Is it better to be a Doctor or a Nurse Practitioner?

To start my search, I decided to Google "Nurse Practitioner Salary" to see if their salaries were similar to that of a doctor.I found that there actually are indeed doctors that make the same as Nurse Practitioners. I found my information from the web that showed many charts of the NP's salaries. And then I found that some of NP's make 80,000 a year and some of doctors make the same but doctor really make over 100,000 a year. Money is definently a focus that got me interested in this subject Im writing on. But the question is will I be happy just having alot of money. Im not sure if my perspectives are right to become a doctor reason being being a doctor is hard work but NP's dont have to work as hard. Should a person be able to allow themselves to be lazy or am I really not lazy for being so protected of my choices.

There's so many questions to ask but so little time to get answers.

www.NP/Doctor.com 4/22/08

Fashion and Teens - Week One

As I started my search I knew there were a few basic questions I needed to answer. One of my questions that I had ask was "How much money do you spend on fashion in a month". I got the answer to this question from most of my classmates and friends. When I ask them the question many of them didn't know off hand, so i got a calculator and a piece of paper and we added everything up. More than half of the people I did this with price was more than $250.00. After everyone saw how much they spend on fashion a month they started to get second thoughts on is staying up with fashion worth as much as we pay. After I calculated everyone else prices I did my own and my price was $400.00. When i start to analyze my situation i realize that i spend as much money some people spend on rent on fashion. I was kind of surprise at how much money I spend to stay up with fashion. I still don't know why teens like myself let fashion play a huge role in there lives but I think that I am going to get a little closer to the answer in this next month.

Is it better to be a Doctor or Nurse Practitioner?

In life with certain themes sometimes you have to play it safe. In this issue theres a determination in these careers because you have to be able to know what you can handle. So in this case I have researched what would be better. Including the salaries and info from my reseach on google i have found that some doctors and Nurse Practitioner make the same amount. But I have also read in a magazine called the PEOPLE actually wish they didnt become a doctor but just a Nurse Practitioner because they dont have a normal life. The Doctor was not able to have children or a family or even get married because she had to dedicate her life and time to her job of being a Doctor. I didnt expect to actually read something like. I was only expecting to read how much they like it, how great the money was and also how well they are respected!!

People Magazine by Adam thomas " How to deal with being a Nurse practitioner and Doctor?"
4/18/08

Is it better to be a Doctor or Nurse Practitioner?

In life you go threw many experiences day by day. And every experience you have brings you closer to getting to know yourself and what you want to actually become in life.Theres many careers and jobs out there to fit a persons perpective. But theres only one Career that I adore and I have'nt even tried it yet. Me knowing myself so well I can feel how much I would want to become a Doctor or Nurse Practitioner. The question is which one would I be able to handle and actually fit my perpective's and standards.

I started to want to become a nurse when my mom graduated from school to be a LPN. I felt like she didnt make enough money for me so I figured to become someting higher, yes thats right a Nurse Practitioner. I loved when my NP always talked to me about my body and tell whats not healthy and what is and always give me good advice so thats when I just wanted to do something like that.

Kaleida Health Center 4/17/08








Which career would better fit you in life?

Which career is more safe?

Which career gives you the most respect?

Which career shows you the most reality?

Which career is most common?

I started my research on depression with my first question What are the causes of depression? From this website I learned that depression runs in families that can be inherited. It comes generation after generation, but also can occur with no family history of depression. Depression can be caused from a death, illnes, relationships, financial problems, or a major change in life that is unexpected. Your living enviroment and how you live can cause you to become in a depressive stage. Women are twice as much as men to become depressd. A woman that is pregnant and is stressing during her pregnancy can increase her baby to be depressive when the child is an adult
(Panzarino).


