Rockford

has become a problem here in McHenry County. In 2009 the McHenry County’s sheriff’s office seized sixty-five grams of heroin. (Northwest Herald.) According to a study in the Northwest Herald heroin is most likely found in people driving in the Rockford and Chicago area. Heroin has become a growing problem, not just in McHenry County but also the surrounding areas; there are many ways we can take action to fix this problem, such as: increased awareness of heroin in the community, education of…

Saint Anthony College of Nursing-Rockford, IL N401 Nursing Care of the Adult with Complex Health Deviations Clinical Journal Outline All sections on the journal must be written in complete sentences with appropriate punctuation. Goal and Evaluation (this should be the same goal that you wrote on your prep sheet) Goal Day #1 Evaluate the role of a critical care nurse caring for a patient with acute respiratory distress syndrome. This week in the CCC my patient was on a ventilator and was…

Brief History According to the Oxford dictionary, discrimination can be defined as the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. However, in this case, I would like to talk about discrimination against individuals with disabilities. Discrimination against employees and disabled individuals in the workforce are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act. According to Employment Law for Business, the ADA…

The decades following the Civil War were a time of explosive growth for the United States, by the end of the Nineteenth century American economic wealth dwarfed that of its former colonial overseers. With this growth came challenges, the growing disparity between the wealthy and the poor led to deplorable and unsafe working conditions as the demand for production and more wealth for business owners became a more powerful motivator than human life and safety. This increase in economic success had…

One important factor of ability tracking is the tier structure of classes within a school. Each tier differs in difficulty yet ideally works to maintain similar educational paces in comparison to one another; however, educational gaps between low tier and high tier students only widen as the student moves through grade levels, indicating that other factors need to be considered. Gamoran (1995) conducted a study that found differences in the educational quality of classes in different tiers. He…

Haunting sleep terrors reoccur night after night. Anxiety attacks become so debilitating, maintaining a job seems impossible. Disturbing memories only seem to fade after reaching the bottom of a bottle. Eric Swinney, a former Marine in his late twenties, faces these exact conditions frequently. A deployment to Iraq, in which a job required him to clear the streets of Iraqi bodies following attacks, left him with a horror that would follow him home. Severe post-traumatic stress disorder…

Throughout history civilizations have used physical objects to help solve everyday math problems. In Southwest Asia they used counting trays; wooden or clay trays covered in sand that the user drew symbols in as a tally chart. The ancient Romans then modified these to create the world’s first abacus. The Mayans, Aztecs and Incas all had different versions of knotted strings. The first true manipulatives were invented in the late 1800’s, they were maneuverable objects that appealed to several…

This is a qualitative study observing a secondary group within a formal organization. The social institution chosen for the place of observation is a middle school within the Rockford area. The class I have chosen to conduct my observation is in an 8th grade Language Arts classroom; the purpose of this class is to develop the reading and writing skills students will need to progress into higher levels of education. My first observation took place on Wednesday, November 16th from 2:43 P.M. to…

TITLE Baseball, the game that we know as America’s national past time, is a game that started out as a recreational activity between friends and neighbors and grew into the professional sports league we know today as Major League Baseball. It is believed that the game of baseball was created out of two British games that that were played by the early colonists, Cricket and Rounders (Fischer 5). Cricket was a game played with a flat bat, ball and two wickets. The game was played on a…

Grant’s presence altered significantly the economic organization of the city. The completion of the Illinois Central Railroad, with Cairo as its southern terminus, had spurred increased trade with Chicago and provided a critical linkage to the largest urban hub of the State. Following Grant’s use of Cairo as military headquarters, much of this trade was diverted to Chicago. Nonetheless, the arrival of a large pool of freedmen provided Cairo with a dramatically increased pool of unskilled labor…