For this project, I wasn’t able to pick my own topic. The topic of Heart Disease and Stroke was not my choice on a topic for my benchmark. When I did this project the topic was not what I wanted to do. It was difficult to do this project because I had other topics in mind that I had a connection to. I wanted to do a different topic that I could relate to, but we had to reach into a bag and pick my topic.

When doing this project I put effort and work into it. I helped with the checkpoints. I helped with the interview and I was able to help a lot with the editing of the video. My whole group help with certain parts of the components. We have our strength and weakness, but we were all able to help with some part of the benchmark.  

The most meaningful part of the project was the anticipation of completing the project and turning it in soon. I’m happy that it is over. One other part of this project that was important was that interview we did. We received a lot of information from her about heart disease and strokes. She was very helpful to the topic.

Factors that affect the public health care can come done to many things. It depends on the money you make, the access you have to a clinic, and what policies that are put in place for your economic status. All of those things can effect rather or not you have healthcare or how you get treated. Sometimes those things can stop you from getting treatment. If there is not money for the disease you have then there can’t be any research done to help you. You don’t only have to be a doctor to be in the public health. You can be a lawyer or someone who studies public health, epidemiology.

My video includes an interview, a skit and some portions of the video are facts that relate to interview. The skit was chosen because it gave our video something that wasn’t just straight facts. We chose to put the facts in the video because they related to the topics that our interview person brung up. We did not choose this topic it was given to us.

In the group I found the person to interview made contact with her. I set up the interview. I helped design questions and the order in which we asked them. I also helped to gather some facts. I contributed well to my group. I could have done better with communication with my group members. The thing that really made proud about this project is how it came full circle. We asked questions that we could relate back to our lives. The best thing about the PSA was how it was relatable. So many things go into public health, such as, race, identity, geography, politics and sociology.

Mikayla Brailsford

Tasnim Aziz

Biology Human Body

20 April 2017

Part I.

1. Take notes about the history of Earth Day. Provide a summary of the history of Earth Day.

1. The inaugural Earth Day was celebrated on April 22nd, 1970 which marks the birth of the modern environmental movement. In the 1970s, we were blessed with the last Beatles album, we mourned the death of Jimi Hendrix, and we saw students who were staunch opposers of the Vietnam War. During this time V8 Sedans were being pumped with gas by Americans who had little to no care in the world about what was going on. Air pollution was the smell of prosperity. Nobody cared about the environment, it was just a spelling word, more than it was a major issue. Those who did care about the environment were granted a way to use their voice in a more powerful way. They were given Earth Day. This put Environmental Issues on the frontline, and people were going to have no choice but to listen. In 1969, there was a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California and then-United States Senator Gaylord Nelson from Wisconsin proposed for us to have a day to focus on the environment. The idea came from seeing the anti-war movement, and figured that there should at least be a handful of people who care about this issue. If they rally these troops, environmental issues would be pushed onto the frontline. On the inaugural Earth Day, over 20 million Americans were in streets, parks, and auditoriums for peaceful demonstrations for healthy, sustainable environments in massive rallies. There were colleges and universities that organized protests against the deterioration of the environment, and there were groups of people who realized they had similar values.

2. What organization runs the Earth Day event and why? (i.e. what is the purpose of Earth Day?) What is their role?

1. The organization which runs the Earth Day event is the Earth Day Network. The Earth Day Network runs the Earth Day event because they want to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide. The Earth Day Network’s role in Earth Day is to recruit partners in nearly 195 countries to build environmental democracy, and to get people to participate in Earth Day activities each year. The Earth Day Network works to broaden the definition of “environment”, so that the definition includes issues that affect our health and our communities, to diversify, which means to provide opportunities for civil engagement at local, state, national, and global levels around the world, and to mobilize which means to create programs with partners inside and outside of the environmental movement to take on new challenges.

3. What stakeholders are involved in Earth Day?

1. The stakeholders that are involved in Earth Day are Toyota, NASA, UPS,  Southwest, and Connect 4 Climate.

4. Is Earth Day a public health concern? Why or why not?

1. Yes, Earth Day is a public health concern, as there are groups of people who gather to discuss their issues in a peaceful way, in hopes of their voices being heard, and something being done about said issues.

5. How can Earth Day be used to further meet public health needs?

1. Earth Day can be used to further meet public health needs by continuing to use their voices to fight for what’s right.

LINK: https://www.smore.com/mrnbc