Challenge #5 Part 1

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Hello everyone! This week I will present you the different levels I have escalated in order to become engage with the social issue my group is focusing on, college tuition rising. The process of lurking gave me valuable and essential weapons in order to obtain the social perspectives high college tuition. The experience for engaging was a little difficult. College tuition is an issue that affects a large amount of our population; however, not a lot of people expose it on the social media. I was really amazed to find posts like these on twitter. Although I never visited twitter, I was not able to find much information on different social websites. It was really interesting observing that political candidates like Bernie Sanders were addressing the topic through social media. I have gain so many perspectives throughout this amazing process of researching a topic through social media. I have gain a new way of viewing social media. My generation is so use to just using media as a form of entertainment; however, I have learn how media has revolutionized our way of changing the way we utilized social media and the purpose for it. Using media as a source to research a specific topic has provide me with a different perspective about social media. It is amazing how people is able to communicate with different individuals in order to expose a specific social issue or idea that is affecting a big portion of society. I will continue to engage myself in different posts about my social topic in order to accumulate important information from social media.

 

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disconnect

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I realized in this exercise that it is nearly impossible for me to disconnect completely. I blame this on my kid. I am not with her all the time and if I am not with her I always make sure that my phone is accessible. That being said I did spend 24 hours with more conciseness around the idea of technology and disconnecting. I actually do this quite regularly. I blame this on my kid too. When I am with her I try to make sure that I am present and not staring at a computer screen finishing homework, texting, or obsessively checking my email. I do a couple simple things to help me with this. I never bring my phone anymore when I walker her to school, try to leave it in the car when I bring her to her extracurricular activities, and when we are home I put my phone on silent. I am not always successful but i try.

 

Changing Families, Chapter 7/ Sexualization of Girls

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This chapter wasn’t too shocking for me.   I don’t think that TV shows or movies have to do with teenagers or unmarried women getting pregnant.  I think the TV shows Teen Mom and 16 and Pregnant are focused on educating girls about why birth control is so important if they want to become sexually active.  Back then, they didn’t have TV shows like these, but numerous teens ended up getting pregnant. Also,  women and girls today have a lot more freedom now than 50 years ago.  This is because of birth control becoming legal and women don’t necessarily have to rely on a man anymore for an income.  Additionally, weddings have become immensely expensive; as a result, people are opting out of marriage to save money and just want to start having kids.

The sexualization of girls article was interesting.  I have noticed that young girls clothing stores today have a lot more revealing clothing, than when I was that age.  I think they believe it is okay to dress revealing because many stores they go to sell that type of clothing.  In my opinion, social media like snap chat and Instagram have escalated girls attitudes to want to dress sexy.  Many girls want to pose in revealing clothing in order to get as many “likes” on their pictures as they can.  I don’t even have those forms of social media because I don’t necessarily agree with what it is doing to young girls, or even young boys for that matter.

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There’s no such thing as individuality

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During the weekend we spent at Santa Rosa Island, I personallyfelt that I learned a lot of things. The experience as a whole was extraordinary to go through, the fact that we went through it together made it a little more special. There are so many things that are linked together as a whole and without one another they wouldn’t be the same. For example, plants and animals they co-exist because they need each other. One lives so the other can survive.

During our stay at the Island we got to see the way the faculty at the Island view Santa Rosa. What I really enjoyed was that they see the Island as their home and that they treat the Island with care. One of the thing I could truely see a deep connection was the plants and the animals. We learned a lot about the plants that grow on the Island with Cause. he took us to the nursery on the Island and we got to meet some people who were working on a very important enviromental project to help perserve many of the plants that have been dying because of the conditions humans had forced the Island to go through over the years. From what I could see they were really dedicated to their project and helping the Island grow more purple grass and to grow more pine trees because they’re going extinct on the Island were before there were so many pine trees and a lot of grass all over the Island. It’s really important for them to be successful in their project which is one of the reasons why they are giving it there all, since the drought hit the Island things have been getting worse and they’re trying their best to help restore the Island to it’s natural beauty that has been slowly fading away over the years. These to plants are very essential for the animals in the Island to survive. Most of the animals that live on the Island are birds, rodents, horses and foxes since all the other animals that have lived on the Island were brought purposely on the Island and have died and left their mark on the Island slowly destroying it over the years. The animals that remain aren’t destroying the Island they’re restoring it, for this to continue and for the Island to naturally change these animal need to remain on the Island to help contribute on the restoration of the Island. The birds need the trees, because that’s where they usually make there nests. And the horses need the grass to eat as well as the rodents that the birds usually feed on. The foxes on the Island are not predators they usually just eat plants, so plants are also essential for their survival.

