1. Giraffe Birth
The birth of a giraffe is quite like the birth of a human with the fact that the mother goes into labor and then the mother gives birth to a breathing mammal oppose to laying an egg. One thing that I found interesting is in the zoo they try to keep the birth as natural as possible as to keep the cycle going on how the giraffes give birth. The zoo keepers do not interrupt the birth at all, giving the giraffe medicine of assisting her. They try their best to make the environment as natural and helpful as possible. They did this by placing sand in the area the female giraffe would give birth in so that when the baby giraffe comes out it will have cushion to fall on. They also separated her from the rest of the herd but left one female giraffe with is like her midwife. Comparing this to human births, some woman try to make their births as natural as possible. There is also a sense of comfort in humans as well as giraffes with having someone with you there to encourage and help you through the experience. On the contrary with he giraffe birth the mother was the one to stay with her baby, being there as it struggles to stand up and nudging it after it is born so that it can breathe. They rely on themselves and their natural instincts to care for its offspring after the birth. For humans the baby is taken away from the mother for awhile and then given back so that she may breastfeed or see her baby. There is more interruption with human birth while giraffe births are more natural and undisturbed.
2. Dolphin Birth
One thing that I am noticing that is important in this birth is that the dolphin is in its natural habitat. Not only that but it is doing what it normally does, swimming around. When we give birth we have to stop what it is we are doing to rush to a place designated for us to give birth. A lot of people give birth in hospitals or birthing centers. With these mammals they stay in their comfort place, in a natural place and give birth there. In these births watching them I can feel that there is a special relationship between he mother and the offspring. After the birth the offspring stays with its mother, in this video the baby dolphin swims in sync with its mother around the tank. Going back to human births and the birth of the giraffe it is very evident that the newborn mammal needs and is very reliant on its mother. I also find it interesting how in both videos I have yet to hear any of the mammals sound like their in excruciating pain. its interesting to see how relaxed these mammals feel as they give birth.
3. Home Birth
This video is actually one of the only videos I've seen that the birth actually looks like the woman had a good experience. I noticed that she changes positions a lot which she said helped her a lot. She is constantly comforted by her husband who takes on an active role in the birth by holding and caressing her. As well as by her midwife and mother who are in the room with her talking and helping her. One thing that i also found interesting is that more than one person was actually down there helping to take the baby out, it wasn't just one person ( a doctor) who was taking control and doing what they thought was right. I also noticed that there was more deep and heavy breathing versus screaming and cursing which set a good and calming mood for the birth to happen. I also noticed that at one point the mother even got to see the baby crowing in a mirror that someone held up for her to see. Many woman are so overwhelmed and busy listening to orders at a hospital that they don't get the chance to stop and see whats going on. This video was very interesting and insightful in seeing a natural and remotely pleasant birth.
4. C-Section
I actually began to watch this video and then got extremely grossed out by the way it looks. I personally would not want to get a C-section but I can understand why women get them. I looked up some of the benefits of getting a C-section and read about some interesting reasons why women get them. Some of these reasons included the mother having a sexually transmitted disease, multiple births, a possible large baby that would be complicated passing through the vaginal canal as well as other things. i see all of these reasons to be very valid but i personally don't think it is a good idea if the mother does not have the possibility of complications with a "regular birth". I also think back to the way society is now and how so many people rely on surgery's to make things less painful or different. Plastic surgery is very popular and I think of this as the plastic surgery of birth. Instead of doing things as naturally as our culture will allow the person resolves to having an operation where they are unconscious and having the baby cut out of them.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
America Vs. ___________ Questions
1. Birth in 2009 vs. Birth in 1950's
2. How do white people having more resources effect the way they give birth? (compared to black people)
3. Percentage of abortions in America vs. D.R.
4. Teen pregnancy vs. in the 1900's
5.Adoption vs. Abortion in America compared to Europe
6.Having a child under 20 vs. having a child over 35
7.How has the age of giving birth changed over the last 50 years?
