...How many of you have known a teenage mother at some point in your lives? Well you do even if you don’t realize it as I myself was a teenage mother. According to smith.edu over 1 million teenagers become pregnant each year in the United States with more than 530,000 of those giving birth. That means that 13% of the babies born each year are born to teenagers, most of whom are unmarried and do not have the financial ability to support a child. Today you all will learn about teenage pregnancy, including how many teenagers get pregnant and why, what challenges the mother and baby will face along the way, and what can be done to lower the incidence of teenage pregnancy. More woman than you realize will experience a pregnancy while in their teens. 40% of white woman and 64% of black woman to be exact. 80% of these teenagers are not married and even if they are married the chance of divorce is about 8 in 10. Every 56 seconds another teenager gives birth in the United States making this the country ranking number one for incidences of teenage births. 70% of these girls do not receive proper prenatal care putting herself and her unborn child at risk and 2/3 of teen moms drop out of high school. With no education she is forced to endure minimum wage jobs to support her child most likely ending up on welfare. With these startling statistics why do so many teenage girls get pregnant? Are they doing it intentionally? While 85% of teenage pregnancies are not intended that leaves the other...
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...Andrea McManus EDU 144 IN1 Midterm Exam Paper Watching this video brings back memories from when I was pregnant and had my daughter. When you get pregnant and have a baby there is such joy. Our bodies want to make babies and they are good at it. You will find that creating a new being is easy. From a single cell, you built a body that has 100 trillion cells. You learn that all of your descendants have the same DNA. You may wonder how did you do it? Sex is the method of choice for 99% of population. With sexual reproduction each individual offers DNA. Sexual reproduction is quite tricky. The man’s testicles are packed with tiny tubes churning out 1,000 new sperm every second. Each sperm is one of a kind. When you reproduce, you get 23 chromosomes from the mom and 23 chromosomes from the dad. An unborn child carries genes from their ancestors. This is why you have children who have characteristics of their ancestors. A woman begins creating eggs as a fetus in her mother’s womb. The eggs begin to die, but that is okay. In ovaries, it’s quality not quantity that counts. Every month, one of a woman’s two ovaries selects an immature egg cell to lavish with attention. One hundred support cells feed the egg until it is fat. When the egg matures, it comes out of the ovary and travels to the uterus. It is swept along, but needs DNA from the sperm fast. If it does not get fertilized in a few hours, it dies. When trying to reproduce, it is important that you are cautious about your...
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...Chelsea McMillen’s Persuasive Speech Outline General Purpose: To persuade my audience Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience into being in favor of distributing contraceptives (condoms, birth control pills, spermicides, etc.) in high schools. Thesis statement: In order to explain why contraceptives are becoming such a necessity in schools today, I will share how teen parenthood is being glorified, reasons for such an increase in teenage pregnancies, and how effective distributing contraceptives would be. INTRODUCTION I. Attention getter: (show slide of pregnant girls) How many of you have ever seen television shows like “16 and Pregnant”, “Teen Mom”, or “The Secret Life of an American Teenager”? II. Credibility statement: I am not a teen parent, but I have several friends who are and went to school with several teenage parents. Once I chose this topic, I did a lot of research online about the rising problem of teen pregnancy and the unfortunate consequences of contraceptives not being available to teenagers. III. Relating to the Audience: While most of you are probably not teenage parents, I bet many of you know either a couple girls who got pregnant at a young age or a few guys who got girls pregnant at a young age. Teenage pregnancy is something that affects all of us in some way, either in our homes and neighborhoods or on our televisions and computer screens. IV. Thesis statement: In order to explain why contraceptives are becoming such a necessity in schools...
