Tuesday Time's Roundtable
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TTR | 01 Living with chronic Disease
In this TTR I listened to a panel of health experts and talk about diabetes. The difference between type one and type two diabetes and that for people with type one your body does not produce any insulin this type is mostly found in children. People with type two diabetes are usually older, have health problems such as obesity or it is in their family health history. How to recognize if you have diabetes such as with the constant need to go to the bathroom. They open the floor to questions and move on to how certain diets can affect diabetes with individuals with type 2 being able to control if they get diabetes or not. They also spoke about how different diets such as keto affects you long-term and weight loss using keto both reduces fat and your muscle density and yoyoing back and forth between regular eating habits and keto has a very harmful side effect to the diet and that for people with diabetes will cause low blood sugar. They go on to talk about alternate meat option such as the impossible burger are equally as bad because they are highly processed and has large amounts of saturated fats. They go on to talk about the trustworthiness of companies like burger king and McDonald's who have burgers for such a cheap price. The panels also touched on food labeling fraud and how manufacturers will deceptively put things on the label that’s not true such as gluten-free on a chicken label..
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Project | 02 Being bilingual is easy right?
In this TTR presentation by professor Marissa Gomez of the modern languages Department, professor Gomez talks about what it means to be bilingual. she first begins her presentation by asking the audience the stereotypes about being bilingual the positives about being bilingual and the negatives about being bilingual. one of these positive stereotypes about being bilingual is that you are considered sexier if you're bilingual, another benefit is that many professional jobs encourage applicants who are bilingual to apply and advance in the work field. One of the cons of being bilingual is that while you do have a larger vocabulary due to the fact that you know words in two languages you are more prone to have memory lapses and forget certain words. She expands on the different levels of being bilingual. Semi bilingual someone who is not strong in either language, passive bilingual a person who is a native speaker in a one and is able to understand but not speak another language, compound by language a person who is more proficient in one of the two languages, coordinate bilingual someone who can speak both languages at the same proficiency, balance bilingual someone who is somewhat proficient in both languages and Lastly equalingual someone that is considered a native speaker in both languages, these are only some other types of bilinguals that exists. professor Gomez dangles on to talk about or why it is hard to be bilingual she talks about the history of teaching second languages in America years ago in the education system many researchers believed that learning a second language made you dumb and the curriculum in the schools advised against it other factors such as family affected how the younger Latin American’s had a disconnect with their Spanish language due to the fact that if coming from a different country both the school counselors and parents greatly enforced speaking and learning the language to be able to adapt to living in America.
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Project | 03 Fighting online sex trafiking
- in this TTR presentation professor Sandy Skelany who is a professor on women's rights add an advocate for sex trafficking victims she presents to us how victims are sex trafficked and talked about FOSTA and it affects online sex trafficking. she first begins the presentation by talking about the various ways that technology has opened up sex trafficking prevalence as with online chat rooms such as with discord Twitter Facebook and Instagram that target young women and men especially those whose home life is unstable and fractured and are looking for a way to escape. Professor Skelaney also goes into the methods pimps will use to control their victims such as blackmail coercion, degradation, and physical and mental abuse. For many of these victims, the use of cellphones is a major way to pimp and control them by installing software tracking applications that track and monitor your every move and communication made on the phone. One of the major websites that many sex traffickers used to traffic the victims was backpage and craigslist these sites offered places to advertise sexual encounters and escorts. Prior to the FOSTA act when law enforcers attempted sting operations they would research on backpage and look for underage victims or multiple victims that are being peddled by the same pimp and conduct a sting operation that way but with the FOSTA act which made sites responsible for prohibiting third party users to post sexual advertisements and could now be charged under a federal crime and since backpage not only allowed the users to post but would guide them on ways to write the post so it would not be flagged were permanently taken down.