Month: October 2018

What Should Happen At The End Of Your Road?

“Letting Go”, not onlya very strong story but a story in which it motivated me to become a better writer. I just want to harp on the opening paragraph, this blew my mind, the way it was constructed and placed out had me attached immediately. I as a young man who thinks writing is his strong suit, was highly motivated and was instantaneously attached to everything this writer had to say. I wouldn’t say that there was a friction between me and what the author had to say, there was friction between myself and myself. One reason is, I think that writing and speaking is something I am good at, but when I read this first paragraph I was swept off my feet and showed that I have a lot of work left to do in becoming the writer I want to be. This friction was not a bad friction, this friction ignited a spark of motivation, curiosity and interest that will further motivate me into becoming the writer I want to be.

In recent conversation of what a doctorshould do if the medicinedoes not work anymore and there is nothing else that is possible to be done for a patient. Or should doctorsbe trying to care for a patient’squality of life rather than the quantity of how long he or she lives. Some believe that a patientshould be able to make every decision for themselves closer to the end of their road, and some believe that a doctor should keep trying to keep a patientalive and extend their time on earth. My own view is that a patient should have the right to make every decision they want to when their time is running out. Whetherit is stopping painful procedure because the pain is unbearable or just be placed in their own home, so they could go peacefully in their own home. That is my view and I’m sure others will think differently. There is a handful of questions that arise when this is the topic at hand and some of those questions are explored in the rest of this essay.

Me personally am not a stranger to cancer and terminal illness whatsoever, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer a good 5 years ago, and it was a very life shifting moment of my life. The switch from being an everyday pre-teen kid that played outside until the street lights came on and eating junk food and playing video games all night. Then immediately having to be put into the shoes of having to become the man of the house when my mom had to stop playing the dad roll and having to minimize her mom roll as well. One thing I find astonishing and highly disrespectful, is the mind-blowing amount of money that has to be spent not only by the patientwith these diseases but along with the family members who get pulled into it as well. If these doctors and nurses are trying to save a patient’s life or prolong their time on this earth, why put them in debt enough to cause enough stress to damage their life even more than it has already been damaged by an uncontrollable force. Maybe just maybe, there can be a solution to this mainstream problem, and if there is it needs to be put into play as soon as possible. Imagine if you were on your deathbed knowing you are going to die in the coming weeks and you get a check that will be left with your family that not even half of it can be covered by them. Yes, I find this as a very big topic and a very big issue, now that has started a friction between me and whoever writes these checks.

One of the most powerful and baffling subjects that was brought to my attention was the fact that these doctors were basically messing with Sara’s life towards the end of her road. At the point where these doctors develop the balls to tell a patient that he or she is going to die, from that point forward every decision about what the next step is in prolonging their life, should be placed in the patient’s hands. Sara’s situation was she wanted to die peacefully inside her home surrounded by all of her memories, good or bad. Surrounded by all of the people who helped her along the way during her war against the army cancer. Which is something I one hundred percent agree with and I would respect if I was the doctor in this situation. These doctors poked her 1,000 times with needles on every part of her body possible, shoved tubes in her throat, gave her medicine with side effects that a person who isn’t going through cancer wouldn’t be able to bear, and they still can’t respect the women’s decision on how she wants to leave this earth. I feel like this situation is a perfect example on how important it is to place a person’s life into their own hands. If the cancer is not going to allow a person to live, then why try and force something on that patient?This is a question that I feel like everyone should consider and try to make common sense of it because there is nothing you can do at that point but respect what the patient says. If I am going to die over something that I can’t control, or the doctors I am paying my life savings to try and help get rid of the illness or cancer that is attacking me, I would at least like to be comfortable in the place I die and around the people who love me.

This brings in one of many questions, why should doctors try and serve a patient’s quality of life rather than the quantity of their life? Meaning these doctors should try and make the patient’s life more comfortable even though we all know they are not comfortable. Also, meaning that if a patient wants to live the rest of their life care free and not hooked up to machines, not getting poked fifty times a day by needles, and not eating hospital food. Let them.

