Monday Matters #27

        Last week, vegetarians showed how they're a step ahead of the rest at preventing cancer. However, what if you're not leaning towards the vegetarian diet? No problem another solution has been found! HealthDay News states that increasing the colon cancer screening rates to 80 percent by 2013, there will be an estimated 21,000 fewer deaths from colon cancer in 2030. Surprisingly, with colon cancer being the leading cancer to cause death, it states that only 58 percent of adults aged 50-75 received screening for it. "Lack of screening is responsible for a substantial percentage of colon cancer deaths." Many organizations are already trying to get four out of five adults screened for colon cancer by 2018. With this, success and greatness can only come out of it. Death rates will be lowered by 19 percent and colon cancer rates will also reduce by 17 percent. With consistency, the numbers will increase and colon cancer will have a challenging struggle in front of it.

Monday Matters #26

   Colorectal Cancer sucks! It is a cancer that affects the colon or rectum. Wouldn't it be great to stop or just even reduce the chances of getting this type of cancer? People who follow a vegetarian diet are doing just that! New research shows that these vegetarian diet eaters had a 22% lower risk for Colorectal cancer  than people who don't follow a vegetarian diet and ate meat. The ones performing the research also put into play age, race, and sex of the vegetarians and the general population of America. They had 27% fewer cases of Colorectal Cancer than you would expect for someone because of their age, sex, and race. When in comparison, vegetarians looked stronger in percentages than the meat eaters did.

Monday Matters #25

       Alzheimers is a disease affecting 5 million Americans. Alzheimers affects the brains memory thought and thought. This disease usually occurs in people over the age of 60. However in recent studies, people as young as 20 are showing signs of the Alzheimer's protein. Prof. Geula and colleagues did a study on the brain cells of three groups of deceased people and compared the results: 13 people, age 20-66 were normal when they died, 16 people, age 70- 99 did not have dementia when they died, and 21 people age 60-95 who did have Alzheimers when they died. In their results, they found that the Alzheimers protein began growing throughout their lives starting from adulthood. they found that the bad proteins formed toxic clusters called amyloid oligomers. These were small in adults and large in older older adults. This research shows that the cells grew as time went on.

Monday Matters #24

    In America today, many political positions are held by men and few are held by women. Ms. Murkowski and Alyssa Rosenberg from Monday Matters number 21 and 22 both agree that women face conflicts in politics.  Ms. Murkowski argues that Women are getting knocked out of powerful position, and Alyssa Rosenberg argues that gender plays a big part in the world of politics today. I have always believed that women and men are the same different in gender, but the same when it comes down to ability. I agree with both Ms Murkowski and Alyssa Rosenberg. Some men see women as inferior and that idea effects gender in politics. i wholeheartedly endorse what these two women call for, and it's a need for change in politics. These two articles matter greatly because it exposes the gender differences. As a result, the game of politics is unfair to the women who play it. The men always have the advantage and that needs to change.

Monday Matters #23

       Over the past weeks two there was one subject talked about; women conflicts in the world of politics. The two articles that were analyzed were very similar and related to one another with minimal differences. They both deal with women and politics, however, the only difference between them would be women in the actual power making decision making seats and gender roles. These two obviously come together to form into a conversation automatically because they deal with the the same issue. In todays world, it is hard to avert this topic. Gender inequality is becoming more noticeable and these two topics will be on a list of what women have trouble doing. The two authors agree with each other. Agree that women need more authority and also show that they will fight for it as well.

Monday Matters #22

       Do men in this world see themselves as superior? Always right? Should they be the only ones working in politics while women stay women and watch the kids? Is the answer yes to all of these? The answer "yes" to these questions are being crushed by women who are doing there best to prove men wrong on gender roles. However, on the way to their success, women face plenty of obstacles. In a opinion article written by Alyssa Rosenberg, she states what troubles women have. One thing that is said is how people view mens conflicts more seriously than a women's conflict. This only causes and issue of ethics and avoids the gender politics.  She also claims that gender socialization restricts women from participating in politics. The saddest thing she does say in this article is how when men take a women's idea, the only thing women could do is laugh and keep pushing to try and beat them  show what they can do once more. There can be progress however. As stated in the article, "as gender and family norms shift, politics may follow." If women keep doing what they are doing now this gender role can easily be changed. Not rapidly of course, but slowly. They will soon make the answer to those questions "no."

Monday Matters #21

Women. What will the world do without them. They give birth, take care of their family even when they're sick, and are always there when needed. However, the Republican takeover knocked down women from leadership posts. In the elections that took place in November, there were 20 women in senate and 84 in the house but now, due to the the republican takeover, took away powerful committee leadership from women. When the democrats were in control however, women had the powerful positions. Ms. Murkowski, a Maryland democrat, said, "The women in the Senate - there are no pushovers here." The house and senate make laws. Women have great ideas, but as states in the article, if the chair does not want to hear it, they will not hear it. As the years went on, more women have served in the senate and have been recognized for their astounding accomplishments. The real way the representative should be chosen in the Senate and House should be the effectiveness of the person, not by gender.