Final Essay and Comment

Hip Hip Horray! Hip Hip Horray! Class of 2009 will like to present the American Way of Life! My name is Quinn Wu and I am a american boy. I was raise in Andy's class, learning the concept of living in America. Andy shows us how to take a step closer to the America and teaching us how the world revolues around us. Without Andy, I wouldnt have understand the whole concept, the importance of certain values that America has. I was so blind at first that living in the America, we have many aspects to go through, such as dealing with the government, capitalism, birth, health care, food and energy. All these aspects are related to the American Way of Life. Andy gave me a chance to know exactly how to survive in a better way than dealing with obstacles. He also gives me the opportunity to live my American Way of Life in a passionate way. Not only that Andy help me to live my American Way of Life, but it helps me to help others to live better. I get to help my younger sibling. i get to help my future family and dealing with the American Life.

Living in the United States, not many people noticed what they're developing toward their lives. People are rewarded with many chances to change their lives, but they still dont appericate their reward. Basically, i am trying to say that some people are still not satisfied of how the American Way of Life is treating them, due to their class, race and gender. At the beginning of the year, i wanted to know how different people think about their American Way of Life. So i decided to interview random people. Many of them bought up the issues of money, looking for a business and freedom. This black single mother actually makes me feel pity for her. She has to deal with three child of her own and have to work for the whole day to make money. Her husband left her when she has the first child. The American Way of Life is creating too much pressure for her to handle. Everyone of us has their own way of survivng in the America.

How does Capitalism affect the American Way of Life? "Capitalism is the economic system in which the production are distrubted to openly competeing profit and where investments, distrubtion, income, production and goods are predominatly determined through the operation of a free market." Basically, Capitalism are related to business, which includes the supply and demand. There is several aspects of Capitalism such as land, labor and capital. Land is an resouces that help you set up the sell. Labor is all the work that is necessary to produce and sell. Capital is the stuff to reshaped. America is bascially all about business. In that case, if you want to make a lot of money, you will need good items and lower prices, because in that way, you will starting a competitive advantage to bring customers to buy your goods. Capitalism helps you to have a good business model, so you can earn moneys.

"Eww, Birth!" "How do you feel about birht happening in America?" Andy started a new unit on brith, i ahve a bad feeling i wasnt going to be interested on this topic. But he prove me wrong because brith happens to be a serious problem in the United States. I asked my family how birth influence them and it seem that they went throught a lot of pain. This issue lead me to be thinking about my future and how willl it affect my wife. I never understand the whole concept on dealing with the American Way of Birth. So basically, living in the American Way of Brith, there is two options to give birth. There is hospital birth and home birth. So which option is better to give birth? If you whether feel comfortable laying on your own bed giving birth, so stick with your reasoning. Your home is a private place for you to give births.No doctors or nurses will be checking out your body or giving you drugs. Homebirth is one of the best ways to give birth. You fell less pain; you don’t have to worry about the mess you made after your birth. You have supports and more attention from others. And guess what? You can also hire a midwife.

A midwife is a female that attends to childbirths, providing supports during labor and delivery. Midwives also focus on the needs of the family and encourage the family to participate in the birth. Midwifery pays much more attention to the woman needs and cares. They won’t disobey your concern and stick with your safety. Midwives reduce a woman’s fear, pain, and anxiety during birth.If something went wrong, most likely the midwife will take you to the hospital and still be there for you.

IF you whether feel comfortable lying on the hospital bed with needle inside of you. And other people in the same room as you, so stick with your reasoning. There’s doctor and nurse running around the room trying to get the baby out of you. Hospital birth is one way to give birth but it will be in a lot of pain and stress. You do have to worry about your concentration on pushing your baby out and whining like a bitch for help. You will have to take drugs to make you loose focus and you will have less support. You have to wait for a long time without foods, waters and love until the doctor is ready for you. After the baby is taken out, they don’t care about it and test the baby with careless mistake, such as shaking the baby with force. It also breaks the mom and the baby love bond. So this is how the American Way of Birth works, you either give birth at home or at the hospital.

