Samantha's POV

    Food Recalls in the Month of April The list of food recalls is increasing by the day, and at the end of the month of April, it is high. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/food-recall-list-every-product-removed-this-month/ar-AA1nW5CL Who? This image comes from Microsoft's web portal, MSN, which is aiming to warn their audience of the recalls that were discovered this month. It is crazy the amount of items on the list. They're ranged in all food categories, even in animal foods. Even hand sanitizer and medical devices were added to the list! Where & What? Some of these food that manufacturers are believing to be making people sick come from different parts of the world.  For example, H-E-B in Texas recalled some of their ice creams due to them possibly containing metals. Some basil herbs sold in Florida were taken off shelves due to the fears of them being contaminated with salmonella.  Towards the middle of the article, a video can be seen that explains a ...

    Personal Growth "Self-growth, sometimes referred to as 'personal growth' or 'personal development,' is a process of developing new skills,  attitudes , actions, or reactions that can have a positive impact on your life and increase your overall well-being". - By  Zamfira Parincu , BA, Researcher Why is it important? According to John C. Maxwell, the seed of hope is a growth mindset. This is the start of a better future. It is believing that things will be the way you want them to be. As soon as the belief that growth is possible and committing to doing so, the hope process will begin. Having hope can impact your view on how you grow. The more hope you are willing to put into your efforts, the more change you will see. Nonetheless, growing personally can make you thrive in life, live happily, and build healthy relationships with everyone and everything, including yourself! The 4 Types of Growth Personal Growth can be covered in four categories: emotional, s...

FRESH: Sustainable Food Production in America The film Fresh: Sustainable Food Production in America is a documentary film. A documentary is a film where something factual and specific is discussed for a public matter. The purpose of this film in general was to raise awareness or try to promote a more environmental friendly and acceptable approach to food production. The targeted audience, in this case, are the food consumers who are looking for a change in the way their food is grown. They aim to seek food sources that they believe are better and sustainable for them. The tone of this film is serious and informative, as it is trying to educate and inspire viewers, like me, to think about what they are consuming on an everyday basis. The parts of the film that stood out to me the most was in the beginning and somewhat in the middle. In the beginning, the interview between the farming couple admits that what they give their chickens is suspicious and that they don't really know wh...

  Balancing School and Life Balancing your school life and your personal life can be pretty challenging. This can especially be because you feel you need to prioritize one thing you may think is more  important than another. It feels like there aren't enough hours in a day to balance school and your personal life all at once. There are many strategies to maintain a special equilibrium between the two. Today, I will mention a very important strategy. Time Management According to Coursera, time management is "the process of consciously planning and controlling time spent on specific tasks to increase how efficient you are". Some strategies to back up this strategy is setting deadlines, writing to-do lists, utilizing a planner, and giving yourself small rewards for accomplishing certain activities. Some tips when completing time management include setting setting your goals correctly, prioritizing wisely, setting time limits, taking breaks between tasks, organizing yourself,...

Mayhem Promposal The author of the ad wants the audience to experience a feeling of being  encouraged to purchase their insurance. They want the audience motivated to consider buying Allstate.  I think this advertisement is trying to promote that basic lifestyle that everyone lives. The targeted audience is to the people that have homes and a family. This is because this ad is promoting home insurance, while causing a problem that only home insurance can pay for, instead of out of pocket. The ad is a promposal gone wrong right outside of a home and for this purpose, Allstate insurance should be purchased to fix the problem.  The context of the advertisement is to demonstrate how a simple promposal could go a different route than what was planned that resulted in a house fire.  By looking at this ad, I can conclude about American culture that something as basic and easy as a proposal to prom could put their lives in danger if gone wrong. Meaning that the average Ameri...

 IT'S ALMOST TIME Hi blog. As many of you may know from reading my old blogs or if you have seen me in class, I am expecting my first child by the end of April. This is such an exciting moment for me. Although, I am scared and nervous too. Time is going by fast and there's no way to slow it down. For me, this is a very important moment in my life where I feel like I will be whole again. Even though my baby girl is not here in my arms yet, just by looking at my belly knowing that she's in there but will be out one day brings me so much happiness. I have always struggled with trying to bring myself to be happy, but considering other factors in life it was just a hard process. But, this nine month process has been a rollercoaster of emotions for me. Of course in the beginning, I was happy but sad at the same time because I always had a feeling something would not go right. Yet, here I am months later beating the odds and having a healthy baby in a few weeks. Because of my size...