...English 4 27 February 2014 Invisible Illnesses That Never Show Do you know anything about the illnesses that you really can’t see? For instance, I live with an illness that no one can see and I will live with it for the rest of my life. Even though you may not be able to see the illness in someone that doesn’t mean that there is nothing wrong with them. It could be any type of illness such as a nervous system disorder or disease. People can’t always see or tell if it is there but it is and people just don’t know it. Children with dysautonomia need more help than what they get now. The invisible illnesses that go unnoticed in children and don’t get publicity are multiplying. Publicity comes with illnesses that are common and known such as cancer. The funding and awareness for illnesses that you can’t see such as dysautonomia, Shy-Drager syndrome, and more are lacking. The treatments for children are behind from where they could be. There are many children are diagnosed with these invisible illnesses such as dysautonomia and other nervous system disorders that you can’t see. Dysautonomia is a serious disease of the autonomic nervous system. The percentage of being an affected individual dysautonomia is a twenty-five percent chance. Also there is a fifty percent chance of being a carrier. (Shohat) There is information on dysautonomia that shows in some people for than others. The information that has been gathered on these disorders in children should be known to the world....
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...Response Paper #2 Chase Stadler The witch trials where a major period of darkness for the colonies and all who resided in them. Puritan colonies were extremely religious and based their life around god. The thought of witches being within their ranks drove them to mass hysteria. Major witch hunts started and people were unfairly tried for their crimes, resulting in most cases death. The Salem Witch Trials had many crucial cases that were detailed in The Wonders of the Invisible World, which has affected today's government branches in a multitude of ways. In the work The Wonders of the Invisible World Cotton Mather, the court's record keeper, would write down the various trails that were presented, the evidence ,and outcomes of them. One of the most famous cases he recorded was the case of Martha Carrier, a suspected witch. Martha was accused of bewitching people, cows, and committing crimes with her spectre. She proceeded to plead not guilty to these charges. The court called numerous witnesses that each gave their case against Martha. The biggest being her children, who accused her of being a witch and turning them into witches. The others accused her using spectral evidence, which is the crime of the person using their spectre to commit deeds. After hearing...
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... leading to apathetic generations; moreover, this causes the overall degeneration of knowledge. As society moves away from text-based intellectualism and becomes less caring, it becomes more susceptible to media persuasion. Television and Internet can change opinions and notions with little effort. This can be seen through commercials, market advertising, as well as elections. In one case, Ramsey Clark was challenging Jacob Javits for his New York Senate seat. Clark used position papers to reach out to the public and show them his policies. Javits mainly used thirty-second television commercials. The commercials appealed to the instantaneous public: "He [Javits] won the election by the largest plurality in New York State history" (Postman 130). Society would much rather watch commercials and let them become the basis of its opinions than read researched position papers. The media wins out. This can also be seen in the modern day with so-called humanitarians attempting to help those who are miserable. A prime example is a viral video entitled KONY 2012. In this film advertisement for Invisible...
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...Unit 4 Project: Baby Kim Case Study Debra Anderson Kaplan University HN144-05: Human Behavior and the Environment Professor Beverly Adams November 8, 2010 The ethical standards that relate directly to the Baby Kim Case are the entire list statements, numbers one through nine. As a human service professional you will need to make it clear to your clients the purpose, goals, and natures of the relationship prior to starting services and negotiate with them an acceptable plan, as well as inform them of the limits of the relationship. As a human service professional you will respect the integrity and welfare of the client at all times. Each client is treated with respect, acceptance and dignity. Clients should be treated as you would want to be treated yourself in these circumstances. Clients are more open to accept help from someone they feel is not judging them or looking down on them. Human service professionals will protect the client's right to privacy and confidentiality except when such confidentiality would cause harm to the client or others, when agency guidelines state otherwise, or under other stated conditions. Human service professionals inform clients of the limits of confidentiality prior to the onset of the beginning of services. Confidentiality must be respected to ensure trust and to maintain the client’s rights, except when they are endangering others with their actions. If it is suspected that harm or danger will occur to others due to the client’s...
