Reading+Reflections

1st reading reflection It amazes me how a family can have a kid with its soul purpose to save anothers life. Many may feel like this is unmoral and others may reason that a parent should do whatever it takes to save the life of their child. I believe that a parent should do all they can to save their childs life but at what expense? It seems to me that Anna the little girl who was born to save her sisters life Kate, that her parents dont really care about her and her older brother jesse. Anna is not happy at what her purpose of being on this earth is for, but no child would be excited about that. I was also suprize at how smart Anna was, she was able to research a lawyer to define her in her case against her parents. Having a case against her parents is very extreme but i agree with her choice because nobody ever asked Anna what she wanted, it is true that she is a young girl, immature girl but the fact that she was able to get a lawyer shows that she is aware of what is just and what is unjust.

2nd reading reflection As the book flashbacks to when the mother was giving birth to Anna, it has became more apparent to me that there was not any natural motherly affection between a mother and her offspring in their case. A thought that was distrubing to me was that Sara the mother of Anna, Kate and Jesse when she was nine months pregunt still did not know a name for her daughter and she was not think of any possibilities either.Its just weird for a mother to not have hope and dream for her child even before she's born, its normal but Sara did not have any for Anna.When she delayed Anna, the frist time she saw her baby girl the frist this she said was how wonderful the the umbrical cord looked not how wonderful her baby looked, which raises the question if this child is only really on this earth to just save her sister. Another thought was when Sara and Brain, Sara's husband, went on an interview about having Anna be a perfectly designed embroyo. Her father didnt say that we are happy to have another child all her cared about was the fact that this child was going to save his exsiting one. As i continue to read the book its appearemt that Anna loves her parents, but she wants her body back, and thats the only reason why she had a lawsuit filed against them. Anna at frist to me seemed selfish because her sister needed her organs but Anna is a person also, and she needs her organs as well. When Anna says" frist it was my marrow now its my kidneys what's next" I felt that this statement was very powerful, because who really knows whats next. What if her sister needs a heart, will her parents scarifice her life to save her sister, and at this point will it be ohkay law wise for her parents to kill her to save another. This is why i believe that Anna is justifyed in seeking out legal action for her body.

3rd reading reflection I do not understand why there is a hole chapter dedicated to the lawyer Campell. There isn't any importance in knowing that the person that has to watch over Anna, use to have a thing with her lawyer. I feel like the author is trying to make the situation about Anna suing her family to be less important. Anna trys to smoke for the frist time in her brother's car. I believe Anna tired to smoke because she's at the stage where children rebel and she may also think its cool becase her older brother is doing it. Another reason why she may be trying knew things is this is how she is dealing with the hole situation with her sister and her mother being very upset with her because she tried to sue the family. Anna's reaction, shows that everyone deals with a sick person in the family differently.

4th reading reflection Campell and julia get back together. We find out that the reason why he left juila was because he didnt want juila to have to take care of him for his hole life. Also throughout the book campell doesnt mention exactly why he has the dog. When he has a seizure in the courtroom its apparent to all why the dog is around. This book in my opinion is trying into a drama eposide because, like i said in my pervious blog, more attention is being paid to campell instead of kate and anna's problem.

5th reading reflection It became apparent that Anna was holding off giving her sister her kidney because, kate wanted to die. Kate was tired of suffering and also causing a lot of stress to her family. At the end Anna dies and kate gets her kidney and lives into her 30's. The fact that Kate wanted to die was understandable, nobody wants to live in pain. Many sucides are commited because people do not want to be in pain anymore. Throughout the book I was on the fence about Anna, because I agreed with her decision to sue her family but then I felt like she should have done all she could to help her sister.But then when it was brought out that her sister wanted to die then i sided more with Anna. This experience the family went through with Kate being sick then Anna dieing in my opinion should have made them closer. If this situation happened in my household everyone would be close. This book was very interesting and there was a lot of drama, and it shows that when one person is sick in a family everyone gets affected.