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...Oral speech- should abortion be illegal in all states of Australia Imagine laughing with your mother at the beach while building a sand castle, hearing the waves crash onto the rocks that surround you, feeling the tingles on your feet as the water washes over, then hearing your favourite words come out of your mother’s mouth “I love you darling” then suddenly you wake up from a voice or maybe two. “this wasn’t supposed to happen” “we have to get rid of it” “it was a sin brought into our lives” you are feeling confused and anxious, worried of what might happen, you sleep it off hoping the problem will go away in the morning, then suddenly you wake at the feeling of an extremely cold gust of wind you start to shiver, and your body grows Goosebumps, you feel a slight tug, and another and suddenly your protective bubble starts to grow smaller and smaller your body starts to squish till finally you are ripped away at the chance of life An abortion is defined as the deliberate termination of a pregnancy, in other words the ending of one’s life, how is this not considered murder? 80,000 innocent unborn children’s life are seized by an induced abortion per year in Australia not accounting for the chemical abortions such as RU-486 a combination of drugs given to the women up to 9 weeks pregnant. This is considered to be one out of four pregnancies according to Julia Medew. Reasons to be pro-life and end this tragic event in women’s life includes; aborted babies fell pain, abortion...
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...Teen substance abuse can cause many problems in a young person’s life. The tragedy can cause breaking up of families and relationships, health issues/overdoses, and unwanted pregnancies. But what happens if the teen is still abusing substances while carrying a child? Drugs and alcohol can have an unbelievable affect on an unborn child, and the more the mother is irresponsible about it, the worse it will be. It is important for nurses to know how to handle this situation, whether it is protecting the health of the pregnant teenage mother, or the health of the newborn baby with complications. This paper will address the many symptoms and malfunctions that can occur when a teenager continues to use alcohol and drugs, even while carrying their child. Scope Statement The first database that was used was Nursing and Allied Health, which provided most of the information that is used in this paper. Typing in “teenage substance abuse and pregnancy” came up with a lot of results, but putting the cut off limit at around 10 years definitely helped with decreasing that number. Also, looking to see if the article had the full PDF text online was helpful. Keywords that were looked for when scanning an article would be pregnancy, any kind of substance that was abused, and statistic or graphs included was an attention grabber. After finding the three main scholarly articles very easily on Nursing and Allied Health, the next browser that was used was Google. After typing in the main topic, which...
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...Afro-American women who became Lieutenant Governor, served to America in the Army and forms part of the minority group of immigrants. Jennifer Carroll came to give a speech at the institution of Broward College, honoring the black history month. Carroll started her speech and gained the attention of the audience by telling some background of her early life. This woman came from Trinidad and Tobago with her parents looking for the American Dream in the United States of America. While the speaker was comparing herself with the audience, she was making a bond with them due to her explanation of how she has evolved her ambitions and achieved the position that she has in her life. The first Afro-American Lieutenant Governor and also the first woman in the position, talked about her days in the army and how that serves as an example for students that at some point in their life have to face issues that may need hard decisions. In fact Carroll used specifically a personal story to illustrate the importance of keep going and never give up. In the army, during duty, she had a friend that was pregnant and for it, the woman was afraid of telling her superiors due to the possibility of leaving her out of her job. Behind the speaker was running a presentation that she didn’t use, but had information related to the content of the speech as in the case of important dates for American history, and names of prominent figures. The only thing about the presentation is that it was distracting due...
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...Ophelia talks to her father saying “He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders of his affection to me (1.3.108-109). It’s not clear what the “many tenders” refer to exactly but we can infer that she is talking about Hamlet’s sexual advances. Ophelia was convinced that Hamlet wanted to marry her. “And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord, with almost all the holy vows of heaven” (1.3.122-123). This is why she let herself be intimate with Hamlet. She was convinced Hamlet wanted to be with her forever which meant they would have children later. Ophelia loves Hamlet dearly so when he tells her these amazing affectionate things of course she believes him which leads her to make the decisions she does. Ophelia wasn’t worried about being so close with Hamlet since she knew in her heart they would stay together and have a family which is exactly what she dreamed of. In Ophelia’s speech later in the play she hands out different types of flowers. This could be suggestive in the fact that she literally being deflowered. “There’s rue for you, and here’s some for me” (4.5.205). For centuries, certain flowers such as rue, which Ophelia mentions in her speech, were used in abortion potions....
