...When I have an asthma attack I feel like a fish with no water. b. Topic Reveal: This statement comes from a little girl who participated in a TV ad commercial for asthma attacks. i. Source According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on May 3, 2011 About 1 in 12 people suffer from asthma, and the numbers are increasing every year. c. Thesis: Today, I will inform you about Asthma. d. Preview: i. First, I will tell you about the definition of asthma. ii. Second, I will discuss the effects of Asthma. iii. Third, I will explain how it is very possible to cope with asthma and live a normal life. II. Transition 1: So first… III. Main Point 1: Asthma is a long term disease that puffs up and narrows the airways making it very difficult to breathe. a....
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...Introduction Children who experience poor health have significantly poorer adult outcomes, such as lower educational attainment, adverse health conditions, and lower social status (Case et al., 2002; Case et al., 2005). A particularly potent conduit through which childhood health is linked to adult outcomes is education. Poor health impedes educational progress because a student with health problems is not prepared to fully engage in or take advantage of learning opportunities at school or at home (Hanson et al., 2004). Schools have long recognized the relation between student health and educational progress, and have played a role in diagnosing and treating student health conditions such as vision, hearing, and speech impairments, as well as asthma, mental disorders, and more recently obesity (Council of Chief State School Officers, 1998). Research from the medical...
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...Anushay Jan 1, 2012 Outline for Speech to Inform Topic: Stress Purpose: to inform Specific purpose: to inform the audience about how our reaction to stressful situations allow us to cope, one way or another, with adverse conditions. I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: How many of you have heard the myth THAT STRESS CAN TURN HAIR GRAY, STRESS CAN CAUSE HAIR LOSS?? Well, there is some truth to that. B. Credibility: I have been there where “I had too much to do and too little time”, which means stress. Zimbardo, author of the 2009 book Psychology Core Concepts, which I used as my primary source for this speech, stated that everyone suffers from stress to a greater or lesser degree throughout their lives and people cope with it in different ways, some positive some negative. E. Importance to Audience: By the end of my speech, each of you will have new knowledge about the stress we face on a daily basis. D. Thesis/Preview Statement: Stress is caused by many things in one’s immediate environment. Today, I am going to outline the three basic categories of stress: acute stress, episodic acute stress, and chronic stress. My goal is to inform you, so you can become more knowledgeable about characteristics of stress, its symptoms, duration, and treatment approaches. II. Body A. Acute stress is the most common stress. 1. Acute stress, also known as “Alarm stage,” is both thrilling and exciting. In the chapter where the author discusses physiological responses to stress...
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...talkative; she enjoys doing arts and crafts and drawing pictures for her grandma. She also enjoys building puzzles, she works and plays well with other children, she is very respectful and works well independently. Iliana sleeps 11-12 hours per night and still occasionally wets the bed. The child suffers from chronic asthma and takes steroids for this condition, In addition to using a nebulizer once a day. She also has a condition in which her eye muscles are under-developed due to her premature birth, this causes her to wear eye glasses; she occasionally has to wear an eye patch to strengthen her weaker eye. She has had numerous bilateral eye surgeries to correct her eyes from remaining crossed. Her eye condition does prevent her from reading as quickly as an average child her age; however it does not affect what she reads and learns it only seems to affect how long she spends reading. She does not have this problem with numeric math problems but does with any problem that consists of reading letters. Cognitive Development: Iliana does have a speech impediment in which she received early intervention up until the age of 5, she stutters and mispronounces words. Her speech improves gradually every day but she still has a significant delay. Iliana is able to...
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...was to write a narrative speech on an influential event in our life. She told us that we might want to write about a near-death experience or a life-changing event, as long as it had a moral and it had to be autobiographical. It couldn’t be made up or about someone else. I thought about this for a long time, trying to come up with a topic. It was difficult because I have a pretty stable life. I thought that maybe I could talk about the time I got separated from my class on the ski trip. I wandered around, lost, while the rest of the class was on the bus waiting for me, until the ski patrol finally found me, but that didn’t happen to me; that happened to one of my friends. Then I considered the time I was on vacation in Nicaragua. It was raining heavily, and I went to cross what looked like a creek. As I stepped into the water, I lost my footing and got sucked into a drainpipe and almost died, but that didn’t happen to me either. That happened to my dad. I could always give a speech on the time I went to the Museum of Tolerance, and learned about the tragedies of the Holocaust, but I’m pretty sure that happened to Sam. Or maybe I could tell that story about the time I had an asthma attack when I was trying to save someone during junior lifeguards, but that wasn’t me, that was Anna. What if I told the class about the time I snuck out of the house to go to a party and went out smoking and drinking? Oh, that never happened, did it? Well, what about that time I was walking through...