1st movie reflection The event's that took place in Asia should not have taken place anywhere.In the movie one of the countries in Asia got bascially firecrackers dropped into their town. Many people died during this event. It has become apparent to me that many innocent people during wars, which is not fair. Many people may argue that scarficing some peoples lives to save a country is worth it but I believe that nobody should be killed, because they did not ask for their country and another to be at war. I apprecaited the young man in this movie. He showed strength, many people ma undergo lossing a love one and believe they cannot continue to live. This young man lost his mother, father and sister, and he continued to live his life without them.

Hiroshima 1st reading reflection I was amazed at the fact that everyone in Hiroshima was aware of the fact that, their town would soon be bombed next. Many people got ready by storing away there variables in houses of people in other towns. Many in this town believed that when the bomb came there would hear a sound, but when it arrived it came with a flash. Many people died because of this bomb but many lived because they where in the right place at the right time. One example of that was, one of the doctors, at his hospital always said that if the bomb came the best place to stand would be in the doorway. As the bomb came he so happened to be standing in the doorway and he lived and came out of the clinical with no injuries. Since everyone was aware that their would be a bomb dropped at anytime, my question is why did so many people die??.. The town would always sound the horn would the planes would pass over their town, but the day when the bomb is dropped on the town there wasn't any horn being sound.

2nd reading reflection There was absolutly no help for the people in Hiroshima after the bombing. They where promised that help would came but none came. I believe that many people would have lived if there was more help aforded to the people in need. To make matters worst, a month later a flood occurs in the town. This flood made the hospitals that ruined from the bomb, flood away, so this made matters worst. It seemed like matters went from bad to worst and these people suffered a lot. After the clean up of the bomb. Many people would not hire someone who came from Hiroshima because they had the bomb sickness.

3rd reading reflection The Sea and Poison The main character and his wife moved to West Matsubara which is in Tokyo. This man has a diease called TB This is a diese where one lung gets full with either liquid or air and doesnt exit the lung. So the a doctor would have to give a treatment called Pneumothorax. This treatment is air being pumped into the side in order to diminish the pleural cavity pressing on the lung. The main character meets a doctor in his new town named Dr. Suguro. He doesn't like how this mans apperance is so he doesn't want to get treatment from him.I understood the main characters feelings because if my doctor looked unclean and mean i wouldn't want him or she too even put there hands on me. But this attidue is not realistic because if thats the only doctor that is in town then a person would have to go to him.

4th reading reflection I found it interesting tthat Japan during this air ried there was food being rationed and they where even running out of food. But when Ueda went to China, which from the books details was across the river, there was penlty of food. People in China even had slaves or "whipping boys". They lived a normal life while people in Japan worried about dieing everyday. I felt pitty for the people in Japan because it was obvious they where going to die but they didnt know when and none of us do but when death stays you in the face its a very uneasy feeling. I also found it disturbing that prioners where used as genny pigs. Even though they are prioners I believe that they still have rights. I will always remeber the young women in part 1, who the doctors did an experimental producer on her and she died. They decided to keep tghe cause of deah a secret. This was disturbing to me because her familyy has a right to know that it was the doctors fault she died. I also loved the old lady she just sounded cute from the books details. I also liked how Mrs. Hilda would take all the patients dirty underwear and clean them. Also how she would bring biscutts for the nurses and doctors. I felt that this was very compassnate because she didnt have to do it but she did.

5th reading reflection I think thats it's interesting that suguro developed a conscience during the experimental procedeure on the prisoner. I also that it was amazing that the other doctors had no feelings towards this, but at the end the old man said that "he's a patient hes a prisoner." It shows that the japanese had no sympathy towards the enemy. Also i disliked how the book ended because it ended with a poem, that i dont fully understand.The sea was a symbol of peace. Because everytime something bad was about to occur the inten would look out to the water and feel peace.

1st The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat Dr.Sacks is the one who deals with all the interesting cases of health problems. The man who mistook his wife for a book was was Doctor, who taught at college. He was unable to recogized his students. He would see no living things with faces and he thought his wife was a hat. He got diagnosed with visual agnosia. This case was very interesting with me because how can someone with this have a normal life.

