Friday, October 28, 2011

Journal 12: Annonated Bibliography

Sanjosé, S., Benavente, Y., & Nieters, A. (2006). Association between Personal Use of Hair Dyes and Lymphoid Neoplasms in Europe. American Journal of Epidemiology, 164(1), 47-55. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwj187
Dr. Silvia de Sanjosé was working for Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain, in 2005. He was conducting a research to demonstrate that using dying hair product increase the risk of Lymphoid Neoplasms. The article is useful because Lymphoid Neoplasms is an abnormal mass of tissue which can lead to a cancer. Since the result is related to my topic, I can use this topic to argue whether or not dying hair damage human health.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Advice

The best advice in my life was from my mother when I was an adolescent. At the age of the adolescence, kids begin to change physically and mentally. They tend to listen to their friends rather than to their parents. Therefore this is really difficult to the parent for keepping theim away from trouble. I used to be a bad teenager because I don't want to follow my parent's advice. I was always thinking that my parent did not understand my feeling and I became disobey. I hated someone tell me that I need do this, I should do that. One day after a moment talking to me, I continued avoiding all my mother's advice. She was really sad, she looked at in my eye and said: " I know you don't want to listen to me, you think mom was always wrong. You don't need to follow my advice now but just keep all that in mind because one day you will need it. Someday you will see that your mom was right. No one can give you a better advice than I do because no one can love you more than I do." That speech really woke me up. I was not following all advice but I was trying to not ruin anything because I don't want to upset my mom. Now, I grow up and realize mama was right.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

American Food

The U.S. is famous with the development of fast food restaurant. People can realize that KFC, Burger King, Mac Donal's or Pizza Hut are appreared in everywhere they go. Therefore, people can definitely state that fast food is American food. Although the Americans were not the father of hamburgers or pizza, the U.S is the only one place that makes them flourish and be famous around the world.
Otherwise, fast food could not be determined as the only traditional American food. The settler of the U.S came from around the world, they brought with them their own cultures and their own traditional food. Therefore the tradition of American food is the diversity. After a longtime, these foods are changed to fit the taste of the big part of American population who came from different countries. The American cuisine is really typical. For example, American seafood is totally different in how it is prepared. We cannot find exactly the same dishes in any other restaurant in the rest part of the world unless it was an American restaurant.
As the U.S is the big country, American traditional food can be varied by regions. For example, when people talk about crawfish, it can remind them Louisana eventhough there are crawfish restaurants everywhere. In addition, when we look at the menu of pizza, there is often one kind on which they put some pineapple piece and they call Hawaiian style.
All in all, it is really hard to say what is the American food not because they don't have any but because there are a lot of different dishes. Otherwise, turkey and potatoes can be also considered American food since they cannot be missed in the American dinner at the Thanksgiving.