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    The Partition onf India

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    significant event in history that accounted for the separation of one of the world’s oldest civilization into two, independent nations – Pakistan and India. Like many other wars in history, The Partition of India was instigated by religious, political and social conflict. This resulted in violence, discrimination and the largest human displacement in contemporary history. While the Partition was well-studied, much of our understanding was focused on the political side of history, not the human side

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    both height and weight, respectively. Psychologically, he produces minimal speech, and avoided eye contact with the examiner during the evaluation visitation. For a comprehensive assessment of the patient, it would be ideal to obtain a developmental history from birth and contrast it with his current status. Within development, four important domains which should be focused on include the child’s gross motor skills, his fine motor skills, language acquisition and utility, as well as the social aspect

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    posed the idea that Wilmington was and is a safe haven for individuality and uniqueness. Introduction to Public History gave me an overview of each of the comprising elements. Exploration of the individual aspects of Public History. As a part of the course I conducted a recorded thirty-minute interview with a Professional in the field. I transcribed the interview as Oral History for a portion of my final grade. Moreover, for the final project in this course I was to conduct research on a

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    Medication List Essay

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    impacting oral health or delivery of dental care Lorazepam 1mg oral tab 3 x day Anxiety "drowsiness, dizziness, loss of coordination, headache, nausea, blurred vision, heartburn, and change in appetite" Dental aspect – "Used as oral sedative for dental anxiety one hour before the procedure. An adult companion should accompany the patient to and from dental office Can cause xerostomia, normal salivary flow resumes after discontinuation" Levocarnitine (with sugar) 100 mg/mL oral solution n

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    proposal to discuss a clinical practice guideline in preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in sexually active women in a clinical setting. B). 1). Clinical Effectiveness Group. 2013 UK national guideline for consultations requiring sexual history taking. London (UK): British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH); 2013. 29 p. 2.). Clinical Effectiveness Group. UK national guidelines on safer sex advice. London (UK): British Association for Sexual Health and HIV; 2012 Jul. 32 p. C)

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    Beloved Essay

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    Oral tradition is used as a part of a culture to carry on previous events in order to pass on and preserve a part of that culture's history. It is used to preserve the culture as well as individual identities, more specifically a survival tactic. Incorporating oral tradition or “story telling” in postcolonial literature involves a heavy use of past tense language, whether in a dialogic or monologic form. This creates a contrast of the specific culture with the development of the modern western world

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    Q1. How are oral Indigenous knowledge systems different from written Western science traditions? Indigenous knowledge comprise of all knowledge pertaining to particular people and its region, with the nature of knowledge transmission being primarily oral via generations. Knowledge such as scientific, agricultural, technical as well as ecological knowledge is all part of the Indigenous knowledge. Indigenous knowledge has some distinct features that are not seen in Western science traditions. Unlike

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    parents and the kids. Therefore, knowing what to expect can make things easy before visiting the clinic. As per the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, kids should have their first oral checkup as early as when they are one year old. If the family history suggests a possibility of early cavities or other oral problems, even earlier visits may become necessary. Usually, the first dental appointment of a child is used to see the hygiene of the teeth and assess how well they are developing. When

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    Akenfield Essay

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    fourth week of this course, I continued my study of Roland Blythe’s (1999) Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village. Creswell (2013) describes oral history as the “gathering [of] personal reflections or events and their causes and effects from one individual or several individuals (cited by Creswell, 2013, p. 73). This week, I examined the author’s oral histories of a number of individuals including Christopher Falconer, and thirty-nine year old gardener (p.101), Gregory Gladwell, a forty four year old

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    Orality And Tradition

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    with orality or oral tradition. It is believed that English literature originated with ‘verses of an extemporary kind’ (Albert 9) which were composed and verbally expressed long before the written records. It is also interesting to note that poetry emerged much before the composition of prose as a form of literature in written form. Most of the old English compositions derived their subject or theme from religion and intended to deliver moral lessons. Likewise, orality and folk oral (literary and cultural)

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