...Twins Photo: Twins A Thing or Two About Twins They have the same piercing eyes. The same color hair. One may be shy, while the other loves meeting new people. Discovering why identical twins differ—despite having the same DNA—could reveal a great deal about all of us. By Peter Miller Photograph by Martin Schoeller Every summer, on the first weekend in August, thousands of twins converge on Twinsburg, Ohio, a small town southeast of Cleveland named by identical twin brothers nearly two centuries ago. They come, two by two, for the Twins Days Festival, a three-day marathon of picnics, talent shows, and look-alike contests that has grown into one of the world's largest gatherings of twins. Dave and Don Wolf of Fenton, Michigan, have been coming to the festival for years. Like most twins who attend, they enjoy spending time with each other. In fact, during the past 18 years, the 53-year-old truckers, whose identical beards reach down to their chests, have driven more than three million miles together, hauling everything from diapers to canned soup from places like Seattle, Washington, to Camden, New Jersey. While one sits at the wheel of their diesel Freightliner, the other snoozes in the bunk behind him. They listen to the same country gospel stations on satellite radio, share the same Tea Party gripes about big government, and munch on the same road diet of pepperoni, apples, and mild cheddar cheese. On their days off they go hunting or fishing together. It's a way...
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...Sexual Orientation & Identity Manuel (Matthew) Custodio The Brain, The Body and The Mind: All Together Now (Psy/240) 10/21/11 Instructor: Tana Warren Sexual Orientation & Identity There are many different perspectives relating to a person sexual orientation and identity, which will be examine. When examining sexual orientation there are three different types, which are heterosexual (attraction to the opposite sex), homosexual (attraction to same sex) and bisexual (attraction to both sexes) (Pinel, 2009). One perspective is orientation is link with genetics; finding that twin brothers with similar DNA were 52% of monozygotic twin brothers and 22% of the dizygotic twin brothers were homosexual (Pinel, 2009). Women had similar results with 48% for monozygotic twins and 16% for dizygotic twins female were homosexual (Pinel, 2009). However, no gene has been found to confirm or deny the claim that sexual orientation is genetic (Pinel, 2009). Another perspective is that perinatal hormones has an effect on sexual orientation in humans (Pinel, 2009). The support for this comes from the quasiexperimental study of Ehrhardt and in this study they interviewed adult women that was exposed to estrogen during pregnancy (Pinel, 2009). These women children that were exposed to the estrogen were more likely to be attracted to women (Pinel, 2009). Last, perspective is that sexual orientation is a matter of choice is consider to be a false assumption; people discover...
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...TheCase for the Defence The Case for the Defence is a short story written by Graham Greene. The story takes place in England around the time it was written, in the late 1930’s, when a conviction for murder carried a death penalty. We find ourselves in Central Criminal Court in London where the trial of the “Peckham murder” is being held. In this story we meet Mrs. Salmon who testifies against the defendant Mr. Adams. But it turns out he has a twin brother and the witnesses can not be sure of which one of them they saw. Mr. Adams is therefore aquitted, although one of them commited the murder. Outside of the courtroom one of the two brothers is pushed by the crowd and hit by a bus. If it was the murderer or not we do not know. But what we do know, is that their might be a killer that Mrs. Salmon witnessed against on free foot. The narrator of the story is most likely the prosecutor as he is in the courtroom, and talking to Mrs. Salmon , following her out after the trial and speaking of her as the ideal witness. The narrator does not participate in the plot, but he or she is observing and refering from the events of the story in third person. By having a third person narrator the author achieves an open story where you need to read between the lines, whereas an omniscient narrator to take an example, would know everything about the characters and in a way kill some of the tension in the story. Even though Mrs. Salmon is not really significant to the theme, she is important...
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...Dreaded Darkness “The End of the Party” by Graham Greene is a short story about fear. A young boy named Francis Morton has an extreme phobia of darkness. Although his twin brother Peter continuously tries to comfort his brother’s fear, there is little he can do. Francis reminds his mother, nanny, and peers of his terrible fear throughout the story, but they all excuse it and believe it to be silly. Tragically, undermining his terrible fear has a price. The first example of fear in the story is when Francis tries to excuse himself from the party he is supposed to attend later that afternoon. He knows that if he goes he will be forced to play hide-and-seek in the dark and he is afraid. Francis fakes an illness and although he does not have an illness, he still feels sick from fear. Greene writes, “It was true he felt ill, a sick empty sensation in his stomach and a rapidly beating heart, but he knew the cause was only fear” (183). The extent of Francis’s fear is beginning to be revealed. Both his nanny and his mother encourage him to go to the party. They do not realize the seriousness of his fear, nor do they question his resistance to his attendance at the party. His fear is beyond himself and it affects his physical being as well. Francis’s fear of the dark is not an ordinary fear, but something very serious and almost unbearable. The next example of fear in the story is when Francis is at the party and again tries to come up with excuses to leave and avoid...
