Safer Saws- jsoccer5

1.Manufacturers

1A. “A table saw manufacturer that is not a member of PTI tried to license SawStop’s patent portfolio technology but negotiations failed when the manufacturer alleged that SawStop demanded unreasonable royalties in excess of what was originally being sought.”

1B. When a manufacturer tried to license SawStop the negotiation failed because requested royalties were unreasonable.

1C. The claim that the royalties were too high is purely an Opinion Claim.

1D. While this claim is not very strong as there is no facts that the royalties were too high. While he does have no entendre he does make reference to the fact that it is in excess as to what was originally sought making it reasonable to think that anything extra would be unreasonable.

2. Customers

2A.”Between the 8% fee and the additional hardware costs, your typical $400 jobsite saw would potentially rise in cost to around $625″

2B. Price in a regular table saw would go up 225 dollars due to expenses for hardware and the royalty fees.

2C. The claim that price would increase is factual but the claim on how much is not proven therefore is an opinion.

2D. While this factual claim does hold some truth that price will go up there is nothing to prove the point of how much therefore the amount is considered opinion and eliminates the fact trying to be proven.

4. Consumer Safety Advocates

4A. “The CPSC says that 67,000 people are injured every year using table saws, resulting in 33,000 emergency-room visits, 4000 amputations, and $2.3 billion spent on medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering.”

4B. Every year there are many thousands of injuries due to table saws, resulting in not only large expenses but mental and physical injury.

4C. Overall this claim is factual.

4D. While this claim is factual because of the direct statistics there is no statistics on the last three mini claims maid therefore it is not highly persuasive and not well though out. This claim is logical as it uses statistical evidence.

5. Injured Plaintiffs

5A. “Wec says his permanent and “traumatic injury” could have been prevented if Bosch and its competitors had not rejected and fought against the safety technology.”

5B. The man injured by a regular table saw argues that his injury wouldn’t have happened if the Bosch company had not declined the safe technology of SawStop.

5C. This claim is purely opinion.

5D. The claim that this injury wouldn’t have happened if the big companies did not deny the safer technology is opinion because he does not know this for sure. This is a reasonable claim to make as he knows if the saw didn’t cut him he wouldn’t have gotten injuries which is also incredibly logical. This claim is also persuasive in the fact that his opinion is hard to argue with since there is no cases that the SawStop technology has ever not saved someone from injury.

6. Personal Injury Lawyers

6A. “SawStop cannot mitigate fractures and crushing injuries caused by work piece kickback or loss of vision caused by high velocity particles ejected by the saw blade.”

6B. SawStop can only eliminate injury by direct contact of the blade but not other injuries.

6C. The claim that SawStop only prevents contact injuries it is factual.

6D. This claim while it is a fact that it only prevents contact injuries, which is accurate it is also highly persuasive to prove the point that these aren’t as safe as they seem.

9.Steve Gass himself

9A. “The system can tell the difference between your finger and some wood so instead of cutting some fingers off you will just get a little lick.”

9B. The SawStop System will stop before cutting your finger off and will only give you a little scrape instead.

9C. This claim is factual.

9D. This claim is factual as it does stop when coming in contact with skin but may still give you a tiny cut. It however is not very persuasive as the idea that you can still be madly injured is a turn off for spending that much money.

10. Power Tool Product Reviewers

10A. “skin-sensing technology has been sorely needed in the portable saw category to protect pros and DIYers wherever they need to work.”

10B. This advanced technology has been needed for a long time to protect anyone working with table saws.

10C. This claim is opinion.

10D. While this claim is very persuasive as it says that this technology is needed to protect anyone working with a table saw there is little evidence to support this claim. This claim is logical and reasonable as people will relate to the idea that protection is needed and advanced technology for sensing skin would absolutely protect people.

11.Amputees

11A.  “Table saws are not forgiving … You have to live with this the rest of your life.”

11B. A man that had his thumb amputated due to a table saw states that the mistake made on a regular table saw is a mistake you live with for forever.

11C. This claim is an opinion .