Overall, even if we don’t see it at first there’s connections everywhere we go. We’re all connected to each other in ways we can’t even imagine because our connections are so deep that we usually don’t go looking for them. This trip really helped me open my eyes on how there’s more to ife than individuality because nothing is really an individual because we’re all connected to everything in some way whether it’s a small connection or a big one.

 

Is that research I see?

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The island brings such a diverse culture to the world not only in terms of its biodiversity, temperatures and its biotic and abiotic factors the island brings to us many different perspectives and lessons along with the many other variants it has to offer. The faculty and staff within that island was nothing less than a greater addition to that variant. Throughout the trip we had experience the view points of four different disciplines that had fused to from a perfect formation of ideologies and lessons.

While at the Santa Rosa Island we had learned the perspectives of an anthropologist, environmentalist, artist, and a biologist and through each perspective and out look they all have added more depth to the story and history of the island itself. Through each of their teaching they had all shown a new type of filter that, when each are added to one another they form this perfect harmony of “colors” that create a bigger picture.

Take for example using any given combination of the two of the four disciplines in a research situation they will form a bigger outcome. In terms of an environmental standpoint when a researcher is conducting research for a topic take for example the effect that over grazing, deforestation, and soil erosion causes and its relation with the shore line and the given species in their given habitat. Although that may seem complex and almost focused only on one discipline, it actually focuses on many different disciplines. Like what the faculty on the island were trying to convey it all a matter of perspective.

Depending on which way you look at it this one issue can be taken in a series of ways. One can take the geological stance and view how susceptible the land is and how often the land could erode. One can then take the environmental aspect and view all the ways in which the destruction of the environment would effect the organism and land around. One could also take the biologist point of view and conduct and experience to find the level of resistance in a particular organism and see how adaptive they could be. The overall arching meaning I’m trying to incorporate with all this is there is so many different ways one can approach a situation to gain the issues one may be trying to receive.

In conducting research which such a multitude of perspectives it brings about new view points one would not normally have had they been stuck to a single perspective. One gains the ability to search out for new solutions in ways that might not have been feasible before. Going back to the example using both an environmental and geological perspectives collectively one could see how resistant a particular species is and how the land around them such a altitude and temperature effects that organism.

In using a variety of perspectives, while one conducts research is not only a thing Lady Rosa had taught me while I was visiting her, but in staying on island it taught me a couple other things. Research although we might be doing it for a particular discipline doesn’t always mean that issue is solely based on that particular subject. Research is thing that encompasses such a wide range of subjects that had It not it would have been something completely different. In being blessed with this trip research is no longer a scary mysterious thing, it’s a mysterious thing that when given the chance I cannot wait to dive into.

 

Sepsis Protocols and Guidelines

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According to the article “Early goal-directed resuscitation of patients with septic shock: urrent evidence and future directions,” central goal in the treatment of septic shock is the maintenance of adequate tissue perfusion with hemodynamic support, which includes intravenous fluid resuscitation, administration of vasopressors, inotropes, and packed red blood cells (Gupta et al., 2015). Early administration of antibiotics is also recommended. However, the authors state that obtaining at least two blood cultures prior to initiation of antibiotics is required. The authors pointed out to the evidence showing that each hour delay in the administration of antibiotic that is appropriate for the pathogen is associated with a 7.6 % increase in mortality (Gupta et al., 2015). Early goal directed therapy is still a widely accepted strategy, but the latest research showed that this policy does not significantly decrease mortality in patients with septic shock compared with usual care (Gupta et al., 2015). As a part of this approach, during the first 6 hours of septic shock, the patient needs to get a central venous catheter with an oximetric port for continuous monitoring of central venous pressure (CVP) and central venous oxygen saturation (ScvO2). Resuscitation with intravenous fluids, vasopressors, and packed red blood cells is required and titrated to specific parameters (Gupta et al., 2015).

