Blog Post #6

Companies Denies Drug to Dying Child

                                           

Image of Josh Hardy straight from article.

 During this article it is about a 7 year old, Josh Hardy, fighting for his life against all odds. He has defeated cancer 4 times in his young life. The only drug that could save Josh has been denied to his parents. The company that has this experimental drug says if they were to give Josh the drug it would put all the other people in the world in a longer wait to get the drug. 

This article doesn't really connect with anything in my school right at this time. It can connect to others in school. They could have a classmate that has a illness that can't be cured but only by a certain medicines. It'd be horrific known that a fellow classmate/ friend only had a small amount of time to survive and there's a way to change that but the owners of the drug won't allow it.

When I take a side of this article I think it is terrible that these people won't give a child a drug to save his/her life. A child at age 7 hasn't even lived yet and their is already something trying to take it away. The adults that own this drug have lived their life and are taking away some child right to grow older. It's wrong that they won't give Josh this drug but there is a point behind their reasons. There is other people in the world needing the drug too that can't get it. But when seeing a child almost dead, have the audacity to at least attempt to save their life. 

Citation:

Cohen, Elizabeth, John Bonifield, Nadia Kounang, and Intern Arianna Yanes. "Company Denies Drug tp Dying Child." CNN. Cable News Network, 01 Jan. 1970. Web. 23 Mar. 2014. <http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/10/health/cohen-josh/>.

Blog Post #5

OMG! Your Teen Actually Talks to You?

Throughout this article, it presents several families and the way communication influences each one. There is different things each family is open about talking to their teens and pre-teens about. Things such as sex, drugs, relationship, and etc. Most things that families discuss affect the way each young adult going into their life knowing and understanding.

This article doesn't connect to what we are learning in school all that much. Although, it is something that every teenager goes through in their life. It the awkward “talk” most a scared of. In school kids can talk about things to each other but most are unable to communicate about these things to their parents. 


For myself, I like to know that other families are able to discuss things my family tends to talk about.  When we sit down to eat dinner, we are able to talk about anything that we want to. More of the personal things, I know I can always talk to my mother about. She doesn't ever judge me on what I want to talk about, and she always talks to me like I am an adult. I’m always comfortable talking about anything that is going on in my life. One thing we always talk about is how I am so different from other girls at my age. The things that they are doing and wanting to do versus what I’m doing and what I want to do in my life. Some of the things we discuss affect the decisions I make on daily bases. I know how they feel about certain topics that I know if I came to contact with, I’d always know what to do and what to say in a situation. 

Wallace, Kelly. "OMG! Your Teen Actually Talks to You?" CNN. Cable News Network, 27 Feb. 2014. Web. 09 Mar. 2014. <http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/19/living/talking-to-teens-communication-parents/index.html?hpt=hp_c4>. 

Picture was taken from same site. It had no information as to whom had ownership of it.