11D. This claim is highly reasonable and logical as if you lose an appendage to a table saw you will never get it back. This claim however is not persuasive as it makes no statement that you should get use SawStop saws instead.

 

 

A:06 Visual Rewrite- Amazonite345

0:00-0:02: Our screen focuses on a woman most likely in her teens. She is looking to our right, and talking to someone off screen. The woman is dancing and people in the background, which appears to be someone’s home, huddled around, most likely talking to each other. One man in the background is holding a bottle, presumably a beer bottle judging by its brown color. All the people are casually dressed, and everone appears to be happy. All things considered, this is almost definitely a party atmosphere.

0:03-0:06: At 0:03 the woman brings a bottle up to her mouth rather quickly. At 0:04 she is staring up at the ceiling in a look of what appears to be both shock and pain. By 0:06 the camera angle changes to a wide shot, giving us the view of both the original teen and her friend, who is laughing and watching as her friend brings her head back down while covering her mouth with her hand.

0:07-0:11: At 0:07 the original teenager cups her hand and moves it into a position that suggests she is catching something from her mouth. At 0:08 the teenager starts to spit out two white objects that are almost definitely her teeth. Her friend meanwhile is standing by and watching, covering her mouth with both of her hands in an expression of shock but also one of laughter and joy that she is perhaps trying to conceal.

0:12-0:18: The girl is now the sole focus of the camera again, and it shows that the teenager no longer has any front teeth. By 0:14 the teenagers friend comes into the camera shot and is looking at the cupped hand with her friend looking and laughing at the teeth that the bottle knocked out of place. By 0:16 they start falling backwards onto a couch, laughing, too drunk to comprehend the seriousness of the situation.

0:18-0:22: The camera cuts to an entirely new area in the original party setting. Two people, one boy and one girl, who also appear to be in their teens, are talking to each other while sitting on the stairs. At 0:19 she lifts up a set of keys, presumably her car keys, in a gesture that suggests she has to go.

0:23-0:30- At 0:23 the girl lifts her finger to her lips, as if to ask the man she was talking to if he could keep a secret. She appears to stumble slightly, hitting her back against a doorway, but shyly laughs it off. By 0:27 the girl is picking her jacket off the floor and runs off screen to the right, all while the man watches her.  It’s at this point the commercial ends, leaving the viewer to assume the ending. Most likely, the ending they wanted to imprint on the viewer was one where something wrong happened to the girl because of her implied driving while being buzzed.

E04: Open Strong

  1. What if a large number of scientific studies had found there was one activity that could improve our cognitive function, help our memory systems to work, help us to learn language, help us to moderate our emotional state, help us to solve complex problems, and help our brains to be healthier. (Collins) Now think what if it turned out that the one thing that could make such a huge impact was being taken out of the public school system due to funding. One would think something that is able to make such a huge impact on those who part take we would want to get that to the masses. This special thing is no drug but what it is music. Music education alone when looked at in the macro sense should be seen as something all schools should part take in. The hypothesis of this essay will be the adverse affects of cutting music programs and how detrimental it actually is to the student body.

2. The effects of music education in the public school system has made tremendous achievements. It has been proven thru many studies that music education helps in cognitive effects within its students. But yet at this day and age its coming down to funding that music education is being taken out of lower-income and urban areas In doing so it causes students to lose out on advantages that come with taking on music. A study done  by neuroscientist had discovered that in many cases the brains of musicians functioned far more effectively than those who weren’t. By taking away the music program its a field that the schools system fails to tap into and use to their advantage to better their students. My hypothesis will be the important role that music education plays in the school curriculum.

