It has been more than a century since Frederick Jackson Turner first read his paper “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” before an audience of some two hundred historians assembled in Chicago for the “World’s Columbian Exposition.” Yet, Turner’s essay remains the classic expression of the “frontier thesis.” Turner was mostly ignored at the time but eventually Turner's lectures gained such wide distribution and influence that a contemporary scholar has called it "the single…
Williams Syndrome (WS) is a rare genetic disorder that affects approximately 20,000 people in the United States. This condition is present at birth. The causes of Williams syndrome is due to the deletion of 26 plus genes on one of an individual’s chromosome #7. Individuals born with Williams syndrome share a number of common neurological, medical, and behavioral characteristics as well as common facial…
Angelman Syndrome Description of the Disease An extremely rare and uncommon disease known as Angelman Syndrome is a very complex neurodevelopmental and monogenic disorder (Bailus, 2014). The term neurodevelopmental refers to the shape, reshape, state and generation of the nervous system during the embryonic stages of life, while the term monogenic can be explained as a disease, which is controlled and inherited, by a single pair of genes (Gentile, 2009). It is estimated that Angelman Syndrome…
History” by Frederick Jackson Turner, written in 1893 he expounds strongly the importance of the frontier. In his thesis, he outlines that the frontier shaped and molded men into the embodiments of “Americanism”. These were people in a new world that Turner referred to as Americans that receive great traits all due to the encounter of the frontier. This statement made by Turner has been supported by several historians and to this day still holds true. Many people like Turner argue that the…
In 1893, a man by the name of Frederick Jackson Turner created a thesis that tried to envelop the idea of the American Frontier. Turner’s thesis became wildly popular as it told of an American history that had not yet been researched or even known. Through Turner’s thesis, the American Frontier became the beginning and hope of a new period in American history. However, although Turner’s thesis was able to grasp the American Frontier, it was incapable of fully capturing the core essence of the…
Before Frederick Turner’s essay “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”, the section begins with how influential the essay is and a bit of history about it. It continues by commenting how Turner may not be looked at as much of a historian anymore, but his work it still important. The rest of the passage is the essay. It starts with how different the European Frontier was from the American one, it is a vast open expanse where few people live, and Indian tribes dot the landscape.…
In 1893, Historian Frederick Jackson Turner expressed his feeling on the frontier thesis. He explained that the frontier influenced the American culture by promoting individualistic democracy. “The frontier,” he asserted, "is the line of most rapid Americanization." He also expressed that expansion to the American West changed people’s view of their own culture. The western frontier, however, did not appear to be what it seemed like. Turner described in his frontier thesis that the West was a…
Fragile X is a syndrome that I had little to no knowledge about before the presentation that Denise Devine gave us. From the presentation, I learned an array of information that will be helpful in my future. Denise touched upon a few topics that are important when understanding Fragile X syndrome. Fragile X the most common forms of mental impairment and is an inherited syndrome that is one of the leading developmental disabilities. One significant fact that is surprising is that Fragile X became…
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appreciate. The complete tender point exam was performed and he is positive in 12 of the 18 classic tender points. He also has some induration over the right trapezius tender point that is more classic for the trigger points of a myofascial pain syndrome than the tender point of fibromyalgia. Other interesting historical…