Reflection Paper On The Five Options

Twenty percent of the poverty level income would result in $4,920, a value that was not adequate for the current budget. Instead of focusing on saving twenty percent, the value had to be decreased to ten percent, which led to a value of $2,460 being saved per year. Even this was not enough to meet the poverty level income. The saving had to be depleted to a measly five percent of the poverty level income, for a total of $1,230. Along with this, the groceries had to be changed from the lowest possible plan recommended by the Department of Agriculture. According to the Department of Agriculture (2017), within this plan, the average 30-year-old man is meant to consume $184.10 in groceries monthly, and a woman of the same age is meant to consume $163.10 per month in groceries. This adds up to a total $347. 20. Using this value did not help me meet the national poverty line income, so a decision to split this value by half had to be made. The new budget for groceries is $173.60 per month. Personal supplies remained at the same value as the median income budget. The clothing budget had to be reduced by half, for a total of $88.60 monthly, to be able to comply with the poverty level income.

In last week’s activity, we had to put ourselves in the shoes of a parent with a nine year old child, who relies on food stamps in order to eat every week. We had forty two dollars to spend on groceries from the food stamps and had to make it last a week. Our strategy consisted of picking the cheapest types of food we could find that had a lot of servings, while also making sure the nutrition was somewhat sufficient to keep us healthy. We used Walmart to shop for groceries since it had the cheapest prices compared to local grocery stores like Publix. Planning out the meals, we realized that living on only forty two dollars a week for food really limited the variety of our diet. We realized that having a child to support with this low variety

This past two week were most dedicated to the final project, but we also had a guest speaker from the biomedical engineering. We get feedback for our design decision matrix and for our second project report.

After compiling all of the ingredients into a numbered list, it was stressful to go out and “buy” all of the items only to find out that every product purchased would account for $20 over the budget. Before I showed up at Harris Teeter for this simulation, I made a few adjustments by crossing out a few unnecessary items that were optional, to at least lower the estimated price I calculated mentally. However, after adding all of the prices together after the visit, it was still way over budget. The foods I kept an eye out for had labels such as organic, fresh, low in sodium, etc so that the college student would be receiving the right nutrients.

The three courses I took this semester have all gave me insight to important information I have been able to apply at my work and will be able to continue applying in my future jobs. My business and professional writing class has shown me how correctly structuring work documents, letters, resumes, policies can demonstrate the professionalism of an employee or organization. Since this course when directing information through my supervisors I try to make sure my letters or any other documents are well written and formatted. I have received complements on my current job for doing this also.

The Hunger Games Assignment allowed me to put into perspective how hard it would be to remain healthy in a food desert. I chose the scenario of the 20-year-old vegetarian college student because I thought it would be the easiest to do out of three scenarios, but it was harder than I thought it would be. It was difficult to avoid buying any meat but still get some sort of protein for my scenario. My shopping trip to the full-service store, Harris Teeter, was simpler than going shopping in the convenience store, CVS. My Harris Teeter total was $37.62, leaving $62.38; my CVS total was $50.24, leaving $49.76. Although I was able to buy enough food for two weeks with a budget of $100, there was a $12.62 difference between my shopping trips with the two stores (CVS 2018; Harris Teeter 2018). There was a noticeable difference in what was available to me in each store and at what price it was offered to me.

For four long years I felt as if my high school was in a different world in of itself. I had spent that time interacting with an extensive amount of groups, or “cliques”, and getting to know what they do. Through my experiences, I had begun to realize what made this “subculture” high school of sorts run like it did. High school is an incredibly dynamic time for people, and I had changed as a person dramatically from my freshman to senior year. Like many, my freshman year was quite awkward, as remnants of my middle school self remained with me. As time went on, how, I talked to more people and grew out of my passive and shy personality. This did not just randomly happen without reason though. I began to learn and realize who I was and whom I enjoyed talking to in school, which explained why I spent so much time socializing with multiple kinds and groups of people. Everyone’s concept of “normal” was different, and high school was where I learned that lesson and will never forget.

