March of Dimes

As we make our New Year’s resolutions for 2016, many parents may say they want to be a better parent or spend more time with their family. But some should think about being less judgmental of other parents. Many of today’s parents think they stumbled upon the golden ticket, and they have all the right answers when it comes to children. Some mothers are all too quick to point out other parents’ alleged inadequacies with their own kids. Faced with all of the snarky comments and dirty looks…

Joshua P. Hochschild, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Md., points to the flaws of the current American student-loan system in the article “Welcome to Ginger and Pickles University” published March 11, 2015 in The Wall Street Journal. The article deals with the important issue of student-loans and the store like exchange America places on education. Hochschild’s article is written in response to President Obama’s signing of a “Student Aid Bill of…

Henrietta’s body or well-being was not put at risk in order to get the tumor and tissue samples. Instructed by Dr. Gey, “Wharton picked up a sharp knife and shaved two dime-sized pieces of tissue from Henrietta’s cervix” (Skloot 33). After this, it is obvious that Henrietta’s role in the medical progression was exceptionally short because all she did was donate her tissue just like any other donor. As for the scientists…

As if flying cars were the future in the past, we are now looking at the possibility of giving birth to children with the genetic codes that we have chosen. This gives us new goals for our future as well as a new direction for us to point our technology to. A world with designer babies would be very much different than our present one. With designer babies we open the possibility of having a chance at finding life outside of earth, advance in our technology, which would even introduce the…

or anything that was asked of me such as making IV bags or prepping antibiotics. Capital Regional Medical Center not only has a great staff inside the pharmacy, but they also have a great staff out in the community. This hospital contributes to March of Dimes, American Cancer Society, Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce, CRMC cater to women’s health by the herHeart program that empowers women to take charge of their health. This is what makes Capital Regional Medical Center an extraordinary…

In May of 2008, The Learning Channel (TLC) hosted a reality show called the Little Couple. The show is about Jen Arnold and William (Bill) Klein; they are two individuals that were born with skeletal dysplasia. Jen and Bill made the decision to document their lives on national television, so that other individuals could not only meet them in the privacy of their own homes; but, have the opportunity to understand their disease and it’s process. They also give the world the chance to take a close…

Gates III was born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. His dad, William H. Gates II is an attorney, and his late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International. Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at age 13 (Microsoft, 2011). As young teenagers Bill Gates and his childhood friend, Paul Allen, ran a small…

factory job while lying out by his pool in Bel Air. But I understood how he felt about breaking the ties that bind. Although my Topsiders were making my feet sweat and my calves ache, a flicker of hope that things were improving with my mom made me march on. Her campaign to make me an emancipated minor had ended when she realized the child support would disappear, too, and since then she seemed a little less bummed that I existed. I 'd even confided a problem I 'd had at work last…

Women in their early twenties are more likely to have children. Many people feel that couples over thirty years of age should not have children due to many different reasons. But what most people don’t know is older people make better parents because they have more financial stability, have more life experience, have more emotional stability, and have a greater bond with their children. Women and men in their late thirties are more financially stable than women and men in their early twenties.…

A common negative effect of smoking is the financial toll. A smoker can be put in debt because of purchasing cigarettes. Cigarettes are often expensive. According to The New York Times, “The average pack of cigarettes costs about seven dollars and twenty-five cents” (Maheshwari 2). Most smokers will spend thousands of dollars a year on cigarettes. The average smoker smokes a pack of cigarettes a day. They smoke this much because of the tobacco and nicotine contents. Big tobacco companies put it…