1. Reflect on Thursday's meeting via your blog. Group leaders should also email me with questions, ideas, and notes. Required: three positives about the meeting, and three challenges you face.
I think that our meeting on Monday was one of the best we'll ever have. We gained so much in what we would do. We found how we would make money and we also found what the children in CHOP would need! Yet I do have one question about our mission & our roles in the group! I am not sure what actually our role is, is it JUST TO FOLLOW MRS. MADHI'S RULES??? Well I do not think that we should just have to do this. I think that we should all have just as much a say in what happens in our group as Mrs. Madhi does! Though she is a teacher it still does not mean that she has to dictate our group!
A role that I would like to have in the group is the reporter, I like the idea! I could also take on the role of a Photographer/Videographer.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
SERVICE LEARNING...Monday, March 3, 2008
Monday, March 3, 2008
Service Learning- March 3-7
I have been trying to find things to do for my independent service learning hours for a long time. On the other hand for a long time people have been telling me that I am way too young to volunteer everywhere that I go... even the Philadelphia public library! For the school wide project, I suggested that we help the homeless, but I can tell that from the responses that I heard from the teacher, & students that this will not happen!
What interest me, is the fact that I could hold the power to help as many as one to over one-hundred people during this project. I would like to help families in shelters, this way I could help as many people as possible. Contacts, I already have. I have a personal contact to the Salvation Army Family Residence Shelter, this way I could talk to people about what they need and how they can be helped! I have lots of research and I know that I can make this happen with the proper support from my school!
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The Genetic Mutation-Cancer by Christa Pullins
Christa Pullins Date: 03/25/08
Period: 6/7 Biology Class
Genetic Mutation -- Cancer
The word cancer actually refers to many diseases, not one. There are more than 100 types of diseases known collectively as cancer. What they are, are an overgrowth of cells. Cancer malignancy, occurs when cells begin to grow and multiply in an uncontrolled way. Normal body cells grow and divide over a period of time until they eventually die. But cancer cells continue to grow and divide and grow and divide. Eventually, they gather to form tumors. Tumors are lumps that can interfere with the body's normal processes. Sometimes cells from a tumor break away and travel to a different tissue or organ. This is called metastasis. But most cancers can be treated and controlled, and many people with cancer get better and lead normal lives. No one really knows why cancer grows in certain people. Scientists and researchers are working to discover why some people get cancer and others do not. This will help them to learn whether cancer can be prevented or not. Doctors do have some ideas about why people may get cancer, though. The main reasons are genetics and certain environmental or behavioral triggers. The tendency to develop some types of cancer is believed to be inherited from parent to child, (the genes you were born with might carry an allel for cancer). For example, if a close relative has had cancer of the breast or the heart, you may be more likely to inherit those type of cancers, even though you may never actually get them. Some behavioral and environmental triggers can cause changes in the body's cells that push them into a cancerous state. For example, cigarettes are known to increase the risk of lung cancer. Too much exposure to the sun can increase the risk of skin cancer. These types of triggers act on the body slowly over time, so the cancers that may result from them don't show up until a person is an adult. That's one reason why teens don't get the same types of cancers as adults do. Doctors do know for sure that cancer itself is not contagious, so you don't have to worry about catching it from someone else or spreading it to another person (but people with certain infectious diseases such as AIDS or hepatitis are more vulnerable to certain cancers). Cancer is also never a person's fault. It's simply not true that a person may have done something wrong to get the disease. This is what I learned about the mutation cancer.
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Types of cancer:
*Bone Cancer
*Brain Cancer
*Breast Cancer
*Endocrine Cancer
*Gastrointestinal Cancer
*Gynecologic Cancer
*Head & Neck Cancer
*Leukemia
*Lung Cancer
*Lymphoma
*Multiple Myeloma
*Prostate Cancer
*Skin Cancer
*Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Period: 6/7 Biology Class
Genetic Mutation -- Cancer
The word cancer actually refers to many diseases, not one. There are more than 100 types of diseases known collectively as cancer. What they are, are an overgrowth of cells. Cancer malignancy, occurs when cells begin to grow and multiply in an uncontrolled way. Normal body cells grow and divide over a period of time until they eventually die. But cancer cells continue to grow and divide and grow and divide. Eventually, they gather to form tumors. Tumors are lumps that can interfere with the body's normal processes. Sometimes cells from a tumor break away and travel to a different tissue or organ. This is called metastasis. But most cancers can be treated and controlled, and many people with cancer get better and lead normal lives. No one really knows why cancer grows in certain people. Scientists and researchers are working to discover why some people get cancer and others do not. This will help them to learn whether cancer can be prevented or not. Doctors do have some ideas about why people may get cancer, though. The main reasons are genetics and certain environmental or behavioral triggers. The tendency to develop some types of cancer is believed to be inherited from parent to child, (the genes you were born with might carry an allel for cancer). For example, if a close relative has had cancer of the breast or the heart, you may be more likely to inherit those type of cancers, even though you may never actually get them. Some behavioral and environmental triggers can cause changes in the body's cells that push them into a cancerous state. For example, cigarettes are known to increase the risk of lung cancer. Too much exposure to the sun can increase the risk of skin cancer. These types of triggers act on the body slowly over time, so the cancers that may result from them don't show up until a person is an adult. That's one reason why teens don't get the same types of cancers as adults do. Doctors do know for sure that cancer itself is not contagious, so you don't have to worry about catching it from someone else or spreading it to another person (but people with certain infectious diseases such as AIDS or hepatitis are more vulnerable to certain cancers). Cancer is also never a person's fault. It's simply not true that a person may have done something wrong to get the disease. This is what I learned about the mutation cancer.
___________________________________________
Types of cancer:
*Bone Cancer
*Brain Cancer
*Breast Cancer
*Endocrine Cancer
*Gastrointestinal Cancer
*Gynecologic Cancer
*Head & Neck Cancer
*Leukemia
*Lung Cancer
*Lymphoma
*Multiple Myeloma
*Prostate Cancer
*Skin Cancer
*Soft Tissue Sarcoma
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