Archive of ‘Health & Career’ category

01
Jun
2017

A fairytale career

categories: Health & Career

In maker we are looking at health & career and so far every week we have an assignment involving a certain project and subject. Last week we looked at healthy eating, this week it was our future and career. I have always had trouble with this, whenever someone asks what I want to be when I’m older I have no idea. I still have no idea but looking at the options this past week has given me an idea that there is so much and eventually I will find the right job. In order to get this far though we had to look at who we are, what we have already gone through and we can see ourselves going. So we made a timeline of our lives so far and we want to happen in the future.

I used the app Timeline to create this.

Next we looked at the website WorkBC a really helpful website that is about employees and employers looking for jobs. I took 3 quizzes one on my abilities, my work preferences and finally subjects quiz. This showed me that one I would be a good conductor/musician, that I would also be a good lab technician as well as an architect. I think that these are all really interesting fields of work and I would love to get the opportunity to try it one day but I’m not sure exactly what or when. On the work BC website there are also some really interesting articles for all sorts of aspects of the work force. And if you make an account you can save the arcticles and quizzes thus making a blueprint of jobs.

This is mine:

Also in class since we did a writing what being gifted means, a 100-150 paragraph on what you need to do in order to be gifted at something so I did mine on cycleing, here it is:

In order to be a “gifted” road biker you have to start with deciding. Deciding to become a cyclist means first of all getting a bike. Next you must start cycling, that means either ride to work or school. Even after work or twice a week cycling whether that is at a velodrome or on the road even in your garage on a trainer would be good. Then if you practice and try eventually you will be able to get to a point where your good at. Competing and going for longer harder rides show that you are then talented. And being talented means you are gifted. In conclusion that means that if you try hard enough and get good enough eventually you will be talented even if you don’t think so.

And all leading up to this was a iMovie on a fantasy of our future. The criteria was to create a two minute video on what we think our future will be. I used the apps iMovie and Explain Everything along with that I also used google to help find some images. We also had to have it start in Once upon a time and end in And they lived happily ever after. I enjoyed looking at this because it allowed me to reflect on what I had already done and what I want to do. So with out further to do here is my video.

https://youtu.be/PWxx3J-A_3E

Really this part of Health & Career I found really interesting because I never know what I’m going to be when I’m older. And this really helped steer me to an area of the workforce that I hadn’t even considered and that now that I see it, it will help me. Overall I really enjoyed this and recommend people to go on the website work BC since its really helpful. Anyway thanks for reading and until next bye!

25
May
2017

You are what you eat

categories: Food, Health & Career

I love food. I think that food should be enjoyed and that everyone should have good food. Though when people think of food they enjoy or food in general it can be very unhealthy. From obesity to starvation there are many extremes in the area of food. But why?  What’s happening? And what are the factors and how can we help? Well we recently started health and career in class and right now we are looking at an aspect of health food. That leads into my next topic what’s the problem?

Well for one is animal products. That’s not to say that we shouldn’t eat animal products at all it has just gotten so extreme in the last decade even. Just look at the statistics if you need to see it in fact. Between 1950 and 2000 the world population doubled but meat consumption increased five fold. That means that we are going way past our means and we shouldn’t be. This was explained in a ted talk video by Mark Bittman. We had watched 4 ted talks in order to fully understand health and this was by far my favorite, the one I found the most interesting. The other videos were different though and still taught me a lot, for example there was a ted talks by AJ Jacobs that talked about how you shouldn’t go so extreme. He had said that for years he was trying to be as healthy as possible and it did have some benefits though that’s not to say that he could have been more balanced. That even though he had improved both physically and mentally it could have been improved. This is all said in his book drop dead healthy.

This made me realize that I am so lucky to live in an area of the world that has so many resources and yet we can take advantage of them. Meaning that now a days livestock is a problem from producing to much and people are getting more obese in certain areas while in other areas people are starving. I am now aware that I need to start thinking more about how what I eat not only effects me but as well as the whole world. Also that I should help the rest of the earth by helping people who are starving as well as decrease live stock. I think that’s possible for me because I already am a vegetarian which helps with one problem but I would like to help people. That might mean donating to organizations such as 30 project established by Ellen Gustafson who we watched a video on and is trying to change food problems. She said she loves food so I trust her. But she had this great point that when an area is hungry the country is insecure which makes sense.

So to draw what we each learned individually we made a portrait of ourselves out of food. We had gotten our inspiration from Giuseppe Arcimboldo a famous artist who is known for his pieces of art that were portraits of people made of fruit.

That was there’s and here is mine that I made out of food that I enjoy and eat:

Overall it was interesting to learn about how food is viewed all over the world. And that I am so lucky for what I have but I have to be careful because it could go south at any point. And next week you will be able to see another blog post on health & career.