...Prof. Ross Clarkson ENG 1100 December 2, 2015 Isolation Warps a Human For most, being alone and isolated is a nice way to get away from overwhelming events happening in life. However, when it comes to extreme cases, isolation is very bad for someone’s well-being, according to Michael Bond who states, “for most people, prolonged social isolation is all bad” (Bond, “How Extreme Isolation Warps the Mind”). Overall, isolation has several negative impacts on the human mind and body. Extreme isolation can affect someone in three distinct ways: physically, mentally, and socially. Isolation can be caused either by yourself or by others. Isolation is being separated from others by one of the three following circumstances: living in a remote area, a perception of being removed from a community, or being held captive in a room. The main type of isolation is called social isolation which is the absence of social relationship and is typically considered very unhealthy if the time being spent alone becomes excessive. Another distinct type of isolation is called emotional isolation which can result from social isolation and is when people keep feelings completely to themselves. Physical health is very important to live a healthy, long life but in many cases of extreme isolation physical health is negatively affected. Bond states that “we’ve known for a while that isolation is physically bad for us. Loneliness interferes with a whole range of everyday functioning, such as sleep...
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...nervosa is not really about food. It is an unhealthy way of trying to cope with emotional problems. Anorexia nervosa is a mental illness that causes people to obsess about their weight and the food they eat. The individual diagnosed with anorexia nervosa does not want to maintain even the minimal weight considered normal for his or her age and height. The disorder is recognized by insufficient weight along with an intense fear of gaining weight and often-misunderstood awareness of his or her body weight and shape (Anorexia Nervosa, 2011). Anorexia nervosa is diagnosed by four different criteria. These criteria consist of the refusal to uphold a normal weight evidenced by failure to maintain a weight equal to 85% of that expected for his or her height and age. Criteria B include the extreme fear of weight gain or of becoming fat although the individual is obviously underweight. Criteria C is met when the individual exhibits denial about their condition, has troubled perceptions about his or her weight or look or has an obsession with regard to their appearance as related to weight. The final criteria is met if the individual is female and of menstrual age and has experienced the absence of three menstrual cycles because of their illness (Gentile, 2010) Additionally there are two sub-types of the illness. Restricting anorexics that reduce nutritional intake without the use of laxatives, diuretics or enemas. In addition, the...
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...Practice Exam Chapter 3 - Numerical Descriptive Measures SECTION I :M ULTIPLE -CHOICE 1. Which of the following statistics is not a measure of central tendency? a) Arithmetic mean. b) Median. c) Mode. d) Q3. 2. Which of the arithmetic mean, median, and mode are resistant measures of central tendency? a) The arithmetic mean and median only. b) The median and mode only. c) The mode and arithmetic mean only. d) All the three are resistant measures. 3. Which of the following statements about the median is not true? a) It is more affected by extreme values than the arithmetic mean. b) It is a measure of central tendency. c) It is equal to Q2. d) It is equal to the mode in bell-shaped "normal" distributions. 4. In a perfectly symmetrical distribution a) the range equals the interquartile range. b) the interquartile range equals the arithmetic mean. c) the median equals the arithmetic mean. d) the variance equals the standard deviation. 5. In general, which of the following descriptive summary measures cannot be easily approximated from a boxplot? a) The variance. b) The range. c) The interquartile range. d) The median. 6. Which descriptive summary measures are considered to be resistant statistics? a) The arithmetic mean and standard deviation. b) The interquartile range and range. c) The mode and variance. d) The median and interquartile...
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...currently), and at least 23 international organizations, committed to help achieve the following Millennium Development Goals by 2015: 1. To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 2. To achieve universal primary education 3. To promote gender equality and empower women 4. To reduce child mortality 5. To improve maternal health 6. To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases 7. To ensure environmental sustainability[1] 8. To develop a global partnership for development[2] 17 Sdgs 1) End poverty in all its forms everywhere * 836 million people still live in extreme poverty * About one in five persons in developing regions lives on less than $1.25 per day * The overwhelming majority of people living on less than $1.25 a day belong to two regions: Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa * High poverty rates are often found in small, fragile and conflict-affected countries * One in seven children under age five in the world has inadequate height for his or her age * Every day in 2014, 42,000 people had to abandon their homes to seek protection due to conflict * By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day * By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions * Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures...
