Healthy Eating - FPS overview

After reading the overview provided by Mrs. Kiburis discuss the following:

• Why do you believe so many individuals today are finding it dufficult to successfully achieve healthy lifestyle?
• According to scientists and nutritionists, the continual consumption of fast food and convenience food items represents an "obesity time bomb".  What do you think they mean by this, and do you personally agree or disagree with their conclusion?
• In what specific ways do you feel ongoing sleep deprivation endangers healthy living?
• What impact (if any) do you believe fast foods, convenience foods, sleep deprivation, stress, lack of physical exercise, and related unhealthy entities and trends of today will have on the lives of individuals in the coming generations?

Upfront Sept. 20th -

Choose one of the following articles from the Sept. 20th issue of Upfront, read it and look at the corresponding political cartoon on page 23.  Then answer the following:

• Which article did you read and what was your general impressions/opinions of the article?
• Interpret your political cartoon- does it support your opinions?

"Rats with a Mission" - Upfront Sept.20th

Read the article on page 5 about a Dutch company that now trains rats to benefit humans and then answer the following questions:

• What is your reaction to this article?

• Come up with 3 more uses for these amazing creatures

The Great Immigration Debate

The following is a poem by Emma Lazarus.  It is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.  Read the poem after you have read the article "The Great Immigration Debate".  

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" 

This poem was written in 1883.  Think about how the poem reflects the views of immigration for most Americans during that time.  Do these sentiments ring true today?  

Which approach should the U.S. take:  deport illegal immigrants or create a path to legalization for them?