Breast Cancer Awareness

The United States should not dedicate the entire month of October to Breast Cancer Awareness.

Breast cancer is already one of the best-funded deadly diseases. Breast cancer receives $750 million in annual NIH funding. Now don’t get me wrong, I love how much more awareness there has been about breast cancer over the past few years, but what about the other cancers or deadly diseases out there? According to Forbes debater Robert Langreth, colon cancer “causes 10,000 more deaths than breast cancer but gets half the federal funding.” If colon cancer is deadlier than breast cancer and needs more funding, why aren’t we going out of our way to increase awareness to colon cancer? This would be like a third grade geography class studying all fifty-two states in one year, and spending an entire month on Missouri. If the goal for the students were to learn about all fifty-two states by the time the school year is over, a wise teacher would spend an equal amount of time on each state. If the teacher spends a month on Missouri, the students would be very informed about Missouri, but at the cost of not knowing as much on the other states. In a similar way, the goal in this country should be to increase awareness and funding for research on all deadly diseases. There are far too many illnesses to spend an entire month on just one. Those leading the fight against breast cancer have done a brilliant job raising awareness of the deadly disease, and for that they should be applauded. The point of this blog is not to diminish their effort, or to take the spotlight away from breast cancer awareness. That being said, with so many different forms of deadly cancer and other diseases, and only 365 days in a year to increase the publics’ awareness, thirty-one days is just too many to spend on one cancer.  

The Joys of Being a Dancer

Do you ever enjoy getting screamed at for no reason while working as hard as you can? Do you ever like to sweat bullets the size of softballs and watch them drip onto the ground? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go to a sport everyday praying that you make it out alive? If you can say yes to any of these questions, then dance is the sport for you! Please come stop by Juliana’s Academy of Dance where the teachers will make you cry every night, GUARANTEED.

            If you think I’m exaggerating at all, then you’re wrong. Everyday at the fabulous Juliana’s Academy of Dance, my teachers push me to my absolute limit… Every. Single. Day. Now don’t get me wrong, I love it there. They help me become a better dancer, and I feel like I improve every day still. But, there are still a few things to not like about Juliana’s academy of dance.

1.    Being absent. Sure they may say that its okay to occasionally miss dance, and that school comes first, but they don’t mean it. As soon as you believe one of these crazy lies and miss dance for a lot of homework or a school event, you are out of a dance. No doubt about it. Consider your butt kicked out of your favorite dance as soon as you miss one class. Oh, and you better not be hurt or sick without a doctor’s note, or else you may get kicked out of the studio. 

2.    Watching your figure. Do you have a high self-esteem and want to make you feel really bad for yourself? If you do, please come enjoy a relaxing ballet class with me. You will enjoy the soothing slap on the back or leg to tell you to pull up, and you’ll enjoy constantly being called fat and ugly and a horrible dancer. I know that really puts the icing on the cake for me after a stressful day at school for me.

3.    Conditioning. This problem is for all of you football players. Do you hate conditioning? Do you think your conditioning is really hard and painful? If so, you haven’t seen anything until you watch one of my technique classes. Words can’t explain the pain it puts in me. My entire body begins to cramp up and I just want to collapse but I know that if I do, I will get in trouble and kicked out of class. So, I suck it up and watch the sweat roll down my bare stomach.

So, as you can see, Juliana’s Academy of dance is full of great fun so please, stop in and take some classes! See you there!