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...Final Marketing Plan Marketing 421 June 24, 2012 Robert McGeary Final Marketing Plan Team D has completed its marketing plan for the Extreme Juicer 9000. This paper has combined phase I, II, and II to complete a detail description of how the new product will be marketed. The final plan includes the place and promotion strategy, advertising plan, public relations opportunities, as well as the identification of distribution channels. This final marketing plan will also identify how Team D will evaluate, control, and monitor the effectiveness of the marketing plan. Company Overview Hamilton Beach Manufacturing Company was created in 1910 by Chester Beach, L.H. Hamilton and Fredrick Osius. The partners met while working at the U.S. Standard Electrical works in Racine Wisconsin. Today, Hamilton Beach is the leading distributor of small kitchen appliances which sells over 35 million appliances each year. Hamilton Beach also produces products under the labels of Electronics, Proctor Silex, and True Air. (Hamilton Beach, 2012) Earnings for Hamilton Beach increased in the last quarter due to the increase in price for some products. In March of 2012 Hamilton Beach reported a net income of 1.0 million and revenue of 104.9 million. In 2011 the net income was 1.0 million with revenues of 100.6 million for the quarter. (Bloomberg Businessweek, 2012) The new product is likely to produce the same outcome for the company. Hamilton Beach has been in existence for a number of years...
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...July 6, 2014 Data Set Student | Gender | Age | Years of Work Experience | Time Spent on the Homework | Jenny | F | 35 | 11 | 2.5 | Sandy | F | 52 | 6 | 4 | Linda | F | 47 | 25 | 3 | Lilly | F | 25 | 7 | 2 | Nichole | F | 43 | 5 | 4.5 | Sally | F | 60 | 30 | 3.5 | Lisa | F | 38 | 2 | 4 | Brook | F | 22 | 4 | 1.5 | John | M | 23 | 5 | 2 | Dave | M | 32 | 14 | 2.5 | Shawn | M | 54 | 31 | 5 | Kurt | M | 29 | 7 | 3 | Brandon | M | 36 | 18 | 4.5 | Brian | M | 42 | 26 | 3.5 | | | | | | Display gender information in a chart and plot age data in a box plot. Calculate the appropriate measure of central tendency and variablility for the age and gender. What conclusion can you draw from the data? Descriptive statistics | | | | | | | Age | | count | 14 | | mean | 38.43 | | sample standard deviation | 11.88 | | sample variance | 141.19 | | minimum | 22 | | maximum | 60 | | range | 38 | | | | | 1st quartile | 29.75 | | median | 37.00 | | 3rd quartile | 46.00 | | interquartile range | 16.25 | | mode | n/a | | | | | low extremes | 0 | | low outliers | 0 | | high outliers | 0 | | high extremes | 0 | | The appropriate measure of central tendency for age is the median which is 37 years of age, the mean which is equivalent to the average of 38 years of age, and the mode which cannot be derived from this data because there are no repetitive numbers. The range...
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...activity by which an individual or gathering gets to be rationally grouped in somebody’s mind as "not one of us" which practices inclusion and exclusion this is shown In age when the attention is on the twin extremes of the age range such as younger and older and unintentionally normalizes those in the middle years. This is also shown in disability also known as othering people with disabilities which involves both components of attraction and repulsion where there is positive which represents disabled heroes and negative which represents impairments that are seen unusual, and unappealing human beings. And last but not least in sexuality where there is heterosexing of work and different spaces...
