Friday, April 20, 2012

Final Course Reflection


Since the topic selection essay my topic has stayed the same.  The topic had to be relevant to me and education or the work force.  I chose Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as my topic because I am infected with MRSA got infected at school.  Many people do not know about the severity of the issue and how easy it is to spread the infection.  As I developed my thoughts into the exploratory essay I realized that I did not have much of an argument.  I talked with Mr. Eagan and found that I did have an argument it was just more of an informative argument.  My claim started off as awareness and prevention of MRSA in schools but later turned into the school’s budget and redirecting money to hold assemblies taught about MRSA and bacterial infections/diseases.  I really saw my claim coming together in the second draft of my exploratory essay when I started getting a head start on the research essay.  As I was researching I decided to ask my former principal how much money our high school got and where that money went.  After he told me I realized that there was a problem in the system because none of the money was going towards health assemblies and I believe that it should.   When I looked further into how assemblies were beneficial in other schools I realized that that was going to be my main focus of prevention style.  Other programs in other states were successful (even if they were not health-related) so I thought that they could work and open students eyes to see how bad MRSA really is.  My main points in my final essay focused on awareness, prevention, and how programs work.  I went into depth in each of these categories and backed up my thoughts with facts and statistics.  Overall I think that my final paper has a lot of good points that school board members should consider and realize that some of the money needs be redirected to bring awareness of MRSA (and other health-related issues) to students in order to stop the spread.

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