Found Poem

Underline the words or phrases in the text that reveal the idea of silence and/or control

As his legal wife by the grandfather's proud, intensely Yankee family. So John's grandfather had built this room for her at the back of the house, where she could spend most of the day doing what interested her most: studying the curative properties of plants. The room also served as her refuge from the family's attacks. One of their first was to give her the nickname "the Kikapu," instead of calling her by her real name, thinking that this would really upset her. For the Browns, the word Kikapu summed up everything that was most disagreeable in the world, but this was not at all the case with Morning Light. To her it meant just the opposite and was an enormous source of pride. That is but one small example of the huge difference in ideas and opinions that existed between the representatives of these two very different cultures, a gulf that made it impossible for the Browns to feel any desire to learn about the customs and traditions of Morning Light. Years passed before they began to discover a bit of the culture of "the Kikapu," when John's great-grandfather, Peter, was very sick with a lung disease. His face was constantly purple from his fits of coughing. He wasn't getting enough air. His wife Mary knew something about medicine, since her father was a doctor; she knew that in cases like his, the body of the sick person is producing too many red blood cells, so it is advisable to perform a bleeding to counter this imbalance and prevent this excess of blood cells from causing an infarction or a thrombosis, either of which can sometimes cause the death of the patient. So John's great-grandmother, Mary, started preparing some leeches for bleeding her husband. As she worked, she felt quite proud of herself for being up-to date with the best scientific knowledge, allowed her to protect her family's health using an appropriate modern method-not like "the Kikapu" and her herbs! The leeches are placed inside a glass containing a half a finger of water and left there for an hour. The part of the body to which they will be applied is washed with lukewarm sugar water. Meanwhile, the leeches are placed in a clean handkerchief, which is folded over them. Then they are turned out onto the part of the body where they are to be attached, held down firmly with the handkerchief, and pressed into the skin so they don't pierce some other spot. To continue the bloodletting after the leeches have been removed, it helps to rub the skin with warm water. To control the bleeding

 

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Dear Shane,

Right now you are upstairs in your room thinking that life is completely and totally unfair. The whole world is against you because there is not a single person in it that understands you. You would say that you love your friends, but the truth is that you love them more on Facebook, Tweeter and Instagram than you do in real life. In real life, you can only handle spending so much time with them before they start to annoy you because, as I mentioned before, no one really understands who you are.

Your room is a mess. The clothes that you beg for me to buy you are crumpled in a heap in the corner. When asked to clean – when asked to do anything, really – you roll your eyes (not to my face, because you are smart enough at this point to know that will

set me off) because you have a thousand more important things to do like watch Our Beloved Summer or check your phone.

You are both obsessed with and terrified by boys. Some days you think you are pretty. Some days you are certain you are the ugliest person on earth. You are sure you are being left out of something. Some party, some conversation, some sleepover is  happening and you were deliberately excluded because no one cares how you feel. You have every right

in the world to be moody because life is hard. Grade 11 is pointless. There isn’t a person alive who hasn’t been able to get into the college they wanted to because they got poor grades in Grade 10. Mostly though, life is just hard and complicated and difficult and confusing. Despite this, you are never given the credit you deserve for always knowing what’s what. You know what is best for you and there is nothing more irritating than someone else (like me) presuming that they know.

I realize that when I raise these topics with you, you will not hear me. Despite all appearances, you are not a small adult. You cannot reason like an adult and so it is impossible for you to understand that I am trying to help you and guide you and not, ruin your life. This privilege I exert does not necessarily come from biology, it comes from the fact that I have been exactly where you are and I have been navigating this life for a lot longer than you. It is true that everyone has a story, and everyone’s story is unique, but loss, pain, anger, confusion and sadness are universal. These feelings don’t separate you from the world, but rather they bind you closer to it. Someone out there is feeling the exact same way you do right now, including me, my dearest girl, and I am only a few feet away. There will never be and can never be another you, but you are part of a magnificent community of humans. Humanity at times can be brutal and petty and mean-spirited, but that’s never an excuse for you to be that way. You are so much more and so much better

than a bad day.

I am not your friend. I don’t care what you think about me. I am not aiming for popularity in our house. Most importantly, we are not equals. Think about it: how can we be equals if you depend on me for everything? If you’re going to ask for extra money for whatever you want to buy, then you have to take my rules. Some people call it parenting. Greedy me, I call it authority. When you don’t need me for things, only advice and counsel, then we can explore a friendship. When I ask you to do something right now, I am trying to teach you something about success. Procrastination is a dream killer. No one ever became a grand success by doing it later. You’re right, your room is yours. I am less concerned with the state of it than I am of your mind. Ever see a happy person on Hoarders? It sounds ridiculous to you, but a clean space makes it easier to be creative and productive. When you let your room slide, you are likely to let everything else slide too, like homework.

