research entry #2

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro03/web2/arutigliano.html
http://igreen.tripod.com/gerpe/id27.html

   throughout the past few years doctors have been diagnosing more people with anorexia. It is becoming a big problem for the U.S mostly in females. Only 10% of people with anorexia are  men. They say in the article that anorexia usually occurs in adolescent girls , who are bright, do well in school, and are not objectively fat. They have problems with their body image and believe they are fat so they either starve themselves or eat and then throw up which is another disease called Bulimia.  Eating disorders are becoming an epidemic. Wether you are over weight, skinny or in the early stage of either. throughout the U.S many of the kids have increasingly been getting more over weight and is becoming a severe problem. The first article is on anorexia the second is obesity.

research entry

http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-sub-display?id=S44-4241-0-4274&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N&keyno=0000091941&leadiss=Y&auth_checked=Y

http://www.edarticle.com/character-education/bullying/the-surprising-truth-about-bullying-and-bullies.html

My topic is bullying and, the site above is on sirs which you can get to on the ms51library.org.  The other Link is an article written by: Ruth Wells and it talks about "the truth about bullying" she talks about the problems bullying starts and how it can be stopped. Also she is in a workshop so in parts of the articles she says how they often speak of this issue. She says that bullying can sometimes happen more if you focus on it. And that it WILL happen in any setting where youth congregates. She states that "When youth professionals focus solely or primarily on bullying, it may be a bit like seeing the forest but not the trees." She uses other analogies and compares bullying to things that are more "reader friendly" in the article she gives a list of the truth about bullying as the articles title is " the truth about bullying". she says that media loves simple, black and white explanations. and thats what we get as for explanations for bullying. i'm excited to further look into this topic and reveal more explanations.

4. identify and analyze

i am reading sarah's key by: Tatiana de Rosnay. it is about the round up of jews in paris around the year 1942. a social issue is the persecution of jewish people. It discriminates against them. This issue in society is important to me because my grandparents survived the hollacost. which is all relevent to the social issue in my book.my books main character is "sarah."and she and he rparents get taken and put into a concentration camp with all the other jews in Paris. in the book people that are jewish wear very big yellow stars on thier clothing. the star seperates them in school and prevent non- jews from even getting to know them. I think whta they are practicing in sarah's school is persecution wich is unexceptable.