The author’s purpose in this work was to convey a message to the reader that we are not as in control of our own lives as it may seem. Griffin makes the argument that people’s lives our extremely intertwined with one another’s and that many of our actions have unforeseen consequences‚ many of which we choose to ignore. The author’s audience appears to be any of the general public who seek to question the world around them. I find this writing particularly interesting because I have always been fascinated
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What I like about this novel is that it’s not like a novel that I have read before. I first want to remark that I like the time frame of the novel taking place during the Second World War and in the setting of New Mexico. I enjoy how the novel begins about a young boy who is conflicted with the pressures of parent opposed expectations. Needless to say‚ Antonio the main character has to grow up to be a man on his own without some kind of guidance from brothers who are away at war during the early
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Patients Like Me is a free data –sharing social network (1). This online community allows patients to communicate and share their health experiences‚ find others with similar conditions and exchange their medical research and clinical data. Patients Like Me is designed to help its members to quantify data about diseases through detailed questionnaires and survey tools (2). By creating this type of social network‚ the founders believed that information can change the outcome of the disease and help
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A GIRL LIKE ME: GWEN ARAUJO STORY The film‚ A Girl Like Me‚ is based on a true story of a transgender teenager who was not accepted by the society. Gwen Araujo was born as Eddie Araujo. However‚ as he got older he started to realize that he was more female than a male. Eddie feels like a girl. Eddie likes wearing makeup and woman clothes. When he wore makeup and woman clothes‚ Eddie’s mother Sylvia gets angry. Sylvia is having a hard time to accept Eddie’s situation. After Eddie started to high
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To: Jame + Ben HeyWood Re: Patients Like Me: An Online Community of Patients Patients Like Me is an online community that allows patients to share information with other patients who suffer from similar diseases. The widespread request for a General Platform is under consideration because it can potentially reel in profit in term of knowledge for the online community and greater cash flow for the company. Background PLM is a community with over 80‚000 members who share information with and learn
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Case: Patients like me‚ 23.09.2013 1.Why do patients join PLM? Patients like me(PLM) is a social network which covers different diseases. Members get access to a large database of information about other people who has the same illness as them selves. They also have access to forums‚ which lets them communicate with other patients as well. This enables patients to get information about their disease and gain new insight‚ the possibility to ask for practical advice‚ which doctors do not know about
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“DEAF LIKE ME” By: Thomas Spradley & James Spradley My first reaction to this book was not good. I had barely gotten into it and the parents were contemplating aborting this precious little child just because it might turn out to be abnormal. It wasn’t even a sure thing that the child might be different; just a possibility. Still‚ they wanted to abort this tiny life on the mere possibility and would have if the mother had not already been too far along. The fact that they could even consider
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“Deaf Like Me” This book was really interesting and touching. The parents of Lynn‚ the deaf little girl‚ were very strong parents and their struggle to be able to make their daughters life as normal as possible was hard for them since everywhere they went the answer the always got was‚ for Lynn to try to talk and be treated as a normal child. As parents‚ Louise and Tom did everything they were told and only hoped for the best and that one day their deaf child would be able to talk. Since the beginning
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questions probably crossed the minds of the kids stuck on the boat‚ in the book Adrift by Paul Griffin. It’s not something most people give a great deal of thought towards. However the longer the kids were on the boat it became a more recurring question. Would they survive or would they haft to accept their fate and die out on the ocean. In the book we first meet two 17 year old boys named Matt and John. They are down at Montauk‚ which is a beach town on the east coast‚ working to earn a little extra
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For my research paper‚ I read Deaf Like Me by Thomas S. Spradley. This is the story of Lynn and her parents learning to accept her deafness. This is set in the 1960s. During this time‚ there were fewer medical advancements compared to today‚ such as the rubella shot. There was also not much of an understanding disabilities and people who faced issues with deafness. Tom and Louise Spradley were a couple that had one child‚ Bruce. Bruce gets diagnosed with rubella just as Louise finds out she was pregnant
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