I am not a Tiger Mom. I am not interested in you getting straight A’s (though, of course, that would be great), I am interested in you doing your absolute best. Sometimes you do your best and you fail, and you need to learn to be okay with that, too. You must learn to be good AT school, so it will be easier for you to be good AT college and AT work. Yes, of course, it’s pandering to a system, but everyone, regardless of status has to work within a system, unless you’re becoming a hermit which let’s face it, is never going to happen. When you become overly concerned with pleasing your friends and making them  happy it takes away from your focus, your job, which right now is school. The balance you learn to strike right now will carry you through your entire life where friendships can be vital. But, you cannot rely on a great friendship to buy you a house.

I don’t tell you often enough how beautiful you are. Even though you are stunning, I do guess I do this on purpose. Being beautiful should never be the most interesting thing about you. A girl who relies on her looks is setting herself up to be a woman lost at sea as she gets older. We live in a world where beauty can and will open many doors, but how you choose to open them and what you do inside becomes about character. Character, moral aptitude, empathy, grace- these are the traits that will carry on your beauty far after your looks are gone. You aren’t anywhere near understanding this right now, even though I am trying to lead this change by example. When you look at me all you see is old, and mom.

Unbelievably though, I was young (and not so long ago, I might add) once, and nothing you can say will shock me. In point of fact, if I was to over share and talk about some of the things I’ve done, or still do actually, on a pretty regular basis with your step dad, it is you that would be shocked. Don’t worry, I would never, because like I said, we are not friends. I promise you this, though: as long as you tell me the truth, you will never get into trouble, though I can’t promise I won’t be disappointed. Until you have children of your own, you won’t realize the depth in which I love you. I would do anything for you and it is the great irony of life that the person I love most, I get treated the worst by. I am your greatest cheerleader and your biggest fan. Sometimes you scream “Why do you hate me!” when I am doing my job as a mother. You don’t understand that if I indeed hated you, or felt a far more

heinous thing, indifference, I simply wouldn’t bother. I would let you get on with it and shrug my shoulders and not say a word. When I stand my ground and open myself up to your vitriol and disregard and general railroading, that, my dear, is love.

The most important thing for you to understand is though you may be convinced otherwise, whatever happens in this crazy, upside down life, you will never, ever be alone. So maybe, just once in a while, will you keep this in mind and be a little kinder to me.

Your ever loving,

Mom

1. You are Shane, make a personal reply on the letter for you by your mom. Note, you can use English, so long as it shows how you feels, its reflects who you are.

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France: The country’s first ‘saviour sibling’ is a ‘double-hope baby’
By Annick Chapoy on July 18th, 2011
The birth, in France, of its first baby to be conceived by artificial insemination on top of the selection of an embryo based on its blood, has sent new flames into the hot parliamentary debate over the reform of bioethics law.
The child’s deliberate embryonic selection rested on it not having the gene for beta thalasaemia, and its birth potential to help cure beta-thalasaemia suffered by two older siblings. Theoretically, the use of ‘saviour siblings’ has been allowed since 2006, when the 2004 Bioethics Law and associated decrees was passed. The USA has utilised this for about ten years, but such a birth is rare in Europe – and, depending on the results of a current debate, might become even rarer in France.
Umut-Talha, a name meaning 'our hope' in Turkish, entered life this February in Clamart, south-west of Paris. He weighed 3.65kg and was pronounced ‘very healthy’. His birth resulted from in vitro fertilisation after a double pre-implant genetic diagnosis that enabled doctors to choose an embryo that would not carry the disorder beta-thalasaemia, and whose blood and tissue would be compatible with that of his brother and sister. This type of technique was legalised in France with the Bioethics Law of 2004, but is still the source of great controversy in the public.
It is the first successful birth resulting from this type of pregnancy in the country. The practice is legal in numerous other European countries, including Spain and Belgium where, in 2005, the first two 'medicine babies' in Europe were born. The first birth of this type took place in the USA in 2000.
France’s first so-called ‘saviour sibling’ was born to parents of Turkish origin and he was conceived under circumstances that would have been unthinkable only a generation ago. Umut Talha’s parents had approached the hospital in Clamart just over a year ago. They had a serious problem - their two youngsters were both afflicted with the inherited blood disorder beta thalasaemia, which requires monthly blood transfusions. The parents knew the hospital was one of only three in France that was developing a treatment for their children's illness.
An embryo was screened and genetically selected from an original group of 12 embryos. It was chosen to ensure it did not carry the Beta thalasaemia gene and also due to its compatibility with the sick siblings. Besides selecting an offspring that would be spared from the disorder, the parents hoped their future baby could also become a donor of the right kind of treatment cells.
Born disorder-free, the baby’s cells also proved compatible with his two-year-old sister. Doctors feel confident that she will be cured with the cells from his discarded umbilical cord, and her monthly blood transfusions will be discontinued.
The family have since returned to their home in southern France, but plan to return to Clamart to undergo the same procedure to cure their other child, Umut’s four-year-old brother.
Following his birth, French newspapers spread ‘Medicine baby’ headlines across their pages. However, Professor René Frydman, a fertility pioneer and the ‘medical father’ of the first French test-tube baby in 1982, oversaw Umut’s case, said he preferred the term ‘double-hope baby’.
‘Medicine baby is a media term invented by people who are against this kind of procedure,’ said Prof. Frydman. In English-speaking countries, the terms ‘donor baby’ and ‘saviour sibling’ have been widely used in the media.
Umut certainly presents a double hope for his parents: the hope of having a new, healthy baby, and the hope of curing one of their sick children.
However, other scientists, religious groups and parents beg to differ. The issue of saviour babies has raised complex ethical debates, and renewed fears of a move towards ‘designer babies’, or babies whose traits – e.g. intelligence, eye-colour and height – have been predetermined.
Thus, Umut’s birth has raised questions among medical, political as well as religious circles in France. Christine Boutin, President of the Christian-Democratic party, denounced an ‘instrumentalisation of the human being, conceived in the sole purpose of being used’, while the head of the Bishop’s Conference said he was ‘totally opposed to a procedure by which somebody is being used exclusively to serve somebody else’.
The timing of Umut's birth was also significantly timely - just as the very law that allows for cases such as this to be revised. Observers say that the existing legislation guiding biotechnology in France might be tightened and restrict research in certain fields, including stem cells.
The country’s standing bioethics law allows for cases like Umut’s. In fact, the government has earmarked €800,000 per year for Clamart to practice and develop the procedure.
Nonetheless, Prof. Frydman and colleagues say a lot more needs to be done, complaining of endless hurdles to launch further research and access funds. They regret that France has started a decade after the USA and that the government is still reluctant to give them full backing.

