Service Learning Visual Product- Lawend Barzenji

How Can St. Lukes Provide Free Medical Care to Uninsured People and Provide A More Variety of Medical Service

           Recently I have been doing service work for St. Lukes Medical Clinic. They are a clinic that gives free medical service to people who have insurance but can not afford to pay for medical service. Even though It provides a great service there still are problems that they run into. One problem that I noticed was that they do not provide medical care to uninsured people and they do not provide any kind of dental care what so ever. This does not affect me personally but it does effect the community of Spartanburg. The first thing that they told us when I started my service work was that they do not provide dental work. Dental work is really expensive compared to getting treated for sickness. I mean just to get braces is a few thousand dollars. Having bad teeth can lead to disease as well. Some people can not even afford medical insurance, where those people go to get treated? That is why I think this is a huge problem because if St. Lukes is willing to help people get treated for free with medical insurance then why not people with out it. The steakholders of the problem would be the patients, volunteering doctors, staff of St. Lukes, and nurses. For this problem I will be doing research using academic search complete on the USC Upstate library online resources as well as books and other scholarly websites.

Questions I have for the topic/steakholders
1. How can we raise money to help uninsured people
2. How can we raise money to help get dentist materials
3. Where can we get donations for equipment
4. Can we provide insurance for the uninsured
5. How can we get dentists to come in and volunteer
6. is it possible to help those who are uninsured
7. How can we get doctors to come in and volunteer more often
8. Can we set up a work schedule for volunteers instead of just letting them come in when they feel like it.
9. Do people with insurance still have to pay out of their own pocked
10. How can donations help with the problem

I have found a few resources as E-books and in academic search complete. I always seem to run into problems when typing papers and so far I have trouble with knowing what to research. For example finding  the right key words to use in my research.

self assessment-Essay 2

                Our second paper for English 102 was an argument analysis paper. We had to look up sources about an issue that was related to our service learning work. Since I work at a medical clinic I decided to do something on the privacy of medical records.
                 I think that I did really well on summarizing and analyzing each of my sources. Some people tend to summarize when they are trying to analyze but I feel like my paper does a good job of separating the two. First I summarized the source then after that wrote my interpretation of the source. When I analyze papers I think to myself  "what do I make of it?" It helps keep me in check.
                I think the best part of my argument analysis essay is the first source that I cover. I think it is the best part because I had a lot to go from because of the source. The author of the article gave valid reasoning and evidence. He even had very good credibility compared to my second source which made analyzing it a lot easier as well as picking a side to agree with.
                To make my paper better I would probably summarize a bit more for each source. At times I felt that the summaries might have not had enough detail but then again it is a summary after all. I always seem to have the problem of knowing whether or not my summary is well typed up.
                I learn a lot from the papers we write in all honesty. I think the thing I learned the most, however, from writing my argument analysis paper is how to find fallacies in articles and other things. The biggest thing we went over in class was the fallacies. If I were to go back one year and read an article, I would not even notice or think about any fallacies but now when I read I tend to look for them or just notice them.

Argument Analysis summary Lawend Barzenji

            In the article Give Up Your Data To Cure Disease, by David B. Agus, discusses his argument about how electronic health care systems are hurting the health system according to doctors, but he says otherwise. Agus says "neither doctors nor patients are happy with it."  His main point or argument is that medical discoveries have been made by reviewing people's medical data. He then contends that more people should be willing to share their medical records with doctors to help cure disease.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/opinion/sunday/give-up-your-data-to-cure-disease.html?ref=topics&_r=0 



             The article Give Up Your Data To Cure Disease? Not So Fast!, by Deborah Peel, is basically a counter argument against the first article. Deborah starts of by saying that yes, patients records may hold information to cure disease, however, that information is personal data and should not be shared. Peel says that when we give our doctors that information we are trusting them to keep it safe and not share it. She claims it is personal information that should not be shared. She says "it destroys a human right, the right to privacy."

http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2016/02/09/give-up-your-data-to-cure-disease-not-so-fast/

