Gabrielle Vitez Professor Harasimchuk LAS Paper October 31st‚ 2014 Ebola Prevention The Ebola outbreak that started in Africa has become a major health issue for the United States. When the virus surfaced‚ many feared that it would be brought back from Africa and infect North America. The world health organization (WHD) explains that Ebola virus disease (EVD)‚ formerly known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a severe‚ often fatal illness in humans. The WHD elaborated by saying‚ “The virus is transmitted
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Sex Awareness Angela Jorgensen Everest University Online Sex Awareness In today ’s society there is a continuing debate over sex education and its influence on our children. Sex has been a part of the public school curriculum and a subject of debate since at least the nineteenth century. With teenage pregnancy rates higher than ever and the threat of the contraction of STD ’s‚ such as HIV‚ the role of sex education in the school is of greater importance now then ever before. Denying children
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Autism The importance of Autism research is to get the correct treatment of autism spectrum Disorders. Autism is one of a spectrum of behaviorally defined pervasive developmental disorders‚ which is referred to as autism spectrum disorder (www.ninds.nih.gov 7/17/15). The deficits in social communication and repetitive behaviors that are lifelong impairments and disability (what is autism www.healthnation.com 4/09/15). Autism affects 1 in 88 children in the United States (www.wisegeek.com/how
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mention‚ the two main individual intelligence tests are the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test and the Wechsler tests known as the Wechsler Intelligence Test for Children (WISC) and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) for adults. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale (SBIS-V) is used today to test assesses fluid reasoning‚ quantitative reasoning and working memory as well as the ability to compare verbal and nonverbal performance. While the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV) is
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association between self-deception and moral self-concept as functions of self-consciousness Hui Jing Lu‚ Lei Chang ⇑ Department of Educational Psychology‚ The Chinese University of Hong Kong‚ Hong Kong a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 27 March 2011 Received in revised form 9 July 2011 Accepted 13 July 2011 Available online 6 August 2011 Keywords: Self-deception Morality Self-consciousness Helping intention a b s t r a c t Regulated by self-consciousness‚ self-deception is a part
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A Summary of Emotional Intelligence Patrick Anderson Grand Canyon University: MGT 605 October 31‚ 2012 A Summary of Emotional Intelligence The knowledge that was gained from the Emotional Intelligence Quiz allowed me to evaluate myself as a manager for Complete Lab Solutions. In evaluating the emotional intelligence quiz‚ my EI score is; “high‚ adept at dealing with social or emotional conflicts expressing feelings‚ and dealing with emotional situations” (Cherry‚ 2012)
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Alcohol Awareness The entertainment and movie industry lead people to believe that college is just one big party but in reality it takes hard work and dedication. The biggest misconception is that every college student parties‚ drinks‚ and crams last minute for exams. UTSA has heard and seen the effects it has on the incoming freshmen and they have many different resources to help warn students of alcohol and the toll it takes on college life. In the 2007-2008 school year UTSA’s liquor law arrests
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DEMENTIA AWARENESS 3.4 Identify prevelance rates for different types of dementia. Prevelance shows the number of new cases of dementia in a given time period. The well established prevelance rates for dementia in the UK are – 40-64 years - 1 in 1400 65-69 years – 1 in 100 70-79 years - 1 in 25 80+ - 1 in 6 It is estimated that by 2021 there will be one million people with dementia in the UK this is expected to rise to over 1.7 million people with dementia by 2051. A steady rather than
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disabilities are: Lack of Phonemic Awareness‚ Decoding and phonics and Fluency. Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate phonemes‚ which is the smallest part of a spoken language. From a young age‚ most children attain the knowledge that language is used to express thoughts. According to the National Reading Panel (2000)‚ research indicates that phonemic awareness and letter knowledge are key predictors to student’s success in learning to read‚ as phonemic awareness is both an understanding
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Divya Agarwal 4/27/11 LA II CP Jetton During Career Awareness Week‚ I attended the guest speaker panel on Engineering and technology. I came to this panel with the idea that there would be some information about he Architectural field. I realized that that career was not included in this session‚ but stayed because of my slight interest in Engineering. This session gave me the opportunity to become aware of all of the aspects in the Engineering field. I learned many things from the panel‚ such
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