Can a food Bar Save the World Survey

Survey Monkey Results

The majority of my answers had at least a 50% same answer rate. There were several questions however that I found the results to be very intriguing.
The first was: If all you had was a granola bar in your pocket how LIKELY would you be to share it with someone if they knew that they were hungrier than you?
80% of the 10 responses said that they would Definitely Share. To me this was an example of the fact that people are aware of hunger and have the ability to understand those that are of less fortune.

The second was a broader question as to what they thought were some of the biggest issues that our world faces. The results were that most place hunger and poverty in the top 3. My favorite answer was the 4th. This individual stated that we lack the ability to foresee problems and fix them early, its always only after the problem has surface and caused destruction that we take action. I felt that was the strongest answer and the was that I think would ring true in the minds of Americans.


The third was regard whether people are more willing to give on a small scale versus that of a larger scale.
It was a split down the middle 5 yes to smaller scale and 5 no. This split was interesting to me and this question was important because it gives me some preliminary results on how to sell and market my food bar. Whether to focus locally or on a more global scale.




Overall the survey really helped me to gain a firmer grasp on how marketable a product such as a food bar could be and show that the issue of Hunger is still prevalent to the U.S. and around the world. Also the interest that people had in my research made me more optimistic about the future of the project.

Journey Through Someone Else's Eyes 2

Meghann Mealbach
Comp 106 Section 19
Prof. Anne-Marie Yerks
March 10, 2010
Profile: Fadia Salamey Aoude- RN
Is it possible to help find smaller solutions to local and world hunger and could one of those solutions be a small compact food bar? That is what I set out to find the answer to as I searched for subjects for this interview. Who I found was Fadia Salamey Aoude- RN a Nursing Supervisor for the Dearborn Health Department and a woman who has a lot of passion for her profession.
Fadia was born in Beirut, Lebanon and that was where she spent her childhood. Then in 1960’s while in High School Fadia moved with her family to the United States which was not an easy transition.“The first year I came here I didn’t have but my high school from overseas, dual languages Arabic and English. When I came here in March, they wouldn’t put me in school until the following year, so I only went to Fordson for one year.”
There were however aspects of Fadia early years that were not typical of an American High School student. “I was married that’s my nationality usually females at that time, your lucky if your parents allow you to finish high school. The minute you graduate from high school you get married, so I was married when I graduated high school”.Shortly after graduating circumstances changed for Fadia, her marriage dissolved and she found herself at a crossroads trying to decide how she was going to move forward in her life. All that her parents wanted her to do is go to college, so that is what she did. Fadia started her college career at Henry Ford Community College and decided to pursue a degree in Nursing. Early on in her education Nadia faced a lot of culture shock and language barriers. “It’s very hard because mentally no matter how good you are in one language you always translate in your head back to your original and back to language and back into what it means English.” I asked her how those cultural differences impacted her in nursing school and she stated that it was a huge impact for her as she was pursuing her passion;
“Here is where your culture plays. I never saw a naked man in my life except for my little brothers. On your first day into the clinical program you learn how to give a bath… and my first time to give bed bath to an older gentleman... I almost passed out…to him it didn’t mean a thing but to me besides being a single mom, being divorced is a taboo in my culture, and here I am giving this gentleman his bedbath… too many things I was bombarded with and to get use to the nursing program was overwhelming at that point.Even with all of the trials and tribulations that Fadia went through while she was in the nursing program at Henry Ford Community College and at Madonna University she was grateful to have accomplished something that she never thought she would have the opportunity to do.
“So I went two full-time years and one summer and I graduated. The minute that I graduated I realized God, what did I get myself into. Even though I love the nursing profession I always thought that I’d be in that field but because of my background I never thought that I would have that option.”After graduating Fadia was still overwhelmed with the pressures of a budding new career but there was one event that let her know that she was in the right place and that she had an advantage that others did not. She recalled,
“I remember one incident from Oakwood Hospital the man was praying, somebody thought he fell down and that were pulling him up off the floor and he was yelling leave me alone and when I walked into that room I figure what was going on, just be open and that opened my eyes too…You come down to earth, you become human, you look at every patient with an open mind…compassion where a lot of people these days…there is no interaction, where in nursing there is always interaction…it made you value what you have and it made you value the other cultures too in my situation,. So, I can understand it from their view and my view.After I learned about Fadia background and her compassion and acceptance for her patients, she gave me important tips to remember when I try to create my food bar. What were some of the things that I needed to keep in mind in relation to caloric intake and vitamins I asked her, she replied
“Your vitamins you have to have all those vitamins in your nutritional bar, but bars should be considered to be for one or two meals not for the whole day.” I then asked What if the bar was the only available food source for the day how many calories would I need to provide. Her response was that“Your body needs if you are healthy, your body needs 3,000 calories at the most. If you are diabetic 1,500 to 2,000 calories a day so your nutritional bar has to have a value between those numbers, let’s say a 3,000 calorie diet then each bar would have to be a thousand.”
I also learned that I need to keep in mind of protein sources and allergies and she also advised that I use a lot if not all raw foods. Conducting the interview was a great experience and provided me with great insight as I continue my research. I think the best part was having the opportunity to see life through someone else’s eyes.

Profile Paper: Journey through another's eyes.

Video Still: Fadia discuses the challenges she faced when she move to the U.S.

Video Still: Fadia talks about how she learned why Nursing was where she was meant to be.


Video Still: Fadia discusses important factors to consider for creating my food bar.

Reading Response #1 "They Say" Chapter 1

Exercise #1

a. Researchers suggest that there are dangerous levels of Chemical X in the Ohio groundwater.

b. Book reviews have stated that this novel has certain flaws.

c. Fans of hockey find football is so boring.

d. Educators have found that male students often dominate class discussions.

e. Movie critics feel that the film is really about the problems of romantic relationships not that of how great it is to be in love.

f. Readers feel that templates like the ones in this book will stifle their creativity.


Exercise #2

If there ever was a custom made idea for a Jay Leno monologue, this was it: movie directors being more concerned with the amount of money made versus the strength of the story they portray. Isn't that like say the money equals power and art equals the poorhouse. Whatever happened to the film industry being about the art that is on the screen and not the money that goes into our pockets. I happen to sympathize with those artists that truly are in it for the art versus the money,though perhaps that is because I am a self-proclaimed starving artist that is always looking to put the message above the money. Always trying to do my best to remember that the art not others opinions is what counts.

Comp 106 Screen Capture

Writing and composing can take on many forms. The image above is an example of a common difficult composition task for me, a television script. While I was writing the piece it felt as though I could see the story jump off the page and come alive in my imagination and see all the pieces of the puzzle. Seeing it in this space it seems to lose that life. I can’t feel the emotions that the individuals who are on the screen were feeling as they spoke these words. The image of these words make them feel as if they no longer have meaning, no longer tell a story. This reaction surprised me because in the ever evolving world of digital composing the goal is often to tell a story or evoke an emotion through the manipulation of various medium such as photography and music via the use of a computer. The digital age that we are presently living in has many pros. I believe that you can see digital composing as a new broader way to communicate. After I post this it will be open to the world's eyes and opinions. The digital age has changed the way that we communicate with one another before when we wanted to talk to someone who across a distance we would hand write a letter, put it in the mail and wait for a response. This, however is no longer the case. Now we send messages to others via multiple digital composing methods, e.g, email, instant or text message, or video. I think that the best way that we can gain a greater understanding of digital processes is to emerge ourselves in them and use them to educate ourselves about the world around us but not forget the composition forms that were existed prior and how they helped us develop the new communications we have today.