...Waltermire Crime and Criminology JUS110 December 13, 2013 Rebellion, Growing Pains or Juvenile Delinquents Thinking back to the time of Classic Rock and Roll, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Dirty Dancing, and a faraway land called Viet Nam. Viet Nam affected families; fathers, brothers, children were dying and the age of the innocence was lost forever. Juveniles began a culture of their own, smoking, drinking alcohol, using drugs to attain a mental or in some cases a physical high to ease their pain of loss. This behavior began as a way of coping with their pain, when they realized this made them feel good, they wanted to continue this feeling. During the 1960’s it was a time of rebellion, with music, dancing, the hippie movement, free love, flower power, and the introduction to drugs to get high such as marijuana, glue sniffing, LSD and alcohol. Most of the youth at that time was into smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and some did smoke marijuana. This was the leap from child to adult behavior or some would call juvenile delinquency. Each time a beer touched the lips it was breaking the law and leading to more risky behaviors. By the time the junior year 1968-1969 rolled around, it was drinking most every night and stayed sober on game day or night until after the games. Then win or lose it was party time. There was very seldom a day that there was no one partying. After school and the weekends we were the party...
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...pressure from the team and town to fill the shoes of the past all-star. The author explains that in a few weeks the beginning of the season will begin and the town will observe the team closely. Bissinger explains to the reader that being able to play for a team such as the Permian Panthers is an honor. He states that the boys on the team will endure intolerable pain to have the privilege of playing for the team and being able to wear the Permian Panther beautiful black jersey. The author presents the idea that winning is more important that personal pain or suffering. As such the author tells how boys will use pain pills and about anything they can get their hands on to persist through the game. In addition, the team is starting to feel the pressure and how important each season is to the town as well as the players. Bissinger explains how children are exposed to the atmosphere of football from a young age and encouraged to continue the legacy of past generations going. The author leads into the past generations and teams who are still remembered as heroes even those who played in the 1950’s. The game takes place with the ‘Palo Duro Dons’, showing the town how much progress they have made and giving them a first-hand view of their so called “privileged children”. The end of the chapter suggests an...
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...Griffen. 2) Nothing lasts forever. Not even your troubles − Arnold H Glasgow 3) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle − Albert Einstein 4) Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave – Mary Tyler Moore 5) Being strong means rejoicing in who you are, complete with imperfections − Margaret Woodhouse 6) If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place − Nora Roberts 7) I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed − Michael Jordan. 8) The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary − May V. Smith 9) Where hope grows, miracles blossom − Elna Rae 10) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing − George Bernard Shaw 11) Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent − Eleanor Roosevelt 12) It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes − Sally Field 13) I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down − Allen H. Neuharth 14) Hope never abandons you, you abandon it − George...
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... Reggie White in 1993. Brett did not want his coach to know how badly he was hurt, so after the game he asked the team doctor for a painkiller. That night would be the first time he took his first Vicodin. (D'Amato, 2005) C. Today I want to show just how addictive prescription pain medication can be, specifically the medication Hydrocodone. Transition Statement: I want to start by discussing briefly what Vicodin (Hydrocodone) is and what its effects are. II. Vicodin is the brand name for a powerful prescription narcotic medication known as Hydrocodone. (Firm, 2010) D. Typically is prescribed by a doctor or dentist for moderate to severe pain due to an injury or after a medical procedure. 1. In fact if you’ve had your wisdom teeth pulled, or have suffered a broken bone. It’s very likely you’ve had it. 2. It is the most widely prescribed opiate in the U.S. today. (Firm, 2010) E. More than one-quarter of Americans or 26%, age 20 years and over or an estimated 76.5 million Americans report that they have had a problem with pain of any sort that persisted for more than 24 hours in duration. (Statistics, 2010) 3. Due to these numbers, more often these patients are being prescribed a pain medication. 4. These pain medications are prescribed to be used very carefully and only as needed. Transition Statement: Now I want to talk more about the effects abusing pain medications can cause to your body and how quickly an individual can become physically and psychologically...