I personally believe that a human being should at least have a certain amount of control in their fate and the way they want to go out. Whether, they want to die peacefully in their own house or they want to live the rest of their life free, it should be their decision and be in their own hands. The longer your life is preserved with cancer or any type of terminal illness just means more suffering physically, mentally and emotionally for the patient and the patients loved ones. This question also brings in a conspiracy, are these doctors trying to preserve a patient’s life, so their pay check is bigger?

If someone dies in a hospital that simply means more procedures, tests and analytical findings. Which means, could’ve you have guessed? a nice big check at the end of a hard-fought life that is stuck with the family. Which I find disrespectful to its fullest extent, there is no reason what so ever these doctors should be trying procedure after procedure to prolong a patient’s life and have them die in the hospital. I don’t think it is the doctor’s faults personally, I feel as if there is something way bigger than just the doctors and nurses controlling these actions. Take that thought into your own head and try and figure out who is in charge of these ridiculous checks that are being left with the families of the deceased patients.

Even though the pain that these people who suffer from these terminal illnesses is hard to even imagine, try and put yourself in the shoes of a person who is suffering from an illness of these sorts. Now imagine, already going through a couple surgeries and being told that you wouldn’t survive multiple times by multiple different doctors. You then personally decide between conversations with your family and looking into yourself that you would like to be placed into your home, so you could die in peace and around the things you love and have cherished your whole life. Then, after you make your appeal these doctors try their best to convince you to stay and begin to try one more treatment that they think will be the ice breaker into prolonging your life in a more comfortable way, this tactic is tried. It fails but over the time you spent in the hospital again, these doctors are being paid a lot more than what they would have been originally getting paid if they were to let you go that day and go into your own house.

I feel as if I have a simple solution to all of these sequential issues and problems that occur in today’s society. Everything we know is a business, no matter how long or how short the period of time you stay in the hospital, the doctors and nurses can still go home with a full wallet and a nice house. These professions are taught to keep their emotions out of the work place along with prison officers, cops, and FBI agents. All taught to keep their emotions out of the job because all that will do is get them into trouble, because the second you get emotionally attached to a patient in the doctor’s scenario or an inmate in the prison officer scenario, you will begin to do things you wouldn’t have if you weren’t attached to these people. Remember it is a business, everything is a business.

Writing a paper does not just mean letting your fingers go and your mind wonder, especially about a topic like this. Over the course of not only this paper but my whole college experience so far, my thinking has evolved majorly. Especially the fact that I was forced when I walked into Dr. Drown’s English class to forget almost everything that I learned in high school and develop a new way of thinking and new ways of trying to construct my writing. I feel as if all kinds of people can relate to what I wrote, but I think all people should use this writing as an example of the common problems and ridiculous problems that go on in today’s society. Everyone is going to be related to someone who gets sick or have a close family friend that suffers from a terminal illness and that is just what happens in life. But this article can show and give examples of what goes on in hospital rooms and the things that happen surrounding them.

“Letting Go”, not only a very strong story but a story in which it motivated me to become a better writer. I just want to harp on the opening paragraph, this blew my mind, the way it was constructed and placed out had me attached immediately. I as a young man who thinks writing is his strong suit, was highly motivated and was instantaneously attached to everything this reader had to say. I wouldn’t say that there was a friction between me and what the author had to say, there was friction between myself and myself. One reason is, I think that writing and speaking is something I am good at, but when I read this first paragraph I was swept off my feet and showed that I have a lot of work left to do in becoming the writer I want to be. Atul Gawande, basically held my hand and tugged me through every situation and feeling that Sara was put into in such a short and simple manner. I would personally like to dive deeper into the tactics and ways that this author used in the opening paragraph to grasp the attention of a reader. This is how I want to open up every essay or short story I write. This friction was not a bad friction, this friction ignited a spark of motivation, curiosity and interest that will further motivate me into becoming the writer I want to be.

