Summary Essay

Summary Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, lived with his mother in Manhattan, New York. On the first day of summer, just after his sixth-grade year, he realized he was half-blood. He is taken to Camp Half-Blood, a place for people like him are safe from monsters. At camp, He learns more about himself and his family. He learns that his father was Poseidon. He also learns that Poseidon was blamed for stealing Zeus’s lightning bolt. He tells him that the bolt must be returned before summer…

Summary: Farmageddon is a well-named film by Kristin Canty that documents several small family farms growing safe and healthy foods. Throughout the film, agents are sent on behalf of inexpedient government authorities that interfere with the famer’s practices. Both the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) continually go to war with guiltless farmers who are doing nothing but contributing healthful crops for their community. The main idea…

According to the Autism summary document provided in this week’s module, Autism was recognized as a disability by IDEA in 1990, but the disability has been recognized since the early 1900s. The document also states, “There is a 5% risk that if one child is autistic, the family will have a second autistic child,” meaning that there is a genetic cause in Autism. Symptoms for Autism can range from Asperger’s, (high functioning) to a severe levels of dysfunctionality and constant care. Some symptoms…

Summary of Abstinence I tried to give up soda for six weeks for my abstinence project. For the first two weeks, I stayed strong and did not have any soda. Every time I would usually have a soda, I replaced it with water. At the beginning of my third week, I relapsed and drank soda. The reason I had soda was because my stomach was upset and I am use to drinking ginger ale when this occurs. From there, I went through a downward spiral, and continued to drink soda. I tried not to drink soda as…

experience meaning full and purpose to engage the students throughout. I found that the resource materials were meaningful, for example, the link for background history for Bedrich Smetana written piece The Moldau ("Smetana's Fatherland: "The Moldau" - Summary History and Analysis of Smetana's The Moldau - Ma Vlast", 2010). After examining this link, l conducted my research that allowed me to create better understanding. First, it was an article written by David Nelson gave more background…

Summary Ajit Narayanan describes his work surrounding children with autism. With regard to language, the main issue that children on the spectrum experience is difficulty with abstraction and symbolism. After all, language is an arbitrary representation of reality. Therefore, pictures rather than words have been shown to aid these children with comprehension. In particular, Narayanan (2014) developed a program called Avaz, which essentially converts sequenced pictures into spoken sentences.…

SUMMARY Educators sometimes can misconstrue the introverted and shy students as being not focused or interested in learning. Such students may suffer when their biologically and environmentally-based personalities are misinterpreted by peers and faculty. Educators and advisors who understand the nature of introversion and shyness can make the classroom a more pleasant place for the quiet students to learn. In this article, introversion, extroversion and shyness are compared and contrasted…

CLINICAL SUMMARY: DOI: 5/11/2012. Patient is a 48-year old male truck driver who sustained a work-related injury to his back when he was rear ended by another party. Patient is status post bilateral L3-L4 and L4-L5 left-sided and sublaminar laminotomy with neuroforaminotomy; and synovial facet cyst resection at left L4-L5 per the operative report dated 04/20/15. MRI of the lumbar spine dated 02/03/16 revealed transitional lumbosacral junction, sacralized L5 and rudimentary L5-S1 disc;…

The Interpreter – Summary Plácido Ferraz Junior The book is about Silvia Broome who is an interpreter at the United Nations in New York City. She is from an African Country called Matobo. The story starts with a scene in Matobo, where two men were killed by two little boys using military weapons. The group had three men and the third was inside their car when the murders happened. This “third” person survived. Sometime after, Silvia Broome was leaving the United Nations when she realized that…

-Summary: In this part of the book we go back to 1976 when the outbreak of the Ebola virus began with Yu G. Who was a store owner in the town of Nzara, sudan. Yu G. died from Ebola at home and is now buried in a traditional Zande funeral. The doctors are still unaware of how Yu G. became infection. A few days after his death two of his co-workers also started to experience the same symptoms. P.G one of the men has a large group of friends and without knowing exposed many of the people in the…