Culture-specific syndromes

In the Language Context subtest area, the client obtained a standard score of 94 with a percentile rank of 34 and a confidence interval of 88-100. This standard score is within normal functional limits. In the Language Structure subtest area, Bernie obtained a standard score of 85 with a percentile rank of 16 with a confidence interval of 79-91. This standard score indicates a borderline average score. In the subtest area of Working Memory, the client obtained a standard score of 77 with a…

Both articles share the argument over one specific breed of dog: The Staffordshire Bull Terrier. They both talk about how this distinct breed of dog has impacted the public eye, and has placed a bang on renting a home or apartment when having a pit bull companion. “The main element of the Dog Control…

This report will highlight the difference in vegetation change from 1991 to 2011 in the southern Amazonia of Brazil. The report will do this by outlining what NDVI is and how it is derived and then analysing the specific results of Brazil. NDVI stands for Normalised Difference Vegetation Index and usually derived from satellite data, for landsat data this is usually thirty metres above the ground, to classify land cover change over a continental scale (DeFries and Townshend, 1994). When light…

What Pit Bulls are Actually Capable of There are many controversies regarding the breed of pit bulls in society today. The opinion of some is that the breed should be terminated, while others love the breed. Meanwhile the rest of the population does not have an opinion about the breed at all. Each opinion was discovered through experience, communication, or reading. Charlotte Alter has an opinion of her own in the article she wrote. Charlotte Alter’s position on the fact that pit bulls are…

prisoners of war are mistreated by the victors because there is a lack of trust between the winners and the losers. If the winning side did trust their defeated side that much then they would have done something else like treat them nice or respect their culture, however they would usually treat them as inferiors. So this shows how distrusting someone and treating them as your inferior is the same thing and both of these interchangeable things lead to neglect over another living thing. In one…

and I was back to work. I had felt very bad for making these assumptions about him because even if he had been a crazy drug addict, he was a very kind, good hearted man. I think that this stereotyping can be expanded to more than just people and cultures, but animal as well. Take Pit Bulls for example, mostly everyone is scared to death of Pit Bulls and this is due to the bad reputation they…

Basset Hounds have short legs and heavy bones. They have loose skin with a hard, dense coat that comes in several combinations of colors such as white, tan, and black (Gerstenfeld and Schultz 204). The breed is around fourteen inches in height and should weigh anywhere from forty to sixty pounds (Colie 32). Basset Hounds have thick, hanging lips and soft, sad eyes along with ears that hang low to the ground. On its head, there is loosely wrinkled skin and a domed skull that is most clearly seen…

as the ability of a system to perform work. However, this definition is often challenged because of the many different forms energy can hold. There have been definitions derived which are more suitable to certain contexts. Thermal energy is a more specific energy explored in this investigation process. Thermal energy is one of the types of energy which can be defined by ‘the ability to perform work’. It is the sum of the kinetic and potential energy possessed by an object due to the movement of…

The children with specific language impairment also showed greater number of errors in the answers about sentence content, which showed that their long-term retrieval was being affected. The fact that being able to recall specific vocabulary words was difficult for the language-impaired children shows the importance of language is on memory. With long-term being affected it…

The Ultimate Deal on Pit Bulls Did you know that Pit Bulls are known as the “Jews of the canine world?” (Ingall). Pits bulls are hated for faulty reasoning, giving them the title of the “Jews of the canine world” (Ingall). There are many stereotype of pit bulls that lead to peoples reasoning for such hatred; they are unpredictable, dangerous, and vicious. Pit Bulls were originally breed to take down large animals, bulls in particular. When bull baiting became, illegal people turned to dog…