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- 19181: Asthma in a Fitness/School Setting
- ... 19XX). As seen in many studies and research done in the past exercise can be both beneficial and deleterious to an asthma patient. New research showed that a health and fitness program called, The Eagle's Circle improved flexibility, strength, aerobic fitness and quality of life for children with asthma involved in the program. Although children with asthma often avoid physical activity for fear that it will trigger an asthma attack ... exercise can lead to physical de-conditioning as well as obesity, in turn, can cause asthma to worsen ("Amsterdam News", 1998). For some asthma sufferers, a proper diet is more than a wishful goal, it's a necessary step in leading a normal life. In addition to common triggers, food-triggers asthma affect in 6%-8% of asthmatic children but less than 2% of asthmatic adults. Often the triggers is sulfites ... has long been thought that activity was likely to benefit them. Like persons with cystic fibrosis, children with asthma can increase their work capacity. The 1984, Olympic saw 67 of 597 athletes on the U. S. teams with E. I. A. The rewards of participation in competitive sports for the asthmatic can be tremendous. Building individual skills, working with others as a team, character enhancement, and improved fitness with less ...
- 19182: Norms
- ... did, how we acted, what we wore was the normal thing. What others did and we did not do was definitely not the norm. Norms: established patterns of a particular society. (Sociology book definition). Webster's twentieth century dictionary defines a norm as: a standard, model, or pattern for a group; especially, such a standard of achievement as represented by the median or average achievement of a large group. While in my Sociology 100 class I realized that it wasn't me setting the norms, it is everyone else. As a child I considered myself normal. Normal took on so many differing terms by the time I was a teenager. At that time I was needing ... look at me as normal. However, when everyone else in Junior High and High School are trying not to be normal, the norm becomes what we are trying to make it not be. That didn't bother us any because we thought we were different. We did not look like the teachers or like our parents. We took on our own norm, which then became the norm of our age ...
- 19183: Work Satisfaction
- ... more loyal to an organization that they think cares about them as people, not just employees. Improving the quality of work life is one of the most important trends in personnel management in the 1980's. More and more personnel managers are reporting to the president of an organization rather than a vice-president. (Mathis and Jackson, 1985) Organizations should endeavor to achieve a working environment conducive to job satisfaction. Why ... which benefits the organization. At the same time, the individual owes it to him/herself to seek work that is most fulfilling to him. Failure to do this leads to the quote from Studs Terkel's book. All aspects of work are amenable to proper control/management, including employee satisfaction. What can an organization do to ensure that their workers are happy? An organization can look for signs that the prospective ... etc. Too many people wind up or stay in jobs they dislike because "I need to support my family," "I've been here twenty years," "I'm too old to try anything new." "I don't know what I want," "The pay (or pension plan, insurance, etc.) is good." "I'll always be able to find work." At the same time, the stereo types of "starving artists" or "PhD's ...
- 19184: Hamlet Criticism
- In Hamlet ; Literary Remains, Samuel Taylor Coleridge describes Hamlet as an intricate planner who s thought process is slow and methodical. He describes Hamlet as someone having Supercilious activities of the mind, which, unseated from its healthy relation, is constantly occupied with the world within, and abstracted from the world ... always be in his own fantasy world when it comes to thinking about things that are going on in his life. Hamlet appears to be very caught up in his own thoughts that he doesn t have the time or ability to carry out his plans efficiently and effectively. Cooleridge contrasts Shakespeare s use of a tragedy in Hamlet to the play MacBeth. Cooleridge shows that Hamlet proceeds in his schemes with the utmost slowness, while MacBeth has a pace that is crowded and moves with breathless ...
