AWOL & LDH2BM - Food #4 - Food Journal

Please post a 24 hour food journal (beginning Tuesday night's dinner) of all the food and drink you consume. Do not post anything you don't want others to read.

Along with the what you of your eating, please also include the how (company, seating, duration, who cooked, where the food comes from, hands vs forks vs chopsticks, TV or no TV, conversation topics, grace, etc), the feelings (how you felt before, during, and after the meal), and any other item of interest.

Please post this and all the other assignments by Friday evening.

AWOL & LDH2BM - Food #3 - Food Cultures - Home & Corporate

How do you do food at home? How do people in the U.S. mainstream do food - as shown in TV and movies? Please write a one page comparison of your family's foodways, your foodways, and mainstream corporate US food ways.

Think about implements. Speed. Convenience. Togetherness. Ingredients. Healthiness. Sacredness. etc.

AWOL & LDH2BM - Food #2 - Internet Research

Please select one of the questions you or another student created in class - something about food that you'd like to understand - and research it on the internet for 15 minutes. Write up your question, findings, and sources (link or cite) on your blog.

Food # 1 - Refrigerator Assignment

Please post a list of the legal substances in your refrigerator and a paragraph about what the list shows about food, your relation to food, our culture's food ways, etc.

LDH2BM - Health Project

We've been working on defining, exploring, and improving our mental, emotional, and moral health. We've also touched on physical, social, and spiritual health. Activities included rolling, meditating, counseling, researching different therapies, and considering moral dilemmas.

What stands out to you in these investigations? What concepts seem most resonant? How has your definition of health changed? What actions might you take to deepen your own health, or the health of those you care about?

Please post a 500+ word essay on this topic by Sunday noon - April 26.

AWOL - Health Care Assignment

In our study of health care you've been asked questions, lectured, watched SiCKO, heard from Danish students, and checked facts. You've asked your family about their own health care experiences and also had the chance to survey passerbys and done some independent research. Now its time to integrate these ideas, informations, and inquiries into a interesting and intelligent essay.

Some questions you might focus on in your post (due April 26 at noon).
1. Should the U.S. move to a Canadian, French, or English model of health care?
2. Would Obama's plan be an improvement - or should we instead pursue single-payer (Canada) or socialist (Britain) healthcare?
3. What are the major problems with the U.S. health care system?
4. What does the U.S.'s lack of guaranteed universal health care and guaranteed vacation show about the "American Way of Life"?
5. What are the emotional, social, and political implications of the lack of guaranteed health care in the US and our relative powerlessness dealing with HMOs? How does this connect with poverty and our government's relationship to capitalist corporations?

Please cite multiple sources (check out some NY Times articles, Wikipedia, quote people) and please integrate these ideas into a paper of 700+ words.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92419273

AWOL - Break HW

What is your family's experience of health care in the U.S.? Do you all have health coverage through an HMO or Medicare or CHIP? Have you spent much time in emergency rooms? Had any experience with heavy medical bills, confusion over who will pay, and/or denied treatment? Have you had wonderful experiences where you were healed by loving doctors with no worries about payment?

How does your experience compare or contrast with the experiences shared by Michael Moore's SiCKO?

Please write up your response to the above questions and post by Friday the 17th. For more learning and higher score - re-read your essay, add ideas, edit writing, look at a few other smart blogs, add more ideas, and republish as a 2nd draft.

LDH2BM - Break HW

Please pay attention to your emotions over this break. At what points do you feel emotionally healthiest? Least healthy? What's going on that affects your emotional health? What actions can you take to support your own emotional well-being?

Is emotionally healthy the same thing as "constantly happy"? If not, what is it, to you?

How do the theories of the therapies we researched connect to your ideas about emotional health?

Please write up a 2+ paragraph post in response to the above and publish it by Friday the 17th. For more learning and a higher score, re-read your post, add ideas, edit the writing, look at a few other peoples' blogs, add more ideas to yours, and then repost as a 2nd draft.

LDH2BM - Research a strategy of emotional health

In class we've been attempting to gain a more specific understanding of what we mean by "health" - especially "emotional health". I've argued that increasing your vocabulary can help you to understand your own inner experience.

In today's lesson we tried out that idea, I taught a little about Freud, we thought a bit about the critique of therapy (and mass entertainment) as enabling us to continue to be "productive" despite swelling feelings of meaningless, emptiness, and/or rage, we experienced co-counseling, and discussed the general lack of listening and mutual understanding in our culture - and how professional counselors fit into that situation. Kind of a lot for one class but JB didn't think it was so hot.

For homework I asked you all to choose one of the following approaches to emotional health - read about it on Wikipedia or elsewhere, and then write a 3+ sentence reaction including a link to your source.

• Coaching
• Psychotherapy
• Co-Counseling
• Existential psychology
• Humanistic psychology
• Transpersonal psychology
• Cognitive-Based-Therapy (CBT)
• Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

AWOL - Summarizing Week's Lessons On Poverty & Wealth in the US

Please summarize - in 1-3 paragraphs - your understanding of the week's lessons on poverty and wealth in the U.S. Musical chairs, distribution of wealth, and musical chairs variation 2 should be addressed.

Please follow your summary with 1-3 paragraph perspective on poverty and wealth in the U.S. Is it poor peoples' own fault that they're poor - what do you make of the argument that its a lack of chairs, more than a lack of effort, that makes people lose musical chairs?

LDH2B - Health Internet Research

Please type up 5-10 questions regarding health on your blog. Then spend the period searching answers (and more questions) related to these interests. For instance - "What are some of the official definitions of 'health'?" Or - "How many people are officially 'mentally ill' in the U.S. and what does that mean?" Even - "What are some of the common suggestions in responding to emotional difficulties?"

Please post your answers and questions by the end of the period and also please link to or copy-and-paste the web addresses of your sources.

Check these out to get you going -
Yahoo Answers
Inspirational Talk