...but the immediate family of the alcoholic. “Alcoholism and drug addiction affects the whole family- young, teenage, or grown-up children; wives or husbands; brothers or sister; parents or other relatives and friends.” ("Family Disease"). In the memoir, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, her siblings and mother’s daily lives, health, and personalities were greatly affected by Jeanette's father, Rex Walls alcoholism. Some specific effects of alcoholism on families are conflict between spouses, infidelity, domestic violence, economic hardships, isolation or divorce, jealousy...
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...reading Jeannette Walls’ memoir, “The Glass Castle”, it became clear that there were many repetitive factors that shaped the Walls family’s lives. There are numerous accounts of sexual abuse, parental alcoholism, evidence of mental illness and finally poverty in the form of homelessness. For even when the children prospered the parents choose to be homeless. The question is, are these factors relative? Can it be that childhood sexual abuse can inflict mental illness or alcoholism in adulthood? Does mental illness and alcoholism affect the chances of being homeless? The focus of this essay is to provide evidence that the events in Walls own life, documented in her memoir, have a butterfly effect in the outcome of their parent’s lives. In Her memoir Walls documents several cases of sexual abuse during her and her sibling’s childhood. She writes of her own experiences with Billy Deel, although he is only a minor as well, he sexually assaults her during a game of hide and seek. PAGE 85-87 Afterward Jeanette was reluctant to tell her father, “I had a feeling it would cause problems” (Walls 87) The second assault Walls documents, was when she was nine years old. “I was awakened by someone running his hands over my private parts.” “‘I just want to play a game with you’ a man’s voice said.” The next day when they told their father, “he said he was going to kill that low life…” Although, no serious action was taken to find him or prevent it from happening again. (Walls 103) The third...
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...cracking, dampness, spalling, peeling paint, insect or termite attack, corrosion, fungus stain and so on. These building defect can affect the performance and the appearance of the building. Building defect can occur either because of poor design, or low quality workmanship, or because the building was not constructed according to the design, or use of inferior materials. When a building facing defects, the causes of that defect have to identified before any remedial work can be undertaken to remedial it. Therefore, we are required to investigate the building defect of a building. We also have to identify the possible cause of the building defect which occur in that building. We have choose the building of Guest House to make our case study and survey. This building is located at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang. Guest House is one of the famous hospitality choices for USM visitors, business travellers and tourists due to it good services and strategic location. It is a building that is always visited by many people for the purpose of the stay, so it is very important to kept the building in a good condition as not to give the impression to the guests who come to stay here. BUILDING HISTORY Guesthouse of Kampus Sejahtera USM are located at the North part of the...
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...fundamental idea behind formal equality of opportunity. Judging people based on stereotypes that are statistically significant is an idea opposed to giving everyone a clean slate and a judgment based solely on their merits which is the core idea behind formal equality of opportunity. Substantive equality of opportunity can have two alternative definitions. Firstly, substantive equality of opportunity claims that “applications are fairly judged on their merits and the most meritorious are selected, and sufficient opportunity to develop the qualifications needed for successful application is available to all” (“Equality of Opportunity”). Furthermore, it only prevails “with respect to some desirable position or ranked order of positions just in case all members of society are eligible to apply...
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...Black women and pregnancy: Fibroids by Kimberly Seals-Allers, author of The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy Reviewed by the BabyCenter Medical Advisory Board Last updated: January 2010 What are fibroids? Fibroids are noncancerous tumors that grow from muscle tissue in the uterus. Fibroids, also called uterine leiomyomas or myomas, can grow on the outside of your uterine wall, within the uterine wall, or into the uterine cavity. Women can have fibroids in one or more of these locations. The growths can be as small as a pea or as large as a basketball. But they are almost always benign, no matter how large they get. If a fibroid or cluster of fibroids is particularly large or is growing on the outside of the uterine wall, it can push the uterus into an abnormal position. It can also put pressure on the bladder or intestine, causing symptoms such as frequent urination, constipation, pelvic pain, or backache. Fibroids may also cause heavy menstrual bleeding. Fibroids can interfere with fertility, and they occasionally cause complications during pregnancy. For example, if a large fibroid blocks the opening of a woman's uterus, she may have to deliver her baby by c-section. African American women are more likely than other women to get fibroids, but any woman of any race can get them. Why is it especially important for black women to know about fibroids? In the United States, African American women have the highest rates of fibroids. They're two to three times...