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...Coy Choate Mr. Pellerin English 1010 26 November, 2012 Discrimination of Mentally Disabled People Have you ever caught yourself staring at an individual you believed to be retarded or handicapped? Maybe you snickered under your breath when one of them made a funny noise that caught you off guard. Most people will even make an inappropriate remark about this individual, or look at them as though they’re some kind of monster. In today’s society, discrimination towards disabled people is a very big problem. Statistics show that in 2008 alone, Americans with disabilities were victims of about 47,000 rapes, 79,000 robberies, 114,000 aggravated assaults and 476,000 simple assaults (Invisible Hate Crime). The majority of these crimes are committed against younger people, sometimes as young as 12 years old. Although it isn’t rare to see an individual with a mental disability, the odds of a child being born disabled are very rare. At age 25, the odds of having a child with Down syndrome are 1 in 1250 (Down Syndrome). As age increases, the odds of having a Down syndrome child become more likely. This disorder occurs when the child has an extra copy of chromosome 21. Generally, everyone has 2 copies of each chromosome, but this extra copy causes the learning process and body/brain development to be slower than the normal rate. There are many health issues that can come with this condition such as congenital heart disease, Alzheimer’s, hearing problems, thyroid dysfunctions, and many...
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...Ariana Galindo Mrs. Sgarioto English 1100-400 9 December 2009 The Invisible Killer What if one were to tell you that your cell phone is slowly killing you every time you use it? Cell phones are a part of everyday life for many people across the world. To many their cell phone is considered the most important item they own. People use cell phones everyday for simple tasks. One example is going to the grocery store, when a person forgets what they were supposed to get for mom they simply call her and ask. Imagine thirty years ago? People could never do something like that. Society today relies a great deal on cell phones and their features, but do not realize the potential danger they are putting their health in. Many people around the world use cell phones every day but are unaware of the fatal outcomes linked to them. To understand how potentially harmful cell phones are society must consider the many people using them. There are three billion cell phone users worldwide and more than 260 million in the United States alone (Mead 422). It is shocking that so many people around the world and U.S are cell phone users and they all may not know how harmful cell phones can be. It is important to discover how this technology of cell phones was created and developed in order to look into how it is affecting humans. In 1974, in response to growing demand for a communication system that was more convenient than two- way radios, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allocated...
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...Concern in the Study of Children’s Literature Translation Elena Xeni Teaching Staff – Language Pedagogy Department of Education, University of Cyprus Summary The present paper focuses on issues of concern in the study of Children‟s Literature Translation (ChLT). Attempting an overview from the years when ChLT was much ignored in the academic and non-academic world to the years that attention is paid to ChLT as a scientific field in its own right, the present paper illustrates issues that have generated intense and ongoing discussions. Issues such as the missionary role of ChLT, the theoretical framework of ChLT, the translator‟s invisibility, low status, profile and royalties, translatability vs. untranslatability, ideology, censorship, manipulation, and ambivalence are visited in this paper. These issues have had a deep impact on key ChLT actors, processes, and products: the child-reader, the translator, the translated text, the translation process, the author, the publisher, etc. The present text is a modest attempt to join efforts with the international community of scholars, translators, authors, children readers, publishers and other parties with an interest in ChLT, so as for the field to be given its merit in Translation, Comparative, Literary and Interdisciplinary Studies and for the translator –who had for long been much invisible and undervalued –to gain the place s/he deserves in history and society. 1. Introductory note It is widely accepted that Children‟s Literature...
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...history, lifestyle, environment and so forth. The culture of parental pressures was created from a popular trend back then in ancient time, which Chinese parents often forced their children to follow all their instructions. As a Chinese, one has to obey his or her parents’ instructions to show filial piety. No one Chinese child would want to be labeled as an outrageous child and be a shame to the family. As a result, Chinese American students are always compelled to study very hard, so that they will get high scores and be accepted by top schools. The parental pressure that faced by most Chinese American students may sometimes overwhelm them and have negative consequences for...
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...In the two stories “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury and “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin you read about how technology affects everyday life, for better and for worst. They both teach that technology has a negative effect on humanity. In “The Cold Equations” a girl Marilyn stowed away on a EDS ship. Due to this added weight and laws she had to die for the mission to be successfully completed. During her final moments of life the pilot had to explain to her there was nothing he could do. Some people might argue that technology makes life easier, well in this case it makes it so much more complicated. The computers were “formless, mindless, invisible, determining with utter precision how long the pale girl beside him might live” (Godwin...
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...camera. Children are unanimously loved: even if you do not care for children, you will stop and smile at children as they pass. But what happens if that child is armed with an automatic weapon? Our attitudes towards them change tremendously. According to a study done between April 2004 and October 2007, child soldiers are found in 19 countries and territories (Denov 280). In global news circles, the hundreds of thousands of children that have been ripped away...
