Reflection: Weeks 9 & 10

Week 9:
In week 9 we discussed advocacy and what it means. We split into three different groups and each group talked about a ifferent aspect of advocacy. We also talked about the advocacy project and what we are going to be doing the next few weeks with it. When we were learning about Thomas (the library of congress) I was very confused as to every thing that we would be doing with this project. However, once I got started I had a lot better understanding of Thomas and how our class would be using it.

Week 10:
In week 10 we watched the movie "Unnatural Causes." There are seven movies in this series and in class we watched "In Sickness and In Wealth." Some of the things discussed in this video were how health, race, and wealth all correlated to each other and how apparent the disparities were between them. The movie showed how Kentucky was extremely diverse and the differences in the wealthy part of the state versus the more poor part. The results were somewhat shocking because in every instance the weathy people were more healthy and the people who were more poor were less healthy. This was incredibly interesting to find out, it is something that is also very sad see. Your wealth should not be indicitive of your health!