Thursday, March 26, 2009

Topic Proposal #3

Nursing Homes need to be reformed in terms of the care and services they provide in their facilities.

Topics:
  • Evidence that there is a problem: quantitative and qualitative information
  • Causes of the problem: inspection system is broken, an understaffing of nurses, private investment companies are more concerned with the profit they make than how the residents are treated
  • Possible solution (still debating if there is a better one): parents sign contracts with children to take care of them when they get older and need help, also local governments take charge of the homes
  • Results of the solution: lower ratio of staff to residents, governments will have more money to spend on each resident, and nursing homes will not be seen so much as a business but more as a duty

Monday, March 2, 2009

Two things that cause a reaction.

1) A humorous stand up comedy piece by Russell Peters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzKHQX59Wso

2) A poem I find moving and spiritually inspirational by Grace L. Naessens:

I got up early one morning
and rushed right into the day;
I had so much to accomplish,
I didn't have time to pray.

Problems just tumbled about me,
and heavier came each task.
Why doesn't God help me? I wondered,
He answered, "You didn't ask."

I wanted to see joy and beauty,
but the day toiled on, gray and bleak.
I wondered why God didn't show me,
He said, "But you didn't seek."

I tried to come into God's presence,
I used all my keys at the lock.
God gently and lovingly chided,
"My child, you didn't knock."

I woke up early this morning,
and paused before entering the day.
I had so much to accomplish
That I had to take time to pray.