Midterm Playlist

1) Misery - Maroon 5: Right now I could pull out my hair! With these past two tests I've had in bio and chem, Im becoming sooo stressed along with the research topic that Im so confused about! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g6g2mvItp4

2) All Summer Long - Kid Rock: Is it summer yet?! I cant believe that some of my friends have finals next week when we're just in the 5th week of our quarter, I want summer now! Especially with this crappy rain! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwIGZLjugKA

3) Stuck In The Middle With You - Steelers Wheel: Like the song says "I got a feelin that something 'aint right". In all honesty, im soo lost in my research topic. All these fancy words that the books are using, what do they mean?! I'm no scientist! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DohRa9lsx0Q

4) Rollin In the Deep - Adele: All in all, this is just an amazing song, and I love it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw

5) Please Dont Go - Mike Posner: I know I said I wanted summer, which I do, but realizing it is the middle of the end of the last quarter of my freshman year of college, it seems like it went by so quickly that I hate to see it go! I'm going to miss my friends more than anything this summer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpixdTlYlKU

6) Little Moments - Brad Paisley: I think the tittle kinda relates to this class right now more than the lyrics. I feel that what we have been doing lately as assignments are the little things that are going to make our papers that much better. Although they may seem tedious when assigned, I think they'll end up helping us out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBErCVNP6rM

Ahhh stressed, as usual

Is it summer yet? Right now I just got super stressed. Home for the weekend, which is weird because you would think that would make me a little more relaxed. With a bio test on Tuesday, chem test Monday, and to find out my TA grades super hard in bio lab...doesn't really add up to a relaxing weekend. Just kinda needed to vent about everything. To make it even better, if I'm being honest, all this stuff in my research paper makes no sense because its all huge words that I personally don't know whaaatt they mean. Lets hope that the weather is good this week to put things on the bright side! Is college always this stressful?

Lit Review

I think that having a session in class today was a really good thing. I know its exactly what I need seeing that I've been procrastinating a little bit on getting this litt review started. I now feel that I'm not as lost any more and am hopefully doing the right thing for this. Veeerryy relieved.

Right now..

Well this is my first blog post on my own without assignment... In english right now im pretty confused on the things that we're supposed to be doing. How many posts are we supposed to have per week? Are we supposed to comment on everyone else's? aahh confused, but also stressing about school in general. I just need summer now! haha

Lost

does any one know what we're supposed to be doing for this Literature review due next thursday? im sooo lost!!

Research Proposal

Amanda Seidel

Professor Kerley

ENGL 102

4/10/11

Research Proposal

Stem cells are found in most, if not all, multi-cellular organisms that are able to renew themselves through the process of mitotic division. Their most central characteristics that can make them so imperative is the ability to differentiate into a very wide spectrum of specialized cells including more stem cells.  According to the Journal of American Medical Association, an article titled “Stem Cell Research” written by Irving Weissman explains the model that has been studied many times over, mouse hematopoeisis, long term self renewal is for hematopoietic cells and all of the downstream oltiopotent progenitors do not have the self-renewal and depend on the HSC input to continue to allow them to regenerate over time. Seeing this, it is evident that self-renewal is invested in populations of stem cells that are found in tissues and may be the only cells that are important for the life long tissue regeneration. Such cells are very helpful in the development of building tissues and are kept throughout the organism’s adult life to continue to regenerate the tissues. In today’s society there are many ethical and political issues that surround the development of more research on embryonic stem cells. This is then put into the hands of the physicians to determine on their own if the welfare of the patient or their personal ethics will take over the way they practice medicine.

            In another article written by Bin-Bin et al. found in the Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology titled “Adult stem cells and cancer stem cells: tie in or tear apart?”, they discuss how a new cancer therapy has been found by isolating the cancerous stem cells in leukemia, breast, and brain cancers, allows for a possible way to eliminate cancer. Cancer stem cells share the same properties of self-renewal as other stem cells; some think that they arose as a result of a mutation of the normal stem cells or that it is possibly from a different origin.

Although stem cells are used for only good in hospitals and other medical establishments, there are still people that do not ethically agree with the therapy. Whether it be from the baby or the adult, these stem cells serve a very good purpose in the possibility of finding cures to many different diseases that cold save thousands if not millions of lives in the future.  In the article The Ethical Case against Stem Cell Research by Soren Holm, he discusses the most common arguments against stem cell research in every stage of life that they can be taken from. He goes ahead and states that the “human individuals is intrinsically valuable at all stages of life. Killing or destroying a human being is there fore always pro tanto wrong”.

To continue my research bout stem cells I will continue to read different articles as well as books for and against stem cells to be able to get a different perspective on each. My research will ultimately show that stem cells are a beneficial medical practice seeing that they can save millions of lives every year without killing the patient that the cells are being taken from.

Play List

Nobody's perfect- Jessie J: This song reminds me of my topic because it reminds me that no one is perfect are are going to need things done to them sometimes medically,possibly stem cells,  to make their lives more manageable
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx-G_bFeHzw
Damned if I do ya (damned if I dont)- All time low: I feel that this related to my topic because if one deals with stem cells they can be screwed either way because it could be harmful to the patient to not have them as a therapy or if you do use them, then the ethical issues come into play.
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRTq_6jY_KM
Annie Waits- Ben Folds: This song talks about a girl waiting for something right to go her way and I think that this can relate to my topic because one could hypothetically think of annie as a sick girl that needs therapy for her disease but hasnt been able to find an ethically right one yet
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ehmyXiBEJQ
Meet Me Half Way- The Black Eyed Peas: On the issue of stem cells, i feel that it would be good if the government and medical issues would be able to come up with some sort of compromise regarding this as a therapy.
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7HahVwYpwo
I gotta feeling - The Black Eyed Peas: I personally think that stem cell research is something that can be very useful when it comes to many different diseases.
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSD4vsh1zDA

Potential Research Topics

1)    Chain smoking – a lot of my family members smoke and I would like to learn more about the topic and what specific things influence the probability for lung cancers.

2)    Palestine vs. Israel – with the recent attacks made on the country of Israel I would like to find more out about the background of the conflict as well as the different groups (Hamass).

3)    Gambling in Ohio- although I can see the sides to both of the arguments why it should or shouldn’t be legalized in Ohio I would like to look at it from others perspectives as well as find out more background as to why they don’t want it legalized.

4)    Stem cells- I don’t see why this is such a controversial topic and what certain people have against it and would like to investigate more as to why people think it is not appropriate.

5)    Going green – In today’s society is has become a very large topic about being environmentally friendly by reducing your carbon footprint. I strongly believe that even though we may not have much knowledge about what’s really going on in the o-zone, it is always a good idea to leave this earth as clean as possible and reduce waste.