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For this interview I interviewed my friend Malcolm. He doesn’t get sick very often because he takes vitamins and eats healthy, but when he does, he doesn’t call anyone. To get well, he tries to drink lots of water and rest as much as he can. Another strategy he likes to use is sweating out the sickness, so he sleeps with the heat on. Sometimes when he has a cold or a fever it’s not that noticeable because he already has allergies. When he has bad allergy symptoms, he takes Zyrtec. When he has a cold, he takes Mucinex to get I’m through the day and Benadryl at night. The reasoning for taking Benadryl at night is because it makes you tired and he doesn’t want to have to go through the day feeling too tired. His family is from the United States, so he only knows what he was raised around, so he doesn’t know any practices that are from outside the US. When he has stomach aches or pains, he will try to use the bathroom, or use a heating pad. His healing strategies are not specified from family or culture. “I just do what I think is best for me”, Is what he responded, when I asked. He doesn’t smoke or do any drugs or alcohol substances so none of his healing strategies are guided by that. When he is sick, he really is not sure what got him sick, unless he is around someone who he knows is sick. He washes his hands at necessary times, when using the bathroom, before dinner etc. His choice of drinking water doesn’t seem to be the problem ever, because he inly drinks bottled water. When he is sick, he just stays in his room, being that we are on campus with lots of people, he doesn’t want anyone to catch anything he has so he stays in his room. For necessities, he asks his roommate or any of his friends to help him out. He will only take medications for his symptoms but once the cold is over, he doesn’t take them anymore. When he gets sick it makes him angry. He is no longer allowed to move the way he wants to move. This meaning that he must cancel and rearrange his schedule to fit what’s more convenient for him in that state. If he has certain symptoms, he doesn’t automatically assume that he knows what he has, because that could put more stress on him and make his sickness worse. He always goes to get tested when he knows his body feels off. Nowadays we can’t have a regular cold without having the fear that it might be covid, so he always makes sure to get tested. When he is sick, he says that the last thing on his mind is the price it costs to get better. He doesn’t mind paying for medica bills if he knows its for a good cause.

The class I chose to observe for this assignment is my intro to business class. In total there are 30 girls and 26 boys. I chose to do this assignment on presentation day to really see who talks more and who is more involved. Our presentation This week was on Careerpedia. Our class is split into 9 groups and each group has their own career path to look at. The presentations should be 5 minutes long so each person has a good amount of time to speak. After listening to all the groups present, and presenting myself, I tallied up 171 times a girl spoke and 63 times the males spoke. Women clearly spoke more often. A lot of the females were nervous to present but I noticed in their body language that as they were speaking, they tend to look out into the air or in the ceiling, not particularly into the camera. Most of the males would look to the ground when speaking. The men did tend to use their hands a lot more when speaking. The average length of speaking time for women was 1 minute, as for the males it rounded to about 32 seconds. Both genders kept their cameras on when presenting, but in general there were more males with their cameras on than females. The instructor of my class encourages communication greatly during presentation days. He loves when others ask questions and seem involved in what the presentations are about. The instructor of my class is a male and his body language is similar to some of the male students in my class. He speaks with his hands a lot. His gender doesn’t seem to get in the way of how he interacts with the class, he speaks in a stern but understandable tone and likes to make jokes here and there.

        This young woman came to the United States from Puerto Prince, Haiti. Haiti is located in the Caribbean. In Haiti she lived with her parents and her two brothers. She has a lot of family in Haiti, but once my father made the move to the United States, she knew that she wanted to be next. They weren’t living in poverty, or in a struggle or anything like that in Haiti, but she felt that the United States had more opportunities for her. The only issue she had when trying to move to the United States were the decisions of her family. She was supposed to get married to a family friend and live with him in Haiti, but that is not what she had in mind for her future. The young man had not proposed, or taken her on dates, the family was just all talk and forced the thought of marriage in their heads. She came to the United States on a visa when she was 21 and she is still living off a green card to this day. Her parents followed shortly behind her 3 years after, in 2014. Moving out her allowed her to get an education in nursing and have a good job. She also met a nice man who was also an immigrant, but from Africa. They got married and had a girl and are now living happily. The only issue she has is that after all her family moved to the United States, they all did whatever they could to become a us citizen. She still has not started any of that process and her green card expires very soon.

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My family Shares a story of a small family. My mom has two sisters, both had kids. My first aunt from my mothers side has a son and my second aunt has three kids, two boys and one girl. On my fathers side he has a brother and a sister. His brother has not kids, but his sister has one girl. My parents had four kids, including me. Three girls and one boy. 

After completing this assignment I realized that a lot of the items I own, are here because I wanted them. Half the stuff in my room I do not need. I can live without majority of the things in my room, I just choose to have them for my own purposes. While completing this assignment, I also learned that everyone has their own opinion on what a "want" and a "need" is. For example, I believe that a phone is a want, but others may feel like it is a need because in 2021 technology has replaced a majority of the way things work.

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Crocs are made by machines; they are just rubber under high gas pressure.