Grass-Fed vs. Grain-Fed

Beef It's Whats For Dinner

 

Beef is the same beef no matter what right? Wrong! There are many different types of beef. When you are biting into that big juicy hamburger we don't normally consider whether this beef animal was grass-fed or grain-fed. What's the difference? Is there any difference at all? A cow is a cow in the end because they all get eaten right?

Grass-fed beef tends to be more healthy for you. Even though many consumers have been led to believe that meat is meat. No matter what the animal is fed the nutritional value does not change. This however is so wrong. Grass-fed products are lower in total fat than grainfed products and because they are so lean they are lower in calories. For example a six ounce stach from a grass finished steer has almost 100 fewer calories than that from a grainfed steer. Even though grassfed meat is low in bad fat it gives you from two to six omega-3-fatty acids which are helpful for you heart. In other words grassfed beef is "heart friendly" yummy right so the next time your biting into a hamburger think about whether this beef is grassfed of grainfed yoru health could depend on it.

yet another journal

School

School this year is going good, I had heard that your junior year is also your hardest and man were they right. The work load that we are given in school increases dramatically and we are expected to be responsible for our homework. As you start to get older and mature more you are expected to earn your grade instead of it just being handed to you. We are starting to realize that wow we are almost done with high school and it is time to start cranking on our grades if we want to get into a good college and actually have a future. I plan on getting my bachelor's degree in pre-vet studies and hopefully going to Colorado State University or Texas A&M where I can major in Vet Medicines and hopefully come back and start my own clinic. Crunch time is now and in order to fullfill my dream I need to focus on school and make my social life second priority. Even though my social life is now school will set me up for the rest of my life. A life that I hope I can love as much as my parents love thei

Hawaii Anxious

Hawaii Anxious

The day has finaly come!! I leave for Hawaii as soon as school gets out, we drive to Salt Lake after school and fly out first thing tomorrow morning at seven thirty! Tomorrow at this time I will be on a plane bound for the beach and a relaxing week away from Wyoming! My plans for all next week are not only getting tan but I am also really excited to go snorkeling with my family and get a chance to go to a real luau. Although, I will miss my friends I need the time away. There comes a point around the middle of the school year where all the drama starts to come around and it literally drives you to insanity. The eight hour plane ride will also give me the chance to catch up on all the chapters in Moby-Dick that I admit I have not gotten around to reading all the way through where we are supposed to be. I can get caught up on all my homework and start that lingering speech that I have to have memorized by December 2nd. My ag advisor has asked me to participate and compete in Prepared speaking as well as Extemporaneous speaking! I am thinking about doing Grass-fed beef versus grain-fed beef as my prepared speech topic. Hopefullyy Hawaii will be a good getaway for me and my family.

BOE-Life changing experience

Rilee Erickson

Mr. Primrose

Honors 11 English

11 November 2009

 

My Life Changing Experience

My first class of my high school career. I walked into the Ag-Ed room thinking my goodness i feel so little. Little did I know how much that room would change my life in the the next four years. I had heard good things about the advisor and heard that he was an easy guy to get along with if you were willing to show him that you were there to work and that you were responible. I will never forget the fist lecture that we got about needing to become leaders in order to earn respect and also give respect in return. We began by talking about cattle breeds, something I had been around my whole life and was very familiar with. As the year progressed I started to feel more comfortable about myself, the friends I had, the classes i was taking, and then the time came to do the FFA Creed. I had never been much of a public speaker, everytime that i would speak a slow redness would creep up my neck and then my whole face would be flushed, making me feel all the more insecure about speaking. I memorized the FFA Creed with ease of course, the hard part was reciting it to my ag advisor and the judges in the Ag-Ed room at the chapter competition. The redness did come, as I thought it would, but my speaking was the best it had ever been. After everyone that was competing had recited the creed I found out that I was the one chosen to represent Lander FFA at the district speaking contest. The next months caused several nervous moments not only for me, but for my ag advisor that knew the potential I had as a speaker. I did good, however, I only got as far as State FFA Convention. It was a great learning experience and one that I used as I started participating in livestock judging and the prepared speaking contest my Sophmore and Junior years. In livestock judging the next year I was awarded 3rd man overall in the reasons part of the contest, reasons are just a speech about why you placed each animal over the other, it was a amazing achievment for me and i was very surprised to see that I had done so good in the contest. At the end of my freshman year as an FFA member I was elected into a chapter office as the Vice President and with it came even more responsibility, the responsibiltiy i had to prove to my advisor that I was capable of

