Although kids who have Congental Insenitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis feel no pain and they think everything is okay, the disease causes great suffering for the parents of inflicted children because of the horrible visits to the hospital their kids have to endure everyday, the thought of their child haveing internal damage and they don't even know it, and because of the things they won't be able to see their kids do as a child.
Congental Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis is also known as CIPA by doctors and the families who have someone with it. CIPA is a very rare genetic disorder in which the person who has it feels no pain at all. Oh how the kids would love that, to be able to fall down and not get hurt. Now as a kid I'm pretty sure we all couldn't stand the thought of going to the hospital, and when we found out that we had to go we tried everything in our power to make our parents change their mind but it never worked not one time. And After every visit it always ends in the same way, you get the daiognosis, you get the shot, you feel the pain and aganony.
Now put yourself in your parents shoes, they don't like the fact that we have to go to the doctor, becuase they now as a kid will leave in tears.Because it's nothing they can do about that. But once it's over we don't have to return for awhile, but the families who have kids with CIPA go to the hospital three times as much as the average family. And some of them actually go every day. To get anti-biotics and other things along those lines. The parent has to get up everyday early in the morning and take the child to the hospital just to get them prepaired for another day. Imagine how the parents feel to have to take them turns out of their everyday life to go visit the hospital I would imagine it would get very exausting. The only thing is it has to be done there is no way around it. It's the same as going to the hospital as a healthy child except without the pain and tears and it's eveyday or more often than normal, and everyday it get even more exausting for both the parents and the child.
If a child without CIPA feels severe pain in the abdomin there parents will notice it right away because of the screaming and crying. So what does the parent do, they take them to the hospital to see what is going only to find out that they have a minor case of food poisining. But what about the kids who CIPA they wouldn't be able to feel the pain. They do experience some kind of dis-comfort but the problem with that is that they might think it's normal. They would think it's nothing and wouldn't think to tell you and jus go on about their day,it's like when we begin to get a cold we start sneezing and a running nose and we say "oh just allergies," until a few days later we don't feel like geeting out of bed. That's how they see, they think it's nothing and blow it off. Somw of those paretns fear what they don't know, and the fact that their child could internal damage and don't know it, forces them to live in a world of constant fear. They can have fractured bones and wouldn't be able to tell their parents. sometimes people that can feel pain breaks or fractures bones and don't even know it.
It's because they can't feel pain internally, why they have to have frequent or daily visits to the emergencey room. Also what about the very serious conditions that causes pain first then the fatal effects, later, they might not be able to catch it in time. Also concusions are a problem as well because we can have them and don't know so just picture them.
Remember all the fun things you use to do as a child like, Jump from bed to bed, or climb trees, then you would fall down and get hurt and your paretns brings the alchol that makes it hurt even more, then you would get back up and start it again like you didn't just get hurt. well the parents of the children who have CIPA are less fortunate, they may never get the chance to see their children do those fun things because of a harmless injury that could eventually become seriouse if left untreated.
Some of the oarents that have kids with CIPA allow their children to play and have however they are limited. The victims of CIPA don't sweat so their body can't cool down itself like ours can so heat is dangerous to them, so the kids aren't able to stay outside in the summer for too long. Also if the paretns do let their children play, everytime they are done their whole body has to be checked for cuts and brusis that could get infected leading to serious injury. Some of the parents that have children with CIPA go through with this and just do the daily checks, but others parents just can't handle it and think it's best for their child to stay inside, and so they miss the moments where they get to see their chlid ride a bike and clean their wounds after a fall.
Most of the children if they maje it past the rough childhood don't get to die of old age. It's either a heat stroke because they don't sweat of of something internally that they are unaware of. So feeling pain might b e a good factor in our everyday life, after all how else would we know not to touch the stove.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Week 9:Grammar Girl 49 Run-on
At first I thought I knew what run-on sentences were, but it turns out I only knew a small portion of what a run-on sentence is. As a kid writing papers I never thought to put any punctuation in my papers so as you can imagine yes it was all one long sentence. The period didn't come until the end of my paper. Teachers never said anything about it perhaps it was because i was young.
