Cancer Sniffing dogs

It seems counterintuitive that they are starting to use dogs to help detect cancer in people. They do this by having the dogs by having them sniff a sample in a box. According to the article, Dogs earn more cred for sniffing out cancer, “A black labrador was ninety seven percent accurate in nosing out colon cancer when she was asked to choose among watery stool samples doctors collected from 185 patients with and without cancer.” The dog was really good at spotting different types of cancers and also the dog was really good at detecting patients with early stage cancers. According to the article Dogs earn more cred for sniffing out cancer, a woman’s dog was obsessed with her right breast which eventually caused the woman to find out that she had a cancer lump in her breast. These examples show that dogs can help people find out if they have cancer in a quick way without having to do scans or tests. This can help others be diagnosed much more easily and quickly.

Extreme parenting

It seems counterintuitive that there are really strict parents out there who go to huge lengths to push their children academically. They push their children to get straight As. This is mostly common in Asian cultures. In the Article, Balancing freedom, it states that there are benefits to raising your children in a stricter way. One thing is that it causes children to be very educated in certain areas which can lead to a successful career but on the other hand it can cause many people to have bad mental health issues due to the push of having to get good grades. According to the article, Balancing Freedom, More Asian cultures are not being as strict as they used to be and the author Yan Sun states, “they should strive for A’s, but they will not be taken to task for lower grades as long as they make earnest efforts.” This shows that Asian parenting is very different from western parenting. It also shows what are the effects of having children be pushed to get good grades.

Do Toms shoes help anyone

It seems counterintuitive that when you buy something that says it will help others in need it still can create a problem. Companies may say that if you buy this, it will donate money to a charity organization. But sometimes it does not always solve the problem. An example of this in the article Mother Jones states, “When the tsunami of 2006 struck Indonesia, donations of rice flooded in from aid groups all over the world. Instead of feeding hungry people, it created competition for the local rice farmers.” Once you went further inland though, it looks like nothing happened at all. There was so much food already. Another example is that Toms does not have a lot of information on the webpage. This is not good because we do not exactly know what the donations are going to. Donation websites need to have a clearer idea of what you are donating to. This shows that sometimes donations do not always help like they say they are going to. More people should be aware of what they are donating to.