The Challenge Of The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

The ice bucket challenge is with cold ice & water because the water makes your bones shiver, which make your bones weak like one of the symptoms where your bones weaken. The challenge is when someone challenges you, you have 24 hours to donate $100 to the ALS or pour cold water with ice over your head. The challenge is 22.9 million as of August 19,2015. The challenge donates the money to research toward the disease. Steve Gilson was diagnosed with ALS in

ALS is also known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a disease in which the brain, nerves, and spinal cord deteriorate. It attacks every part of the body except the brain. Causing major body malfunction along with muscle weakening. Which includes lack of strength, the ability to move arms, legs and body, eventually you lose the ability to breathe. The average time of life after being diagnosed is two - five years. It was believed to be inherited or maybe an infection. After years of research scientist have found a major

To support our mission, donors gave over $1,000,000 this past year. We celebrated our first joint fundraising golf tournament with the Meals on Wheels programs of Chapel Hill/Carrboro and Durham in October 2014. This was a great opportunity to raise awareness in the Triangle for our three programs that collectively feed over 2,000 seniors every week day. An unfortunate blast of winter weather caused us to cancel our Fat Tuesday Gala, but we were able to turn the auction into a successful online event and we raised funds to purchase over 18,000 meals. Our Fat Tuesday Gala will return with even more exciting plans next year on February

Have you ever heard of ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease? For many people, ALS is a disorder that they may not know much about. I never heard of it either until my father was diagnosed with this disease in 2006. Because there is no known cure, it is important to detect this disease early, so that proper treatments and preparation can be done before it’s too late.

ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) or Lou Gehrig’s Disease is a classified as a degenerative neurological disorder that inhibits motor neurons in the spinal cord and brain to function properly. This disease eventually results in paralysis and imminent death over a period of time. ALS patients have anywhere from a few months, to a couple years to live after diagnosis since their nervous systems are slowly destroyed, rendering the body useless, and sustaining life impossible.

Steve Gleason’s battle with ALS hasn’t been easy, yet he shows us what courage really is. Steve remained strong and determined to beat ALS. What sets Steve Gleason apart from most others is that instead of becoming self focused on beating ALS, he became determined to beat it and help others win the fight. His choice to fight this disease is impressive enough but his work to bring worldwide awareness to ALS through his own organization, Team Gleason (slogan, “No white flags”) goes beyond

The ice bucket challenge seemingly drenched the world back in 2014. It involved dumping a bucket full of freezing ice water on oneself in order to bring about awareness for the disease ALS. One would then nominate others to do the challenge as well, whilst giving a monetary donation of their choice to the ALS association for research funds thereafter. The challenge is basically broken down into three steps: accepting the challenge from nomination, uploading a video of the person doing the challenge, and giving a donation on that person 's behalf. Even after the ice bucket challenge craze, many people nationwide are unaware of what the disease is actually about.Informed individuals know that ALS is a life-devastating disease that can immediately turn a person 's life in a completely different direction. This disease can cause immense amounts of heartache on those that are part of the patient’s life, especially on the own patient. A strong, independent, and healthy being can turn into an incapacitated and no longer self- sufficient person in only a matter of few years. Control of the body gradually becomes irretrievable, but the mind is always aware; as a whole, it can be thought of as being mentally imprisoned in a dysfunctional and foreign body, only being able see life pass away like water through their fingers. Given that there is a boundless range of information on the subject in terms of ALS, only so much can be covered to be able to be considered an overview. There are

The Saint Jude Bike-a-thon was a fundraiser my high school’s JROTC program ran every year to raise money for Saint Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, a unique facility that primarily works to cure children with cancer. Unlike other hospitals, the majority of funding for St. Jude comes from generous donors. It costs $2 million to operate

The gift that my group performed for the community of Juneau, Alaska is snow removal. The group consisted of my two most trustworthy peers Marcos Yadao and Mitchell Laudert. We all understood that living in a small tight knit town such as Juneau; the smallest of tasks can have the biggest impacts. That is when the light bulb in our intellectual brains and the idea of snow removal came to mind. It was an appropriate job for the winter season. With heavy snow flurries in the forecast, this would be an achievable accomplishment. With the service in mind our next step was to pick a location. We did not want to select the wealthy neighborhoods because the residents there would probably be financially able to pay for such services. The location that we settled on was not a poverty stricken area, but the homes consisted of elderly residence. To avoid complications with the occupants of the home and explain our reasoning for the free service we wanted to only do homes were the residence weren’t present. That did not hold up to a standard when we actually got around to carry out the service. The whole point of going out and helping people of Juneau with their snow blanketed driveways, walkways, and porches too was to gain self respect and also to prove to the world that good can come from anything and anywhere too.

