...Breastfeeding is Best Shannon Kalista Rasmussen College September 1, 2014 How a mother decides to feed her baby is one of the first decisions a new mother makes, it is one of the most important investment in her child’s future and can give the baby the best start in life. Breast milk is packed with the perfect mix of vitamins, protein, and fat (Dermer 2001). It is the only natural food designed for your babies. Breastfed babies receive vital vitamins and nutrients from breast milk, it is packed with disease fighting substances that can protect babies from illness, all mother should chose to breastfeed their babies. Breastfeeding improves infant’s general wellbeing, it also decreases the risk for a large amount of acute and chronic diseases (Kennedy 2012). Breast milk contains substances that benefits babies immune system. It has antibodies, enzymes, and white blood cells that protect against disease and infection. If a mother gets a cold while breastfeeding, she is likely to pass the cold germ on to the baby, but the antibodies that help fight the cold are also passed through the milk. These antibodies will help the infant fight cold germs quickly and could maybe avoid the cold altogether. A mother’s milk drastically reduce the chances a baby will get ear infections, diarrhea, pneumonia, and urinary tract infections (Kennedy 2012). Infants who have been breastfed for at least four months are less likely to be hospitalized for respiratory tract infections like, croup and...
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...Nathan Coulson What part of the body is most accurate for testing the temperature of a baby's bath water? Your hands are very unreliable at measuring temperature, one reason is because you can become used to extreme temperatures on your hands more readily than other parts of your body. For example, when you first put your hand in water it might feel very hot or very cold, but then as you keep your hand under water, you get used to it, and the water begins to feel more moderate than it really is. This is a very bad thing if you are trying to avoid scalding your baby! Scientists and doctors have proven that the elbow is the most reliable to test your babies bath water because the skin cells on the end of the elbow are more sensitive than any other part of the skin. If you test your baby’s bath with the end of your elbow you are less likely to scald them. What's the structure of the skin? The skin is the largest organ in the body. It has three main layers, the epidermis, the dermis and the subcutaneous layers. The epidermis is an elastic layer on the outside that is continually being regenerated. The dermis is the inner layer that includes the following Epidermis Dermis sweat glands- they produce sweat that travels through the sweat ducts Hair follies- are pits where hair grows. Hairs also play a part in temperature regulation. Source A Subcutaneous layer The subcutaneous layer under the dermis is made up of connective tissue and fat (a good...
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...| Arctic Hare (Lepus arcticus & othus) | Hear "Arctic Hare" in Cup'ik Eskimowave file (14 KB) au file (14 KB) aif file (55 KB) ra file (3 KB) | Paw prints of the Arctic Hare Fun Fact: In tundra that has real cold summers, most insects crawl instead of fly because it uses too much energy to fly. | The big feet of the arctic hare help it run across the snow. Find more Arctic Hare pictures here. Fun Fact: Some tundra insects, fish, and plants produce "antifreeze" to protect them during the winter. | | The arctic hare is not the same thing as a snowshoe hare. It is not even the same as a rabbit. There are two hare that live in Arctic areas - they are the arctic hare and the tundra hare. The major difference between them is where they live, and the color their tail turns. The arctic hare is larger than a snowshoe. His fur is long and white all the way through in the winter and his ears are blackish around the edges. In the summer his coat is grayish brown on top and white beneath.Characteristics and Physical Features of the Arctic HareIdentification: Size: 22-28 in. Weight: 9-12 lb. Color: Brown in the summer, white in the winter. Ears tipped with black year round. Distinguishing Characteristics: Short ears, and a fur coat that changes color with the seasons make the arctic and tundra hare special. Breeding: Leverets born June thru July. Usually there are 4-8 in a litter. They are fully furred and have their eyes open.Habitat: ...
