Heyy im really stuck on this question and if anybody could help iT WOULD BE MUCHHHH APPRECIATED !!
it is from section one
(b) Explain how the composer makes the father’s journeys seem important.
In my son’s name: putting a face to race for cure
Julie-Anne Davies
When John Davidson suggested to his then I 5-yearild son Jesse that they go on a road trip together across their home state of Ontario, he didn’t mean a simple father—son bonding
exercise in station wagon with a pile of CDs and lots of takeaway hamburgers. Nor did he intend it to be a farewell to his middle son who 10 years earlier had been diagnosed with the incurable, muscle-wasting genetic disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy, or DMD.
No, Mr Davidson wanted to rattle a few cages. So if pushing his terminally ill son’s wheelchair across 3300 kilometers of some of Canada’s most grueling landscape — along the way shaking loose some money out of people’s wallets and focusing attention on the need for funding for genetic research- all the better.
“I was just doing what any father would do, looking after my boy,” Mr Davidson said yesterday.
That was in 1995. The trip, which became known as Jesse’s journey, laid the foundation for an even more daunting solo trek three years later, when he walked 8300 kilometers across the roads and mountains of Canada to bring hope to families affected by genetic illnesses.
The Foundation for Gene and Cell Therapy was created as a result of these two remarkable journeys, with the main goal of raising research dollars to put an end to DMD. It has raised more than $6.5 million.
Mr Davidson, who is in Melbourne as a guest speaker at the Genetics Congress, was nearly unable to make it because just last week, Jesse, now 23, came close to death. It was not the first time. His lungs are worn out with the effort of trying to pump oxygen into his body.
DMD affects only boys with the diagnosis usually made before they go to school. By age 10 they are wheelchair- bound. Most die in their early 20s from respiratory failure.
Unlike most of the scientific luminaries, including a clutch of Nobel laureates who will take the podium this week, Mr Davidson, a former sports journalist, will remind the scientists that medical scientific Endeavour is in the end about children like Jesse who are dealt a death sentence before they are born.
“Occasionally the scientists need to step out of the labs and stop and say ‘why are we doing this work?’ Someone like me can help them put a human face on genetic disease, and so that’s what I do. It’s all I want to do now.” Mr Davidson knows it is too late for his son. “I realised some time ago that we’re not in this for Jesse anymore, but as we sit here today I also know that somewhere a parent has been told the worst news they will ever hear. I don’t know that family but I can picture that little boy. He is about this high, he’s aged somewhere between four and six years old and he won’t understand what all the fuss is about.”
One or the interesting, and in these days of global parenting, controversial caveats the foundation places on scientists who line up for its research grants is that they must agree to work co-operatively. That means sharing information, something the scientific community has not always been noted for.
“Look, if 50 people have to stand up and take a bow as they accept the Nobel Prize because they found a cure to DMD, who cares? You can’t hang on to information when a child’s life is at stake,” Mr Davidson said.
All i could get from this is...personal tone, statistics from reports, emotive language for sympathy and persuasive prostyle....
Am i on the right track?
btw what technique is this .. "No, Mr Davidson wanted to rattle a few cages"
it is from section one
(b) Explain how the composer makes the father’s journeys seem important.
In my son’s name: putting a face to race for cure
Julie-Anne Davies
When John Davidson suggested to his then I 5-yearild son Jesse that they go on a road trip together across their home state of Ontario, he didn’t mean a simple father—son bonding
exercise in station wagon with a pile of CDs and lots of takeaway hamburgers. Nor did he intend it to be a farewell to his middle son who 10 years earlier had been diagnosed with the incurable, muscle-wasting genetic disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy, or DMD.
No, Mr Davidson wanted to rattle a few cages. So if pushing his terminally ill son’s wheelchair across 3300 kilometers of some of Canada’s most grueling landscape — along the way shaking loose some money out of people’s wallets and focusing attention on the need for funding for genetic research- all the better.
“I was just doing what any father would do, looking after my boy,” Mr Davidson said yesterday.
That was in 1995. The trip, which became known as Jesse’s journey, laid the foundation for an even more daunting solo trek three years later, when he walked 8300 kilometers across the roads and mountains of Canada to bring hope to families affected by genetic illnesses.
The Foundation for Gene and Cell Therapy was created as a result of these two remarkable journeys, with the main goal of raising research dollars to put an end to DMD. It has raised more than $6.5 million.
Mr Davidson, who is in Melbourne as a guest speaker at the Genetics Congress, was nearly unable to make it because just last week, Jesse, now 23, came close to death. It was not the first time. His lungs are worn out with the effort of trying to pump oxygen into his body.
DMD affects only boys with the diagnosis usually made before they go to school. By age 10 they are wheelchair- bound. Most die in their early 20s from respiratory failure.
Unlike most of the scientific luminaries, including a clutch of Nobel laureates who will take the podium this week, Mr Davidson, a former sports journalist, will remind the scientists that medical scientific Endeavour is in the end about children like Jesse who are dealt a death sentence before they are born.
“Occasionally the scientists need to step out of the labs and stop and say ‘why are we doing this work?’ Someone like me can help them put a human face on genetic disease, and so that’s what I do. It’s all I want to do now.” Mr Davidson knows it is too late for his son. “I realised some time ago that we’re not in this for Jesse anymore, but as we sit here today I also know that somewhere a parent has been told the worst news they will ever hear. I don’t know that family but I can picture that little boy. He is about this high, he’s aged somewhere between four and six years old and he won’t understand what all the fuss is about.”
One or the interesting, and in these days of global parenting, controversial caveats the foundation places on scientists who line up for its research grants is that they must agree to work co-operatively. That means sharing information, something the scientific community has not always been noted for.
“Look, if 50 people have to stand up and take a bow as they accept the Nobel Prize because they found a cure to DMD, who cares? You can’t hang on to information when a child’s life is at stake,” Mr Davidson said.
All i could get from this is...personal tone, statistics from reports, emotive language for sympathy and persuasive prostyle....
Am i on the right track?
btw what technique is this .. "No, Mr Davidson wanted to rattle a few cages"
