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Client’s Name: Amanda Client’s Age: 49 Disorder: Dysphonia and Vocal Fold Nodules Observation #1 Amanda is a police officer, and her responsibilities include frequent speaking engagement in which she must speak a lot of ambient noise. In addition, she has smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 25 years. Amanda was referred to a speech pathologist for evaluation of her voice. An examination revealed an abnormal change in the voice, or dysphonia, most likely bilateral true vocal nodule on the…

There Are No Children Here There are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz is an anecdote around two young men who are utilized to experience childhood in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes. The principle characters, Lafeyette and Pharoah, live in the repulsions of the Chicago's internal city in a low-wage lodging venture. Alex Kotlowitz takes after their lives for a long time so as to uncover way of life in supposed other America. In his book there are no kids here the writer portrays the majority of…

My family and I headed to Port Canaveral, Florida in November of 2014 to go on a cruise on the Carnival Sunshine. It was a long drive and I was a little scared of the idea of being on a boat, for 7 days, out at sea for 7 days straight since I had never cruised before. Like, wonder if it wrecks? What happens if we start to sink? Will we get lost? We made a couple food stops and I listened to music and read on the way. When we got there we stayed in the hotel overnight, planning to catch a van in…

Reflection High-Energy Electron Refraction Intensity Oscillations Reflection high-energy electron refraction (RHEED) has been used as a surface probe for in situ observation of monolayer growth using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) because of its high surface sensitivity and a near grazing incidence. It utilizes diffraction of electrons by surface atoms[1] and the RHEED intensity oscillation can convey morphological information of the growth surface if the intensity oscillation pattern is properly…

The Bluest Eye, Sex, Race, Gender, and Pecola Sex is an integral part of the human experience, and each community approaches sex in a way that reflect its culture and perceptions. In the Bluest Eyes, one can derive many observations about the social and cultural values of the community at hand by evaluating characters’ sexuality, sexual experiences, and their perception towards it. Sex in the Bluest Eye is shameful, humiliating, and oppressive, exposing a culture of racial oppression, gender…

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert is a realist novel written in 1856 that tells the story of a married couple, Emma and Charles Bovary. In particular, Emma’s constant emotional struggles with her social position and status as well as her frustration with her banal life drive her to commit adulterous affairs. Within the novel, Flaubert utilizes food to showcase distinctions between middle and upper social class as well as Emma’s discontent with her current life and desire to live the life of the…

Friction loss is defined as the pressure loss or head loss that usually occurs in pipeline fluid flow because of the viscosity effect near the surface of the pipe. When the fluid flows along the pipeline, it produces frictional resistance thus results in loss of energy or total head loss of the fluid. Therefore, experiment was conducted to verify the Darcy Weisbach equation by determining the pressure loss along a horizontal pipe. Figure A below shows the diagram of friction loss along a…

The Tragedy Julius Caesar is one of William Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.Written in the Elizabethan era, Julius Caesar addressed concerns about leadership and government which were beginning to arise as very popular Queen Elizabeth I, was reaching the end of her reign, where she was not married and had no heir. There was not a clear successor and the threat of turmoil and a civil war loomed on the horizon as her death approached. The conflicts and concerns addressed in the play can be seen…

Since the mid-1800s in the United States, through the hardships of discrimination and demeaning labor, Chinese immigrants have never fully acclimated or been accepted completely into American culture and society. However, over the years Chinese Americans have overcome their initial hardships when first immigrating and have been successful in making a home for themselves here in the United States. Some such examples of this can be seen in New York Chinatowns and in San Francisco suburbs, and…

In the world richest biotope, wetlands, and specially floodplains, remain particularly active zones in terms of nutrients, biodiversity, flows spreading, sediment transfer and human activities. Today, these sensitive zones are facing increasing human pressures and augmentation in frequency and intensity of extreme hydrological events. The impact of such extreme events on floodplain ecology and biogeochemistry is still difficult to assess. In this context, hydrodynamic models are attractive tools…