Underdevelopment

In Scars That Won’t Heal: The Neurobiology of Child Abuse, the damaging effect of child abuse and neglect is looked at in more ways than behavioral, personality and functioning problems. The premise is less cognitive and more physical. This article explains findings of the brain being physically altered by these traumatic childhood events. When helping those personality disorders, the other thought that perhaps that their early traumas led to the developing brains to alter their growth,…

pressure”. It mainly affects the optic nerve. If caught early enough, treatment can be done to prevent major vision loss, or for your vision to worsen. Glaucoma cannot only develop just from your drainage system malfunctioning. Babies can have an underdevelopment of the drainage system in their eye, which can be inherited, but is very rare. This type of Glaucoma is called Congenital Glaucoma. Along with that there are other types like Secondary Glaucoma, Pigmentary Glaucoma and so on.The…

pregnancy, and is discerned through an ultrasound. Abott was the first to discover Ectopia Cordis in 1898. The symptoms resulting from Ectopia Cordis include malformation of the heart, a cleft palate, spinal defects, and pulmonary atresia, or underdevelopment of the pulmonary valve. Depending on the position of the heart, Ectopia Cordis can be classified into five categories: Cervical: The heart is located in the neck with the sternum Thoracocervical: The heart is partially in the cervix,…

Imagine being threatened with a life sentence in jail for fighting for those who cannot speak for themselves. Although very few people would even consider risking their lives with this act, it is exactly what Nelson Mandela, the former President of South Africa, did to prevent his fellow South African people from harassment under the nation’s oppressive regime. Nevertheless, the driving force and characteristic in Mandela’s leadership in aiding his underprivileged compatriots was not his…

Historical archaeology in California covers the time span after Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo reached San Diego in 1542; however, it tends to be considered the beginning with the period of Spanish colonization starting in 1769 with the arrival of Gaspar de Portola 's expedition in San Diego and goes all the way into the 20th century. Archaeological studies of what is called the Exploration Period from 1542-1769, the Spanish Colonial Period from 1769-1821, the Mexican Republic Period from 1821-1846,…

1.1 Mark Lynas’ article “Africa’s Hidden Killers” alludes to many inequalities in the village of Misisi and in the country of Zambia as a whole. Also, in how other more powerful countries see developing countries. The article graphically depicts how the impoverished and malnourished people of Misisi struggle everyday to not only put minimal food on their tables, but how they scavenge to make the equivalent to $0.60 a day all while trying to survive from preventable diseases. Lynas’ article…

The word “trauma” can associate various meanings and emotions in a person. Many factors are at play during traumatic experiences and have a say in the reaction of the individual emotionally, physically, spiritually, and developmentally overall. Early on, a child undergoes a wealth of neural connections that are either reinforced by repetitious experiences, making the connections strong and quick, or those connections fall to waste, as the interaction is never repeated. This shows the importance…

The main argument in the beginning of The Wretched of the Earth is that decolonization is always a violent situation. When there is a total change in the social structure to a society it becomes a main goal of the native to make a change. Decolonization is a meeting of two opposite forces, the native and the settler, which usually ends up at in some kind of war. According to Fanon, in order for a group that has been decolonized to make a successful change the natives need to take action instead…

by the thyroid gland. T4 is known as thyroxine and T3 is known as triiodothyronine. Since our bodies only need a small amount of T3, it’s not as a concern, but the hormone is still needed. When a newborn experiences cretinism it may result in underdevelopment or abnormal development of the thyroid gland, and cause failure of stimulation of the thyroid gland, by the pituitary. It may also lead to abnormal synthesis of the thyroid hormones needed (Virtual Medical Centre,…

world were labelled as ‘underdeveloped’ and countries embarked on varying development missions. At the time of decolonisation the western powers viewed industrialisation as the key to building up and to succeed in economic growth. Third world underdevelopment was seen as the result of a lack of capital and appropriate preconditions needed to appropriate the ‘take off’ of an economy, and it relied upon the patriarchal perceptions of western policy makers that the third world must be controlled…