Blog # 19 The Stuff

A T-shirt (T shirt or tee) is a shirt which is pulled on over the head to cover most of a person's torso. A T-shirt is usually button less and collarless, with a round neck and short sleeves.
T-shirts are typically made of cotton or polyester fibers (or a mix of the two). T-shirts can be decorated with text and/or pictures, and are sometimes used to advertise.T-shirt fashions include styles for men and women, and for all age groups, including baby, youth, and adult sizes.

A life cycle study of one T-shirt brand shows that the carbodioxide emissions from a T-shirt is about 8.8 pounds including the growing of the cotton, manufacturing and wholesale distribution. The loss of natural habitat potential from the T-shirt is estimated to be 116 square feet.

Making T-shirts is a fairly simple and largely automated process. Specially designed machines integrate cutting, assembling, and stitching for the most efficient operations. The most commonly used seams for T-shirts are narrow, superimposed seams, which are usually made by placing one piece of fabric onto another and lining up the seam edges. These seams are frequently stitched with an over edge stitch, which requires one needle thread from above and two looper threads from below. This particular seam and stitch combination results in a flexible finished seam.
Another type of seam that may be used for T-shirts are bound seams, in which a narrow piece of fabric is folded around a seam, as at the neckline. These seams may be stitched together using a lock stitch, chain stitch, or over edge stitch. Depending on the style of the T-shirt, the order in which the garment is assembled may vary slightly.

These T shirts are very in expensive but they are sold in market with very high prices. One of my Uncle owns a garments factory and it only costs 3 cents to make a T shirt. But the process of making these shirts  harms the environment a lot. Because of all the waste and chemicals used in it.






  

Blog # 18

Summary: According to Mary Elizabeth Williams, cheaper stuff is getting dangerous for our lives. It seems really good to pay very less for something, but after using it for a while we throw it away in the trash and go for a new one,even its working, because it looks old or a new model has arrived in the market for a less price and the marketing companies convince people that they need to buy something new.

Thesis: Author is explaining that the cheaper things are getting bad for our lives. But why.?


Reason: Because it is becoming harmful for our environment.
Example: One of my friend threw his old watches and some electronic stuff, which was 80% made of plastic, in trash and than it was all burned. This burning of all that trash, carrying plastic, was polluting the atmosphere.

Blog # 11 Let Them Eat Fat

IN " LET THEM EAT FAT ",Crister explains that all the fast food and national restaurant chains have grown very rapidly in poor communities.There is a supersizing sales gimmick that enlarges the order of a person's meal to double.This trend is getting very common and causing the caloric content of the meal rise up from about 680 clories to more than 1340 calories.

I never realized that fast food chains are becoming so much popular in poor communities and their increasing need for cheap meals outside the home.In the paragaraph,Greg Crister explains that the sales gimmick known as "SUPER SIZING" starts at 5 PM when various workers of poor communities get off from work and head for a quick meal to the fast food restaurants where they are cheerfully encouraged to Super-size their meal for some extra pennies. As quoted in the paragraph :"the fast restaurants have signs saying , If we don't recommend a supersize,the supersize is free!" A supersize meal order becomes the twice of the size regular meal.

These supersizing meals seem very cheap and very attractive to everyone and specially to the poor people.But these meals have very dangerous effect on health and has increased the huge amount of caloric content of 680 calories to 1340 calories per meal. According to the passage " U.S dietary guidelines,1340 calories respresent more than half of a teenager's recommended daily caloric consumption and the added calories themselves are protien-poor but fat and carbohydrates-rich" . These huge caloric meals have a easy availibility and they cause the physical activity become more less or about half among the teenage boys and girls.

School-stuff: Practice CATW #3 The Net is The Real World

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Blog # 8

" TRUMAN SYNDROME ", a delusion afflicting people who are convinced that their lives are being played out on a reality TV show. Scientists say that the disorder underscores the influence on mental conditions of a patient. Many patients believe that their every move is being  filmed for a TV show.The question is : Is this just a new twist on an old paranoid or grandiose delusion? or is there sort of a perfect storm of the culture we are in,in which fame holds such high value?

A psychiatrist,Dr Joel Gold, says that he encountered five patients with delusion related to the reality TV. Several of them specifically mentioned " The Truman Show " the Oscar-nominated movie stars Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank. He leads a merrily uneventful life until he realizes his friends and family are actors,his seaside town is a TV sound stage and every moment of his life has been broadcast. Dr.Gold and his brother, a psychologist,have started research and present their observations at medical schools since 2006. They have learned of about 50 more people with the similar symptoms and are now working on a scholarly paper.

One of a patient in Austria believed that she had become a walking webcam and according to Austrian patient's psychiatrist, 'Reality Television may help such patients convince themselves their experiences are plausible. That's not to say reality shows make healthy people delusie but the people who become sick are becoming sick quicker and other researchers aren't convinced,but still find the " Truman Syndrome " an interesting example of culture and mental health.

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