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...Discrimination and Racism in Country Lovers and the Welcome Table Zeta Donald Eng 125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: Bernadette Anayah May 7, 2012 Discrimination and Racism in Country Lovers and the Welcome Table The theme in a story is associated with ideas that lie behind the story. Every story narrows a broad underlying idea and shapes it in a unique way to make the underlying idea concrete. That’s how the theme is created. In other words, the theme in a story is a representation of the idea of the story. (Clugston 2110). This paper will compare and contrast the theme of the stories Country Lovers and The Welcome Table. Discrimination and racism is always an issue. Their backgrounds both had love, racism, rejection, hardship, and death. In the short stories “Country Lovers“, by Nadine Gordimer and “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker, they both talk about racism and discrimination of some form. It is not a particularly hidden message in either of these stories, but the two of them approach it from slightly different angles. The main character in each of the stories is a protagonist black female who both struggle with trying to be accepted in society due to the color of their skin. Where there is racism and discrimination of all kind around us, it is more pronounced in these two stories. Both stories express the determination of two women to survive through all adversity. The authors speak of the hardship these women had to face and suffer and understanding...
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...In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley tells the story of a creature who does not understand the world around him. Mary Shelley gives the reader a look into the hardships the creature face and that he was never loved buy a family, which is one of the Maine things the monster looks for. Mary Shelley uses various techniques to convey the impression of the creature as a baby just learning about life and the new world around him. Mary Shelley chooses to portray the monster as a baby who does not know much about the world around him. she uses the word strange to describe how the monster felt during the beginning of his life. The creature seemed to be shocked or unaware of normal human senses. These being new to him, he had a hard time figuring...
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...In Grip of Cold, Afghan Family Buries 8th Child By ROD NORDLAND Published: February 8, 2012 KABUL, Afghanistan — The war refugee Sayid Mohammad lost his last son on Wednesday, three-month-old Khan, who became the 24th child to die of exposure in camps here in the past month.ß “After we had dinner he was crying all night of the cold,” Mr. Mohammad said. The family had no wood and was husbanding a small portion of paper and plastic that his daughter had scavenged that day. He said the boy had seemed healthy and was breast-feeding normally, though the family’s dinner consisted only of tea and bread. But he kept crying. “Finally we started a fire but it wasn’t enough,” Mr. Mohammad said. By 1 a.m. the boy was stiff and lifeless, he said. Even by the standards of destitution in these camps, Mr. Mohammad’s story is a hard-luck one; Khan was the eighth of his nine children to die. Back home in Gereshk District of Helmand Province, six died of disease, he said. Three years ago they fled the fighting in that area for the Nasaji Bagrami Camp here, where a three-year-old son froze to death last winter, he said. Like most of Kabul’s 35,000 internal refugees, he fled the country’s war zones only to find a life of squalor sometimes as deadly, even in the capital of a country that has received more than $60 billion in non-military aid over ten years. Later Wednesday morning, Mr. Mohammad’s sole surviving child, his daughter, Feroza, 10, stared saucer-eyed at her brother’s tiny body...
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...Nelson was sitting by her phone, anxious. Dinner was becoming cold as John Nelson drove slowly through the traffic crowding the interstate. Hopefully it wouldn’t be too much longer. The baby was already asleep in his crib. He surveyed his surroundings and crept forward, The rain whipped around through the trees. As he came to the brick walls, he began to climb. Up he went. Higher and higher. He climbed up to the third floor and hung on to the projecting stones. Through the half-open curtains, he could see a woman alone. Her...
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... animals do and it is amazing how smart they are that they literally will tuck away for spring and some for winter. Researchers tend to think it’s because certain animals are mating but, in actuality it’s just too cold for them. Even as I look out my window and see the smaller birds who I feed throughout the year, peaking above my ledge right outside my window peeking for food, they do not want to come out at all. The research team hypothesized that there was a minimum weight threshold below which the birds have been limited yet are needed to test the validity of this interesting hypothesis. For example, and in stark contrast to behavioral studies. Hypothesis on what defines the cognitive rift between humans and animals. He identifies four key differences in human thought that make it unique. Animals, for example, have "laser beam" intelligence, in which a specific solution is used to solve a specific problem. But these solutions cannot be applied to new situations or to solve different kinds of problem. In contrast, humans have "floodlight" cognition, allowing us to use thought processes in new ways and to apply the solution of one problem to another situation Their behavior is almost survival and unlike ducks and larger bird like wild turkey they love the cold as you seem some tucking their leg to keep warm somehow. Temperature regulation works for many animals they know actually what to do with the changes of the weather. The homeostatic process helps animals and in the...
