In chapter 1 it explains and examines the very big STD problem that occurred in Baltimore Maryland during the mid 1990s. There is a very big syphilis outbreak and sociologist explained that the statistics on a scale were on a graph and at one point went from being flat lined to a right angle because of the giant increase in the 90s. This all started because of the bad drug epidemic that Baltimore was having. What is an epidemic you’re probably wondering? It is a function of people who transmit infections agents, the agents itself and the environment in which the infectious agent is operating. People from all over the rough neighborhoods were all doing huge amounts of cocaine and that then lead to bad and risky behavior. That lead to the start of the spread of syphilis, because everyone would meet up then they took the drugs back to their bad neighborhoods from wherever they came from and then after awhile the spreading just multiplied in bunches. Another example is the lack of medical treatment had a major impact on the spread of it. Because there was no medical help due to the budget cut in clinics that forced everyone spread the disease even more. The last example we saw is when one of the local projects went down, the infected people were forced out and had to move away. But along with them came the same bad habits and the drugs and syphilis that they carried. So again this rule shows that it doesn’t take long nor is it impossible to keep such a trend from happening repeatedly. After all of these examples we have come to the conclusion that there is more than one way to tip an epidemic.
The 3 rules of epidemic:
Law of the few-(Context of disease)
Stickiness factor-(Disease itself)
Power of context-(People carrying the disease)
20/80- Twenty percent of the people part of the epidemic do the majority of the work
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
about me =)
Hi my name is Katlyn Reitz. I am a HRIM student (hospitality and restaurant management major) and I am blogging about myself. I am in a Indie/hardcore/Rock band called Vision To None (for those who wanna hear what we sound like myspace.com/visiontononemusic we are a combination of sounds that range from artists like Silverstein, A Day To Remember, Our Last Night, and Senses Fail) it is my passion, my love, my motive, my favorite thing to do and I have three brothers because of it. We want to make a career of it but its going to take time. I am a very out going but modest person and I will make an attempt to be friendly with anyone that walks up to me. I am also very honest and you will see thorughout the semester because I'll be asking dumb questions making comments that will have you saying "wow that kid is dumb". I love food, music, hanging with friends, partying and all the typical things a normal college kid is into haha. I don't know what else to say other than I've never blogged in my life and I hope mine didn't bore you out and hope you check out my band and the rest of my awful blogs that we will have to post this semester hahaha. Don't know what else to put in this so if you want to talk to me don't be afraid to because you wont have a problem doing so.
Activity2
Diversity In My Field And The Impact Of It
My name is Katlyn and I am a HRIM major (Hospitality and Restaurant Management). For most people when they hear that they ask “Are you going to ever own or open your own place?” I quickly answer with “absolutely no” every time. Most of the time I get laughs but then there are the people who are interested in hearing why. I tell them that there are too many rules and regulations to keep up with and that I would never be able to keep my neck above water just for the fact I don’t think I could handle the responsibility of dealing with all of that plus run my staff and do everything else. But one of the biggest reasons is the big issue with diversity in our field that stretches from race, age, gender, national origin, and etc. This is a big issue any more because people feel the need to discriminate and give the “foreign” individuals a hard time. It’s all because if there accent, how they talk, dress, smell, act, or color of their skin. None of these should be a reason to give someone a hard time, but the fact of the matter is that there are a lot of Hispanics and “foreign” people that work in the field of hospitality. When you get a lot of different types of people working together in one place you’re going to see a lot of different attitudes and personalities and at times they will collide. But a lot of the times people will take shots at people just because they don’t “speak normal, look normal, or come from the same country as Americans and etc.” That’s just some things that I’ve personally seen and heard from working in the hospitality industry. I just think some of the things people say are just through negativity of their own lives and have a hard time being accepted so they feel the need to pick on someone they did not grow up around nor cared for just because their parents put some sort of mental mold on people and the way they should act, dress, and talk. But the field is going to grow with more and new people from all over and until we can drop the race card and all the other things that get people worked up for nothing were going to have to deal with a lot different arguments and conflicts.