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...* Skip to section navigation * Skip to page content OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS. EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS. Site-wide navigation * About * Support RAND * Newsroom * Events * RESEARCH * LATEST INSIGHTS * POLICY EXPERTS * CAPABILITIES * GRADUATE SCHOOL * 中文(简体) * Sign In ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form RAND > Published Research > Research Briefs > RB-9336 > Invisible Wounds Mental Health and Cognitive Care Needs of America’s Returning Veterans RESEARCHHIGHLIGHTS View the print-friendly version: PDF (0.2 MB) Key findings: * Approximately 18.5 percent of U.S. servicemembers who have returned from Afghanistan and Iraq currently have post-traumatic stress disorder or depression; and 19.5 percent report experiencing a traumatic brain injury during deployment. * Roughly half of those who need treatment for these conditions seek it, but only slightly more than half who receive treatment get minimally adequate care. * Improving access to high-quality care(i.e., treatment supported by scientific evidence) can be cost-effective and improve recovery rates. | Since October 2001, approximately 1.64 million U.S. troops have deployed to support operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Many have been exposed for prolonged periods to combat-related stress or traumatic events. Safeguarding the mental health of these servicemembers and veterans is an important part of ensuring the future readiness...
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...the power of transformation that we can bring about in ourselves as humanity. Our transformation begins with honest self-knowledge. You and I need to get to know our selves. You and I are not separate. We are one. We can understand each other if we start by simply accepting and knowing each of individual selves. When we do that, we naturally extend to understand each other and the world around us. We then begin to see our integration and deep connection with all of life. This sense of integration, of being one, leads to all rightly compassionate action. Compassionate action ends the chaos, confusion and violence we live with today. You and I as adults, have to do this hard work on our own. However, that does not need to be the case for our children. I believe that there is a kind of education that can nurture self-aware, integrated beings. This kind of education is significant to life and deeply connected with natural living. It is in contrast with mainstream education that is disconnected from real living. In this paper, I claim that our current mainstream education approach is aimed at bringing about success but that success is not the fulfilling end result of human existence. Instead, I claim that education that is significant to life can bring about integrated human beings. Integrated human beings alone can bring about right action in the world and experience lasting wholeness. I also provide a conceptual level explanation of how to bring about education that is significant...
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...Unfortunately, sports-related head injuries occur frequently and can be difficult to diagnose; injuries like concussions aren't always as obvious or painful as a fractured limb or pulled muscle but aren't any less serious. The Center for Disease Control(CDC) estimates that, in the Unites States alone, over 300,000 sports-related concussions occur a year(Article 1). The results of concussions can be detrimental, especially in children and young adults. Returning to play shortly after a concussion can make players vulnerable to serious injury, even permanent brain damage. Therefore, stricter protocol should be set in place for returning to play after a concussion. It seems obvious that concussions should be treated as seriously as any other...
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...Assignment Six Families of children with disabilities have an added burden of providing protection to their children from various types of abuse or neglect. Although all children have the same risk of abuse at the early infancy ages, the risk increases for the disabled as they age. National data indicates that children labeled as disabled are two times more likely to experience abuse and neglect. Wallace and Roberson (2014) state that individuals with developmental disabilities are affected by violence differently than the general population and may experience violence levels up to five times higher than the general population. Other studies have indicated that 60% of children with developmental disabilities and impairments experience some form of abuse and neglect. Mandell et al. (2005) point out that these estimates may be grossly underestimated, as sometimes children with disabilities suffer from cognitive and/or verbal deficits, which prevent them from reporting the abuse. Sexual victimization tends to be the most prevalent form of abuse committed against the developmental disabled. Sorensen (2002) estimates anywhere from 4 times to 10 times higher because the victims may be repeatedly abused by the same abuser. One reason that the rate is only an estimate is because many of the abuses go unreported. Based on global percentages and statistics of the general population, there is an underrepresentation of sexual assault on children with developmental disabilities...
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...extremely brilliant, has no sense of humor, very head strong, emotionally detached, and yet somehow finds love. Another scientist that I found interesting is Adrian Helmsley from the movie “2012,” played by Chiwetel Ejiofor. He too is a brilliant man, full of compassion, and wanting to help others. The likeness they both have is how they want to find the answers to help people. He wants the right answers to try to save humanity and she wants the right answers to help find people’s identities and put away murderers. When I think about a scientist I think of someone who is intelligent; they would have to be, to think and figure out their research and explain how they see their work. They would have to be open-minded; they would neet to be in case they needed to alter their hypothesis or theory. Lastly, they would need to be extremely patient. It could take years for their work to be complete and they must never give up. Over the years my views on how I imagined what a scientist looks like and how they work has changed. I use to think that a scientist was an old, crazy man in a laboratory filled with all kinds of experiments....
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