1) For this question, I would like you to ask questions you might have or formulate comments in response to the two videos you’ll be watching this week from the Unnatural Causes series, “Place Matters” and “Bad Sugar.” You can take notes as you are watching the videos and then transfer them here to this answer block, and then formulate your questions based from those notes. I can’t imagine you wouldn’t have fewer than two questions from each video, but if you are struggling for a question, you can write a response to a point the video highlights. Tell me the point the video makes, and then write your response below. You will need to provide 4—- 4 questions total, 3 questions 1 comment, 2 questions 2 comments, 3 comments 1 question, or 4 comments. Some combination of those options!
2) How have the rates of childhood homelessness changed from 2013 to 2016 in Oregon? Hint–use the PBS link from 2013 (related to the Frontline documentary, Poor Kids, that you watched last week) and the most recent Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report from 2016 to formulate your answer.
PS–Don’t panic because you think I’m looking for a precise answer, or a precise number. I’m not. I’m looking for your thoughtful engagement with the data, and you ability to read the data and come to a conclusion SUPPORTED by the data. If I have to re-read the articles to see if your assertions are correct, then you have not answered this question in a way that “convinces” me through your thorough analysis and proper data-driven, clearly stated factual analysis.
3) Sugar. There are two videos this week concerning sugar. Compare and contrast the information given in the videos. Is sugar “bad” for us? How do sugar politics influence public health policy, and how does that policy affect people?

4) The NPR article about the prevalence of suicide in Greenland asserts that it isn’t the dark (in other words, lack of a regular light and dark cycle of days, the fact that Greenland has many dark, no sunlight, days in a row) that makes people in Greenland more likely to suicide.
So, what is it, then? If it isn’t the dark that kills you, what does increase suicidality in Greenland among Greenlanders specifically? Please be thoughtful with your answer—I’m looking for several sentences that answer this question thoughtfully and with compassion and deeper understanding of the issues raised in the article.

Unnatural Causes: Place Matters (29mins)

The Arctic Suicides: It’s Not The Dark That Kills You
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/21/474847921/the-arctic-suicides-its-not-the-dark-that-kills-you

Map: Where is Childhood Homelessness Getting Worse?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/social-issues/poor-kids/map-where-is-childhood-homelessness-getting-worse/

Most of Oregon’s homeless families live on the street, in cars, parks: Highest percentage in U.S., says HUD report
http://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2016/11/homeless_unsheltered_oregon_hu.html
Unnatural Causes: Bad Sugar (29mins)
http://moodle.wou.edu/mod/page/view.php?id=124712