Research Response Exercise Arturo Castillo

 

Arturo Castillo

English 1109 @ 1:30 M-W

11/18/2020

Research Exercise

The profile that I decided to use for my research response was on Salmon Slicer, Leonard Berk, with a very unorthodox story on how he retired from a well-paying job to becoming a salmon slicer. Len after retirement found a job cutting salmon for nine dollars which he enjoyed throughout the profile. He loved the social experience he received when dealing with customers at the restaurant. When Len says, “It’s a very Zen thing.” (Isay 196), we can see that he was very calm at his job even with dealing with difficult customers as he says. We can see that Len was extremely happy with his job since all he could think about was getting that perfect slice for his customers. I learned from this profile that it is the little things that can make us happy and how amazing of a person Len seems to be in this profile.     

I did have a few questions on how salmon was prepped. Like how it looks to prep or cut the pieces for the customers. I do not eat seafood, so I was curious to see how it would look. After doing some research I learned that Lox or “belly lox” is just cured salmon with salt and sugar, ready to eat without any heat involved. It can be used with bagels and dairy since it helps with the salt which actually sounds a bit bizarre. In the profile, they just cut normal thin slices for the customers to eat plain and simple with their sauce of choice.

https://www.eater.com/2019/9/14/20865463/whats-the-difference-between-lox-nova-smoked-salmon           

This does not look delicious but here is a way to eat lox commonly in New York back in the day.

Research response - Cortney Shearer

Cortney Shearer

Mike Lohre

English 1109

18 November 2020

FMF Profile 

     A profile the stuck out to me was about Barbara Butler becoming a FMF corpsman. Butler seems to be motivated by proving people wrong. Specifically Proving men wrong. She was at a boot camp and was older then most off the people there already which is hard to keep up with. During Corps school they were asking for FMF volunteers. Nobody raised their hand so she did. This made some men mad and they said only men can do it. She fought back and said there wasn’t any rule saying a women couldn’t do it. This made her want to do it more because people were already saying she couldn’t do it. So she went and trained for it. All the other girl joined her which was more empowering. Butler told the girls “We’re not going to cry in front of them. And so we cried and hugged each other within the confines of our barracks.” (Butler 167).  I love this because they didn’t show their weakness they did that in private. They didn’t let their guard down and pushed back in a way. She ended up becoming apart of the FMF Corps and was they only girl in the group. This definitely pushed her to prove them wrong and point out when the men are wrong.

     In my research I found about 16 percent of the navy is female based which apparently is higher than normal. I couldn’t find anything specificity on the FMF Corpsman but we know it’s very little. The fact that it said 16% is a higher percent for any part of the military is sad. The military is mostly men. I wish more girls work like Barbara Butler and were more confident to prove people wrong. Looking at the graphs the male population is much greater in the military in all branches. One point was made and said“The Air Force, with 20.9 percent women, and the Marine Corps, with the highest and lowest female shares.” (Page 2). The fact that 20.9 percent of the Air Force is women and that’s the highest percent of women is sad. 

Research Exercise - Hailey Moore

 Hailey Moore

English 1109 @1:30 M.-W.

November 18, 2020

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                        A profile that really stood out to me was "Ink Removal Specialist Dawn Maestas, 42, talks with her client Nicole Mendoza, 22". Dawn became an ink removal specialist because of a tattoo of her ex abusers name on her hand. She said that when she went to school for it, that it felt like the one thing that she was meant to do. Her first tattoo that she removed was hers. She talked about how just a name she looked at everyday, caused her to constantly relive it. Dawn said, "It was like being in a car accident at an intersection: every time you pass that intersection, you remember the impact. And you live it over and over again every day."(Isay 164). Poor Dawn was suffering from PTSD everyday from the traumatizing events that occurred. The events attached to that name and tattoo. Some interesting thinks that I want to know is how much it costs? How does it work, the science of it?

                        My findings from my research is that a single session of tattoo laser removal averages up to $200 to $500. A tattoo can take up to several sessions to remove, which it all added up can cost to $1,000 or as much as $10,000 (Lim, 2017). Ink laser removal works when the laser penetrates the skin, the laser breaks down the ink inside the skin into smaller particles. Each session the laser destroys the ink layer by layer until the tattoo is gone. The amount of sessions needed all depends on the tattoo, how dark it is, how deep, how bold. It is a case by case situation (How Laser Tattoo Removal Works, 2020).

                                                  How tattoo laser removal works

How Laser Tattoo Removal Works, Learn Laser Tattoo Removal. (2020, March 24). Retrieved November 18, 2020, from https://astanzalaser.com/patients/how-laser-tattoo-removal-works/

Lim, J. (2017, September 06). Laser Tattoo Removal - Cost, Sessions, Recovery. Retrieved November 18, 2020, from https://www.docshop.com/education/dermatology/body/tattoo-removal

Research Response Alayna

 Alayna Bowman

English 1109 at 1:30, Mon- Wed

18 November 2020

 

                                                   Research Response Exercise 

            Out of all the very interesting profiles we have read, I decided to look into the one I knew the least about. Ted Dennard’s profile is very interesting to me because he has a different job that most people would not like to do. When he was thirteen, a man named Roy Hightower began to teach Ted and his father how to be a beekeeper in exchange for a beeyard. Once Ted opened up his first beehive and heard the sounds of all the bees and saw the colors of the honey, he knew he was going to continue doing this work. Once Roy died, Ted took over his bee farm. A quote in this profile that stuck out to me was when he said, “ It’s better to get a sting. I sort of kept a rough count, but when I got to, I guess, twenty thousand stings, I quit counting” (Isay 188). This quote stood out to me because he loves what he does even though he gets stung thousands of times. I admire that he found a calmness in a swarm of bees. 

