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 Entrie#9 excessive advertising Hello and welcome back to project star      When you walk outside chances are you will see a tree, grass, or even a big advertisement telling you to purchase their brand new product. Over the years, many Americans have seen advertisements whether it be on TV or Youtube. Unfortunately, We've begun to see it in school as well.  In Joseph Dreamhouse's blog, Food Insecurity Through Political Cartoons , talks about many topics such as Crops being grown for fuel instead of fuel and government intervention in food, But the topic that caught my eye the most was “ Marketing of Food Products”. In this section, the blog mentions how advertisements have found themselves everywhere like toys and health initiatives. But now they are being advertised to the youths of America by implementing themselves in schools. With companies directing their ads towards children there has been an influx of childhood obesity. The author also states...

  Entire  #8 The study of Loneliness Hello and welcome  (Image source) To start off, I need to ask you some questions, are you lonely? Do you feel alone? Did you know that you can be lonely without even feeling it? Well a recent studies have been made by The University of Arizona about the relationship between being lonely and alone The study, lead by Alex Danvers , states that you can be alone without the negative side effect of being lonely. Where the problem lies, is when a person spends approximately 75% of their time alone. The experiment for the results was done by first monitoring two groups of people using a smartphone app called EAR (Electronically Activated Recorder). What this app does is record particip ants' noise every 12 minutes for 30 seconds so it can observe the social behaviors of a person. This being said the group with 66% alone time felt less lonely then the 75% alone time. Makes sense right however, they also deduced that loneliness and aloneness di...

Entire #7 Fresh foods      Hello and welcome back Throughout our lives we consume many different foods, but the average person never considers where or how our meal appears on our tables. The Film Fresh: Sustainable Food Production in America directed by Ana Sofia Joanes, shines light on this topic while introducing the harmful effects of industrial farming. At the start of the film we are introduced to the phrase “We need to feed the world”. However when companies say this what typically happens is that they are feeding the population using industrialized farms. At first thought this does not sound as if it were a bad thing, but only if you look into it does it reveal itself to be.  (image source) In order to “feed the world” industrialized agricultural companies acquire an abundance of their farming resources. Take cattle as an example. When mass producing beef you need enough cows to do so. In the film Joel Salatin, one of the farmers, elaborates on this proble...