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Proposal+5—phillygirl

For my research paper, I will discuss drug abuse. More specifically, people who abuse drugs and ways to fix this issue. Nowadays drugs are considered the new norm, but no one actually realizes the damage drug abuse actually cause. In my research, I’ll focus more on the negative impact drugs could have on a person and I hope to find ways to help stop the abuse of drugs.

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug

The Essential Content of the Article: This article focuses on what substance abuse is, where it comes from, and all of the issues it cause to the body. It doesn’t just focus on bad drugs, it also discusses good drugs, drugs that treats illnesses.

What it proves: This article will help me prove how bad drugs actually are, and it’ll also helps me educate readers on how some drugs help people.

2. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carl_Johnson3/publication/20369855_A_Multicommunity_Trial_for_Primary_Prevention_of_Adolescent_Drug_Abuse_Effects_on_Drug_Use_Prevalence/links/02bfe510c6572b3e06000000.pdf

The Essential Content of the Article: This article focuses on prevention of adolescent drug abuse. It also discusses effects on drug use. The author lists prevention methods such as program interventions

What it proves: This article will help me prove ways to prevent drug abuse, list prevention methods, and it’ll also give more background information on drug abuse.

3. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1360-0443.2002.00038.x/full

The Essential Content of the Article: This article focuses on the effects of drug abuse prevention at school. They discuss a study that was put into several schools to examine the effect on drug use in the children exposed to it.

What it proves: This article will help me prove how drug abuse impacts a person.

4. http://journals.lww.com/co-obgyn/Abstract/2007/12000/The_effects_of_drug_abuse_on_pregnancy.13.aspx

The Essential Content of the Article: This article focuses on the effects of drug abuse on pregnancy outcome. Also, risk factors that substance abuse includes on pregnant women specifically.

What it proves: This article will help me to prove counter arguments on how substance abuse can have a serious impact on the baby of a pregnant women. This supports one of my main points by showing how bad drugs can actually be to the body.

5. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0899328995903097

The Essential Content of the Article: This article focuses on client engagement and change during drug abuse treatment and how it improves behavioral criteria and psychosocial functioning.

What it proves: This article will help me to prove how it is very possible to seek help to overcome drug abuse. This will help me give information to readers showing them what it is like getting help before, during treatment, and even after recovery.

Visual Rewrite- phillygirl

:00- :04         There is three boys and a man, possibly their father, dancing inside of a home. It looks like their in the dining room. The front door is open and the weather is nice out. So I’m assuming that they may have been outside earlier this day. and now they’re inside. Or maybe they’re about to leave out in a few. They’re all wearing sweat pants, so they probably just got done playing a sport or probably about to go out to play. The father is showing the youngest boy how to do a certain dance. While the two oldest are dancing around with each other.

:05-:06       There is now a game console on the TV stand. So maybe they just got done playing a video game or about to start playing. The father kicks his leg up while pointing at the youngest son as if he’s trying to show him a certain that he’s amazed by how he is dancing. The father and his kids are clearly excited and enjoying their time dancing together.

:07-:10         The youngest son in the front and his father are having a dance battle, while the two oldest boys are still dancing together. The father turn is now over, so it’s the youngest son turn to dance.

:11-:16          The youngest son is still dancing against his father. While the dad is covering his mouth showing the son that his dance moves are hot!

:17-:21        The words “it only takes a moment to make a moment” appears on the screen. As the words pop up, they are all enjoying a good laugh in the background.

:22          All of the boys and their father continues to dance and laugh together and the dad is staring at them with a loving look.

:23-:30       The words “Take time out to be a dad” appears on the screen.

Without music- The video’s purpose was made perfectly without the need of music. They showed a father having a good time spending quality time with his children. The point of showing other dads what it is like to spend time out with their children was understood successfully with or without music. The setting and the background that this scene was shot gave enough detail to the audience so that they could tell what the video’s about even without sound.