8. percentage of single parent homes vs. 2 parent homes (now and 1950's)
9. How does the common way of giving birth in the US compare to the common way of giving birth in other countries?
10. What is the common age of pregnancy in the US vs. third world countries?
11. How many kids are in the average family in the US vs in Africa
12. What races around the world are known to be the most fertile? (average births each year)
13. How many babies are killed each year in the U.s vs third world countries ( babies thrown in garbage cans/rivers/etc)
14. How have technologies changed over the years?
12. 2009 vs. 1800's
13.black vs. white
14. american vs. african
15. america vs. china
16.% of death during pregnancy in america vs. haiti vs. europe
17.births vs. abortion
18.c sections vs. natural
19. old vs. young
20.abortions vs giving your baby up for adoption
21. miscarriage vs successful birth
22. c section rate now vs. 50 yrs ago
23. woman dying during birth now vs. 50 yrs ago
2. How do white people having more resources effect the way they give birth? (compared to black people)
3. Percentage of abortions in America vs. D.R.
4. Teen pregnancy vs. in the 1900's
5.Adoption vs. Abortion in America compared to Europe
6.Having a child under 20 vs. having a child over 35
7.How has the age of giving birth changed over the last 50 years?
8. percentage of single parent homes vs. 2 parent homes (now and 1950's)
9. How does the common way of giving birth in the US compare to the common way of giving birth in other countries?
10. What is the common age of pregnancy in the US vs. third world countries?
11. How many kids are in the average family in the US vs in Africa
12. What races around the world are known to be the most fertile? (average births each year)
13. How many babies are killed each year in the U.s vs third world countries ( babies thrown in garbage cans/rivers/etc)
14. How have technologies changed over the years?
12. 2009 vs. 1800's
13.black vs. white
14. american vs. african
15. america vs. china
16.% of death during pregnancy in america vs. haiti vs. europe
17.births vs. abortion
18.c sections vs. natural
19. old vs. young
20.abortions vs giving your baby up for adoption
21. miscarriage vs successful birth
22. c section rate now vs. 50 yrs ago
23. woman dying during birth now vs. 50 yrs ago
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Birth Stories
1. She went into labor the day of her baby shower. The baby was of course earlier than expected but she said she was " excited to finally be having her first child." Her and her husband rushed to the hospital to find that she was already dilated and ready to give birth when she was placed in a room. The doctors were surprised at the short duration of this woman's labor but of course she said she was lucky. " Ashley was my first child and I wasn't in labor as long as other women were." By the time she has arrived at the hospital and saw the doctors they even said it was too late to receive an epidural! her birth had to be done completely natural because the doctors refusal to give her drugs. " I think that's part of the reason my mother resents me to this day" her daughter said.
2. This was her second child and she was very excited. She didn't want to know the sex of the baby and was awaiting her C-section that was scheduled for march 13th. Her first daughter Alexa who was 2 at the time was very excited for her baby sibling and was brought with her mother and father the day of the C-section. When the baby was born and they found out it was a girl " I was so happy. I had been wishing for another girl and my husband wanted a boy. I'm glad I got another baby girl." She rested after the hospital for a couple of days being it was her second C-section and was ready to go home and take care of her babies.
3. "Well my mom was at work which was a catering place. She was putting together platters and food while she was 9 months pregnant. before she went out to deliver the food she went to the bathroom and her water broke. She rushed back to her house where there was a Midwife waiting to help me be born. She had been living in Massachusetts at the time so I was born there, with only my mother and the midwife. My grandma lived in the city so after I was a couple days old she took a plane back to show me off to my grandma. My Gma helped my mother raise me and I live with her to this day. Whenever my mother tells me this story she always points out that shes glad she can tell me an interesting story and not just 'my water broke and I was rushed to the hospital' I love my birth story"
2. This was her second child and she was very excited. She didn't want to know the sex of the baby and was awaiting her C-section that was scheduled for march 13th. Her first daughter Alexa who was 2 at the time was very excited for her baby sibling and was brought with her mother and father the day of the C-section. When the baby was born and they found out it was a girl " I was so happy. I had been wishing for another girl and my husband wanted a boy. I'm glad I got another baby girl." She rested after the hospital for a couple of days being it was her second C-section and was ready to go home and take care of her babies.