It wasn't until I hit the fifth grade when I started getting advice about them. They went as far as having me write papers with other students. As I got older and got a better understating of a run-on sentence I started having less of them in my paper until I thought that I didn't have any of them in my paper. Now it turns out after hearing this Grammar Girl lesson that I still have them in my paper there just shorter sentences. I read some of my previous papers and just about all of them have at least a few run-on sentences in them. That means that every paper I've done has had a run-on sentence in them all the way up until now, well at least I know now.
It wasn't until I hit the fifth grade when I started getting advice about them. They went as far as having me write papers with other students. As I got older and got a better understating of a run-on sentence I started having less of them in my paper until I thought that I didn't have any of them in my paper. Now it turns out after hearing this Grammar Girl lesson that I still have them in my paper there just shorter sentences. I read some of my previous papers and just about all of them have at least a few run-on sentences in them. That means that every paper I've done has had a run-on sentence in them all the way up until now, well at least I know now.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Week 7&8: Reading Response 3
I agree with williamson's suggestion about "collegiate sports are a way out for poor and working-class students" to an extent. The only reason why I wouldn't agree with his suggestion is because not everyone is in the same position or the same situation. For the ones who are actually struggling with money and trying to find ways to survive than yes it is a way out for them. However, there are athletes who are financially set and don't have to worry about money because their parent's pay for their education if not the school. And these are the one's who are just playing for the love of the game or because it's just something to do to pass the school time. Another reason I wouldn't agree is because not everyone who is poor can play sports or if they can there is no actual guarantee that they are good enough to get in college off of their skills and even if they do get in that doesn't mean that they are good enough to stay on the team and most college coaches probably don't care about the situation of that player.
The bar has been lowered a lot since the past to the present. It's not as true today as it was in the past. Now-a-days it seems as if colleges will take any athlete just because of a certain skill they have and they don't care if they posses any other skills or if they are what's good for the team. Also it would seem as if the generations get smarter as they get younger, which means that they would actually be financially set already and wouldn't have to depend on collegiate sports to survive. There are 19-year-old that have better credit than a lot of adults.
The bar has been lowered a lot since the past to the present. It's not as true today as it was in the past. Now-a-days it seems as if colleges will take any athlete just because of a certain skill they have and they don't care if they posses any other skills or if they are what's good for the team. Also it would seem as if the generations get smarter as they get younger, which means that they would actually be financially set already and wouldn't have to depend on collegiate sports to survive. There are 19-year-old that have better credit than a lot of adults.
Week 7&8: Reading Response 2
Goodman assumes that her Boston Globe audience knows about the Fiji's and how they use to be big and think it was beautiful. She mentions that after the television came to Fiji that's when everything went out of whack, she also brings up eating disorders and vomiting to lose weight of teenagers. Goodman's argument also thinks that the television make women care about the way they dress. Early in Goodman's argument she mentions that giving compliment's consisted of saying "You've gained weight." But of course we Americans do not take that as a compliment.
In Goodman's argument she says that "Fiji is the exact opposite of America. Given the facts that she introduced to us it is true. We as America think that big is bad and we starve ourselves to lose weight, we give up satisfying our taste buds to satisfy our mirror. We weaken our immune system by not get the proper vitamins. We take pills to help us skip another meal. And then she says "it's like someone out a mirror in the face of Fiji by bringing in the television." Even though it only had one channel that channel caused the "teenage vomiting to lose weight rate to increase to 15 percent. Eating disorders increase to 29 percent that's double what they were before, and 74 percent of the teenagers said that they often felt too big of fat all facts according to Goodman's argument." Goodman mentions specific television shows like "Ally Mcbeal" and "90210" as well as "E.R" that she thinks had some kind of affect on what teenagers and women think in Fiji.
