WK 8 CR Ex 2.1

Call Number: RG 651 .C55 2009
Authors: Fisanick, Christina
Title:Childbirth
Place of Publication: Greenhaven Press
Date of Publication: 2009
Might be an interesting read to gain insight on the right of a woman to have and elective c-section. Also why c-sections should not be performed routinely.


Author: Putre, Laura
Title: Rise in C-Sections Tax Hospitals' Resources.
Title of periodical:H&HN Hospitals & Health Networks
Volume or issue number and date: Apr 2008, Vol. 82 Issue 4
Pages covered by the article: p12-12
stats in rise of c-sections, litigation issues, vbacs, elective

Author: Taffel, Selma M.; Placek, Paul J.
Title: Complications in Cesarean and Non-Cesarean Deliveries: United States, 1980.
Title of periodical: American Journal of Public Health
Volume or issue number and date: Aug83, Vol. 73 Issue 8
Pages covered by article: p856-860
Has stats for the 80's and reason for increase back then graphs and numbers, old but might be useful


Author:Rubin, Rita
Title: Answers elusive as C-section rate rises
Title of periodical: USA Today
Volume or Issue date: 19 Mar 2009
Pages covered by article:
Talks about risks and rise in c-sections. Also talks about docs not wanted to be sued, and amount of money it takes.

Rita Rubin. "Answers elusive as C-section rate rises." USA Today (n.d.). Newspaper Source. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 19 Mar. 2009 .

Author: Rubin, Rita
Title: Study: Early C-sections put the babies at risk
Title of Periodical: USA Today
Volume or Issue date: 08 Jan 2009
Pages covered by Article:
Good info. Sources The New England Journal of Medicine must find original work


Author:Kahn EB, Berg CJ, Callaghan WM.
Title: Cesarean delivery among women with low-risk pregnancies: a comparison of birth certificates and hospital discharge data.
Title of Periodical: www.pubmed.gov
Volume or Issue date:2009 Jan
Pages covered by Article:33-40

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19104357?ordinalpos=9&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Wk 7 CR Exercise 1.8 Ways of Reading to Write

1. The most important thing about reading for a research paper is to be able to discern through the information that is being read.

2. I think the purpose the the scene was to capture the readers interest which it did a very good job at. It used a lot of imagery which helped and it was a very dramatic beginning which captured my interest. It set the scene very well with a hot summer in Georgia, I felt the heat just by reading "The grass scorched and withered in the fields, and bare patches of red clay earth began to appear and to crack and cake in the sun like the bottoms of dried up lakes.""...the heat droned and shimmered in the fields, and the locusts sprang..." I felt the strong since of friendship with the five boys and as they went to play in the river. The sense of danger arouse when the author said that the river "roiled when he hit" and then the pain that the kid went through as he made his way to the shore. He had loyalty towards his friends so that they did not suffer the same fate as he when he warned them not to jump. The other boys I sensed were scared when they saw their buddy in pain and die. I think this dramatic beginning is central to the rest of the story because it showed a very traumatic event in the boys lives that had an impact on them which might lead to how they feel are behave later in the story.

3.The main idea in this passage is identity formation it reads that a child needs to find their identity and this is one of the biggest challenges. Ones identity is often changed based on new experiences and things that happen to them. There are some peoples identity that doesn't change because they avoid experiences and new things.

4. I did approach the passages differently because the first one was identified as a novel and the second was an article and I found myself having to read the article a couple of times before I was able to write anything on it. I was easily captured by the passage from the novel because it read like a book.
When I read a book I tend to get more into it and am able to soak more knowledge and not skip around. Informational articles I have to read over a couple of times because I skip around a lot. So I did use my typical reading strategies.
My behaviors when reading text and articles I read them first and might make a mark with a pencil when I think I find something important than I go back and highlight or underline things that I might want to use. If its on the computer I will bookmark the page and I might copy and paste something relevant to the word pad, or I have printed out things to highlight info as well. It does vary on the excerpt mostly depending on where I am at and where I got it from.
I would like to think that I did take my advice based on the question. I tried to discern through the information to find the main ideas in the article, as for the novels passage there was quite a bit of information that I could pick and choose from so it is mostly based on my own opinion.
The only problems I ran into when reading these passages was the article really i found it very boring after reading something so alive and cleverly written I had to read the article several times. The first time I read it I actually didn't realize that I had read it and did not retain anything. And then I read the question and about there being two different passages and then went back to find it. So I read what I was supposed to do for that passage again then with that in mind I read the article again and than again so I was able to do the summery.

Week 7 CR Exercise 1.7 Research Proposal

1.Why are Cesarean sections becoming a more frequently used way of birthing a baby?

2.Primary Purpose

• Explore:

Are you limited to the number of kids that you can have if having c-sections?
Are they more cost effective?
Is there danger to baby or mother when an elective c-section is done?
Are c-sections done more often in heavily populated areas? What about in low income areas vs higher income?
Are doctors more comfortable doing this surgery than a vaginal delivery?
Do doctors like to schedule them so that it is in a more predictable environment and they have more control over the situation or do they do them so that they can get it over with quickly and not play the waiting game.
Are there less lawsuits when c-sections are preformed rather than vaginal deliveries?

