...Tuner Syndrome Sophia Antognini SMA Pima Medical Institute MDA 141 Some diseases and disorders are things that can happen to you later in life, for example skin cancer or hair loss, diabetics or an STD; but there is a good amount of diseases that are related to genetics or hereditary and some of which are even chromosome linked. One disease that is chromosome linked is Turner Syndrome named after Dr. Henry Turner who discovered the disorder in 1938. It occurs in female births only in about 1 in 20,000 births worldwide (National Human Genome Research Institute, 2011) and in the United States 60,000 female births are affected with 800 new cases diagnosed each year ( University of Utah, 2012). Turner Syndrome is caused by a missing X chromosome error during the formation of the egg to embryo. It is not yet known from which one of the parent’s chromosome causes this to happen. Turner Syndrome may be found during a mother’s pregnancy when performing an ultrasound test by observing for signs of poor development such as swollen hands and feet or for an irregular heart beat. (Collin, 2006) Other prenatal testing of cells from the fetus, blood hormone levels of luteinizing all of which can also help determine the suspicion (Zieve, 2008). It can also be detected at birth because of the heart problems and physical features observed. Turner Syndrome mostly affects the visual physical features of the female with few internal health problems. The most common physical malformation is...
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...A genetic disorder is a disease that is caused by an abnormality in an individual’s DNA. Abnormalities can range from small mutation in a single gene to the addition or subtraction of an entire chromosome or set of chromosomes. Most disorders are rather rare and effect one person in every several thousands or millions. Three examples of genetic disorders are Down syndrome, Turner syndrome, and Breast/Ovarian cancer. Down syndrome, also called Trisomy 21, is a developmental disorder which is caused by an extra copy of chromosomes 21. It is named after John Langdon Down who is a British physician who described the syndrome in 1866 (Living With Down Syndrome). The extra genetic material causes delays in the way a child develops, both mentally and physically. The physical features and medical problems associated with Down syndrome can vary widely from child to child. While some children with Down syndrome need a lot of medical attention, others have healthy lives. Children with the disorder tend to share certain physical features such as a flat facial profile, upward slant of the eyes, small ears, and a protruding tongue. Although some children with DS have no significant health problems, others may experience some medical issues that require extra care. One medical issue is pulmonary hypertension which is a serious condition that can lead to untreatable damage to the lungs. To detect this issue all infants should be evaluated by a pediatric cardiologist. Two other medical issues...
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...Turner Syndrome affects 1 in 2,500 female births throughout the world. Turner syndrome is not considered a disease, but referenced more commonly as a condition. The syndrome only affects women and, like any other condition, has causes and symptoms, diagnostic processes, and treatments. Turner Syndrome affects women that do not have the full set of chromosomes a typical woman would have. TS is caused by the lack of all, or the majority, of the second X chromosome. The condition is not inherited, but appears randomly during conception in a process called nondisjunction. Nondisjunction is a glitch in cell division. With the absence of an X chromosome, many women’s reproductive systems are affected and, as a result, are infertile. Another system...
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...every two thousand females has Turner Syndrome, and 10% of all miscarriages happen because of this disorder? Turner Syndrome, named after Dr. Henry Turner (published a report describing the disorder), is a chromosomal condition that is caused by a missing or partial absence of the second sex chromosome. This disorder only occurs in females, and keeps the female body from maturing naturally. There are about 800 new cases diagnosed each year. This paper will go into detail over the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments of this disorder, as well as many other intriguing facts and information about Turner Syndrome. I hope you learn more about the characteristics of this chromosomal disorder and also come to an understanding...
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...The dichotomy of the philosophy of the United States Constitution and the Institution of slavery existing together in the same society led to many explosive events, one of them was Nat Turner’s fierce rebellion. The Fires of Jubilee was researched and written by Stephen B. Oates his expertise being biographies of 19th century historical figures. The book is written as a dramatic narrative, but the research into the ambiguous character of Nat Turner and the events surrounding his life is thorough and extensive. A more perfect and horrendous thought experiment about political ethics, divinity, and morality and could not have been imagined than the real life events that preceded, culminated in, and followed the slave rebellion of Southampton...
