Learning the Language

In the reading of “ Learning the Language” by Perri Klass, I thought that it was really eye opening in the way the becoming a doctor or a nurse, like you would have to learn a whole new language.  I really like this reading of the story because it bring you in  to the life of a doctor or a nurse.  Being a doctor and nurse you would have to be able to preform or job and still be able to write and talk in the hospital (code) language, because it could be life or death for a patient.  If your become a resident would learn this language within the next three months.  In this field of learning a new language for work is something that I had to come into contact with at my work at Red Robin.  While being a busier at Red Robin we had codes for some things that we did there.  For example F.O.H. would stand for front of house, then there was fill which would stand for a fries fill, and green was just saying that everything was fine, so I can relate to her story here.  Also in wrestling we had codes that we would say so that the other team wouldn’t know what we were talking about.  In the story of “Learning the Language” by Perri Klass, I thought that it was a little funny to hear the residents using baseball terms in the hospital.  Overall in this story I thought at she was right and that she made a good point, It wasn’t after I read this that I thought of time when I used codes in my life.  But Perri Klass must have learned those codes and nickname because she has her M.D. from Harvard.

Only Daughter

In the article ”Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros, She start the article by saying that she wrote an contributors notes for anthology, and that she was the only daughter out of six sons.  Then she goes on to say that she should have say from a Mexican family.  Then as a child she told her father her idea of college, and her brothers laughed at the idea of her going to college.  But then her father told her that it was good for her to go to college, for finding a husband in life.  After her four years of college, she did not have a husband.  Then in the life story she talks how the live in Chicago and they moved to Mexico City and back to Chicago because of her fathers nostalgia.  Then she feels like she was being erased because of her father telling everyone that he has seven sons.  Then her oldest brother graduated for medical school and fulfilled her fathers dreams.  Now having been writing for ten years she sold a book to New York publishing house.  Then at Christmas time she flew home to see her family, after she just had one of her books translated into spanish.  Then she gave the book for her father to read and he loved it and wanted to get copies for the whole family.

For this article, I didn’t really enjoy it, to me it seemed really boring.  The best part that I feel about this was that her father liked the book that she wrote.  

Neat people vs. Sloppy People

In this article of “ Neat People vs. Sloppy People” by Suzanne Britt, I found that this article is pretty intense.  Suzanne Britt first starts off this article by saying that “ neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people.”  After reading that statement it made me think that maybe that the author is a sloppy person and that she has a thing against clean-neat people.

In this article, Suzanne Britt start off with the sloppy type of people.  Then that she states that “ their sloppiness is merely the unfortunate consequence of their extreme moral rectitude.”  This statement made me think that all sloppy people are really morally a good person, when in fact I know that to be untrue from my personal experience.  Then she says that sloppy people live in Never-never land and how sloppy people can throw anything away.  All sloppy people give loving attention to every detail, like the prom flowers or postcards from people.  So all sloppy people don’t have the ability to throw anything away, so it just piles up to the ceiling. 

Then in this article Suzanne Britt also talks about the neat people.  Now in this part of the article she starts about how neat people are bums and clods at heart.  In this part she talks about how items in their household, like if an item has dust on it, it would have to go.  Then neat people think about throwing the children out of the house just because it would cut down the clutter in the house.  Another thing that the neat people do, is that they will only open their mail in front of the trash, and that then don’t open up the ads, or the catalogs.

In this reading of “ Neat People vs Sloppy People” by Suzanne Britt, I thought that most of the stuff that she was talking about was every extreme to both scales to the sloppy and the neat people.  I think that because I know that I’m a sloppy person but I still have the capability to throw items away when I’m done with it, now taking out the trash is another topic.  But I don’t think that this is a good paper. because of the extreme examples, and that what I feel that she does though out the whole paper. 

Overheard Conversation

In the middle of Fred Meyers, I stand alone with a small memo pad and my trustful pen.  In Fred Meyers I had a mission.  My goal was to eavesdrop on a conversation, but at the same time I was also shopping of items at Fred Meyers.

So, my mission starts.  In Fred Meyers, I carefully follow a older fellow wearing a bright colored Hawaiian shirt who we will call him Chris.  I follow him for a few lines just waiting for him to start a conversation with someone, as I pretend to shop.  

Sooner than later the older fellow spots a close old friend in the distance.  The conversation starts with the general questions like how are you, how have your kids been, all the jazz.  Then the older mans friend you we will call Bob at the moment, pulled out a gun magazine.  Then they talked about there newest hunting trip that they both went on, and how to prepare the different meats.  Then Bob asked Chris, “So what will you be doing with your PFD this year”  while they are both still looking through gun magazine.  “Well” Chris replied “ I think that I might have to buy a new gun so I go hunting for different game or buy a bigger fridge because my wife has been asking for a new one for a few years, what about you Bob.”  Bob replied as they turn to walk down the chip line.  “ Well I don’t really know I’m thinking about saving it and use it for my grandson’s college fund.”

That this point in the conversation the two hugged and said there goodbyes, and the parted ways.  With this leaving me to follow Bob now as I have gotten my supplies that I would need for the week.

I was only to leave me to think about the conversation and what all did I hear, even though I missed some parts due to me getting some supplies.  So leaving me to think about the conversation, it led me to the point of that Chris and Bob are hunters.  But they aren’t normal hunters but that they hunt humans.  So this makes them serial killers.  So this grandparents are serial killers, which is why Chris would want to buy a new gun.  But these grandparents have to lay low, which is why Bob might be saving his  PFD for his grandson college fund.

Soft and Hard Sciences

In this reeding that I did with the article "Soft Sciences are often harder than hard sciences" by Jared Diamond.  In then the beginning of this article I thought that he might be talking down to the soft sciences because he uses the sentence "Do the so-called soft sciences, like political science and psychology, really constitute science at all, and do they deserve to stand beside the 'hard sciences," like chemistry and physics."  I just feel that the writer of this was talking down to the softer sciences, and that they weren't that important as the harder sciences like physics or chemistry.  But then he has worked in many different sciences fields of work: physics, chemistry, physiology, and ecology.  Which after hearing this made my think that he has the knowledge so he made plenty of valid points.
I thought that it was a little funny to watch Lang vs. Huntington fight over the National Academy of Sciences(NAS) with all of the little thins that they would do to each other, with all of the bashing of each other.
In this piece of writing I felt to me that I wasn't really getting the points in the article, and I felt that for me it was a little hard to follow it.  I guess that this article I just wasn't really into it so I was confused in some areas.