Alternative splicing

The Road to Enlightenment as Told by Plato and Freire In “Allegory of the Cave” and “The Banking Concept of Education,” Plato and Paulo Freire criticize the value of education in our society. Although Plato’s writings aren’t modern, their concepts still apply to modern day learning; in fact, many of Freire’s arguments coalesce with Plato’s. In today’s society it is common to view a teacher as an information giver who blesses students with the gift of knowledge. Concurrently it is believed that…

Western Medicine working towards CAM? In the EU, the attitudes of biomedical professionals, general practitioners, hospital clinicians, nurses, midwives and physio-therapists to CAM seem to form a barrier. Biomedical professionals lack knowledge and support for citizen’s interest in the use of CAM. The exposed between extent citizens and biomedical professional in use and interest of CAM can be so inconsistently. Studies of CAM including Nissen, N’s review (2012), rates from low disclosure of…

wellness, and less on treatment of diseases and disorders. This need for health-promotion and prevention has been acknowledged by medical professionals, but has long been incorporated into a chiropractor’s approach. Chiropractic care is a form of alternative medicine that focuses on…

development of alternative energies is high, to produce the electricity through alternative sources is inferior compared to price of fossil fuels (Kukreja). The only cost after development is the price of maintenance, but when a structure of a hybrid alternative energy system is broken, the system should still produce power. If these parts of a fossil fuel factory are broken, then it is likely it would stop producing or it could possibly become a danger (McCarthy). Alternative energy has a…

Choosing a Different Path This point leads me into just what types of homeschool styles are there and what does the curriculum look like. Homeschooling is individual for each family, and a lot of times individual to each child in that family, because we all do not learn the same way. What is working for one, might work for another. To answer this question there are some typical terms you’ll hear when looking into homeschooling. These include—classicalist, unschooling, traditionalist and…

The following items were searched: Holistic care, patient rights, person-centered care, individualized care, holistic nursing, and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Literature reviews revealed a commonality in holistic care and improved patient outcomes, compliance, and/or satisfaction. Three studies were identified as being significant: Suhonen 2011, Povlsen 2011, and Robinson 2008. Each…

and its environment for granted. In today’s world especially, the environment suffers at the cost of economic success. In China, the improving, yet short-sighted economy has directly led to the destruction of the environment, but with the help of alternative energy sources, its ecosystem will be able to thrive once again. To start, China’s otherwise volatile economy has remarkably improved in the last thirty-five years. In fact, according to a statistic put out by Marginal Revolution…

1. What does the term “renewable” mean? The term renewable when referencing resources means a source of energy that is not exhausted by use, types of renewable resources include water, wind and solar power. 2. Which two renewable energy forms did you choose? In this DF I’d like to discuss biofuel and hydrokinetic power. 3. For each, describe two benefits. Biofuel yields many benefits, however, I feel like the two most important benefits we see when utilizing biofuels are, number one is that…

Complementary and Alternative medicine, known as CAM, is a growing area of medicine in the United States. About 40% of adults use CAM, and a growing number of children do as well. Some of these people use CAM as complementary to their current medical regime, while others prefer to exclusively use CAM without any other medical treatments. Without proper knowledge of CAM, practitioners cannot provide care to the extent needed by these patients. The article was written on a study done “to…

interviewed two former teachers of mine from Lincoln Alternative Academy, a high school alternative option in Stillwater, Ok. Aaron Frisby, an English and literature teacher, was interviewed the first day, and Scott Peterman, a Government and social studies teacher, was interviews on the second day. Because of the unique environment of Lincoln, I chose to interview two instructors, in order to gain extra insight into how teachers operate in these alternative education programs. These interviews…