A Natural Vaccination

It is almost hard to believe that based on where someone lives can lengthen the time span of a human life. Not only was it hard to believe but it was almost unheard of until a man named Stewart Wolf decided that he would do some research. The research that Wolf conducted can be read about in Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. In the 1950's, it was likely to find a community with a large number of people over the age of sixty-five with heart disease. However, Wolf found a place called Roseto, filled with Italian immigrants, where heart attacks were almost unheard of. He did months of research only to discover one thing. It was not the food that Rosetans ate or the exercise that they did, it was where they lived. Roseto presented itself as an outlier.

This entire experience gave Stewart Wolf a new look on life and at the medical world. It gave him the opportunity to discover that it wasn't necessarily diet and exercise that kept people healthy, but it was the community as a whole and the relationship that each and every person had. All of it depended on who they surrounded themselves with; it was the social aspect of life that kept them healthy.

Information like this had been undiscovered until the 1950's. This made people research harder to better understand the "not so typical" way of life and actually learn from what they encounter no matter if it is normal or unusual. Once the information is fused into the mind, it is very easy to teach.

Who am I?

The question "Who Am I" is a very general question. There are many adjectives that make me the person I am. For example, I am creative and kind to those around me. I am also outgoing and adventurous. Big influences in my life consist of my family, friends, and peers. I plan to attend college and have plans to become a Police Officer after getting a degree.

Last week, at the beginning of class, there was a moment of awkward silence; no one was expecting it come. Once that happened, people just started to talk to fill the air with either words or noise. As someone in the class, I sat there and listened to the small comments and laughs of the people around me wondering what was going on. Since I had seen how all of this had come about, it was not as awkward as it was unusual. However, when one is with a large group of friends and people within that group are split up into smaller units all talking about different things, it is awkward when a silence just fills the air. After talking for a while, noise starts to become a normal aspect. As the noise fades and the silence rises it starts to become awkward. When this happens, I would say that it affects the way that people listen. No one can really remember what was said during an awkward silence. Is that because people just aren't listening? Is that because people just don't care what is going on because they might be zoning out? I think that it has to do with both of those ideas. This is because when there is an awkward silence, it contains a serious context. No one really wants to say anything when the air around them is so tense. Yes, they usually end in laughs, but when there is a silence, it can be uncomfortable for someone to speak up and say something.