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 * Topic Talk: Event, Issue, or Other Topic of Interest**

**Topic: EDS ( Ehlers Danlos Syndrome )**

**Topic Choice:** List five facts that you already know about this topic: 1. It is a rare disorder

2. There are many different types of the disorder, and each type has it’s own symptom

3. It is hereditary, and gene therapy will hopefully solve this in the years to come

4. My sister has this disorder

5. It is a tissue disorder **Answer these questions about this topic:** This topic impacts the world because as the years go by, the disorder is becoming more and more common, and people are actually starting to look for a cure or a way to help it. There is no cure out yet, only ways to help the pain and the t
 * 1)  How did it/will it impact the world?

There will always be interest in this topic because more people are being diagnosed everyday and the more people that suffer from it, the more likely the chance of finding a cure/prevention will be.
 * 1)  Why is there still interest in it today, or why will there continue to be interest in it?

I am interested in this topic becaue my sister was diagnosed with the disorder when she was thirteen years old. It affected her ability to do the things she wanted, and has completely changed her life forever.
 * 1)  Why are you interested in researching this topic?

I personally connect with this topic because I have been through everything with my sister. I was there through the surgeries, the pain and the lengths she has taken to adapt to the life she was given.
 * 1)  How do you personally connect with this topic?

**Resources** What resources do you think will be useful to you? Specific books? Series of books? Magazines? Periodicals? Interviews? Internet sites? Films? Other?

Resources that will help me with this topic are: -medical books -articles on the disorder and how to help

**Once you have completed worksheets for** __**TWO**__ **topics, please answer these two questions; be prepared to discuss your answers in class:** Of my two topics, Taylor Swift and EDS, I feel that the EDS will be a better topic because not many people know about it, and it is something that I can relate too because of my sister.
 * 1)  Of your two topic choices, which one do you think you will find the most information about? Please explain.

Of my top two choices, I like Taylor Swift the best, but I think that doing research on EDS will turn out to be the better topic for the project.
 * 1)  Of your two topic choices, which one do you really like the best? Please explain.