Life: The Book & American History

1. Describe a basic history of American government's role in health care. Be sure to include major ideas such as Medicare, Social Security, the Civil Rights Act, and 21st century health care laws passed under George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

In a basic sense of the history of the American Government's role in health care throughout the course of history there has always been something unfair or exageration in the laws for health care. Some of the medicare laws passed under Bush and Obama were the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act
passed by Bush in December 8, 2003. Obama recently passed a bill on spending cuts recently made.
These article's were very useful in researching about the bills passed.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/12/medicare-cuts-hypocrisy-g_n_459930.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,_Improvement,_and_Modernization_Act

For our book called "Life: The Book" I am writing about Chromosomal Defects in babys and prenatal care.

For whichever one you choose, feel free to answer in a manner that specifically addresses your topic for Life: The Book or a more general manner (remember that the general manner could still be very useful for your article, as it could provide background info). Be sure to embed links to relevant information and sources of further information.

1. Using a specific example, describe what makes a compelling character in narrative nonfiction or literary journalism.
In The New Yorker they write about a compelling character named Francis Collins, a stem cell researcher who has a strong belief in Christianity.

2. Using a specific example, describe what makes an interesting plot in narrative nonfiction or literary journalism.
An iteresting plot can be anything, it just has to catch the reader, keep them in and when they finish the story end with a bang! To get into more detail when writing tell the audience something that will interested like in The New Yorker's story The Covenant they wrote.
"When the geneticist Francis Collins was named director of the National Institute of Health, last summer, he became the public face of American science and the keeper of the world's deepest biomedical-research-funding purse." After yuou give the audience background info. and facts about the character and subject. You finally end it in a way that it ends but you still get the audience to think more indepth later on.

3. What specific steps do authors take to write non-jargon-based scientific writing?
They mostly do drafts and make sure to have a bit of everything when writing.

4. What specific steps do authors take to encourage their readers to connect with their stories?
They will base their writing on a huge portion of readers who share a common idea or belief and imply that into the writing.