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...I. INTRODUCTION A. Number of cases/Statistic data of the disease A.1 Statistics Accurate pre-eclampsia statistics are difficult to obtain because the condition ranges from extremely mild to severe. Mild cases are sometimes not included in official figures. Furthermore, mild cases may have no effect on pregnancy, which is why the figures for pre-eclampsia as a whole are higher than for those that actually complicate pregnancies. Around 10% of pregnant women develop pregnancy-induced hypertension (high blood pressure) or pre-eclampsia (high blood pressure with protein in the urine).Worldwide more than four million women per year will develop pre-eclampsia, and over 63,000 maternal deaths are due to pre-eclampsia. Action on Pre-Eclampsia estimates that every year in the UK pre-eclampsia is responsible for the deaths of six mothers and 500 to 600 babies. A 2005 to 2006 study showed a promising fall in the numbers of women developing eclampsia since 1992, from 4.9/10,000 to 2.7/10,000. This has arisen as a result of the introduction of management guidelines for eclampsia and pre-eclampsia. Pre-eclampsia is much more common in first pregnancies, and there is a reduced incidence of pre-eclampsia in the second pregnancy. The risk of women who have had pre-eclampsia developing it again in future pregnancies is 16 percent, and 25 percent if they suffered from severe pre-eclampsia, eclampsia or they delivered pre-term. This rises to 55 percent if their baby was delivered before...
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...Technical Writing Project Cover Sheet Capstone Proposal Project Name: Wireless Home Network Student Name: Degree Program: Information Technology Mentor Name: Signature Block Table of Contents Capstone Proposal Summary 1 Review of Other Work 2 Rationale and Systems Analysis 3 Project Goals and Objectives 5 Project Timeline and Milestones 6 Project Deliverables 8 References 10 Appendix 1: Competency Matrix 11 1 Capstone Proposal Summary This project is going to entail upgrading and installing new components to an existing wireless home network. This is a two story home with attic and basement. Inside this home, there are 8 rooms. A living area, an office area, kitchen, laundry room, 1 ½ bathrooms and 3 bedrooms. Following an interview and on site evaluation to assess what the current needs are, along with the direction of technology in the future. The new network needed to be focused on wireless connectivity of their various devices, which included smart phones, tablets and laptops. There also needed to be easy access for guests who wanted to connect to the wireless network for their own tablets, smart phones and laptops. Currently, the home has DSL internet service, with a basic wireless G router. The DSL service was adequate for the current network setup, but with more and more online content, they were having a problem with lag between devices. The current speed...
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...Children “of the street” may have been abandoned and rejected by their families while others may have left their families due to prevailing circumstances. Maybe some of them might be noted that in a sense “they abandoned the family”. Other Children may stay and wander the streets, becoming involved in street activities with other children. Regardless of definition, the phenomenon of street children is not new and neither is it restricted to certain geographical areas. The street urchin, the runaway, the street waits and stray children were part of the “Urban Landscape” during the process of industrialization and urbanization in Intramuros, Manila. This has also been the case in many population that have undergone political, social or economic upheaval. Since street children arises vastly through the walled city of Intramuros, many establishments especially those in hospitality industry find it hard to operate their specialization against the abruptly disturbance from the street children. This causes negativity to their establishment and to their image. Hence, street children who's begging for a small amount of money for their goods on foreigners or even on hotel guests creates big impact on the name of any hospitality establishment that's on the premise. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM We noticed that the street children in the Intramuros, Manila under the age of 10 and under are constantly increasing. This study intends to help the problems of the business establishments regarding...
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...Running head: SPINAL CORD INJURY CASE STUDY 1 SPINAL CORD INJURY CASE STUDY 2 Abstract This spinal cord injury case is about my 50 year old brother named Kevin that fell off our mother’s roof and fractured his vertebra at the T5-T9 level. He is now a paraplegic that has come to live with my family. What is his functional level to this day? What are the capabilities and functional limitations for someone with this paralysis? These are some of questions that will be addressed in this study. A person with a spinal cord injury needs some assistive devices to enable them to be somewhat mobile. A wheelchair and a new device...
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...The day I became a parent is the day that I began my own metatheory of childrearing. The day each of my children was born, I knew that I wanted to give them the opportunity to see and hear the world around them yet to allow the world to see and hear them also. It started the moment I held them in my arms and whispered to them how much I loved them and would listen to their voice. Every day since that moment they have been taught that they are to have an opinion and it is listened to by myself and my husband in which case it has proven ““Responsive care that contributes to their development of self-confidence” (Kombate, 2015). Our children know they have a voice and that we will listen, even if it is something off the wall, we listen to what they have to say, in which they have learned to have confidence in their words....
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...typical flesh eating or bacterial disease. It spreads quickly and takes over the human host where the infected become so enraged they eat people. There have been few isolated cases where the infected have been contained and eliminated. However, our campus and importantly our society are not ready for worldwide spread of this disease. We must not potentially let the next plague on this campus. It is time for Embry Riddle to take a pro-active stance to prepare ourselves for the worst-case scenario to keep our students, faculty, alumni and families safe from harm. The proposed...