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...Virtual Assistive Technology Two of the biggest challenges currently faced by both special and general educators are to diversify instruction in order to make core content area curriculum available to all learners and to keep the learners involved and interested in the learning process. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) mandate that statewide tests be used to measure and evaluate student progress. This leaves educators striving to adapt their instruction to accommodate the needs of students in terms of learning styles and ability. It has been suggested in the literature that virtual reality (VR) has the potential to assist educators in accommodating individual differences in terms of learning style, ability, and engagement (Muscott & Gifford, 1994; Chen, Toh, & Ismail, 2005; Neel, 2006; and Tiala, 2007). Virtual reality can be defined as a text and graphics-based environment that is created by a computer. Today’s students are proficient in using technology; ninety percent of children in the U.S. between the ages of 5 and 17 use computers on a regular basis (DeBell & Chapman, 2003). It stands to reason that integrating virtual reality technology into lessons would improve student motivation and engagement. Levels of Virtual Reality The educational community in general has been slow to embrace virtual reality as an assistive technology. This is most likely to due to its cost and its complexity. Many...
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...1997); the need for belonging is threatened because it segregates an individual from a social group. Self-esteem is threatened because the interpretation of the individuals’ exclusion may be the result of being undervalued (van Beest, Williams, 2006). Our need for control is threatened because the individual being ostracized has little power to affect a change. Finally ostracism affects an individuals’ perception of their existence (Williams, 1997; Williams et al., 2002). The effect of ostracism is strong enough that Williams, Cheung, and Choi (2000) discovered participants ostracized in the virtual ball toss game cyberball reported lower levels on the four needs when they were ostracized by people as they were when playing the computer alone, knowing it was not connected to other computers. Additionally Gonsalkorale and Williams (2007) found that participants in a cyberball game reported lower levels on the four needs when they were ostracized by members from a group they identified with such as political party...
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...those who are classified as White Americans or Western European Americans. Research bears that out regarding those classified as Latino (Ortega, Rosenheck, Alegria, & Desai, 2000). In fact according to that US Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Mental Health Services, “[f]actors associated with living in the United States are related to an increased risk of mental disorders” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2001). The distress presents as increased levels of anxiety and depressive disorders (Cook, Alegría, Lin, & Guo, 2009), substance abuse (Zemore, 2007), “feelings of inferiority (Landrine & Klonoff, 1996), and lower overall psychological well-being (Gee, Ryan, Laflamme, & Holt, 2006)” (Liang. C. H., Salcedo, J., & Miller, H. A., 2011). In the landmark National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS), for the first time researchers examined epidemiology and remediation of psychological disorders using a representative sample of those classified as Latino and Asian American who had the opportunity to be interviewed in either their native language or English (Alegria et al., 2004). This distinction is important because it supports the understanding that “Latino and Asian American ethnic categories encompass a wide range of national backgrounds, social classes, races, legal status, and levels of acculturation, migration histories and literacy in English, among other distinctions” (Alegria et al., 2004). The NLAAS sample of 2554 was representative in...
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...Biological Data S.J- Male- 8/18/1960 – 55 - Caucasian – Married – Italian – English- Christian- teacher- College- heterosexual - 6’2 – 197 – 25….. John (son) 347-999-9999 – Reason for seeking Healthcare – pt c/o chest tightness and SOB when patient walk upstairs, or during exercise. Current health status C- Tightness of chest, indigestion, chest pain, SOB, Sweating O- On going for the past 4 years L- Central chest but can radiate to L shoulder. D- 3-5 minutes, several times feels like 7 minutes. About 5 times this month. Only once this week. S- It forces him to stop what he doing and sit down. P- It feels better when he sits down and rest for a bit. Take a couple deep breath and drink some water. When I move around too much, his chest starts to get tight, so he have to slow down his activity or completely stop. A – Patient complains of SOB, and sweating. Sometimes Random dizziness and light-headedness when changing positions. Current Medications- Aspirin 500 MG, transdermal Nitroglycerin patch 0.6mg/h, & Lopressor 200mg/per day (for chest pain). Current medical Diagnoses - Angina, Hypertension Allergies - NKA/NKDA Childhood Illnesses – Influenza and Chicken Pox Previous medical conditions/hospitalizations/surgeries – Accidents/ injuries - Fell down 2 months ago, did not seek medical attention. Bruises on left arm (healed). No injuries to head. Travel - Italy 3 months ago. Immune – tetanus, Rubella, Mumps, Polio, Hepatitis B, Varicella, Flu, Pneumonia...