Ligeia

While reading the story Ligeia you are introduced to the narrator who not only seems to not be all there but also seems to have this massive attraction to his true love, Ligeia. As we began to read the story we are introduced to the lady with whom he is in love with and within the next couple of pages she dies, which leaves a deep hole in the heart of the narrator. When he was done mourning the loss of his beloved Ligeia the narrator marries again but like the last time his wife also dies. The corpse of his now dead second wife lays on the bed in the massive, beautiful room that once welcomed her as a bride. As the night goes on strange things begin to happen to the cold corpse. It begins to move and the narrator, even though he refers to the revelation as being a side effect of the drugs he is taking, he sees the body begin to transform, or turn, into the body of his long lost beloved wife Ligeia. Now is when as readers we begin to question whether or not the narrator really has ever seen ligeia or whether she is a made up figment of his imagination. To me the way he talks about her paints a picture in my mind. The emphasis placed on her eyes and he strange beauty makes her all the real to a reader. Even though the narrator is on opium and is not at all in his right mind he still knows that he does love her and she is there. Which makes the ending of the story where they are reunited by some weird miracle all the more interesting and making the characters, especially Ligeia all the more real.

weekly response 6

Rilee Erickson

Period 2

Weekly Response 6

 

Transcendentalism

 

    Transcendentalism is any system of phylosphy that emphasises a intuitive and spiritual above. The major people that were involved in Transcendentalism were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in their writings you could really tell what they and other philospehers were by how strongly they felt about the things that they were rebelling against, this is how most Transcendentalists can be understood throughout their context. Many people view these Transcendentalists as very educated people that were troubling themselves about defining spirituality and religon that took into perspective the new finding of their time. They lived in the time after the American Civil War, they were mostly New Englanders that centered around Boston and more towards that area. Their main focus was to create a main focus of American literature through their writings. They wanted to make a new form of literature that was entirely different from those of England, France, or Germany. Ralph Waldo Emerson put into account what the Transendentalists were trying to pursue by saying, "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." Although in this time there were more men than women pursuing this new form of literature there were also quite a few women Emily Dickinson, whose poems are still famous to this day, and Margaret Fuller were just some of the women that helped with the motion of Transcendentalism writing. If it hadn't have been for all these writers we would not have the same literature that is being taught in school everyday.

Journal 2

Journal 2

 

Well here I am sitting in Spokane, Washington visiting my family. The drive and the flight was very enjoyable with my mom and my grandpa, considering we never really have talking time together. It is really interesting listening to my granpa's aunt talk about what it was like when she was a child. We went to the mall today and my favorite purchase was a fox riders zebra handbag that i got from PacSun. We will go to dinner tonight with my grandpa's aunt myrla and her family and then our plane takes off tomorrow morning. All in all this was a really fun trip that i look forward to doing again. I have been talking with my mom about making another trip down here and then renting a car and driving back to lander and on the way home we can pick up a new Blue Tick Hound puppy that we can train for a mountain lion dog. My dad and i are pretty excited about that. Well i get home saturday and then i have a day until monday where we leave for the Laramie livestock judging contest. I'm hoping that my team is up for the first contest of the year and that we will be ready to kick some butt when state convention comes around.

Journal 1

Journal 1

 

Livestock Judging season is getting closer and closer and I am finally starting to feel the pressure of being better than I was last year. Livestock Judging is placing four animals in order from the most ideal animal to the least ideal animal based on their muscle, profile, and carcass merit for market animals and volume, femininity, and structural correctness for breeding lievestock. Once you have placed your class of animals, for example 3-2-1-4, where 3 is the most ideal animal and 4 is the least ideal animal, you must then give a set of reasons, which are a short speech saying why you placed 3 over 2, 2 over 1, and 2 over 4, based on their attributes that would make them a better market, or better breeding animal. Last year at state FFA convention I placed 3rd high in reasons because I have a good voice and can talk and placed 6th high overall in Market Beef animals. My personal goal this year is to at least be high man overall in reasons and hopefully be high man overall in beef because that would look great for a college and scholarships. My wish is that my team will be able to concentrate on the contest and not on that excitment of State Convention and hopefully we will be able to represent the state of Wyoming at National FFA Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana next fall.