"So what is exactly health care and what does that affect our American Way of Life? Health Care refers to the treatment and management of illness and the presevation of health. Health care embraces all the goods and services throughout interventions whether it is directed to individuals or populations. There are many terms of health care in this world. health care provider is an organization of health care facilities to form proper health care in a systematic way. Emergency medicine is a very rare medicine that focuses on the diagnoses and treatment of acute illnesses and injuries that require immedicate medical attention. Chronic care management envelop the oversight and education activites to the trainers to help patients with diseases. Patient safety is a health care discpline to orgainze reports, analysis and pass medical error. Health care helps patient to regian control of their life. Health care is like a environment that brings you back into your life, feeling abusolutely complete.

Living in America, people suffer because they dont have insurance to pay for medicine. When i saw the movie "sicko" i feel unpleasant for the people that work their ass off on the World Trade Center and insurane doesnt even cover their payments up. So they have to travel to different places just to save their own life.

So what is exactly the American Way of Food? Living in America for 17years, i noticed that Americans do not eat food to stay alive but based on the taste of the food. American, sure knows that foods helps them to live longer but do they know if the foods they are eating, helps them to live a "better life?"Not many people realize that the foods they are eating are unhealthy. Some people thinks that eating a lot of foods will make them overweight, so they think it is better not to eat and starve. Now that's complete wrong! You must eat "healthy" foods that will actually "help" your body. Many american thinks that "eating" good is a problem, but you know what "they" say, when there's a problem, there is always a solution.

Of course food helps you to stay in life but do they help you to stay in shape such as having a healthy heart? You have to eat food that your body requires, not you. You dont make the decisions of what to eat and not to eat. It is mainly about your heart. Billions of people are having trouble sleeping at night due to the fact they are having an unhealthy heart. Eating unhealthy food is very dangerous to people that are overweight or that the body system doesnt need. Unhealthy food can cause your body to have diseses such as heart attack, direhha, stroke headaces..etc. So just lay off the fatty food such as Mc. Donald, Wendy, KFC, foods that you know that will affect your heart.

So howcome when i skip meals i still stay unhealthy?" Skipping meal is basically like eating unhealthy food because your body needs those food to make you grow and stay alive. If you skip meal, your stomach cant hold the hunger for that long and you will eventually die. You must eat "healthy" foods. Breakfast and lunch are your most important meals of the day. Your heart and stomach needs those food to help you move around and stay fit. Dinner is a meal you can eat less, but if you feel hungry, grap some fruits or chew some gum.

Take me for an example, i am 17 and i am living in a body that is not "perfect" I have to cut the fat food and start eating foods that my body wants. I work out when i have time, so basically i wanted to thank andy for puttin back to my feet because i needed to stay healthy.

Lastly, "what do you think might happen in the next 10 years if our resouces run down on us?" Yupp, we have no clue to answer that question. We live in America and we need a lot of resources to stay alive. We dont actually knows what might happen to us. Everything has a beginning and it must have a ending. When i was reading "easter island" i feel so nervous and scared that we might collaspe like the people living in the easter island. In easter island, they have rich resouces to build anything. But once there resouces was complete off, their world started to collaspe. So if we were to loose our resouces such as energy, we will all die because energy gives us things that we need.

So to put a ending to this, i really appericate what i learn throughout the year because i didnt even think about the American Way of life. Now, i realize that we need to change our life based on the food, health care, birth, energy and civilazation. Everyone faces his or her life in a complete different way and only you can change your life living here, in America. Throughout the year, i feel like i have work hard to loose weight and change my eating system. My parent learn how to save energy because they mostly use a lot of water and light. But overall, i surely enjoy my American Way of Life.

Comments:

-Andy Synder
Andy i will like to say you are one of my favorite teacher to help me learn a big task in life. At first, i though your class will just be an normal class learning about history like the civil war and those stuff. But you start teaching us OUR American Way of Life. I am still young and i didnt know how important birth, health care and all those stuff can affect us. i appericate the way you teach us and i learn a lot. Next year, i will be back and learn more stuff from you. Thank you.

-Chloe
Damn Chloe... your paper is amazing. I started to read your paper and i compare it to mine, i just wanted to copy and paste all your examples. Nice baby pictures. Awww man, i am really jealous of your paper... you added so much background infos. Damn it.