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...Anthology Teaching students with special needs Fabian Francis 081123090 Mr. A. Solomon Mico University College April 23, 2012 Introduction This anthology seeks to give readers an understanding of various disease and sickness students in a physical education class may suffer from. Time to time it has been a problem for students suffering from the disease, teachers and normal students in the class to react positively in a physical education class. As the motto of the Ministry of Education states that “Every child can learn, every child must learn,” it is the duty of the school and the teachers to make sure students with special ability enjoy the physical education class like the manner of some has. This anthology gives a brief descriptions of the different disease along with a few games that teachers can use in the class to accommodate both students with special needs and the normal students. At the end of this anthology are pictures that will give you an idea of the type of diseases suffered by some students. Definition of Terms Obesity An obese person has accumulated so much body fat that it might have a negative effect on their health. If a person's bodyweight is at least 20% higher than it should be, he or she is considered obese. If your Body Mass Index (BMI) is between 25 and 29.9 you are considered overweight. If your BMI is 30 or over you are considered obese. Autism Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication...
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...attention of a crowd a punishment and not a prize. I can't have been the only one to shiver when Lauren Laverne a pro! muddled her last speech at the Mercury awards on Wednesday, announcing that the winner was James Blunt, not James Blake. What chance does the amateur have of making it through an address without humiliation? Everyone's fears are personal, particular and I suspect quietly cherished. When you're a kid a fear is almost a badge of honour; it helps you begin to define yourself. I can still list my earliest friends and what they were afraid of heights, spiders, Ursula from The Little Mermaid. At that age my stated fear was sharks, and public speaking was easy. I wanted the speaking parts in school plays and then suddenly puberty – it became unthinkable to stand up and say words in front of an audience. For a clear 15 years, from speaking at funerals and at classes , I managed to avoid it. Two years ago, at a wedding, I saw a man give as much of his brain as he feasibly could to feelings of joy, and love of, and the rest, I'm afraid,that I may be lost to terror about a speech. Viv Groskop, journalist, writer and comedian responded by saying “You mean you couldn't even get it together to give a speech at your own wedding? Man up! Or are you saying you gave such a bad speech that it was just blubbing? Because that can often be the best kind of speech. I want video evidence.” Like anyone who performs standup comedy, I get so tired of the "Oooh, that must be sooo scary"...
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...Final Environmental Science Tiffany Garris April 15, 2012 Marc Romine Energy Conservation Energy conservation is a simple way to solve many problems but the one we are focusing on today is called acid rain. Acid rain is a devastating effect of energy consumption. The only way to reduce it is to use less natural resources, or energy conservation. Energy consumption and air pollution has become a hot topic recently and is so linked to each other that you cannot have one without the other. One of the worst places for acid rain is China. This is due to their massive consumption of energy sources. The nonrenewable resource they mostly use is coal. Their high usage rate is in direct correlation to their high population. The more people they have the more of a need for coal and other nonrenewable resources. The higher usage of nonrenewable energy resources causes higher amounts of acid rain. If we are not careful we will be as bad if not worse than China. Our energy use increased 40% from 1970 to 2000. They are charted to grow another 40% by year 2020. That is at an even faster rate and we are at 2012 so in eight years we will have used 80% more energy than was used in 1969. That is a scary percentage. Acid rain damages everything from steel buildings to water supplies. One of the many things acid rain destroys is plants. That means it destroys the food we eat by destroying the grass and other flora that animals eat, the animals that eat the...
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...of Smoking during Pregnancy Cassandra Buckner National American University Abstract There are many dangers to an unborn child that can follow them the rest of their lives from maternal smoking. Many studies and significant research shows smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of a long list of problems. Still birth is the most common complication, but placental dysfunctional, premature labor and low birth weight are also problems that can harm the fetus. Over 40% of children studied also had some form of heart defect. Exposure to cigarette smoke during pregnancy has also been linked to SIDS. Birth defects such as cleft palate and cleft lip can be caused from smoking while pregnant as well as your child being diagnosed with asthma. Speech defects as well as behavioral problems such as ADD/ADHD also play a role in maternal smoking. No one would give an infant a cigarette, so why would we while carrying our child smoke? Smoking during pregnancy can harm both the baby and the mother. Most would do anything to protect their child. Yet many women, who feel this way, continue to smoke while pregnant, insisting that the dangers are non-existent. In reality, there are many dangers to an unborn child that can follow them for the rest of their lives, if they survive gestation, and birth. Miscarriages, low birth weight, premature labor, and organ defects are just a few things that can plague the child of a smoking mother. There are many studies, and significant research...
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...liquid and solid and to the chest wall. Each properties of substance that the air attenuated lead to different degree and intensity of breath sounds (Jones, 1995a). Breath sounds can divided into three type, normal, abnormal and diminished (Alexandra Hough, 2001). Breath sound is useful in diagnosing or monitoring respiratory disease and airway abnormalities, such as asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia and so on. It can be auscultate across chest wall with a stethoscope. A physician can auscultate breath sounds to detect...
