Sense of Touch/Feeling The Skin Senses Consider the skin has remarkable versatility: It protects us against surface injury‚ holds in body fluids‚ and helps regulate body temperature. The skin also contains nerve endings that‚ when stimulated‚ produce sensations of touch‚ pain‚ warmth and cold. Like several other senses‚ these skin senses are connected to the somatosensory cortex located in the brain’s parietal lobes. The Somatosensory Cortex The skin’s sensitivity
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Ageism in the Workplace Abstract This paper examines the issue of ageism in the workplace‚ including how ageism is defined‚ issues associated with it‚ and ways to overcome this form of discrimination. Ageism is usually thought to affect older adults‚ but research shows that ageism can affect adults of all ages. For the purposes of this paper‚ I will focus on two particular groups; Baby-Boomers and Generation X. There are numerous issues associated with ageism such as health and how it
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Parental Attachment and the Development of Self-Compassion The Positive Psychology movement focuses on identifying protective factors that promote wellbeing and protect people from the negative psychological effects related to life’s everyday challenges. Research increasingly supports self-compassion as a key component in positive mental health outcomes. However‚ very few studies have examined factors that lead to the development of self-compassion. Attachment is known to contribute to the development
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The Five Senses I believe that touch is the most important of the five senses. Many people may consider their sense of sight to be the most important. The loss of sight is a tragedy‚ but life goes on. The loss of hearing is just as bad‚ but you can always adjust. If you lose your sense of smell‚ you won’t be able to smell but again‚ you’ll get by. Lose your sense of taste and food will be flavorless but you can still get by. However‚ if you lose your sense of touch you will also lose your
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before we learned how to use language‚ reason‚ or emotions to further our knowledge‚ we used our senses. As toddlers we used our sight‚ smell‚ taste‚ touch‚ and hearing to make sense of our surroundings. The evolution of knowledge is mostly because of sense perception. The most primitive versions of ourselves‚ for example the cavemen‚ heavily survived off of sense perception alone. They knew by their senses that certain plants‚ animals‚ weather‚ etc. separated life and death. Now scientists and inventors
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care with the intent of helping others. They thrive on providing compassion‚ empathy‚ and relationship based patient care. The cost of humans helping humans especially in a time of need is compassion fatigue‚ burnout or a combination of the two. Of the 3.1 million registered nurses in the United States‚ most will experience compassion fatigue or burnout at one point or another throughout their career. (Lombardo & Eyre‚ 2011). Compassion fatigue is defined as an extreme “fatigue that results from caring
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the stand she took at the very precise moment of giving in to the request of Mac‚ was a very critical one. Mercy killing at its best or maybe the worst‚ depending on the perspective you have chosen concerning the case at hand. In “A Crime of Compassion‚” Mac‚ presented his right to die‚ as he was undergoing extreme pain and suffering‚ to the nurse‚ Barbara Huttmann‚ who could have a hand in giving in to Mac’s request and in this case which she eventually did. Terminally ill patients can have
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The greatest pain in life is not that of the physical kind. It is not loss. It is not death. But it is to be ignored. Excluded. Alone. I’m like a tree. A dead tree‚ who stands alone in a field of emptiness. Sadness. My bark is flaking‚ falling‚ fading. I am fading. My leaves curl and crumble. They are brown‚ dead‚ ugly. But you‚ you are a beautiful tree‚ whose branches stretch across the sky‚ far and wide. Whose leaves are a bright‚ luminescent green in the spring‚ and a rich‚ ruby red in the autumn
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"Sense of Self" is defined as a general conscious awareness your of your own identity. My sense of self‚ (as I have come to understand the term) is essentially what defines me and makes me unique. This could be a certain look‚ attitude‚ or personality trait. It could also be the way I view a certain person‚ thing or subject. Perhaps‚ my sense of self could even be my purpose in life? If thats the case‚ I would argue that my sense of self is something that has changed over time and will continue to
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To what extent has the importance of the Tet Offensive of 1968 been overrated? On January 30th 1968 over 80‚000 Vietcong soldiers launched a surprise attack on over 100 towns and cities in South Vietnam. This is known as the Tet Offensive. The US army and South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) launched a counter-attack which regained all lost territory and crippled the military capabilities of the Vietcong. Some historians argue Tet was not as important as it appears to be. However‚ it is widely considered
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