Author: wxd5116

My topic for my paradigm shift essay and TED talk is the laws around birth control. The time period that I’m focusing on is 1870’s through the 2010’s. The shifts that I want to focus on is Margaret Sanger and The Comstock Act. These two shifts are the two big things around the prevention and the accessibility of birth control.

In the article by The Atlantic it talked about how smartphones influenced this generation. The writer goes and compares how an average teen today spends time with her friends and how the writer in her teens spent time with her friends. This article could be a paradigm shift. The writer explains that in 2012, she notices a shift in teens behavior and emotional state. She notices that the shift happened when the proportion of Americans who owned smartphones surpassed 50 percent. She goes on and explain how this shift affected the generation. These are characterics of a paradigm shift.

This civic artifact is from claytoonz.com. I choose this artifact because it has the opposite meaning then my artifact for my speech. This artifact is more about how Americans treat immigrants. Our president Donald Trump is taking the ideals of this country and completely destroying it. America is supposed to be a place that everyone is welcome but yet people are treating immigrants like they are the lowest of the low.

Almost every American family comes from a different country. Somewhere in your family tree, you come from a different country. So why are we not allowing people to come to this country? America was this “melting pot” where anybody can come here and create a better life for themselves. I choose this artifact because it is a perfect representation of the mentally of many Americans.

image from northern sun.

 

This bumper stick statement is very straight forward. Over the past several century our country has dealt with the society’s hatred for immigrants. This bumper sticker very clearly state our countries history. Which is that we are all immigrants from a different part of the world. WE really don’t have the right to say that immigrants don’t belong in this country because most likely your family came from a different country.

Why do “white” people have more privileges than immigrants if most of our families came from a different country. This logic doesn’t make any sense because we are all human beings and we all belong in this country.

In the last few months we have been hearing about North Korea launching missiles and creating tensions between them and other nations. As another act of defiance North Korea  has launched another missile over Japan’s Northern Hokkaido and into the Pacific Ocean.This is the second launch in less than a month. The test launch of a Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile, which also flew over Japan, from Pyongyang in August Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP

Japanese Prime Minster speaking after the launch as said that North Korea’s behavior is totally unacceptable. Russia and The United Nations Security Council also agree that these unacceptable provocations should not be taking place.

According to some source it could be said that these missile launches could be a message for the United States. The launch flew the distance equivalent to if North Korea launched a missile from their capital Pyongyang to the Us Territory of Guam. Pyongyang has made threats to attack Guam, the tiny island which is one of the home to the United States military base. Guam is only located 2,110 miles from North Korea. According to the South Korean military, firing over Northern Japan into the Pacific Ocean it only took about 19 minutes. The distance it traveled was 2,300 miles or 3,700 km.

China’s Foreign Ministry is calling for all sides to seek dialogue to reduce tensions. Spokeswomen Hua Chunying has told reporters that she is urging all parties to avoid all actions that could escalate the situation. Hua said:”what is pressing now is that all sides should immediately halt their dangerous and provocative actions and words that escalate the tension.”

 

 

As you can see this ad does not seem that bad until you find out the actual ingredients in this soothing syrup. The two main ingredients in the soothing syrup was morphine and alcohol.   Mrs. Winslow Soothing syrup claimed to help babies stop teething, soften their gums, and stop diarrhea. But the fact is it caused babies to do into a drug overdose more often then not. Mrs. Winslow Soothing Syrup was created by a nurse named Charlotte N. Winslow in 1835 when she was caring for infants. Her son in law Jeremiah Curtis and a business partner Benjamin A. Perkins decided to start selling this syrup by advertising printed ads with depictions of a mother and child. These ads worked because they sold over 1.5 million bottles. The Prue Food and Drug Act of 1906 finally began to stop the production of the soothing syrup but some sources say that some bottles were still being sold to the public in the late 1930’s.

The reason why people were buying these soothing syrup with such harmful ingredients inside of them was the fact that the bottles didn’t have to say what ingredients were inside. Most bottles didn’t have the ingredients listed so many people didn’t know how harmful the syrup actually was.

If you read the ad carefully can can see that they say that this syrup is absolutely harmless. Which is a complete lie because newspaper articles during the time reported many infant deaths due to this product.

As you can see in the commercial created by Jeremiah Curtis the mother called a doctor to come and check on her teething child. The doctor just simply gives her child the soothing syrup and leaves. After the soothing syrup effects wear off the mother doesn’t want to give her child the syrup again but she does due to the desperation. Most mothers was against giving the syrup to their children but due to the ads and commercial they were influenced into buying this product.