CURING OURSELVES (opinion essay)

All over the world,there are many different types of serious illnesses such as cancer,diabetic,psoriasis,leukemia etc.Also,there are many types of treatment methods.Have you ever heard Laught Therapy?It is a kind of treatment method.It means laughing and looking to world in a pozitive way can cure your ailments.According to my opinion,besides medical treatment,these kind of methods are necessary to cure ourselves.
There are many serious illnesses that can be cured not only by medical treatment but also can be cured by looking to everyting that is included in your life in a pozitive way.For instance,I can give the example of cancer patients.Cancer is a very serious disease that affects both our body and our mind.In order to cure it,doctors use different kind of treatments.However,besides this,people who are cancer should think pozitively because pozitive emotions produce pozitive changes in their body.I think we should not ignore this method.
Also,if you don’t believe me,you can search Norman Cousins’s Laugh Therapy.He was well-known writer and editor.Unfortunately,he became seriously ill.His ailment was ankylosing spond and doctors said he had only a 1 in 500 chance of survival.However,he hadn’t given up.He was determined to live.In addition to medical treatment,he made a receipt by himself.Everyday,he watched comedy films,read humorous books and did these kind of activities.Finally he recovered within a few months.Also,his doctors supported his idea.Can you see the power of his Laugh Therapy?
There is one more example for you.One of my friends was leukemia.Her parents and relatives were so sorry for her and her situation gave them pain.However,she never was hopeless.On the contrary to this,she was determined to overcome her ailment.She was full of pozitive emotions towards life.Finally medical treatment and her perspective of life paid off.She fortunately recovered.I must say that even in those dark times,she always smiled because she knew that if she thinks negatively,negative changes will increase in her body.
To sum up,there are many people who overcame their illnesses by looking to world pozitively like Norman Cousins and my friend.Two examples show that besides medical treatment,we should do something different to overcome our ailments.Laughing,loving people and everything,looking to life in a pozitive way are some of them.Maybe,we can cure ourselves…

NEVER GIVE UP (compare and contrast paragraph about 2 films)

All of us encounter with people who have different obstacles in our lives.There are so many people with obstacles so it is inevitable for us not to coming across with them.When we look at them at first,we are sorry for them and sometimes their situations give us pain.However,there are some people that change our perception of handicapped people like Hellen Keller and Frank McCourt.Angela’s Ashes is a movie that tells us Frank McCourt’s tormented life.The Miracle Worker is a movie that tells us Hellen Keller’s life.After I watched both of them,Angela’s Ashes affected me much more than The Miracle Worker.The reason of this,Frank McCourt’s life is full of different obstacles.He lives in a dilapidated house with his family.His parents especially his father can’t do anything for their children.As a result,some of their children die because of hunger and different kind of illnesses.I think these are the most powerful and impressive scenes.Also,besides his financial problems,he suffers from emotional problems.He suffers from hunger,shame and meager.However,he always yearns for a beter life.In order to achieve it,he works in different jobs.As a result,he finds some money and decides to go to America.According to my opinion,Liberity Monument is a symbol is his freedom.He succees in escaping from his obstacles.Although Frank McCourt and Hellen Keller have different types of obstacles,they are same in some ways.Firstly,both of them never give up.Also,in spite of their limitations,they can manage to push their limits.They are always hopefull.I think it must be lesson for us who don’t have handicap or obstacles.Besides their similarities,their obstacles are different.As I said,Frank McCourt suffers from poverty and emotional problems.However,Helen Keller suffers from physical and emotional problems.She is both blind and deaf.Because of her physical situation,she doesn’t aware of outside,sounds and words.With the help of her tutor,she becomes aware of the words.She relates the things with words.I must say that her tutor is a very patient person.The scenes that she tries to teach something in a big deal of patient are so impressive.Now,I ask to you.If we were in their shoes,what would we do?Would be hopefull like them in spite of these obstacles?Would we overcome?I think we should think about that.These films are guide for us.The world is not a easy place for everyone but in order to simplify it,we can do something,can’t we?