Synthesis Survivor essay

       

Even though there are millions of challenges in life for different people to fight and survive from. Children with autism have challenges to survive everyday. It may not be a life or death situation, but they have struggles in a world that they see as abnormal.  Children who suffer from Autism Spectrum Disorder (Autism) survive by having Occupational Therapy that no child should have to go through.

There are a lot of people in this world that are unaware about autism, so I’m going to tell them a little about autism and how common autism can be in small children. What is Autism? Autism is a general term for a group of complex disorders of the brain development. According to autismspeaks.org, children with autism have intellectual disabilities in motor coordination and attention and physical health issues; however they excel in visual skills, music, math, and art. From personal experience my cousin Cameron excels at all four of these traits, he is a genius when it comes to math and multi cultural in different genre of music; rock, rap, hip hop, country. According to the autismspeaks.org website, autism occurs in 1 of every 88 children that are born. Autism is 3 to 4 times more common in boys than girls. An estimated 1 out of 54 boys and 1 in 252 girls are diagnosed with autism in the United States alone. Autism grows more and more each year and I would not be the least bit surprised to see the number of children born with autism grow in the next few years. Hopefully a few of these facts helped you know and understand more about autism.

                As a cousin to a child with autism I have found that helping a child cope with autism can arduous. After conducting an interview with Amanda Stephens I found that a child with autism has their own set ways of living their everyday life. One out of many ways that Cameron copes with his autism has been to play to video games, to listen to music, or to play with different toys or clothing or even carpet just for the texture and feeling of these items. I cannot begin to count the number of times I have listened to the same song or watched him beat the same video game over and over again. Thankfully however over the past couple of months we have been able to get him to go outside and play with the other children in the neighborhood. According to the WebMD website and the interview I conducted with Amanda Stephen, I learned that some features of autism are social withdrawals and rigid and repetitive behavior. Social withdrawals are when Cameron shuts down when he is around a huge crowd of people he doesn’t know, or if he is playing with another child and another child walks up and wants to play he will walk off and play by himself. His rigid and repetitive behaviors are playing the same song or video game for hours on end. He gets into trouble for the same things over and over again after we just got on to him 5 minutes ago for that very thing.

                In the recent interview I conducted with Amanda Stephens, I found that doctors and therapist have said repeatedly that Cameron would not be able to function in a public school environment. I see each and every single day that he can function in a school setting and he gets great help from the teacher and staff of his school West Magnet Elementary and his occupational therapist that he gets an hour of each day. His math comprehension’s at a second grade level and his reading comprehension’s at a fourth grade level. A child with autism has to survive in a world that’s different that they see as normal people living an unwonted life style. Just like Buck in the novel Call of the Wild by Jack London, has to survive going from a spoiled life style to living in a voracious natured life style of brumal weather.

In conclusion I challenge you the reader to donate some of your time in spending with a child with autistic complications or participate in a walk for autism or just make a donation to fund more research at Autismspeaks.org. Trust me it will put a huge smile on your face as well as the child’s face to know that they’re not alone in the battle of autism.    

Works Cited

                "What Is Autism?" Autism Speaks. Web. 30 Apr. 2012.

 http://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism.

London, Jack. Call of the Wild. New York: Prestwick House, 1903. Print

Stephens, Amanda C. "Coping With Autism." Interview by Brett A. Ruyle. Print

"Parenting a Child With Autism." WebMD. WebMD. Web. 18 May 2012. <http://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/children-with-autism-coping-skills-for-parents

Survivor Synthesis: Autism

Six-Word-Slant

•  Have their own set ways; Autism 

140-Character-Claim

Children who suffer from Autism Spectrum Disorder (Autism) survive by having Occupational Therapy that no child should have to go through.

work cited

"What Is Autism?" Autism Speaks. 2005. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. http://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism.

"Parenting a Child With Autism." WebMD. WebMD. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. http://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/children-with-autism-coping-skills-for-parents.

Stephens, Amanda C. "Surviving Autism." Personal interview. 05 May 2012.

Pity

An S.S german soldiers ask a jewish man Simon for pity does Simon show pity for the man? I don't know but I however would not show the german solider pity." I am only 21 that is to young to die."
It was ok for him to ask for pity because he was to young to die, yet the lives of jewish children that him and his comrades took where not to young to kill. "Then another truck came up full of more Jews and they too were crammed into the house with the others. Then the door was locked and a machine gun was posted opposite." Simon knew how the story would end and it would end in the murders of hundreds of innocent Jews. I once again felt no pity for the man he the lives of countless innocent Jews from children and adults.

