Soc 490

Last blog post for 490! I thought this class would be difficult to write blogs about, but after discussing the readings and stating opinions, you realize that it could go on forever. Health care has been a more interesting topic than I had ever imagined. It started off as a more political view, but as we got further into the readings, our views were not as concrete. As much as some people dislike the gray area, health care is not black and white as I have stated before. 

Professor mentioned yesterday that things should start becoming more uncertain, yet some things are becoming more certain than ever. At first, I thought what riddles are we answering now? But as soon as I thought about it more and more, I couldn't have agreed more. My view on universal health care is becoming a big blur full of certain limits and circumstances. I know I am not the only one either! Just like when Henry J. Aaron states that we should move slowly to implement universal health care and I agreed completely, but later when talking about it in class, there were valid points that make me think we should move rapidly. When Professor said how some things are becoming more certain than ever about ourselves, I just think about how much I have grown and learned from my experiences. I've come to know myself more.

For Soc, last week we were placed in a market with a clipboard and told to interview 10 Italians each. Luckily for us it was just a paper with a survey, in complete Italian, but we still had to approach and ask people. We were placed into partners based off of our tour group, so I had my friend Emily. We joined together with Katie Bell and Katie Dodds because we would have to exchange our data with them anyways. Off we went attempting our poor Italian on these natives. Most of them had no clue what we were saying and pointed us in another direction and some would stop and take pity on us to complete our surveys. Let's just say our spirits were low, but we knew they had to be done. We decided to suck it up and travel to the second floor of the school and just start giving people clipboards. To our surprise, it worked and some people even came up to us wanting to take the survey.

Needless to say, it was a successful day even though we didn't start off that way. It was actually fun after we were able to breakthrough our nerves. In class we discovered everyone had some bumps in the road (except for Brandon Shannon!). We talked about how some people appear to be healthy, yet they suffer from some type of disease or affliction. Is there a spiritual aspect involved? Some people strongly believe that prayer can help cure an ailment and I am no person to doubt that, but I believe it helps mentally and emotionally.