Assignment 5-1

Adipex and Phentermine

People love to look good so they choose to take different kinds of medicine to make sure he or she stay fit. You have women trying to loose weight by taking different kinds of medicine to make them look great, but men also want to gain muscle and they take medicine to gain muscle weight to get strong. Adipex is a pill that individual take for their diabetes. Doctor describes this medicine so individuals could make sure they obtain their proper weight.
A lot of celebrities use adipex even though it’s for the use of people who have diabetes. Some celebrities feel it’s easier to take one pill that will keep you up and give you energy through out the day then to go to the gym and release some stress. Most celebrities don’t find the time to go visit the gym so why not take adipex.
Phentermine is an imitation of adipex which is used for patients who are obese and would like to lose weight. A person that has a high medical risk uses this to lose weight because it breaks down the chemicals in their brain and it stops a person from eating as much. Most time people lose up to 11 pounds the first week of taking this medicine.
When asked about Phentermine or Adipex people have a lot to say. Some people feel that you should not use this drug because it could cause heart failure. A person was told that they had a heart tack from taking this drug. I have thought about using this drug myself because I wanted to loose a few pounds and I didn’t have the time to visit a gym. I wanted the weight to come off fast, but after listening to some stories about the pill I decided to wait and to make time to exercise and eat healthy.
There are a lot of people using this drug today from celebrities or people that feel that they are obese. A person could order this pill on-line which could cause them up to $147, or they could make a doctors visit and the doctor will check his or hers weight and let them know that it is okay use. Most doctors give people the pills anyway just because they want to get paid. When you visit the doctors and they order you the pills the cost is only about $80. People feel that it is a quick and a cheap way to lose weight fast, so they will go and visit the doctor.
In all, I think that doctors should look at the person history first before prescribing this medicine because he or she should not want to be at fault of someone losing their life from a heart tack or any other kind of complication from this medicine. It is easier to lose weight without exercising by taking a pill, but it can cause more problems for people in the end.









Reference
Adipex Drugs, (n.d) Retrieved on October 31, 2008 from http://americanrxleader.com

Phentermine, (n.d) Retrieved on October 31, 2008 from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/phentermine

Assignment 4-1

Fashion
Women love clothes and so they dress, there are different kinds of fashion that people were on a daily basis. You have clothing from newborns all the way to elderly. There are, clothing for your dogs to your kittens. It always a good deal to, but sometimes it is extremely important to dress for every occasion. Fashion is for everyone and no matter what style you like or need to wear. It is appropriate to make the right decision at the right time.
Fashion means the way you dress, or you’re since of style, it also stands for the latest style. Most stars wear the fashions that mostly represent them. For instance, you have rappers that wear baggie jeans with the big chains and the different color fronts (mouth piece) in their mouth because that is what makes them famous. Then you have singers wear a lot of dress clothes because they feel sexy and it makes them look confident. For example, the singer Beyonce was known for her vocals and from being in a female group, now she is known for her latest fashion called the “House of Dereon”. Her fashion was named after her grandmother that past away, but used to help her mother become who she is today.
If you ever feel like you want to lie down and relax you have jogging pants or velour’s to do this end. If you go to a cabaret party or a graduation party you tend to dress up so you could put on dress clothes with the high heels and the expensive jewelry. It always good to look nice so fashion will be here for the rest of our lives. Fashion also is popular in the athletic area. You have team representing where they from or what team they like, for instance. Michigan loves the Michigan Wolverine gear and Ohio love the OSU gear.
Fashion is important because people like to stay up on the latest style, if you don’t stay up on style you either are talked about or cast out. When your children goes to school you make sure you do school shopping every year because you don’t want them to feel left out, because a lot of children are harsh and they will talk about you if they don’t see you in anything knew during the beginning of the school year.
I think fashion is for everyone and if you like to dress you should dress up. If you like to run or walk buy you some walking shoes, and if you want to travel or go camping it’s always good to wear the camping gear or traveling gear, so fashion is nice at all times.










