Posted on March 30th, 2008 by emmakb
Reading this poem made me think of camp. When I read poems and memoirs it fills my head with memories of events that have occured in my presence and different things I have experienced. I believe that personification is the most powerful type of writing, so when writers use personification it really helps me to paint a picture in my mind of what they are describing. I feel as if I was there with them and can see what they are seeing. This poem gave me food for thought and helped me to paint pictures in my mind of not only what they were seeing, but it helped me bring back memories of my own.
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Posted on February 6th, 2008 by emmakb
Some people disapprove of adding fluoride to drinking water because it, while being very helpful in preventing tooth decay, can be a health hazard. People fear that they are getting too much fluoride in fluoridated water and fluoride toothpaste. Fluoride levels in drinking water are considered safe, but with all of the excess fluoride in foods and drinks made with fluoridated water, fluoridated water, and fluoride toothpaste the amount is possibly too high. No one knows exactly what too much fluoride can do for your body or precisely how much is too much. What confuses most people and doctors about fluoride is that you can never tell how much fluoride your body consumes in a period of time. The debates rage on about fluoridated water.
Fluoride should be added to our water supply because fluoride is really great for your teeth. It helps prevent decay and cavities in two main ways. It reduces the ability of bacteria in plaque to generate tooth-weakening acids, and it helps revive those tooth areas where acid attack has already begun, which if you ask me is great considering health issues like that, can lead to more serious ones. The safe amount of fluoride in our drinking water is undefined and scientists have yet to prove that a little extra fluoride is a bad thing. More peoples’ health conditions have been improved with fluoride, not to extreme amounts, in our water than if we cut fluoride from
America’s water.
Before fluoride could be widely used in toothpastes and mouthwashes, the ingredients had to work together with out causing a reaction or product that would be hazardous for people to use. The problem scientists faced was that the abrasive compounds in the toothpaste kept the fluoride from getting out of the tooth paste and for fluoride to work, it needs to be released into the saliva during brushing. Sodium fluoride can be paired with hydrated silica that does not effect the action of sodium fluoride. Fluoride is now widely used in both toothpastes and mouthwashes all over the world.
The side effect that concerns me the most is higher vulnerability to genetic defects and mental retardation. With friends that suffer from mental retardation I could never bare to know that something I could have stopped caused them to be in that situation. Also, I know that when I am older the thing that will matter most to me will be the lives of if not my children my friend’s and family’s children. Both genetic defects and mental retardation take away from a lot of wonderful experiences in life and I would never want anything to possibly help contribute to it.
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Posted on January 15th, 2008 by emmakb
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