There isn't just one single cause for depression. Depression may either be genetic, biochemical, enviromental, and psychological facors. In found research, this illness is a disorder of the brain. In MRI (Magnetic resonance imaging) test, people that are diagnosed with depression have brain scans different from people who are not depressed. The brain is esponsibe for moods, the way you think, when your sleeping, your appetite and your behavior. Neurotransmitter, which chemicals that the brain cells use to communicate, appear to be out of balance. Images found can not reveal why depression is caused.
Different types of depression can run in families that have had a history of depression. It also can happen to people without family history of depression. Researchers have indicated that depression

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The Importance Of Fashion: Before The Search

I became interested in the topic because many teens as myself let fashion play such an important role in there life's. For Example Michael Jordan comes out with a pair of sneakers every month about 6 out of every 10 students get them month after month. It's not that they need them, they just get them to stay up with fashion. I picked this topic because every since I could remember fashion played a huge role in my life. I always try to get the newest sneakers and the most expensive jeans and shirts. But at the end of the day I be broke trying to live a celebrity life style or as teenagers say "By getting fly". I wanted to research this topic so I can understand why does fashion play a huge role in teenagers lives.

I never knew the importance fashion played in teenagers lives nor did I question it until I came up with this essential question. So now I look at the importance fashion plays in teenagers life from a teenagers perspective and a reporter perspective. As a teenager there's kind of pressure to be up to date with fashion, because if your not you would be made fun of. But I don't follow fashion so I can not be made fun of, I do it because it's sort of an hobby (that cost money). I know that my reasons for following fashion is not the same for other teens. So that's what my research is mainly going to depend on other teens as myself who is into fashions and the ways it change there lives.

My Essential Question: Should fashion play such an important role in teens life?

My Foundation Questions: Does it?

In what ways?

What do people say?

Most money spent on fashion?

Money spent on fashion in a month?

How does fashion affect you?

When Will It Be Over?

I became interested in this topic because i'm reading a book that is interesting to me. The book is called Black Pain, Real Talk For When There's Nowhere To Go But Up, by Terrie M. Williams. This book talks about how people are depressed. By people telling their stories makes me wonder how do they come out of depression? how do they avoid it? I really wonder how people think what goes on in their minds for them to be depressed. By me knowing people that are depessed makes me wonder. Some of my close friends go through this stage and sometimes don't even know it. By them being depressedit makes them do some crazy things. Things that I woould'nt even consider. I feel helpless when people I no come to me and ask me for help. If I could just take them to a doctors and get them help, but most are scared. I would like to know so much about depression. The more I know about depression, the more I can help out my friends or people that come to me.

I no very little about depression, but I hear people talking about how depressed they are. Or others that have gone to doctors and stated that the doctor diagnosed them with depression but they didn't even no they were depressed. Depression can cause you to do some crazy things. I know because people I know go through it. Some tell me that when they are depressed they fget grey hairs, they start gaining weight, or not acting like there regular self. Stuff that I know about depression has all been told to me I never actually looked stuff up in the dictionary or looked it up on the computer. It's all he said she said. I would like to further my knowledge with depression.

My Essential Question is:
How does one escape depression?
Foundation Questions are:
Why are people depressed?
Is depression genetic?
What age does depression start at?
Is there medication for depression?
How does depression start?
If depression isn't fixed what could it lead to?

A Walk To Remember

Page 190-210

A Walk to Remember was a very realistic story. It was so realistic that I once imagined I was actually jamie. I wanted what Jamie had which was the looks, voice, intelligents and light. But realistically I knew that couldnt be me. When I found out the ending I didnt want to be her anymore but then again she did die married and happy and thats somthing that I always wanted. The only thing about her I didnt want was to not being able to have children and dieing so young but, when you win some you lose some. In other words I mean something always goes wrong but something always go right. You have the good and the bad at times in life but somtimes you got to face them. I loved the character Jamie because of her always being her self and such a lady. I would one day like to meet her but I dont think that will ever come true because its young adult fiction but once again feel so real.