Polio Notes – scarletthief

  • Polio requires polio vaccination between 0-5 years old because their immune systems aren’t strong enough to fight the disease.
  • Children tend to get polio easier than adults because they are “sloppy with poop” (they tend to put their unsanitary hands (maybe feet) in their mouths often) making them more likely to get polio.
  • Polio introduced through mouth and rests in the intestines so the disease is spread virally.
  • Polio can spread through flies that landed on feces that land on people’s food.
  • Used to be a global problem, about 1,000 children a day would be diagnosed with polio, now fewer than 200 cases of polio in the world are diagnosed, therefore we are doing better at preventing the spread of polio.
  • Vaccines eradicate about 90% of polio on the planet since the 70’s and 80’s so getting the vaccine is the first step to the eradication of Polio.
  • Polio only lives in humans, nothing else (dies easily outside the body) so once it is gone, polio will never return.
  • Takes desire, resources, etc. to have ALL infants vaccinated/ immunized, which is why it is VERY difficult to eradicate polio completely.
  • It is extremely hard to further eradication during wars, in refugee camps, or during any armed conflicts because it hinders the chance to have every child immunized due to distrust, the lack of importance, and/or records being lost.
  • About 600 thousand villages, 147 million children in India were vaccinated in a single day during those “one day efforts,” allowing many to have a definite day for their first vaccine and will be able to easily follow up on the next 2 they must take. Also, shows how beneficial of having “one day efforts.”
  • Difficult to eradicate polio due to less than 100% cooperation from populace who think herd immunity will protect them from the disease.
  • When polio hasn’t been seen in a while, we get lazy and stop focussing on getting the drops for polio, therefore allowing polio to grow and spread to unvaccinated people.

Write a lead (thesis) immediately in the opening. Your POV as soon as you can.

The eradication of polio is highly difficult, but not impossible. The first step to removing polio from the world would be for every single person in the world to start caring about polio. Many assume they are protected or that they will never get the disease since no one around them has polio, but this “herd immunity” could very well lead to everyone easily catching polio once one person does get infected. Attention must be brought to polio because it is still out there in the world, and though it may not be on our front door today, it can very well be tomorrow. When people begin to care, look past their distrust of the vaccine and of the drug administrators, and truly believe and put in the effort to end polio is when polio will truly be eradicated from our world.

 

Safer Saws – thathawkman

1A Consumer Safety Advocates

Very serious injuries, including fractures and avulsions, as well as amputations, have changed the lives of tens of thousands of consumers and impacted their families forever.

1B The dangerous saws can cause serious and irreversible damage to the users and can  even impact the people around the users.

1C This claim is a cause and effect Claim

1D There is no doubt that a slip up with a saw can cause almost unimaginable pain to a person, which can also impact the injured person’s family depending on how severe the injury really was. This claim also then brings the reader to make the assumption, ‘well if they are so dangerous to so many people, then it should be safer if possible.”

2A Customer

Hmm… if I do buy a SawStop table saw, how much of that money spent will go towards the actual saw, and how much will go towards Gass’s lawsuits and forced licensure lobbying efforts?

2B The person is wondering whether the money that he purchased the SawStop Saw is for the actual quality of the saw or for the controversy that the lawsuits have caused

2C This claim is an Evaluation Claim

2D Even though the speaker is asking the question  rhetorically, the reader gets a sense that the questioned was already answered. This claim implies the idea that because Gass has to go through so many lawsuits to get his SawStop table to become common, the profit of the saw essentially goes to Gass for money to pay off lawsuits, past or future.

 

3A Manufacturers

When you’re cutting wood if you accidentally put your hand into the blade, it’ll stop it so quickly that you just get a little cut instead of taking some fingers completely off.

3B  The saw that they have produced will stop itself from accidently severely cutting the person’s hand.

3C This claim is a factual claim

3D This claim explains what the saw does and showcases the massive difference between their saw stop technology and the others. the former causing an insignifigant little nick while the latter potentially causing an amputation.

4A Injured Plantiffs

Wec says his permanent and “traumatic injury” could have been prevented if Bosch and its competitors had not rejected and fought against the safety technology.

4B The injuries that are caused by unsafe saws could have been prevented if the companies integrated the SawStop technology.

4C This claim is a proposal claim

4D This claim is worded in such a way that it must be true. If there was a lack of resistance and the companies, then the sawstop technology would be integrated and the situation of Wec injuring himself wouldn’t have occurred. This idea of it what if cannot be proven, but it also cannot be disproven; which makes the claim true but weak.