Sinking of the Titanic

I'm on then the Titanic and its sinking all i can think about is this is the end and there are two people to blame the captain E. C. Smith of the Titanic for not telling us passengers of the collision or that the ship was sinking and ignoring the repeated ice warning and not decreasing the speed of the ship or not doubling his lookouts. Also Captain Stanley Lord who ignored the distress rockets and not having his radio on. So now I'm gonna die because someone didn't want to tell me about the ships collision with an ice burg or because somebody wanted to ignore the the distress rockets from the Titanic and he was only 19 miles from the sinking ship.

Forgiveness

People ask for forgiveness everyday: a christian asking God for forgiveness for a sin he just commited, a grocery store bagger who just droped a carton of eggs, or a brother who beats his younger brother up these people deserve forgiveness, but would you give forgiveness to a soldier who obey his commander's order to shoot an unarmed women and her child? My answer is simple absolutley not. Why would you want to forgive a soldier or his commander for shooting a defenseless women and her child who probably did absolutley nothing, they where probably walking down the street minding their own business. The soldier must be a little puppets allowing his commander to pull his strings and the commander and the soldier both have no remorse or respect for this unarmed women and child. Soldiers are suppossed to shoot the enemy but not innocent civilian life such as unarmed women and child, they both have no honor, pride, respect, regard for human life. Besides would you forgive Hitler for ordering his troops to kill and enslave thousands of innocent jews. I think not so why should this man get any forgiveness he is just as bad.     

My Antonia

According to Willa Cather in My Antonia, Antonia is raised on a farm by mr. and mrs. shermida and has no education except for learning how to work on the farm.  Antonia grew up and had 7 children and worked on her farm for a living.

It would change because, it would be told from a womens prespective and not from a mans prespective there for antonia would have a different prespective about the other characters.

She is very effective she tells the story like she is actually a man. Yes Jim sounds like a man

Because he was telling the story of antonia from his prespective and they were really good friends and Jim had feelings for her.

In conclusion Willa Cather told a great story from Jims prespective.

Underage Drinking

Assertion/Claim (Topic Sentence) = Main Idea

• Underage people should be able to drink while under adult supervision

Evidence - Concrete Detail:

• Some states permit parents to supervise their children when they are drinking

• Comentary 1:They let teenagers buy, smoke, and dip tobacco products when their 18, and we can't buy purchase or drink alcohol at 18 without having an adult having to buy it for you.
• Comentary 2:This is a great law but when we are going to a party with some friends we don't want our parents tagging along it feels weird but if your at the house with your just parents some parents let you do what ever we want.

Evidence - Concrete Detail:

• When parents have concrete, enforced rules about alcohol, young people binge drink less

• Comentary 1: Parents have those rules until the teen turns 18, but then he/she moves out then the rules disappear and they can't control them any more.
• Comentary 2: Parents enforce strict rules about alcohol but they will not enforce rules about teenage sex or the use of tobacco products and drugs, thats why there is so many television shows about pregnant teenager and there are so many crackheads in the world.

Opposing Claims/ They Say/ Counter Argument: 

•  Some claim that when teens feel they have their parent's approval to drink, they do it more and more often when they are not with their parents.

My Rebuttal/I Say:

• Nevertheless, I say that if teens learn how to drink responsibly under their parents supervision they will be able to drink responsible any where they go. Also they should lower the age to drink and purchase alcohol to 18.

My paragraph

Underage people should be able to drink while under adult supervision. Some states permit parents to supervise their children when they are drinking. They let teenagers buy, smoke, and dip tobacco products when their 18, and we can't buy purchase or drink alcohol at 18 without having an adult having to buy it for you. This is a great law but when we are going to a party with some friends we don't want our parents tagging along it feels weird but if your at the house with your just parents some parents let you do what ever we want. When parents have concrete, enforced rules about alcohol, young people binge drink less. Parents have those rules until the teen turns 18, but then he/she moves out then the rules disappear and they can't control them any more. Parents enforce strict rules about alcohol but they will not enforce rules about teenage sex or the use of tobacco products and drugs, thats why there is so many television shows about pregnant teenager and there are so many crackheads in the world. Some claim that when teens feel they have their parent's approval to drink, they do it more and more often when they are not with their parents.  Nevertheless, I say that if teens learn how to drink responsibly under their parents supervision they will be able to drink responsible any where they go. Also they should lower the age to drink and purchase alcohol to 18.

My Thinking
This paragraph is based on deductive reasoning because of the lack of facts and quotes from the story are presented.

http://www.madd.org/underage-drinking/why21/