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...able to respond to the allegations. Thompson says that Geragos's alleged boat display not only broke the California ethics rule barring juror communication, but also broke the California ethics rule against extrajudicial communications about a case. (As a recent column by Jonna Spilbor for this site noted, the penalty phase of this case - in which a death sentence could be imposed - has yet to occur.) Reportedly, the boat contained homemade concrete anchors - such as those the prosecution alleged Scott used to weigh down Laci Peterson's body - and a dummy representing the body. The defense's theory was that Scott could not have thrown Laci's heavily pregnant body over the side of the tiny, anchor-filled boat without swamping the boat with water and tipping it over. The display was apparently intended to illustrate just how tippable and tiny the boat actually was. During the trial, the judge had refused to allow the defense to mount a similar display for jurors - a display that was intended to prove that very theory. According to Thompson, however, Geragos circumvented that ruling by placing the boat near the courthouse. By doing so, Thompson argues in his complaint, Geragos intended "to engage in non-verbal...
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...Informative speech: Teen Pregnancy At young ages we all seem to become nurtures, by playing with baby dolls, and playing house with our siblings. So it is easy for us to say that as children we thought we knew what we were doing when it came to taking care of our dolls when we “thought” they needed some assistance. This was just our imagination though. We pretended in the act of taking care of child that was just plastic. At that age do we really imagine what life would be like if we had a real child already to tend to? Do we think about the money you’ll have to spend on bottles, diapers, and formula? Of course not. We’re children, but the problem is that teens are still children, and they are actually having children. You don’t just wake up as a 16 year old and decide you want to have a child, it often happens without any planning at all. Teens often don’t think that their perfect plan for life could ever take a detour. It’s easy for it to happen, and we should all be informed on the reasons why. The first problem we are seeing is the lack of education on contraceptives, and sexually transmitted diseases. Teenagers are not receiving enough or none at all education on what contraceptives are and how sexually transmitted diseases can affect your life as well. There are about 1,700 school-based health centers nationwide, and only about ⅓ --almost all of them high schools--provide contraceptives. Only ⅓, that is a very small portion that is receiving information at all...
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...the disease its self. I know you are probably wondering why I decided to do my research paper on the Zika Virus. The Zika Virus is a virus that just popped up all of a sudden, and during this semester in we discussed it a lot in our Biology class. I quickly grew interested in the virus and wanted to find about more about it. That’s pretty much how I got here. Before making the decision of writing my paper on Zika, I had to make sure that I could find everything I need to conduct a proper research paper. I knew that the Zika Virus was very new and unheard of, so I worried that I would not be able to find enough information on it. I was wrong, due to the virus spreading to quickly I was able to find many articles on it. The Zika Virus is a part...
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...09/09/15 Immigration speech 1.02 House Bill 2484 Ladies and Gentlemen of the Congress, I am here today to discuss the bill 2484 also known as the Stop Birth Tourism Act of 2015. This bill is about the illegalization of immigrants coming over to the United States while they’re pregnant. This bill was introduced on May 20, 2015 by Dana Rohrabacher, a congressmen in California. I am for this bill becoming a law. I feel that this bill should become a law because if a women is coming to the United States pregnant, she will be living off our governments support programs. We have no way of telling if this women will find herself a job and be able to take care of her child on her own. If she lives off of the support groups, will she be able to pay taxes? Once she has her baby, how will she afford her hospital bills? Where will she take care of her baby? There are so many questions and situations you have to think about. It’s not that I don’t like that people just come from around the world. I love that people from all different places want the opportunity to start over, but I think that if they want to have a baby here, they should have proof that they will be able to support themselves and their child. Also, they’re families living in the United States who need help and aren’t able to get it. If a women was to come over to the United States and be supported by our government groups, they should be doing something to give back to our community. She should be able to get a job and be able...
