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Irving, L. M. and Berel, S. R. "Comparison of Media-Literacy Programs to Strengthen College Women's Resistance to Media Images." Psychology of Women Quarterly. 25 (2001): 103-111. Wiley Online Library. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. This article is talking about the results of a study that was done among college aged women. It was to see the effects of media images on their body image. It was done with 110 undergraduate women to see what they thought about the images the media was projecting toward them and how it effects how they see themselves. It was also done to see what would help stop this from continuing to happen to these young women. Throughout the study it was shown that with the help of this "intervention" the women began to question whether or not the images were really what ideal beauty looks like. This shows that through media literacy something like this can be stopped and women can feel better about their body image.

Boman Krister K., Frank Lindblad, Anders Hjern. "Long-term outcomes of childhood cancer survivors in Sweden: A population-based study of education, employment, and income" Cancer 116 (2010): 1385-1391. Wiley Online Library. Web. 12 Nov. 2010. This article was a study was about childhood cancer survivors in Sweden. It gives statistics about what type of education the survivors acquired and then how many of them were employed. The article then discusses how much each of the survivors is making working in their profession and how their schooling was a direct affect on that number.

Lewis, J. and Jhally, S. "The Struggle Over Media Literacy." 1998. Journal of Communication, 48: 109-120. Wiley. Web. 17 Nov. 2010. Media literacy is an extremely important thing for an informed person to attain. It is growing more and more important with the increase in media we as consumers see everyday. This article talks specifically about the differences in what media literacy means. Media literacy can mean seeing an image and realizing what it is telling you. But it can also mean seeing an image and realizing why it is there and that is the type that most people are illiterate in.

Deasy-Spinetta, Pat. "School issues and the child with cancer." Cancer 71 (2006): n. pag. Web. 11 Nov. 2010. This article discusses how hospitals are trying to put programs together to help those children that are long term patience with the learning process. Many children are posing disabilities that need to be confronted before they are put back into a regular classroom. The article goes on to talk about that teachers need to empower parents and hospital staffs to come up with innovative ways to teacher children the curriculum that they should be learning. Children with learning disabilities are popping up more frequently and we need to take action as a society to address those issues at an early age.

Vance, Y. H and C. Eiser.

Nagarajan,Rajaram, Joseph P. Neglia, Denis R. Clohisy, Yutaka Yasui, Mark Greenberg, Melissa Hudson, Michael A. Zevon, Jean M. Tersak, Arthur Ablin, and Leslie L. Robison. "Education, employment, insurance, and marital status among 694 survivors of pediatric lower extremity bone tumors." Cancer 97 (2003): n. pag. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. The article studies the effects that childhood cancer had on people. It talks about how it effects their education, marriage, employment, ect. In the conclusion the results showed that the patients had significant differences in education and health insurence when compared with their siblings. Gender also played a big effect in the study.

Mitby A., Pauline ,Leslie L. Robison, John A. Whitton, Michael A. Zevon, Iris C. Gibbs, Jean M. Tersak, Anna T. Meadows, Marilyn Stovall, Lonnie K. Zeltzer, and Ann C. Mertens. "Utilization of special education services and educational attainment among long-term survivors of childhood cancer." Cancer 97 (2003): n. page. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. Thois article is about the connection between special educators and cancer suvivors. Studying how many of the survivors and their siblings were diagnosed with learning disibilites.Also if their disibilities have anything to do with genetics. All of the children studied were at least five years progdiagnosis.

Barrera, Maru, Amanda K., Shaw M., Kathy N.,Elizabeth Maunsell, Lisa Pogany. "Educational and social late effects of childhood cancer and related clinical, personal, and familial characteristics." Cancer 104 (2005) n. pag. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. This article notes the effects that childhood cancer had on adults. It gives percentages of how many had to repeat a grade along with how many had learning disibilities. The article also explains the socail problems they had as children leading to them not having a very close friends through school. Also it reports how their medical problems let to them physically having problems that interfied with their learning (i.e. tumors).

Lorenzi, Maria , Amy J. McMillan, Linda S. Siegel, Bruno D. Zumbo, Victor Glickman, John J. Spinelli, Karen J. Goddard, Sheila L. Pritchard,Paul C. Rogers, and Mary L. McBride. "Educational outcomes among survivors of childhood cancer in British Columbia, Canada." Cancer 115 (2003): n. pag. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. The article discusses the icreased rate of cancer surviors. Which is leading to an increased rate in educational difficulities. Many of those survivors had trouble in reading specifically. This study also shows that women have a higher increased risk for learning disiblites.