“My capstone was a combine idea of teaching with culture exchange. Through the process I learned about the SLA system, how hard could be teach teenagers and also how careful and organize you have to be when your actions and planes affect others people time.”
Since the begging I
knew that this brenchmark will be specially challenging because our teacher
give us options to select from, which was nice but at the same time scary
because each option was hard in a way, wasn’t a safe choice. I chose the
uncover story to find a good news in the city and show it because sometimes I
feel like the people in Philadelphia underestimate the city and think that
everything is bad.
For the reason that is
a news article I couldn’t stay set in front of my computer and write a paper, I
had to research and find people who will support my story in order to show that
is real. Rotary Club is the organization that is sponsoring my exchange program
and besides that they do a lot of good community service so was a pleasure for
me talk about that fantastic people.
Based in the theory of Five point Framework from the
book Collapse by Jared Diamond, this project above was made with the propose of
evaluate and grade (0-10) the collapsibility of two country by comparing each
other.
The first country France, officially called the French Republic. It’s the second
largest country in Europe (with 65,350,000
of people). The capital is Paris;
the official language is the French,
and the currency the Euro. They have
a unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic government.
In the other hand we have Romania, a Southern European country, with a smaller population
(just 19,042,936 people). The
capital is Bucharest; the official
language is Romanian, and their
government is unitary semi-presidential republic. Like France, Romania also has
as currency the Euro.
Both part of the European Union and they are in a
very good condition of life in general. Those facts make harder the job of
evaluate collapsibility and the criterion to grade it. Also my knowledge in
cybernetics is poor, this I would like to change in a future presentation.
Overall by the process of making this project, I
enjoy it and learned a lo about those two countries, and I was very impress
with how those five point framework apply to any community, and even those that
we think are very advance, had their point where they are weak.
Everybody perceived the word accordance with his or her reality. This is the probe to that analysis. The exercise consists in try to calculate the number of people that you believe is in each category based in 100. Below we present three different bar graphs cooperating the world reality with what the average in the class believe is true, and what I thought was the real number.
I
choose these categories because I was sure that were the ones where I was
closer, but the results give me some surprises. Now with the real answers I think that the most accurate is
the urban/rural chart even when we tend to add more in the urban areas, but
that is normal because we life in a city and we believe the most of the people
had the same situation. The same happen to me with the genders, I put more
female than male, and in geography I add more people in the parts that I know.
And the whole situation almost repeats in all categories, languages for
example.
In the case of this
graphs as you can see the differences between the class, the reality and my
distribution is not enormous despite that we have a lot of different options, but
still you can see some of them a little bit higher or under the real number,
and once aging our perspective of the world depends in our reality, and the
true is the US is a country where religion is free, so we really do not have a
real sense of this.
In
a very personal way I am alive to be wrong in this one, because means that more
people that I think had access to drinking water, and that is amazing because
we all are humans and we all have the same rights.
Ingredients:
·
1
medium onion, chopped fine
·
2
tablespoons butter
·
1
tablespoon vegetable oil
·
1
medium tomato, chopped fine
·
1
green pepper, chopped fine (optional)
·
4-6
eggs
·
3
tablespoons cream
·
Salt
and pepper to taste
Preparation:
1.
Whisk
eggs together with cream. Set aside.
2.
Melt
butter with oil in a large nonstick skillet.
3.
Sautéed
chopped onions over medium heat until translucent.
4.
Add
tomatoes and peppers and cook over medium heat until soft, 8-10 minutes.
5.
Pour
eggs into skillet and cook gently, stirring them lightly and flipping them as
they cook.
6.
Cook
to desired doneness, and season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve warm with
arepas.
Perico is a Venezuelan dish consisting of eggs, oil, tomatoes, onions, and green peppers. A single serving would have about 18.5 grams of fat and 222 calories. It has no sugar (except for a little natural sugar from the vegetables).
Our dish is nearly 100% whole food. The only processed ingredient is vegetable oil, of which only a tablespoon is used. It was also, dollar for calorie, the cheapest ingredient. A 48-oz bottle cost $2.99. Eggs were $2.29 a dozen, also relatively cheap. The pepper was $1.99, the tomato and onion $3.99 each. One serving of perico costs approximately $3.97, more than a serving of fast food.
The only ingredients whose origins we were able to find were the eggs and oil. The eggs came from a small organic farm called Sauder’s Quality Eggs. The oil was manufactured by Clover Valley, which is owned by Dolgencorp, LLC, a subsidiary of Dollar General. While we don’t know exactly where the vegetables came from, they probably came at least several hundred miles. They were from a normal supermarket and therefore are probably from Florida, California, or Mexico.
The only vegetable oil regulation I could find was a bill that requires animal fats and vegetable oils to be regulated just like non-food oils for manufacturing and transportation. There are many regulations concerning the production of all eggs, to prevent the spread of salmonella, and more for organic eggs.
Sauder’s eggs come from hens that eat organic feed with no antibiotics and roam outdoors. Conventionally produced eggs come from hens given antibiotics and growth hormones. Since Sauder’s is in Pennsylvania, the eggs also travel less than eggs from a non-local company might. The tomato wasn’t organic. While an organic tomato would have been grown without pesticides, the tomato we used was likely sprayed with pesticides to control weeds, pests and disease.Initially, I was suspicious that Sauder’s was a friendly face hiding a large corporation, but I looked through their website and it’s clear they are a small family farm. Meanwhile, the CEO of Dollar General, David A. Perdue, makes $1.94 million a year. It’s amazing what a far-reaching effect the purchase of a single meal’s ingredients can have.
Thinking in the audience who will be seeing my project, I believed that the best way would be a presentation. But then, when I was looking the resources I thought that I should let the articles speaking by themselves.
All this led me to think in make a newspaper library, but that is to boring for teen years. Finally I considered in mixing these two ideas and made an interactive newspaper library, in this presentation the people could see videos with short explanations and can made your own conclusions.