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...Samora Nyamongo Nyangau-C50/CE/24046/2013 Dr.J.K.S Makokha ALT811 Drama in Africa Drama as a criticism of social systems with reference to selected plays of Efua Sutherland and Tewfik Al Hakims. Criticism is the expression of disapproval of someone or something based on perceived faults or mistakes and also the analysis and judgment based on the merits and demerits of a particular system .In this essay the first definition will be appropriate considering the plays under scrutiny. Therefore, criticism of social systems refers to the exposition of how various entities whether cultural or political in a society have flawed hence need restructuring to have morality and sanity prevail. Poor leadership systems and barbaric cultural systems will be dissected with ample illustrations from four African plays revealing social injustices and oppressive cultures. Social injustice is a relative concept concerning unfairness in a society in regard to the manner in which the leadership divides rewards and burdens .Tewfik Al Hakims’ plays The Sultans’ Dilemma and Song of Death will be used together with Mohammed Ben Abdallah’s The Verdict of the Cobra and Trial of Mallam Ilya. At the beginning of Sultan’s dilemma we learn that a stake has been set up to which a man condemned to death is tied. The Condemned Man is eager to know the hour of his execution as he refers to his execution as a joyous event to the executioner. The executioner tells the Condemned Man when the Muezzin climbs to the...
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...NATURE VS NURTURE All individuals are different, even identical twins. It can sometimes be difficult to decide whether characteristics of living things are determined by genetic information or environmental factors or both. Tongue rolling is obviously inherited, but what about intelligence, musical ability or sporting excellence? Let’s look at some evidence: Bob is an excellent football player. His mother says that this is a gift he was born with. His father argues that he is skilled because he trains hard. Q1 What do you think controls his sporting ability? J.S Bach was a brilliant German composer and organist who came from a large musical family. His father taught him to play the violin and viola. His uncle was a famous organist. When Bach was left as an orphan, he went to live with his uncle and aunt. Bach had 20 children altogether (music was not all he was good at!). Three of his children grew up to be respected composers also. Q2 Do brilliant musicians get their talent from their parents, or is it due to the environment they grow up in? Bob has an identical twin brother, Bill. At first people cannot tell them apart. However, it does not take long to notice slight differences in their faces. Identical twins have identical genetic information. Therefore any differences between them should be due to the environment. Q3 What environmental factors, do you think could cause these differences? Bob bought a packet of sunflower seeds. The packet says that the...
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...Blood-Axe, Rolf 14th lvl Dwarf Fighter (???) DECEASED Formerly Lawful Good Former member of “The Seven” Blood-Axe, Ulric 18th lvl Dwarf Fighter (John Rhys-Davies) King of Nidavellir Lawful Good Brother of Rolf Blood-Axe Age: About 200 Apparent Age: Fifties Crafter, Aramus 30th lvl Human Wizard, 5th lvl Archmage (Ian McKellan) Neutral Good Most Powerful Magic-User in the World Former member of “The Seven” Age: About 120 Apparent Age: Seventies Durandal, Thomas “Tommy” 19th lvl Vampire Rogue (David Boreanaz) Chaotic Evil, Formerly Chaotic Good Former member of “The Seven” Age: About 100 Apparent Age: Thirties Epper, Maxwell 8th lvl Human Aristocrat (Beau Bridges) Lawful Neutral US Ambassador to the Shadow Court Age: Late Fifties / Early Sixties Evans, Glory ? lvl Human Paladin (Jada Fire) Lawful Good Gravado, Maria Theresa 25th lvl Cleric (Salma Hayak) Neutral Good Former member of “The Seven” Age: About 100 Apparent Age: Late Thirties Keegan, Andrew “Andy” 5th lvl Human Paladin (Bradley James) Lawful Good Son of Derek Keegan I and Bianca Keegan (?) Current Prince of Shadows (?) Age: Early Twenties Keegan, Derek (I) 18th lvl Human Fighter (???) Formerly Lawful Good DECEASED Former Leader of “The Seven” Keegan, Bianca 5th...
