Broome County Promise Zone is the 5th ever Promise Zone to be developed in New York State. As of 2017‚ there are 17 states that have a Promise Zone program in place. The major forces that pushed for the development of a Promise Zone in Broome County are Broome County Mental Health‚ BT BOCES (Broome Tioga BOCES) and Binghamton University. The application to start a Promise Zone in Broome county arose from the work being done by two federal initiatives: “The SHARE project‚ a Safe Schools‚ Healthy Students
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Ever wonder what a party during the famed‚ Mardi Gras day would be like when an old rich man is on his deathbed while his greedy family is bedside? In Serling’s episode‚ “The Masks” in the famed tv show‚ The Twilight Zone‚ Jason Foster is the dying old rich man whose views of his family members are most beneficial and realistic for the viewer as he forces them to wear grotesque masks which inevitably is the antithesis of what the family sees themselves as. The realistic personalities of the family
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Summary Richard Preston’s Hot Zone is a horrific narration of the origin of filoviruses and their encounter with humans. These viruses include Marburg virus (MARV)‚ Ebola virus (EBOV) and Sudan virus (SUDV). They are also known as Biosafety Level 4 agents because they are extremely dangerous to humans and have no treatments or cure. Section 1: The Shadow of Mount Elgon This section details Charles Monet’s visit to Kitum cave‚ which is located in Mount Elgon‚ Kenya. During this trip‚ Monet
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10. Standards/Physiology: Organisms have a variety of mechanisms to combat disease. As a basis for under-standing the human immune response: d. Students know there are important differences between bacteria and viruses with respect to their requirements for growth and replication‚ the body’s primary defenses against bacterial and viral infections‚ and effective treatments of these infections. 1. Vaccines- used against viruses before they enter the body. 2. Antibiotics-
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In Gerard Manley Hopkin’s poem “Carrion Comfort”‚ ‘parallelism’‚ ‘deviation’ and ‘variation’ are used to explore the patterns of Hopkins’ poem. Parallelism refers to the repetition of sentence structure or word order to achieve a rhythmical effect. The overall effect is that sentence parts seem to rhyme. More importantly‚ the thoughts that these parts express are either repeated or contrasted. Therefore‚ parallelism in poetry involves the arrangement of coordinate thoughts to the effect that the
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The Hot Zone by Richard Preston was published in New York in 1994‚ consisting of 422 pages. I would rate this book a six because of its sporadic storyline. It provided some scenes that glued my eyes to the pages and made my stomach turn inside out‚ but overall it was not the type of book preference I would recommend for readers like me who enjoy a book that can keep you on edge and has lots of twist and turns to it. In the late 1900s there were these unknown diseases that were making people die
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Japanese Comfort Women It is estimated that between one and two hundred thousand female sex slaves were forced to deliver sexual services to Japanese soldiers‚ both before and during World War II. These women were known as comfort women and the Imperial Conference‚ which was composed of the emperor‚ representatives from the armed forces and the main Cabinet ministers‚ approved their use by Japanese soldiers. (Walkom) The term "comfort women" refers to the victims of a "premeditated systematic plan
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idea of a contact zone and a community is distinct from one another‚ yet they can both be used to define the characteristics of the same group. Mary Louise Pratt believes that communities are often seen as the more dominant viewpoint to the general public but she also argues that we need to develop ways to understand the differences of culture and grasp the idea of transculturation through the contact zone. A single group should always be viewed from both community and contact zone points of view to
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The Duchess of Malfi Summary The Duchess of Malfi takes place in Italy‚ mostly at the Duchess’s palace in Malfi‚ in the sixteenth century. The Duchess is a young widow whose two brothers‚ Ferdinand and the Cardinal‚ are visiting her from Rome at the play’s start. Antonio‚ the manager of her household‚ has just returned from France. Before leaving the Duchess‚ Ferdinand engages Bosola‚ previously used by the Cardinal as a hit man‚ to ostensibly manage the Duchess’s horses‚ but in reality to spy on
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Theory of Comfort. The Theory of Comfort was created by Katharine Kolcaba (Dowd‚ 2014). Kolcaba’s Theory of Comfort include the following concepts: health care needs‚ comfort interventions‚ intervening variables‚ comfort‚ health-seeking behaviors‚ institutional integrity‚ best practices‚ and best policies (Dowd‚ 2014). The health care needs concept can be physical‚ psychospiritual‚ sociocultural‚ or environmental and are generally not met by normal support systems (Dowd‚ 2014). Comfort interventions
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