Multi-Genre Research Project Proposal

I've decided to do my mulch-genre project on St. Jude Children's research hospital. I plan on interviewing a family friend that had a child that had treatment at St. Jude over this past summer and I also plan on calling a nurse that I know that worked there for seven years and now works at mercy. I will interview them sometime in the next week. I know that this hospital has touched many lives and helped many children. I want to know more about how this hospital started and what main types of research they do. I chose this topic because I am very passionate about helping people especially children, as I talked about in my last post. I also aspire to be a nurse so this topic is really captivating for me

Multi-Genre Project

I read the "Living Thin; One Girl's Fight for a FULL Life. " I was really intrigued when she dedicated her paper to her body.  I could tell that she was very passionate about the topic of eating disorders, she reeled me in with her catchy title and once I read her dedication I was hooked and had to read more. All of the poems she put in her paper were amazing. I really liked how talked about multiple disorders and described each one. This will help me with my paper because I see how she took something she is passionate about and turned it into a personal story that can help people. As of now I plan on doing this project on nursing, I'm no sure how but that's what I really want to research because I'm very passionate about helping people and the medical field.

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Hunger and poverty is everywhere. From here in the United States to all the way to South Africa many people are either living in poverty, are unemployed, hungry, or even all of the above. I personally worked with a struggling family that reached out to my church, they had five kids and two adults living in a two bedroom apartment. Both of the parents were unemployed and all the children were too young to work.  This family was a wake up call for me, I thought poverty and hunger were only in poor countries but now I realize its very evident in the United States as well as many other countries.  One of the many facts I found interesting was that while the proportion of  undernourished people globally decreased from 2.3 per cent in 1990-1992 to 14.9 per cent in 2010-2012, this still leaves 870 million people going hungry. That is one in eight people worldwide! That's crazy. There are so many ways to help and you can learn more about them at this link .

 

  

Start Something That Matters

  One of the main stories that sparked an interest in me was Etkie. Etkie is a organization the sells handmade jewelry that women abroad make but weren't making very much money off in their home towns. So, this organization sells the jewelry so the women can make an income. I became interested in this story because the jewelry looked beautiful and my own a bracelet that was made in Guatemala and brought to me by a church member that went on a mission trip there. another story that I found very interesting was Art to Aid. I watched this video mainly because the guy on the cover screen had a pretty sweet beard but once I had listened to the whole story I was very impressed. Art to Aid is an online market that allows people to help people through making, selling, and buying creative goods. Then the people who sell things on here can give whatever amount of their profit to the charity or cause they please. It was a pretty cool idea because our generation is always online buying something so it is really convenient. The last story that I found to be interesting was The Oregon Public House. I read this story because I was curious on how a  bar could possibly help people but once I read it I was honestly shocked. This pub is a nonprofit organization that give back all profits to local charities or stores. they also buy all their goods from local markets so everything they do goes back to the local economy. All three stories you can find HERE.
  There are three questions that author, Blake Mycoskie, says to use when finding out what your passion is: 1. If you did not have to worry about money, what would you do with your time? 2. What kind of work would you want to do? 3. What cause would you serve. While trying to think about what I am passionate for I had to ask myself those three questions. If I didn't have to worry about money I would travel to third world countries  that need medical assistance of some sort, I want to be a nurse and being able to help people in desperate need of medicine and treatment would be extremely rewarding. There are many causes that help third world countries with medical resources that I would be willing to serve for but the cause I would like to serve would be AmeriCares.

Superior Skydiving Pecha Kucha

  Lyn Langlais did a Pecha Kucha on her passion for skydiving. I really liked how all her pictures were ones she took or ones taken of  her. She also was very passionate about her topic so it was easy to become interested in what she was talking about. Her pictures are what made me the most interested. To improve she needs to work on her talking, she stuttered and said "um" and "okay" many times. It needs to flow better.
 The presentation was pretty fast and seemed to be easy for her. I like the Pecha Kucha because of the set time and set amount of slides. It makes it really easy because you dint have to worry about it being to short. I will be able to fill my te slides because there are many place on my topic.

The City of Lost Children

Shenzhen is unlike many other cities in China, it isn’t known for its busy factories or its neon-lit shops it is now associated with abandon babies. For almost a decade, a baby has been abandoned almost every day somewhere in the city. Now Shenzhen is taking a controversial step to protect the abandon children. They are reintroducing the Foundling Wheel (well known in medieval Europe), where there will be incubators, blankets, oxygen on standby, and a button for parents to press to alert staff to the new arrival. This was frowned upon and provoked a national media outcry. People said that this would encourage parents to dump their unwanted children which is illegal in China.  “Abandoning a baby is a crime in our country, but during the process of committing this crime, babies are the victims. Since the root of the crime which is caused by various complicated issues cannot be solved in the blink of an eye, it is a good option to shift our focus to protecting those victims." said Peng Xizhe, a professor at Fudan University. ("China's City of Lost Children Brings in Shelters for Abandoned Babies; Shenzhen Is Introducing What Was Known in Medieval Europe as the Foundling Wheel: A Shelter Where Parents Can Leave Their Babies Safely and Anonymously." N.p., n.d. Web.) Inside the Social Welfare Centre there are 560 children currently living in the dormitories, half of them will eventually be adopted.  The other half are too mentally or physically ill for adoptive parents to cope with. Beside all these sad facts there is some good news: abandonments have steadily decreased as china grows wealthier. The Centre now only receives 100 to 200 children a year which is down by more than a third from five years ago.  (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10536358/Chinas-city-of-lost-children-brings-in-shelters-for-abandoned-babies.html)

Personally I think that, even though it’s against the law, the place to abandon babies is a safer option for parents to take their child to. With the family planning policy in China sometimes families are not allowed to have multiple children or they simply can’t afford it. Before parents would just dump their babies in the middle of nowhere they would freeze to death or other terrible things would happen to them.

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Citations:

"China's City of Lost Children Brings in Shelters for Abandoned Babies; Shenzhen Is Introducing What Was Known in Medieval Europe as the Foundling Wheel: A Shelter Where Parents Can Leave Their Babies Safely and Anonymously." N.p., n.d. Web.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10536358/Chinas-city-of-lost-children-brings-in-shelters-for-abandoned-babies.html

 

Racial Discrimination

 The theme for the three links is discrimination. I learned that looks can define how people look at you now and in the past. After 9/11 people that wore head scarfs or had an accent or even look to be Muslim were looked down upon.

 In 1985 a third grade teacher taught a two day lesson about racism and discriminating against people who look different. She started the first day by saying everyone with people with blue eyes were superior over people with brown eyes. Blue eyed children got five extra minutes of recess and were able to play on all the equipment and drink out of the water fountain, while brown eyed children couldn’t play on any equipment and they had to use paper cups to drink out of the water fountain. The blue eyed children started calling the brown eyed children “brown eyes” and they would get very offended even though they had brown eyes yesterday and the day before. It was the fact that the blue eyed children were told they were better than them and they were teasing them about it. The next day the brown eyed children were told they were superior and the blue eyed children were very upset about it.

At the end of the lesson she asked the kids how it felt to be discriminated and they all agreed that it made them upset being told “no” because of a physical feature they were born with, then the teacher asked if they thought that the African Americans and Indians were happy about being treated badly because color of their skin, all the children said that it wasn’t right and they were probably sad about it. The thing that surprised me the most was the card test that the teacher ran with the children, she had cards and timed a group of children with the same color eyes. The group that was “superior” that day was almost two-times faster than the day that they were the discriminated group. The kids said that the “racial” burden that was put on them mad them think slower.