5A Personal Injury Lawers

Now, many people who have been injured are bringing table saw injury lawsuits against table saw manufacturers for failing to include the safety devices that would protect their customers from losing fingers, hands, arms, and suffering unfathomable pain.

5B People are now suing companies such as Bosch as the injuries that are caused by unsafe saws could have been prevented if the companies integrated the SawStop technology.

5C This claim is a factual claim

5D This claim showcases the huge presence of the danger of the saws with so many people and implies the need for for safer saws. With so many people suing, it further strenghtens the argument of why the sawstop technology would be so beneficial.

6A Industry Spokesperson

“SawStop is currently available in the marketplace to any consumer who chooses to purchase it,” says Susan Young, who represents Black & Decker, Bosch, Makita and other power tool companies.

6B The option for the safe saw is available for people who insists on having a much safer saw then the competitors

6C This claim is a factual claim

6D This claim is simply stating that the saws are there if needed but the quote implies much more. Susan is essentially saying that if the customer really needs the SawStop technology, then the customer doesn’t need for other saws to have the technology because there is an option for the customer to get what they want. This brings an idea that they there is no need to force the other companies to integrate the technology as they can just simply buy the saw that does.

7A News Reporters

But as well as the technology works, the major tool companies have failed to put this kind of device on any of their table saws — even eight years after Gass offered to license it to them.

7C This claim is a factual claim

7D This claim gives the idea that the companies are at fault for not accepting the technology. It pushes the opinion that the other companies even had 8 years to “make the right decision” as the technology was even offered but they stupidly refused.

8A Government Official

Based on the injury data obtained in the 2007 and 2008 CPSC special study, our staff’s injury cost model projected that consumers suffered approximately 67,300 medically treated blade contact injuries annually in 2007 and 2008—with an associated injury cost of $2.36 billion dollars in each of those two years.

8C This is a factual claim

8D This claim has to be accurate based on the study . The amount of people that get injured and the “absurd” cost indicates that the issue of unsafe saws is a prevalent thing for the people and anything that would makes saws safer would lower these numbers.

Stone Money Rewrite – bluedream1997

In a society where monetary payment is the one thing that is asked of individuals in return for their acquisition of goods and utilization of services, it can be argued that sooner or later those individuals will eventually develop a desire, if only strictly need-based, to get their hands on as much money as circumstantially possible in order to provide for themselves in terms of both everyday necessity and, if fortunate enough, materialistic desire. The United States is a perfect example of a nation in which the above claim might hold true, except for one major flaw; most Americans, be they impoverished, wealthy, or somewhere in between, rarely “get their hands on” the full extent of the wealth they believe lies in their possession, or physically see the stacks of bills they understand are sitting in a vault somewhere with their names on them. In today’s society the dollar, a rectangular piece of cotton fiber and linen that was once used to represent the value of a certain amount of gold, is no longer backed by any commodity or resource of worth. As NPR News’ Jacob Goldstein would argue, money is nothing but fiction, and the dollar is only worth something as long as the federal government says it is; the fictional quality of money is inherent in the very idea of money, in any system of currency, no matter how simple it may be.  

For centuries the Islanders of Yap, which is the “most westerly” of Micronesia’s Caroline Islands, have used a system of currency that is far less complex and sophisticated than the one Americans are accustomed to today. According to William Henry Furness III, an American anthropologist who spent several months living amongst the natives of Yap in 1903 and who wrote a book detailing the customs of its people titled The Island of Stone Money: Uap of the Carolines, their currency is called “fei, and it consists of large, solid, thick, stone wheels, ranging in diameter from a foot to twelve feet, having in the centre a hole varying in size with the diameter of the stone, wherein a pole may be inserted sufficiently large and strong to bear the weight and facilitate transportation.” Along with the physical peculiarity and impracticality of the fei, which can individually outweigh a car, Furness noted other interesting characteristics of the stone currency, including that it is not actually necessary for the owner of fei to physically possess their limestone money to claim it belongs to them. He wrote that 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 acknowledgment of ownership and without so much as a mark to indicate the exchange, the coin remains undisturbed on the former owner’s premises.” To further illustrate the culture’s strange concept of monetary ownership, Furness retold in his book a strange story he heard on the island that involved an enormous fei of incomparable quality and value that, supposedly, was lost at sea by the same men who crafted it.