In Goodman's argument she says that "Fiji is the exact opposite of America. Given the facts that she introduced to us it is true. We as America think that big is bad and we starve ourselves to lose weight, we give up satisfying our taste buds to satisfy our mirror. We weaken our immune system by not get the proper vitamins. We take pills to help us skip another meal. And then she says "it's like someone out a mirror in the face of Fiji by bringing in the television." Even though it only had one channel that channel caused the "teenage vomiting to lose weight rate to increase to 15 percent. Eating disorders increase to 29 percent that's double what they were before, and 74 percent of the teenagers said that they often felt too big of fat all facts according to Goodman's argument." Goodman mentions specific television shows like "Ally Mcbeal" and "90210" as well as "E.R" that she thinks had some kind of affect on what teenagers and women think in Fiji.
Week 7&8: Reading Response 1
The "Sikhs Proud to be Americans," have five pictures in that one ad to show. In each picture they have some kind of head covering that closely resembles a turban. Also in each photo they have something to that they are patriotic or have an American heart. At the bottom of each photograph there is a shadow picture of the Statue of Liberty. These images were probably chosen because of the whole September 11th, thing to show others the difference. They are representing the ones that in a lot of ways resembles terrorists. They are trying to tell us that there is a difference between them and terrorist.
The repeated picture of the shadow Statue of Liberty at the bottom of the ads are representing them as an a American. It's to let everyone know that their heart is an American heart. The message that they are sending is "how can they be terrorist if they have an American heart." The role of this visual argument is to try and get America to see that we do have allies that very closely resembles terrorist and that we are so blinded by September 11th that we are just hurting or possibly killing our allies.
We are the audience, America. As mentioned before our minds are clouded by the September 11th terrorist attack that we are blinded by who our allies. They are trying to get us to understand that we shouldn't judge them by what they around their heads or what they look like but judge them by their hearts.
The repeated picture of the shadow Statue of Liberty at the bottom of the ads are representing them as an a American. It's to let everyone know that their heart is an American heart. The message that they are sending is "how can they be terrorist if they have an American heart." The role of this visual argument is to try and get America to see that we do have allies that very closely resembles terrorist and that we are so blinded by September 11th that we are just hurting or possibly killing our allies.
We are the audience, America. As mentioned before our minds are clouded by the September 11th terrorist attack that we are blinded by who our allies. They are trying to get us to understand that we shouldn't judge them by what they around their heads or what they look like but judge them by their hearts.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Week 6: Reading Response 2
During this whole dispute most of the issues in the emails and blogs were about the wording of the captions. While there were some emails and blogs that had other concerns most were either confused or just plain angry with the wording, making this a "definitional argument." The relevant terms a "finding" and "looting." Some people describe finding as something not in a place to be bought and isn't already owned by someone else. Now the term "looting" has several meanings in different situations. Lets say there is a riot, then the term "looting" means going into a store of any kind and coming out with any type of item that the person did not pay for. Now on the flip side lets say there is a natural disaster and everything is destroyed but grocery stores. "Looting" is now defined as going into a store and coming out with items that are not of survival items and have not been paid for.The world just doesn't see eye to eye on these types of situations. People define those two term differently every time,some go by the basic definition of them and others define them according to other peoples nationality.
Some say that "finding" is walking or driving somewhere and there is some kind of item that catches your interest, and it's not already owned by someone else. Now that's hard because how often do you find something that hasn't already been previously owned by someone else, chances are slim to none of that ever happening. Others say "finding" is when you see something of interest and is not right then and there owned then it's the finders, this is a much easier definition. "Looting" is more difficult, some define "looting" according to the situation, and some say that if your a certain race it's either "finding" or "looting."
I too have different definitions for both of the terms. I prefer the term "finding." In both photographs they are finding, it's just that the one on the left just so happens to find a grocery store with a larger amount of items, and the one on the right didn't.