E03: Critical Reading- phillygirl20

Section 11

  1. “She’s not a normal kid. She does things, and says things. She’s a grown-up in a six-year-old’s body in a lot of ways.”

Claim: She’s not a normal kid.

2.  “Brannan gave the packet to Katie’s kindergarten teacher, but thinks the teacher just saw it as an excuse for bad behavior.”

Claim: thinks the teacher just saw it as an excuse for bad behavior.

3. “Last fall, she switched Katie to a different school, where she hopes more understanding will lead to less anxiety.”

Claim: she hopes more understanding will lead to less anxiety.

4. “She certainly looks like a normal kid when she comes down from her room dressed for tap class. In a black leotard, pink tights, and shiny black tap shoes, she looks sweet as pie”

Claim: “she looks sweet as pie”

5. “One time, a bad guy in Iraq had a knife and my dad killed him,” she says, apropos of nothing.”

Claim: a bad guy in Iraq had a knife

6. “Brannan is stern but impeccably patient.”

Claim: Brennan is stern.

7. “That kind of small talk recently ruined a birthday party one of her classmates was having at Chick-fil-A. “

Claim: That kind of small talk recently ruined a birthday party

8. “Katie is sorry—God, is she sorry, you can see it in her face and guilty shoulders, but she seems to feel like she can’t help it”

Claim: Katie is sorry

9. “Once, she asked Brannan to take her to a hypnotist, so he could use his powers to turn her into a good girl.”

Claim: use his powers to turn her into a good girl

10. “She doesn’t know why Katie adapted this story about confiscating a weapon from an insurgent into a story about bloodshed, but she isn’t too happy about it.”

Claim: she isn’t too happy about it.

 

Purposeful Summaries- phillygirl20

  1. Silent Minds

It seems counterintuitive that with all of the technology there is, doctor’s still struggle with misdiagnosing patients. Physicians misinterpret any noise a patient makes and things like their behavior as evidence of consciousness. Physicians also misinterpret their patients to being in the vegetative state when research later showed that these patients were “blind or severely visually impaired.” The argument ended with the story of Terri Schiavo, who spent fifteen years in vegetative state. Her death provoked a debate over the rights of severely brain- damaged patients.

http://notdeadyet.org/2007/10/new-yorker-silent-minds-article-on-pvs.html

2. Vancouver

It seems counterintuitive that anyone would try to combat heroin by giving addicts the best heroin. In Vancouver city, there is a safe zone called “insight” where addicts are given the best heroin with proper utensils without getting arrested by the police. This is their way to treat heroin addicts. The author says, “If you give these people doses of heroin every day and keep them comfortable and keep them docile and keep the sort of demons of heroin addiction at bay, then those people are much less likely to end up in an alley, dead with a needle in their arm, or much less likely to sell themselves sexually for money to buy drugs, or much less likely to break into somebody’s car to steal something, or to shoplift or to strong-arm rob or to whatever. So the harm that they can cause to themselves and society is reduced if you simply give them the drug.” In a way this is preventing the rapid death amongst the heroin addicts, but this is not a cure for them.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-02-04/vancouver-combats-heroin-giving-its-addicts-best-smack-world

3. Is PTSD Contagious?

It seems counterintuitive that PTSD is being considered being contagious. Research shows that PTSD is rampant amongst returning vets and now it is showing amongst their family as well. PTSD, meaning post traumatic stress disorders that is most of the time found in returning vets who was recently involved in a war. PTSD is a type of anxiety disorder that occurs after experiencing a traumatic event which doesn’t make sense for the family of a vet to feel if they’ve never experienced the traumatic event. I believe the family of a returning vet may experience like symptoms, but not actually be diagnosed with PTSD.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/ptsd-epidemic-military-vets-families/

Visual Rhetoric- phillygirl

:00- :04         three boys, one father dancing inside of  their home. Maybe in the dining room. Front door open and it’s nice weather, so I’m assuming they just came inside or about to leave out in a few. They’re all wearing sweat pant material pants, so they’re probably going to play a sport. Father showing younger boy how to do a certain dance.

