...My Political Views There were many issues that we encounter as we walk through the journey of our everyday life. When things go bad, we may feel fear, anger or sadness. When things go right, we may feel happiness, trust and love. These are some of the emotions that we feel in every situation that we come across. Did you observed anything in your community? Or around the area you visited? Did you ever think with yourself why this or that things happen? What are the solutions that we might do for this kind of issue? Or think on how do we avoid that such thing which contributes terrible effect in our country? Try to read this essay and recognize some of the issues that you may not be observed in your community. I am a second year student in college of business and accountancy. My mother is a vendor in a sari-sari store while my father is a vulcanizer. And despite of the poverty, I am very blessed that I did not stop and continue right now in studying. The reason why I say that I am blessed, because I observed in our own community that there were many children who are not enrolled in school, even in public schools only. The main cause that I’ve think why this things happen is because they are not interested in studying, their parents did not allow them to go-off for school or they have medical problems. They are not interested: because if their interest is on studying they will find a way on how they can enroll in school. They can work in some stores in the market while studying...
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...seatbelt protect the lives of motor vehicle operators. Let’s help cyclists live by requiring them to wear the necessary protective gear when they are on the road. History of Universal Helmet Regulation: An Overview of the Problem The universal helmet legislation requires motorcycle riders of all ages to wear helmets. The passing of this legislation has been a prudent and contentious problem with sweeping public health consequences because motorcycle mortalities continue to escalate. As of 2008, only 20 states had implemented this helmet policy. (Homer & French, 2009) In the 1980s and early 1990s, deadly motorcycle crashes were on the decline but began to increase in the late 1990s. In 2006, the number of motorcycle riders killed was 11% of the total traffic deaths, which is the highest account ever. (Homer & French, 2009) Only 19 states and DC enforce universal motorcycle helmet laws, 28 states have partial helmet laws that require only riders under the age of 18 to wear a helmet, and three states do not implement any helmet laws or restrictions. (GEICO, 2014) The Problem of increased risk for cyclists that do not wear helmets Studies have steadily shown that motorcycle helmets will decrease the risk of death and brain...
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...ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: Special Education Resources Special Education Foundations and Framework UNV-529N Dr. Mendez March 26, 2014 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: Special Education Resources The national center for learning disabilities website. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.ncld.org/ The National Center for Learning Disabilities provides resources and details on the different types of learning disabilities in both children and adults. They are dedicated to providing an opportunity to an education to every child diagnosed with a disability. By having this opportunity, the child may obtain valuable educational and life skills that will benefit them for their entire lives. The NCLD connects educators and parents with guidance, resources, educational services, programs, and professional developments that strive to promote public awareness, advocacy, and advance student growth. Information about federal laws that have affected and strengthened this organization is also available. The national dissemination center for children with disabilities website. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://nichcy.org/ The National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY) is a resource that is filled with information for parents and educators related to particular disabilities from birth to age 22. The website contains an excess of resources in relation to educational rights and laws, interventions, Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), the special education process and...
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...Medical Marijuana Be Legalized? The legalization of medical marijuana is a sensitive subject both politically and individually. There have been many field tests and trials validating marijuana as an aid to help various medical conditions from cancer to traumatic brain injuries. My argument has little to do with the political argument as I will be focusing mainly on the individual argument. The Pros and Cons of Legalization In an Oxford University journal report from 2013 states that the endocannabinoid system plays an important roles in the reparative mechanisms that are shared with minocycline pathways reduces the lesion volume and decreases TBI-induced hyperactivity. (Oxford University Press, 2013) . In another study led by Prof. Yosef Sarne from Tel Aviv University suggests that a single, low dose of THC was able to protect the brain from long-term damage induced by a variety of experimental toxins. (Truthonpot.com, 2013). The most recent study was reported by Jeffrey Carpenter of ABC News. He cites the research done at the Hebrew University that shows that a cannabinoid, similar to the active ingredient found in marijuana and produced in the brains of many animals, protects mice from brain injury. This reports quotes Dr Shohami as saying she didn’t “see any problems with using a drug from this family to treat patients”. (Carpenter, 2014). There is overwhelming evidence that cannabis relieves various medical conditions; unpleasant symptoms such as nausea...
