I grew up in Brownsville‚ Texas in a working class family. I learned from my parents and the stories that they told me. The community that I grew up in was comforting and supportive no matter what. And the neighborhood that I lived in was a great place to grow up in because of a friend‚ and a supportive family to be there when it went downhill. My mom was a migrant worker; she would work with all of her family until she got a degree and started to teach at an elementary school where she continues
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What a Diagnosis of Down Syndrome Means Today Down syndrome is a condition affecting many Americans and individuals across the world. It presents challenges socially‚ academically‚ and behaviorally. However‚ a diagnosis today is not nearly as detrimental to the person’s quality of life as it was decades ago. Strides have been made in Down syndrome awareness‚ education and overall acceptance. Screening is now available so that parents know in advance if they are going to have a child born with
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When it comes to Holden’s struggle of growing up it presents itself‚ throughout the book‚ as Holden constantly running away from any implication of growing up. An example of Holden running away from adulthood is in chapter 16‚ Holden is walking through the museum and he stops to look at the Eskimos‚ “The best thing‚ though‚ in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move.” That sentence is almost ironic in a way because even though he wants everything to stay the
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Down Syndrome Down Syndrome is a chromosomal disorder. It occurs in about 1 of every 800 births. People with Down syndrome may have mild to severe learning disabilities. Physical symptoms include a small skull‚ extra folds of skin under the eyes‚ and a protruding tongue. People with Down syndrome are subject to a variety of medical problems including heart abnormalities and thyroid gland dysfunction. Survival rates have been increased dramatically in recent years as problems specific to Down syndrome
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"Cutting Girls Down to Size" We’ve all heard the the argument that magazines‚ television‚ movies‚ and advertisements are causing girls to feel more and more insecure about their physical appearance. Many of us have seen the statistics and studies‚ the ones that say things like "40 to 80 percent of fourth-grade girls are dieting" and "one-third of twelve- to thirteen-year-old girls are actively trying to lose weight by dieting‚ vomiting‚ using laxatives‚ or taking diet pills" (Kilbourne 261). In
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Down a Dark Hall written by Lois Duncan is a book about a girl named Kit Gordy‚ going to a boarding school miles away from the closest town‚ which is a small village Blackwood. She comes to her new home for the school year with her new step father Dan and her worrying mother‚ who are ready to go on their honeymoon. When they see the boarding school that Kit would be staying at‚ it looked surprisingly different from what they saw in the brochure they were given. The three of them could not at first
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In Chapter 1 of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down‚ Fadiman demonstrates cultural relativism towards the Hmong culture by including very detailed history‚ facts and procedures found in Hmong culture. When explaining the long process of pregnancy and birth in Hmong culture‚ she does not make and claims for or against these rituals. She does not compare the cultures rituals to another culture. Fadiman simply states facts and explains the steps it takes for a woman to give birth to a child. She
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Cutting the Kiowa Down Removal of the OH-58D(R) Kiowa The government decision to remove the OH-58d(R) Kiowa Warrior from its inventory is hasty. Their quick decision to remove certain aircraft and fill in slots with other does not seem logical. The Army is also changing its inventory by playing a poorly planned game of leap frog with the AH-64 Apache and the UH-60 Blackhawk moving them between Active and the National Guard. The overall plan is to make the Apache the primary and only
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Poetry Unit (A): “Ordinance on Lining Up” “Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful.” –Jose N. Harris. Choosing the poem that appealed to me the most turned out to be a pain in the neck. We make countless decisions like this every day‚ and although this is not a life-changing decision‚ we have all at some point in our lives come across a difficult and stressful situation. The wide range of connections and the accuracy of
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Crunch”. In this essay Draut claims that college is more of a vice than a reward and believes it’s the lack of funding that caused this. Meanwhile‚ Anya Kamenetz‚ a recent Yale graduate‚ observes this issue from her own perspective in her essay “Waking Up And Taking
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