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    a Hispanic household, it is the female relatives that take care of a terminally ill family member. This is mainly due to the immense amount of pride Latinos have. They are unlikely to ask for outside help in order to better accommodate a terminally ill family member. When relatives of an individual are informed of the status of a loved one, it may trigger anticipatory grief in close relations. The family members start to experience feelings of loss before their loved one dies as a way to mentally

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    everyone involved needs to put in the work to communicate and work at keeping the relationship going. In my essay about relationship stages I will discuss nonverbal communication in relationships, romantic relationships and, relationships with family members. Nonverbal communication is a way to communicate without speaking and communicating verbally. According to McCornack, “we define nonverbal communication as the intentional or unintentional transmission of meaning through an individuals non-spoken

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    The weirdest family member I have is myself. I am considered the weirdest/oddest person in my family because I do everything slow even when I’m eating. The reason I eat like I do I remember one time when I was eating, next thing you know I swallowed my food. I wasn’t even done chewing it. Now that I’m in college, I have to go to breakfast an hour before class, because of how I eat. Another weird thing I do is when I open a bag of chips; I have to smell them I don’t know why but I have to. Even before

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    The Effects of a Tumor on the Family Members A tumor that is specifically in the frontal cortex can cause many changes physically and emotionally which can affect the way you interact with your family. Some of the functions of the frontal lobe are attention, abstract thought, problem solving, intelligence, creative thought, initiative inhibition, judgment, mood, major body movements, bowel and bladder control, memory and reasoning (retrieved from www.ect.org. What this means

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    believed it until I started looking at who I really was, and who those who surround me are. I realized just how alike I was to my family members, and not because of how much we look alike, but because of how similar our beliefs and attitudes are. Each and every one of them has been like a teacher to me, and I can attribute my best, and worst qualities to them. My family members have been the mold that has shaped me into who I am today. I have spent nearly every day of my life so far with my mother

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    The wolverine, no not the popular Marvel Comics X-Men, but the Gulo gulo or their North American subspecies Gulo luscus. It is the largest member of the weasel family and very possibly the most ferocious. The wolverine looks very similar to a small bear and one of their many nicknames happen to be devil bear. They are of the Mutelidae family which consists of animals like the weasel, otter, mink, badger, and more. Adult wolverine’s weight ranges between twenty to fifty-five pounds, around the size

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    HIV is a member of the Retroviridae (retrovirus) family, its genus: Lentivirus. HIV is an icosahedral, enveloped virus, its size ranging from approximately 100 to 110 nm in diameter. HIV contains a single stranded, linear, positive sense RNA genome. There are two recognized strains: HIV-1 and HIV-2. Retroviral RNA is converted to DNA by a virally encoded reverse transcriptase enzyme, the DNA transcript is integrated into the host’s chromosomal DNA upon entry of the host cell. Human immunodeficiency

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    Eventually I did find a job working with a family member just for the summer of course I did not know what to expect I knew that these people were in all places and that they were similar to an evangelist spreading their word convincing people and in this case businesses to permit them to implement their activities in this context, it was a school that I was working for and I must comment that 99% of businesses just simply love it they love to participate in it Or they feel forced to. So I began

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    HIV-1 and AIDS Overall HIV is a member of the lentivirus family. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. Although both types infect cells in similar ways and appear to cause clinically indistinguishable AIDS, studies showed that HIV-1 is the predominant virus type. Infections of HIV-2 are: 1) rarely found outside of West Africa (de Silva et al., 2008), and 2) seldom progressed to AIDS or lead to HAND (Rowland-Jones and Whittle, 2007). On the other hand, more than 34 million individuals were

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    My research question is: What can families do to help a family member with a sleeping disorder? I became interested in learning about sleeping disorders about two years ago when my step father was diagnosed with a sleeping disorder (sleep apnea). I wanted to know more about what exactly a sleeping disorder was and treatments a person needed to care for a sleeping disorder. Before we discovered my step-father had a sleeping disorder we noticed he slept all day struggled staying awake. Some days he

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