was very sorry about it. Therefore, he wanted to find Memo to apologized for killing his father.

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   In this essay, I will show you how big companies waste world's resources to make their product, how those specific companies effect people on negative way who live in country, and why those people are null for those big companies.

  As Annie Leonard said in her video, today in America big companies have more money than governments have. Therefore, I believe that they have more voice, power in America, and they might use government's power such as Army to steal other countries resources, and sometimes these stealing might cause big wars between countries. They need other countries resources such as oil and some other materials such as plastic to keep producing their products, because we have already lost big percentage of rich sources in America because of those companies.

  On the other hand, being consumer is very important for them. Thus, we watch 3000 different advertising everyday on TV, and of course people who live in big cities are very valuable for those companies, because they are the biggest consumers for them. People who live in country have very simple life which means they are not good consumer according to those companies,and they don’t need a lot of product for their life as much as people need who live in big cities such as bottle water or fast food.

  Another important point that I can mention is those big companies are very harmful for the environment by changing order of nature and people. %40 percentage of world's water has been already polluted by those specific companies wastes. However, we can find a lot of harmful chemical such as sodium nitrite or olestra in their products. Best example for this point is being given in the video by Annie Leonard by saying that, breast milk has been polluted by food which has been product by those companies.

  In conclusion, I can say if we do not prevent those pollution this system will continue forever, and I afraid that finally we are going to lose all source of world and it is going to effect our health very badly.

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  In “The New Industrial Migrants part 1” writer explains that in the 1980’s a lot of people came to America from central America and Southeast Asia . They were offered little money by slaughterhouses’ owners and lived in old trailers. Today those immigrants earn $9.25 for an hour and offered insurance after six months on the job, and vacation pay, after a year, and most of the workers do not speak English.

  In"the New Industrial Migrants part 2 " writer says that those specific companies realized that immigrants can work lower wages than American citizens. Therefore, they hired those  people and let them lived in shelters. However, writer says that some Mexican radio stations offering jobs for people who live in Mexico to work in America. In addition most of the workers are illegal workers who work in America. However, recent immigrants became new hunt for drug traffickers therefore, they might cause more crime in America. On the other hand, writer says that before those immigrants come to America, they were promised that they are going to live in apartment, but when they got here they were forced to live in homeless shelters. Therefore homeless people were angry with GFI and this news took place on TV.






   As a person who lives in New york I strongly believe that America is the only country in the world,  where has the largest population of migrant workers live. Most of the them come to America to make money or have better life, but unfortunately a lot of them live or work in bad condition places. On the other hand, I feel that this system do not effect American people on positive way. Because recently it has been really tough to find a job for Americans in America.

   
    New York is a place , where we can find a lot of people who came here to work from other countries. Mostly those immigrants are from south America or Asian countries such as China or Mexico. I strongly believe that they think that they can make more money than they do make in their countries. Thus, they usually take big risks to make more money, such as  leaving their families in their own countries. For example, if we pay attention we can realize that most of the restaurant employers are immigrant and work as delivery boys or waiters .

     As we all know those immigrants work and live in bad conditions. Many of them live in slum in bad condition apartments and most of them share their room with 5 or 6 people. However, they usually work in some places, which do not supply health insurance and pay very little money for an hour for their immigrant workers such as restaurant kitchen business . Writer gives a good example in his article by saying that they live in old motels, sleeping on mattresses that cover the floor.

    On the other hand, I strongly believe that unemployment is getting big problem for American citizens. Because, many American companies such as meatpacking company from the article realize that immigrants could work for lower wages with out health insurance and vacation. Therefore they prefer to recruit immigrants rather than American citizens. Maybe it doesn't seem a big problem right now but in a few year if the government doesn't take precaution for this point I believe that it might be a big problem for American citizens.


    As a result, we have a lot of immigrants from other countries and they live and wok in bad condition situation. As I mentioned above unemployment is not a big problem right know for American citizens but people are aware that their jobs are being stolen by immigrants who work for lower wages .

BLOG 20 REFLECTION ON FOOD UNIT

   I really enjoyed food unite. I have learned many helpful information from this unit. I can say Meatrix was the most enjoyable part of the unit. Especially Super Size Me was very enlightened.

    There are a lot of similarities between previous topics Truman Show, Allegory of The Cave, Matrix and food unite. Both Media unit, and food unit about learning unknown of the world. For example, in Matrix, Leo try to find truth by getting red pill, and being together with some other people who show him to the real world. Its is same in Meatrix too. Leo, in Meatrix is getting red pill as well, and try to find reality by visiting modern world factories. However, there is an escape to the reality in Truman show and Allegory of the Cave. In food unit, writer try to show us that what we eat is fake; it is not real, and he says that we have to find the truth, and we have to eat heather.

    I strongly believe that they used Matrix in Meatrix because, it is very simple way to show what is the different between family farms, and modern farms for people. As Leo did in Matrix, Leo in Meatrix runs away from family farm, and see modern farms in real world. Because, maker of Meatrix wants us to see the reality of modern farms. What they produce there in modern farms is not healthy, and all products have chemical in. They claim that it is better to visit farmer markets and buy organic foods.

    I can say Cat 3 was much better than other Cat 1 and Cat 2 for me. Because, I felt much ready by the time I got Cat 3. Especially, food unit was very interesting for me. I have learned many new things, and most of the them were casual subjects. Therefore. It made me focus better on my essay .

    As a result, I have learned many new subjects in this part, and I improve my writing by learning new things. However, similarities between unit was helpful as well. It was more easy for me to find an example while I write an essay.  

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1) What items in Pollan's advice make sense to you.

                    First paragraph of his article makes really sense for me because whenever I used to have breakfast with my grand mom we would have organic food on the table and taste much more better.


2) Which could you implement right away?

                    Eating less meat and more green. However cooking at home and eating slowly.

3) Which seems hard to do or farfetched?


                    Planting a garden is impossible for me. Because my apartment doesn't have a garden.


4) Which you wish you could do, but your present life style doesn't make possible.

                    I wish i could plant a garden. Because I really want to eat fresh healthy food from a garden. But unfortunately my present life style doesn't let me do this. Definitely, in the future I will plant my own garden and get my own fresh food.