Me personally am not a stranger to cancer whatsoever, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer a good 5 years ago, and it was a very life shifting moment of my life. The switch from being an everyday pre-teen kid that played outside until the street lights came on and eating junk food and playing video games all night. Then immediately having to be put into the shoes of having to become the man of the house when my mom had to stop playing the dad roll and having to minimize her mom roll as well. One thing I find astonishing and highly disrespectful, is the mind-blowing amount of money that has to be spent not only by the patient with these diseases but along with the family members who get pulled into it as well. If these doctors and nurses are trying to save a patient’s life or prolong their time on this earth. Why put them in debt enough to cause enough stress to damage their life even more than it has already been damaged by a uncontrollable force. Maybe just maybe, there can be a solution to this mainstream problem, and if there is it needs to be put into play as soon as possible. Imagine if you were on your deathbed knowing you are going to die in the coming weeks and you get a check that will be left with your family that not even half of it can be covered by them. Yes, I find this as a very big topic and a very big issue, now that has started a friction between me and whoever writes these checks.

One of the most powerful and baffling subjects that were brought to my attention was the fact that these doctors were basically messing with her life towards the end of her road. At the point where these doctors develop the balls to tell a patient that he or she is going to die, from that point forward every decision about what the next step in is prolonging their life, should be placed in the patient’s hands. Sara’s situation was she wanted to die peacefully inside her home surrounded by all of her memories, good or bad. Surrounded by all of the people who helped her along the way during her war against the army cancer. These doctors poked her 1,000 times with needles on every part of her body possible, shoved tubes in her throat, gave her medicine with side effects that a person who isn’t going through cancer wouldn’t be able to bear, and they still can’t respect the women’s decision on how she wants to leave this earth. I feel like this situation is a perfect example on how important it is to place a person’s life into their own hands. If the cancer is not going to allow a person to live, then why try and force something on that patient? If I am going to die over something that I can’t control, or the doctors I am paying my life savings to try and get rid of whatever is attacking me, I would at least like to be comfortable in the place I die.

This brings in one of many questions, why should doctors try and serve a patient quality of life rather than the quantity of their life? Meaning these doctors should try and make the patient’s life more comfortable even though we all know they are not comfortable. Also, meaning that if a patient wants to live the rest of their life care free and not hooked up to machines, not getting poked fifty times a day by needles, and not eating hospital food. Let them.

I personally believe that a human being should at least have a certain amount of control in their fate. Wether, they want to die peacefully in their own house or they want to live the rest of their life free, it should be their decision and be in their own hands. The longer your life is preserved with cancer or any type of terminal illness just means more suffering physically, mentally and emotionally for the patient and the patients loved ones. This question also brings in a conspiracy, are these doctors trying to preserve a patient’s life, so their pay check is bigger?

If someone dies in a hospital that simply means more procedures, tests and analytical findings. Which means, could’ve you have guessed? a nice big check at the end of a hard-fought life that is stuck with the family of the past. Which I find disrespectful to its fullest extent, there is no reason what so ever these doctors should be trying procedure after procedure to prolong a patient’s life and have them die in the hospital. I don’t think it is the doctor’s faults personally, I feel as if there is something way bigger than just the doctors and nurses controlling these actions.

Even though the pain that these people who suffer from these terminal illnesses is hard to even imagine, try and put yourself in the shoes of a person who is suffering from an illness of these sorts. Now imagine, already going through a couple surgeries and being told that you wouldn’t survive multiple times by multiple different doctors. You then personally decide between conversations with your family and looking into yourself that you would like to be placed into your home, so you could die in peace and around the things you love and have cherished your whole life. Then, after you make your appeal these doctors try their best to convince you to stay and begin to try one more treatment that they think will be the ice breaker into prolonging your life in a more comfortable way, this tactic is tried. It fails but over the time you spent in the hospital again, these doctors are being paid a lot more than what they would have been originally getting paid if they were to leave you go that day and go into your own house.

