Response to Cancer Land!

Reading Ehrenreich essay “Cancer Land” it really made me realize how popular breast cancer is becoming. Like Ehrenreich said there are over hundreds of websites dedicated to the disease, they hold marathons for it, and also have their own logo and color. It was also interesting how Ehrenreich read how other women all looked on the bright side while dealing with cancer. It was strange way of looking on the bright side, they said how chemo will make you thinner, when your hair falls out it will grow back thicker, and also helps you have faith. I can only imagine how hard it must be for those women to look on the bright side in those situations. I thought Cancer Land was an awesome essay filled with great facts and I very much enjoyed reading it.

Annotation project (Crystal Meth)

I decided to do it on crystal meth. I think this topic will be good because there is so much information on this drug. I am going to write about the following questions. 1How popular is this drug, 2what it does to you and the side affects, 3how crime starts being involved in this drug, 4how much meth coast along with the looks of it. and 5how it can change your whole life or affect you in the long run.

A site that has a tiny bit of info --->

Crystal Meth.~
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summary

Barbara Ehrenreich wrote an essay in Harper’s Magazine called “Cancer Land.” In this essay she writes about how she handles the news that she was just diagnosed with breast cancer. She also speaks about how other women handle living with breast cancer, and how breast cancer is becoming so popular.

Ehrenreich explains throughout this essay how popular Breast cancer is, as she calls it “killing cells”. She explains how the color pink and a teddy bear represents Breast cancer and chemotherapy and how there is over hundreds of websites dedicated all to this one disease. As Ehrenreich searches cures online, she happens to stumbles across a site where other women chat about Breast cancer. She notices ups and downs in the women’s conversations, how some seem to look in the bright side, where others are just overly sick and tired. As Ehreneich reads more, she sees how Breast cancer use to be the dreaded secret and now is more popular then AIDS, cystic fibrosis, or spinal injury. As Ehrereich reads more and more about this evil disease she knows she has a long fight ahead of her and she will not go to sleep with a smile on her face.