Informative Essay On Prosthetics

Some people have secrets and opinions that others do not know about. Others have no boundaries to what they will tell others. I fall somewhere towards the no boundaries side of the spectrum, although, I still have a fair amount of things I do not tell my friends and family. I could say how much I absolutely hate those slushy days of spring where your shoes get soaked or I could talk about how much I really do not care about my horse hair allergy and still would love to have a horse but, instead of saying those, I will not. Instead I will talk about that instance in which I didn’t tell them about me. I hear people everyday talk about things they wish to do. I hear them make plans but, all of this talk and plans lead nowhere. Nothing ever …show more content…
During my junior year of high school, in US History, at one point we were going over the Civil War era, specifically dealing with the medicinal and artillery advances we as a nation excelled at during that time. Many found it boring and useless in reference to today’s equipment. I found the most interesting part to be the one focusing on post-war extremity aids. I am pretty sure I had spent a couple days after school researching how doctors/engineers created these prosthetics and what materials were most popular. I then compared them to today’s versions of the same exact tool. Honestly, I do not think the basis of the idea has changed all that much. The materials, on the other hand, have made it possible to broaden the capabilities of the prosthetic as a category. Although this may sound bad, I have spent a lot of time focusing on things that interest me when they coincide with the subject. In chemistry, for example, I thought that naming carbon compounds was a lot of fun when other struggled with the basic concepts of it. I took time from other subjects’ homework to help those who did not understand and I had fun doing it. Later though I regretted it when I found myself hurrying to finish work due the next