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- 1941: Turner Syndrome
- Turner Syndrome There are many possible reasons why a child may grow slowly, including: hereditary factors (short parents), diseases affecting the kidneys; heart, lungs or intestines; hormone imbalances; severe stress or emotional deprivation; infections in the womb before birth; bone diseases; and genetic or chromosomal ... could cause hearing loss. Up to the age of about 2 years, growth in height is approximately normal, but then it lags behind that of other girls. Greatly reduced growth in height of a female child should lead to a chromosome test if no diagnosis has already been made. Early diagnosis is very importance in order to be able to give enough correct information to the parents, and gradually to the child herself, so that she has the best possibilities for development. Early diagnosis is also important in case surgical treatment of the congenital heart defect (seen in about 20 per cent of cases) is indicated. ...
- 1942: Genetic Engineering, History and Future: Altering the Face of Science
- ... of the next one hundred years following Mendel's discovery. These early studies concluded that each organism has two sets of character determinants, or genes (Stableford 16). For instance, in regards to eye color, a child could receive one set of genes from his father that were encoded one blue, and the other brown. The same child could also receive two brown genes from his mother. The conclusion for this inheritance would be the child has a three in four chance of having brown eyes, and a one in three chance of having blue eyes (Stableford 16). Genes are transmitted through chromosomes which reside in the nucleus of every ...
- 1943: The Joy Luck Club 2
- ... blending and utilizing elements of sacred systems to her own ends. "Two Kinds" returns the focus to Jing-Mei Woo's story-line. She tells of her mother's expectation of her to be a child prodigy. Jing-Mei cannot understand her mother's worship of American "success," but she suspects it may have something to do with the loss of her other daughters. Jing-Mei's reaction is in direct ... her in "A Voice From the Wall" (Tan, 121, 274). Her own mother told her of her gold and black nature, but Ying-Ying used up her tiger-strength long ago in China, removing a child from her womb by force, removing herself from a bad marriage (Tan, 282) . Now that her daughter is threatened, however, she is awake and moving: "Now I must tell my daughter everything. That she is ... Face," Lindo Jong's story, is comparatively tame. In it, America is portrayed as non-Confucian, a place where "nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody gives you," and the sex of your child is unimportant because "neither will take care of you in your old age" (Tan, 289, 295). Lindo laments that she wanted to give her children the "best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character," but ...
- 1944: The Joy Luck Club
- ... blending and utilizing elements of sacred systems to her own ends. "Two Kinds" returns the focus to Jing-Mei Woo's story-line. She tells of her mother's expectation of her to be a child prodigy. Jing-Mei cannot understand her mother's worship of American "success," but she suspects it may have something to do with the loss of her other daughters. Jing-Mei's reaction is in direct ... her in "A Voice From the Wall" (Tan, 121, 274). Her own mother told her of her gold and black nature, but Ying-Ying used up her tiger-strength long ago in China, removing a child from her womb by force, removing herself from a bad marriage (Tan, 282) . Now that her daughter is threatened, however, she is awake and moving: "Now I must tell my daughter everything. That she is ... Face," Lindo Jong's story, is comparatively tame. In it, America is portrayed as non-Confucian, a place where "nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody gives you," and the sex of your child is unimportant because "neither will take care of you in your old age" (Tan, 289, 295). Lindo laments that she wanted to give her children the "best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character," but ...
- 1945: Prayer In Public Schools
- ... it is easy to blame everything bad in America upon the absence of school prayer, but since the court outlawed prayer in schools, our nation has been in steady moral decline. Teenage pregnancy, teen suicide, child abuse, and violent crime, to name a few, has reached an all time high. There is a strong correlation between the expulsion of prayer from our schools and the decline in morality. Morals must be taught ...
- 1946: Agatha Christie
- ... given the prestigious title of a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She died January 12, 1976 at Wallingford in Oxfordshire (Prichard www.mysteries.com/birthday/). Agatha Miller was born the third child to her parents, Fred and Mary Miller. She grew up in Torquay, Devon, England. She was taught at home by her mother and several tutors and governesses, never attending a real school. As a child, Miller kept herself occupied by inventing games to play with her siblings. Not being around other children besides her siblings made Miller a shy child. She was not outspoken in her thoughts, so she expressed her feelings in music. Later in life, she would turn to writing as a means of expression (Yaffe BKYaffe@nltl.columbia.edu). Agatha Miller ...
- 1947: Marilyn Monroe
- ... or Hollywood Tragedy? When someone mentions Marilyn Monroe, one usually thinks off the seductive all-American sex goddess who captured the world with her woman-childlike charm. Yet not many know her as the illegitimate child who endured a childhood of poverty and misery, sexual abuse, and years in foster home and orphanages. Most people dont realize that her disrupted loveless childhood may been the main reason to her early death. Norma Jeane Bakers father, Edward Mortenson, had deserted ...
- 1948: Definition For Satanism
- ... sacrifice animals. Other types of Satanism: Occasionally, serial murderers will claim to be Satanists in order to justify their horrendous activities. Police investigation reveals that they know little about the religion. A small percentage of child molesters will abuse children in a Satanic setting as a means of controlling the victims. The molesters are not actual Satanists; they are simply using the facade of Satanism to further their criminal acts. Some heavy metal rock ...
- 1949: Streetcar Desire
- ... didn't know anything except that I loved him unendurably." He was possibly impotent with her, his new bride: "At night, I pretended to sleep. I heard him crying. Crying, crying the way a lost child cries." She regretfully blames herself for driving her husband to suicide by cruelly rejecting him - at another dance casino: "I killed him. One night, we drove out to a place called Moon Lake Casino. We ... sister-in-law: "Don't you touch me. Don't you ever touch me again." After Blanche has departed for the asylum, Stella takes her wrapped-up baby in her arms [a visual Madonna and child image] and refuses to listen to her husband's entreaties. While nestling her new baby in her arms, she vows: "I'm not going back in there again. Not this time. I'm never going ... just as disruptive to Stanley's relationship with Stella as Blanche's arrival was. Things will change forever as Stella will now be less dependent upon him for emotional support with her attachment to her child. Stanley bellows: "Hey Stella. Hey Stella," as the film ends.
- 1950: Religion
- ... difference between the religion of Catholicism and non- denominational Christianity. Though both groups believe in one God, the same God, growing up in the midst of the bickering of the two groups can confuse a child and bring bitterness toward this God that Christians believe is all-loving. School is an area where temptations are thrown in people's faces each day. Many people are challenged each day in these situations ... 22). I am Catholic myself and may not believe in some of the teachings, but I do not feel that Catholics are really this way. This ongoing hostility between Protestants and Catholics can hamper a child's grasp of Christianity. A child is taught the Christian ways of "love thy neighbor" and then see the example of two Christian groups that cannot even get along . The Old Testament teachings show3 that there were no different sects ...
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