Topic Proposal

For my topic, I decided to choose childhood obesity. I decided to choose this topic because I would like to find out how we can prevent and treat this issue. There are many different arguments I have read about already about on how to treat and prevent this issue. Many people have different opinions about this topic and I would like to do more research to see who is right and who is wrong. They argue about how much a child should weigh while growing up, and when it becomes obesity and not just a “big child.” I would also like to do some research about how different exercises help and which ones do not help. For example, does the Wii Fit really work for children or is it just another video game for children and their parents to play together. I am interested in this topic because I have two nephews and a niece. My one nephew is seven years old and I am concerned about his weight. By doing research on this topic I feel as if I could help him while he is growing up and, to see if my sister is taking the right steps to help him as well. Even though I do not know much about this topic in detail, I know some of the main components to childhood obesity. I choose this topic so I could learn more about how to help the youth and to learn about the different prevention programs there is to help the children. When I write this paper, I will be open to new suggestions to the different ways to prevent and to treat this issue. I have not chosen one side of this topic to write about, I would like to know all the different sides of the topic before I write the essay just so I can understand why they view childhood obesity in that specific way.

In this essay by Scott Russles I find myself aligning with many aspects that he talks about. I came from a small town where all the men worked on farms. In our town we hardly had any "business" type people, but we still understood that there are different jobs out there that we could choose from. When Russles talks about many people not understanding the way he grew up or the way the "men" in his life were, I understand that feeling one hundred percent. Even today when I tell people where I am from they have no idea, and when I try to explain they never fully understand until they havce seen it with their own eyes.

i also believe that there is some flaws to this essay. He talks about how both men and women have a difficult time in their lives. Well he never really goes on to talk about what problems that the women faces as well. If he were to talk about both aspects the readers could get a better feeling of how both sexes feel. Not only men work in the factories and assembly lines anymore. Women also have those jobs. WHen he talks about how hard men have it when they are working all wekk at their job, and then on their "free time" still complete small jobs around the house, women also do that. While they are not working at their jobs it is basically their duty to keep the house clean and to take care of the children.

Russles does a good job of portraying the ways he feels about his small community growing up and makes the reader feel the way he feels.