The week of the DNC has affected me both positive and negative. I was affected in a positive way because, for one we got a week off of school, but I honestly think we should have started school after the DNC. Secondly, because I live in Denver and it is a great experience to be part of the DNC and the histoy of it being held in Denver. Third, because I heard their was going to be alot of celebrities out here and its very exciting because if you live in Denver or just Colorado you never see celebrities. Lastly, because it was very interesting watching Denver be created into this perfect image because so many people from all over the world is watching Denver for the whole week so Denver had to look like a great place to be at.
Even though the DNC affected me in a positive way, it still affected me in a negative way. The reason why is because, for one if it wasn't for the DNC then we would have started school later instead of earlier. Secondly, because of all of the threats of assinating Barack Obama has been pretty scary to hear about and hopefully they keep him safe and find all of those people who are trying to assinate him. Third, because every night I have been hearing helicopters flying and it has been pretty annoying. Lastly, because all of the traffic and street closures has made driving very miserable. Overall I have enjoyed everything that has been going on this week.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Statistics: Mental Disoders
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/statistics/index.shtml
I found this article about Mental Disorders very interesting because an estimate of 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older suffer from a mental disorder. This disease is very well underestimated in the United States and through out the world. What really touched me about this subject is the fact that mental illness including suicide is accounted for more then 15% of the burden disease. Which is more then the disease caused by cancer. I really hope that there is something we can do about the high percent of mental disorders and find out what the cause of this illness is so the percent will lower.
I found this article about Mental Disorders very interesting because an estimate of 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older suffer from a mental disorder. This disease is very well underestimated in the United States and through out the world. What really touched me about this subject is the fact that mental illness including suicide is accounted for more then 15% of the burden disease. Which is more then the disease caused by cancer. I really hope that there is something we can do about the high percent of mental disorders and find out what the cause of this illness is so the percent will lower.
Friday, August 15, 2008
First Blog Posting Assignment 1
http://www.denverpost.com/opinionheadlines/ci_10192883
In this article they talk about the death of 7-year old Chandler Grafner who was abused and starved to death by his foster parents. I find this article very interesting because not only has this happened once but to seven other children in the state of Colorado who were under the protection of social services. I will never understand why this keeps happening to children when adults and teachers see all of the signs of abuse. There is no excuse to why they don't come forward and approach the things they are seeing on these children to the police. I overall think that we need a better foster care system because it seems that these children are not safe in these foster care homes. Hopefully they will come up with a solution to better the foster care system so there wont be so many deaths of children who are under social services protection.
In this article they talk about the death of 7-year old Chandler Grafner who was abused and starved to death by his foster parents. I find this article very interesting because not only has this happened once but to seven other children in the state of Colorado who were under the protection of social services. I will never understand why this keeps happening to children when adults and teachers see all of the signs of abuse. There is no excuse to why they don't come forward and approach the things they are seeing on these children to the police. I overall think that we need a better foster care system because it seems that these children are not safe in these foster care homes. Hopefully they will come up with a solution to better the foster care system so there wont be so many deaths of children who are under social services protection.
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