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...INFORMATIVE SPEECH OUTLINE Topic: | Music | Title: | Effects of listening to music towards human beings | General purpose: | To inform | Specific purpose: | To inform my audience that listening to music can give many benefits that can affects human mentally and physically. | Central idea: | A speech that I am going to deliver is about the benefits of listening to music which is really helping in many aspects that affect human beings physically and mentally. | Organizational pattern: | Spatial order | I. INTRODUCTION | A. Attention getter: | Do you ever stressed over something? Or feeling depressed? If you have, how do you solve it? Did you know that music has a power of calming and healing certain ailments? | B. Background information of the topic: | Music does many things to human body whether physically or mentally such as slowing down and equalizing brain waves, balancing blood pressure, fights depression, relieves anxiety, boosts confidence, improves memory and speeds healing. | C. Preview of main points / central idea: | Today, music has become another alternative to help patient deal with their pain and also people release their stress by listening to music depends on their music taste either the fast rhythm song or slow rhythm song. | Transition to introduction: | Now, music has become a must to listen to, whether they are old people, adult, teenagers and babies. Different ages have different taste of music. Music is thought to link all...
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...reported that more than half of women ages 15-44 drank alcohol while pregnant. Of those, 66% reported drinking in the first trimester and 54% reported drinking in the third trimester. 1 in every 750 infants is born with symptoms of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, while another 40,000 are born with Fetal Alcohol Effects also known as FAE. The research regarding FAS dates back to 1973. From 1973-1978, 245 cases of FAS were reported. The average cost to take care of a child with FAS is around 800,000. (Armstrong, Elizabeth M. Conceiving Risk, Bearing Responsibility: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Diagnosis of Moral Disorder: Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University, 2003.) Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is a mental and physical defect that a fetus can suffer in association with high levels of alcohol consumption during pregnancy. FAS was named in the United States in 1973 by two dysmorpholosgists, Dr. Kenneth Lyons Jones and Dr. David Weyhe Smith of the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle. The article identifying FAS was first published in 1973, in the British Medical Journal, The Lancet. The two doctors helped to define the morphological defects and developmental delays that can affect children born to alcoholic mothers. These observations include prenatal and postnatal deficiencies, facial abnormalities, and damage to the brain that can cause learning, behavior, and cognitive abnormalities. FAS occurs when a pregnant mother consumes alcohol. The alcohol enters the blood stream and...
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...Women who are pregnant or are having sexual intercourse without the proper protection are advised not to drink alcohol. Drinking while pregnant can cause many problems to the fetus, involving the heart, the face, the brain and organs; even worse, drinking while pregnant increases the risks of having a miscarriage or delivering a premature child. While pregnant the fetus is very vulnerable to many toxins, such as alcohol, and drugs, so when the mother drinks alcohol, so does the fetus, since blood carries alcohol in the fetus bloodstream. At five weeks the fetus begins to form the brain, which then starts to grow rapidly, this is a crucial time for mothers to nourish their bodies with many proteins and keep away from dangerous toxins. One of the most probable results of drinking while pregnant is the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). The Fetal Alcohol Syndrome has been linked to low I.Q. in children. Over the years there has been many studies to determine if a child’s I.Q. if affected by Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Jones and Smith first introduced Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the United States in 1973, Jones and Smith described FAS as a “distinctive set of facial anomalies in children whose mothers drank heavily during pregnancy, accompanied by prenatal and/or postnatal growth retardation and cognitive/behavioral problems” (Burden). Children who suffer from FAS commonly have face abnormalities, which may or may not include: flat mid-face, short nose, low nasal bridge, thin lips, short...
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...The lengthening that occurs, happens because of a repeat of CGG genes that exceeds 200, and hyper methylates the gene leading to the absence of the protein FMRP. The protein FMRP that is involved in brain development and other functions. This protein regulates the production of other proteins and plays a role in the development of synapses, which are specialized connections between nerve cells that are critical for relaying nerve impulses. The number of CGG repeats varies from one person to another and people with 55 to 200 repeats of the CGG segment in the gene are said to have an FMR1 premutation, which is much less severe. How People Get FXS Fragile X is an inherited disease on the X chromosome. For a child to get FXS, one or both of their parents must be carriers and have a pre-mutation of Fragile X syndrome. Many people with the pre-mutation experience no symptoms, but some experience mild symptoms of Fragile X such as anxiety, difficulty from social interaction, ADHD, and depression. With Fragile X, only mothers can pass the syndrome on to sons, which causes the higher level of Fragile X in males Normal Day in Life of FXS Patient/Overall...
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