As the story goes according to Furness, these men encountered a violent storm while sailing back from this particular fei’s island of origin (limestone cannot be found anywhere on Yap), and were left with no choice but to untie the immense piece of stone from their rudimentary raft in order to stay afloat. When they returned home empty handed, “they all testified that their fei was of magnificent proportions and of extraordinary quality, and… it was universally conceded…that the mere accident… ought not to affect its marketable value, since it was all chipped out in proper form.” This event occurred decades before Furness visited Yap, however the man who told him the story assured him that the descendants of the same men who lost the fei to the depths of the ocean were still rich because of that very stone; the family’s wealth remained unquestioned and was known to everyone on the island, almost as if the limestone was “leaning visibly against the side of the owner’s house” for all to see.

The story above along with other bits and pieces of Furness’ book can be found within the first chapter of an essay written in 1991, also titled “The Island of Stone Money,” by a man named Milton Friedman. In this essay Friedman reveals to his audience that his initial reaction to the story above was: “How silly. How can people be so illogical?” He makes the assumption that his audience will react in the same way he did, and in my case his assumption held true because I found myself thinking the exact same thing about the Islanders of Yap. However, when I stopped reading and seriously considered how strongly the islander’s currency system relies on their own faith in abstract concepts, such as the unquestioned purchasing power of a stone lying at the bottom of the ocean that never even made it back to Yap, I realized that Americans in the present day are really no different than those islanders. In today’s society we almost never see the monetary income we earn from the jobs we work; the only compensation most people receive for their efforts in the workplace is a growing number on their monthly bank account statements, a figure that soon falls when it comes time to make regular bill payments online and through the mail. These changing digits on computer screens and pieces of paper are meant to represent tangible dollars changing hands from one individual or entity to the other, yet in reality nothing is actually changing in the physical world. If this is not a perfect illustration of unwavering faith in abstract financial concepts then I do not know what is.

My point is, whether you’re an Islander of Yap buying a house with limestone or a middle class American paying for airplane tickets online, the fiction that is money is apparent in all systems of currency and finance. According to AFP News’ journalist Anne Renaut, there is now a type of digital “e-money” in existence “that is made of strings of dazzlingly complex code created by raw computing power.” This impressive and complex computer currency was developed in 2009 and has soared in value since, however it is still considered “a very uncertain, speculative venture” to invest in as reported within Renaut’s article “The bubble bursts on e-currency Bitcoin” because it is not backed by a commodity, providing further evidence for my argument that the value and worth seen in money is often nothing more than a figment mankind’s imagination. Not even the American dollar is backed by a scarce commodity or resource anymore, and the cotton fiber and linen that makes the fabric of our greenbacks has practically no intrinsic value, making our tangible currency as well as the ink on paper checks that often represents it worth only what people are willing to trade for that currency. On any given day a food vendor on the street might be willing to trade one bag of chips for a dollar bill, and on that same day a different food vendor down the road might be willing to trade two bags of chips for that same dollar, indicating that our currency is only worth the most we can possibly get in return for handing it over to others. I believe that deep down most people understand that money is just a fairy tale, a fiction that keeps the economy going; my own concept of money did not change much at all after doing research for this assignment, the only thing that did was my previously unquestioned belief in its worth through the eyes of society.

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.

Furness, William Henry. The Island of Stone Money: Uap of the Carolines. N.p.: J.B. Lippincott, 1910. Print.

Renaut, Anne. “The Bubble Bursts on E-currency Bitcoin.” Yahoo! News. Yahoo!, 13 Apr. 2013. Web. 23 Oct. 2016.

Safer Saws-yeezygod21

Manufacturers

  • “I found out that table saws cause thousands of these really horrible injuries every year.”

This claim tells us that a regular saw causes severe injuries every year.

