Cooling down

(Nico's POV) I was scared, scared I was going to lose another sister. Will, Jason and Percy swam down to grab her. When they reached her I sensed a death. It was a powerful death, it must've been hers. I force myself to sink to the seabed and shadow travel to Camp Jupiter. I need to tell Hazel, I had to tell her she even existed still. (Hazel's POV) I had just finished cleaning the Pluto temple when Nico shadow…

It was used to describe the slowing down or the diminishing of something. The 1704 article from the Boston News Letter reads “…but the Precarious Title of the present King of Spain is likely to retard the fame.” After reading that sentence in context, I found the word “retard” to mean slow down or diminish. That word was used numerous times in newspapers in the 1700s. In 1720, in the American Weekly Mercury, the word…

Introduction Down syndrome, while perhaps one of the most physically recognizable conditions of developmental disability, is still one of the least studied. Even though what we do know shows that with early intervention we can substantially improve the individual and their families’ wellbeing. Down syndrome occurs in one out of eight hundred live births, and is the most common genetic cause of mental retardation (National Institutes of Health, 2005). Idea Definition Downs syndrome can fall…

they would likely tell you it is used as an insult meaning stupid or an idiot. Although that is technically one of the definitions of the word today, the original meaning, dated all the way back to the late 1400s, was to keep back, hinder or slow down. Over the many years mankind has not only changed the definition of the word, but also the nature of the word. The first time the word retard had been used related to mental deficiency was back in 1895. It has been used in the medical field for…

Williams’s syndrome is a disease that affects mostly the brain and has positives as well as negatives unfortunately the negatives outnumber the positives. Williams’s syndrome is caused by the deletion of the long arm of chromosome 7 and is not inherent. There are multiple medical problems caused by Williams’s syndrome, including developmental delays such as ADD and ADHA. A cardiovascular disease called supravalvular aortic stenosis also appears frequently in people with Williams’s syndrome and…

Imagine living with a disorder and knowing that because of it you will not live to thirty years of age. This is the case for people with Trisomy18 most of the people with this genetic disorder will live to twenty if they are lucky. Trisomy18 is when a baby is still inside the mother's stomach and when developing the baby's cells do not divide correctly which causes cardiac, or heart, lung, and whole body problems to appear. Trisomy18 is caused when chromosome 18 has three chromosomes instead of…

In 1991, Hal Davis, Jr., founded D&S Community Services to provide care for his nephew who has developmentally disabled. Over the past 25 years, the company became the leading provider of residential services and supports for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Mr. Davis is also, a member of the Board of Directors, which he was involved in developing the company’s mission and vision statement. Our mission statement states “to provide exceptional community-based services…

Cancer of the lymphatic system. Kaelli Zacchini Period 8 COLUMN 3: Inside Left Column How is it inherited? You can not inherit Burkitt’s Lymphoma from your parents. You can’t “catch” it either. This disorder is not passed down genetically. Since this disorder is known in Africa, scientists believe that this disorder is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus in children with immune systems weakened by chronic malaria, which is popular in Africa. This is what causes the chromosomal…

My brother has down syndrome and like many children with downs he was put into a special needs class when he started school. In this class he learned at a slower pace than the other children in the school. As I got older I began to notice that the older children use the word retarded. As a child I wanted to be cool and fit in so I started to use the word as well. Soon after I noticed that some of my classmates were using the word to describe people in my brother’s class and even my brother, so…

vascular system. Theories include: an interruption of the embryonic blood supply of the arteries that form under the collarbone, which can develop the growth of outward facing ribs. Symptoms include but are not limited to: absence of chest muscles leading down the arm, the main chest muscle connecting the breastbone is most times not there, the nipple and areola are either not fully developed or not there all together. Rare cases include unusually short and or webbed fingers. The upper rib cage…