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...neurological consequences of playing football and what is currently being done to prevent neurological injuries? The first thing I would say is that while football is certainly fun and entertaining to watch, the human body was not designed to handle the frequent hard hits to the body and head as a result of playing the sport. Unfortunately these professional athletes end up suffering from brain damage as a result of our thirst and fascination for hard hits and violence. I would explain that while football helmets seem safe, they truly only provide very minimal protection against concussions that cause the brain to bounce, shake and rotate back and forth hitting against the wall of the human skull as a result of frequent football tackles that appear harmless to those watching the sport. To ensure the message hits home, I would bring up examples of their favourite former NFL players such as Hall of Famer Mike Webster who actually suffered neurological effects of playing the sport. It is important to highlight the most severe consequences first, which is that playing football can cause severe trauma to the brain as a result of multiple concussions that these athletes regularly experience. This trauma starts to destroy the integrity of the brain cells, causing a degenerative brain disease known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). High levels of CTE in a football player’s brain can result in memory loss, agitation and even increased anger management issues. It can also cause...
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...stages of dementia, a person might not remember events from the last year, but in the later stages he or she might not recall what happened during the last 10 years (Hansell & Damour, 2008). Amnesia is a disorder where a person cannot remember what happened before the event that caused amnesia. A person that gets amnesia can have trouble learning new things as well. In contrast to dementia and delirium, organic amnesia involves memory impairment that occurs in the absence of other cognitive impairments (Hansell & Damour, 2008). Delirium and Dementia happens at an older age unless the individual has had mental disorder. Delirium can also occur in young children that have extremely high fevers certain medical illnesses, or other brain-altering conditions (Hansell & Damour, 2008). Amnesia can happen at any age is the individual has had some serious head trauma of any kind. Delirium and Dementia mainly affect women because more women out live men (Hansell & Damour,...
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...Traumatic brain injury is the result when the brain tissues get damaged due to certain blows to the head (Anderson). According to Anderson in her article Traumatic Brain Injury: Complex Condition with Lasting Effects, among the leading contributors to traumatic brain injury are “unintentional falls, motor vehicle traffic incidents, and assaults”. In the said article, many different numeric descriptions have been presented. More specifically, the article provides the readers with different measures of central tendency, namely the mean, median and mode, thus giving the readers enough information about the topic and the population being described. For each of the three leading contributor to traumatic brain injury, the article describes the different age groups and the frequency of occurrence of the injury to each group. The mode, i.e. the age group with the highest number of occurrences of traumatic brain injury was identified. Since this data is purely categorical, using the mode to describe the data was indeed appropriate (Dodge 2008). The median was also used in order to describe the occurrence of traumatic brain injury. With the age ranging from zero to 91 years old, the median age was 23 years. That is, 50% of the total numbers of incidence occur for those below 23 years old, while the other 50% occur for those people who are above 23 years old. Since the data is ordinal in nature, the median was an appropriate measure of central tendency. The average time that it takes...
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...May 15, 2011 Patricia Adesso Phineas Gage The brain is most complex of all of the organs in the body. The brain is the place where emotions, perception, planning, memory, action, thinking, learning and language, among other things, all take place. Cognitive functioning takes place in the cerebrum, the largest part of the brain and is carried out by neurons. The brain is made up of thousands of neurons that are responsible for carrying messages from the brain and into the body. These neurons interact with one another by releasing a neurotransmitter that fits on to the receptor of a neighboring neuron. When the receptor is triggered in the brain it causes the body to react, act, think, feel, learn and so forth. But how does this actually work? Brain imaging has given us some insight to answer this question. Brain imaging like MRI’s, CAT, and PET scans all help in discovering the brains role in cognitive functioning. Advances in imaging technology have helped researchers pin point which areas of the brain are responsible for thinking, learning and memory. By recording activity of the brain in action, researchers can examine the systems of brain regions that participate in different cognitive functions, ranging from basic sensory and motor functions to complex functions like reasoning and language understanding. According to the Center for Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) at the University of Pittsburg “To discover how brain cells actually support cognitive processes, CNBC investigators...
