Grace Anne “Dancing Sunflower” Gomes is a 17-year-old soon to be senior at Mashpee High School. She was born in Hyannis, Massachusetts and belongs to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. Grace loves photography, surfing, playing soccer, going to rock shows, swimming, hanging out with friends, and listening to music. She also likes name brand clothing as well as flats, flip flops, and sneakers. She is an American Red Cross Certified lifeguard and is also a blodd donor. She is 25% Native American, 25% Portuguese, and 50% European (French, English, Scottish). Her parents also own and operate a salon called “Salon C`ville. At first I thought Grace was just a super nerdy and book smart girl. Later, as I got to know her she was one of the coolest persons to talk to. She is very outgoing and always tries new things. She likes to say her name Grace doesn’t fit her because she got a cut on her elbow and isn’t very graceful at all.
Marty Kane was one of the speakers that we had in our speakers that we had in our lectures that talked us about the affects of drugs upon our body. She said that drugs can affect a person physically, Emotionally/Mentally, Spiritually, and can affect your body for the rest of our life. There were three levels that happens to a person after they use the drug and they are: no control of the usage of the drug, become abuse to it, and become dependent on the drug. Also, during the lecuture, she discussed with us about the type of drugs that affects our society today, if it was illegal or legal, the different categories of drugs like stimulants, hallucinogens, opiates, solvents, and benzodiazepines, and the amount of alcohol within in beer, wine, sherry, and spirits. Behavior Changes, Loss of Control, Problems-0 responsibilities, and the Drug becomes focused in their minds are the types of addictions that Marty talked to us about with also that drugs can cause changes to your physical features. Even the types of treatments that she discussed about could be a source that we could use to help us out with our final project. The types of treatments that she referred to was Motivation/Readiness, Precontenplaction-NO WAY!, Contemplation (Maybe, or maybe not), and Preparation were some of the treatments that she talked about in the story. She was a very interesting speaker to talk with and it was very enjoying to have her speak to us about the affects of drugs upon us.
