Original Work Log
Hrushikesh Abdas
Day(s) Time Tasks Accomplished
February 1:00pm - On this day, I researched the
1st, 2020 3:00pm basic reasons of obesity, and
how exactly it is a direct cause
for heart attacks. I found out
that there were multiple direct
causes for the initial problem
of obesity, such as lack of
exercise, bad diets, genetics,
and convenience of junk food.
This allowed me to then create
a research assessment using
the articles I found, and let my
mentor read these, and help
me understand the topic
better.
February 1:00pm - Since I was able to research
8th, 2020 3:00pm the causes of obesity, I
wanted to tackle another
major problem that was
prominent in relation to
obesity: fast food. Fast food
chains easily attract
customers due to their clever
methods of appealing to their
audience, which they do
through low prices and
convenience. I then wrote a
research assessment
analyzing how a typical fast
food restaurant operates to
attract customers.
February 1:00pm - After the research, I started to
Reflection Next Goals
By creating a research assessment Continue the next part of
on the topic of causes of obesity, I my research into obesity,
was able to gain more information. as well as work with Dr.
Through an article I found online, I Shafiq to learn more
realized the five main causes for information directly.
obesity: calories, poor diet, lack of
physical activity, genetics, and
dominant medical reasons.
However, among these 5 causes, 3
of them are related to bad health
choices by individuals, which is
something that needs more
awareness brought to the general
public.
The research assessment I have Because I gathered my
created allowed me to realize the information, I now have
scope of how easily fast food the ability to create a
companies attract consumers who presentation that uses the
are blindly harming themselves. information I gathered in
While providing people with order to create a visually
unhealthy food with ingredients that interesting product to
don’t exactly benefit the human deliver to a specific
body other than to fill up your audience.
stomach with good tasting food,
people are attracted to these
businesses because of how they
are conveniently placed in locations
close to a lot of residences, can
even be delivered to your house,
and serve large portions of food for
a relatively cheap price.
The preparation for how I would Continue working on the
15th, 3:00pm create a presentation that I
2020 would be able to use that
would help me to easily
convince others that obesity is
a bigger problem than we
realize. I started out by picking
a design scheme that appeals
visually and creating an
outline on a different
document.
February 1:00pm - I continued to work on my
22nd, 3:00pm outline for my presentation,
2020 and was able to come up with
a general idea of what I was
looking to execute. I then
created the presentation and
started working on it. I tried to
use different accessories to
make the presentation both
formal, visually appealing, and
informative.
February 1:00pm - While working on my
29th, 3:00pm presentation, I first needed to
2020 create a list of possible
contacts that I would deliver
the presentation to. Because
of this, I worked with my
mentor and went online in
order to find the
numbers/emails of different
health organizations and
health professionals in order
to deliver the presentation to,
similar to the mentor contact
list from the beginning of the
year.
March 1:00pm - On this day I had a meeting
organize my presentation, the topic
I would cover, and how I was
planning to deliver the speech was
what I worked on. I needed to find
a way to not be boring and generic,
but stand out to the people I would
be delivering my speech to so that
they will help me with my
intentions.
I needed to find a way to make the
presentation both formal as well as
informative, yet it needs to stand
out to the audience in a way that
catches their interest. I also needed
to find a way to creatively drag their
interest in with a hook, which I
thought about using a story with
images to create images in their
mind as well to get them engaged.
The contact list allowed me to
organize and situate the contacts I
would be communicating with first,
from most important to least. This
way, I had an idea of who my top
priorities were. This contact list was
very helpful, as it is time efficient,
straightforward, and organized.
These three traits have allowed me
to gain easy access to contacts as
well as create a process of
elimination for contacts not
interested to reduce confusion.
Because the coronavirus situation
outline for my
presentation, as well as
creating an introduction
that drags the audience in
and keeps them
engaged.
Create a contact list that I
can use in order to
contact
people/organizations I
can communicate with
and deliver my
presentation to.
Finish up my presentation
so I can start presenting
to contacts, as well as
making calls and setting
up meetings for when and
where I can deliver my
presentation.
After completing more
7th, 2020 3:00pm with my mentor in order to
further discuss my original
work, as the coronavirus
situation started making it
difficult for me to start meeting
and getting contacts, as they
were busy with their own work.
Therefore, me and my mentor
decided to change my original
work, and change the intention
of it. We decided to target the
local community, such as the
schools in FISD and ask to
talk with the principal of
Memorial, Mrs. Redden.
March 1:00om - I used this time in order to
14th, 3:00pm apply what I learned from my
2020 mentor into doing some
research for what my new
topics were surrounding. I took
notes based on all of the
major topics I was planning on
using in my presentation,
however, before my
presentation I need to get in
contact with Mrs. Redden. I
hope to set up an interview, or
meeting, with Mrs. Redden
regarding the health policies of
FISD.
March 1:00pm - Last week I focused on
was such a big deal and was research about the topic
diverting the attention of all of diabetes, I want to find
healthcare professionals, it was out more about coronary
important for me to amend my heart disease and the
original work in order to impact my waist to hip ratio, and
local community, instead of then work on fixing my
reaching a large scale. In this presentation to appeal to
meeting, I also decided to shift my a different target
main focus from obesity, to audience, as well as
diabetes, in order to shift my changing my attention
attention and make it more from reducing obesity
relatable among the people rates to reducing the
listening to my presentation. I rates of people getting
wanted to speak with my principal, diabetes.
as well as possibly the FISD board
and find out what has already been
done to counter the effects of
diabetes in our cafeteria foods.
Things such as the removal of
sugary drinks and increased
mandated athletics need to be
enforced in order to make it so that
the chances of students getting
diabetes are decreased
As I previously thought that obesity Hopefully making contact
was the main cause of heart with Mrs. Redden for the
problems, I later came to realize next week, and preparing
that diabetes is actually the leading an outline on what I will
catalyst. However, diabetes is talk to her about. I also
affected by various things such as need to complete more
your diet, how much you exercise, research.
and many other similar traits to
what cause heart problems. This
chain reaction starts at the base,
which is food. How much, or what
type of food you eat and how much
you exercise is critical towards how
much of a chance you will get
diabetes. Because of this, it is
important to discuss with FISD the
possible changes that would affect
what kinds of food students are
eating, and the athletic
requirements.
I completed research on both the I hope to organize a
21st, 3:00pm gathering information, and I
2020 decided I needed to pay
attention a little closer to the
details. I was able to complete
more research this week on
tests such as the waist-to-hip
ratio and coronary heart
disease. These two factors are
important because the
waist-to-hip ratio determines
your health conditions.
Coronary heart disease is
what could possibly result
from such a problem such as
getting diabetes. I also hope to
email Mr. Pirtle about making
contact with Mrs. Redden, as
she may be very busy.
waist-to-hip ratio as well as meeting with Mrs.
coronary heart disease. I discussed Redden and to discuss
this with Dr. Shafiq, my mentor, what policies are already
and he advised me to complete in place, so I can see
research on both these topics. what I can come up with
Cardiologists will use the to offer to her on how we
waist-to-hip ratio in order to find out can make the lunch lines
the condition you are in, and how in FISD schools healthier.
prone you are to heart problems. If
you have a ratio above one, it is
very important to reduce your
weight and focus on being more
healthy, as you are very prone to
getting heart problems. Coronary
heart disease results in the buildup
of plaque caused by eating
unhealthy foods, something Dr.
Shafiq emphasized, which restricts
the blood flow in your coronary
arteries. These two steps are the
beginning and end in the chain of
heart problems, so they are crucial
to understand.