Little Soldier By: Bernard Ashley

Kaninda Evolves
Pg: 168-226

The main character Kaninda made a choice that had moral implications make as when he tries to make a new beginning in East London but then he realize it is almost as violent as the life he has left behind. Kaninda realize that this gang war is petty warfare, he knows it is nothing like the real thing. Kaninda finally gets the help he needs. But ironically it comes from his sworn enemy, the Yusulu boy refugee helps him to see that revenge will not bring back his dead parents and sister, and that in tribal conflict all sides are losers. Being in Kaninda's shoe's I don't believe that I would of have been able to forgive the Yusulu refugee and let him show me that revenge wouldn't bring back his parents and sister. Because my family means the world to me and I wouldn't be able to let anyone get away with the murder of my family. Would you have had forgave the Yusulu refugee for what his tribe did to your family or would you have saw where the Yusulu refugee was coming from?

Staying hurt

True To The Game by Terri Woods
pg 201-300

Do the character's experiences cause them to grow? If so, how?

In this book Gena has to go through change and doesn't want to accept it at first. When her bestfriend dies, she is hurt dramatically. She never thought her friend would die so soon. By this happening she learns that she is not the only one who has had a friend that has died. Growing up in a place were you have to worry if your going to wake up the next morning, is a scary feeling. When Gena bestfiend dies, she doesn't no what to do. That was the girl she went to with everything on her mind. She feels like she can't move on with her life because her best friend is gone. When she realizes that she is gone and not coming back, she has to grow up and move on with her life. By this experience happening she has to grow and learn that things happen, and that you could be at the wrong place at the wrong time. By Gena being weak at times, she realizes that it's only going to get worse if that is always on her mind.
By Gena being this weak will she grow to be maturer?

Motivation of The Streets

TRUE TO THE GAME By TERRI WOODS
pg133-200

Gena a character of spunk. Is a happy person. Her characteristics remind me of a hustler's wife on a movie or real talk "On the streets." Her motivation is the streets. Just by growing up in the projects, makes her want to be out and free to be on her own. Seh couldn't live like her grandmother. Living in some broke down projects with broken windows and shallow walls she had to get out. When she would be out with her friends she new there had to be a different way of living. She wanted luxury, but how will she get that. The streets are "talking." Drug dealer's are the ones that turn her on. When she see's a drug dealer girlfriend, she sees they are treated. Why not be like them she figures. She don't want to be like them, she wants to be better. Gena want's to be known allover. Girl's have nice looking clothes, but Gena want's better looking clothes, they have jewerly, Gena want's better jewerly. Gena was motivated to get out the broke down projects and to live in a better lifestyle. She didn't get there right away but she got there eventually. Gena had it all. The new cars, the house, the coats, the jewerly, you name it Gena got's it. Livinf like she did wasn't the way she wanted. She needed herself a "Hustler," a well being paid hustler at that. She was known as Qua's girl soon later. Being on top was her goal, and she did it. Coming to a suprise to her but she did. But why would she want someone that makes money the illegal way rather than someone that makes money the right way?

Little Soldier By: Bernard Ashley

Kaninda's Revenge Pg: 125-160

Now I am kind of deep in my story and conflict is now taking place and it got me thinking whats going to happen next. Some conflicts that Kaninda is facing is that he don't want to be in Europe he wants to escape back to Africa so he can be with is tribe ( Tribe Kibu). So he can take revenge on Tribe Yusulu, the tribe that killed his parents and little sister. So competent and single minded as Kaninda is I feel that he can carry this out. Kaninda then hooks up with this gang in London, that he believes will help him get back home. Kaninda is now running with this gang doing mischief things but still feel the grief from the murder of his family so Kaninda breaks away, because he feels that doing those things are not making him a better person nor bringing him closer to home. Then a Yusulu refugee arrive at Kaninda comprehensive school, and now Kaninda knows that he must kill this boy before he leaves London. Do you think Kaninda should kill the Yusulu refugee to revenge his family death?