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...For the 'lite' version, here's a quick diagram and summary. Extra details follow the initial overview. For more information than appears on this page, read Erikson's books; he was an award-winning writer and this review does not convey the richness of Erikson's own explanations. It's also interesting to see how his ideas develop over time, perhaps aided by his own journey through the 'psychosocial crisis' stages model that underpinned his work. Erik Erikson first published his eight stage theory of human development in his 1950 book Childhood and Society. The chapter featuring the model was titled 'The Eight Ages of Man'. He expanded and refined his theory in later books and revisions, notably: Identity and the Life Cycle (1959); Insight and Responsibility (1964); The Life Cycle Completed: A Review (1982, revised 1996 by Joan Erikson); and Vital Involvement in Old Age (1989). Erikson's biography lists more books. Various terms are used to describe Erikson's model, for example Erikson's biopsychosocial or bio-psycho-social theory (bio refers to biological, which in this context means life); Erikson's human development cycle or life cycle, and variations of these. All refer to the same eight stages psychosocial theory, it being Erikson's most distinct work and remarkable model. The word 'psychosocial' is Erikson's term, effectively from the words psychological (mind) and social (relationships). Erikson believed that his psychosocial principle is genetically inevitable in shaping...
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...Privation of attachment means failure to form an attachment. Privation usually occurs when children have been kept in extreme isolation and therefoe have never had the opppurtunity to form an attachment. There are 3 main types of evidence regarding privation and those are longitudinal studies of children in instituational care; case studies of children raised in extreme isolation; and studies of reactive attachment disorder which is a category of mental disorder attributed to a lack of early attachments. A longiudinal study of ex-institutional children was done by Hodges and Tizard in 1989, to investigate the effects of privation by following the same children over a long period of time to collect reliable information linking early experiences to later outcomes for the same individual. The participants were 65 children who had been placed in an instituation when they were less than 4 months old. There was an explicit policy in the institution against caregivers forming attachments with the children. This would suggest the children experienced early privation. By the age of 4, 24 of the institutionalized children had been adopted, 15 had returned to their natural homes and the rest remained in the institution. Assessment at the age of 8 and 16 years old involved interviewing those children who were adopted and those who had returned to their original homes. Their parents, their teachers and their peers were also interviewed. Data was also collected from a control group...
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...What is Your Approach to Life? By DeAnn Adler After many years of living, I still don’t have life completely figured out and I’m assuming I never will, but age has given me some wisdom and I have hopefully learned a few things in all that time. I have not one philosophy of life, but many, and all of them put together make me the person I am today. During my senior year in high school over thirty-two years ago, the teacher in my civics class asked what we students thought was the secret to a happy life. A blond, curly headed boy in the class answered that he thought “everything in moderation” was the key to a successful, happy life. I’ve never forgotten those words, even after all this time, and they’ve become a part of who I am and how I’ve lived my life. In ancient Greece, the temple of Apollo at Delphi bore the inscription Meden Agan - 'Nothing in excess'. 1 The ancient Greeks knew what my high school classmate had—that moderation makes life run more smoothly. Moderation in this day and age is not always hip though. What are cool are extremes, from extreme sports to extreme home makeovers. But it seems that for a lot of people, straying from the path of moderation causes nothing but heartache, from the drinker who loses everything to the bottle, to the gambler who loses his life’s savings. The more extreme our wants, the more we must accumulate to make ourselves happy. But I also think moderation can make for an extremely boring life. It’s a life played safely and without...
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...marketing executives and decisions had to be made to get the production started. Only three advertisements were going to be chosen, two to be played during the Super Bowl and all three throughout the year 2000. There were ten initial concepts proposed and five remained. Scott Moffit, the Marketing Director for Mountain Dew, was the least senior executive and first to evaluate the concepts. Throughout the years PepsiCo managers paid close attention to music and sports as these two activities were crucial parts of the youth culture. Rap, grunge, and techno music were all important to Mountain Dew’s campaign throughout the 90’s. Around this same time period alternative/extreme sports were also taking off in the worldwide. Mountain Dew chose to take advantage of the new spectators by focusing on the newly popular extreme sports that were now being shown on ESPN and...
