Transformation essay

Medical Drones `

The Global Drone Market could be worth $127 billion by 2020. Its looking like drones could be the next big thing. So let's consider some applications to help better our world. We have decided to look at Medical Drones. Drones are not currently used to a great extent. We would like to expand the ways in which medical drones could help out ambulance personnel and war zone medics. I believe that the use of drones could help save lives by cutting down the response time for ambulances, by helping keep lives of war zone medics safe, and by reducing the cost and increasing the amount of ground cover in search and rescue missions.  

One problem with Medical Response teams is that they cannot get to the patients fast enough or can't get into tough places. This can really be a problem because that time wasted in traffic or not being able to get into a specific area can cost the life of the patient. Currently the Department of Health requires that 75% of patients in a life threatening situation have an ambulance response time of 8 minutes. So that means, 25% of the time the response time is over 8 minutes. On top of this, a speeding ambulance might put other people in danger including the ambulance personnel. Now let's also look a little bit at war zone medics. Did you know that 57% of medics get killed or wounded in war. Being a medic requires a very specific skill set. They have to be trained as medics as well as for combat. Currently in a search and rescue operation helicopters are frequently used to help locate the victim. This is very costly and the amount of ground that can be covered is relatively small. So clearly there is some room for improvement in the following situations I talked about.  

Lets imagine the seriousness of the current use of technology for the life of a patient. What if someone is having a heart attack and the people around him don't know cpr. Then if the ambulance really takes 10 minutes that wasted time could cost the patient's life, or if a war medic heads out to save his buddy and steps on a landmine or gets shot not only will we lose a brave medic but the wounded soldier as well. Lastly imagine a family was out for a remote hike hike. What if during a lunch picnic one of the children wanders off and cant find he or she's way back. Then if a helicopter is called for a search and rescue mission it would cost a lot of money and it would take along time to cover the area.

Clearly lots of effort to confront these situations is being made but you cannot eliminate the issue of traffic for     an ambulance, the danger of an enemy in a war zone, or the cost of a helicopter in a search and rescue mission.

We feel that drones could be a great solution to all these problems. For example a drone could beat the traffic and offer the patient medical equipment, medicine and instructions for by standards possibly with the use of the camera phone on the drone, a medic could assist from the ambulance as they make their way over to the patient. Drones in a war zone can eliminate some of the danger that medics are exposed to as they enter enemy territory. They can also give supplies to wounded soldiers  to help them survive temporarily until further help. The supplies that would be in the care packages would be food, water, guas, painkillers and a communication device. This would allow a medic to wait for a safe moment to go retrieve the wounded soldier. Potently the soldiers could call in specific types of drones to suit their needs for example food, medicine or a replacement weapon. Drones would also be way harder to shoot down then a person because they are smaller and faster than people. For the search and rescue side a large group of small cheaper drones could be used just to locate the missing person, after which a more elaborate drone could offer supplies and a satellite phone. Potential issues that drones could have would be running out of battery or technical other technical difficulties. But we feel that the small potential issues would be canceled out by a long shot of with all the lives saved as the result of drone use. So it looks tous like drone technology could be a huge benefit.

In summary, the use of medical drones could save money, time, and human lives. We believe that the world could be a safer place for everyone with drones by our side. I would encourage people to overcome their fear of drones and embrace their significant benefits to our safety.

Works cited: www.foxnews.com/health/2016/12/14/medical-drones-could-be-next-wave-emergency-response.html http://medicalfuturist.com/medical-drones/ http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/clinical-updates/trauma/medical-drones-poised-to-take-off  http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/clinical-updates/trauma/medical-drones-poised-to-take-off  https://phys.org/news/2017-01-drones-crucial-medical-patients.html http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/13/technology/rwanda-drone-hospital/ http://www.medicaldrones.org/ http://insideunmannedsystems.com/drones-deliver-healthcare/  http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/13/493289511/doctors-test-drones-to-speed-up-delivery-of-lab-tests https://newsela.com/articles/drones-hospital-supplies/id/25585/ http://www.doctorpreneurs.com/latest-medical-drones-startups/   

transformation project

Our topic is Medical Drones. The problem is that medical response teams cannot get to the people fast enough. With drones, drones can go places that cars can’t go, take short cuts, and overall get there faster then a car. The downside is they can only treat minor injuries, but can help a lot in war too. What we need to do is have a few hospitals and war areas test this. Then we can see how we can improve it. How will this affect hospital medical responses in the future? This will affect the hospital response because abulenses get stuck in traffic and cant get though most places and that time wasted can cost somes life and that's why drones would change the medical response game forever.

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civil rights

Dear Rosa Parks,

Thank you for standing up for your rights and showing that skin color should not matter when choosing a seat on the bus. Your movement helped fight segregation and definitely made a difference in America.
   Sincerely, Finnley

The Book

The most transformational book I have ever read was Banner in the Sky. It is about a young boy and his dream is to become a mountain climber like his dad. The story is about his bravery and courage. It shows you how to be strong and never give up. 

new deal

one program from the new deal that we still use today is the social security act.  It helps old people and handicap people, also it gives them money each month if they are really poor.  This program is still very useful to this day.
Another program is the Banking Reform Relief and recovery were intended to help t he nation escape from the depths of the depression. But New Dealers also wanted reforms that would prevent such a depression from happening again.
Another program is the Relief for the Needy Several New Deal measures were designed to help the 13 million Americans who were unemployed. we still use this today. 
Finally the last program would be Agricultural Recovery Other recovery efforts focused on agricul¬ture, which still employed one in five Americans.

RAFT poem

On the trail Looking for a new home
Ground down to the bone
Following the path
wishing for a bath

Our bodies ache
days on the trail
nowhere to bail
we don't give up
until we find a home
I hope we settle soon
then the blossoms will bloom 
we are pioneers, proud and strong
pushing the limits since day one

 The wind blows hard
our skin as course as rocks 
I wish the dirt would stop
we are flowing through the country it will never end
until we find a place in the end

Mars Creation Myth

           Mars before we knew it

Before humankind ever touched the planet Mars, there was a thriving alien species that existed. The species was called Magmorious. They were incredibly smart and had twice the intelligence of humans. They had populated about 75% of the planet. The name Magmorious originates from the god of lava, magmas. The Magmorious evolved from the center of mars. They lived happily and freely. At that time there was lots of vegetation on mars and an abundance of water. They were a peaceful race and had a democracy. Also all Magmorious were equal and had the rights of any other Magmorious. The god they respected the most was Oderi, the god of peace. The Magmorious were living harmoniously until another group of aliens called the Vaporens had a deadly plan brewing. The Vaporens plan was to set off a quick killing chemical gas into the air and kill off all the Magmorious. They needed to do that because the planet where the Vaporens were living was getting overpopulated and polluted. They settled on Mars for their new home. All of the Magmorious did not know what was coming until the deadly gas was released into the atmosphere. Little did the Vaporens know they put too much gas in the air. This caused not only the extinction of the Magmorious, but it killed and disintegrated all of the vegetation and poisoned all of the water sources. This disaster made mars unhabitable for the Vaporens. Soon after the  Vaporens got into a war with another planet and that ended the Vaporens forever. That chemical gas disaster is why Mars is a dead and lifeless planet.

By: Finnley