1. Read and react/respond. I do NOT want a summary and will not be given credit. (6-10 sentences) http://time.com/4565351/cancer-drugs-success-rates/?iid=sr-link1 (3 pts) Cancer is a deathly disease that once a person has it, it very hard and impossible to be cure back, which more and more medication has developed to increase people chance of living than death.…
I chose an article from The New York Times titled “Paging Dr. Pigeon; You’re Needed in Radiology” by Nicholas Bakalar that was published on November 24, 2015. The article discussed the recent study of training and using pigeons to identify benign or malignant breast tumors by looking at a slide from a biopsy or a mammogram at the University of California Davis medical Center, University of Iowa, and the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at Emory University. This study was conducted as a tool and “surrogates for human subjects in medical image perception studies because they can be used in repetitive ways that few people could tolerate” (Bakalar, 2015). The study also stated that pigeons are extraordinary discriminators of complex…
#1 Gambrill, E. (2013). Birds of a Feather: Applied Behavior Analysis and Quality of Life. Research On Social Work Practice, 23(2), 121-140. This journal article tells us that Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) has been around for decades.…
In the article “All about Pediatric Ependymoma” MD Tamera P. Miller explains pediatric Ependymoma. Her article was very easy to read. Perfect for someone to read if they aren’t very familiar with the tumors. Although this article was very informative it could have been in more detail. In the article “Ependymomas” by MD Kathy Warren who is a pediatric oncologist at the National Cancer Institute, more information is given.…
The best way to change your perspective on cancer is to put yourself into the patient’s shoes for just a single day. Imagine how it would affect not just your thoughts but your actions as well. You wake up each morning hoping you do not feel as bad as you did the day before…
For my final revision project, I decided to revise my fist essay “The Visible Cancer”. The reason I chose to edit this essay was the special connection that I had to it. When writing this essay, I was very invested in telling the audience how I had felt and describing what had happened with my dad’s cancer as best as I could. In making these revisions I thought it would be a good way to look back on how I viewed the situation when I first wrote this right after it happened compared to how I feel about it now after several months.…
In the article “The Making of a Serial Killer,” Director of the Brogard Lab for Multisensory Research Berit Brogaard theorizes on the possible causes of psychopathy and its relation to the brain and genetics. Berit Brogaard explains what abnormalities cause psychopathic characteristics to show up in people and how most crimes are actually more often committed by people who are psychotic. The author also brings up various genetic diseases that correlate with psychopathy to further help understand what traits are responsible in the thought process of psychopaths leading to becoming serial killers. Furthermore, The author uses lots of research information from universities which has been tested thoroughly and is used as evidence for understanding the makings of a serial killer.…
“How Mental Illness is misrepresented in the Media” I found this article very interesting not only did I learn something new but I learned something about myself and how I even have misconceptions about certain mental illnesses because of what I see on social media, television and even here on the news! This Article really caught my eye as I scrolled through U.S NEWS AND WORLD REPORT, in the health and psychology section. These are some key points of what I read and the opinion I have about them.…
The article “Our Football Story: Should We Let Our Son Play Tackle Football” is written by Michael Lupton. Lupton writes about the growing issue of parents believing that football is too dangerous for their children to participate in. Lupton believes that parents should definitely allow their children to participate in tackle football, and uses research to prove it. The research is unbiased and published by medical professionals.…
We have all heard that saying. When it comes to cancer that saying rings true one hundred percent. We will all eventually face death. Most of us it will be unexpected. The author has been given a timeline of when he should expect to die.…
The effects got worse and the average life span dropped by forty years. What the government called a cure, the citizens called "Cancerette" There was no escape and no way to stop this harm. Though their bodies to fight it, their subconscious didn’t allow such violation. Although many were able to stop such harm, there were some who couldn’t resist the feeling. I have resisted the feeling.…
“It's Okay to be a Coward” Article Page Write Up No one really understands cancer until you actually read and analyze information about it. This whole entire time I believed that if you kept on fighting cancer, you would live longer. But that's not what this article has shown me. In the article, “It’s Okay to Be a Coward About Cancer” (2017), Josh Friedman showed the insights to how such a successful and kind person could get cancer just like that.…
This book could have an impact on readers by raising awareness about cancer, especially leukemia. I knew that leukemia was cancer of the blood, but I didn’t know about the various problems that came with it before I read the book. This book could also cause moral distress for the reader. For example, I struggled with deciding which side of the dilemma I agreed with…
The article “trial by twitter” written by Ariel Levy really interested me because of the topic it was on. Almost everybody in the twenty-second century is using social media and it plays a big part in most people's everyday life. People use it to share what they are doing or even just to communicate. It is a way for people to connect without there having to be in person interaction. This can sometimes be a good and even sometimes a bad thing.…
Cancer, as defined by the American Cancer Society, “Starts when cells in a part of the body start to grow out of control.” Many people have no idea the impact of cancer on not only the patient, but the family of the patient as well. There are many emotional, physical, and financial problems that entail a cancer diagnosis for a child. Emotionally, a parent must be prepared for anything that may come up in the duration of the treatment of the child. Physically, parents of a child with cancer are drained of all energy, and usually struggle to keep up with the needs of their child.…