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...insignificant disease. It was throughout millions of years, that the human body started to build an immunization to certain diseases and only the stronger humans were the ones to survive and carry on that trait. Likewise, having no fur on their bodies to survive in the cold weather, they learned how to use other animals’ skins and how to build some weapons, in order to chase wild animals. Nowadays, humans have made incredible discoveries; we have created a wonderful world of technology, which leads us to make some enormous progress in the field of medicine; especially in how to treat diseases which were, at some time, considered incurable. My point is, that since we have made such progress in technology, I am scared that we are keeping too many people alive, including some that might not fit the environment in which they live. In addition, we are allowing some infertile people to reproduce through in-vitro fertilization, when apparently they were not capable naturally. We are also letting babies survive by saving their lives at their birth even though they might not be perfectly healthy or other traits which could bedetrimental for the human species. But through science and the new technology, we have let these babies live and we have given them the opportunity to grow up and reproduce, transmitting their traits to other generations. Due to these facts, it is very probable that we are acting against natural selection in human beings, ever since humans became people who think and...
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...When I was 6 years old I went camping for my first time with my mother and little sister. We never camp before. The scale of excitement and joy was higher for me and my sister. My grandmother told us she read books that describe camping experience, and what to look forward to. We could not wait to go camping to see everything nature had to afford. Camping sounded every nice to hear, and we were going to live out doors. We were going to the camping site at Paul M. Dimmick. I didn’t know how much food and drinks we needed to survive out in the woods, until I seen in the back of the truck. There were a little iceboxes filled with food, mini camping stove, lantern, gallon of water, tent, sleeping bag, bug spray, and booties to protect your feet’s. I feel like we were going on an adventure. There was a lot of stuff for our five days trip, I thought. The day was bright and beautiful. The truck tank was full and off we went. We had a lot of miles to go, we made two fast food stops, and three bathroom stops. My mother didn’t believe us when we told her we were starving, and I told her “If I didn’t eat I was going to die”. Soon after I ate that delicious burger, we had to make an emergency stop on the side of the road. I became sick and vomit everywhere. I shouldn’t have told my mother I was going to die from starving. “Are we there yet?” I ask my mother. No, but we got to the camping site afternoon. The action was just about to take place. We lay down sheets before setting the tents...
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...Fertilization 05. References Human Reproduction System Hi, my name is Sary Metellus and I am doing an essay on the Human Reproductive System, Male and Female. “All living things reproduce.” (Steven Dowshen, Femal Reproductive System, 2010) That’s a pretty interesting saying. Both male and female reproductions are very important to produce a new individual – a child, baby. Now I’m writing about the female system like the organs unlike the males which are hung out, the females are inside the body. The female’s internal reproductive organs are the vagina, uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries. The vagina is the inside the body which is connected to the vulva and that is the outside covering. It’s a muscular hollow tube, which connects the opening to the uterus. It’s muscular so it can contract and expand, which helps with delivering a baby or using a tampon. The cervix is the neck, which has strong thick walls, and it is the opening to the uterus. The uterus is shaped like an upside-down pear and is very strong, it is the part where it will hold the baby and grow the baby in it. The uterus is connected to the fallopian tube which connects to the ovaries. There are two oval-shaped ovaries, one on each side of the uterus, the produce and store the eggs and when it is time, they release the eggs and that is called ovulation. “The female system enables a woman to produce eggs (ova), have sexual intercourse, protect and nourish the fertilized egg until it is...
