Concussions are dangerous. Recently, some light has been shed on one of the newest yet most pressing issues of the most recent years. Concussions, a potentially fatal outcome from high impact collisions in aggressive sports. At a professional level, competitors are at an all time high in their athletic ability. Although there are much worse and life threatening injuries in sports, concussions are a common injury that can happen multiple times. With these types of forces and pressures on the head…
The word “concussion” derives from the Latin verb concutere which means “to shake violently. To put it simply, a concussion can be described as; a blow to the head which in turn creates a plethora of physical and cognitive symptoms. Knowing general information about concussions is common. People understand how they happen and how to take care of them. They understand that it has something to do with hitting your head and moving your brain. However, the actual disruption of homeostasis caused by…
fan of all three of these games, and I wanted to challenge myself by implementing the game logic. Also during the summer I started learning android. The app that I built that I am most proud of is a calculator that works in sixty different numeral systems from base 2 to base 62. I started the project making a calculator that uses hexadecimal instead of decimal, but then I decided to expand the project by introducing more bases using the characters 0-9, a-z and A-Z. I am interested in doing more…
Does playing a instrument affect intelligence one poses an Annotated Bibliography Bower, Bruce. "Harvard Gazette: Music on the Brain." Harvard Gazette: Music on the Brain. Science News, n.d. Web. 24 Nov. 2015. . The article reports that learning to play a musical instrument, may indeed give children an intellectual edge over their peers. Six-year- olds who took weekly piano lessons throughout the school year showed an average increase in IQ says psychologist E. Glenn…
it was not for people keeping a record of everything that happened, whether it be good or bad, it is what helped shape the human race and evolve us into what we have become today. Although every group of people has their own structure and belief systems, the reason behind why they are there are because of the trial and error of past generations. People do not understand just how much Greek, Roman, China, India, Early Americas and the Islamic Empires history plays a part the ideas, institutions…
Memory is a subject that has been widely researched in recent years; from techniques to aid our memory to the widely debated ‘definition’ of memory itself. However, although we all struggle to remember a lot of things, it has become clear that food (and confectionery in particular) always brings back strong, detailed memories in participants. The reason behind this is something that has not yet been widely researched; although there are some texts available on the effects of the visual and…
In Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, Brian would be the character most likely to survive the Hunger Games based on his willingness to fight, his logical reasoning, and his emotional detachment. Brian is willing to get into a fight, and he is willing to take on people that are much larger than him in both stature and number. When Rose Mary, their mother, is ready to have her fourth child, the Walls family moves to Blythe in order to be near a hospital. Because all of the children have had an odd…
Everyone has had settle down his or her own goals in their lives. In the book No Speed Limit by Steven Shaviro addresses how the accelerationism will collapse the capitalism and how it is helpful in the society. In the past, people are living without scientific technologies; their world is really silence and peaceful. They do not have any great invention to improve their lives. Also, they are living under control of capitalist. The capitalism has separated the civilians into three different…
Graves Disease is a condition within the immune system that appears as a result of the thyroid gland producing an overabundance of hormones. Deception occurs within the immune system of our body, eliciting a release of false, abnormal antibodies that are trying to imitate the normal chemical thyroid-stimulating hormone, TSH, by latching to the thyroid hormone receptor, TSHR, on the epithelial cells of the thyroid gland (Jin, Lawless, Sehgal, & Mchenry, 2012). This latching produces a plethora of…
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is the virus responsible for causing AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). The virus leaves the human immune system weak and renders infected individuals vulnerable to other illnesses. HIV has been thought to have originated on the African continent and is becoming an increasing medical issue there. The documentary AIDS in Africa details the rise and impact of the rate of HIV infection and AIDS throughout the African continent. In the documentary, various…