My name is Katlyn and I am a HRIM major (Hospitality and Restaurant Management). For most people when they hear that they ask “Are you going to ever own or open your own place?” I quickly answer with “absolutely no” every time. Most of the time I get laughs but then there are the people who are interested in hearing why. I tell them that there are too many rules and regulations to keep up with and that I would never be able to keep my neck above water just for the fact I don’t think I could handle the responsibility of dealing with all of that plus run my staff and do everything else. But one of the biggest reasons is the big issue with diversity in our field that stretches from race, age, gender, national origin, and etc. This is a big issue any more because people feel the need to discriminate and give the “foreign” individuals a hard time. It’s all because if there accent, how they talk, dress, smell, act, or color of their skin. None of these should be a reason to give someone a hard time, but the fact of the matter is that there are a lot of Hispanics and “foreign” people that work in the field of hospitality. When you get a lot of different types of people working together in one place you’re going to see a lot of different attitudes and personalities and at times they will collide. But a lot of the times people will take shots at people just because they don’t “speak normal, look normal, or come from the same country as Americans and etc.” That’s just some things that I’ve personally seen and heard from working in the hospitality industry. I just think some of the things people say are just through negativity of their own lives and have a hard time being accepted so they feel the need to pick on someone they did not grow up around nor cared for just because their parents put some sort of mental mold on people and the way they should act, dress, and talk. But the field is going to grow with more and new people from all over and until we can drop the race card and all the other things that get people worked up for nothing were going to have to deal with a lot different arguments and conflicts.
Activity1
Activity One
At my school we did fictional and non-fictional work, along with stories and researched some headlines of things that were in current news. For example: One class we had to do a fake presentation of an award or certificated. So I decided to do the Heisman trophy presentation to my friend who was on the football team as something fun and something we could both relate too. Then there was times where we had to do essays and research papers. I personally liked to do fictional because it is a lot more fun and easier. Essays and research papers require more work and time and can be very mind grinding and it’s a bigger pain as most students would agree. But throughout English in high school and college there are always research papers. I actually did one on one of my chefs from culinary school and I had to interview him and get his background and how his career started all the way up to how it lead him to teaching us culinary students. That was sort of fun but took a lot of time out leisure time from school. But that brings me to the point of how I don’t like to read or write unless I’m interested. I enjoy reading sports articles from magazines like: sports illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, and because I’m a musician I enjoy browsing through magazines like musicians friend to see all the new and latest deals on newer and older equipment. Plus from time to time they will have someone from a band get interviewed by someone who works for the magazine. Also at culinary school we learned to do business letters as a simulation of what we will have to do once we go looking for a job, that also included typing up a resume. A big question anymore is what are the differences between essays and assignments and texting and emailing, my answer to that is a big difference and a similarity. The differences are that in texting you are just talking because of your free will and it doesn’t have to be worded perfect nor does it have to a certain amount of writing in your words to the person your talking to. More often than not people like to use what I can “texting slang” and in the real world of English that wouldn’t fly.
At my school we did fictional and non-fictional work, along with stories and researched some headlines of things that were in current news. For example: One class we had to do a fake presentation of an award or certificated. So I decided to do the Heisman trophy presentation to my friend who was on the football team as something fun and something we could both relate too. Then there was times where we had to do essays and research papers. I personally liked to do fictional because it is a lot more fun and easier. Essays and research papers require more work and time and can be very mind grinding and it’s a bigger pain as most students would agree. But throughout English in high school and college there are always research papers. I actually did one on one of my chefs from culinary school and I had to interview him and get his background and how his career started all the way up to how it lead him to teaching us culinary students. That was sort of fun but took a lot of time out leisure time from school. But that brings me to the point of how I don’t like to read or write unless I’m interested. I enjoy reading sports articles from magazines like: sports illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, and because I’m a musician I enjoy browsing through magazines like musicians friend to see all the new and latest deals on newer and older equipment. Plus from time to time they will have someone from a band get interviewed by someone who works for the magazine. Also at culinary school we learned to do business letters as a simulation of what we will have to do once we go looking for a job, that also included typing up a resume. A big question anymore is what are the differences between essays and assignments and texting and emailing, my answer to that is a big difference and a similarity. The differences are that in texting you are just talking because of your free will and it doesn’t have to be worded perfect nor does it have to a certain amount of writing in your words to the person your talking to. More often than not people like to use what I can “texting slang” and in the real world of English that wouldn’t fly.
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