3. "Well my mom was at work which was a catering place. She was putting together platters and food while she was 9 months pregnant. before she went out to deliver the food she went to the bathroom and her water broke. She rushed back to her house where there was a Midwife waiting to help me be born. She had been living in Massachusetts at the time so I was born there, with only my mother and the midwife. My grandma lived in the city so after I was a couple days old she took a plane back to show me off to my grandma. My Gma helped my mother raise me and I live with her to this day. Whenever my mother tells me this story she always points out that shes glad she can tell me an interesting story and not just 'my water broke and I was rushed to the hospital' I love my birth story"
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The American Way of Birth: Pregnancy
I just finished watching a birth on YouTube of an 18 year old girl giving birth in a tub. There were a lot of things that stuck out to me while watching this video that I thought were very interesting as well as extremely horrifying. Its so fascinating that a women's body is made to give birth and that something like this is natural to our bodies. Its crazy how something can actually GROW inside of us over 9 months and come out and be a person is only something that women can so so I guess its a curse as well as blessing. It seemed to me that giving birth would be boring without the pain, staying in one place for literally hours waiting for a baby to come out. It was horrifying to watch her vagina dilate SO much and its sort of a good thing that a women in labor doesnt really see it (my jaw dropped the entire duration she was dilating) because I think i would personally faint. I wouldn't say that I am in a rush to have kids but one day I would like to experience that and it may sound corny but i hear " the pain you experience during child birth doesn't compare to the joy afterwards. There are many women who are not able to give birth and I am lucky enough to be able to so I want to experience it. The look on the mothers face when she held her baby for the first time was pure joy and that is something beautiful to see.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Marx Analysis
Karl Marx lived in Germany and was born to a Jewish family in 1818. His dad was a lawyer, whom later on converted to Christianity. He wrote the book " The Communist Manifesto" urging other to join and read about his beliefs. Marx is most known for his ideas and theories of capitalism such as labor theory of value, the dialect as well as the theory of base and superstructure, etc.
The ideas of labor theory of value is basically the idea that labor is and important part in attaining wealth ( as well as nature as Marx would argue). Capitalists or the expropriators use and abuse the labor of the workers for their own benefit. The workers do all of the labor and don't reap the benefits, instead they are taken advantage of for low wages. The workers are in turn being exploited because they have no choice or other means of getting money except for seeing their labor for money so they are subject to this way of life without choice. Of course they can own their own factory but not everyone is going to be able to obtain the money to start their own factory or business so its difficult to get away from this. For example in a game of monopoly the capitalists would be the ones to own all the properties (symbolizing jobs) and the workers would be the ones rolling the dice and landing on properties. Since the capitalists run all of the properties they simply sit back as the workers pay the in money (by producing good being sold for capital).
The ideas of dialect thinking consist of questioning how things were, how they got there and how it will be in the future. Through development things change and the process that something goes through is very important to answering those questions about. The process described as the dialect includes a thesis which is the primary idea and an anti-thesis is an internal contradiction to the idea of the thesis. When the ideas of the thesis and the anti these clash, they form a synthesis which is a compromised thesis and anti thesis. Capitalism changes this way starting out one certain way and changing over time but how it will be in the future nobody knows for certain. Looking back at history and how capitalism is now the question of where will it be in the future is an interesting idea.
Marx's theory of base and superstructure is about the individual aspects that makes up capitalism. The base of capitalism is between the ruler and the ruled or basically the laborer and the person who expropriates the labor. The superstructure includes other aspects of capitalism such as profit, capital and wealth and how all these these aspects intertwine and affect social orders and conditions.
The ideas of labor theory of value is basically the idea that labor is and important part in attaining wealth ( as well as nature as Marx would argue). Capitalists or the expropriators use and abuse the labor of the workers for their own benefit. The workers do all of the labor and don't reap the benefits, instead they are taken advantage of for low wages. The workers are in turn being exploited because they have no choice or other means of getting money except for seeing their labor for money so they are subject to this way of life without choice. Of course they can own their own factory but not everyone is going to be able to obtain the money to start their own factory or business so its difficult to get away from this. For example in a game of monopoly the capitalists would be the ones to own all the properties (symbolizing jobs) and the workers would be the ones rolling the dice and landing on properties. Since the capitalists run all of the properties they simply sit back as the workers pay the in money (by producing good being sold for capital).
The ideas of dialect thinking consist of questioning how things were, how they got there and how it will be in the future. Through development things change and the process that something goes through is very important to answering those questions about. The process described as the dialect includes a thesis which is the primary idea and an anti-thesis is an internal contradiction to the idea of the thesis. When the ideas of the thesis and the anti these clash, they form a synthesis which is a compromised thesis and anti thesis. Capitalism changes this way starting out one certain way and changing over time but how it will be in the future nobody knows for certain. Looking back at history and how capitalism is now the question of where will it be in the future is an interesting idea.
