Ability grouping

The notion of a perfect world is a dangerous one. And yet, almost everyone chases it in one way or another. Dreaming is a large part of being human. Our capacity to envision a future and work with determination and passion towards that vision is an amazing gift. But often, we work towards “perfect” with a presupposed definition of what perfect even means; we work towards it through our own definitions. For someone in a position of social privilege, “perfect” is far too often a reflection of…

American Sign Language is a unique language with diverse syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and morphemes, which includes grammatical aspects which are not present in English including classifiers. Despite the limited research in specific areas of ASL, due to ASL not being officially recognized as a language until 1960, the importance of classifiers is indisputable. Classifiers are “designated handshapes and/or rule-grounded body pantomime used to represent nouns and verbs” by representing a class…

Millions know Louisa for her ever important children’s novel “Little Women,” but her abilities reached far beyond juvenile fiction, she also wrote autobiographical adult fiction, a sentimental adult novel, an experimental adult novel, and sensation stories (4). One of Louisa’s first big publications was a grouping of letters she wrote while serving as a nurse in the war. This letters were collectively called “Hospital Sketches” and based largely on…

The feminist movement in the United States was a social and political movement that promoted equality for women. The movement transformed the lives of many individual women and made a keen effect upon the American society throughout the twentieth century. The idea was to create equality between men and women, as well as create equal opportunities for both genders. Feminism had and continues to have an enormous effect on the societal female gender roles, as people fight for change. There was an…

judgement, memory, motor skills, and language. More than 47 million people are effected worldwide. (Mayo Clinic, 2014). Dementia has many causes, effects, and therapies. Dementia and It’s Causes Dementia itself is not a disease. Dementia is a grouping of symptoms that together, result in a severe decline of mentality. Dementia is caused by an underlying disease or trauma to the brain. If the cells and neurons are damaged, dementia…

When examining the question of whether John Rawls would consider Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideal society in the Social Contract fair, it is important to not only understand Rousseau’s ideal society more closely, but also understand what Rawls defines as being fair. First, the society that Rousseau proposes as the ideal one is based off of his concept of the nature of men. Men are born free and it is society that enslaves them, therefore, the goal of his ideal society is one that protects the…

Hospitals, often times when people ponder being in a hospital, visiting a hospital, or even when watching movies or television shows that involve hospitals, most people would agree that for the majority of the time, they aren’t in an enjoyable, blissful place. Unless, of course, referring to the exception of welcoming a baby into this world, however, even the arrival of babies bring some hospital rooms’ sadness and heartache. My job requires me to stand as the observer, the staff member that…

a recombination of things (or the parts of things) which already existed, and creating some previously unimagined form (Radford). The Madonna and Child with St. Anne is just one example of Leonardo's increasing use of a "pyramidal" composition or grouping of figures. Leonardo's portraits of women were positioned with 3/4 of their profiles showing and he used this before many other artists used it with female portraits, also because he says partly because he gave the sitter in the painting a…

Theories and arguments of international relations help in conceptualizing and understanding the international orders to explaining the interaction among states. These orders emerge after major wars have changed the route of history as the leading states, the winners, sought to hold onto their newly acquired power trying to reform basic organizing rules, principles, and arrangements. The character of the order changed because the capacity and the mechanisms of states to restrain and limit power…

the allotted time before eating the marshmallow, he/she would be given a second marshmallow, which the child would then be able to enjoy. However, nothing would happen if the child would not wait. The goal of this experiment was to test the child’s ability to delay gratification. Over the last fifty years, the Marshmallow Test became synonymous with temptation, willpower,…