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...Landlord-Tenant Law Introduction Landlord-tenant law is one type of law that describes the rights and responsibilities of landlords and tenants (Portman, 2014). This law includes landlord duties for protection of tenants, and to recover or fix the damages whenever it occurs due to natural disasters. Tenants also have duties to preserve the premises of landlord, to pay the rent on time, not to damage the properties, etc under this law (Portman, 2014). This is a case study about landlord and tenant. In the given case study Roger is tenant and Larry is landlord. This paper is based on the legal duties and responsibilities of tenant and landlord in relation to the case of Larry Landlord and Roger Renter. In the case study one issue arises regarding the damage of property of both tenant and landlord. This case was given to me as mediator to solve the above issue and to give legal solution. This paper is going to address the legal rights and responsibilities of the landlord Larry and the tenant Roger, whether the landlord and the tenant have a legal duty to mitigate damages, whether Larry have legal grounds to evict Roger, whether Roger’s legal obligation to pay for the damage he caused or Larry would be liable for any direct damage. As a mediator I would provide legal advice to landlord Larry and tenant Roger regarding the rights and duties of the tenant and landlord in order to solve their issues at hand. Legal rights and responsibilities of the tenant and the landlord ...
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...author’s write from personal experience and perspectives, and like stated in our assignment description, they write, “both as reflections of and influences upon their culture.” Here, Faulkner gives us a safe look at the different classes of people in the Old South, where race, monetary value and differences in social class are all derivatives of his purpose. The thesis of “Barn Burning” is implied throughout the story. In my own words, the thesis of this story is given through the analysis of a young and impressionable boy who struggles between moral choices of family loyalty and the moral expectancy of civic justice. In this essay, I will identify and discuss literary elements such as plot, conflict, setting, character analysis, point of view and symbolism suggested in the story. The plot of “Barn Burning” is shadowed with the beginning of young Colonel Sartoris Snopes life and his brush with the law. In this case, Sartoris’ father Abner has been accused of burning a barn. The plaintiff insists Abner had sent word to him through a black man that...
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...Case Study Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme: Reliable Returns from a Trustworthy Financial Adviser By Denis Collins Denis Collins is a professor of management in the School of Business at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin. His research interests include business ethics, management, and organizational change. Contact: dcollins@ edgewood.edu A [person] is incapable of comprehending any argument that interferes with his revenue. Rene Descartes Overview This case study is a chronology of the largest Ponzi scheme in history. Bernie Madoff began his brokerage firm in 1960 and grew it into one of the largest on Wall Street. While doing so, he began investing money as a favor to family and friends, though he was not licensed to do so. Over a period of fifty years, these side investments became an investment fund that mushroomed into a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. Bernie1 pled guilty without a trial on March 12, 2009, and was sentenced to 150 years in prison. Thousands of wealthy clients, philanthropic organizations, and middle-class people whose pension funds found their way into Bernie’s investment fund lost their life savings. What to Do? Bernie Madoff, at age 69, owned three very successful financial companies—a brokerage firm, a proprietary trading firm, and an investment advisory firm. On December 10, 2008, the brokerage and proprietary trading firms, managed by his brother and two sons, were performing as well as could be expected in the middle of a deep recession. His investment...
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...Independent University, Bangladesh “RURAL ECONOMY” LIVE FIELD EXPERIENCE, BOGRA RDA Spring 2016 “MARIA SOUTH” Submitted To: Dr. Suman Prosad Saha Dr. Shabareen Tisha Submitted By: Hadiuzzaman Rasel Id-1310584 Sec-07 Submission Date: 11/02/2016 Acknowledgement: First of all I want to say, we are very delightful to have a special program (Live in a Live in Field Experience) in our university, which is a very enjoying, thoughtful and unique course in Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). We are very grateful to IUB for giving us such a practical experience of the rural life of Bangladesh through the LFE. I really appreciate the people of “Maria South” village, Bogra for giving us such an opportunity to explore the area and for helping and guiding us throughout the course and to for the support of accommodation, food facilities, and security. My special regard goes to Dr. Suman Prosad Sahaand Dr. Shabareen Tisha who have supported us and helped us all the way through and took care of all the problems faced by us during the program. Special thanks go to the LFE monitors Ruman bhaiya (Technical), Tutul bhaiya (Technical), Fahim bhaiya (Regular) and Tasnia apu (Regular), they were also very co-operative and helpful. All of them have guided us throughout the course session to achieve our success in collecting the...
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