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...A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury that is caused by a blow to the head or body, a fall, or another injury that jars or shakes the brain inside the skull. There are three different types of concussions. Type one and type two concussions are when the victim is having transient confusion, no loss of consciousness, and duration of mental status abnormalities. The only difference between type one and type two is that type one last for fifth teen minutes or more and type two is less than fifth teen minutes. Type three concussions is when you lose consciousness for a few brief seconds. These types of injury occur in sports mainly in football and hockey. When you have a concussion you will have to go through some test, most people call it mental therapy. I discovered the true meaning of a concussion plenty of times. One happens in a varsity high school game against Westlake in October of the year 2009. It was an onside kick to retrieve the ball so my team had a chance to kick a field goal to at least force overtime. One of my teammates was running full speed and did a helmet to helmet collision with our opponent. After the play he was passed out on the field for thirty seconds and he also forget what happen the whole fourth quarter. It was a scary site to see someone so vulnerable after a concussion. He eventually made a speedy recovery within a week and we bought a dna helmet that have fluff pads to reduce concussions. The next concussion I witness was at a NFL game. It...
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...growing at an alarming rate. With no definitive solution to this problem in sight, provisions must be put in place in order to protect our youth and professional athletes alike. Precautionary safety measures have been lackluster, and research on the issue, all but forgotten. With the advancements in technologies it is up to the authorities and more importantly the people to implement more effective means of safety, education, unyielding policies and severe punishments in order to protect the youth and professional athletes. A concussion is defined as a traumatically induced physiological disruption of brain function with a short period of altered or loss of consciousness, when a concussion occurs the brain is shaken in such a forceful way inside the skull that it causes injury. Concussion rates have doubled in this decade and account for 1 out of 10 of all contact sport injuries (Barton, 2008), the Center for Disease Control (C.D.C) has concluded that concussions in the United States have reached an “epidemic level” and there are between 1.6 and 3.8 million sport related concussions every year (Halstead, 2010) (Lincoln, 2011). Symptoms include but are not limited to confusion, headache, amnesia, nausea, sensitivity to light, double vision, sleep disturbances, loss of consciousness and were reported to be linked to more serious conditions such as, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Participation in high school athletics in the United States has...
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...to injury, illness or disease” (Farlex, 2012). Many doctors will prescribe rehabilitation services after a patient has suffered through an amputation, neurological issues, a variety of orthopedic injuries, spinal cord injuries, stroke or other traumatic brain injuries. Patients can be treated in either an inpatient or outpatient setting. This normally depends on the severity of their injury or illness. A patient who has suffered a stroke, for example will be treated within the hospital by therapists before being discharged and prescribed outpatient therapy. Stroke patients are also treated under more than one rehabilitation discipline. This means that they will see not only a licensed physical therapist but in many cases, an occupational and speech therapist as well. There are two main distinctions between physical therapists, orthopedic, neurological and pediatric. Orthopedic therapists work with a number of different diagnoses but the majority of their patients suffer from a muscle, joint or spinal injury. Advancements in medicine have allowed surgeons to perform joint replacement surgeries. Patients who have had a total knee, hip or shoulder replacement will more often than not end up in the hands of a physical therapist. According to the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) those therapists who decide to become a neurological physical therapist will specialize “in the evaluation and treatment of individuals with movement problems due to disease or injury of the...
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...Uche Ihenacho Professor.Borror English1A 19 March 2012 Athlete Safety When sports were first created, they were presented with minimal rules and a lack of knowledge for player safety. In today’s time, all sports have a specific set of rules to go by, and there are medical teams present at every sporting event. Most would say that every sport is prepared for the injuries that occur, but that is not the case when it comes to concussions. Recently in sports such as, Boxing, Hockey, and Football, there have been new rules created to either prevent concussions, or to emphasize the seriousness of concussions occurring. In the sport of boxing, a boxer can be knocked down multiple times and is allowed to keep fighting if they can seem alert by standing up before the ref counts to ten, many believe boxers are receiving concussions when knocked down and should not be allowed to keep fighting. In the NHL or National Hockey League, players are constantly being smacked into the arena glass by opposing players and many players fall head first on the solid-seeming ice, which can easily result to a concussion. The NHL is currently to figure out a way to slow down the game speed of hockey to lower the number of concussions, which have doubled since the previous season. In the NFL, players who now commit head to head contact tackles will be fined and can also be suspended if felt...
