The Family of Blood

generation. Asking about family health history during the physical health assessment is crucial. Knowing the patient family health history gives a better insight on what disease the patient might be at greater risk for. It is like a map that give you clues on what to look for in the patient (NCBI). According to Kardia et al., 2003, “A person inherits a complete set of genes from each parent, as well as a vast array of cultural and socioeconomic experiences from his/her family. Family history is…

Capote’s nonfiction novel “In Cold Blood”. The Book is about the brutal murders of a prominent family from a small town in Kansas. In 1990 Martin Scorsese directed the true crime movie, “Goodfellas”, a film based on Nicholas Pileggi’s non-fiction book Wiseguy”. Goodfellas is a movie that closely portrayed the life of a real life gangster named Henry Hill, additionally detailing the rise and fall of the notorious Lucchese crime family. Goodfellas and In Cold Blood differ in themes because one…

world there are people who would do anything to be with their family. In the movie Blood Diamond, as I watch, I saw how kids in Africa get kidnapped or taken to ruff spots and bad people teach them how to be like them, how a smuggler helps a man out of circumstances to get what he wants and them changes his point of view towards the person and, how the diamonds in Africa represents freedom. Kids in Africa are been taken from their family by ruffs. The ruffs are first, telling the people they…

Family: “A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children;” this is how a normal family is usually defined (Merriam Webster Dictionary). The ideas and structure of family have changed over many decades. Today there are families from different cultures and backgrounds. For example, in Hawaiian culture, “Ohana means family, and family means no one gets behind or forgotten” (Lilo and Stitch). Family; it is one of the most important things in life.…

From 1910-1970, many Indigenous children were taken from their biological families, because of government policies. The traumatic experience of the children from that generation continues to have an impact on Indigenous communities, families and individuals. These children are known as the Stolen Generation. The Stolen Generation had been seized from their biological families, and wrongly told that their parents had either abandoned them or died. The children were never told about who their real…

referred as a “brain attack” because it can occur or attack at any time and to anyone (for instances, kids, adults, and elders). This means that the brain is not getting enough oxygen. The reason for oxygen shortage could be because there is blockage of blood vessels that help transport oxygen to the brain. When the brain is not getting enough oxygen, brain cells will begin to die off; lead to memory loss (they might be able to remember stuff that happened a long time ago, but not what they had…

differences between the way families structured their lives in the three periods. Starting with hunting and gathering families in before 17th century, they treated every human the same, there was nothing like blood relationship. In colonial families between 17th and 18th centuries, there was dependence and blood relationship way more in depth. They always proffered family first kind of behavior. They stayed in one place for most of their life whereas hunting and gathering families travelled…

definition of family? Family is a complex word that most people don’t know how to define or use it correctly. For example, most people will say that family is their mom, dad, brothers, sisters and grandparents. But actually family is something more than that. In the dictionary, the word family is defined as a group of people related to one another by blood or marriage and sometimes living in the same household. But to me, family is not only people that are related by blood, I believe that family…

Rivera has taken care of herself for over 30 years showing that there is hope. One should not give up hope or should be demoralized because while diabetes can become a crippling disability, with the worries of medicating, monitoring food intake, and family care, life can still be carried out to it’s full capacity. Worldwide, 387 million people are living with diabetes, and that number is rapidly rising due to obesity and…

According to Auslander and Budd (2014) in their article in the Encyclopedia of Social Work titled “Diabetes (Children and Adults),” there are approximately 347 million people worldwide who suffer from diabetes, a disease characterized by high level of blood glucose because of problems with the production of insulin or failure to use insulin properly. Due to the fact that diabetes is a growing concern, social workers need to know the effects and consequences of the diagnosis. Learning about…