• Argue

My tentative main claim is that Doctors might be pursuing c-sections for their own benefits rather than the mothers. I believe that there are risk factors involved with a cesarean that are not being revealed to patients as well as they could be vs the risk factors for vaginal deliveries. I also believe that doctors might be reasoning with the patients to elect to have one so that there is a less of a chance for something to go wrong that might bring a lawsuit. Also I believe that by having a c-section the doctor gains control rather than the patient having control.

• Analyze

The theory that I am testing is that more cesareans take place than have to.

3. I never really thought twice about people having cesareans until I started to watch a lot of birthing shows on TV. I have always assumed that women had them because something was wrong with the baby or there was some type of a medical emergency that required the baby to be removed from the mother. After watching so many shows that ended in a c-section and being pregnant myself I began to wonder why there was such an increase in c-sections. Some of the women on the shows didn't appear to need them yet still received them. Now more than ever I believe that something is up after I went in for an elective inducement (for medical reasons) and the doctor kept pressuring me to rupture my water, even though I had only dilated one centimeter over the course of 24 hrs, and the chance of me having a successful vaginal delivery became very slim. After that experience and doing a little research asking the nurses at the hospital and a looking on the web, my prejudice's seem to be justified.

wk 7 CR exercise 1.6 Finding the Relationship

Big Hospitals, Predictability, Cost, Dangers Vs. Benefits



CESAREANS



Vbacs, Money, Mal-practice, Patient preference, Physician impatience

Working knowledge

I first got interested in this subject when I began to watch alot of birthing shows on discovery. My son beleives that the doctor is going to cut the baby out of mommys tummy like the doctor on the shows do. I heard that c-sections are every one in five nowadays and am fasinated by something that was so frowned upon growing up and considered so dangerous is so popular today. I have a step sis who has had three c-sec already the latter two being elective. My doctor frowns upon it and will only do it if necessary.

Exercise 1.1 Three steps CR

Places
Germany
Oregon
Idaho
Illinois
Hawaii
Backyard
Hospital
Space
church
Airport
Office
Texas
mountains


Things
Cabbage Patch doll
Books
Dogs
Music
Vitamins
Painkillers
Camping
Craigslist
Kijiji
Gallbladder
Military
heart
moving
trips
friends
trees
football


Children
Toddlers
Infants
Clothes
Learning
Toys
Music
Old fashion values
Punishment
Government
School
Spiritual needs
Cesareans
money
activities
family


Hobbies
Dogs
dog shows
Movies
Sewing
Musical instruments
Computers
Reading
Star wars
Learning
Children
Football
Decorating
Ducks
School
Going out
Driving
cooking
History



Why is there such an increase in c-sections?
Are C-sections still considered dangerous?
Are you limited to the number of kids that you can have if having c-sections?
Are they more cost effective?
Is there danger to baby when an elective c-section is done?
Are c-sections done more often in heavily populated areas?
Is the sucess rate of having a vaginal birth after a c-section also on the rise?
What is the reasoning behind elective c-sections?
Are doctors more comfortable doing this surgery than a vaginal delivery?
Is it easier and more time saving to just do c-sections than waiting for baby to come?

In the article “Google Zooms In Too Close for Some” it introduces a product on Google Earth called street view. Street view collects photos that show what a person might see it looking from the street. The articles main focus is on the negative perspective that people have with the product. There are people that find that it intrudes on their privacy, and it many examples of people caught doing things less than desirable for public view. With the introduction of the product people are on the search to find photos and submit them to a blog in a contest for “Best Urban Images”. Google has offered to delete images if requested.
I do not think I will necessary base a lot of my research on this article as it is mainly focused on one tiny part of Google Earth. Also it only gives a one sided opinion of the product which is negative. I will however keep it in mind and might throw it in to prove some of the turn offs. Peoples opinions are very important for this product to be successful. So I would find this article reliable in some of its context.



Helft, Miquel. “Google Zooms In Too Close for Some.” New York Times 1 June 2007: 1.NYTimes.com 1 June 2007. 13 Feburary 2009.





Steven Musil wrote and article on Cnet called “On the go with Google”. In the beginning of the article it explains the upgrade that Google Earth has came out with recently. Regular Joes can view Mars just like the scientists from Nasa, but with all the comforts their home computer provides. Nasa and Google have teamed up together to provide more information on oceans and then back up to the stars. A cool new feature that I checked out myself was the historical maps. Google also just a product called latitude which helps people locate and track others making the electronic leash shorter and the world a bit smaller. They worked on the privacy issue connected with this by having it password protection. The rest of the article in my opinion, is pretty irrelevant to Google Earth it self. This would be a good article to have handy when introducing the new features but not alone as it mainly talks about a few of the features very briefly. I also didn’t like it going way off into other subjects that really didn’t pertain to the title. I will most likely wouldn’t use this article as I am fairly sure that there are better sources for this kind of information


Musil, Steven. “Week in review: On the go with Google.” cnet 6 February 2009. 13 February 2009/8301-1001_3-10158429-92.html>.