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.