My Thesis

The U.S. will never become the wholesome place that it is widely portrayed to be due to the nightmarish industrial atrocities of "Big Business". The incentives to increase profit by reducing costs that industrialized business is based on has lead to the creation somewhat nightmarish dominant practices.

Homework #9

I feel that the main tools that the people in freakonomics put to use were statistics, surveys, and tests. For example the part in the movie where they were explaining how the names that did or did not affect a person's life long term. The African-American scholar use statistics to help explain why he feels the names did not affect someone's life. Although the Middle Eastern scholar use surveys and tests to prove why he feels that a person's name does deeply effect their future financially due to discrimination that cannot be avoided by people. the people who wrote freakonomics developed their ideas through evidence gathered from all three of these tools. Although they look through a very specific lens when reviewing the information collected through these tools to allow them to have a better grasp on the information presented in front of them.
I believe that freakonomics is a very good example of than average citizen looking for the hidden truth within what we are taught to believe our whole lives. Although I do feel that something as simple as this movie is nothing but a mere steppingstone on the path to truth that the masses are just starting on. Freakonomics is nothing more then breaking through the outer wall of a massive fortified fortress of lies that we the people with are very ignorant happy lives have just become aware of about.

Homework #8

Growing my own food was a new experience but not a bad one. It was very interesting to raise sprouts on my own seeing how they developed over time, at first it just felt like a chore to have to cater to them everyday and because of that the sprouts ended up rotting and dying a couple times. But through trial and error I was eventually able to successfully grow healthy sprouts which I later eat with my meal as homework. The experience of eating sprouts I grew was not very pleasant but very interesting nonetheless. the process of growing the sprouts did not seem very sacred to what was on the other hand somewhat unpleasant and obviously forced. In the future I would like to be able to have the opportunity to grow and produce my own food once more but the next time our rather what I grow to be something I'm actually okay with ingesting.