Exoneration

16. That is how old you are when you are convicted of a crime you weren't even involved in. How can you ever get out of these prison bars keeping you back from all of your hopes and dreams that you spent your whole life trying to reach. How would you fell if you were convicted of a crime because of your skin color? What if the cops lied to you, just to get a confession so that they could go home and live their life and get the reward of honor?

When a woman is found dead and the cops bring in four boys all around the age of 16 and tell them that if they admit to the murder they could go home. They admitted to the murder. They never went home. 15 years. That is how long they were in prison convicted of a crime that they did not commit. They were raped, beat, and stabbed while in prison. Now being exonerated from the crime, they had to rebuild their lives from scratch, they couldn't just pick up where they left off.

My reaction to this story, honestly made me sick. How could you skip around the truth to make your day easier, to not take pride in your work? Those kids were in prison because someone felt lazy and didn't want to do more work. Those police do not deserve to be police because they took away four peoples' lives from them for fifteen years. I hope that for any of those cases that are like this one were people were tricked into 'admitting' a crime, that they are exonerated because they deserve that.

Anti-Angiogenic Treatments and Foods

To be able to have the knowledge to help people would be amazing. But what would you do with that knowledge? Would you try to educate others and give them a chance to tell others? What a bout cells, how would you like to educate others by telling other people about themselves and how they work and make their body function.

The TED Talk by William Li was about how angiogenesis can cause a cancerous tumor to become a deadly cancer. If a cancer metastasizes because it became angiogenic and that is when the cancer becomes malignant (sends out hormone to the blood vessels for blood supply to 'fuel' the cancerous tumor). When you give your self an anti-angiogenesis treatment you are basically starving the cancerous tumor. You can also 'starve' your body fat if you are obese by eating anti-angiogenically.

My response to the TED Talk made me kind of upset, because one of my best friends' mom passed away from cancer and my aunt has lymphoma cancer and it has gotten very severe recently. This TED Talk made me upset because the awareness of this treatment is very small, compared to chemo or radiation, when it seems to have a better survival rate for certain cancers. I think that when people go to do a check up, it should be mandatory that the doctor talks about EVERY single way to treat cancer.