Summary of "Reasonable Suspicion of Child Abuse: Finding a Common Language" and "Retinal Haemorrhages in Premature Infants: A Pathogenetic Alternative Diagnosis to Child Abuse"

     In the article "Reasonable Suspicion of Child Abuse: Finding a Common Language" Benjamin H. Levi and Sharon G. Portwood talk about how to tell when it as appropriate to report child abuse or not.  The article starts out with a very short story about a father bringing his daughter into a doctors office with a bruised nose.  How do you know if this is child abuse or if the story that the father is telling is true?  This article goes on to discuss how there are many different professions that are entitled to report child abuse when it is seen.  They discuss the terms used in these professions like belief, reason to believe, suspect, reasonable suspicion, etc (64).  They go into detail about what if you report and have "false negatives" or don't report and leave a child in a horrible situation.  Everyone is trying to find a common denominator about where to go, but the lines are fuzzy. Some of the states have a 20% surety report rate and some states are much higher.  This article explores these problems.
    In "Retinal Haemorrhages in Premature Infants: A Pathogenic Alternative Diagnosis to Child Abuse" by Hans C. Fledelius focuses on the retinal bleeds in an infants eyes.  He describes the different types of bleeds that he had seen in 11 different cases and compared them to Shaken Baby Syndrome.  He tries to describe that most retinal bleeds in infants happen before a child leaves the mothers body. He goes on to describe what each on looks like and keeps track of each child as they age.  Shaken Baby Syndrome has a different affect on the child's eyes.  He describes this type of abuse in his article.

Outline:
I. Introduction:
Thesis: The different papers show the different types of articles by the audiences they approach.  The first article has a more general audience with a simpler language.  The second article has a much more complex language where he cites other studies and medical terms.

II. Body
  A. Language
      1. General Terms vs. Medical Terms
      2. Purpose of the Audience
  B. Visual Aids

III. Conclusion

Paper 1

      I am not very happy with my first paper.  I feel that I did not get to put all of my resources to use because of me not being able to come to class.  This is not anybodys fault but my own to a certain extent, but I still wish that I could have been able to use the peer revisions and things like that.  I feel that I did not get to use my time as well as I probably should have.  I know that I spent too much time at work that week and did not give enough time to my paper.  I think things would have been a little bit different if my schedule at work had not changed and I would not have had to work instead of coming to class but these things happen.  I let myself push it off further and further.  I did not wait until the complete last minute to do it, but it was still not what I should have put into it.  I will do everything I can to be at all of the peer revisions for the next paper.  I know I have to work, and I know that school is a secondary thing for me because work pays for my schooling.  I have to go to work to be able to survive.  Anyway, I know this blog posting is late and I am not expecting to get credit for it.  It just makes me feel better to have it posted.

Genres

     I am using two new sources for my next paper.  I have decided to return to a subject that I am a little more comfortable with to write about.  I think these sources are very different in their content because of the language each piece uses.  Each piece of writing in general is about the same topic.  Each one has the same content to a certain extent.  The genres are the same in these articles.  They both talk largely about child abuse and the signs of it.  One article closes in on finding a common language for everyone to use, which means everyone in every profession would be able to say one thing and it mean the exact same thing to every person.  When dealing with a situation like child abuse, there are very fine lines and most people don't know where to begin. When do you say yes that is child abuse or to turn away and not say anything at all?  The second source that I have chosen is more of a professional article.  It focuses on child abuse, but it leans toward the medical side of it.  This article has a much more targeted audience than the first article.  It does more research toward the Shaken Baby Syndrome and the medical signs of child abuse that can occur when these kinds of child abuse occur.  I believe it will be much easier for me to write about these article because it is more along the lines of science that I am used to working with.

Outline for Paper 1

Brown, Alan S. "Fishing for Robots." Mechanical Engineering 132.10 (2010): 32-5. Print.


Summary:
     In "Fishing for Robots," Alan S. Brown explores the concept of "robot" drones acting like a school of fish.  Naomi Ehrich Leonard and her team have built a type of drone or glider that can explore the depths of the ocean and bring back scientific readings.  The first drone that her team made was easily influenced by the tides and the currents, but could stay at sea for weeks.  They continued their work on these drones and came up with a better design.  In 2002, Leonard received a grant to continue her work and for her to research collective behavior.  She began off of the shore of Monetary Bay.  She soon figured out that her drones would stay in a formation much like a school of fish would.  When continuing her research she set another group of drones out to try a different pattern of searching.  She figured out that if they could keep to a tighter formation then she could get better feedback from them.  This research has brought up many questions about how does a school of fish or a herd of animals move without an individual leader.  She has come to believe that the "neighbors" only follow their immediate neighbors and not every person in the group.  "If everyone is only sensing their next-door neighbors on either side, moving uniformly around in a circle is a stable solution.  As soon as everyone starts sensing everyone else, the only stable solution is the whole group moving in a straight line direction."(35)


Paper Outline:
I. Introduction
Thesis: This article was written for a more educated person.  This person is more science minded than the average person.  It is not necessarily for a scientist or a professional but someone in the science field.


II. Body
     A. Language
          1. Style
     B. Visual Elements


III. Conclusion

Can Young Blood Make You Feel Younger?

     I read an article in Popular Science where they were experimenting with mice.  With this experiment they had taken an older mouse and injected blood from a younger mouse.  They found that once they did this the mouse started acting younger.  Scientists reported the younger blood caused the older mouse to start producing new neurons and decreased inflammation.  The exact opposite happened when a younger mouse was injected with an older mouse's blood.  He started acting more like and older mouse because it stopped producing neurons and increased inflammation.

     Think about the possibilities that could happen if this became something that we could do to humans. If we could keeps neurons being produced in the human brain when someone becomes elderly then the effects of aging would not be as bad.  I don't think that this would ever prolong life but I believe that it could help the quality of life.  In the article it mentions that when neurons stop being produced is when a person starts forgetting the little things like where they parked the car or where they put the keys.  If this actually did work it could mean really great things.  It would help elderly people feel better about themselves mentally and physically.  Mentally it could help them not feel like they were literally losing their minds.  Physically it could help with the inflammation and aches and pains.  I am not usually one for this type of testing, but I think this one could really help.

Here is the link:http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-09/study-finds-injecting-old-mice-young-mouse-blood-has-rejuvenation-effect