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    "Sylvia cannot speak; she cannot tell the heron’s secret and give its life away." Sylvia’s only friend‚ the pleasant young hunter who has come to her house in hopes of finding and shooting the great heron that inhabits the area‚ is going to leave‚ and has asked Sylvia to tell him where the heron can be found. Sylvia knows‚ but after much agonizing‚ finds that the loyalty she feels for the heron‚ as it represents the natural world‚ is greater than her longing for human contact. Sylvia cannot speak because

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    Why is it important to vote? You can ’t win if you don ’t play. Election outcomes are determined by those who participate. Elected officials make important (often life and death) decisions about how our society will expend its collective resources and the restraints it will place on individual behavior. The drinking age‚ the age at which you can get a driver ’s license‚ and the amount of money your teachers receive are some of the decisions made by elected officials. In making those decisions‚ elected

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    Unit 21 Dementia

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    of dementia Q.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome Dementia is caused by damage to brain cells. This damage interferes with the ability of brain cells to communicate with each other. When brain cells cannot communicate normally‚ thinking‚ behaviour and feelings can be affected. The brain has many distinct regions‚ each of which is responsible for different functions (for example‚ memory‚ judgment and movement). When cells in a particular region are damaged‚ that region cannot carry

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    and support of the individual with dementia (DEM 202) Outcome 1 Understand approaches that enable individuals with dementia to experience well-being 1.1. Describe what is meant by a person centred approach Person-centred care does exactly what it says – it places the person and not their dementia at the centre of their care. The needs and emotions of each individual are the focal point around which everything else

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    dementia awareness

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    Dementia Awareness Task A 1) The term ’dementia’ describes a set of symptoms that include loss of memory‚ mood changes‚ and problems with communication and reasoning. There are many types of dementia. The most common are Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia. Dementia is progressive‚ which means the symptoms will gradually get worse. 2) Examples of different types of dementia are: Alzheimer’s disease‚ Vascular dementiaDementia with Lewy bodies‚ Parkinson’s disease‚ Frototemporal dementia

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    Why is Education Important? The first thing that strikes me about education is knowledge gain. Education gives us knowledge of the world around us. It develops in us a perspective of looking at life. It helps us build opinions and have points of view on things in life. People debate over the subject of whether education is the only thing that gives knowledge. Some say‚ education is the process of gaining information about the surrounding world while knowledge is something very different. They are

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    In the book Ten Questions‚ Charon argues that there are crucial variables that limit the impact that an individual can have throughout the course of one’s life. In the movie “From Here to Eternity‚” the characters in the movie are perfect examples of an individual influencing one’s life. Charon gives us four levels of evaluation to see if the individual can make a difference in: their own lives‚ the lives of those with whom they interact with‚ various organizations which they belong to‚ and in society

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    (Pop culture) The philsopher Geroge Santayana wrote ‘Advertising is the modern substitue for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.’ I disagree with it. Advertising is a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry and advertisements are found everywhere today-in newspapers‚ online‚ on billboards‚ in magazines and even in school newsletters. They appear on the back of recepits‚ on taxis and on buses‚ and in MTR stations. The purpose of advertisements is to promote the prodeucts

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    Why History Is Important?

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    if we put it in our own words it didn’t count as right. What he read from his notes was the only accepted answer. I didn’t understand then and I didn’t really put much thought on it until now that I am writing about it‚ but the fact that we never really had to understand anything or relate events in any way is not much of an education on history. We memorized it for the exam and forgot about it the next day. He never really bothered to explain anything; all that was important to him were the good

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    of lies‚ and are fairly easy. Lying to cover something up is the most useful and most common type of lying‚ and is fairly easy. The first step is determining the reason for the lie. This allows the person to better prepare a suitable story. The decision to lie can happen two ways. It can be predetermined‚ or it can be an in-the-moment

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