Don't Touch the Turtles

A salmonella outbreak began around April this year and has sickened over 150 individuals throughout 26 states. 36 of those individuals were so gravely ill they were needed to be hospitalized. This outbreak was all caused by little baby turtles. Salmonella can live and grow on reptiles without sickening the animals. Many clueless tourists and beach-goers see the small turtles and immediately want to pick them up and take a selfie. As a consequence many of these individuals will soon become sick with salmonella poisoning. Not only could you sicken yourself but picking up the baby turtles is putting them in danger as well. In the media recently, we have heard about baby dolphins dying due to idiotic people taking them out of the water to take selfies. As a note to self; don't touch the animals, you'll get sick and they'll die.

"Psychotherapy" Reaction

I never really viewed group therapy as a different thing from solo therapy.  It was interesting to see how so many people disliked group therapy.

"Abortions" Reaction

A strong part of this film was showing different people and their views on abortions because it showed why people either supported or were against abortions.  Carina did a great job on explaining the numbers on abortions.

"Academic Cheating" Reaction

Maddie did a great job with showing why students cheat, and it's because of a lot of pressure around them in society today.  I liked seeing a student's and a teacher's perspectives on cheating.

SFPD

Today, the head of the San Francisco Police Department stepped down at the request of mayor, Ed Lee.  It is in the wake of a shooting of an African-American woman who was shot by a police officer.  Suhr, had already been pressured to step down after there was another two shootings of minorities by police officers.  After the two previous shootings Suhr was part of a texting scandal that had racist and homophobic slurs and opponents to Suhr have had protests and food strikes to try and have Mayor Lee to make him step down.

Who has the most Courage?

With Caitlyn Jenner receiving the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPY's, I saw a lot of posts on Facebook saying she didn't deserve the award. Their reasoning was that it isn't brave to come out as transgender and that it takes more courage to be a veteran with 2 limbs instead of four. I cant help but get very upset at these types of post. Its literally these types of post that make it courageous for a person to come out as gay ,lesbian, or transgender in our society today! I am in no way saying that being in a war and surviving isn't courageous, but it isn't the only way to show courage and/or bravery. Courage and bravery can come in all types of shapes. If someone who suffered from depression even just ate a meal or went out in public for the day, that might have taken a lot of courage for them! I do not like it when being the most courageous or brave turns into a competition because nobody every wins! Its just a cycle of shaming others for doing things that do require courage. What do you guys think? Is it fair to have a competition on who can be the most courageous?

"Alzheimers" Reaction

This was a really good documentary because it showed well done research and a lot of emotion.  It's interesting that women tend to have it more than men, and I never knew there were stages of Alzheimers.