When Terry was only eighteen he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma (a type of bone cancer) which led to the amputation of his right leg amputated just above the knee. During his treatment, Terry had discovered that many children (most of them younger than him) were going through treatments of their own. This is where the first ideas for the run across Canada had begun. As most Canadians know, the marathon was cut short due to the cancer coming back and unfortunately had spread to his lungs. However, during his run Terry had caught the attention of the media. Televisions stations started covering when Terry would arrive in their area to try to get an interview. To encourage people to donate, Terry said “If you’ve given a dollar, you’ve given to the Marathon of Hope.” He was getting his message out which was most important to him and his family. As citizens slowly became more aware that countless children were going through this terrible disease. “It’s one thing to run across Canada, but now, people are really going to know what cancer is.” was one of the responses to reporters questioning why he would attempt such a feat. I feel that Terry Fox and his “Marathon of Hope” are most certainly a defining moment because it shows how we can band together for a good cause. Out of one citizens kindness, an entire country was now donating money towards a cure for such a life changing disease which, really had no cure at that time. Look where we are now, this event helped an entire country realize that we could make a

Furthermore technology contributes money and awareness for organizations. In the past there was an ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, which is where people pour buckets of ice cold water on their head in order to spread awareness for ALS. “2.2 million twitter

More of a good cause, but I took it way more serious than it should've been I was 3 out of 5 shots putting Andy Lin at a 63% shooting percent. soon after I went up for a rebound and sprained my ankle which made me think how important the cause was knowing I should've sat out for the rest of the game I overcame my injury by wrapping it up and continuing to do it for the ones who’s needed the funding and ones who came out to support .This event was held for a whole day but still with that time frame we were able to earn 2,000 dollars from supporters. I would say that we were the best but we gave it our all and believed in ourselves to gain success which payed off in a win/win

Recent studies show that some athletes are now actually being diagnosed with either of these diseases as early as in their late 20’s. For example, Pete Frates, a former baseball player for the Boston College, was diagnosed with ALS at the age of 27. He first realized something was wrong when he was struck on the left wrist with a baseball and never fully recovered from the lingering weakness. He was diagnosed on March 13, 2012 and immediately started to raise awareness. In 2014 he launched the Ice Bucket Challenge along with the help of his friend Pat Quinn to raise money for ALS research. In addition, Chris Henry, who was a football wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals, was diagnosed with CTE at age 26. He is the only known player to have had CTE and was still active in sports. He was diagnosed after he had fallen from a pickup truck and died on December 16, 2009. Although his family had no knowledge of this, they did notice the mood swings, headaches, and anger management issues that he did not have before. Medical research show that athletes such as Pete Frates and Chris Henry are being diagnosed at an early age because they frequently suffer from head trauma and concussions. Athletes often do not realize the potential danger they are putting themselves in each time they play and get a brain

The Ice Bucket Challenge is a nation wide fundraiser to raise money and awareness for people with ALS. The Ice Bucket Challenge is getting challenged by a friend to dump a bucket of ice and water over your head. You have twenty four hours to complete the challenge or donate one hundred dollars to the ALS Association. The Ice Bucket Challenge was started by a former Boston College baseball captain named Pete Frates. He has ALS and started the challenge on Twitter.

This is more towards the challenges that kids were obsessed with in the year 2016.The first example is bottle flipping. Plastic water bottles were quickly banned from most schools, but that didn't stop the crave Students soon started to use highlighters, crayons, and markers. And of course the mannequin challenge is a favorite, it wasn't easy to stay still with all the laughter, but it was fun to try and share with friends on social media. This challenge soon went viral and everybody like celebrities, athletes, and even pets were getting in on the fun of staying still in a funny casual position while someone films you. Finally, is the ice bucket challenge, this challenge was for a good cause for ASL. The point would be to dump ice water over your body and then challenge someone if that person does not do the challenge in 24 hours they would have to donate $100 to the ASL