When the Marine Corps Toys for Tots organization entered the 2014 campaign season, it feared the existing economic challenges imposed by the financial crisis six years earlier. The increasing demand for toys and the lagging donations sparked concern about whether the program would be able to complete its mission that year. By the end of the campaign season, the Marine Corps Reserve proudly announced in its annual report that Toys for Tots set new records by collecting more than $284 million in revenue and distributing over 18 million toys to seven million less fortunate children across the nation. The Honors Program at Ramapo College of New Jersey participated in one of 759 campaigns nationwide, collecting approximately ## toys and over $$$ for the charity at the Toys for Tots semiformal last December.…
In the book Son by Lois Lowry, Claire has given birth to a child, named Gabe, after a complicated labor, he’s taken away and sent to stay with the other new children before she can see him. After being given a new job at the fish hatchery, she boards a ship and washes up in an entirely new community, where the people talk and act differently than her, she’s lost all of her memories of her life before, but piece by piece they come back, and she knows what she came here to do. Then, After a long two years of exercise and training, she’s able to climb out of the community, and even though she goes through a lot of trouble, she finally gets to her son. First, the main conflict in this story is that Claire knows who her son is, but she doesn’t have any idea where he is, so she wants to find him. Two of the hardest decisions that come from the conflict are, deciding if she wants to climb out of the community and lose the life she has, and trading her youth to the trade master so she can get into the new community.…
Though there are more than a handful of baby wear businesses and start-ups, at “Baby Buds”, the team firmly believe that with experience, supplier network, dedication and focus on providing the quality baby wear and baby beddings, the “Baby Buds” brand can stand out. The plan is to leverage the living standards of the low income level employees and providing more employment opportunities to the same apart from providing high quality customized products to the customers. Furthermore “Baby Buds” is keen on using a marketing strategy that is closely aligned with building personal relationships with our target market. “Baby Buds” marketing strategy will initially focus on engage in web based marketing for the next year to generate awareness of…
As we move through our lives, experiences can cause our perception of our lives to change. Sometimes exposure to a different lifestyle can reveal that the life we were living was missing something. In Howard Hawks’ Bringing Up Baby (1938), the carefree Susan (Katharine Hepburn), tears David (Cary Grant) away from his mundane life of working on a brontosaurus reconstruction, and takes him on a wild adventure across the countryside. David’s glimpse into Susan’s chaotic lifestyle helps him to reevaluate his work-centered life and to accept that he wants a more exciting existence.…
I guess one of the most challenging parts of parenting is soothing a crying baby. In fact, many parents find themselves at a loss as to why their baby is crying all the time. Is the baby really a fretful baby or is he telling you something? Babies usually cry for a reason. Although there are babies that are more fretful and more sensitive than others, the most common reasons for crying are the following: 1.…
Child Life Specialist A child life specialist is a trained professional that assists families and their children with emotional support, and guidance when experiencing challenging situations during their development. In this career field not only does one need to be knowledge in regards to the overall well-being of children, but be able to build substantial relationships due to this professions vital role in educating caregivers, administrators, and the general public about the needs of children under stress (CLC, 2016). When considering this career field one needs to understand the demands, and responsibilities that child life specialist’s experience daily. Many child life specialist work long hours, holidays, weekends, and deal with disturbing…
During the semester I was given the task of taking care of a robotic baby. Now I must write my experience of when I was with the baby. While having the baby, I got less sleep than what I usually had at the time. I was easily irritated and stayed in designated sleeping area.…
Science can lead the world into many places, it can either lead them to a longer life or it can lead to a quick death. The short story “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story where a scientist Aylmer creates a chemical that removes the birthmark but kills Georgiana during the chemical process. For something trivial as in trying to remove a birthmark, it can unexpectedly create advancements in science. Aylmer’s experiment does go too far with the scientific boundaries, but he creates an opportunity to learn from mistakes made in his experiments. Aylmer’s experiments can be justified if his wife survived the experiment.…
There is an unlimited about of thoughts pondering around as Hawthorne expresses his ideals of Dark Romanticism throughout “The Birthmark”. Yet there is still some questions of how Hawthorne’s short story is connected with Dark Romanticism. According to the facts found Dark Romantics believe in the goodness of humans, but they are still prone to sin or self-destruction. It is to say that one could be exemplified as a tragic hero only because of their own mistakes and the psychological effects they convey onto other individuals. Although “The Birthmark” is best known for its brilliance in the conflict between the passion drawn between human nature and science, Hawthorne tries to persuade the audience that the nature of humanity itself is an indescribable…
An individual’s growth is characterized by various developmental categories including physical appearance, regulation of emotions, cognitive and language abilities. Often the development is thought to be differentiated by the numerous cultures globally yet in the documentary Babies directed by Thomas Balmès illustrates the similarities among all four countries he documents. As one infant (Ponijao) is from Namibia his culture is largely different in comparison to the baby (Hatti) from the United States of America. However, although the socialization differs immensely, the documentary illustrates the similar timeline that all four babies develop (Chabat & Balmès, 2010). Physically it becomes evident of similarities in growth patterns, and the advancement of motor skills.…
Vivien Thomas is a brilliant hero recognized for his groundbreaking research regarding the illness called the “Blue baby syndrome”. Due to Thomas’ unfaltering determination and passion for pursuing a career in the medical field, his innovative ideas and inventions have immensely advanced our medical technology. With hands blessed by the Almighty, he saved countless numbers of infants diagnosed with the Tetralogy of Fallot. The Great Depression that plagued America in the 1930’s is held accountable for the loss of Thomas’ money that he had been saving for years.…
Infantile colic is commonly recognized as unexplained paroxysms of excessive crying often associated with marked irritability and abdominal discomfort. The “rule of three” may be used to define infantile colic: crying for more than three hours per day, for more than three days per week, and for longer than three weeks in an infant who is adequately fed and otherwise healthy (Roberts, 2004). Infantile colic develops within few weeks after birth, often peaking around six weeks of age and resolving when the infant is three to four months old. Often, the baby cries at predictable times of the night or day yet in some babies the crying may be constant. Although infantile colic is self-limited with no long-term adverse effects, it can be especially…
They are excluded from taken part in everyday opportunities and experiences shared by their peers in school because of their poverty. Tess Ridge (2004) states that from her recent research examining poverty from a Childs perspective that children living in households receiving low income means tested benefits having different experiences at school to their non benefit…
The innocence of a Children’s Actions Physical Description of Child To begin, I observe a five-year-old preschooler. She is in Kindergarten, but this is not her first year of school she has been going to school since the age of three. She began at a daycare than to preschool and now she is in Kindergarten. Her name is Jennifer Dolores Munoz, her Birthday is on August 17 and she was born in the year of 2011.…
How baby talk can help? As mentioned above, baby talk is characterized by slower and more repetitive tone than used in regular conversation and the speech is more likely in shorter, simpler utterances. Do infants pay greater attention to speech with such characteristics? The answer appears to be yes: They show a clear preference for it, from an early age, over adult-directed speech (e.g., Fernald 1985; Panneton Cooper & Aslin 1990; Werker, Pegg, & McLeod 1994; see also Zangl & Mills 2007).…