ABUSING CHICKENS WE EAT

This is one of the most powerful chicken farm corporations.

     Perdue is an agribusiness in Salisburg, Maryland. With annual sales of over $6 billion this company stands at the 3rd largest chicken producer in the U.S. This company produces 59,320,000 pounds of ready to cook chicken. In the article Abusing Chickens We Eat, by Nicholas Kristof, published by the New York Times he author states that aperture is abusing the chickens, and it is also using fake advertising to sell their products.

     Through out the article the author used many examples to support his argument. One example was how he explIn why companies lie in their labels. For example the labels always show beutiful chicken shower in real life these chickens are nothing like the ones in the label.
In the movie Food Inc. they interviewed many farmers however only one was willing to show how the chickens actually grow. Chickens are being genetically inhance to grow larger chest, grow bigger and grow faster.

This is how chickens look in chicken farms.

     In the 1900's a book named The Jungle by Upton Siclair, a novel about the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the U.S. Sinclair spent 7 weeks working undercover in a meat plant to see how the daily days of workers where. President Theodore Roosevelt read this book and choose to take actions about it. He sent investigators to these slaughter houses to and when the report came back it said the same things like Sinclair. The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906.
    

 By reading the article titled, "Abusing Chickens We Eat" by Nicholas Kristof, it opened my eyes to the reality or food corporations and how they treat their products and employees. In reality, it's not only chickens being abused it's also other animals like cattle. Also, many of the "farmers" say its not really farming anymore. It's just mass production. I learned that the corporations make the farmers upgrade their chicken stockyards all the time making the farmers go into debt. And if the farmers wouldn't upgrade, they would run the enormous risk of losing their contract with the corporation. By learning all this new information on food corporations, I have decided I would cut down on my meat and poultry consumption.

What Happened to The 43?

The Ayotzinapa school is a public school located in Inguala Guerrero, where only sons of poor citizens or farmers are allowed to attend. The goal of this school is to train future teachers. In this school are also thought several values that many poor children are lack the opportunity to learn.

Many believe that these students were abducted because they were protesting against the mayor's (Jose Luis  Abarca) wife (Maria De Los Angeles Pineda), and because the students were protesting the mayor decided to take such actions. Another idea going around is that of the cartels tuning these cities gave the order to make a point. This idea could be more then likely the problem because many of the government officials get to their positions with drug cartel money and there for to repay they must obey the orders from the drug leaders.

The Mexican citizens demand for answer as well as the parents. They argue that their protest around the country will not stop until their sons and appear alive

Has The U.S. Moved On From Racism?

I believe the U.S. Is not colorblind due to the fact that in airports people are racially categorized

• Jocelyn: Republicans congress are against undocumented immigrants, people often times are incarcerated for minor offenses (vagrancy or homelessness).
• Lauryn: Very few families discuss racism. Only 37% of families talk openly about race, which makes racial discrimination unaccountable to millenniums 
• Ruben: Only 44% of African American families own homes versus 73% of white families. If the U.S. was truly colorblind society those percentages would be more equal.
• African American die four years earlier than whites. White people live in safer environments as  for African people they live in dangerous communities.
• Mariela: African American how low paying jobs, they live in dangerous neighborhoods where gangs play a big role in their lives.

How Tycoons Became Rich

Thought out history the world has seen many tycoons. Some of his tycoons are J. P. Morgan, Bill Gates, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carneige. What allowed tycoons to succeed in their business was that they tried to control business by getting rid of their competition.

Tycoons are persistent they never give up. Source

Tycoons had a mind for business. Tycoons attracted talented workers by offering great pay and benefits, searched for new ideas, and how to make products cheaper. Also they would try to control business by using vertical integration. For example Carneige bought all the coal fields. Because of this tycoons were able to establish their prices which most of the times those prices go up.

This is the game monopoly which is based on tycoons. Source

For these tycoons being rich was a sign from good, for them it was like if god like them better, they believed in social Darwin. Darwism is survival of he fittest. Rich people are good, poor people are bad.

Passive House Poem

Carbon dioxide, my plants can't keep up
The heat in my house is going up,
Passive houses the solution are,
Rich people don't cry because your property value aint going down.

With these new designs we will survive
The heat will go down
Like "frozen" my house will feel
Please LET IT GO!!! It's all about the passive houses.

During the summer the light hits the roof. During the winters the
Light hits the windows which cool down the house. Source

This is a passive house. Source

The Industrial Revoulution

The Erie Canal during the Industrial Revolution was
used to transport goods and people across the country. Source

The Erie Canal was a man-made waterway, which helped to transport products and people from one place to another. The Erie Cana originally ran about 363 miles from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York, at Lake Erie. This way of transportation allowed people to get to other parts of the country faster and also the goods for marchets were fresh because it arrived at the destination faster.

Although there were many factor that contributed to the U.S. becoming the number one economy of the world, it was the free enterprise and entrepreneurs that contributed the most to the success of the country. Free Enterprise is the Fredom of Private business to operate completively for profit. Thanks to this many people were more interested in creating their own companies. For people who did not want to go throught the hassle of starting a company they chose to become entrepeneurs. Entrepeneurs are risk takers who invest their money in new indstries. Due to the entrepeneurs and free enterprise it was easier for people to start their own industries and also more profitabl for theme. Entrepeneurs were also more interested in investing money on new ideas.   

This picture shows how an entrepeneur has to be prepare to
take risk that can affect the rest of their life. Source

The single most important resource the U.S. had to help it become the a work-wide industrial power was natural resources. The U.S. had an extensive amount of natural resources like Oil, Iron, Wood, Rivers Gold, etc. Because the U.S. had all these resources we started to export many of these resources to other countries.

                                              
                   

Summary of Tech Reading

     In the informative article title new Science and Life Interacted During the American Industrial Revolution compiled by Danny Blas, he explains how technology changed the way we live because of the inventions like elevators and steel. 

 Technology changed the way people moved around because trains, cars, and subways were invented. Steel allowed the production of these inventios.

     Technology changed the way we read and learned because news paper were more affordable therefor more people were able to read about the things going on in the world.

A passive house is a house that is specially design to maximaze the heat gain during winter and minimize the heat loss during the winter. Also it is specially design to maintain a cool temperature in the house.

     To certify a house as a green passive house, first it most meet 3 bench marks. First it has to achieve a certain level of airtightness. Second it has to passed two test which are to show that the house is energy efficient. Engineers use fog machines and infrared rays to locate air leaks in the house.

     Some residents living in older, more expensive houses would disagree with this new house style because they believe that these new houses don't go or complement their houses, there for their propertie values could decrease.