Why have you chosen to engage those on your campus about breast cancer awareness and the importance of research?
As a role model on campus with the positions I hold such as RA and SGA Vice-president, I know the power I have to empower people. Breast cancer is a vicious disease, it took my mother from me. I will be damned if one had to go through the pain I go through every day. The pain of nothing being able to pick up my phone and call my mother. The pain of not being able to hear inspirational words from my mom to encourage me through mid-terms. As millennials we are up next, we have the power not too only change the world but to impact the world in a positive way. The way we empower is through education and knowledge. "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family". Kofi Annan …show more content…
The cancer is wiping us out one by one. The stastic is screaming, its shocking. This is practically a genocide that we do not pay attention too enough. About 1 in 8 U.S. women (about 12%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime.
Research is vital we have to continue to make progress. When my mother got diagnosed with breast cancer I did tons of research. I was sure there was a cure and there was no way I would lose my mother. However, we have not made enough progress. we have not reached the research we need to sway this disease. As much as we stress science and math to children at a young age, we have to teach them about these kind of diseases. You never know we might spark the mind of the little kid that will find the cure.
- What do the events you host entail? I see that they sign a poster. What happens when they do
As a role model on campus with the positions I hold such as RA and SGA Vice-president, I know the power I have to empower people. Breast cancer is a vicious disease, it took my mother from me. I will be damned if one had to go through the pain I go through every day. The pain of nothing being able to pick up my phone and call my mother. The pain of not being able to hear inspirational words from my mom to encourage me through mid-terms. As millennials we are up next, we have the power not too only change the world but to impact the world in a positive way. The way we empower is through education and knowledge. "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family". Kofi Annan …show more content…
The cancer is wiping us out one by one. The stastic is screaming, its shocking. This is practically a genocide that we do not pay attention too enough. About 1 in 8 U.S. women (about 12%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime.
Research is vital we have to continue to make progress. When my mother got diagnosed with breast cancer I did tons of research. I was sure there was a cure and there was no way I would lose my mother. However, we have not made enough progress. we have not reached the research we need to sway this disease. As much as we stress science and math to children at a young age, we have to teach them about these kind of diseases. You never know we might spark the mind of the little kid that will find the cure.
- What do the events you host entail? I see that they sign a poster. What happens when they do