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...What is Your Approach to Life? By DeAnn Adler After many years of living, I still don’t have life completely figured out and I’m assuming I never will, but age has given me some wisdom and I have hopefully learned a few things in all that time. I have not one philosophy of life, but many, and all of them put together make me the person I am today. During my senior year in high school over thirty-two years ago, the teacher in my civics class asked what we students thought was the secret to a happy life. A blond, curly headed boy in the class answered that he thought “everything in moderation” was the key to a successful, happy life. I’ve never forgotten those words, even after all this time, and they’ve become a part of who I am and how I’ve lived my life. In ancient Greece, the temple of Apollo at Delphi bore the inscription Meden Agan - 'Nothing in excess'. 1 The ancient Greeks knew what my high school classmate had—that moderation makes life run more smoothly. Moderation in this day and age is not always hip though. What are cool are extremes, from extreme sports to extreme home makeovers. But it seems that for a lot of people, straying from the path of moderation causes nothing but heartache, from the drinker who loses everything to the bottle, to the gambler who loses his life’s savings. The more extreme our wants, the more we must accumulate to make ourselves happy. But I also think moderation can make for an extremely boring life. It’s a life played safely...
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...body that Linda has. The physical development of aging has transformed Linda into a “strange and terrifying monster,” into something disturbing and repulsive. We may smirk at their seeming naïveté, but in truth are we really all that different from the World State? Isn’t our society today just as beauty obsessed, just as preoccupied with the pursuit of physical perfection? Here, again, we see Huxley playing the role of a social seer correctly anticipating a future in which physical perfection and youth are cherished above everything else. Medical advancements and scientific techni ques in the World State have eliminated old age. In our modern world, likewise, we are essentially trying to do the same. Old age was once a marker of wisdom but it is now seen as repulsive, a sign of degeneration and decline. Individuals in our society go to these various extremes (Botox, face-lifts, and plastic surgery) in order to prevent the inescapable effects of time. Like the World State, then, we are on a relentless pursuit of beauty and eternal youth. But the more essential questions are these: does beauty truly bring happiness? Does looking good on the outside make one truly satisfied on the inside? Of course it would be nice to obtain a “perfect” physique wouldn’t it?, but the reality is, as hard as we try, no matter how many surgeries we undergo, how many beauty products we invest in and use, perfection will continue to elude...
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...Consumerism: Using coupons to save money Gina York ENG102 May 23, 2012 Sarah Giragosian Consumerism: Using coupons to save money Consumers face daily struggles. However, many would say that the one thing they struggle with the most is how to find ways to stretch their paycheck enough to cover the bills and put food on the table. In fact, despite having two paychecks coming in, the average American family is still unable to make ends meet. While we can eliminate some things from our daily lives, such as the $5 cup of coffee at the local “Java Joe’s”, we cannot eliminate our daily need for food and basic necessities. Consequently, with the continued downturn in the economy, people have had to become more creative in finding ways to save money. Using coupons to aid in discounting products is widely becoming the method of choice. Consumers have had to make some very hard decisions based on income and necessities. We have all had to “tighten our belts” and “watch our pennies”. “During these hard economic times, many people are looking for new ways to save money on as many things as possible. Groceries, electric and other utility bills, as well as on other items like diapers and baby care supplies, cleaning supplies and paper products.” (How to Save Money With Grocery Coupons, 1999-2012) Along with the ever present thought of saving and keeping our hard earned dollars in mind, many have returned to the days of our grandmothers, known for saving their pennies. We realize that...
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...disorder is a very dangerous illness that is often over looked. Although many people may assume that bipolar disorder is just a person's personality fluctuating between highs and lows, there is much more to this disease. Bipolar disorder is a complex physiological and psychological disorder that can influence and manipulate a person's thoughts and actions in their daily life. Bipolar elevated moods are symptoms of mania or milder hypomania. Individuals who experience manic episodes have both mania and depression present at the same time. These episodes are usually separated by periods of "normal "mood; but, in some individuals, depression and mania may rapidly alternate, which is known as rapid cycling. Feldman, R.S 2009. In addition, extreme manic episodes can sometimes lead to psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations. Depression phase of bipolar disorder include persistent feelings of sadness, anxiety, guilt, anger isolation, or hopelessness; disturbances in sleep and loss of appetite and interest in usually enjoyable activities; problems concentrating; loneliness, self-loathing, apathy or loss of interest in sexual activity, and chronic pain. John M. Grohol.Psy.D. However, one of the possible causes of bipolar disorder is altered levels of neurotransmitters, chemicals that cause reactions in the brain. According to Psych-Central, neurotransmitters like serotonin and norepinephrine may be the cause of bipolar disorder, as these chemicals are...
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