Breast Cancer Advocacy Assignment
1) On the first line of the article “Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer”, the author illustrated that she did not believe a mammogram could save her life anymore. It will attract readers’ attentions why the author does not trust a mammogram now although it is a good method to detect cancer. Using the personal story about the mammogram, the author leads to the main focus of the article whether the mammogram will decrease women breast cancer or the mammogram will increase unnecessary biopsies and worry. In the seventh paragraph, the last sentence that claims the mammogram will affect women’s health is the author’s thesis for this article.
2) The author uses the word “budged” in the sentence “the rates of women …show more content…
This is a prevalent cancer between women over 40 years old and does not have ability to spread beyond the breast. However, with the increasingly number of D.C.I.S. diagnose, more than 50000 healthy women are treated as “cancer survivors”. It will motivate more and more women to have screening and these women will never treated themselves as healthy people any more. It exactly reflect the author’s argument it is not really necessary to have campaign on breast cancer.
4) “Pinkwashing” is the method that community provide to deliver kindness to women. For example, if the football team has rose-colored cleats, it will decrease the subsequent notorieties when the N.F.L. is dealing with accusations against players of rape or domestic violence. Chevron donates to California Komen affiliates will reserve the figure of the company. The reason is that Chevron Company had a huge refinery fire last year.
5) The author proposes to change the tag line to “Mammography has both benefits and harms- that’s why it’s a personal decision.” It is benefit to screen if you are between the ages of 50 and 74. If you are not in this age range, you should consider some side effects of this
1) On the first line of the article “Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer”, the author illustrated that she did not believe a mammogram could save her life anymore. It will attract readers’ attentions why the author does not trust a mammogram now although it is a good method to detect cancer. Using the personal story about the mammogram, the author leads to the main focus of the article whether the mammogram will decrease women breast cancer or the mammogram will increase unnecessary biopsies and worry. In the seventh paragraph, the last sentence that claims the mammogram will affect women’s health is the author’s thesis for this article.
2) The author uses the word “budged” in the sentence “the rates of women …show more content…
This is a prevalent cancer between women over 40 years old and does not have ability to spread beyond the breast. However, with the increasingly number of D.C.I.S. diagnose, more than 50000 healthy women are treated as “cancer survivors”. It will motivate more and more women to have screening and these women will never treated themselves as healthy people any more. It exactly reflect the author’s argument it is not really necessary to have campaign on breast cancer.
4) “Pinkwashing” is the method that community provide to deliver kindness to women. For example, if the football team has rose-colored cleats, it will decrease the subsequent notorieties when the N.F.L. is dealing with accusations against players of rape or domestic violence. Chevron donates to California Komen affiliates will reserve the figure of the company. The reason is that Chevron Company had a huge refinery fire last year.
5) The author proposes to change the tag line to “Mammography has both benefits and harms- that’s why it’s a personal decision.” It is benefit to screen if you are between the ages of 50 and 74. If you are not in this age range, you should consider some side effects of this