Healthy eating in North Carolina

For this post I've decided to take a look at how North Carolinian's are taking care of their health.  I'm not merely talking about health as in healthcare, but health as in healthy eating.  Many citizens today are known for eating extremely unhealthy foods that's not necessarily needed.  As of this current point in time, North Carolina is ranked as the 35th among U.S. states in term of overall health.  Recently there was a newly created Health North Carolina 2020 health objectives which addresses all aspects of health.  Mainly the goal of this is to improve the health status of every North Carolinian.  So far it has been deemed as successful and to this day they are still working to improve the health of the citizens of North Carolina.

Project #3

Just wanted to say that I'm looking forward to finishing up this last project.  I've managed to figure out how I'm going to present my project.  As well as what type of content that I intend to incorporate into it overall.  Hopefully this will be a true learning experience for me.  Being that my topic is going to be stress in general it may be a tad bit difficult to say the least.  However I intend to find a way to work through it all somehow.

Heart Attacks in Robeson County

Something that's peaked my interest lately is the number of heart attacks that has currently occurred in Robeson county.  Currently the rate of heart disease is 36 percent higher than the rate of the entire state of North Carolina.  Also the heart attack rate is 56 percent higher than that of the state of North Carolina.  Honestly I wasn't expecting the rate of heart attacks as well as heart disease to be this high here in Robeson county.  In a survey it was also revealed that 11.6 percent of residents from the tri-county area are knowledgeable of stroke symptoms.  This was something surprising to me that I wanted to post and I shall make another post regarding this when I gather more information of this issue that's currently present.

Annotated Bibliography

I managed to complete my Annotated Bibliography and and I have to admit that it was a true learning experience for me.  I've manged to learn about issues that revolved around stress that I didn't know before.  Also I learned how it ties into anxiety and how it generally can get mistaken as being the same thing as stress.  If I had a chance to do this project again then most likely I probably would.  With that being said I'm happy to say that I enjoyed this project as a whole as it was a new learning experience for me.

Homelessness in America

A topic that's caught my attention would be homeless individuals in America.  Major findings has reported that the state of homelessness in American continues to increase.  For example from there was an 3% increase from 2008 to 2009, or in other words the homeless population increased approximately 20,000.  Homelessness was also increasing in subpopulations such as families, individuals, chronic, and unsheltered.  As a whole 31 out of 50 states and the District of Columbia had an increase in the amount of homeless people.  At the rate that this is going homelessness around the world will continue and possibly double up in the future.

Finding Sources

Just a small update on the sources used for my Annotation.  So far I've managed to find everything that I have needed.  I just need to find some more sources to help me so I can provide strong points for the paper.  So far things are coming along nicely and I plan to have a well-written and well-thought out paper.  Everything is going according to plan thus far and it's staying that way.

Annotation #1

Annotated Bibliography

Works Cited

Wei, M, TY Ku, and KY Liao. "Minority stress and college persistence attitudes among African American, Asian American, and Latino students: Perception of university environment as a mediator." Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology17.2 (2011): 195-203. CINAHL Plus with Full Text. EBSCO. Web. 17 Oct. 2011.

Summarize:

This article primarily talks about stress and college life as a whole and how it affects minorities. Including, but not limited to African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latino students it explains the stress levels in students. While everyone in college experiences a different level of stress it mainly focuses on that of minorities as they have additional stress merely because of their minority status. Also due to the stereotype that faculty has low expectations for them because they have low intelligence. Since African American's, Asian American's, and Latino's struggle with college persistence, they were used in a proposed mediation model. As minority students begin to experience more and more minority stress they begin to think of the universities overall environment negatively.

Analysis:

This source is mainly used to show how minorities under pressure would act. Although I have many more sources I could have used I preferred this one as it helped with getting the main point across effeciently. Going off of this will also help me with creating new questions that can be asked, answered and added to what I have thus far. Although the source is not from a credible news source, it might not be completely acurate. And with this in mind I will continue to look more into this and see what else can be tied into it.

Reflection:

Honestly I feel that this source fits into my research, mainly because it's being used as the starting point for my research. Thanks to this source it allows me to follow up and think of other questions about stress and education. I can truthfully say that this source has been extremely helpful to me as it allowed me to further investigate further. I will continue to look for more sources to better benefit the main topic at hand. By gaining more sources, I hope to explain how stress causes students to act in a particular way in a educational evironment.