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...Toby Turner first joined YouTube on May 14, 2006, when he created a channel under the name of "Tobuscus".[1] The first video that remains on the channel is a sketch based on the 2006 film Click entitled "What I'd do with the Remote from Click".[7] One of Turner's most popular early videos is "Don't Tase Me, Bro!", a remixed recording of the University of Florida Taser incident in which his classmate Andrew Meyer was stunned with a taser gun by a police officer.[8] Interviewed about the video by MTV, Turner explained that, after watching the clip, "as soon as [he] heard [Andrew] yelling, [he] knew it would fit in a hip-hop song", and that he "wanted to give [Andrew] the profits" from sales of related merchandise.[8] The "Tobuscus" channel has since continued to focus on comedic skits and animated sketches. Turner's "Literal Trailers" series is one of his most popular, earning him mainstream recognition from CBS News, who described his rendition of the Dead Island trailer as "amazing" and "hilarious",[9] and Wired, who praised the Iron Man 3 video.[10]...
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...Like a Californian Stephen King once said, “Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.” In the case of The Postman Always Rings Twice, King is correct. The Postman Always Rings Twice, written by James M. Cain in 1934, once a racy and scandalous misadventure into a world of crime and deceit in the American West, paved the way for hundreds of other novelists, both international and American, to script their own versions of the ultimate combination of sex, lies, and death. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice proves to have its differences in comparison to Tay Garnett’s 1946 silver screen rendition of the novel featuring Lana Turner and John Garfield. While Cain’s novel is brisk, stiff and a bit harsh, Garnett’s Postman is brought to life with Turner and Garfield’s playful and witty banter, which makes the tale seem less gruesome than it actually is. In both art forms, the narrative revolves around Frank Chambers, a middle-aged drifter, who goes to work for a roadside restaurant proprietor, Nick, and his sultry wife, Cora: she will eventually seduce Frank into helping her kill her husband. A first murder attempt fails, but later the lovers drive their unknowing victim down from a cliff. A clever attorney tries hit best to push Frank into betraying Cora, but an even shrewder lawyer is on Frank and Cora's side. Nevertheless, a climate of mistrust surrounds Frank and Cora, and eventually they both pay for the crimes they have...
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...People all over the world have taken a stand in history, Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela. Nat Turner was born in Virginia in 1800. He was a brave man that took a stand. He took a stand against slavery by leading people out of slavery. Slavery was a terrible thing, Nat Turner stood up and helped fight it. Nat Turner was brave to lead these people. Not only escaping and helping was his strong point, but he was smart. But he later did get executed for what he did even though they feared. But though during his execution, he wasn’t a bad man he actually had a small family that he loved dearly, that contained, a wife and a child, he also had many siblings. These are just some of the reasons Nat Turner has taken a stand in history. Nat Turner was a great leader that did rebel against slavery. He showed that slavery wasn’t right to him by helping people escape. Nearly one hundred seventy years ago, he helped one hundred slaves break free from cruel masters. “He pleaded not guilty, saying to his counsel that he didn’t feel guilty” from the book The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation . Nat Turner believed that what he did was right and he thought that he wasn’t guilty for doing his actions because he helped people escape from cruel masters and he thought they didn’t deserve to be slaves. Slavery...
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...that focuses on a man named Nat Turner, a gifted black slave who convinced servants into a revolt against their masters. Oates describes these events through Nat Turner’s perspective while also recording his life and struggles. The book is an attempt to make Turner’s and his followers’ actions justifiable and explain that it led to what was probably the bloodiest slave revolt in American History [The Fires of Jubilee page ix]. According to Oates, Turner’s rebellion was the first step of many in the movement to free the United States. Oates book depicts the unjust treatment Serfs had to undergo, their struggle for freedom as well as the events occurring about fifty years prior to the civil war....
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...In the August of 1831, Nathaniel “Nat” Turner led one of the only effective and sustained slave rebellions in U.S. history which left dozens, including young children, dead. Turner moved through the county, accompanied by his group of rebels. They went through houses, recruiting followers and killing whites. Nat Turner had gathered approximately 75 men, including five free black men, by the time the white population of Southampton had become aware of the insurrection. Despite the fact his insurgency was crushed, it created a wave of fear through the South and triggered a new surge of tyrannical legislation which forbade the movement, education, and assembly of slaves. It stiffened pro-slavery, anti-abolitionist convictions which continued in the district until the American Civil War in 1861. Historian Eric...
