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Antisocial personality disorder is a mental health disorder characterized by disregard for other people according to sources. Antisocial personality can be caused by genetic factors and environmental factors as well. People who are predisposed to a parent that is antisocial and one that is an alcoholic are at an increased risk to this disorder. There are two behavior traits within this disorder and it makes up a sociopath and psychopath. Sociopaths usually have the tendency to be more impulsive…

Introduction: According to Children’s hospital of Wisconsin, approximately 1 in every 700 live births; most cases (80 percent) occur in males. Cleft lip/palate are birth defects that occur when the lip or mouth do not form properly during pregnancy. The causes of orofacial clefts among most infants are unknown. Some children have a cleft lip or cleft palate because of changes in their genes. Cleft lip and cleft palate are thought to be caused by a combination of genes and other factors, such…

that I can read and use sign language with the children I work with. It was really nice that they provided a packet of resources, tools, and pictures of basic sign language. Also, I learned about the sign language certification that University of Wisconsin Oshkosh offers, which I hope to receive after I finish getting my bachelor…

their attention. However, Georgie had a gut feeling that the body was not her sister. Usually in cases like this, people would receive help from outside professional sources such as forensic scientists but, due to this story being located in Placid, Wisconsin, the scientists were no where to be found. Georgie didn’t want to wait around for ever so, she decided to take matters in her own hands and go with her gut feeling that her sister was still alive. Georgie went on this wild hunt for Agatha…

basis of the ideas that humanistic psychology has studied over the past decades. Abraham Maslow was originally taught in the school of behavioral psychology focusing on the observable rather than the unobservable. He studied at the University of Wisconsin and later Columbia University. While at Columbia University he and an anthropologist known as Ruth Benedict who urged him to go do fieldwork interacting with the “Blackfoot Indian Tribe.” This changed his ideas of what psychology could and…

How can multi-dimensional problems be solved by sustainability? In the book Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder, a doctor named Paul Farmer tries to answer this question by starting a health center in Haiti. Farmer soon realizes that some of the physical obstacles that the Haitian people live with on a daily basis, are nearly impossible to change. By analyzing what caused the problems Haiti faces, he sees the history of the Péligre Dam as a tool of prevention for future dilemmas. Farmer…

What are the common symptoms associated with an exacerbation of COPD? Common symptoms associated with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are: Fatigue, barrel chested, difficulty breathing, nails clubbing, copious amounts of sputum that may have a change in color from clear to yellow, green or brown, waking up disorientated or with a headache, hypertrophied neck muscles (American Thoracic Society, 2014). According to Jarvis, Mary could also have, “purse-lipped breathing” (2016)…

In “Quitting Coal: A Health Benefit Equivalent to Quitting Tobacco, Alcohol, and Fast-Food”, Jonathan Patz focuses on how the break of utilizing fossil fuels (mainly coal) compares to everyone in the world eating healthier, stop using tobacco, and remaining sober. He states that making healthier options for our planet will not only affect the wellbeing of Earth but humans as well. Expressing that the upsurge in carbon dioxide particles in our atmosphere; he provides ways that we could regulate…

A blackberry moment of mine was when the Elkhorn Area High School Varsity Football Team won the game against Delavan-Darien High School - the biggest rivalry in Southeast Wisconsin. Just talking about it puts a smile on anyone’s face that was at that game. This rivalry dates back to 1995 and has such high tension that the whole state knows about it. It was my freshman year of high school and I had not experienced the rivalry before but the upperclassman did a great job introducing it to us…

Translating to "bear's den," Mukwonago, or mequanego, is one of many small, rural southeastern Wisconsin towns. With a population that consists of less than 10,000 people, Mukwonago has managed to unite urban and small-town living within its eight square miles. There are several unique and historical attractions that make this charming town what it is today. The Red Brick Museum, known to many as the oldest brick house in Waukesha County, is located downtown and houses objects associated with…