Social Interview Model

Weight is a part of every human beings life. Every one weights something. In society, it is commonly found that people mistakenly judge their health based on their weight. America has thousands of health experts and nutritionist who claim themselves as protectors of health, “helping a nation stricken with heart disease, diabetes, and cancer” (Maxville 443). They believe that eating is simply for fueling the body and you should eat mostly plants, but not too much. Maxville uses the vast theory of health experts to tie in the point that, “each of these maladies is tied to our diet and essentially our weight. As a culture we no longer discuss healthy eating without also discussing unhealthy weights” (Maxville 444). While Maxville believes that the bigger issue is not weight, but linking nutrition and body type. While, Pollan warns readers of eating too much, he never mentions that it is equally as fatal to eat too little. Pollan states in his essay that overeating is the “greatest threat” to our survival. Maxville uses Pollan’s statements on the topic of weight to prove that being unhealthy should not be tied solely to being overweight, because being under weight is equally unhealthy. To further discredit the claims Pollan makes linking weight to health, Maxville states, “A growing group of academics who

Laura Bogart’s “I Choose to be fat” is a blog post that seems to be against conforming to “everybody” in society’s ideal image. She tries to connect with the audience using emotional appeals. When reading this essay, I have a hard time figuring out who the audience she is writing to is. She could be writing to those who are in the same boat as her or she could be writing to those who think that she should lose weight. She could be writing to the doctors that she has had throughout her life that have said she needs to lose weight. Obesity is an issue that is heavily talked about today, like all the health issues that go along with is and what is does to the human body. In this blog post, she tries to provide justification of her “choice” to be fat by saying that she is happy and powerful, but in the blog post she is constantly contradicting herself throughout by giving negative examples about herself and others perceptions of her. In regards to her essay, she makes a compelling argument by appealing to the audience’s emotions; but the constant contradiction to her being happy, the lack of facts, and

Laine Sterbenz, a student from the University of Kentucky and popular blogger on Odyssey, concludes that skinny models give girls and women motivation to live healthier lifestyles in a way no other body type could. In her post, she argues that models have that skinny body that is desired by every girl, the ideal to work to attain. She then continues into saying that if overweight models were to be used, or even average sized ones, then women wouldn’t actually have the motivation to want to eat better and live a healthier life, because they would already be satisfied with how they look. While Sterbenz brings up valid points, she weakens the argument by contradicting her own statements, and unwittingly promoting unhealthy eating habits and

In the story "The Fat Girl” by Andre Dubus, we meet Louise who has been struggling with her weight since the age of nine. Her mother is extremely outspoken and tells her that she has a problem. She would say “You must watch what you eat”(Dubus 158).Her mother was

I am going to discuss the issue of obesity among American minorities. Elma Dieppa, cousin of Helen Casillas, still wonders if her beloved family member would be alive today if she had been more conscious of her weight contribution to her diabetes. "She refused to take care of herself by not watching what she consumed or finding time during her day to exercise," Dieppa explains, reminiscing her as the “life of the party” during family reunions. At the age of 44, Casillas unfortunately suffered a fatal heart attack. Although Casillas worked in the medical field, the perception of her disease was skewed believing that she was not in fact over

I had the pleasure of interviewing one of our church parisinors, Ms. Maria. Ms. Maria is 75 years old Hispanic woman who has been a widow for the past three years. Ms. Maria was basically a stay at home Mom when her children were young and when she did work she worked as an assembly line worker. Her wages were low and her pension that she currently receives is not enough to meet her monthly needs. Her husband was the main bread winner prior to him dieing of a massive heart attack at the age of 78 while he was at work. Her husband was a cook in a resturanrt and had decied to continue to work until some of their loans were paid off. Since his death, Ms. Maria has been depressed, anxious and struggling to make ends meet and has recently been diagnosed with hypertension. Her three children live out of state a don’t get to visit often.

Recent advancements in technology offer the organizations of today and the future boundless opportunities for improvements in service delivery. Although experts agree that the alignment of technology and the overall business strategy is both necessary and imperative, no clear path to optimum alignment exists. Christopher Nuckles, a IT Director I interviewed demonstrated full awareness of this fact. he and the company’s CIO, Matt Carey, and the executive IT leaders and displayed optimism the “interconnected retail strategy” they have for the company will ensure that Home Depot remains the product authority for home improvement. As part of the technical team that developed, enhanced, or supported several of the technological systems at Home Depot, Nuckles believes that the key to a successful technological future is innovation. Nuckles recognizes that the biggest hurdle for the Home Depot technology is the emerging e-commerce and he adds that Home Depot is ready for the boom. He explains that plans are underway to optimize the Home Depot mobile application entirely and make it available on all platforms so that the company remains relevant as technology keeps advancing.

