school my parents bought a house and moved next door to my maternal grandparents. Shortly after I came along and they along with my grandparents played a huge role in my life. My teenage years were not bad years and I don’t think I really caused a lot of stress on my parents. They would have date nights a lot more frequently after I got my licenses because I had independence and they didn’t have to worry about my transportation needs. In August of 2012 I moved away to college and it was a major life adjustment for everyone. My entire family parents, and grandparents experienced empty nest syndrome. This condition can be classified as experiences of depression and emotional distress when children leave home. (Mitchell, 2009) They all were very nervous and sad about me leaving. For the first few months all of them called me at least once a day, as time grew on this got better. Now they are over the empty nest loneliness and have started enjoying their life as a middle aged couple. As we know the final part of the life cycle is dealing with the possibility of old age and death. While my parents are far from old age, we have had the conversation many times about their advanced care directives and what they would want me to do in the event they get really sick. While talking about matters such as these can be a little saddening in reality knowing their wishes will make it less burdenful to me when the time comes and I have to make these decisions. My parents both being…
disabilities, what sickle cell does in children with neurodevelopment disorders, and what psychiatric disorders and down syndrome does in adolescents and young adults. This paper will only contain abstracts of my own doings for each journal I have obtained for this study. I will not be going into depth with every single disorder that is within a neurodevelopment disorder such as Mendelsohn’s Syndrome or…
The behavior of nest sanitation includes the removal of eggshells, fecal sacs, non-viable hatchlings, and undigested food (Ibáñez-Álamo, Ruiz-Raya, Roncalli, & Soler, 2014). This costly expense is not found in every species, and perhaps has adapted in part to its reproductive advantage (Tinbergen, 1963). Many studies have tested to see if removal of excrements decreases parasites and predators. These hypotheses have received mixed support between studies on the same species as well as between…
of 2017, 18 hours of daylight will be the expected May photoperiod by the time the birds hatch (Navara, 2016).The normal temperatures of May average from the lows of 14.6 ℃ to 27.7℃ (U.S. Climate Data, 2016). This hotter temperature will require that the birds have enough amounts of drinking water, and thus water and also food will be kept ad Libitum. The nests will be placed a few meters away from each other to limit competition. Bear Hollow has six video cameras set up throughout the three…
God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Corinthians 2:8) June was a tall redheaded senior of Irish decent and full of life. She abounded in optimism and faith even though her body was ravaged by an abdominal cancer that caused her to take on an excessive accumulation of fluid. “Imagine,” she would say, “to have the opportunity to wear maternity clothes at my age!” She had a big lazy-boy armchair in her front room, and whether day or night she would wave to both pedestrians and motorists as…
The speaker Adrienne Bashista gave a very insightful speech about what Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is and how it is caused. Before our speaker told us about her son, I had very little knowledge about what FASD was. I now realize how severe FASD is and how even the slightest consumption of alcohol can affect a fetus during pregnancy. I became aware that FASD is a rare syndrome that only 2 to 5 percent of the population have. This statistic surprised me due to a large amount of woman who may drink when…
In 2012, a survey assessing children born in 2004 discovered that 1 in 68 children had been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (CDC). This statistic shows how unlikely it would be for someone to go their entire life without meeting at least one person diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. Yet despite these high numbers, autistic individuals are rarely present in modern media. There are few books and movies that depict autistic characters, and those that do often use the disorder as…
characters are not perfect. In fact, in one of Walt Disney’s most iconic films, Beauty and the Beast, one of the characters suffers from a psychological disorder that baffles even the most trained psychologists, Stockholm Syndrome. Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which victims of captivity or hostage situations…
Core Services of Northeast Tennessee serve to create a more inclusive community for their clients, individuals with developmental and/or intellectual disabilities. The passionate staff create a safe environment for their clients to come and learn, be included in the community, and learn to be empowered individuals. The mission of the Core Services is as follows: We are committed to empowering people with intellectual disabilities to live a shared vision of a valued life in connection with…
One of the most callous attributes of the American society over the past two centuries would be the mistreatment and judgment of “freaks” or people with disabilities. While this cruel treatment and hatred for disabled people has almost entirely vanished, it used to be a very common social norm as these freaks were treated as second-class citizens. Tod Browning’s notorious film “Freaks” accurately depicted these common ideologies of the early twentieth century, in addition to provoking new…