Super Duper® Handy Handouts!™ Number 116 What is Down Syndrome? by Becky L. Spivey‚ M.Ed. What is Down syndrome? Down syndrome is a congenital disorder stemming from a chromosomal abnormality appearing in one of every 800 births. It is the most common genetic disorder affecting more than 5‚000 babies born in the United States each year. This syndrome occurs when one chromosome has an extra “part‚” an error occurs in cell division‚ or an extra chromosome exists resulting in 47 chromosomes. Most
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Jarun Cifor HIS 111 08/07/12 Religion: The Devil Incarnate Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. – Christopher Hitchens Religion is dangerous because it allows people who do not know everything‚ to think that they do. One could argue that this statement is blasphemy and inaccurate‚ though these individuals also believe in something that they cannot prove‚ so it is substantially arbitrary to even attempt to join a debate that knowingly is never-ending and inconclusive
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Richard Adams‚ the writer of Watership Down‚ was a British novelist who was known for writing many books‚ but later passed away in 2016.Watership Down portrays bunnies that go out into the adventurous world while discovering obstacles along the way. While still having a leader‚ many other bunnies come and show their leadership as well through bravery and confidence. Hazel is the indigenous leader who went through abundances to keep his warren together. He risks his life for the protection of the
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Down Syndrome‚ or DS‚ occurs when a trisomy is found in the twenty-first chromosome leaving three genetically identical chromatids. Down Syndrome is often seen as a disability that limits people while society is also portraying it as a defining characteristic that makes these unique people societal outcasts. Down Syndrome is taken very lightly instead of receiving the attention and care that it requires. In order to understand Down Syndrome‚ one must know the outcome and impact of Down Syndrome‚
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Devil Wears Prada Review Jeff Kunkel West Texas A&M Miranda Priestly uses a task style of leadership. Task style “refers to the extent to which the manager initiates and organizes work activity and defines the way works is to be done.” (Powell‚ 2011) Miranda definitely is a leader that defines how the actions of her subordinates should be. She tells them what to do and expects them to handle the tasks regardless of their welfare. Miranda Priestly is a transactional leader. “Transactional
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Suicide and humor are two words not often associated with each other‚ but Nick Hornby takes the pair on in his novel A Long Way Down‚ a dark comedy about suicide and life after a failed attempt. The book is narrated by four characters taking turns telling the story in their voice. The resulting hodgepodge gang includes Martin‚ a quasi celebrity who loses everything after an affair with a fifteen-year old girl; Maureen‚ the middle-aged mother of a severely disabled son; Jess‚ an obnoxious teenager
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Georgia v. Randolph is a landmark case pertaining to the search of a private resident without a search warrant where one resident gives law enforcement personnel consents to conduct a search and the other member objects. This particular case involved a married couple Scott and Janet Randolph‚ who were having marriage problems. Janet decided to leave Scott taking their son with her to Canada (Wood 2007 para 1). After being gone for a little over a month she and the child returned to the same residents
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Never Back Down The film Never Back Down is directed by Jeff Wadlow. The film is about a young angry teen‚ the protagonist of the film‚ Jake Tyler who is a violent teen who is always getting in to fights at school and during sports. Jake is forced to move from Iowa his home town‚ to Orlando‚ Florida because his younger brother Charlie won a tennis scholarship. He is always angry because his family blamed him for his father’s death. Jake’s main rival is Ryan McCarthy who thinks he is the ‘top dog’
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Never Back Down Have you ever had one of those moments when you wished nothing more than to just give up and leave everything behind? Stupid question‚ everybody has those moments. Well‚ for me it was more like I couldn’t simply lie down and give up. This big realization came to me when I was about ten years old‚ during the third practice football game of the season. “TWEET!” The whistle to start the game finally came. My stomach was buzzing with angry butterflies. However‚ in my case they felt
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: The Get Down focuses on 1970s New York City broken down and beaten up‚ violent‚ cash strapped dyin. It turned to rubble‚ a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them - except each other‚ armed only with verbal games‚ improvised dance steps‚ some magic markers and spray cans. From Bronx tenements‚ to the SoHo art scene; from CBGBs to Studio 54 and even the glass towers of the justbuilt World Trade Center‚ The Get Down is a mythic saga of how New York
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