 

American Lit

American Literature in the 18th Century

 

Rip Van Winkle, The Federalists Papers, The Last of the Mohicans, and The Star Spangles Banner, these and many more are just some of the literature that came out of 18th century american literture. Throughout the 18th Century the American Revolution greatly influenced some writers about what they were writing bout and what they would want to portray to their readers. The writers that rose above the others where Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine. Franklin wrote about culture in various pamphlets and papers and talked about the dispute between the colonies and Great Britain. Thomas Paine on the other hand moved from his native town of Englain to Philadelphia and eventually he published a pamphlet, Common Sense, which did much to influence the colonists to declare their independence against the British. The American Crisis papers helped the colonists through the hardest years of the war and helped them to have hope in winning their independence in the end. Overall there were many persuasive and helpful writers in the 18th century, to many to have ideal amount of time to tell about, however, if it wasn't for the works of these two courageous men the American Revolution might not have turned out the way it did and literature would not have been what it is today.

Weekly Response 5

Rilee Erickson

Mr. Primrose

Period 2

Weekly Response 5



The Crucible



Watching The Crucible, based on the play by Arthur Miller, a person would notice that there are a plethora of things that a director or even another writer would need to pay attention to in order to get the scene for their movie to be accurate.

When I first read the play I envisioned the setting as an old gloomy town much like that of The Scarlet Letter. The community run by the church, in which a small thing such as dancing would cause a dire situation for everybody involved. The director of the movie The Crucible, I think did a very good job in these aspects of the story. However, there were some minor changes that I would have made if I had been planning my own movie of The Crucible.

The actors placed in to play the characters in the crucible were mostly good and played their part well. Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne were exactly how i would envision two women condemned of witchcraft to be. The others character however, like Goody Proctor I saw as a more powerful character that was not afraid to lash out and show what was wrong about the accusations. Nevertheless, the setting and the actors did make a good representation of the play, that any author would be proud of. It captured every moment that was climactic and emphasized on the evilness of Abigail Williams.

Before watching the movie it was somewhat hard to follow what was going on between the characters when they would talk back and forth and not use the kind of English slang that we use today. They were proper so it was a given to use that proper language in the play. To watch what was going on and see for yourself what happened in the play through the movie tied together all the things that a reader had questioned. Together the play and the movie make the understanding of The Crucible all that much easier.

WOW!!!

Story Of My Life

Well this class is pretty interesting so far really nothing all that much to terribly hard. I am really enjoying it so far. I feel kind of like a low tech redneck however, because normally working with computers this much rarely happens in class. I am really getting excited to go to hawaii but i need to get ready for livestock judging in Laramie the 9th and 10th. I'm really nervous because i'm striving to do as good as i did last year. Getting the freshman ready to actually compete will be quite interesting but i think that they can do it. Just gotta keep working hard and perservering and eventually i will get there. It's just kind of scary that I only have two years of high school livestock judging left. Now is the time to crunch down and get my act together. Hawaii with the family will be a good getaway for sure.

Honors English

Sitting in honors english we just got finished watching the Crucible. Not quite sure how i feel about the ending it was kind of depressing in the end and could make anyone mad.
It is snowing today ugh i hate snow so much it is always so cold. duh. But i am excited that i get to go to hawaii next month.
Well i better get back to working i will stop by later

HMMMMMMM

First time ever having a blog not that sure what i will think about all this.
Kinda a boring day went to school classes yadayada yada. nothing to exciting got started on with livestock judging again i'm really excited. Got some freshman started with it. First thing we go to is in Laramie in two weeks. (crossing my fingers) Hoping that i can do even better than i did last year. Excited about this weekend not quite sure what i'm going to be though so that'll be interesting. But anyways guess i'll head to bed
Rilee