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...at a very young age, her wages became the primary source of the family income, she worked up to ten hours a day to make ends meet for her family. She became a Christian at a young age. She enjoyed going to church; it was a getaway from her unhappy life at home. Her older brother who was planning to go as a missionary died, at 25 years old, she decided to go in his place. She embarked on her missionary journey to calabar in 1975 where her battle for women’s rights began, she fell sick from malaria several times and eventually passed away in 1915, nearly forty years after coming to Africa, at the age of 66. Mary Slessor has become an inspiration to all who hear her story. She was not only a pioneer missionary, but also an activist for women in general. Slessor campaigned against injustices against women. Witchcraft and superstition were prevalent in Nigeria when she arrived there because traditional society had been torn apart by the slave trade. Human sacrifice routinely followed the death of a village dignitary for instance tribal customs like killing one wife of a chief in order for her soul to accompany her husband in the dead and custom that broke her heart was 'twin-murder’. The tribes thought that twins were a result of a curse caused by an evil spirit that fathered one of the children. Both babies were brutally murdered by breaking their backs and cutting them up into pieces and left in the evil forest for the insects and wild animal to devour, the mother was ostracized...
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...LESSON FIVE & SIX – ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT EATING DISORDERS ------------------------------------------------- Specification link: You will be able to outline and evaluate: ------------------------------------------------- Biological, including neural and evolutionary, explanations of anorexia nervosa ------------------------------------------------- Psychology explanations of anorexia nervosa Outline and description of theories | Research evidence and commentary | IntroductionThe DSM-IV Rev identifies three categories of eating disorder: * Anorexia nervosa 1. AN -restricting type – refusal to eat 2. AN- binge eating/purging type – episodes of binge eating followed by removal of food from the body by vomiting, laxatives, or enemas.Both of these are associated with significant weight loss and the other symptoms of AN. * Bulimia nervosa – episodes of binging followed by removal of food from the body by vomiting, laxatives, or enemas (no significant weight loss). * Eating disorders not otherwise specified (EDNOS)The four major symptoms of anorexia nervosa are: * The body weight is 85% or less of normal weight for age and height * Distorted perception of body weight/shape, and/or denial that the weight loss is severe * Intense fear of becoming fat * Loss of three consecutive menstrual cycles in women (amenorrhoea)Anorexia nervosa (AN) and Bulimia nervosa (BN) have much in common, particularly a dissatisfaction with body weight and/or shape....
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...very well educated. "There's shoes upon the table an' a joker in the pack" The narrator also emphasis’ the superstitious side of Mrs Johnson. "They say I'm incapable of controllin' the kids I've already got" A reason for Mrs Johnson to give a baby away, the council want to take them away already. "Give one to me" Mrs Lyons telling Mrs Johnson to give her one of the twins, very bluntly. "They...they say that if either twin learns that he once was a pair,they shall both immediately die Mrs Lyons preying on to Mrs Johnson being superstisious, as she does not want her to tell the truth about the twins, threatening her indirectly. "Gis a sweet" Mickey using slang, not polite, when asking Edward for a sweet. "Yes, of course.Take as many as you want" Edward showing his generous side, and also he is trying to make friends as he has been lonely because Mrs Lyons is so over protective. "See,this means that we're blood brothers,an' that we always have to stand by each other.” Mickey and Edward are now close friends and this is parallel to their separation as they now consider eachother brothers anyway. "There's no such thing as a bogey man.It's a-a superstition" Mrs Lyons, talking to Edward, sees the same trait in her son as his real mother, and...
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...Multiple births are rare in humans. Twins are the most common form of a multiple pregnancy. About one in eighty-sevens births result in twins. Most of the time, twins are found as fraternal or identical. Siamese, polar body, and sesquizygotic twins are very rare types of twins. The total number of births of twins remains fairly constant, but the birth of fraternal twins alter greatly. The determination of the type of twins is based on how the embryos develop. The birth of twins can occur in two different ways, the fertilization of a single egg or the fertilization of two eggs. In the case of dizygotic twins, the woman’s ovaries release two eggs at the same time, with each being fertilized by two male sperms, and fraternal twins begin to develop. Each fetus lies within its own membrane in two separate sacs, with two separate placentas. The two zygotes do not share blood vessels. Both zygotes develop differently, each having a different genetic coding. They can be both girls, both boys, or a single girl and a single boy. Because each embryo develops on its own from different genetic characteristics, dizygotic twins resemble family characteristics, as do brother and sister. Dizygotic twins share on average about 50% of the same genetic material. Dizygotic Twins Diagram The births of monozygotic twins take place much differently than the birth of fraternal twins. Identical twins originate from a single egg, fertilized similarly to a single pregnancy. A change transpires...