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...and with the baby blue sky opening up, this is the start of a beautiful day. Across the road there is a small herd of goats with their thick fluffy wool coats. A sense of freedom rises looking clear across the island to the other monstrous volcano. Standing just under her twin at 13,678 feet, Mauna Loa looks crisp against the light blue sky. Between these two beasts, lies a vast,...
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...Everyman lecture – 10:00 (23.0.50) The Origins of the English Language and Its Literature English literature almost precedes the english language. Modern english starts to show up around the 1600’s. Shakespeare writes in modern english. What we see today as modern english is a very new revival. There is no systematized spelling, it’s not until Gutenbergs printer that it’s shaped as a whole. It gets systematized with the printer. Campion wrote in the ”golden age” in english. The theme of love is very common in this period. He wrote before Shakespeare. Campion ”stole” it from Catullus. Rebirth of classical learning. The right place to go is to the source, the roman poets. During the renessance. English had to find itself, therefore it had to go look for inspiration abroad. The first time English could say this is ”our” invention. Homer – The Odyssey. James Joyce – Ulysses. They’re ”borrowing” a lot from the greeks and the romans. Milton is desperate to make english latin. We have got to be latin, if it’s not latin it’s not literature. The language comes really late into the game. English always tries to catch up. Languages comes from a conquerer taking a country and forcing his language onto the native language. English is a mishmash language. Grammar is also merged. The vikings/barbarians invaded England, and beat down all culture/cities/religion. They wiped out the latin culture. And settled. Anglo-saxon 450-550 AD. Britain becomes a series of tribal bands. Britain...
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... but they were crazy in love, this eighteen-year-old boy and this seventeen-year-old girl when they married. Not all that long afterwards they had a daughter. The baby came along in late November during a cold spell that just happened to coincide with the peak of the waterfowl season. The boy loved to hunt, you see. That’s part of it. The boy and girl, husband and wife, father and mother, they lived in a little apartment under a dentist’s office. Each night they cleaned the dentist’s place upstairs in exchange for rent and utilities. In summer they were expected to maintain the lawn and the flowers. In winter the boy shoveled snow and spread rock salt on the walks. Are you still with me? Are you getting the picture? I am, she says. That’s good, he says. So one day the dentist finds out they were using his letterhead for their personal correspondence. But that’s another story. He gets up from his chair and looks out the window. He sees the tile rooftops and the snow that is falling steadily on them. Tell the story, she says. The two kids were very much in love. On top of this they had great ambitions. They were always talking about the things they were going to do and the places they were going to go. Now the boy and girl slept in the bedroom, and the baby slept in the living room. Let’s say the baby was about three months old and had only just begun to sleep through the night. On this one Saturday night after...
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...A Family on the Outside. By: Estefania Calvet May 18, 2013. World Civilization History Professor Happel One day on a beautiful mountaintop on the Greek mountains was a Young lady crying for help. She was trying to get to the nearest town, the first one she could find. She needed help as soon as possible. She had pain starting from her back, through her stomach, and into her pelvis. She was all wet, and cold and her pain was unbearable. She was in labor. She had been dropped in the woods as she was migrating from Egypt in order to find a better life in Greece. She was on a horse with a group of migrants who were also traveling and she fell asleep and fell. She had been unconscious for over a day now, and woke up because she had gone into labor. She would yell and no one could hear her. The pain she was under was more than she could handle. The nearest city was Athens, but the travel was long. It had been more that 8 hours and she was still in pain, and no one had come for help. Suddenly a tall woman, wrapped in a white draped observed the Nila, the woman in labor. The woman began talking to her asking her what was wrong. When Nila told her she was in labor she ran. After an hour, the woman came back with two other men. These men were carrying a long flat shaped wood that they were going to use to carry her. They asked Nila to be calm and told her everything was going to be all right. The next morning everything seemed calmed for Nila. She was awakening from the deepest...
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