Tuesday, December 9, 2008
To recap my last blog, Trixie has returned home from Zephyr's house, and told her father she has been raped. Daniel rushes Trixie, a total mess, to the hospital and frantically explains what has happened to his daughter. Trixie stays quiet, and appears out of it as the doctors begin to examine her. Daniel phones his wife Laura repeatedly but there is no answer. Laura is too busy breaking up with her secret relationship with one of her college students to pick up the phone. Trixie is thoroughly questioned, the doctor making sure she gets every detail to what happened at Zephyr's. After Trixie has spilled the story, Daniel wants to kill Jason. His anger gets the best of him and he punches a hole in the hospital wall. After this, Trixie is examined from head to toe for any important evidence on the rape victim. The procedure is intricate and somewhat embarrassing for Trixie, but she doesn't think anything of it. When Laura finally gets Daniel's voicemails, she rushes to the hospital and tries to comfort Trixie. Daniel is infuriated with Laura, and knows something is up. When they all later return home, Daniel explodes at Laura, and finally opens up to the reality of the situation. They had been avoiding it all along, and now as Trixie is hurt they bring up the argument. Word leaks out about the rape, and people are shocked. Everyone knows Jason as a star athlete, who would never purposely harm anyone. Many people accuse Trixie as faking it, and when she returns to school, no one talks to her. Trixie is called terrible names, and even Zephyr turns on her. She chops off all her hair, and tries to hide, but you can't escape reality
Monday, December 8, 2008
Research Paper Cont.
Scharnburg, Kirsten. "After Plastic Surgeries, More Do An About-Face." Chicago Tribune 28 Jan 2008: n.p.. SIRS Researcher. SIRS Knowledge Source. 8 Dec 2008
The author, Kirsten Scharnburg is a well known journalist in Chicago, working as a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. She has written many articles about many different topics, from politics to cosmetic surgery. In the entry, Scharnburg discusses the problems people face from plastic surgery, and the regrets many feel after going under the knife. Scharnburg speaks to patients who are dissapointed with their results, as well as surgeons who are seeing more plastic "redos" in their offices. One patient, Debra Dunn, hated her nose job so much she hardly ever went out in public, and made sure to hide it behind her long hair if needed. Dunn felt she lost her own self in this new fake nose, and it didn't suit her at all. The nose Dunn said was so similar to anyone else getting this surgery, and ended up paying 3 times as much to reconstruct her nose back to what it was before. Her surgeon, Dr. Andrew Jacano states that "one out of about every two or three procedures I do is a revision surgery." Patients often become more self concious with the initial plastic surgery, and feel as if cloned to be someone they are not. Many people regret reconstructing their bodies, and later revising it and never going under the knife again. Cosmetic surgeries as we see can be wasteful, and never what the patients are expecting
The author, Kirsten Scharnburg is a well known journalist in Chicago, working as a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. She has written many articles about many different topics, from politics to cosmetic surgery. In the entry, Scharnburg discusses the problems people face from plastic surgery, and the regrets many feel after going under the knife. Scharnburg speaks to patients who are dissapointed with their results, as well as surgeons who are seeing more plastic "redos" in their offices. One patient, Debra Dunn, hated her nose job so much she hardly ever went out in public, and made sure to hide it behind her long hair if needed. Dunn felt she lost her own self in this new fake nose, and it didn't suit her at all. The nose Dunn said was so similar to anyone else getting this surgery, and ended up paying 3 times as much to reconstruct her nose back to what it was before. Her surgeon, Dr. Andrew Jacano states that "one out of about every two or three procedures I do is a revision surgery." Patients often become more self concious with the initial plastic surgery, and feel as if cloned to be someone they are not. Many people regret reconstructing their bodies, and later revising it and never going under the knife again. Cosmetic surgeries as we see can be wasteful, and never what the patients are expecting
Research Paper
Should non life-saving situations be banned from plastic surgery due to the health problems patients may face?
Nowak, Rachel . "When Looks Can Kill." New Scientist 21 Oct 2006: 18-21. SIRS Researcher. SIRS Knowledge Source. Edina High School. 8 Dec 2008 http://www.sirs.com/.
Rachel Nowak is New Scientist's Australasian editor and her job is to make sure that the top Science news from Australia and near is heard all around the world. In this specific article "When Looks Can Kill." Nowak analyzes researcher's studies on the risks of certain plastic surgery. The main concern is the high risk of suicide from women who undergo cosmetic surgery. One study found that "women who recieve breast implants are two to three times as liekly to kill themselves as those who have not." Reasons of this include drug and alcohol abuse more likely in patients as well as BDD disorder and women's brain chemistry altered from leaking implants. However, Nowak states that many of these studies have not been proved 100% accurate, so many surgeons and researchers dismiss the "assumptions". One factor that also could contribute to the high risk of suicide is women's peronality traits and/or disorders that are not obvious to surgeons. One thing that Nowak states is "Some surgeons say if a patient elects to do it, shouldn't i go ahead? My answer is: You as the surgeon can elect not to do it." This article describes some of the issues of cosmetic surgery in the world today.
Nowak, Rachel . "When Looks Can Kill." New Scientist 21 Oct 2006: 18-21. SIRS Researcher. SIRS Knowledge Source. Edina High School. 8 Dec 2008 http://www.sirs.com/.
Rachel Nowak is New Scientist's Australasian editor and her job is to make sure that the top Science news from Australia and near is heard all around the world. In this specific article "When Looks Can Kill." Nowak analyzes researcher's studies on the risks of certain plastic surgery. The main concern is the high risk of suicide from women who undergo cosmetic surgery. One study found that "women who recieve breast implants are two to three times as liekly to kill themselves as those who have not." Reasons of this include drug and alcohol abuse more likely in patients as well as BDD disorder and women's brain chemistry altered from leaking implants. However, Nowak states that many of these studies have not been proved 100% accurate, so many surgeons and researchers dismiss the "assumptions". One factor that also could contribute to the high risk of suicide is women's peronality traits and/or disorders that are not obvious to surgeons. One thing that Nowak states is "Some surgeons say if a patient elects to do it, shouldn't i go ahead? My answer is: You as the surgeon can elect not to do it." This article describes some of the issues of cosmetic surgery in the world today.
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