He stated that people this subject tends to strike a nerve with people because they tend defend their natural decision.That follows with the pros that line up with obesity being a disease, six pros as to why it’s a disease comes in 3 criterias: 1.Impairment of one’s normal life functions being able to physical move about.2.characteristics, breathing, and active levels as well energy.Mobidity. The human body organs can only take so much weight until the system starts to suffer and take an alternative to shut down. The second pro, as Dr.Nahmias spoke about is impairment of the body’s functions which have a breakdown of what takes place. The leptins become excessive which is body fat, now how one becomes obese is dominated from the excessive body fat this tissue than runs as overproduction of leptin which as control over the intake of one’s energy as well food it acts as our inside mediator but after the intake of food over passes due to lack of energy, abnormal regulations get out of balance that sums up obesity. Obesity as we know takes a toll on the body but joint wise puts are knees, hips and joints at risk due to the weight change. Another risk factor that can take place is sexual health for men and women, obesity lowers men’s sperm count and for women, it leads to infertility and miscarriages. To add on

Living an ordinary life, Crystal got married, settled down, and dropped off high school at the age of 16. Throughout her life, only a few members in her family knew that she was diabetic and obese. Her health, however, wasn’t the

When Victoria’s Secret is allowed to have models prance around on screen but Lane Bryant Ads (lingerie for plus size women) is banned then there’s a problem. The media is portraying these models who are thin to the point where it is unhealthy. And the media is feeding society lies. A perfect example is of Gerran Tyler. Tyler was a 12 year old supermodel. She walks the run way for clients like Marc Jacobs, Calvin Klein, and Betsey Johnson. She’s tall, thin, the perfect model because she hasn’t hit puberty yet. She walked during New York Fashion Week and posed for these designer brands advertisements. This body type is unachievable for almost all adult women (Roberts). Somebody in their twenties or thirties doesn’t have the ability to look like a twelve year old girl, but this is how these designers are telling us to look. Tyler had an amazing career and high expectations but the fame didn’t last long. As she got older and hit puberty she began to develop boobs, hips, and curves. She began getting less and less bookings. Her supermodel career was virtually over. “Eighty percent of 10-year-old American girls say they have been on a diet” and the, “Number one magic wish for young girls 11-17 is to be thinner” (Missrepresentation). This self-esteem problem with young girls is a result of these unobtainable ideas of beauty. Jennifer Siebel, creator of the documentary Missrepresentation, says

During the documentary Jack Shonkoff talks about being frustrated because life is hard for people who are obese. What makes him angry however, is because of the fact that being overweight or obese is a preventable factor. Being overweight is not something that should be accepted as reality. Being overweight did not happen from one day to the next, it took time, the same time that could’ve been used to do the opposite and instead of gaining weight, people could’ve taken the time to eat healthier and exercised to avoid being overweight at all costs. It’s upsetting to see that people who are obese don’t live as long as others, and it’s a self-sustainable situation. Now you see it in children, which is more upsetting, as any individual might wonder, how did a parent let a child become so overweight that now that child faces risks of chronic diseases that were never seen before. It comes as a shock to see how in just a couple of unraveling years, obesity has slowly become an epidemic

A new study in the NCA’s Communication Monographs discovered that when women, who were hocked up to a heart monitor, viewed images of other women with the same or similar body type to their own. There were more reports of body positivity and less social comparison. While there is more growing awareness of plus-size models there is also starting to be more demand for plus-size clothing in more styles. When a heavier set woman goes to flip through a magazine and all they see is skinny models being portrayed as beautiful and smart, yet this starts to take a mental toll on them. Thoughts of self-discrimination can lead to low self-esteem issues. To help with these thoughts fashion industries have now started putting plus-size women on their runways, such as the Lane Bryant’s #ImNoAngle and Dove’s Real Beauty campaigns.

Conducting interviews is fundamental as a case manager. In order to understand more about good interviewing, I decided to watch an interview about an addict mother conducted by Dr. Phil. While watching this interview, I made some notes on attitudes and characteristics that I considered important for good interviewing. The characteristics will be presented in the following paragraphs.

She uses vague reasons as to why obesity is a disease without further examining the evidence

More recently, Sports Illustrated model, Kate Upton whom is a size 4, is now considered a plus size model and deemed to be “too curvy”. In the United States the “normal” sized woman is between the size of 6 and 10. Most of us do not understand why some put themselves through so much anguish to satisfy these body image complexes. Back in the 1950’s, models were