Myopia

Abe greatly admired his owner’s brightness, but Jefferson’s parent’s only goal for their son was for him to help on the family farm and eventually inherit it. However, after spending all his free time on word puzzles, the boy had developed severe myopia, limiting his academic abilities. As much as Abe wished he could help his owner, as a dog, he found he was helpless. One…

The Flowers In the story “The Flowers” Alice Walker wrote a delightful story about a little girl skipping happily along a sharecropper field. However, that’s not this story ends. The little girl’s summer ends abruptly after the realization of something horrific, and the understanding that her summer is over, which means all her innocents and happiness has disappeared. In the last line of the story it states “and the summer was over”. Summer is supposed to be something happy, but how could it…

The Flowers Alice Walker’s short story, “The Flowers,” is essentially a coming-of-age story that expresses the theme of loss of innocence. The girl in the story’s name is Myop. Myop is short for Myopia, which is an eye condition where one cannot see things far away. Myop cannot see beyond the beauty and happiness of her childhood. In the story, Myop was skipping along a trail, thumping her stick to a beat, doing what most ten year olds do. In the text the speaker states, “Today she made her…

Breanna is a smart, outgoing, 17 year old girl. She is very beautiful, with long blonde hair. She enjoys playing golf, reading and arts. She enjoys being active and shoots hoops with her sisters. Breanna does very well in the prospective adoptive home of David Wittman and living with her sisters. She is thriving in the home. Breanna can be stubborn, but she is easily redirected when given one on one time to talk about any issues she is having. Breanna is a junior at Southwestern High School.…

computers or television. (Subrahmanyam, E. Kraut, M. Greenfield, and F. Gross). Evidence 2: According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, children on average, spend eight hours a day using screens that cause headache, eye dryness, and myopia. (Khan and staff writer) Reason 2: Technology has negative impacts on the mental development of children. Evidence 1: According to Chelsea Clinton and James P. Steyer, excessive use…

What is marketing? When most people think of marketing they normally think of the trading and selling of goods and services. Holdford defines marketing as “a process of problem solving, in which marketers attempt to identify and meet the needs of customers.” Marketing is the exchanges of people in which something of value is traded for the purpose of satisfying needs and wants. There are four key elements of marketing: people, value, needs/wants, and exchange. The functions of marketing include…

Nystagmus refers to involuntary eye movements which are usually in the horizontal axis but can also be vertical or torsional. 1 According to the speed of the fast and slow phases, nystagmus is classified as pendular or jerky and based on the time of onset, into congenital (or infantile) and acquired types. 1-4 Infantile nystagmus syndrome (INS) may be further classified into sensory and motor types. In patients with sensory type, there is a recognizable structural abnormality leading to…

Pharmacology- Practical based exercise Introduction/ aims Acetylcholine (ACH) is a neurotransmitter which operate in the brain, ACH are known as cholinergic because they are released from both the parasympathetic and sympathetic systems, (Colovic, 2013). There are drugs which look to copy these effects or inhibit them, they are known as cholinergic drugs. ACH has two types of receptors, nicotinic and muscarinic receptors. Nicotine acts as antagonists for nicotinic receptors, by blocking these…

Dropping out of high school is not necessarily a problem solver. Making the choice to dropout may release a small amount of stress, yet also ending many opportunities to become prosperous. It would not be enjoyable living in poverty or at least close to it.Dropping out can cause many problems physically and emotionally down the road. It could make life more complicated in multiple ways. Although high school students drop out by choice, high schoolers should have to stay in school. Americans…

Claude Steele Claude Steele is an African-American social psychologist who was born on January 1st, 1946 in Phoenix Illinois during the Civil Rights Movement. At that time, racial tension was high and he has memories of his dad taking him and his brothers to marches and rallies whenever possible. He interpreted achievement as success in education and went on to receive his B.A. in Psychology at Hiram College in 1967. While attending Hiram, he became interested in how individuals face the…