Extraordinary Measures

During this week I watched a movie that moved my emotions. It was about a family that had three children two of which had a disease called pompe. The father had a good job with insurance that paid around $40,000 a year in medical bills. The doctors could not give the parents any hope because the life expectancy of children was only 9.This is heart breaking to know that all they could do was watch their children die. The father shows faith, courage and love for his children by risking everything to help develop a drug. He was also told the new drug would be only for infants. This movie should be watch by everyone because if was a true story.

2012 Movie

There are several issues in real life which are brought out in this film. If our government has knowledge of an event that could destroy, part of our nation, should we know? I would like to know. I do not think a way of escape should be made for just the rich. Lastly I come to the issue of death, if I could chose my death as in the film I do not think I would run. They made out like this was heroic but in real life we would protect the ones we love by trying to shelter them. I though the guy in the park was nuts, but he really enjoy life to the end.

OIL spill

“How big is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?” is the article from www.digg.com that is read this week. An explosion which took place on April 20 caused the oil to spill into the ocean. The rate is estimate at 200,000 gallons a day and has not been stopped yet. This spill now covers 2500square miles. The oil companies will make more money in the long run because this lets the consumer see the loss of this oil. There must be a way to suck up this oil and use it. It may not make the best quality products, but a lot of things are produced from oil.

Are families different?

I read an article titled Red Family, Blue Family which I would like to discuss. This article centered on three issues, first was marriages, then children born out of wedlock and last was about abortions. These two law professors wrote a book dividing people in groups. They then gave each group a title. It concluded that people with a college education or degree normally have the best family life. Many wait until later in life to marry and only have a few children. It seemed to imply that middle income family do better that higher or lower levels. The webs address iswww.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/opinion/10douthat.html.