:05-:06       game console on the TV stand, maybe their about to or just finished playing a video game. dad kicks leg up and points at youngest son as if he’s trying to show a certain type of interest. Father and kids are clearly excited and enjoying their time together.

:07-:10         Father and youngest son in the front are having a dance battle, while the two oldest boys are dancing together. Father turn was over, now it’s the youngest son turn.

:11-:16           it is still the youngest sons turn to dance. Dad is covering his mouth showing the son that his dance moves are hot!

:17-:21        the words “it only takes a moment to make a moment” appears on the screen. As the words pop up, they are all enjoying a good laugh.

:22          The boys and their father continue dancing and laughing as the dad is staring at them.

:23-:30       Words “Take time out to be a dad” appears on the screen.

Without music- The video’s purpose was made. They showed a father having a good time spending quality time with his children. They got their point across. The setting and the background gave enough detail that the audience could tell what the video’s about even without sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY0E5p7Tbcc

 

Stone Money—phillygirl

A big limestone wheel is different from an electronic bank balance, but they’re both considered money because the limestone wheel is equal to the same worth of money. As “The Invention of Money” mentions, ‘the stone money at the bottom of the sea, it exists. It’s still good money. Someone owns that stone even though it’s sitting on the bottom of the ocean.’  A limestone wheel and money is completely equal. Now an electronic bank balance is different because all it is digits informing you of how much money you have. Meanwhile a big limestone wheel is physically money. However, you can exchange money from your electronic bank balance to buy a big limestone wheel and it’ll be considered an equal exchange. For example, in stonemoneyessay.pdf  they say “After concluding a bargain which involves the price of a fei too large to be conveniently moved, its new owner is quite content to accept the bare acknowledgement of ownership and without so much as a mark to indicate the exchange, the coin remains undisturbed on the former owner’s premises.” Which is saying an exchange with money and a limestone wheel is equally the same.

My thinking of money before today’s reading was that money was a very powerful thing. If you owned a certain amount of money then you were considered a dominant person. If you’re known to have a lot of money then you know that you’re doing the right thing in life. In my opinion, after learning about money I think it is pointless. Regardless of how much money you have, it doesn’t determine anything because it’s technically not there. You never actually get money in your hand, you barely see it. You just get a little receipt that indicates that you have money. I don’t think money is important as it seems. Money is just a factor in life that is considered to help us get by. In “The invention of money” the author explains that money is fiction. They mention, ” It is not physical, it is just numbers going back and fourth online.” In “Why Money Has No Real Value?” Christianson says, “Otherwise, the money just sits as useless piles in a bank vault somewhere.  It is the entrepreneur that gives value to any dollar investment, not the other way around.  The bottom line is that people and their abilities have real value, and money does not.” My view on wealth has also changed because I’ve always the goal in life was to become wealthy. Everyone wants to become wealthy. But after learning this, becoming wealthy is a waste of time honestly. You become as wealthy as you can get for you not to see or spend your money the way it is you want to be seen or spent. You barely see your money because as “The Invention of Money” explains you get your hard earned money direct deposited into your account and you pay your bills electronically. So you never really experience the feeling of hundreds of dollars actually being in your hands so it’s like you never earned it to begin with. After learning about what money really is about, that changed my perception on my faith in things I never see as well. In my opinion, if I don’t see it then it was never there.

Works Cited

Friedman, Milton. “The Island of Stone Money.” Diss. Hoover Institution, Stanford University , 1991.

“The Invention of Stone Money.” 423: The Invention of Stone Money. This Is American Life, WBEZ. Chicago . 7 Jan. 2011.

Christianson, Darren. “Why Money Has No Real Value?” 5 Aug. 2015.