In 2016, when I first came to the United States for study, I facing a serious stressed condition. When I lived in my home country, a set of meal for dinner can be purchased for 2 to 3 US dollars. But everything is much more expensive in the United States (especially add-on tips and taxes). I couldn’t control my brain not to count how many restaurants I went, and how much I spent on every meal. The high life expenditure also affects my decision to food choice. A set or combo dishes usually exceeds the budget of one meal, which results in an unbalanced nutrition.

My interaction with the client was more on the line with solution-focused. With the solution-focused approach the client has knowledge of what would make his life better, even though they may need some considerable help describing the details of their better life and that everyone who seeks help already possesses at least the minimal skills necessary to create solutions. Patient was focusing on what he can do to make his life better.

How often do you pop a dish into the microwave rather than preparing a good meal?

I am very fortunate to live in the nice town of Pleasanton with my two parents who have done a great job providing for me for the majority of my life. From watching "The Dollar Menu" short clip as well as viewing the low income and low access article and map I learned that in my neighborhood there really isn 't limited access to any supermarkets. I have grown up my whole life in Pleasanton with grocery stores located all at walking distance to me and for those around me. When I looked up my neighborhood though it did show Livermore, a city that is about a five or less minute drive from me having a few low income spots in their city. I wasn 't too surprised by this though as Livermore is more of an affordable living area compared to Pleasanton. Bedsides Livermore though, there were no close by low income/low access areas near my neighborhood. There were a larger amount however, over in Hayward and Union City which although isn 't extremely far from my neighborhood, it is about a 25-30 minute drive from my home. As shown in "The Dollar Menu" clip, the pricing of food can affect what you put into your body based on how much food you can get for your money. I have been blessed to never have experienced budgeting my money or discount shopping for food. It was hard to see in the clip that although the mother knew the food she was eating was unhealthy and she didn 't want to feed it to her children she felt she didn 't have much of an option as they were struggling with money and

This has been in my thoughts as I’ve been drafting my way into my own dissertation ideas. My background in critical social studies means I am very familiar with building arguments, so some of this uncertainty is expected. AT the moment, I know enough to say I am on the right track with my research ideas and know that public administration, and public policy in particular, is the right field for me.. However, I also feel rather critical of the policy process literature. It has been claimed, “public administration exists to realize the governance of society” (Raadschelders, 1999, p. 288). Yet, what society believes policy to be, and for whom, changes over time and across place. I feel at this moment public policy in the United States will change dramatically and I worry that our field is ill equipped to deal with these changing views of policy. Consequently, most of my underlying thoughts and reflections have been on understanding how can we adapt to this changing atmosphere.

Philosophy can be described as a chance for person to undertake an opportunity to understand themselves, our world and society, and relations between ourselves and one another. Those who are able to study philosophy, can find out what is to be human, what kind of person is it good to be, and especially how are we to live a good life. I, myself, have had an opportunity to take a philosophy class and as my time in philosophy is starting to come to a close, I am suddenly realizing how Philosophy has changed the aspects and my outlook upon my life.

Every fourth-year teacher trainees will have to conduct practicum and will work under the guideline of their associate teachers and supervisors. The purpose of doing the practicum are to put training into practice, to become accustomed to teaching in the tertiary school settings, and to develop and expand each trainee’s teaching expertise and confidence. In the following paragraph, I will express what I have learnt from doing practicum to reflect on my past teaching strengths and weaknesses from the teaching practicum.

This essay is reflection about my understanding from what I have learned during this class about what philosophy is. Philosophy is a broad topic and can be hard to understand. What we learn is class about philosophy defiantly makes me think and makes my brain turn all the time, but so far, my understanding is that philosophy is the study of knowledge. It breaks down what everything is. Examples used in class are chariness, deskness, and the main one sued in class “cupness”.