- 19185: Biography of Arthur Clarke
- ... fiction author, has had a very interesting life. Arthur was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, England. He was the oldest of four children. His two brothers were Frederick and Michael, and his sister's name was Mary. As a child, he enjoyed science very much. He lived on a small farm, and enjoyed frequent trips to the nearby ocean. When he was 13 years old, he constructed his own ... path of light it gave off. Arthur made his first literary connections by writing in the school newspaper. He attended elementary, Middle, and high school in his home town, and then later went to King's College in London, where he made honors in Math and in Physics in 1948. After Arthur had finished college, he became a member of the Royal Air Force.Then later he became the assistant editor ... successful science fiction authors ever! He has written many books, including: Hammer of god; 2001, a space Odyssey; Prelude to Space; The Sands of Mars; Islands in the Sky; Against the Fall of Night; Childhood's End; Expedition to Earth; Going into Space; and Earthlight. Arthur has also written a few Nonfiction books, like Interplanetary Flight, and The Exploration of Space. Also, one day, he had an argument with a ...
- 19186: Bipolar Disorder
- Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder where moods change very fast a person can go from being on top of the world to wanting to kill them self. The moods bounce back and forth between the depressive phase and manic phase, which cause a lot of problems. The disorder usually appears between the ages of 15-25 and it affects women and men equally. There ... using drugs and alcohol which just makes it worst and even makes them more depressed. Such as if someone is going though a bad phase then they try to treat it with cocaine. All thats going to do is make it worst, when they fiend for and it dont have any money or anything to get it and thats on top of there depressed phase they not ...
- 19187: Frankenstein Protagonist And A
- ... antagonist, but as the plot progresses nature is forced to protect herself by becoming the antagonist and making man the protagonist. By the end of the novel both of the examples of man and nature s antagonist characteristics lead to their inevitable destruction. In the beginning of the novel, Victor or man, is the antagonist and nature is the protagonist. Victor s overwhelming hubris makes him strive to achieve his goal by any means necessary. Victor becomes so blinded by his passion for his goal that he fails to see the evil in what he is achieving ... nature without destroying the very thing he is attempting to perfect. When the monster (also Nature) is created, the role of antagonist and protagonist changes due to enforcement. When the monster was created, it wasn t the antagonist. It tried to do many good things such as saving a small girl. Those good deeds were never rewarded, causing the monster to be disgusted with humanity making it, by enforcement to ...
- 19188: Holocaust 9
- The world's biggest desolation that caused the murders of millions of Jewish people took place during WWII. The Holocaust orchestrated by the Nazi Empire destroyed millions of lives and created questions about humanity that may never be ... death is found. Here is where the survivors feels remorse for the loved ones they had lost and ask "why them and not me". The survivor remembers feeling helpless at times of need, "why didn't I resist" or "how could I have saved someone." The survivor can not escape the feeling of debt to the lost and feels guilty. Some survivors have been known to feel guiltier about the Holocaust ... was raising children. Children of survivors became a difficult task because of the exceeding amount of pressure placed on the child to replace the lost loved ones taken away because of the Holocaust. The survivor's child was no longer a child or individual but was a relic of the past, an object to fill the parents empty lives. The child was supposed to vindicate all the suffering the parent ...
- 19189: Causes of the Civil War
- ... result of political blunders and that the issue of slavery did not cause the conflict, they ignore the two main causes. The expansion of slavery, and its entrance into the political scene. The North didn't care about slavery as long as it stayed in the South. South Carolina seceded, because Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, was voted into office. The Republican party threatened the South's expansion and so Southerners felt that they had no other choice. The United States was divided into three groups by the time the Civil War began: those who believed in the complete abolition of slavery ... Free Soil, Free Men and Free Labor. The Republicans were anti- South but they were in not abolitionists. They believed that slavery was a flawed system that made the south ineffective and because the North's free labor system was superior it must be guarded from southerners. When the Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, the South felt threatened, and because expansion was vital to the survival of ...
- 19190: The Color Purple: African-American and Racism
- ... women were not able to vote until the 1920. Therefore colored women had a double edged sword, they had to fight for freedom, but not be to dominate as to effect the men. Alice Walker's The Color Purple is a good example of colored women's plight. Three obstacles black women had to overcome to be able to express themselves were Racism, the lack of education, and the stereo-type that women are inferior. African-Americans have always experienced racism throughout ... someone inappropriately, but if a black man was lynched, nothing happened. "I have been locked by the lawless. Handcuffed by the haters. Gagged by the greedy. And, if I know any thing at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down" (Shakuer). This excerpt from "Affirmation" is an example of the feelings of hatred for the Whites. However, ...
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