APA style practice

1) Studies now indicate that the rat bladder tumors arise from mechanisms that are not relevant to the human situation.

2)The author of this article stated, " Studies now indicate that the rat bladder tumors arise from mechanisms that are not relevant to the human situation" (Olden, n.p.).
3)"Over the years, our knowledge of cancer causing agents has been refinded;allowing to make clear more concise differences"

Activity 33

I think that one of the most important childhood events of mine would have to be my first day of kindergarten. I was a ball of excitement rapped in nerves that day. I was so worried about making new friends and being away from my family all day. During the bus ride, I began to feel even more nervous, but then the girl who was sitting beside me started talking to me and we both began to relax. Finally, I arrived at school and was ready to begin this journey. Half way through the day my class was dismissed for recess the boys stayed with the boys and the girls stayed with the other girls. I remember we were all so shy around each other and didn't know what to say. Some of the kids knew each other from church and pre-school, but others didn't know anybody. During recess all of that changed. We all started playing on the swing sets, playing hop scotch, and jumping rope. The shyness between everyone had ceased. By the end of the first day of school friendships had been formed that would last for many years to come.This was so important because these were the people who we would be surrounded by for the next 11 years of our lives. We as little kids had to open ourselves up to others and step out of our boundaries.Today the same girl that sat beside me on the bus is still one of my best friends. I think it is amazing that 12 years later we have held on to such a great friendship. Over the years the group of kids that we be the class of 2008 learned together, played together, and formed bonds that would last a lifetime.

I used 7 I's in my writing. I think that a reader is able to understand that it come's from a person's point of view that has experienced this childhood event. I think it is personal because I used certain detailed events that occured.

I-Search

During the second week of classes, my one nursing professor showed our class a video depicting racial disparities and the nurse's role as an advocate. I thought it would be a great topic to digress on by doing research and discovering interventions that can be used to cease the racial gaps, in particular by nurses. This particular research is important to me because it is part of society that we have been facing for years and it still surprises me that such racial inequality still exists. Also it is something that I as a future nurse will have to face everyday. I found a variety of sources, many being scholarly articles. My views haven't necessarily changed after doing the research; it is more that my awareness of the problem has dramatically increased. I am using several resources including, surveys and interviews to gain a better insight on what people think about this topic and why they think it is still occurring at such a high rate. I am interviewing 4 people 1 who is my nursing professor and 3-4 other nursing students and also sending several surveys out to my other nursing peers. Researching this topic has opened my eyes to a whole new aspect of inequality. I never realized how prevalent racial disparities in the healthcare field were. Along with the research I have also discovered many interventions that would allow for the problem to decrease, such as providing translation services to patients and also making the nurses aware of his/her own prejudices.

paraphrasing

Many final research papers, written by students, have an abundance of direct quotes. The quotes can easily drown out the students own voice and can take away from the student's credibility. Students should aim to keep quotations to a minimum and overall, only 10% of the final paper should contain direct quotations (Lester, 1976).

In class blogging: Conclusion of "The Tipping Point"

To me personally, racial equality is a huge social change that I would like to see in my community. My research project is about the the racial disparities in today's healthcare. In today's society it is unbelievable the amount of lawsuits that are being filed in regards to patients that say that they received unequal care in a hospital, family practice, or health center settings by health care employees including nurses and doctors. I think that having open discussions that include people's individual thoughts and ideas would be the first step in gaining an understanding of why racial inequality still exists. These discussions should include people other then causcasions The chapter that I found to be the most interesting was chapter 2 when the idea of mavens, connectors, and salesman were discussed. Gladwell's examples gave great insight into how each type really pushes the success of social epidemics. I learned there is a lot more involved in epidemics then what I originally assumed. Each of the three in "Law of the Few" has to be touched upon in order to begin and successfully continue a social epidemic. The idea that really interested me was the subway cleanup. Gladwell explained how letting people paint the cars with graffiti and then having people paint over them was extremely beneficial in regards to stopping the vandalism. If a person wants to stop a negative act, he or she pretty much has the resources at hand. I believe that very simple acts can clean up and better the lives of people.