Reference
www.Beyonceworld.com
www.Wikipedia.com

Assignment 3-1

Digital Cameras and Film
There are different ways to make a movie these days and film is a big part of America from watching them on The Big Screen, Imax, or on your DVD players films can be viewed at all times. Films which is stated in Wikipedia, are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures. Now a days, people use film to view birthday party’s for there children, and record fights when ever necessary.
Digital cameras on the other hand works similar to films but there used to create or make a film. Digital cameras are known today because you can take a camera snap a shot or make a film out of it. You can also scan from your digital camera what you may have recorded through your film earlier. Films and digital cameras are mainly used today buy actresses, singers, and even parents because ever shot that you take are also worth filming.
Stores are using your digital cameras and instead of them making copies of your pictures that you have taken, they are also making you DVD tapes of your recordings. If its just through a picture now you are able to make a film out of what ever you take from your digital camera, personal I notice individuals like famous persons walking around with a digital camera and taken pictures of themselves from every angle. There also very popular because some digital cameras can take your picture and give you some kind of music download effect. This helps you bring your own sounds to your background of your film through your camera.
People are using digital cameras more often today then they used them in the past. In the past you use to have the big video camera that you just video tape what you record, and today you buy the digital camera that records what you want from video taping, downloading music, and taken photos. Digital camera is what’s in today and they are available in all colors and in most stores. You have a big variety to choose from and they all have different kind of programs to the camera similar to a cellular phone. If recording, listening to music, taking photos, and making film is important to you I believe that a digital camera would be the best purchase for anyone who enjoys doing and using all these things.
WWW. Wikipedia.com

Assignment 2-1

Health Insurance
Getting insurance and keeping it, is an issue today in America. There is always sometime of Insurance plan that help you when your young, but when you get older it hard to keep your insurance going because you tend to get sick, and then your not able to keep up with the payments. I believe this is a big issue and our society. Insurance are sold from television, on-line, or through the company you work for, but truly what is the best insurance.
It seems that insurance are getting more expensive to keep because there are a lot of different company’s, and plans that are going against one another to get you in. For instance, you have Aetna, Anthem, and care source. There are individual and family plan insurance and you have to go with the one that best suits you. This insurance plan is made for one person or a group of family members, instead of employees. Sometimes it’s cheaper to find an insurance company of your own then has insurance paid for through employment.
Instead of jumping right into one insurance company, you should shop around to see what is cheaper for you, but worth your money, and what is perfect for you children. A lot of insurance company takes advantage of the elderly because they feel that they don’t really understand the situation, so they lure them in to make more money, not knowing that there are a lot of family members that get upset with the situation, and you may have to take the company to court.
My mother is older, and she takes medicine everyday to stay alive. Not only does she have to take medication for her situation, she also has high blood pressure, arthritis, and when she uses certain products she tends to swell. Her insurance did not cover all her medication like they said they would and the time she became a member of this company, they raised her co-pay up yearly. When my mother became a member she was alone so we weren’t able to go through the paper work with her, so they took advantage. My siblings were so upset that it took six to eight months to cancel her insurance legally. Now my mother has a good insurance that covers all of her medication, including her high blood pressure and arthritis medication, which also lowered her co-pay down to ten dollars, which doesn’t go up yearly.
Anthem is a good insurance company which is blue cross, blue shield and it covers family members from your child all the way to senior citizens. This is a world-wide company, and if considering this company you could get information sent to you about the company without them trying to make you buy this insurance. It has a plan for everyone and Anthem would help you cover most of your doctor bills instead of one thing. This insurance is also good for dental, and great for disabled persons.
I am not a member of Anthem, but I do help others try and get insurance through this company by searching for different kinds of information through websites.

www.aetna.com,
www.anthem.com

Assignment 1-3

The Sound of Music
Journal Analysis



Carolyn Chairs






HUMN 341, Popular Cultural
Professor Schottenstein
October 15, 2008





Journal Analysis

In reading the article “The Sound of Music (in Movies)” by Gary Hoppenstand, people are to remember where making a film has came from and criticize why things have changed from then into now. All persons should know that movies where based of the people that played the part instead of the person that directed the films. The writer would like people to object the case of looking at film making as reading a novel like it was used in prior years, but to look at it as a movie that is being represented by authors, actors, and storey tellers.
The writer, Gary Hoppenstand, doesn’t intend for readers of his journal to acknowledge the directors of filmmaking to take credit for directing the film. He believes that since the actors are the one that are ranking in the money at the post box office, they should be the one who take the credit, as well as the screenwriters, and everyone else that has taken part in making films a hit. If it was not for the actors and every person that play a part in the film, it would never made it to the box office and know person would have made a dime off of the film, so where would the money go when it could go directly to novels because more people would get their monies worth out of reading the novel then watching the movie because novels tells it all, but you have to break down what you read into a movie, therefore a lot is being left unheard.
Gary states, “Film theory and auteur studies are fun to read at times, but one needs to

