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The Perfect Cell
No full textThe idea for this book, The Perfect Cell, began when I first heard about Dolly the sheep being successfully cloned. Immediately I wondered: what would it be like to be the clone of a dead child? How would she establish her own identity? Especially if that sibling died by suicide. It’s a question of nature versus nurture. When clones are referred to in literature and film, they are usually scary beings who intend to do harm to others. I had never seen the story told from the clone’s perspective.
I used the world of gymnastics to introduce the father and the dead sister, Elena. In this world, there is no room for imperfection. In many cases, gymnastics’ coaches and doctors have been found to be abusive. The pressure of the sport and, especially, of her coach father is too much for Elena and, when she fails to make the Olympic team, the sense of failure is crushing. Raising the perfect child is one of the themes of the book.
Bella, the protagonist, is haunted by her sister’s death and her inability to do gymnastics due to “breakable bones.” She feels like her parents only wanted a do-over by cloning Elena. Her parents keep the cloning information to themselves, causing her to feel duped, and even more like a freak. She confides in the teacher she’s having an affair with who sells her story to a tabloid, causing her to steal his windfall and take off for Morocco/Europe.
The Perfect Cell, then refers to both biology and to prison. It’s a prison Bella tries to escape from in exercising her freedom to travel and love whom she wants
Refiguring Speech: Late Victorian fictions of Empire and the Poetics Talk
No full textIn this book, Amy R. Wong unravels the colonial and racial logic behind seemingly innocuous assumptions about speech : that our words belong to us, and that self-possession is a virtue. Through readings of late-Victorian fictions of empire, Wong revisits the scene of speech\u27s ideological foreclosures as articulated in postcolonial theory. Engaging Afro-Caribbean thinkers like Édouard Glissant and Sylvia Wynter, Refiguring Speech reroutes attention away from speech and toward an anticolonial poetics of talk, which emphasizes communal ownership and embeddedness within the social world and material environment.
Analyzing novels by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, George Meredith, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford, Wong refashions the aesthetics of disordered speech—such as parroting, eavesdropping, profuse inarticulacy, and dysfluency—into alternate forms of communication that stand on their own as talk. Wong demonstrates how late nineteenth-century Britain\u27s twin crises of territorialization—of empire and of new media—spurred narrative interests in capturing the sense that speech\u27s tethering to particular persons was no longer tenable. In doing so, Wong connects this period to US empire by constructing a genealogy of Anglo-American speech\u27s colonialist and racialized terms of proprietorship. Refiguring Speech offers students and scholars of Victorian literature and postcolonial studies a powerful conceptualization of talk as an insurgent form of communication.https://scholar.dominican.edu/books/1182/thumbnail.jp
Stress Levels in First Generation and Continuing Generation College Students
Get PDFThis study evaluated the experience of the students who are their first in their families to attend college. First Generation College Students (FGCS) are disadvantaged as compared to their Continuing Generation College Student (CGCS) peers because there may be little family knowledge of how to manage a new academic system or how to balance school with outside demands, such as work, finances, and family responsibilities; these are all sources of stress. It was hypothesized that FGCS will have higher general stress scores than CGCS. The Perceived Stress Scale and College Experience Questionnaire (a measure of the amount of family support or adaptation to change as a family member begins college) were completed by 25 first generation students and 17 students who had at least one other family member who had attended college. Results supported the hypothesis; the mean Perceived Stress Scores for the FGCS was significantly greater than the mean for CGCCS. The FGCS also had a significantly lower mean on the College Experience Questionnaire, indicating that FGCS had a harder time getting assistance to manage college life. Comparing the Perceived Level of Stress Scale scores to the Managing College Experience Questionnaire responses for the entire sample, Pearson correlation values demonstrated a significant relationship between these variables. It was evident that First Generation College Students have higher levels of stress than Continuing Generation College Students and this appears to be connected to having to navigate the new college experience with less available family or other outside support
Medically Accurate Evidence-Based Sex Education and Abstinence-Only Sex Education: Impact on Teen Pregnancies in the United States
Get PDFThe U.S. has funded abstinence-only programs to combat pregnancy rates for a long time. With numerous factors contributing to teen pregnancies, there have been a lot of ways that people have decided to try to decrease the number of teen pregnancies. For example, schools have either decided that they intend to fully educate their teenage students using medically accurate evidence-based sex education or come from a more conservative approach and give abstinence-only education. The objective of this investigation is to identify whether evidence-based sex education or abstinence-only sex education is more effective at combating teen pregnancy and abortion rates. This investigative thesis utilizes a literature review of six primary articles to determine whether either method is more effective than the other. By examining the efficacy of the type of sex education provided to teenagers, we can thus determine which method should be implemented in more schools to identify interventions that school nurses can perform to help control teen pregnancy rates and the potential for abortion. A study for further research is proposed
Determining Effects of Holistic and Pharmaceutical Treatment Routes Taken by Physicians for Patients with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
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Polycystic ovarian syndrome is a hormonal disorder that affects women all over the world. Though a newly recognized diagnosis, that has not been researched extensively, it is clear that this reproductive and metabolic hinderance debilitates many aspects of women’s lives, negatively impacting their quality of life.