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...Gadley 16 September 2014 English 1102 Zhang Marijuana, The Game Changer In Medicine and Society Is marijuana as corrupt as society makes it out to be? Growing up, everyone is told that, “Drugs are bad for you,” time and time again. Now as a kid you don’t really appreciate the reasoning behind it, but you listen to your authority figure heedlessly. I remember being told this my entire life and even to this very day. But as I got older I realized that people would still use the drugs even though it’s unlawful. I could never comprehend why someone would go against the law and endanger their life just to use drugs? But as I got older I began to realize that these people truly didn’t do any harm to the public or to themselves by smoking marijuana. Many doctors and health specialist are advocates for consumers to smoke marijuana just because of its health benefits. Marijuana is the third most popular recreational drug in America other than alcohol and tobacco, but marijuana is the only one that can benefit you the most out of the three. Alcohol and tobacco are drugs that many people have died from and harms the body as time goes by. Other medication that doctors prescribe to their patients is painkillers, and they can really kill you. According to McKnight et al. (2014), “There were 14,800 deaths from opiate overdose in 2008, according to the Center for Disease Control, and none from marijuana” (p. 4). Pain is the anxiety of disease, the symptom that reveals that all is...
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...After many years of believing that video games are bad for individuals and especially young children, may be wrong. There have been quite a few researchers that have started to find and prove that video games are not actually all that harmful to avid gamers and their lives. The brain is constantly expanding and growing from what is being exposed to it, and this is exactly what these researchers have been examining—both scientifically and psychologically. A few German Researchers have found that gamers, who played Super Mario 64 (for a half hour each day for 60 days), “had a rise in gray matter in the right hippocampus, right prefrontal cortex and the cerebellum”. All of these areas in the brain help with these gamers’ memories and recollections. With the continuous motions of the hands, and eyes on the game, these gamers are developing great hand-eye coordination which may benefit them in their lives outside of gaming versus if they had not played any of their video games. Psychological tests conducted by Queen Mary University and the University College London have shown that those gamers who played either “Starcraft” or “The Sims” (for forty hours between six and eight weeks) were able to complete even more complex cognitive tasks at a much faster rate than before and with a much greater accuracy rating. The researchers have noted that due to the consistency of movement on the screen, and the attentiveness to the video game, helps improve these cognitive skills and...
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...The ability of making a clinical judgment is essential in the nursing career. It safely and effectively meets the patient’s health care needs. We are given an insight into Josie Elliot’s pain management in postoperative care in which, Tanner’s model of clinical judgment is used holistically provide Josie’s optimum patient care. This provides a framework to enhance the process of making a clinical judgment in several situations. The importance of Josie Elliot’s pain management and potential effects of uncontrolled pain in postoperative care are discussed to provide full recovery for the patient’s needs. The importance of pain control is to provide patient comfort during the healing process in postoperative care. (Douglas & Schoenwald, 2013) Pain is considered the 5th vital sign during observations therefore the pain scale should be recorded during observations after surgery. Pain intensity is also assessed, as it is a quantitative estimate of the severity of the patient’s perceived pain. (Douglas & Schoenwald, 2013) Nurses also use pain scales to determine the pain intensity. (Ersek & Irving, 2012) For example, the numerical rating scale allows the patient to rate the level of pain from 0 -10. Nurses use a holistic approach to help the patient on how to deal with pain, helping them regain their physical, mental and spiritual health. (Seliman & Andosy, 2011) Family & patient education is also important as Lorig (2001) views it as a schema designed to improve...
