Sharan's Expedition Reflection

   The expedition was something motivating to work on since it was based on giving awareness, breaking the broad subject of cancer to our community. Usually we do projects for subjects directed for an audience of one individual to inform them, but for this expedition we couldn't be so opinionated or take the subject such as cancer lightly since it concerns reflections on some survivors there or people that are experts on the material.In science Tom delivered the essential scientific description of cancer bringing up new terms such as a benign tumor, malignant and metastatic. Also the common organelles that are apart of this conversion in the body like DNA,chromosomes, and enzymes. Im ELA we discovered the history of how cancer was introduced in the bombing of Japan by the explosion radiation effect of the bomb.In Math we graphed he rapid growth of cancer cells of 18 hours compared to the cycle of regular growth of our body parts such as the muscle taking 22 days to grow.

      I learned not all tumors are harmful. Even a birthmark is a tumor which I never knew. I also learned that the human body is unpredictable with it's reoccurring cycle of producing cells . I learned about Lymphoma, I never knew another cancer other then lung,colon, and leukemia. Like many of my mother's friends death I was never explained of the causes of these life threatening disease.I only knew about the cigarettes and the fattening food that cause cancer but never mutation or just abnormal acts inside the body, which honestly scared the crap out of me. Like i don't understand how a helpful thing such as the creating of cells can intrude into the survival of your body.  

      Another project I would be eager to take part of is the production of enzymes and how they can work efficiently against you and for you during phases of such involvement of harmful procedures that can harm your body. I would also like to tackle the prevention of lung cancer and try to help smokers to quick and show the gruesome effects that they are doing to their body because it's one thing that you make your death bed and another if your not even aware.I also want to go more into treatments and which are the best for each certain type of cancer. Also i would like to do a fundraiser for poor families that need money for the treatments for there kids or loved ones to get them treatment, we can make little flea markets and sell the things we don't want anymore and even collect donations and give it to organizations that help these families.

     What was challenging was looking at the graphic pictures and interpretting all those medical terms to familiarize yourself with all the cancer types and symptoms and  treatments. Especially the long research process of finding out the specific stages of a tumor growth when the lowest type of explanation was like in a college level which i still needed a dictionary at hand to read.

   What went well was the project because we were to decide in what form we wanted to present it and also the readings as well were interesting to read, it wasn't hard for me to get intrigued into the reading at all. It was a great experience to learn on a topic that effects you and everyone around you at any given time in our lives. What was confusing was taking all those lectures in without having any prior knowledge to begin with to interpret what these speakers where saying also the fact that e were given a project deadline of a week or two was fustrating since we all wanted to give it our all but with such short time we just had to wrap something else real quick for the exhibition. Nest year you should give the 11th graders like a good month to make big projects for the exhibition so the community can see our full potential. 

      I would describe it as valuable experience because cancer effects us all and most of us will go into the medical field so it helps us with that too and clears our mentality of just focusing on ourselves to those around us.

      I would change the way of life for myself and my loved ones so we won't have to even come close to that predicament of having cancer because it can either result as a good inspiration or just crush the hearts of the people effected. Ultimately i would talk precautions of the things i put into my body and what comes out verbally to those effected. I would talk about this in a educated way instead of a clueless way or just staying shut. Now I can speak of it with background info.