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    Ernest Hemingway‚ author of The Sun Also Rises‚ explores how a traumatic‚ gruesome experience can affect a person’s view on their own values‚ and how they view the values that are forced on them by their society. In the novel‚ the characters no longer value things such as titles and money because the war they had been involved in causes them to question the things they used to value. The characters all have different perspectives on topics such as sexuality‚ and money. To put it in simpler terms

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    Understand the neurology of Dementia Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome Dementia syndrome is a combination of conditions‚ which are sometimes called a mixed dementia. Causes of dementia are: • Specific diseases; Alzheimer’s‚ Parkinson’s disease. • Cerebral vascular accident such as stroke of the brain • A group of conditions/brain disorders Alzheimer’s is caused by broken signals within the brain leading to the death of brain cells‚ this can also lead to a shortage of some important

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    Dementia awareness 1.1 The term ‘dementia’ is used to describe a number of symptoms including memory loss‚ problems communicating and reasoning. It also affects a person’s ability to perform every day activities such as washing‚ dressing‚ cooking and generally caring for themselves. 1.2 The key functions that are affect by dementia include: * Frontal lobe- This part of the brain is responsible for problem solving‚ making decisions‚ controlling behaviour and emotions * Temporal

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    Compose in an approximately 750–1000 word response‚ your answer to the following question When you speak or write‚ do you own the words that you have created? What about the thoughts that preceded those words? These questions get to the very heart of referencing and citation requirements in academic work. In the Western academic world‚ the presumption is that you do‚ in some sense‚ own your words and thoughts; at the very least‚ you have privileges pertaining to them. The main privilege is

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    t e x 4 8 ( 2 0 1 2 ) 4 2 9 e4 4 6 Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/cortex Research report Working memory‚ attention‚ and executive function in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia Cheryl L. Stopford*‚ Jennifer C. Thompson‚ David Neary‚ Anna M.T. Richardson and Julie S. Snowden Cerebral Function Unit‚ Greater Manchester Neuroscience Centre‚ Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and Clinical Neurosciences Research Group‚ University

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    Dementia is a debilitating mental illness that requires costly medical care. Those who suffer this condition can find it difficult or even impossible to perform basic living tasks such as feeding‚ dressing or cleaning after themselves; therefore care must be provided to them at all times. As one can imagine‚ the story is no different behind bars. Because the inmate- elderly population has grown exponentially dating back to the 1970’s when laws favored incarceration over rehabilitation‚ the average

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    Dementia awareness Outcome 1 Understand what dementia is 1. Explain what is meant by the term ’dementiaDementia is a non-specific illness syndrome with serious loss of global cognitive ability. It can be static or progressive. More common above the age of 65 but can occur before that age‚ when it’s called „early on set dementia”. It can occur becouse of a brain injury (e.g. stroke) or with a disease or damage in the body (e.g. Alzheimer’s disease‚ Parkinson disease). The main signs and symptoms

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    How would the following errors affect your calculated value of R? Explain your reasoning. If some air accidentally entered the eudiometer when it was transferred to the tall graduated cylinder‚ then the value of R would increase. This is because in my manipulated gas law equation‚ R=PVnT‚ volume is on top‚ in which if it’s value increases‚ then the value of R will also increase. And because volume is directly correlated by the how much gas is in the eudiometer‚ the more gas in the eudiometer‚ the

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    ESSAY PLAN[pic] Task 1 Drawing on appropriate evidence from Chapter 5‚ describe how groups can influence people in positive and negative ways. Chapter five‚ it describes a range of social influences on people’s behaviour. In this essay I will look at how groups influence people both in the positive and negative sense. I will describe how group pressure and the ‘in groups’ and ‘out groups’‚ and conformity influence people in their daily lives. Group pressure

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    A Worn Path: Dementia

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    Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. It affects memory‚ thinking‚ language‚ judgment‚ and behavior. This disease usually affects the old generation. As the human body ages‚ some aspects of life may not be as easy as they were before. In this paper‚ I will talk about the causes‚ symptoms‚ medications‚ diagnosis‚ complications‚ and preventions of Dementia. The causes of Dementia can be heightened. Most types of dementia are nonreversible. Nonreversible means the

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