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...Michelle Obama, in the “Remarks to the NAACP National Convention” emphasizes her “Let’s Move” campaign which is to solve the childhood obesity and the importance of make it a success. She also tells the audience why kids obese and how to overcome it. Obama alerts the audience by giving some facts about the childhood obesity issue. She reminds them by saying, “Now, right now in America, one in three children is over-weight or obese, putting them at greater risk of obesity-related conditions like diabetes and cancer, heart disease, asthma” (p.420). In stating this statistic, she urges the parents to really choose good food for their children. She claims that obesity will not only affect the health of the children but also the health of nation and economy. Generally, in the speech, Obama believes that the children today are not as active as the children before in term of physical activity which may lead to obesity problem. She says, “In fact, studies found that African American children spend an average of nearly six hours a day watching TV-and that every extra hour of TV they watch is associated with the consumption of an additional 167 calories” (p.422). Her point is that the children should exercise more to keep fit and healthy and the parents should be like the parents during her time who kept encouraging their children to constantly on the move. Consequently, Obama highlights four things for her campaign. First, she urges the government and the food industry to provide...
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...giving our best to do our job. That exposure gave us an opportunity to handle different cases. With all those we’ve encountered, we chose one to be the subject of our case study. We are presenting to you Bronchial Asthma which is the case of our patient at Medicine Ward Room C whom we will call Mr. Theodore for the purpose of confidentiality. Bronchial asthma is a disease caused by increased responsiveness of the tracheobronchial tree to various stimuli. The result is paroxysmal constriction of the bronchial airways. Bronchial asthma is the more correct name for the common form of asthma. The term 'bronchial' is used to differentiate it from 'cardiac' asthma, which is a separate condition that is caused by heart failure. Although the two types of asthma have similar symptoms, including wheezing (a whistling sound in the chest) and shortness of breath, they have quite different causes. Bronchial asthma is a disease of the lungs in which an obstructive ventilation disturbance of the respiratory passages evokes a feeling of shortness of breath. The cause is a sharply elevated resistance to airflow in the airways. Despite its most strenuous efforts, the respiratory musculature is unable to provide sufficient gas exchange. The result is a characteristic asthma attack, with spasms of the bronchial musculature, edematous swelling of the bronchial wall and increased mucus secretion. In the initial stage, the patient can be...
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...Theodore Roosevelt Our 26th President of the United States was born on October 27, 1858 in New York City, the son of Martha Bulloch Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt Senior. Born in an affluent family, Teddy Roosevelt was a very frail child. Afflicted with asthma and being in an immensely physical shape he was home-schooled. While being home-schooled he deeply fell in love with the study nature. To improve his physical conditions he began to box and exercise. He would soon attend Harvard College in 1876 where he continued on with boxing and began rowing, and developed an interest in naval affairs. Before becoming president Mr. Roosevelt was a very busy man with various job titles. After graduating from Harvard in 1880, he entered Columbia Law School, but soon dropped out to pursue his goal as a New York State Assemblyman. He would also be a U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, an Assistant Secretary of the Navy, a lieutenant colonel of First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment and would also publish quite a few books. While running for Vice President with William McKinley as President, they were elected. Roosevelt was only Vice President for about six months before President McKinley was assassinated. Roosevelt would then be sworn into office as the youngest U.S. President at the age of forty-two. As President, he strived to improve working conditions, trust busting and acted as a peace maker. He helped negotiate the end of the Russo-Japanese War, earning him the Nobel...
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...tree branches the bronchi deliver oxygen to lots of small air sacs called Alveoli. The Alveoli are like little balloons that expand and contract with the coming and going breath. When oxygen finally reaches the Alveoli it is taken into the lungs where diffusion and a gas exchange will occur as as been previously covered. The diaphragm is the lowest section of the respiratory system. This muscle is that helps us inhale and exhale. When we breath in, the diaphragm flattens taking in air and by increasing the size of your lungs. This is a tenuous position of the diaphragm and when it relaxes the volume of the lungs decrease, expelling the air in the lungs and ridding the body of waste (U.S National Library of Medicine). Humans breathe in about 5,000 gallons of air every day, some of which will most likely contain toxins and irritants. If any of these substances were to bypass the mucus and reach the bronchi, the bronchi would become swollen or inflamed. In an attempt to extract harmful toxins the body produces a surplus of mucus. As a result the Bronchioles may become tightened or filled with mucus cause difficulty and discomfort breathing. This condition is called...
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...Yoga is a great therapy for fatigued muscles. It relives tension, joint pain, and helps with muscular imbalances. Muscular imbalances happen when you use the dominant side of your body over the other side. Such as holding a bag on your right shoulder all ay, or being an athlete that uses your left hand. Each pose and posture requires balance, which helps to elevate these imbalances. Also because yoga alleviates muscle pain, various athletes like to use yoga in their daily lives. Athletes such as LeBron James and Shaquille o Neil. According to the American Cancer society website, Article titled Yoga, published in May 2008, there is evidence that suggests that yoga might be helpful when used as medical treatment to help relives symptoms of asthma, cancer, , diabetes, dug addiction, high blood pressure, heart disease and migraines. This man right here is Arthur Boorman, and he a veteran of the gulf war. He was crippled in his knees and back and after 10 months of intensive yoga treatment, he was able to loose 100 pounds, and not only walk unassisted, but can do headstands. A pretty tremendous turn around thanks to the power of yoga, and a lot of determination. Next I’m going to discuss the mental benefits of yoga. Yoga is a stress stabilizer, and the breathing techniques that are...
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