BP #6 - Mini Essay on Informed Consent

  If there is a justification in the research without people's knowledge, ill-informed consent or sometimes because of their inability to understand, it would be a lack of regulations and ignorance. At that time, ealry and middle 20c, in United States, it was not clear about the right of their body belonings for a research and doctors also didn't have to think about it because there were no laws or regulations about it.

In addition, in that period, white people had segregated black people, so doctors might not care a lot using black people's body for their research. Therefore, it was understandable situation about the reseaches like Hela.

 However, in ethical problems, The doctors should have got consents or approvals to do researches. The doctors might know that they should ask people who their body were going to be used for the research before doing the research, but they usually did not do that because they did not have to.

I had no ideas and wasn't aware of this history before reading the book.

  I think there was a different basic view of people of doctors and researchers in the past. Doctors and researcher did not know about what was going to happen without people's knowledge and did not  concern about the rights of patients in the past because they were only focused on their career and their study to find how to heal diseases.

Furthermore, they didn't have to have feeling guilty about the researches without consents because there was no laws about it. However, nowadays, everyone knows that how insist on the right of their bodies and how important individual information. Therefore, doctors, researcher and people try to follow the laws and be ethical.

BP#5-Mini essay on one of the articles

  Childhood obesity is a big issue in the United States. Fast food, pizza, burger and French fries, is the main reason to make children get overweight. Agriculture Department proposed the rules to reduce childhood obesity by more fruits and green vegetable to lunch menus. However, the Congress blocked rules proposed by Agriculture Department. Congress should support to serve healthier school meals for children’s health.

   First of all, eating habit is going to effect to maintain their health when they are adult. If children have a bad eating habit, it is hard to quit the habit and eating too much fast food causes disease of adult. Therefore, school and parents try to serve healthy food for children’s health.

  Also, protecting children’s health is more important than protecting industry. Government and parents not only have responsibility to provide good environment for the next generation but also children have right to be protected from pollution and junk food for their future.

Government should make and support a plan about school menu for children’s health to keep their healthy life and give a better circumstances for the future.

#4 Going Green

*I'm not concerned about food sustainability when i shop for food because I don't know much about how to shop sustainable food and there is no information about the food in the store. i usually buy food what i want to have.
*I don't think so. I don't really try to reduce my carbon footprint when buying food or other product. Actually i haven't thought about that when i was shopping.\
*I haven't try to access to store of organic modified grown food. I can see some organnic food in the store near my apartment but i have not bought them.  Most of them are expensive and I'm not sure they are real organic food which were locally grown food.
*I need more information about organic food in the store when i shop. i can't trust organic food because it says organic food but how do i know?it is just high price for the organic food without any information in the food. i want to know where it come from, how it was grown, how it is helpful my health.

BP #3 - Mini Research(Segregation in America in the 1950s)

In the 1950s in America, Black and White people were segregated. black people could not use the same building entrance as a white person, eat in the same cafe, sit in the same taxi or use the same drinking fountain. The south was a fully segregated society, school, restaurant, hotel, train, elevator, hospital and church even though the law said every people had equal right. The segregation became widely used after Civil War because there were no more slaves after civil war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States
http://voices.yahoo.com/history-segregation-america-467517.html?cat=37


The Civil Rights Movement


In the 1950s a Baptis Martin Luther King became the leader of the Civil Rights Movement. He believed that peaceful protest without violence was the best way to get their rights.


In 1951, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) along with Thurgood Marshall decided to fight for the rights of African American children They believed that segregated schools dehumanized African Americans just as much as slavery had done, and used the case of a seven year old girl from Topeka, Kansas, Linda Brown. She was forced to travel many miles away from her home in order to go to her black-only school, even though a white-only school existed close to her home. The U.S. Supreme Court finally ruled in 1954 that schools in all states had to be "desegregated" or integrated. This court decision sent the message that segregation in America would not be tolerated.


Rosa Parks, a 43 year old black woman was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, becuase she sit on the seat for white people in the bus and she refused to give u her seat to white man. Civil Rights leaders, Dr. Martin Luther King, organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Black peole and others who supported equality agreed not to use the buses, the bus company had reduced 65% of its income for eight months. Eight months later, the Supreme Court decided, based that bus segregation violated the constitution.

http://www.historyonthenet.com/Slave_Trade/civilrights.htm

http://www.socialistalternative.org/literature/malcolmx/ch3.html

BP#2-Take advantage of

When you need to take advantage of someone, you should think about who is the right person for the work. One of the important thing to take advantage of someone is that you should be polite and shouldn't make someone feel bad because the people could think he/she is being used for your advantages. Few days ago, my friend called me and asked to help his moving and then i asked him a few questions such as when he was going to move, how many stuff he has like furniture, bed, sofa and so on. how many people were going to help you except me. He said "I need your help just 2 or 3 hours because there are not many stuff to move and 2 more friends are coming to help me the day" I said "ok. sounds good" I didn't hesitate to answer 'yes' because he is a good friend of mine and i trusted him as a good friend. However, i regret that i came to help him to move because he told me a lie. when i got his apartment, he didn't finished packing and i was only the people who helped him. furthermore, he has a lot of clothes, a heavy bed and sofa and so on. i thought he and i couldn't finished moving for one day. i asked him "What's going on here?" I wanted to know what happened to him. He told me a truth. Actually, he called some friends of him but some of them was busy to help him, some of them cancled to help him at the day so he didn't feel good. I also felt so sorry to him but i worried about finishing packing all his stuff and moving. Fianlly, we finished moving to new apartment late night. i've helped him almost 12hours. It was so hard moving. However, when i got back home, i felt good because i helped him and he really thanked to me. Even though he tried to advantage to me, i could understand him while i was helping him.

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