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...Philo Essay For my third assignment, I will be discussing my views on personal identity and how the different traits and factors among individuals make us who we are today. So, when it comes to an individual’s personal identity, I think that there are several different traits and factors that make each and every one of us unique and somewhat different from everybody else. While there are some people that have a lot of similarities in common, I don’t think that really determines who you are as a person or your personal identity. I’ll explain to why I think that there is a difference between everybody when it comes to their own personal identity. First of all, I will discuss my view on what I think personal identity is. Everything influences a person’s identity; their families, religion, where they live and even their culture. It is what makes you the person that you are today. Your personal Identity is even based off every decision that you have made in your past or the experiences you have been through. As an individual gets older, every aspect in their life will influence that person’s responsibilities, morals, humor, sports, the music they like and much more. Those are only a few things that make an individual’s true personal identity. I think that personal identity represents who we are as individuals. Everything from the way that we talk, walk, look and what we wear and to how an individual’s environment and surroundings forms them as well. With this said, understanding...
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...are without the influence on how we were raised and matured in our environment. On the other hand, nurture is viewed as what or who we are as a result of our influences and our environment or surroundings. Homosexuality is one of the hottest topics today. One of the reasons for the popularity is the current debate on same sex marriage, along with homosexual human rights campaigns going on in today’s public arena. More so either this “behavior” is by choice or predetermined by genes. The Studies One of the best research in this area is on identical twins. Howard Gruber, the director of the Institute for Cognitive Studies at Rutgers University in Newark, reviewed and quoted two books written by Susan L. Farber, “Identical Twins Reared Apart, A Reanalysis ” and Niels Juel-Nielsen, “Individual and Environment, Monozygotic Twins Reared Apart (Gruber, 1981). He explained that the importance of the study of identical twins is that they have the same genes. If reared together, they would have the identical conditions their similarities could be either environment or...
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...Mary, Lucy, Ruthie, Simon, and a set of twins named Sam and David. The family has numerous examples of common birth order characteristics as described by author Kevin Leman in his book “The Birth Order Book”. Matthew “Matt” Camden is Eric and Annie’s firstborn child. In the beginning of the series Matt is a junior attending high school. Displaying common firstborn characteristics, he often sacrifice his time at school in order to help out others, and would act as a leader while guiding his younger siblings. During high school make takes on many odd jobs that vary from being a tutor to middle school children to a Dairy Shack delivery driver. Mary Camden is the eldest daughter of the family and while not the firstborn she does express many eldest child characteristics. Mary is a very confident woman who is an aspiring athlete with a great love for basketball. Mary decides not to go to college but rather work instead, further cementing that she is a hard-working individual which goes with her birth order. Lucy Camden is the third Camden child and the second daughter in the family. Lucy is best known for the high amount of boyfriends she obtains throughout the series, as well as being overly dramatic and highly selfish. She is very outlandish and often gets in trouble with her parents mainly stemming from her romantic interests. She does however settle down some later in the series and through her popularity helps out her younger brother Simon, who is having trouble adjusting...
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...autobiography about me! I’ll be telling you all about me. My name is Michelle Rain Ballentyne. I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on November 13th, 1999 at 1:51am, while my fraternal twin brother was born at 2:02am. His name is Michael Thunder Ballentyne. As of today, we’re fourteen years old. These pictures are the Women’s hospital, my astrology sign and a picture of us. In 1990, our mom and dad were together. They had a horrible relationship. Three years later, they broke up and our dad stayed in Flin Flon while our mom relocated to Winnipeg. Our parents had us in 1999. Our mom was 18 at the time and this caused problems because of the great age difference between our parents. At 1 ½ months our mom took off with us to Thompson. At 2 ½ months, we were put into foster care because our mom left us with a babysitter to go to a party and she never came back. We went to a bunch of homes after that. One time, we went to live with our dad but Child and Family Services received calls from a dentist saying that our dad was drunk when he took Michael to the dentist. We went to numerous homes after that, although we don’t really remember what they were like. Our dad had six months to prove that he was able to take care of us. Sadly, he never got to keep us. I came home to my dad in a police car with my brother crying in a black car. I got in the car and a lady drove us to a new home. Those pictures were at our kindergarten graduation and us at the fair. We started school when we were...
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