Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) are situations in which an individual experienced childhood maltreatment. In one of the most important studies ever conducted‚ the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente’s Health Appraisal Clinic in San Diego surveyed 17‚000 Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) workers. In this study‚ the HMO workers were anonymously polled about their ACE scores.1 ACE lead to bad health outcomes which include but are not limited to shortened life span
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poor parent-child relationships‚ and negative interactions” (CDC‚ 2016) are listed under child abuse and neglect family risk factors. These are risk factors that can also produce Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s) and according to Nadine Burke Harris (quoting a research study entitled “Adverse Childhood Experience Study”)‚ “ACE’s include physical‚ emotional‚ or sexual abuse; physical or emotional neglect; parental mental illness‚ substance dependency‚ incarceration; parental separation or divorce
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In the book Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas‚ there are five concepts from our textbook‚ Lives Across Cultures: Cross-Cultural Human Development by Harry W. Gardiner and Corrine Kosmitzki. Three of the concepts are components of Firoozeh Dumas’ developmental niche such as the psychology of her caretakers‚ the customs of her child care‚ and the social settings of her daily life growing up. The other two concepts are individualism and ethnocentrism. Dumas’ developmental niche is apparent throughout
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When asked to write about a childhood experience most people think of the time they lost their first tooth when they were 6‚ or about the time they started school when they were 5‚ however‚ I’m going to write about summer. It wasn’t just any summer it was the summer that I went to the lake with my Dad and Papa. I was about 4 and couldn’t be any more excited about what was going to happen I have always loved going to the lake‚ but this time was a little bit different‚ we had a boat. It wasn’t a very
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Mr. Rowe Junior Honors English 26 January 2014 How funny is that? James Thurber is an American author who has a very unique sense of humor‚ using events and references from his childhood. On December 8‚ 1894‚ self-described “night of the wild portent”‚ Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Mary Thurber gave birth to their second child‚ James Grover Thurber‚ in Columbus Ohio. He came into the world with one older brother named William. He later had a younger brother named Robert. No one knew at that time
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Journal On Movie Funny People Trevor Edwards Funny multitude Funny People‚ directed by Judd Apatow‚ was‚ to me‚ not as extraordinary as I expected ground on the title of the movie. There were definitely some funny parts‚ only when overall‚ I thought the movie was more on the earnest/drama side of writing styles rather than drollery. I think by chance Judd Apatow named the movie Funny People‚ and then make it more as a serious movie‚ on purpose. I believe this could be showing the difference
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Funny in Farsi A Memior of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas is all about her life growing up in California after her dad is moved there but is company form Iran. Being born in Iran she had not learned much English so when she moved to the United State she slowly learned and was the translator for her mother a lot of the time. In her younger years she moved around about every two years and eventually she settled in America after her dad retired from the oil refinery in Iran. Since
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Funny Boy‚ a novel by Shyam Selvadurai‚ tells us a story through the eyes of a growing Tamil homosexual boy‚ Arjie. By using a first person narrator‚ Selvadurai vividly describes Arjie¡¯s struggle to negotiate life in Sinhala-dominated Colombo. Besides‚ the horrible ethnic violence between Tamil and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka was also highlighted throughout the novel. Selvadurai developed the theme of ethnic violence by telling various incidents and facts through the narrator of Arjie‚ beginning with
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In the short story “funny boy” Adrian and ___ are discriminated against for different reasons in their culture. Adrian‚ while being homosexual‚ and ___ for being black and taking care of Adrian. In this time period‚ it was still universially accepted and common for people to be against gays and blacks. In many instances‚ they are both discriminated against. In Adrian’s case‚ he was discriminated against for being gay and having AIDS‚which was generally associated with homosexuals. He lived in
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with different personalities. This will be useful as a pharmacist needs to interact with a variety of people: from customers‚ doctors‚ to insurers. Leadership experience will also be necessary when I collaborate with other pharmacy techs who assist in preparing prescriptions based on a pharmacist’s guidance. Overall‚ this essential experience played an important role in training me to become a responsible leader and a whole-hearted
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