Why go through all of this pain and suffering, while these doctors watch, just so they can make your bank account suffer as well when you are gone?         I feel as if I have a simple solution to all of these sequential issues and problems that occur in today’s society. Everything we know is a business, no matter how long or how short the period of time you stay in the hospital, the doctors and nurses can still go home with a full wallet and a nice house. These professions are taught to keep their emotions out of the work place along with prison officers, cops, and FBI agents. All taught to keep their emotions out of the job because all that will do is get them into trouble, because the second you get emotionally attached to a patient in the doctor’s scenario or an inmate in the prison officer scenario, you will begin to do things you wouldn’t have if you weren’t attached to these people. Remember it is a business, everything is a business.

“Letting Go”, not only a very strong story but a story in which it motivated me to become a better writer. I just want to harp on the opening paragraph, this blew my mind, the way it was constructed and placed out had me attached immediately. I as a young man who thinks writing is his strong suit, was highly motivated and was instantaneously attached to everything this reader had to say. I wouldn’t say that there was a friction between me and what the author had to say, there was friction between myself and myself. One reason is, I think that writing and speaking is something I am good at, but when I read this first paragraph I was swept off my feet and showed that I have a lot of work left to do in becoming the writer I want to be. Atul Gawande, basically held my hand and tugged me through every situation and feeling that Sara was put into in such a short and simple manner. I would personally like to dive deeper into the tactics and ways that this author used in the opening paragraph to grasp the attention of a reader. This is how I want to open up every essay or short story I write. This friction was not a bad friction, this friction ignited a spark of motivation, curiosity and interest that will further motivate me into becoming the writer I want to be.

Me personally am not a stranger to cancer whatsoever, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer a good 5 years ago, and it was a very life shifting moment of my life. The switch from being an everyday pre-teen kid that played outside until the street lights came on and eating junk food and playing video games all night. Then immediately having to be put into the shoes of having to become the man of the house when my mom had to stop playing the dad roll and having to minimize her mom roll as well. One thing I find astonishing and highly disrespectful, is the mind-blowing amount of money that has to be spent not only by the patient with these diseases but along with the family members who get pulled into it as well. If these doctors and nurses are trying to save a patient’s life or prolong their time on this earth. Why put them in debt enough to cause enough stress to damage their life even more than it has already been damaged by a uncontrollable force. Maybe just maybe, there can be a solution to this mainstream problem, and if there is it needs to be put into play as soon as possible. Imagine if you were on your deathbed knowing you are going to die in the coming weeks and you get a check that will be left with your family that not even half of it can be covered by them. Yes, I find this as a very big topic and a very big issue, now that has started a friction between me and whoever writes these checks.

One of the most powerful and baffling subjects that were brought to my attention was the fact that these doctors were basically messing with her life towards the end of her road. At the point where these doctors develop the balls to tell a patient that he or she is going to die, from that point forward every decision about what the next step in is prolonging their life, should be placed in the patient’s hands. Sara’s situation was she wanted to die peacefully inside her home surrounded by all of her memories, good or bad. Surrounded by all of the people who helped her along the way during her war against the army cancer. These doctors poked her 1,000 times with needles on every part of her body possible, shoved tubes in her throat, gave her medicine with side effects that a person who isn’t going through cancer wouldn’t be able to bear, and they still can’t respect the women’s decision on how she wants to leave this earth. I feel like this situation is a perfect example on how important it is to place a person’s life into their own hands. If the cancer is not going to allow a person to live, then why try and force something on that patient? If I am going to die over something that I can’t control, or the doctors I am paying my life savings to try and get rid of whatever is attacking me, I would at least like to be comfortable in the place I die.

Curiosity, the start of all amazing ideas and creations. Curiosity is the strong desire to learn or know something, and in this case these podcasts make you think in depth about everything the two men are talking about. Wether they are talking about cheetahs, how families survive, or why is bill gates so lucky. If you have curiosity I feel like you will be able to fully understand the concept you are trying to get deeper into. If you are tuned into an argument and you are curious about what points the opposing side is trying to make you will have a better understanding of the argument and it will help you make more valid points in your argument.

