Third Interview Questions

1. What is the best way to cope with having cancer?
2. After spending so much time with people who have been diagnosed with cancer, what books would you recommend to them?
3. What about the families and friends of the diagnosed? What types of coping methods would you recommend to them?
4. What do you look for in a person that would make you recommend other types of methods to them?
5. How has being around people going through such a hard point in their life effected you?
6. What methods of coping could you recommend to those who are younger?
7. Why would you recommend those?
8. Do you feel that it is important for a person diagnosed to take care of themselves and act as though the disease does not exist? Or they should work with it? Why or why not.
9. To you, does coping with anything difficult in life, not just cancer, take root in taking care of
   themselves as an individual first? Why?
10.  If you could say anything to someone who has been newly diagnosed and has lost hope, what would it be?

Mentorship 10 hours Check

1. I am currently a registered volunteer at both San Antonio Community Hospital in Upland, and a volunteer at the American Cancer Society with my office being the one in Passadena
2. For San Antonio my contact (although she is not my mentor, she keeps track of the volunteer hours) would be Kim Voll ers. You can reach her at (909) 985-2811 or by emailing her (which is preferred)kvollers@sach.org. My contact for the American Cancer Society is Janice.Chow-Ng@cancer.org or  213.427.7292 | Mobile: 213.507.7169
3. At San Antonio I have a total of 42.5 hours and with the American Cancer Society I have 7. Which comes to a total of 49.5
4. The 10 hours of service I did over the summer consisted of helping patients throughout the hospital find there way around. I also helped out visitors and took them to see their relatives as well as check them into the hospital system. 

Senior Project Update

(1) What are you currently doing in your independent component? 
I have turned in the application to become a California Legislative Ambassador

(2)  An article titled "tips for friends and coping with cancer" really helped me with the other side of coping with cancer. Because of it I would really like to go and find a support group that doesn't deal with cancer patients themselves but with the people who are "indirect cancer survivors." I feel that there is a whole world that is entirely unexposed, the way a direct cancer survivors world is exposed. 

(3) Provide evidence from your independent component or the piece of research as something you recently did.  For example, a photo of something you working on for your independent component or your notes from the video you watched. 

5b Science Fair proposal

1. Breast Cancer.
2. As women get older the likelihood that they will develop breast cancer is going to increase greatly. There are more reported cases of breast cancer in older women and more reported deaths.
3. If a woman ages, then the likelihood that she will get breast cancer will increase..
4. I will preform this experiment by finding a study from multiple years of the ages in which women are diagnosed with breast cancer and using them as my data. I also plan to go to my own local breast cancer support group and finding out the age of the diagnosis of the women who attend there and at what stage their breast cancer was found.
5. Social Science?

Blog 9

1. What is the best way to cope with cancer?
2. I am not going to revise my EQ at this time.
3. Support groups, paying attention to the bodies physical needs, empowering yourself with education, and group therapy.

Blog 8

10 Minute Plan

Independent Component 1 Approval

1. For my Independent Component I plan to become a California Legislative Ambassador in the fight against cancer.
2. Before I can become an ambassador I have to go through training and take many courses learning about what my actions will be. I plan to put this effort toward my 30 hours for the Independent component. After this is done, I will be a volunteer at local Relay for life events held every year, and make personal visits to my local legislative office. All of which will add up for 30 hours.
3. Many cancer patients like to become involved in activities such as this, my EQ asks about how to cope with cancer. By becoming so involved and helping to change the future for others I hope to discover that many cancer patients feel a sense of gratitude and like they have also helped themselves.