  • When you cutting wood, the blade carries the electric signal when the finger approaches to the blade the signal is changed because the human body is conductive. The blade will immediately stop.
  • “It feel like it buzz or a tickle”

This is factual claim because in the video we see how when the finger is placed near the saw, the saw stops immediately with a slight vibration to the finger or a tickle.

This claim is accurate because when we watch the video we saw the experiment and how the technology works. The technology that was being used was brilliant due to how when the blade encounters with the human body at five thousand rpms energy it stops the module like crumple zone and car. The claim looks convincing because observers can see that this technology is legit product. On the contrary the claim, looks not as deserving because videos tend to be fake occasionally. It perhaps can be a setup where we do believe it can work.

Amputees/Customers

  • “Try a $14 thousand bill for a missing finger and tell me how much you hate Mr. Gass.”
  • “I lost a finger and half the use of my hand in a table saw accident the cost of a cartridge a new blade is well worth having that safety.”
  • “At an average cost of $35,000 each, these accidents lead to more than $2.3 billion in societal costs annually including medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering.”

This claim is demonstrating of how losing a finger is greater cost than spending another saw blade. The differential value of cost is off the charts.

This claim is factual and opinion because it’s true losing a finger is too costly and medical bill will expensive. You would rather pay $100 extra than paying 20,000-40,000. Adding on, its opinion base to because there can be other saws similar to this technology where it can have no problems at all.

Customers 

  • “But as well as the technology works, the major tool companies have failed to put this kind of device on any of their table saws — even eight years after Gass offered to license it to them.”

This claim demonstrates of how companies did not feel as confident to put Grass’ invention on shelves.

This is a factual claim.

We see the brilliancy of Grass’ technology but however the big name companies show signs of disbelief  because it far too great of technology to be worthy of that caliber kind. And trying to sell this product would be hard because consumers would not have a strong belief and uncertainty questions.

 

Steve Gass himself

  • Steve Gass creates new saw called SafeStop, a saw reduces serious injuries where the saw stops when a finger is encounter with the saw.
  •        Steve Gass experiments to prove that it works by using a hotdog as finger.
  • Technology contains electric signal that contradicts with the human body.

This claim is prospal where he introduces his new technology.

Steve Gass proposed this idea and made it into a reality. A saw that decreases horrifying injuries than typical saw. Steve Gass used a hotdog to impersonate a finger to present viewers that the technology is legit. Furthermore, Steve Gass used his own finger to bring more attention to viewers that it this actually works with human finger, not just a hotdog.

Injured Plaintiffs

  • “Wec says his permanent and “traumatic injury” could have been prevented if Bosch and its competitors had not rejected and fought against the safety technology.”

This claim shows how the saw can be dangerous in psychological way not just only a physical way.

The claim I feel is opinion based and accurate.

The reason why I feel this claim is opinion base because it can affect only some people in psychological way  instead of just physical. However, this claim can be accurate because this is also concerning of what this type of saw can do. The physical threat is horrifying et enough and now psychological is astonishing.

Personal Injury Lawyers

  • “Although SawStop safety technology has been around for more than ten years, not all table saw manufacturers have adopted it.”

This claim specifies of how manufacturers have not experienced the SawStop even more than 10 years.

The claim is factual evaluation.

The claim is subpar it has the fact where it’s been around more than ten years and manufactures have not adopted it. But the question is what is all table saw manufacturers are adopting on if not SawStop. Are the manufacturers are investing their time on traditional saws with physical and psychological risks. And are they ignoring SawStop for a reason where they feel it’s the technology is too good to be true.

Government Officials 

Approximately 42,800 medically attended injuries annually during 2007–2008, rather than the 67,000 estimated in the CPSC ANPR.

This is claim is factual.

This claim is factual because this was case study of how many people were affected. There were a lot of cases that lead to look foward about SaferSaw. Thousands of people were getting hurt on daily basis. The numbers stand out because it similar how a small thing can cause so much havoc and can be debatable such as car accidents and etc of which is more dangerous.

