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.

Chapter 3 Discussion Questions

1. Bernie Goetz is man who resided in New York City. It started off as an ordinary day as he entered the the station. He sat by a group of African American youths who were said to be "rowdy" and "horsing around" according to other passengers on the train. The boys struck up a conversation with Goetz and shorty after one of the boys gestured to his pocket as if stating he had a gun. Then the boy told Goetz to give him five dollars. In turn Goetz pulled out the gun and shot at each of the four boys. One youth, Darrell Cabey, who had already been shot once by Goetz, layed there yelling so Goetz shot him again, this time paralyzing him. It is horrifying to even think that people view Goetz as a hero. He had a gun, for which a reason has not been given, with him. Why did he need it? I believe that if Goetz truly believed that the boys would try to hurt him, then he should have never took a seat so close to them. He put himself in a dangerous position, no one else. The only reason that people view Goetz as some type of hero is because the four boys each ended up have a record for various crimes. However, to shoot them is not bringing justice. What he did was a selfish, ignorant, and completely immoral. In the chapter, Gladwell discusses the fact that Goetz's father was a harsh man who often targeted his anger at Goetz. On page 149, Gladwell states a quoted from Lillian Rubin, Goetz's biographer, " Goetz's bullets were aimed at targets that existed as much in his past as in the present". So even though Goetz seemed like an ordinary man the other people on the train made a human error that day. Gladwell states on page 160, human beings make the mistake of overestimating the importance of fundamental character traits and underestimate the importance of the situation and the context". So in my eyes Goetz is a murderer he entered the train that day knowing he was going to put himself in a position that would cause something bad to happen.


5. In my personal opinion, I am not sure whether or not changing the conditions in a prison will lead to better inmate behavior. People always say that you can help a person get better, but you can never truly change who they are and who they have always been. Changing conditions in prisons may lead to better attitudes, however the prisoners are in prison for a reason and whatever the reason is, it is bad. The prisoners are already flawed in some way. They commited a crime that was obviously bad enough to land themselved a jail cell. I think a lot of research would have to be done to truly see what exact conditions would be changed. In Zimbardo's research good people with no criminal record changed dramtically. However, the people that are in prison have a criminal record and have commited crimes that affect the human population. That needs to be taken into account.

Slave Trade: Traces of the Trade ,Stories from the Deep North

Tonight I attended a film discussing the slave trade. The story was told by Katrina Brown who wanted to explore her ancestors role the slave trade. Her ancestors are part of the DeWolf family. She contacted 200 ancestors o the DeWolfs and received 60 replies. In total 9 ancestors that ranged from siblings to 7th cousins embarked on a journey beginning in Bristol, Rhode Island to Ghana and finally Havana, Cuba. The DeWolfs were said to be the 2nd richest family at one time. They were involved in the trade of 10,000 Africans. They traded rum, sugar, tobacco, bread and many other items for African Slaves. Beginning in Rhode Island they traveled the town seeking information about the DeWolf family who were considered to be hero abolitionists and founding patriots. Historians told the family that throughout New England all the stone walls were constructed by African Slaves and that there are so man stone walls that if connected "could reach farther then the moon". When they visited Cape Coast, Ghana they were informed by Kofi Anyidoho, a revered poet, that there were 70 slave ports and that there were 5 rooms 15 feet by 30 feet that held 1,000 African Slaves. The family was able to visit these places and stand where there ancestors stood. They were overcome by emotions such as sadness, disbelief and guilt. While in Ghana they attended a worship ceremony and felt like outsiders. When one of the family members tried to shake hands with a woman she refused which made the white man feel like he was trespassing on sacred ground. After this the family sent up a meeting in a local town hall with other Africans they had met at the ceremony to hear their views on white people and what can be done to bring the two races together. The most common response was that white people need to attend African American events and such in order to break down the barrier. Next they traveled to Havana, Cuba where they visited several DeWolf plantations. Upon there return to the United States the family had a dinner and discussed their feeling in regards to the trip and their ancestors. While some felt pure guilt others felt as if they weren't there at that time so they really didn't feel guilty. However, overall this trip changed each person in some way or another. One family member stated, "we need to gain the courage to face what divides us". This film was truly interesting. It was interesting to watch a family aware that their ancestors played a part in slave trade, go on journey intended to reveal the ugly truth of their ancestors.