Halifax Regional Municipality

When you think of furniture stores Ikea is probably one of the first places that come to mind. Ikea is the world’s largest furniture store. The company has been around since 1943. Since 1943 the company has generated 2.1 billion visits. The store is extremely popular. However despite being a charity and being the first company to feature a gay relationship in a commercial Ikea has been attached to several controversies in the recent years. In the commercial “Getting Ready”Ikea displayed…

During the mid 1500’s, England’s population completely proliferated. Europe, as a whole, underwent the process of enclosure. This meant land was being fenced in for the use of farming, causing the poor to be left with little to no land at all. Areas of England were also struggling economically, leaving a mass amount of the British population to lose their jobs. With the loss of jobs and lost hope of acquiring any land, the British set their sights on the New World. Many journeyed across the…

EVALUATION After having my Music Teacher Susie suggest recording an album for my Music Individual Study, I modified the idea to an EP in order to fit time constraints and increase the quality of the songs. R2 This goal was of particular interest to me as I am interested in the recording process and want to do it later in life. I wrote, recorded and produced an EP consisting of five tracks with a cover and booklet. I journaled this process in order to display my progress and development and…

When thinking back to my past, my favorite memory is my trip to Puerto Rico. I got to travel with some of my close friends and really cool adults. We were in Puerto Rico for seven days, and every single day I got to discover the culture and learn something new about the island and the people living on it. We were able to explore the nature there, try Puerto Rican foods, speak in Spanish, and tour historical sites. We left at four in the morning to board our plane. When we arrived on the island,…

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic (lasting greater than six months) pain condition that most often affects one limb (arm, leg, hand, or foot). CRPS is believed to be caused by damage to, or malfunction of, the peripheral and central nervous systems. CRPS is divided into two types: CRPS-I and CRPS-II. Individuals without a confirmed nerve injury are classified as having CRPS-I (previously known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome). CRPS-II (previously known as…

Information technology has come a long way developing modern information systems. Telemedicine is one of the areas within the healthcare organizations in which healthcare providers can remotely serve people in the remote areas using advanced telecommunication technology. Teleconsult The purpose of teleconsultation to obtain the professional opinion of a healthcare provider who is not physically present at the location where the patient and/or his primary healthcare provider are. The main…

the first time. What is more difficult is for him/ her to imagine that pain as constant, multiplied on large scale, and not knowing what causes the pain. Unfortunately, patients with CRPS know this experience as one knows their own name. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), formerly known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), is ranked as the most severe form of chronic pain that exists today by the McGill Pain Index. Knowing this leads to the desire for a simple goal: discover the origin of…

Vernon Motorsports opened in 2002, it is a locally owned and operated business located in the northern section of Vernon within the auto mile. This is a retail business that sells new and used motorcycles, all-terrain and utility vehicles, personal watercrafts, snowmobiles and outboards (Vernon Motorsports, 2015). They also have a full-service department that can take care of any and all needs their customers machines may need, as well as all the accessories and clothing to go along with it.…

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), also known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) (Mosely, 2004), is an umbrella term for a variety of clinical presentations characterized by chronic persistent pain that is disproportionate to any preceding injury and that is not restricted anatomically to the distribution of a specific peripheral nerve. CRPS can be sub classified into two diagnostic subtypes: type I, in which no peripheral nerve injury can be identified, and type II, where symptoms are…

When I first read the title of the movie, I did not think that it was going to be about Alzheimer disease. “Still Alice” appears to be a positive movie title. Consequently, I thought that the movie would be based on something positive. While I watched the movie, I learned that the character is facing the hardship of a rare disease (familial Alzheimer’s disease). The biggest question if whether the character is still Alice because of the changes that she is going through with her disease. The…