Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Celiac Vs. Change in Character

My topic Proposal is the desieas known as celiac. Celiac Sprue can be a deadly disease that you get from birth and develope symptoms overtime. The symptoms are painful because the pain sit in your digestive track allowing you to feel bloated, nauseas, fatigue, constipation, and even weight loss. Although weight loss may sound enticing, you will still end uop with all the other symptoms; like a present. Celiac has a specific diet that can help avoid the symptoms; this diet is known as the "Gluten Free" diet.
The reason I am interested in talking about the celiac or the gluten free diet is because when I was helping in a phhysical therapy program I was lucky to work with a little boy who was diagnosed with autism. He came into the program throwing tantrums; no focus what so ever and his skin pigment was orange almost like the color from one of those fake tans gone bad. The therapist Dan Conley, who was my teacher, had the little boys mother take him to a nutritionist, not because his health was bad he just wanted to see the amount of sugar intake the boy was recieving in a day. Come to find out the nutritionist decided to to put the boy on a gluten free diet. Every day he came to the program with certain snacks such as; corn tortillas, puffins' cereal, and yogurt. After a few weeks he was able to focus on one thing instead of ten things at a time, his cognitive thinking was finally kicking in for him. The funny thing is that after he was put on this diet his skin color went from the fake tan orange to a normale pigment color. So for my arugment; Does Celiac have an effect on your body and change your characteristics by changing your daily intake of starches and sugars? And does it have an effect on your skin color?

Thursday, October 8, 2009

The Men We Carry In Our MInds

In Scott Russell Sanders essay " The Men We Carry In Our Minds" shows that women are perceived as a stay at home mom, a housewife, or even a trophy wife, and shows the men as the male bread winner and how the men in our lives or in our minds strive to be the best and to make sure that their family is financially stable. I disagree to an extent only because during the 1940's through the 1960's was a different timeline in the world for women because now woman have the equal opportunity to a career and to a steady income. Granted that some women still like to be a stay at home mom or a trophy wife, they still have the ability to fulfill their dreams for what they perceive in life and in their families. Ever since I turned 16 my parents told me I needed to get a job, I love that I can consider myself as independent. My parents are both hardworking and share everything, well mostly everything. Sanders describe the men as super hard working, when they are farmers, coal miners, and working on assembly lines, but he doesn't state anything about the women except that they are jealous of what the men in their lifetime have accomplished when the women couldn't even say they had an education. If my mom and I were to be stripped of all our opportunities life for us would be lost because we wouldn't know what to do with ourselves if my dad had to provide everything for our family.