What comes to my mind when I have to compose a curiosity driven essay? Curiosity strikes first because the first time I read that question, I had no clue of what to think. But when I try to think deeper into the question and dissect it into parts it becomes easier. First, I had to find the curiosity to get into this essay, but once I got into it was very easy to roll through it. Secondly, I feel as if the way you are brought up at a young age can have a huge effect in how you carry yourself when you see a stranger in need of help. You have to be raised in a certain matter to be able to go out of your way to help someone in need. If you watched your mother struggle or watched someone you loved deeply to struggle, you would therefore have the background and insight information on how much people need a helping hand when they need one. Maybe that could be a secret to success, maybe it couldn’t.

Some open-ended questions that I would like to read about is I would like to be put into a situation describing, being in the position of having to help someone in need. One reason is because I want to know what and how I would respond to a situation like that. I would also like to be put into a situation like that kind of like an experiment, I feel like that would be a pretty cool public experiment to try on society, maybe try and set up someone who is “in need” in different areas. Curiosity can take you into a whole bunch of different scenarios and different feelings, it just depends on how focused you are on the topic at hand

During the line drawing activity, I was in a different state of mind, different then if you were to draw a regular picture. This activity needed a little bit more focus and a little more attention to detail. I had to attempt to do as much detailed drawing as possible, which had my mind working a little harder than it would usually be working if I had to draw a regular picture.

I felt that it was hard for me to try and make every line perfect and to correctly resemble the original picture. I also felt that it was difficult to stay on task especially when your lines aren’t as equal as the others.

I feel like depending on the situation you are put in is the way you react and the way you pay your attentiveness. Also, a big part in that is if you find what you’re paying attention to interesting or somewhat in relation to you. Like, if we were told to make a drawing representing the things you live for or enjoying doing. Mostly everyone in the class would have no problem with that and some pretty good papers will be handed in. If we were told to draw something that we don’t like or have relation to you will get a very uninterested drawing.

I have decided to go to my bio teacher, for a couple of reasons, one reason is because I made a mistake in using the last of my, little bit of money I had on the wrong activation code. So, in conclusion, she pulled some strings and found a way to get me a gift card to the bookstore, so I could buy the correct activation code. I had expectations that added up to just getting some help on my bio work as well as getting the correct activation code, so I can get on top of my missed work.

After I went I realized that it was a very smart decision of me to go, I ended up getting the correct activation code and doing all the work I missed out on. Besides all of the activation code mess, I went and talked to Mrs. Koper about my grade and how I could catch up on all the worked I missed out on during the period of time that I didn’t have the right access code. I learned a couple more vocabulary words that were important to getting a good grade on my exam. This made me realize that some of these teachers in this University aren’t as bad as they think. I thought that this was a good experience and helped me a lot academically, I will definitely be attending more office hours.

Before going into this conference, I thought to myself that it was too early and that it was going to be a big waste of my time. I was mistaken. This was a very helpful period of time, so helpful that we didn’t even finish talking about the first objective on the checklist, because of all the questions and information that I was receiving and the conversations that were being shared. Basically, the information and advice that I was given by Dr. Drown was basically to try more of the tactics and annotation skills. I had tried some of the sills and ways to make my writing better but not as much as I could’ve.

I would say my creative writing ability is pretty good and the ways I can incorporate my writing to the story and relate my writing to my personal life. I also think I have a strong vocabulary when it comes to certain types of essays. But when I had my conference it opened up my eyes to a lot of things I can definitely improve on and become better at. One of those things is the easiest one of my mistakes that I can fix which is my ability to be on top of my work and that is just a mental thing that I can easily fix. But in the reading and writing world I have a handful of things I can either fix or work on. I need to read more because not only can it stimulate your mind, but it can increase your vocabulary and give your ideas on sentence structure and ways to form a paragraph like the professional writers do.

I need to just get my mind in the right place and start to get on top of all my work not only in English class but a couple more classes as well. In an English aspect, I need to work on how to keep my essays on the same track and not to derail the conversation at hand. Me and Dr. Drown looked through my essay and that was one of my bigger issues, its an easy fix but it is also a very important one. I feel as if I am doing pretty well in the class itself, I need to read more, use the writing tactics shown to me and become a better student overall, and that includes being a leader in the classroom.