understand that these are as much a fiction as the source matter they analyze.” This means that

novels should have stayed the first source to studying. A person shouldn’t have to watch a film

unless its for enjoyment. In college when studying for a novel some professor would like for students to watch a film instead of reading a book and that isn’t good all the time because a lot of information may is being left out.
“Do we really need another book published about how great Alfred Hitchcock is?” states Gary Hoppenstand. Meaning that let dead rest and focus more on the background. Persons should look or read more into what is being said instead of what is being watched. Reading is everything and instead of you viewing films that doesn’t tell the whole truth and most of the time is fictional should not be good for the soul.
Reading should tell more about what a person does and how they came up with the theory of doing what they done, instead of filming it and going ahead with only that of what you see. If people look into the background of what they watch they probably would get a lot out of what they may be watching by trying to understand the characters and the background of what the director is thinking. For instance, there’s this movie called, “How Stella Got Her Groove Back” written by Kevin Rodney Sullivan. This movie is about a phenomenal author name Terry McMillan, who told her life through novels; her life of dating and marrying a younger man. A few novels that Terry had written became on film and blew up in the box office, but her film that was at the box office did not tell her true story. Meaning that if people would read the novel, they would have known that all was not perfect for Terry. Yes, she was in love with a man 20 years younger than her, but it all was not perfect. In the end Terry ended up being divorce because her husband was gay.
In all, Gary Hoppenstand, is letting the audience know that that reading is the best way to get more information out of life because you learn a lot more by reading then watching a movie.
Its good to enjoy a movie here and there, but if the people would read more novels instead of watching them on film a person would get more out of the novel then a person would at the movies. He believes that movies are more fictional then novels because you have to break things down for the audience, when reading a novel is right in your face and you could read it over to get the concept of what is being said in the story. With novels the truth mainly is told and in movies you have to come up with your own theory. Gary likes the audience to know that he likes to watch movies, but he also would like it more if they would publish more about why the film is being made. Gary would like the audience to focus more on the how the film is being made instead of who made the film.


































Reference

Editorial: The Sound of Music (in Movies), Gary Hoppenstand. The Journal of Popular Culture,

2008. Volume 41, Issue 5, Pages745 – 746

Popular Culture

Popular Culture
Pop culture is the social context of what is popular in America today. It also, means to me whatever I’m thinking about at the time. What I was taught to believe as a child and what I teach my children. Pop culture affects my attitude and my behavior and it’s the culture elements in today’s society. An understanding of pop culture is relevant to me in a business environment because it tells what is important in my life. For Instance, when you have a job and its business related I know to dress professional. I dress up and I continue to have a positive attitude about my surroundings. In making changes in my life I consider pop culture to be a part of this by creating different diversions of what I would do, and which I could use now or in the future. I consider pop culture being an artifact is icons as in phones, computers, cartoon character’s, or whatever you use to build your entertainment and other things. I consider my artifact to be a good example of popular culture because it plays music, videos, record, download music, and customize a lot of things for your entertainment.

Assignment 3-2

Assignment 3-2
Ritual Development

My understanding of the word ritual is that it’s a set of action that has value to what you do. It could be from your religion or what you believe is true. Something you follow and you continue to do all your life. For instance, every year my family celebrates Christmas in Michigan, and everyone from each state makes sure they are there at this time, because this is our family ritual.
The ritual that I observe in our society would be of the holidays, religious belief, and of the election of president. I was raised to always vote for the best candidate for what is right and always put God first, so that is my ritual in for the society that I am in.
The rituals my family and I observe most of all is the holidays because they are special to my children and I. It’s something we come together and do every year and also spending time at church is another ritual of ours because that is how we were raised.
Rituals that I can identify with today is of people getting together watching the games or going to church, or making Sunday dinner. This been around for years and people continue to do the same thing exactly like they was raised.
The ritual that I have already develop for my family is spending holidays together and make sure that my children put God first. This is how I was raised and I would like for my children to continue that because when ever I would past away, at least I know that my children are still close with each other because they would see each other every holiday, so when they have children they will keep this going for their children because they would know that is what I did for them.