Power Tool Product Reviewers

  •  “Sawstop quality control is the best in the business. My Sawstop is superior in materials and build to any Delta or Powermatic I’ve used.”

This claim is to tell us that SawStop is valid saw that can protect people fingers. And seems this technology is worth it. The money is not the issue, its for the safety.

This claim is opinion base.

The claim is opinion base because it states one person saying that the product is marvelous. And it implies directly to him of how he is satisfied with the technology. However, this claim not as strong because its opinion base because others may prefer other saws.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Open Strong- jsoccer5

Opening 1

Childhood obesity is a nationwide epidemic, that gets worse every year. While many people do not realize this is such a big problem it is slowly becoming more and more prevalent in America’s everyday life. One of the biggest effects of this is the consumption of sugary drinks. If American’s were to put age restrictions on sugary drinks childhood obesity would go down over time.

Opening 2

One of largest epidemics nationwide is the overwhelming amount of children suffering from childhood obesity. While childhood obesity is because of the foods they eat are processed and high in saturated fats the biggest factor is the large consumption of sugary drinks such as sports drinks and juice, as their is little to no nutritional value. Childhood obesity would significantly decrease if sugar drinks were eliminated from a child’s everyday diet by putting an age restriction on it the same way there is an age restriction on tobacco and alcohol.

Open Strong-Collegekid9

Imagine your body being consumed by a drug.  You would do anything to get this drug and you don’t worry about the consequences that come with it.  Have you ever wondered what a clean life is like? One where you are fixing your habits.  Well Vancouver, is trying to help the heroin problem in the area by giving addicts clean heroin and a safe way to use them.  The doctors hope that this will help.

jsoccer5’s Proposal

For my research I will be examining the hypothesis that putting an age restriction on sugary drinks, such as soda and sports drinks, for children under 18 will make a significant positive effect on increasing childhood obesity and increase overall health of children. Childhood obesity is a nationwide epidemic where children are well over the appropriate weight for their age and height causing many health concerns. Lot of children suffer from the illness of obesity are because of the food and drinks they consume. Many children consume sugary and high caffeinated drinks on a daily basis, and most of which have no nutritional value. A large reason why children drink these things is because it is inexpensive and available to anyone of any age. By having a age restriction it will make it harder for children to purchase these products, and will make it so that less children are consuming no nutritional drinks.

In my research I have found that 1 in 6 children are affected by obesity, which is 17% of nations children and adolescence ages 2 to 19. Childhood obesity is higher in certain ethnic and racial groups than others. I also found that children that come from a low income family or parent is not highly educated that they end up being more often obese.

Sources

  1. Childhood Obesity Statistics from CDC

The Essential Content of the Article: In this article it provides statistical evidence about childhood obesity among American youth based on race, ethnic groups, income and education.

What it Proves: Childhood obesity is a national wide epidemic in all American children but there is many different factors involved in who and why the children are effected by obesity.

2. Ideas to Curb Childhood Obesity

The Essential Content of the Article: In this article the discussion of how sugary drinks are a large effect on the obesity epidemic and present different ideas to help curb this epidemic. These also discuss how there is nothing effective being done in this area of concern.

What it Proves: Sugary drinks are highly involved in the obesity epidemic and that people out there are trying to come up with ideas to positively effect this issue but nothing has been done yet.

3. Higher consumption of Sugary Drinks and Fast Food because of Public Ads

The Essential Content of the Article: Childhood consumption of sugar drinks and fast food has increased where TV ads for theses are largely prevalent. There is no direct link to body weight however there is to consumption in this article.

What it Proves: There is a direct correlation to exposure to Sugary drink ads and consumption of these products.

4. direct relationship between sugar drinks and obesity

The Essential Content of the Article: A study completed in Massachusetts that proves that sugary drinks are largely influenced in the childhood obesity epidemic.

What it Proves: Consumption of sugary drinks are directly related to childhood obesity.

5. Sugar drink Initiative

The Essential Content of the Article: there is currently an invitiave going on to help consumption of sugary drinks to decrease.

What it Proves: Sugary drinks are a large reason for obesity and people are starting to recognize this and make a change.