Another article suggests that the most important intervention is the early bed site assessment of hemodynamic parameters and cardiac biomarkers (Sasko, 2015). Aggressive hemodynamic treatment has been shown to increase the survival of patients in septic shock (Sasko, 2015). The authors emphasized that early recognition, control of the source as well as effective therapy with antibiotics and hemodynamic stabilization are the most important cornerstones of the sepsis therapy (Sasko, 2015).

References

Gupta, R., Hartigan, S., Kashiouris, M., Sessler, C., & Bearman, G. (2015). Early goal-directed resuscitation of patients with septic shock: Current evidence and future directions. Critical Care, 19(286), 1-10. DOI 10.1186/s13054-015-1011-9

Sasko, B., Butz, T., Prull, M., Lieberton, J., Christ, M., & Trappe, H. (2015). Earliest bedside assessment of hemodynamic parameters and cardiac biomarkers: Their role as predictors of adverse outcome in patients with septic shock. International Journal of Medical Sciences, 12(9), 680-688. doi:10.7150/ijms.11720

 

Beginning Participation (Challenge 5.1)

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This week, we are stepping out of the shadows of lurking and finally beginning to participate in the social culture of our topics.

I’m continuing to use Twitter as a way to participate in the topic of LGBT representation (this is one of the sites that we are required/allowed/expected to participate in). And although Tumblr was not included in the list of expected websites, I also wanted to participate in the Tumblr culture because I feel that the users of Tumblr have a lot to say about the topic and are all willing to share. I was not sure how much I could get from Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, but I do plan to try participating in Facebook and Instagram in the continuation of this challenge.

Initially, I attempted to dive right into participating on both websites. On both Tumblr and Twitter, I posted on my personal accounts (while using the hashtag for “#lgbt representation” and “#univ349dc”) reaching out to anyone who follows me and other users who don’t follow me but follow the hashtag results. I simply asked about everyone’s opinion about the current state of LGBT representation and how they feel that it can be improved. As I was half expecting, I didn’t get much interaction on either site. On Twitter, fellow classmate Melissa, responded to my tweet with her opinion, and that interaction can be seen on the Tagboard for #univ349dc. But I didn’t get any interactions beyond that.

On Tumblr, I did basically the same thing: reach out to my followers and the hashtag for opinions. For a while, I only got “likes” on my post which shows me that people agree that the topic of representation is one that needs to be talked about. Here is my post: http://actualplant.tumblr.com/post/131924353661/help-me-with-my-class But later in the day, I received texts from my friend that I made through Tumblr who lives in Canada asking how he can help with my participation and told me that he would draft a response to my question with his opinion of LGBT representation. He reblogged (Tumblr’s version of sharing/reposting) my post onto his blog with his response which you can read here: http://dontdontdo.tumblr.com/post/131995248454/help-me-with-my-class He carried a lot of insight on the subject, and I was glad to see that not only did he have something to say about the subject, but also he helped my reaching out to my followers by broadcasting my post on his blog which reaches out to his followers. Now, hopefully, I have the attention of both our crowds.

This week’s challenge has been just that: challenging. I don’t feel that my voice is being heard among the thousands (maybe millions?) of other users on the websites, but hopefully during this next week of participation, I can get in touch with other users of Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, and maybe Instagram to learn more about this topic.

The brain on phone and internet…

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My experience without a phone and the internet over the weekend was quiet and uneventful because I was disconnected from the people I’m usually connected with, making it harder to stay in touch with my network of friends.

I found this video interesting because it explains how a phone or the internet can influence the brain. It makes me think about the effects of social media on the brain. Perhaps I will step away from the phone and the internet a little more often.

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