Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Ice Bucket Challenge

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Yaqi Wan
Instructor Gaines
EN 120
September 17, 2014
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
This summer, an activity called Ice Bucket Challenge becomes popular; all of the social media sites are filled with people who dumping the buckets with ice water over their heads. This challenge catches people’s eyes and let more and more people know the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and let them help the patients. However, do you really understand what ALS is? What are the symptoms? And who get ALS?
The ice bucket challenge is not only funny videos, the purpose of this challenge is that let people pay attention on those who affected the ALS and help them. The rule of ice bucket challenge is that people who are challenged by others need to make a video about pouring ice water over their heads by bucket and post this video on Facebook or other social media sites in 24 hours, or donate $100 to ALS association. There are many celebrities joined this challenge from Bill Gates to the famous basketball player Kobe Bryant to Jun Lei who is a Chinese founder of Xiaomi teach. “People have shared more than 1.2 million videos on Facebook between June 1 and Aug. 13 and mentioned the phenomenon more than 2.2 million times on Twitter since July 29, …show more content…
Because the disease will make people’s muscle become weak, the patients can appear a lot of symptoms. As we all know, muscles throughout our whole body, such as hands, legs, mouths, and so on. Therefore, the patients will feel that they cannot control the muscle movement. At first, they always feel that sometimes there is not enough power in their hands, fingers, or one of the legs. Then, they will no longer move, because they cannot use their hands and legs. After that, they will unable control their mouse and tongues, so they cannot speak and eat. Finally, they are even incapable of breathing by their selves. That is to say, to the end, patients always become totally paralyzed with clear
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