2nd The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat The lost mariner can not remember anything that happened at the end of WWII. He can not remember anything that happened a few minutes ago. This man also thought that he worked at the hospital. He feared like because he never remebered why he was in certain places. This health issue I would not like to have. The reason for this is because its not a great feeling to not know whats going on around you. This man always suffered with trying to find satification and happiness.

3rd The Man who Mistook His Wife For A Hat The disembodied lady loses her entire sense of propiception. She had to learn how to rely on her sense of sight to replace her body's blindness to itself. It's interesting that she enjoy's feeling the wind on her face. Something simple as this that many take for grandated this young lady looks forward to realizinf that her body is still there. This is a very strange case, its not normal for people to not realize that their foot is attach to their body. This can become a handicap, but the book brings out that she learned how to function with this diease.

4th The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat When I read about the man who fell out the bed, I could not stop laughing. I think its hilirious that this man thinks that his legs are not really his legs. Everytime he believes his legs are not his he throw's them off the bed. When he does this his whole body gets thrown off the bed. This is truely the worst diease to have because, a person can get injured from throwing themselves off the bed. The women who was 60 who was called hands. Had a impairment of perception in her had. She also had congenital blindness with cerebral palsy. He diease did not interest me even though it was weird.

5th The phantoms, I did not clearly understand. The Phantom finger is scared that his finger would poke him in the eye if he ate or scratched his nose. The person on the level wasnt intresting either. This man tilts to one side. Having this diease isnt good because this person can develop spinal problems.

1st In the Yellow Wall Paper the women was depressed. Women where not taken seriously back then. I applaud this women because she was very submissive to her husband because he was a doctor. Personally if I was a sick women and I knew something was wrong with me and everyone is telling me that I'm fine I would go crazy. I would go crazy to the point where they would have to put me in a mental institute. But I understand why she listen to him, because she trust him.

2nd In the I found it intresting that medical school in the 1930's did not requie as much as they do now. The author brought out that certain medical terms where not used back then during medical school. He also brought out that if he would have to apply to medical school now he would not have gotton into medical school. He also brought out that the only reason why he got into Harvard was because the professor worked along with his father. This thought is scary because a lot of knowleagde was needed to be a doctor. But this is also the reason why many people died because of malpractice back in then. Now there is a more advancement in health care because there is more of an educated medical team.

3rd In the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. Has been an intresting book. The man see's a dog that is in his neighbors backyard who is dead. But it became apparent to me that he was special ed. And the book is all about these things he says at night. But as is already known special ed people can see beyond what the "normal" human eye can.

4th I have been reading my abortion book. It has been very interesting to see the two sides on abortion. There is the pro-life and pro-choice. I personally agree with the pro-life because a parent decides to have sex and they should take responsibility for the consequeces. In my eyes its the same thing as if a person has unprotected sex and they get an STD, there is a treatment for that, so they have to live with it. So if someone has unprotected sex or even protected sex and they have a child its their responsibility.

5th As I keep reading on in my abortion book. It also brought out the religious aspect of abortion. Its against the bible to have an abortion because God view's this embryo as a child even though society may not. The author of this book also trys to not chose sides, but somethings are controvesal. But this book gave me a lot of insight on peoples different view of abortion.

1st When I frist read this book I thought it would be about AIDS. But instead it was about Iboli. I thought it was interesting how it came from one part of the world and then spread to other parts of the world. At frist I was wondering why this book is telling the story of one man. Then I came to realize that he was the doctor who frist got infected with the diease. It was frist developed in a monkey.

2nd While reading this part of the book and was very scared that they would say that the man slept with the monkey thats why he got the diease. Because in the book they made it seem that his relationship with the monkey was very intamate. Later on we find out that this diease is actually airborn.

3rd. The doctor who treats the man who frist got infected also got infected when the guy spit up blood and it got into her eyes. Then we got to know the symptoms of having iboli. The man who frist got infected was bleeding from the insides. His body was being destroyed. Usually a persons organs start to destroy.

4th Movie slumdogg millionar I thought this movie was interesting. I felt very bad that there where children who where till this day go to bed hungrey. It hurt me to see how adults treat the kids in India. I actually thought it was interesting that the police is so currpt. I was so happy that the young man won the game because he desired it. \

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