BP #7 - Financial Responsibility

    

According to the article Financial Responsibility for All : "A Myth or Reality?" by Lubie Grujicic-Alatriste. A lot of people have too many credit cards or try to make too much credit which can be damaged from embezzlement or financial scandals. The reason why, first, people shortage about knowledge and correct information about taking credit.. Second, it is easy to get a credit card for anyone. The last reason, institution have not been received the problem of credit card and credit which is not knowing enough. The solution of these problems is that people have to learn about credit and financial pitfalls and the government let the institutions to be taken responsibility. Also, President's plan is a good first step for improving the borrowing crisis. At least about credit and spending, we could try to be a bit more financially responsible.

    From this article, the increasing of using credit card for young people, the credit and a credit card misrepresenting of institutions are the credit perils and traps for the young people. As institutions -banks- have to give the young people enough information about taking credit card, the world borrowing crisis could be improved. For instance, my home country, Korea, issued college students about credit card. The college students was easy to get credit cards without specific information about credit card. The students had not mad up the debt which caused them to have bad credit. Therefore, institutions have to give them enough information about a credit card and the risk of using a credit card's advantage and disadvantage. Also, the people who want to get a credit card think about being able to use or not, and learn before use it.

BP #6 - Mini Essay on Informed Consent

    In providing by law that a mental patient must give informed consent to hospotalization but then failing to make provision for the patient's competence to be examined at admission, Florida perdictably violated the patient's rights. Florida's establiched procedure for involuntary placement needs to be applied "to all patients who cannot be admitted voluntarily, both those who are unwilling and those who are unable to give consent." ("A Brief History of Mental Health Law 'Reform'" Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Fall 1992)(http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/legal/informed-consent-zinermon-burch.html)

   
 In Korea society based on the patriarchal system, authority is very important in the relation between patient and physician, and patient interaction, the explanation is not delivered well due to the perceived superior role of the physician by the patient, and patients perceives that the physicians are giving informed consent in odfer to allow themselves to be exempt from legal responsilility.("Perceptions of informed consent among patients and physicians in Korea"byLee, Won-Hee professor in Yonsei University.)(http://www.nursinglibrary.org/vhl/handle/10755/153158)

   Furthermore, in the past,  there was a different basic view of people of doctors and researchers. The limited experiments on the medical parts which the doctors and researchers exceed situation such as kidnapping colored people and doing experiments on them. Moreover, their excessive experiments was not the infraction of the medical laws.

BP#5 - Soda Tax

    Increasing tax on soda is essential. As the government raises excise on soda, the new policy effects on consumer's health issues.

    In the U.S, one of three children is an overweight. For instance, the children, each have can of glass of soda consumes per day, it increases them a chance of becoming obesity by 60%. Children obesity has more chance to get disease and sickness.

    In addition, drinking soda is not only linked on obesity, but also, it linked diabetics. Diet soda is safer for a diabetic to drink than sugary soft drinks, but avoiding soft drinks altogether may be the safest route to maintain or lessen your diabetic condition.

    Also, the low-calorie, low-carbohydrate may make the consumers for weight loss. For example, the American Dietetic Association states that substituting as artificial sweetener for sugar can save you 17 calories per teaspoon. This may be around 380 calories per day for a regular soda drinker or 1pound weight loss every nine to 10 days.

    The government increases on soda which reduces consuming soda prevents various diseases.

BP #4 - Going Green

- Thinking about food sustainability it was not a big issue for me when i shop for food. However, as i learned from this topic "Going Green," i begin concerning about food sustainability.


- Here is i can usually do for reducing carbon footprint. I am trying no to use disposable products, such as a plastic razor, plastic spoons, paper plates, and wooden chopsticks. Also I bring my own shopping bag when i go to market. So that I do barely use the disposable products.


- Unfortunately, i have no chance to access to stores with organic locally grown food.

- In case of international students, like me, who live in industrialized countries , such as New York, getting organic and nutritious food has been hard because of on a tight budget. These fresh food definitely high price. Otherwise, I might not be interested before my professor told us about "Food Coop" which I can get fresh food at lowest-price.
From that, I have been thinking what food I really want for health and the earth environment.

BP #3 - Mini Research:Medical research in the 1940s / 1950s

"An immortalized mouse cell line had been developed in 1940, but no continuous human cell line existed: until HeLa." HeLa cell which is immortal cell used in scientific research is probably one of the most important tools for research and medicine since 20th century. It is the oldest and most commonly used human cell line was derived from cervical cancer cells taken on February, 1951 from Henrietta Lacks who was a patient and died of her cancer on October, 1951. HeLa cells have helped us to survive from kind of illness and diseases, have been used to test chemotherapy.(Chin, Corinne. - Science in the Early 20th Century)(http://www.blog.onebooknu.org/2011/11/science-in-the-early-20th-century/)

 "Fifty years after Henrietta Lacks died of aggressive glandular cervical cancer, the first cell line - HeLa cell line - is the workhorse of laboratories everywhere. It helped to produce drugs for numerous diseases, including poliomyelitis, Parkinson's, leukemias. But they are so outrageously robust that they contaminated hundred of other cell lines, as far away as Russia. For decades, biologists worked with contaminated cell lines and today, the problem is not yet solved. But the story of HeLa cells is also a moving reflection of racial and ethical issues in medicine in the late half-twentieth century in the USA."(by Gilgenkrantz S. - Requiem for Henrietta.)(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20510154)

As HeLa cell was found, the medical circles have been developing till today. Her cells exposed scientists to endless toxins, radiation and inflections and the scientists bombarded her cells with drugs, hoping to find one that would kill malignant cells without destroying normal ones. They studied immune suppression and cancer growth by injecting HeLa cells into immune-compromised rats, which developed malignant tumors much like Henrietta's. If the cells died in the process, it didn't matter - scientists could just go back to their eternally growing HeLa stock and start over again. (Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks)

WORK CITED

Chin, Corinne. "Science in the early 20th Century."3 Nov.(2011).

         Web. 10 Jan. 2012.

S. Gilgenkrantz. "Requiem for Henrietta." 26 May.(2010)

         Web. 10 Jan. 2012.

Skloot, Rebecca. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. 2010."

BP #2 - Taking Advatage

Henrietta Lacks's family felt so sorrowful about she passed away. And the family were really angry with doctors and scientists when the family heard HeLa's immortal cells were taken without HeLa's and her family's permission, eventhought her cells were used as medical research development.






In this time when someone took advantage of me was about a month ago. One of my friends bought a HP touchpad and he wanted the device as a multy booting device. However he did not know how to customize it. About a half hour he searched about doing that he gave up. He just passed me the device. He wanted me to set the the program. However, even for me, I did not know ,too. I had no information about it. But I decided to do it for my friend. About five hours focused on it, maybe that was 4:30 am,I finally set he program into the device. Researches, YouTube videos, and other informations from the website were helped me. I was so proud of myself doing that work.

Self introduction!

Hi guys, my name is ilwoong Seo, from South Korea.
I have been in N.Y about 3years and a half and I live in Elmhurst with two friends.

My major is Liberal Arts and i have been thingking about transfer to kind of business major.

Nice to meet you-!