Blog # 4 Satire

Los Angeles is a great city where our beloved celebrities have their 10-million dollar homes.  We can even go on a guided tour to see their homes, see popular celebrity hangouts, and find out lots of other useless information about these celebrities (YAY!), since they are so important.  You can walk around the city, enjoy the sites and sounds, and all that Hollywood has to offer.  As long as you don’t mind stepping over and around all those lazy homeless people they have there.  I mean really, are they that lazy that they can’t find a job.

In a city where they are willing to pay Adam Sandler 27 million dollars a year to deliver such dramatic and thought provoking films like Happy Gilmore and Mr. Deeds, you think there would be enough money just floating around for these homeless people to find a job.  I mean what it is?  Are they just lazy.  If you’re that close to Hollywood you could probably just walk on set and star in a movie.  They must just like being homeless and bugging people for money everyday.  There’s no way in America, the richest and most powerful country in the world, they could allow their citizen to live like that, unless it was their choice.  Homelessness is not a federal or state problem.  It’s obviously a personal choice.  No help or handouts needed.

(In the time it took me to type this blog – Adam Sandler would have earned $1,753.92.  Oh yeah, and something probably happen to some homeless people too, but whatever.)

Blog # 3 Devil's Advocate

My research paper is on kidney function and dialysis treatment.  In the dialysis treatment section I am focusing more on hemodialysis rather than the other two treatment option, which are peritoneal dialysis and organ transplant.  The reason I am choosing to focus more on hemodialysis is because I have a family connection to this type of treatment and it is the most popular.  I will still mention the other treatments, but focus on hemodialysis since it is more popular in our health system.

Also mentioned in the research paper are symptoms to watch for that could be indicators of (early) kidney failure.  However, some of these symptoms are very general.  The symptoms are not always specific just to kidney disease and could be nearly impossible to diagnose from something as simple as ‘trouble sleeping’.  However, I will point out that when several of these symptoms come into play that a person should be check by a doctor to diagnose the problem in which kidney failure could be a possible result.