| Language Arts poems and Science Report | |||||||||||||||||
| Genetic Susceptibility of Multiple Sclerosis | Parody Poem /Stealing Amanda's pen while she is drunk | ||||||||||||||||
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Multiple Sclerosis is a disease of the Central Nervous system. In MS, cells of the immune system invade and destroy myelin, the fatty material that insulates nerves in the brain and spinal cord. Other CNS cells produce hardened sclerotic lesion (plaque) around the multiple demyelinated sites. An estimated 2,500,000 people in the world have MS. Although there is no drug that can cure MS. there are treatments that are now available, which can modify the course of the disease. Most people that have MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 40 years, but the physical and emotional effects can be lifelong. Severity and specific symptoms of MA in any one person can not yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are giving hope to those affected by the disease. MS is a chronic, most often disabling disease. There are 4 different types of MA. There are Relapsing-Remitting MS, Benin MS, Secondary Progressive MS, and Primary Progressive MS. Relapsing- Remitting is when there are unpredictable relapses (execrations, attacks) during which news symptoms appear or existing symptoms become more severe. This can last for varying periods (days and months) and there is partial or total remission (recovery). The disease may be in active for months or years. Benin MS, after one or two attacks with complete recovery, this form of MS does not worsen with time and there is no permanent disability. Benin MS can only be identified when there is minimal disability 10-15 years after onset and initially would have been categorized as relapsing-remitting MS. Benin MS tends to be associated with less severe symptoms at onset. Secondary Progressive is for some individuals who initially have relapsing-remitting MS; there is the development of progressive disability later in the course of the disease often with superimposed relapses. Primary Progressive, this form of MS is characterized by a lack of distinct attacks, but with slow onset and steadily worsening symptoms. There is an accumulation of deficits and disability that may level off at some point or continue over months and years. Genetics is the study of heredity, or the passing on of characteristics from an organism to its offspring. Genetics is like the passing from one person to another, giving your son or daughter blue eyes and blonde hair take genetics. How you can get big boned or even like on the TV show Charmed where the 3 girls become witches because their mother and grandmother were one. Ms was long believed to be caused mainly by environmental factors, some environmental factors: infectious agents, toxins, allergens, and food have been investigated as causative agents of MS. Many infectious agents, including those responsible for Lyme disease and tropical spastic paresis, have been studied: however, there have been no consistent findings of specific viruses or bacteria in the peripheral blood or brains of people with MS. But is now more likely considered a genetically based disease. It is the most common disease of the central nervous system of young adults in Canada, affecting every one of 800 people. Researchers may look at what environmental factors may trigger the onset of MS in those genetically predisposed to the disease. The current database of MS families will be used in this component of the reasearvh as well. Specifically, researchers willl see if they can determine the timing of the mechanism of exposure since some investigators have suggested that the critical time of exposure is pre-puberty. For people with MS who worry about their children getting the disease, the risk for developing MS among the family members is still relatively csmall, and the likelihood of the disease of a person with MS developing id quite low. |
Whose pen is this I think I know I took it from Amanda though she was drinking a lot of beer she tried to walk and stubbed her toe She really looks like a big queer It scared me when she got quite near was quite dunk and looked like a flake Then turned and whispered in Dave's ear. She says she wants to take a break She wants her pen for goodness sake Then I give her pens knee-deep I'm startled when she starts to quake This pen I took I must not keep For I already have a heap And pens to take before I sleep And pens to take before I sleep | ||||||||||||||||
| Color poem/ Black/// Self-Metaphor/ | |||||||||||||||||
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Black Black is the flames in a smoky bonfire, a jagged mountain, with and endless hole in the middle. The taste of blood with rice, the tasteless flavor of over cooked food. A hot, jagged, bumpy, solid brick wall restraining you from moving. The time right after a big bang during dead silence. Charcoal burning in a bonfire, and the smoke wafting over from a burning candle. The Mirror I am a cracked mirror. Broken into a million pieces. Spread every which way. Sometimes sharp other times smooth. I can poke and make you bleed. I show things that are only skin deep, nothing further. I can never be the same; there will always be cracks. | |||||||||||||||||
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