Little Soldier By: Bernard Ashley

Life in Africa Pg: 1-100

My Character Kaninda seems like he is a real person. It seems as if I can feel his pain and grief. I know that I can't relate to Kaninda predicament but I know others that can. Such as the children in Sierra Leone who were drugged and forced to amputate limbs of people in their own communities even their own families. Kaninda is motivated by ethnic hatred and the desire to avenge the deaths of his parents and sister. This oversimplifies the thoughts of child soldiers in Africa. Over 100,000 children in recent years have been kidnapped and forcibly enrolled into conflicts in Angola, Congo, Somalia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. They make up over half of the fighting forces in these countries. As children they are considered cheap, expendable, and easily forced into mindless obedience. Do you believe that children should be forced into war for those reasons mentioned in the passage?

A Walk To Remember

In my book A Walk To Remember there were a certain part of the story that made me think more open thoughts and also made me feel a little uncomfortable. The reason being is because the young lady Jamie whom I conclude died from having cancer. It made me uncomfortable because cancer always ran in family so now Im a little scared about my life because my grandmother just cought breast cancer not to long ago and is fighting it as hard as she can. My aunt dotors also just found a tomer in her head that hey caught a couple of weeks ago that could of start cancer if they never had found it. So I feel that this book has giving me another sign to go and get checked out for cancer and has made me ver aware of my health, life and decisions.

A Walk To Remember

In most adult fiction books it cause there characters to grow. In this case it do make both my characters to grow in a unbelieveable way. The couple experience was so special and pure that they didnt care what people said or did to there relationship they just loved one another and put each other first. It caused the young man to grow into a nice, careing sucessful gentleman from a bad, ignorant unpredictable little boy. With out her he definently went down the wrong path and most likely in jail. with out him she would jus been a young lady with no life having no fun before her time was up to leave this earth. He helped her fine the more down to earth and funnier person than the sadity, smart stock up young lady. I understood there relationship alot because what they had was special and they looked up to each other and became a couple to marriage and united as one.

A Walk To Remember

The book I am reading is called A Walk To Remember which happens to be a Young Adult Fiction book written by Ncholas Sparks. This book was basically about true love that you would never throught become real. I can relate to this book because it has to do with people my age falling in love and growing mature and learning more from being with that person. I once had a boyfriend that grew more mature from us just being together and sharing each ohters throuhts, feelings and smarts. The only difference fro this book and my life is he didnt die and we didnt get married but, theres still the future to come.

Little Soldier By: Bernard Ashley

My impressions of my book so far is that it should get interesting I have a feeling that it would be a good book. My main character Kaninda is from Lasai in Africa. His family was killed by an rival tribe the(Yusulu Tribe). He is now being held captive in London where he tries to do everything to escape so he can take revenge with the Kibu Rebels. As I read more I want to see how Kaninda revenge his family and escape. From reading so far Kaninda seems like an determenied soldier. Getting to know Kaninda will be a real test because he seems as if he's stubborn. While reading I also sense a little foreshawdowing on Kaninda joining another gang so I'm also looking forward to that.

GOD DON'T LIKE UGLY BY MARY MONROE

Do the characters seem real and believable? Can you relate to their predicaments? To what extent do they remind you of yourself or someone you know?

Pages..162-196

The character Annette seem very real and believable. The only reason y i say Annette is real and believable because she becomes so emotional when she talks about her life.Far as what her family been through and what she been through in her personal life, and how she over came it. I can't relate to annette in any way because she think shse very ugly she doesn't have any type of self confendence what so ever.She also wanted to be someone she wasn't to make friends and keep them. I have too much pride in my self and to much confendence. I personally think every one is cute in there own way. Annette is a very sweet, smart girl thats what made her looks not even matter. But she didn't see it that way. I also haven't been through the things she been through. But annette do remind me of a friend i use to have. She wanted to be just like me she did anything to get and keep my attention. She lied about the things she did the people she talked to in order to fit in. The girl also kept up alot of drama. she wanted to b center of attention for what reason I don't know. But in relatildy all she had ta do was be herself in order to fit in..

by shante