Some say that "finding" is walking or driving somewhere and there is some kind of item that catches your interest, and it's not already owned by someone else. Now that's hard because how often do you find something that hasn't already been previously owned by someone else, chances are slim to none of that ever happening. Others say "finding" is when you see something of interest and is not right then and there owned then it's the finders, this is a much easier definition. "Looting" is more difficult, some define "looting" according to the situation, and some say that if your a certain race it's either "finding" or "looting."
I too have different definitions for both of the terms. I prefer the term "finding." In both photographs they are finding, it's just that the one on the left just so happens to find a grocery store with a larger amount of items, and the one on the right didn't.
Week 6: Reading response 1
The visual argument by Mike Lester "It's GOT to Be the Shoes" is about a card board man with a height requirement with the words "You Must Be This Tall To Enter College." There is a young man about to enter, now in actuality he doesn't meet the requirements to be in that college but his shoes that he has on gives him that extra boost he needs to enter. His shoes say "racial preferences," and the young lady behind him is saying "It's GOT TO BE THE SHOES." This argument is stating that some would consider having racial preferences would make them a bigger person.
The cartoon by Dennis Draughan, "Supreme Irony," is about the supreme court trying to make a decision on whether there should be a diversity in races. Now while there are seven men and two women that's not the issue of that cartoon, the irony is that there is only one African American among the supreme court. There isn't going to be very much difference in the opinions of the supreme court because they don't have much diversity among them.
The visual argument by Mike Thompson, "Daniel Lives on Detroit's East side," is about a young African American who has to face all these obstacles in life and yet makes it to college but a women considers that a break. African Americans encounter a lot of negativism that makes it hard to get into college, however, with some "studying hard" and a little "affirmative action," it can be done.
The cartoon by Signe Wilkinson, "Admissions" is about a group of young adults who are in college. One of which is an African American. There's one person who didn't get in and he blames it on the African American who is labeled a minority. This argument is trying to say that even when African Americans get into college they still have to hear other people's mouths that is outside of college as well.
The visual argument by Dean Camp "Pricey" is about a young man who is trying to get into college but is being chased by another man who is reminding him of the expense of college. This cartoon wants people to know that yes college can be "pricey" but we should still go because it's worth it. The most effective one is the "Daniel Lives on Detroit's East side," by Mike Thompson and the least effective one is "Pricey" by Dean Camp. Mike Thompson's cartoon is the most effective because those are things African American's really encounter while trying to be successful. Dean Camp's cartoon is least effective because most people don't care how much it cost to get into college they just want to get in.
The cartoon by Dennis Draughan, "Supreme Irony," is about the supreme court trying to make a decision on whether there should be a diversity in races. Now while there are seven men and two women that's not the issue of that cartoon, the irony is that there is only one African American among the supreme court. There isn't going to be very much difference in the opinions of the supreme court because they don't have much diversity among them.
The visual argument by Mike Thompson, "Daniel Lives on Detroit's East side," is about a young African American who has to face all these obstacles in life and yet makes it to college but a women considers that a break. African Americans encounter a lot of negativism that makes it hard to get into college, however, with some "studying hard" and a little "affirmative action," it can be done.
The cartoon by Signe Wilkinson, "Admissions" is about a group of young adults who are in college. One of which is an African American. There's one person who didn't get in and he blames it on the African American who is labeled a minority. This argument is trying to say that even when African Americans get into college they still have to hear other people's mouths that is outside of college as well.
The visual argument by Dean Camp "Pricey" is about a young man who is trying to get into college but is being chased by another man who is reminding him of the expense of college. This cartoon wants people to know that yes college can be "pricey" but we should still go because it's worth it. The most effective one is the "Daniel Lives on Detroit's East side," by Mike Thompson and the least effective one is "Pricey" by Dean Camp. Mike Thompson's cartoon is the most effective because those are things African American's really encounter while trying to be successful. Dean Camp's cartoon is least effective because most people don't care how much it cost to get into college they just want to get in.
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