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The united states started the war with Mexico:

The Mexican American War, popularly known as the Mexican War in the United States and the U.S. involvement in Mexico in Mexico, was a military war that lasted from 1846 to 1848 between the two countries. It came after the United States annexed Texas in 1845, which Mexico nevertheless regarded as Mexican territory. It rejected the Velasco treaty that Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna had signed while held captive by the Texian Army during the Texas Revolution in 1836. Although the Republic of Texas was technically an independent state, the majority of its Anglo-American residents desired annexation by the US.

Because Texas would have been admitted as a slave state, domestic sectional politics in the U.S. prevented annexation. Altering the power relations between the Southern slave states and the Northern free states. James K. Polk, a Democrat, won the presidency of the United States in 1844 on a platform of enlarging American territory in Oregon and Texas. The annexation of Texas in 1845 furthered Polk's goal of promoting growth through either peaceful or violent means. The Rio Grande, which the Republic of Texas and the United States claim to be the border, and the further northern Nueces River, which Mexico claims to be the border, are in dispute. Both Mexico and the United States sent soldiers and claimed the disputed territory. Polk dispatched American Army troops there; In an effort to negotiate the sale of territory, he also dispatched a diplomatic delegation to Mexico. After Mexican soldiers attacked American forces, the American Congress formally declared war.

U.S. forces swiftly took control of Santa Fe de Nuevo México along the upper Rio Grande outside of the disputed Texas region. The Santa Fe Trail, which connected Missouri, particularly Saint Louis, and New Mexico, established long-standing economic ties between it and the United States throughout the 18th century. Additionally, American forces advanced against the province of Alta California before turning south. U.S. Navy's Pacific Squadron blockaded the lower Baja California Territory's Pacific coastline.

The U.S. invasion of the Mexican core under Major General Winfield Scott and its conquest of Mexico City were strategic moves to force peace discussions because the Mexican government at this point had refused to be coerced into signing a peace treaty. The political sensitivity of Mexico's government's treaty negotiations persisted despite its military setback. Some Mexican factions refused to contemplate accepting any acknowledgement of its land loss. Nicholas Trist, Polk's peace representative, was officially relieved of his role as a negotiator, but Trist disobeyed the directive and was successful in bringing about the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It brought an end to the conflict and led to Mexico's recognition of the U.S. Army's conquest of territories that were not contested portions of Texas.These were the northern regions of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico and Alta California. The United States agreed to pay $15 million for the physical harm caused by the conflict and to take on $3.25 million in debt that the Mexican government had already owed to American people. Mexico accepted the Rio Grande as its north border with the United States and recognised the independence of what would later become the State of Texas.

Polk's goal of victory and territory expansion aroused patriotism in some parts of the country, but the war and treaty received harsh criticism for the losses, financial costs, and heavy-handedness, especially in the early going. The argument about slavery in America heated up as a result of the dilemma of how to handle the new acquisitions. Despite Congress's refusal to enact the Wilmot Proviso, which expressly barred the expansion of slavery into captured Mexican territory, discussions over it exacerbated tensions between different sections of society. Some academics believe that the American Civil War was sparked by the Mexican-American War. Numerous West Point-trained officers gained experience in the war in Mexico and ultimately assumed important leadership positions on both sides of the conflict.

The war exacerbated internal political unrest in Mexico. Due to the fact that the battle was fought on Mexican soil, a significant number of soldiers and civilians perished. The territory was lost, and the nation's financial foundations were weakened. Ramón Alcaraz and José Mara del Castillo Velasco, among other Mexican writers, saw Mexico as having lost its sense of national pride and being in a "condition of ruin and degradation This faction stated, "[As for] the true root of the war, it is sufficient to say that now the insatiable ambition of a United States, helped by our inferiority, created it." They did not consider Mexico's refusal to recognize Texas' independence as a cause of the war."