Heat Stroke

This weekend I had a heat stroke. It was a very scary experience. I was at the beach with my family. We live in Florida. It was extremely hot, but worse than that it was humid. I did not know that heat could cause all the problems I had. I was drinking water, however I was on a decongestant. When on a decongestant, dehydration can occur more quickly. I went from feeling fine to being passed out. I have two boys ages 5 and 8. They were present,and very upset obviously. Thank goodness my husband was there, and the fact that he works in the heat helped him to help me. He immediately grab hand fulls of ice and stuffed them down my shirt. He continued to talk to me the entire time. I could hear his voice, but it was fading in and out. When I woke up I was more alert, but very dizzy. The ambulance arrived about 5 minutes after this incident happened. The fact that I had help, and loved ones there with me saved my life. I was rushed to the emergency room. While in the ambulance the literally forced the IV fluid in me. I was released from the hospital the same day. I feel much better now. When I was first released I was very weak, and still had dizzy spells. I still have sensitivity to the sun, but for the most part I am back to normal. The fact that a person can be lively and alert in one momemt, and passed out the next moment made me feel I had to share my story.

How School Has Influenced My Life?

I was very reluctant to come back to school. It has been over 10 years since I called myself a student. I have two small children and I really want them to succeed in life. I was always raised to lead by example. I started college right out of high school. I did not take it serious at all. I have always been a good student. I think the fact that I was away from home and did not have my parents watching over me gave me the frame of mind “I can do what I want”. I later moved back home after the first semester. I was failing horribly. If parting was a class I would have aced it…lol. I had a really good roommate, however she was not help. My roommate was worse than I was. I eventually dropped out of college. That was one of the biggest regrets of my life. I got married, had children, and a dog. I was not content.

I decided to go back to college after talking to a co-worker. She had similar experiences in her life and wanted more out of life. We agreed to go back to school. I did a lot of research. I knew with the jobs that my husband and I have, there is no way I could go to a traditional school. I did not know a lot about online schools, that is, until a Kaplan representative came to my place of employment. I was able to ask millions of questions. I came home talked it over with my family, and know I am a successful Kaplan student! The best part about going back to school is I am finishing what I started!

Citing

When you write papers, you might be tempted to plagiarize to try to cover up the fact that almost all of your paper came directly from sources or that you relied heavily on the internet for your research. Your professors will not be fooled by this tactic.Part of your job as a researcher and writer is to organize, and recast your information in your own form. If you find yourself doing such things as using the same source for several paragraphs in a row or failing even to provide your own topic sentences for paragraphs, you are obviously not doing your job as a thinking writer. Do not fall back on the excuse that you might as well just copy it exactly as it appeared because you “like the way it was written.” The context for your writing is different from the context of the original. The reason you use sources in the first place is to simplify and summarize information and weave it into the pattern of your own ideas, and your pattern of ideas will develop as you write and do your research.

The information that you research is there to help support your topic, and write a paper that is factual and from your own view point. The purpose of the paper is defeated if all the ideas belong to someone else.