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...Andrea Harris Alzheimer’s Dementia Rasmussen College Authors Note This paper is being submitted on September 13, 2012 for Abnormal Psychology summer 2012 by Andrea Harris. Alzheimer’s Disorder is a disease that severely affects not only the person, but the family as well. There is no cure, only ways to slow down the progression. This disorder is not known by a lot of people or understood. The only way to do that is by educating. In this paper I hope to go over symptoms, treatments, diagnosis, and what to expect when someone you love is affected. This is not something that only attacks the elderly, it can affect any age. After reading this I hope to bring a better understanding of how to help loved ones and what to expect. My mother has Alzheimer’s disease and I am her daughter as well as her caretaker. This paper is personal for me and is meant to help those loved ones have a better understanding and how to deal with being confronted with is. Alzheimer’s is not a personal disease, but a family disease. It affects everyone involved emotionally and physically. I know that even to do this I struggle. This paper is my gift to help simplify things and help caretakers and loved ones build knowledge not only for the person with the disease, but for them as well. There are several types of dementia such as from trauma or drug use. In this paper we are talking about Alzheimer’s dementia. It is the most common form and is over 70% of most cases. When you hear a doctor tell you...
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...Hernando Gonzales (pseudonym), age 63, incurred a traumatic brain injury to the left and right frontal lobes and the left temporal lobe and a broken right shoulder during a car accident on March 15 of this year. Mr. Gonzales was born and resides in Mexico and was visiting his sister, Maria, for a two month vacation when the accident occurred. This was his first visit to Buffalo, NY, though he has visited Miami, Florida and San Antonio, Texas several times in the past 20 years. Mr. Gonzales has been a widower for 6 months and has four adult children who reside in Mexico. Mr. Gonzales completed ninth grade in Mexico and worked as a security guard at an industrial site. He speaks fluent Spanish and reads and writes Spanish at about a fifth grade level. Although he has taken English emersion classes for several years and his auditory comprehension of English is good, his spoken English is limited. Reading and writing English are basic and inconsistent. He is an ardent soccer fan, enjoys Mariachi music, and attends church on a regular basis. According to his sister, Mr. Gonzales has a history of hypertension, prostate cancer, and osteo–arthritis. He had a partial knee replacement to the right knee in 2005. He wears corrective lenses that were broken during the car accident, and during the optometric evaluation to replace his lenses, early stage bilateral cataracts were noted. Three years ago Mr. Gonzales was diagnosed with a mild bilateral sensori–neural hearing loss during an employment...
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...used to describe the level of consciousness in a person a traumatic brain injury (TBI). This scale does have its limitations when it comes to its use in pediatrics, but it continues to be a great method of estimating severity of TBI. There now is a pediatric version of the GCS that has been altered to accommodate the different ages in children (Pediatric Care Online). This article performed a study to see if there is any correlation between a pediatric patients GCS score and later cerebral atrophy after a traumatic brain injury. Protection of Human Participants In the article the authors do not address any risks or benefits that may come from participating in this study. There were no risks that I could identify from reading the article, as participants were to only receive a quantitative magnetic resonance image (QMRI) approximately four months after a TBI. I also do no think that there is anything beneficial for the patient from this research study, as it seems that the final results will benefit future TBI victims in determining if they will be faced cerebral atrophy. There was no mention in the article about informed consent, but no personal information was disclosed in the article. The authors did not mention if there was an approval by an institutional review board. The only patient disclosed information was age, gender, ethnicity, handedness, socioeconomic status, initial GCS score, and mechanism of injury of the patients. Data Collection The authors did not specify a...
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