Multigenre Idea/Response

I really like the idea of the Multigenre Research Projects, it gives you a more creative aspect, because there are many different ways you can go about presenting or the way you write the paper. I like that it’s something we get to choose to research, and that it can relate to a topic we experience, or just enjoy a lot.

Whenever I went to the link that was provided, I went to a research paper titled “Living Thin: One Girl’s Fight for a FULL Life” which was basically a paper about a girl who had anorexia, but it was more that just a research paper with a bunch of facts, and stating arguments. This paper had her own story tied into the research aspect, and she put in her own experiences into the writing which I found cool. I enjoyed the topic of the eating disorder a lot, just because disorders interest me strangely. Her paper made me think a lot about myself, not that I having an eating disorder, because I love food. But, she mentioned something about how seeing herself in a mirror made her feel bad about herself, and I think that is just terrible. She states that Anorexia is just a much mental as it physical, maybe even more, but to think that you look bad and self ridiculing yourself is something that I could never do. Yes, I look in the mirror and wish I was smaller but I am content with myself, and it makes me want to do my multigenre research paper on self confidence, because its something all of us have. Maybe a little too much of, or not enough.    

I don’t have a lot of ideas of what I want to do my project on, because I don’t have a lot things I’m really interested in. Unless it’s something like, band, or soccer which aren’t all that interesting. So I’m interested to see if I will end up doing something simple, or more complex like relating something to my life, or my future.    

United Nations Millennium- Goal 4

      The millennium goal that I chose, and think strongly about is the “Reduce Child Mortality”, the reason I think strongly about this is because I really care about children, and they interest me the most out of all of the topics.  When you open the “Goal 4: 2013 Facts Sheet” it opens with some facts about the topic and one of the topics that interested me the most was, while around 17,000 fewer children are dying each day, 6.6 million children under five died in 2012—mostly from preventable diseases. And that interested me the most because they were preventable, but they don’t have as many resources as we do to save those lives.

     What goal four is, is that is states “Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the mortality rate of children under five” and to summarize what the goal is wanting, is basically making it possible for in the future increase child survival. It also talks about how the death of these children come from some of the poorest and most marginalized societies, and some of the diseases mostly come from: pneumonia, preterm birth complications, diarrhea, intrapartum-related complications and malaria. It is known that the first month, and particularly the first 24 hours, are the most dangerous in a child’s life. But, it is said that when you breast feed your newborn, they’re more likely to survive that non-breast fed children.

        The way I think this connects to our neighborhood, and our society is that maybe not to the extent of so many children dying from the disease listed above, but from not enough nutrition. I say that because, there are plenty of children who are starving, or have health issues and can’t afford the medication that they need. The outcome so far of goal four is that in Bangladesh they are breaking health care barriers by having UNICEF supported efforts, by training community health care workers. But overall it seems that the UNICEF has tried to make great efforts to reach the goal in many communities.