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...About the Stigma In essence, stigma is a kind of negative label on some individuals or groups, which has a serious impact on them that stigmatized people always suffered unfair treatment and were marked as unworthy. As is known to us, stigma is always connected with the lower social situation, poverty, disability, homosexuality and some other situation, and it jumps into professionals’ sigh since last decade, which means stigma has been considered as a serious social problem finally, and there is an upward tendency of people pay more attention on it. What is stigma? “The term stigma comes from ancient Greece, where it meant a ‘bodily sign designed to expose something unusual and bad about the moral status of [an individual].’” (Rosenblum & Travis, Framwork , 2012)This is the origin of stigma, and it is like an old penalty in ancient China that criminals were forced to be painted a tattoo on their face before they were exiled. It seems that ancient people were using similar ways to distinguish and mark people who were “bad”. And then, Goffman brought the word stigma into sociology to define the situation that some people are judged and classified into a group as unworthy because of their disability, race, sex, sexual orientation or some other social categories else. The first step of stigma is to classify the so-called unusual people to another group and naming them to show the difference, such as “gay”, “lesbian”, “black” and so on. And then, stigmatized people or group is suffering...
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...either made their money with hard work, ingenuity, nepotism, or a little luck. The owners of old have long been retired. The idea of an old miser that treats his team like slaves, and does everything in his power to control the game, no longer exists…outside of Jerry Jones. Mark Cuban is the youngest billionaire on this list. Cuban made his money creating and developing Audionet, an internet startup in 1995, and developed it into Broadcast.com, and by 1999 sold the company to Yahoo! for $5.9 billion dollars. He also owns Landmark Theaters and Magnolia Pictures. He is estimated to be worth around $2.3 billion dollars. He is also the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks. In 2000, Mark Cuban purchased the failing Mavericks from H. Ross Perot, Jr. for what can be now described as a mere $285 million dollars. Unlike most owners who sit in a private box up high away from the crowd, Cuban is usually found on the floor shouting louder than any two fans. Unlike most owners, he has become just as recognizable as Dirk Nowitski, or any of the other players. This eccentric behavior has also been a bit of a problem for Cuban as well. He is constantly fined for outbursts, arguing with officials and noticeable temper tantrums on the floor during games. For years Cuban has been trying to expand into baseball by trying to buy the Chicago...
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...review. Future studies were recommended to measure sleep by self-report estimates of sleep parameters such as bedtime, SOL, time spent awake after sleep onset, wake-up time and rise time, each estimated separately for weekdays and weekend days. Newer technology, such as portable electronic devices, has also been recommended to be included in future studies on this topic. Related to this, many of the previous studies have restricted their investigation to only one or two electronic devices. Whether the same pattern of sleep problems is present across type of electronic devices is thus uncertain. Background In the last decade, we have witnessed a sharp increase in the availability and use of electronic devices such as smart phones, video game consoles, television, audio players, computers and tablets. Owing to this, electronic devices have become an integral part of adolescent life, as exemplified by almost all American adolescents (97%) reporting to have at least one electronic media device in their bedroom. In addition to the entertainment aspects, electronic devices play an important part in the social lives of adolescents. A more active, stimulating and social media use may, however, affect sleep in a negative way. Parallel with the increased use of electronic devices,...
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...Constant drilling, sweat dripping, and four days before our Napa Wrestling Tournament, open to the whole state of California. Some of the best wrestlers all over California were coming to Napa. But it had to be that week when my knee had begun to swell. In folk-style wrestling for a takedown to count, you must touch the mat with your knee before the person hits the floor. The constant friction between my knee and the mat made the pain in my knee unbearable. All this pain called for a visit to the school’s athletic trainer, Jorge Maldonado. I knew I wanted to be in something that had to do with kinesiology, but I also knew I had to interact with people. When I saw Jorge work with other athletes, taping, evaluating, all while sharing a quick laugh with them, I had to learn more. I had to get hands on experience. Spring time came around and it was time to pick my classes for senior year. Science was my favorite subject, but I liked a specific type. I wanted to learn kinesiology. I wanted to learn more about how the human body moves, like the way humans walk, what makes it so different that we walk at different paces? Why does Usain Bolt run faster than an average person? What makes athletes’ bodies different from everybody else’s?...
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