Objectives: Discover the effects of physician determined treatment routes on patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome. Explore insufficiency of research conducted regarding different routes of treatments for patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome.
Methods
A literature review was performed of primary research studies, utilizing databases provided by Dominican University of California. Six articles were reviewed extensively to discover interviews conducted using quantitative and qualitative study designs.
Findings
The literature revealed that when searching for help from primary health care providers, the first line of treatment typically involves medications such as metformin to regulate insulin levels and hormonal contraception to regulate hormones. There still remains a lot of confusion and feelings of frustration for these women that feel as if they are not in control of their bodies. Though the medication route may relieve certain symptoms and help manage them, it does not address the root of the problem. The review describes the effects of symptom management and education provided to women that impacts their quality of life
Training Program for Occupational Therapists Working with Skilled Caregivers in Skilled Nursing Facilities
Get PDFDementia impairs one’s ability to live independently and participate in everyday activities (CDC, 2019). Individuals with dementia (IwD) are often referred to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) for around-the-clock care to receive support for their everyday challenges brought on by dementia symptoms. Although certified nursing assistants (CNAs) help IwD with everyday self-care tasks, they frequently lack specialized dementia care training. Consequently, CNAs experience low self-efficacy when providing care and managing challenging behaviors IwD may have. OTs have expertise and understanding regarding the stages of dementia and how the symptoms of dementia impact participation in daily occupations. OTs working in SNFs are adept in providing evidence-based interventions for IwD; however, there is an opportunity for OT practitioners to expand the impact of their services by providing workforce training for CNAs and developing collaborative working relationships with CNAs who provide direct care to IwD in their daily occupations.
OTs as Collaborators and Educators (OTEC) training program provides resources for OTs to build the attitudes, knowledge, and skills necessary to build collaborative relationships with CNAs and effectively deliver a dementia training program. Based on formative survey data, OTs found the OTEC training program to be effective in supporting their roles as educators and collaborators as well as relevant in their clinical practice when working in SNFs. OTs who are skilled and effective educators will be equipped to create collaborative relationships with CNAs that empower them with the knowledge and skills they need when delivering person-centered and occupation-based dementia care
Initiation Into Formal Organization, Leadership and Top Leadership: An Exploratory Study
Get PDFThrough the study, teaching, and practice of effective ethical leadership, the Institute for Leadership Studies develops people to become better leaders. Our goal is to facilitate positive individual, organizational and societal change, engaged citizenship, and socially responsible leadership
The Horror in the Jungle of the Mind
No full textThe Horror in the Jungle of the Mind includes a brief examination of research, observations, and excerpts from my first fiction novel, The Ituri Secret. This novel presents an account of a six member team contracted by an American mining company. Their mission is to collect soil samples in an uncharted region of the rain forest.
Of the six teammates sent into the jungle, only one knows its secret known to the Forest people as J\u27ba FoFi (giant spiders). These legendary creatures are man-sized apex predators
Addressing Disparity: A Waiting Room Intervention for Preeclampsia Prevention in African Americans
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Nursing Education on Pediatric Feeding Therapy
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