            Ted is now a honey salesman. I wanted to look more into this because it accidentally happened after he sold a few jars of his honey to a store. Ted had no previous business experience so he just had to learn as he went. I decided to research his brand name for his honey and where it is sold. I also wanted to see how much he sold and how much money he made after these sales. I found out that Ted has a company called Savannah Bee Company and they sell honey/ honey based products, books, beauty products, beverages, and candles. His products can be found anywhere even places like Target and Walmart. They can also be found at on of the fourteen Savannah Bee Company stores around the country. I wasn’t able to find out much about how much he sells and makes but I was able to find out that he started a non profit called The Bee Cause Project where they put glass beehives in classrooms. In the article I read, the author interviewed Ted about his organization and he asked how to schools responded to it. He said, “The kids loved it. That was four years ago and now there’s 320 in all 50 states that have these educational beehives” ( Pellot 1). Ted has become very successful today and is still trying to grow and learn more.

                                         This is an image of one of Ted’s shops in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Research Link

Research Response- Angelo Cotugno

 Angelo Cotugno

Professor Lohre

English 1109 At 01:30 T-th

18, November, 2020 

Pat Hays was a Chicago Policewoman who had worked for 34 years. She grew up in a bad home and read to pass the time. Before she was a police officer her family pushed her into a marriage too early with the wrong guy. He hit her, abused her and treated her like property. While working on a switchboard her and a friend took the Chicago police women test and passed. There were only 35 women who passed. She mostly worked with youth, Family investigation, abuse and neglect. She noted that men don’t want to work with women or children and she stated, “ I wanted to be somebody who was warm and who you could sit and feel comfortable talking to” (Isay 158). She Connected to people with her experience of being abused and her literary readings to help comfort people who are experiencing a crisis. She stopped her children from joining the force because of pressure it would put on them. She retired in 2001 and said, “ I really enjoyed helping people. I would have done it forever” (Isay 161). I think it’s Incredible for someone who has been in abuse to choose a hard career as a police officer to help others. She didn’t want her children to be police Officers because of the job on your mental and physical health.     

According to James Israelsen, Associate writer for factretriever stated, “the first ever known female police officer Marie Owens Was in chicago in the 1890”(James Israelsen). James Also states that, “twelve Percent OF the Law enforcement Officers in The United States are female”(James  Israelsen. It really surprised me how few officers have been added to the police force considering how much the population has risen. I don’t think we should force police women to join, but I just find it interesting that it hasn’t risen with the rest of the population and is not related to the overall population of Women.

    (here is a picture of Marie Ownes, The first known policewomen in the United States. Was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada the daughter of Irish immigrants.)

Research exercise- Stephanie

 In the book, with the interview between Dawn Maestas and her client Nicole Mendoza, Dawn explains her past life and why she wanted to become an ink removal specialist. She was tortured by someone who was suppose to care for her but instead had his name in ink on her. “It was like being in a car accident at an intersection: every time you pass that intersection, you remember the impact. And you live it over again every day” (164). This was a good connection to her seeing her tattoo everyday with his name on it and the emotion of it. The post traumatic stress of that in either situation can be grand. Then Nicole talks about her experiences with her guy who was really abusive and tattoo his name all over her. Dawn felt that connection and did not want anyone else to feel that pain so she removes tattoos for those who have the same story free of charge.

Some questions I had was, What exactly is tattoo ink removal? and How does it work? What are the pain levels compared to when it was first done?, The cost of it? And How does it effect someone? I was wondering these questions because getting a tattoo can already be painful and how would it feel to get that tattoo removed. Most people know that tattoo ink is removed with lasers but are they even painful? The process is long but does multiple sessions make it more painful? 

Research Response Exercise

 

Judson Brandenburg

English 1109 at 1:30, Mon.-Wed.

November 17, 2020

Research Response Exercise

          The profile that I am going to choose from today is Dawn Maestas. She was a Ink Removal Specialists. She used the pain from her past to help others move on from their past as well. I think that she was drawn to this job because it allowed her to get personal with her clients. Several of which had been in abusive relationships and felt stuck with those tattoos still on their body. It was definitely not all about the money to her because she removed several tattoos free of charge just because she had a connection with her clients. Dawn says, “I used to tell God, if You let me survive this, I won’t leave anybody else behind. I promise”(Maestas 165). It was more than just a job to her, this was her calling and it was a way for her to minister to other people.

          After some research I was able to find out that you can’t remove a tattoo with just one session, you will meet with the specialists from 4 to 10 times depending on what type of ink they used and how complex it is. They described the pain like you were constantly being snapped at with a rubber band. Depending on who your specialists is they will charge from 100$ to 1,000$.

This is a specialists carefully removing the tattoo of a client. Removing these tattoos allows people to get freedom from their pasts.
https://www.life123.com/article/how-does-laser-tattoo-removal-work?ad=dirN&qo=serpIndex&o=740009