major public health issue in the United States‚ which is commonly overlooked‚ is the prevalence of individuals with mental retardation. According to an article on Medscape’s eMedicine web site‚ “mental retardation (MR)‚ also known as intellectual disability (ID)‚ is a descriptive term for sub-average intelligence and impaired adaptive functioning arising in the developmental period (age less than 18 years) (Zeldin‚ 2012). Intellectual disability is a major social‚ educational and health problem
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE FOR AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING What can’t be achieved by the person who is determined? This has been the motto of my life since my childhood. I do believe that if one sets one’s goal high and tends to endeavor inflexible then one’s feet will definitely carry to one’s destination no matter what. It is this belief that has propelled me throughout my academic career in all my accomplishments till today and fuels my passion to study further. My strong and determined will and fervor is
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Statement of Purpose “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” By George Eliot [Purpose] In the changing field of Engineering and Technology where each new day sees a spate of new concepts and applications and each passing day makes them obsolete‚ I wish to have the highest level of education and transcend new horizons. My decision to take up Computer Science was a logical culmination to my fascination for Software designs and programming which started as mere curiosity
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Canadian healthcare and public health services are provided to all citizens and to most non-citizens of a country with an increasingly multicultural and multi-linguistic population with health disparities. In this article the readers are provided with the Global Public Health Intelligence Network to capture the early identification of public health threats. The two corresponding organizations are the‚ “Institute for Health Information” and the “Institute and Canada Health info way”. In the United
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From past to present; the changing focus of public health by Maria Joyce Key sections include: Environment‚ infectious disease‚ locating public health‚ the enlightenment‚ the Sanitarians‚ national provision of services‚ the inception of the National Health Service‚ ‘crisis in health’‚ The New Right‚ The Third Way‚ new public health. Public health‚ the new ideology may be taken to mean the promotion of healthy lifestyles linked to behaviour and individual responsibility supported by government
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE As a child‚ I had a fondness for older people‚ one of who was Uncle Ineh. At that time‚ he was an undergraduate student of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Port-Harcourt. I will make reference solely to a point which got me attached to Uncle Ineh. From carton boxes we made houses and cars and found ways to make the cars move. This stint‚ coupled with my aptitude for basic science and mathematics‚ created in me the zeal to understand fundamental physical principles
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Statement of purpose for the Masters Degree The information included herewith in my writing would elaborate on the reasons that motivate me to study at the University of Reading‚ prestigious Henley business school‚ and will further elaborate the causes for the selection of the specific path of study. Further in the latter part of my discussion I would like to explain the reasons for me to apply for a scholarship at the benevolence of a sponsor. Having earned a BSc (Accounting) Special (Hons)
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Statement of Purpose To Begin with‚ I am a person who strongly believes that human beings are ultimately braced by machines to evolve their lifestyle to a greater level constantly. As I come from a family where agriculture is the primary occupation‚ development of complicated machines like tractors‚ power tillers have facilitated people in agriculture field to take a great leap forward by transforming their harvesting methods with bare hands to wheeled machines. These observations have intrigued
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Public health is a very broad term with many different definitions and understandings. John M. Barry defined public health as the means where the largest numbers of lives are saved‚ usually by understanding the epidemiology of a disease—its patterns‚ where and how it emerges and spreads—and attacking it at its weak points. Basically‚ it is a system that performs community service by way of publicly promoting health through accessible treatment outlets‚ providing disease prevention resources‚ and
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” These inspiring words of Albert Einstein have been a driving force‚ urging me to take risks by trying new things. As a small kid‚ when I got a building blocks set for my birthday‚ I would rather try to make it into innovative shapes of different sizes. Those were the moments which led me to my first love - Science. As my bag pack kept getting heavier‚ my quest for the physical sciences loaded as well. My Dad being
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