Marx's theory of base and superstructure is about the individual aspects that makes up capitalism. The base of capitalism is between the ruler and the ruled or basically the laborer and the person who expropriates the labor. The superstructure includes other aspects of capitalism such as profit, capital and wealth and how all these these aspects intertwine and affect social orders and conditions.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Inauguration Assignment
Today while watching Obamas inauguration speech I noticed a lot of key aspects of what we have been learning about in class. One of the things that was mentioned quite frequently was the Constitution of the United States. One thing Obama had said was "At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we, the people, have remained faithful to the ideals of our for bearers, and true to our founding documents." Here he is saying that the fact that America has been able to live on and basically prosper is because of those who were in office as well as the founding documents ( Constitution) and the founding fathers (the men who wrote and signed those documents). But in my opinion I think that Is a bunch of B.S. I feel like Obama is simply sugar coating the real issues that have happened in America and is simply giving the " American answer" to these questions.
He says that America has stayed true to our founding documents yet, comparing the words of the Constitution to the actions of certain people who have run the government, or laws that have been passed, there are very few who actually followed it. For example, " no cruel and unusual punishment"? I would categorize slavery as cruel, whipping and beating and murdering men women and children for a simple crime of trying to read or refusing to provide labor as cruel. I think America has thrived because of those who have stayed true to themselves and what they think is right- people who helps others, and not only themselves, etc. I believe in Obama but, I found contradictions in his speech the same way I found them in the Constitution. So I have come to the conclusion that America has been built by contradictions.
He says that America has stayed true to our founding documents yet, comparing the words of the Constitution to the actions of certain people who have run the government, or laws that have been passed, there are very few who actually followed it. For example, " no cruel and unusual punishment"? I would categorize slavery as cruel, whipping and beating and murdering men women and children for a simple crime of trying to read or refusing to provide labor as cruel. I think America has thrived because of those who have stayed true to themselves and what they think is right- people who helps others, and not only themselves, etc. I believe in Obama but, I found contradictions in his speech the same way I found them in the Constitution. So I have come to the conclusion that America has been built by contradictions.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Dominate Viewpoints Of Capitalism EDITED
Capitalism is a very complex Economic system that is based on many factors that fundamentally set Capitalism apart from other Economic systems. Some main factors include the Free Market, Land/Labor/Capital, the Invisible Hand, Social Mobility, etc, that all interconnect to form Capitalism. Capitalism could be defined as follows " An Economic system in which goods and services are produced, distributed and consumed through the mechanism of free markets and profit motive." With this definition we are introduced to the idea of capitalism. One very significant factor of capitalism being the Free Market, which is what this economic system thrives off of.
A Free Market consists of products being sold at a price that is agreed on by the seller as well as the buyer. Another word for the amount sound could be the Market Price, which is the lowest amount the seller is willing to sell for and the highest amount the buyer is willing to buy a product for. A product is also considered Capital, which is the combination of Land (natural resources) and Labor (actual work necessary or done) used together to create a product to be sold. The rules of Supply and Demand hold true in this system, but controlled market leading to fixed pricing of Capital goes against Capitalism.
The invisable hand is another important idea of capitalism and is believed to be almost a " magical" force. A force that organizes society without government intervention. The invisible hand is believed to guide and maintain order in the free market, which could be done by allowing all the factors involved to compete and strive to be on top. The fact that a Free Market gives everyone in the market the chance to compete, Capitalists believe that Social Mobility is an important idea. They think that because of the competition Free Market brings everyone strives because of the slightest chance that they could rise above the ranking they are already at, and gives them the incentive to work harder. They view incentive as freedom because of the choice to either strive to compete in the market or turn the other way and choose a different path. Overall Capitalism speaks to maintain the free Market and help better the Economy.
A Free Market consists of products being sold at a price that is agreed on by the seller as well as the buyer. Another word for the amount sound could be the Market Price, which is the lowest amount the seller is willing to sell for and the highest amount the buyer is willing to buy a product for. A product is also considered Capital, which is the combination of Land (natural resources) and Labor (actual work necessary or done) used together to create a product to be sold. The rules of Supply and Demand hold true in this system, but controlled market leading to fixed pricing of Capital goes against Capitalism.
The invisable hand is another important idea of capitalism and is believed to be almost a " magical" force. A force that organizes society without government intervention. The invisible hand is believed to guide and maintain order in the free market, which could be done by allowing all the factors involved to compete and strive to be on top. The fact that a Free Market gives everyone in the market the chance to compete, Capitalists believe that Social Mobility is an important idea. They think that because of the competition Free Market brings everyone strives because of the slightest chance that they could rise above the ranking they are already at, and gives them the incentive to work harder. They view incentive as freedom because of the choice to either strive to compete in the market or turn the other way and choose a different path. Overall Capitalism speaks to maintain the free Market and help better the Economy.
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