Self Assessment: Essay 1 Lawend Barzenji

                         When I first began this assignment I thought that it would just be another paper to write, a chore, if that is what you want to call it, but as a I did some brainstorming, writing, and research my idea of this paper changed because I found a topic that really caught my interests. My teacher, Mrs. Thomas, told us that we could go on ted.com and find an issue related to our service learning project. So I went on ted.com and spent about two days finding something I really wanted to research. I found a speech about why we should use blood from young humans to cure diseases that come with age. That is a break through in the medical world so I had to stick with his argument. When selecting this speech I just thought about whether or not it related to my service learning project and if the speaker gave a valid argument including evidence and other point of views.
                      The most difficult issue I came across while writing was mainly how I wanted my topics from my thesis ordered. I didn't want to just mash it all together and go on from one topic to another. I wanted it to flow, I wanted transitions, which I am not the best at. What I did was basically just mash my topics together, I know I just said that I didn't want to do that but I rearranged my paragraphs after I finished my paper.
                      Along with writing my paper I got a few people to help me revise it. My teacher, Mrs. Thomas commented on our rough drafts on Kizena as well as a student from my class that I was partnered up with to for revising and my brother. I was told that my paper was good but that I should clear up my thesis. Also my brother told me to include more quotes from the speech and a few other things. I took everyone's advice because I am not a good writer so any advice I get I put it into consideration.
                    I think that my paper had some typical strong and weak points. The strong points would have to be the parts of me discussing how the speaker used rhetoric in his speech. The weak points is probably my conclusion if anything. I have never been well with ending a paper. I always feel like I have given the information that is needed so there is no need to conclude. Sometimes conclusions feel empty to me and pointless so I hate writing them. For my conclusion I just looked at the sample essay my teacher provided to give me an idea of what will be expected. It helped out a lot. I really like that fact that she gives us sample essays.
                  In the next essay assignment I will probably spend more time with the research and on writing my paper. I want to make sure that my paper is going to be well developed so I will try to do a little of it at a time over a period of days. I will also spend more time on my thesis because I feel that a weak thesis leads to a weak paper.

Basic Questions For Rhetorical Analysis by Lawend Barzenji

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity

                   

                     The speaker of the speech ,Do Schools Kill Creativity, by Ken Robinson, a University professor contends that schools kill creativity. He brings about his own perspective towards the topic using real life examples he has witnessed and experienced. He speaks to an audience with the intention of convincing them that students loose creativity as they continue through today school system. Robinson proves that schools kill creativity by explaining the school system and using real life examples. He argues that all schools have the same hierarchy of subjects with language and mathematics at the the top and that the education system is based on academic ability, pretty much nothing else. He says that people are kept away from things they enjoy or things they are talented at. 

                      Robinson speaks directly to an audience. The speech is also targeted towards people of the education system such as teachers, principles, university professors, etc. It is also targeted towards all people in general. Robinson is serious as he speaks about this argument however he does joke a little to lighten the audience. He uses a bit of sarcasm which I found pretty funny. He also uses things like metaphors and he has a subtle tone.

TED Talks Speech (Rhetorical analysis) Lawend Barzenji

http://www.ted.com/playlists/171/the_most_popular_talks_of_all


                 I saw a really interesting TED talk on ted.com by Ken Robinson. The talk was on creativity of kids and students. Robinson explains that creativity is having original ideas that have values. The main argument or question was whether or not schools kill creativity. Ken Robinson contended that they do. He explained that education systems are basically all the same every where in the world. "They teach the same hierarchy for subjects with math and language at the top" (Robinson). It does not leave room for students to explore and learn about their talents.
                  According to Robinson, creativity is as important as literacy. He went on to talk about how kids are not frightened about being wrong. He said that as we get older and continue or education we are taught  to lose that capacity. The thing about not being afraid of being wrong is "if your not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original." Robinson contends that kids are taken away form things that they are most likely not going to get a job from such as dancing, sports, or music. We are not pressured to learn those things as much as math, language, or history. Towards the end of the speech, Robinson talked of a girl who he knew that could not sit still in class and was getting lower grades. Her mom took her to the doctor to see what was wrong. the doctor wanted to talk to her mom privately and as her mom and doctor were leaving the room, the doctor played the radio. when the doctor and the girls mom came back to the room they saw she was dancing. The doctor concluded "your child is not sick, she is a dancer." Robinson said that her mom put her in a dancing school and she is now a multi-millionaire from dancing. It was her creativity not her education that took her far in life.