which is the soft back portion of the roof of the mouth. There is also a Cleft Lip which is where there is a physical split or separation of the two sides of the upper lip and it would appear as a narrow opening or a gap in the skin of the upper lip and this separation could extend beyond the base of the nose, which includes the bones of the upper jaw or upper…
Social injustices are occurring all around the world all the time. Whether or not the United States should be involved with other countries’ is a question that has been a much conversed topic for many years. However, it should no longer be a question of if, but instead when; as in when will the U.S. government step in and be a helping hand. The overall definition of a social injustice is unfair practices being held and carried throughout society. Comparing the U.S. to others, it is one of the…
Take, for example, cleft lip or cleft palate. Cleft Palate is a very serious disorder that requires surgery for correction. Even after correction, those with cleft palate still have speech trouble and are never totally normal. Cleft Palate is a physical defect that typically…
Irigary uses poetic language and the figure of lips both to subvert unitary, phallic models of sexuality and to provide alternative representations of female identity which emphasize autonomy and self- sufficiency, while also acknowledging women's interrelatedness .This description of female sexuality…
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (The United Nations, 1948) outlines in article 25.1 that everyone is entitled to sufficient social and civil living standards. This encompasses the rights to food, clothing, shelter, access to healthcare and social security. In many privileged nations, copious amounts of people never give these rights a second thought. Most were born into an abundance of security. Unfortunately, many were not. The World Health Organization estimated in 2010 that over…
How Can I Tell The Difference Between A Sore Pimple And A Cold Sore On My Lip? I sometimes get a pimple on the edge of my lips, but I have one that’s pretty sore, so I need to know how to tell the difference between a pimple and a cold sore . I’ve never had one before, but my dad gets them and I’ve heard they’re hereditary. If it is a cold sore, are there any good remedies that don’t cost a lot? How weird is this, it happened a few days ago to me, except my mum always gets them. I got some…
Auggie is a student at Beecher Prep, A private school in Brooklyn, New York, he has a deformed face. Wonder, a book by R.J. Palacio, is the story of his experiences at Beecher Prep, and it is up to us to read it and decide whether it was good for him, or bad. What do you think? Was Auggies experience at Beecher Prep good, or bad? I believe that his experience at Beecher Prep was mainly good. This is proven in many ways, for instance:”The teachers have been prepping us about this all year long,…
General Comments: The article was written in a clear and thorough way making the information easy to sift through. More specifically, this was done by the section titles that were provided in the article. Through the section titles, the reader was able to identify what information would be presented next. Through the article, the reader discovered that middle ear problems and swallowing difficulties were symptoms of cleft palate, only 10% of individuals show all the symptomatic signs of cleft…
________________________________________________________________________ Could you imagine being a ten year old boy with a facial deformity starting school for the first time? Well, that’s what August Pullman is going through in R.J. Palacio’s book “Wonder.”August, also known as Auggie, was born with a disease called Treacher Collins Syndrome. This disease caused him to have many surgeries, thus the reason Auggie was homeschooled. Now that Auggie has improved his parents made him start…
August or Auggie Pullman is an intelligent young man in the 5th grade. He has a gene that makes him face all wonky so he had to have surgeries when he was younger. Even with all the surgeries he still looks wonky. All his life he has been homeschooled until this year. This year is August’s first year in public school. He starts to get bullied because he looks weird and has to do a few things a little different. So a fight goes on between him and his bully for a good bit of the school year. He…