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...Turner chptr 2 Turner's rituals are the role played by liminality, structure, and communitas. Ritual serves, for Turner, the function of balancing structure and communitas. The individuals participating in the rituals are, temporarily, outside of the normal social structure, and thus, are in a liminal state. The initiate is first stripped of the social status that he or she possessed before the ritual, inducted into the liminal period of transition, and finally given his or her new status and reassimilated into society. He focuses entirely on the middle stage of rites of passage—the transitional or liminal stage. He notes, “The subject of passage ritual is, in the liminal period, structurally, if not physically, ‘invisible’”. That is, the status of liminal individuals is socially and structurally ambiguous. He develops this idea further in a concise definition of liminality that will inform his future writings: “Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more than that, as a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise”. Turner also points out, that liminal individuals are polluting, and thus dangerous, to those who have not gone through the liminal period. In addition, liminal individuals have nothing: “no status, insignia, secular clothing, rank, kinship position, nothing to demarcate them structurally from their fellows”. The group of liminal...
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...another fierce rebellion that took place in the south, known as the Nat Turner's rebellion. To most African American people, especially in the south, Nat Turner is their hero, a fierce warrior who fought for their freedom and liberty. Several events took place before and after Nat Turner's rebellion, which changed the course of history. The two major events that have to be carefully noted are Nat Turner's inspiration for the rebellion, and the relationship between the North and South of America after the rebellion....
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...leaves not much time for learning because the toileting, hygiene, and eating do take a big part of the day. The teachers usually have a full time assistant in the classroom or two depending on the need in the classroom; this helps the Special Education teacher complete tasks in the classroom. The teacher can work on a student one on one and the assistant can help with the other students needs. (Severe Intellectual Disabilities and Multiple Diablites, 2007) Some of the intellectual disabilities that teachers may encounter I have found are ADHD (Attention Deficit hyperactivity Disorder), Angel man syndrome, Aspersers Syndrome, Autism, Cri Du Char, Down Syndrome, Dysphasia, Dyspraxia, Epilepsy, Fragile X, Klinefelter Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Prader-willi Syndrome, Rett Syndrome, Trismoy, Soto’s Syndrome, Tourette Syndrome, Tuberous Sclerosis, and Williams Syndrome. (Activ, 2001) References Activ (2001) Types of Intellectual Disabilities. Retrieved on July 13, 2001 from http://www.activ.asn.au/3/3017/8/types_of_intellectual_disability.pm Severe Intellectual Disabilities and Multiple Disabilities. Pat Mimms. Retrieved from Special Education for Today’s Teachers: An Introduction, by Michael S. Rosenberg, D avid L. Westling, and James M cLeskey....
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...Edward's Syndrome Edward's Syndrome, also known as Trisomy 18 Syndrome, was discovered in 1960 by Dr. John Edward. It is a very rare inherited genetic disorder that is likely in one out of every five thousand births. Children with the syndrome have an extra chromosome 18, causing the child to have many malformations and mental retardation. Nineteen out of twenty of the children with the Edward's Syndrome die before their first birthday. There are three types of the Trisomy 18 Syndrome. The first one is most common it's called Full Trisomy 18. In this case a full extra chromosome is present in each cell. This type is not hereditary. The second type is very rare, it's called Partial Trisomy 18. This type of the syndrome can be hereditary. It occurs when only part of the extra chromosome is present in each cell. The third type is Mosaic Trisomy 18 this is also very rare. The extra part if the chromosome is only present in some of the cells, not all. The defects of Edward's Syndrome can target the brain, heart, craniofacial structures, kidneys and stomach. The children that make it thorough birth appear fragile and weak, many are underweight and have micrognathia. Many of the surviving children have these problems because of the malformed extra chromosome, just one little chromosome can really make or break someone's life. The syndrome can be diagnosis by taking a blood sample from the fetus to look at the chromosome line up. Edward's Syndrome can also be diagnosed by a few other test...
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...1. The initial perception that Turner had about Cardullo is that he was smart, friendly and a charismatic personality. Hence Turner anticipated that he would be given a free hand in his marketing activities, thereby leading way to become the president within two years. With this initial perception in mind, Turner decided to take up this challenging role which had resulted otherwise as time progressed. Description: Turner initially had a wrong perception about Cardullo whom he thought would be very helpful and supporting. It was due to the confidence given to Turner by Cardullo in the new job and opportunities that propelled Turner to take up this job in Industrial Marketing which has not as lucrative as his earlier job in customer sales. The error in perception was to due to false commitments and offers made by Cardullo to Turner which he never completed and hence made Turner to think and regret his decision to join this organization. Solution: The solution to the above problem would be to provide clear job responsibilities to the employees as soon as the employee joins the organization and clearly state the expectation of the company from him. When the communication process is not clear and transparent; conflicts occur and leads to inefficiency in the work process which is unhealthy from the organization’s view point. 2. Turner wasn’t introduced to his team members upon his joining the company owing to the reason that all the members were pre-occupied with preparation...
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