Regimental Sergeant Major

Mental illness, as defined by the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is a condition that affects a person’s thinking, feeling, or mood (“Mental Health Conditions”). According to The Kim Foundation, an estimated 26.2 percent of Americans who are age 18 or older are affected by mental illness each year. That percentage converts to approximately 57.7 million people (“Mental Disorders in America”). Travis Balitz, who is affected by Bipolar 1 disorder, a moderate stage of bipolar disorder, which…

Ellery Hale, the founder of the Observatory. However, WWI was in progress and Hubble enlisted in the infantry. He telegraphed Hale the next day saying, “Regret cannot accept your invitation. Am off to the war.” In 1919, when he was discharged. The new Major Hubble immediately went to the Observatory and introduced himself, still in uniform. When Hubble arrived at the Mount Wilson…

The Stress Sources Assessment concluded that overall, my total score on the stress events assessed, percentile was 19.0. The potential for distress chart, in a variety of area of my life, averaged from moderate to low stress percentages. All stress types that were categorized as moderate, in terms for potential distress, were located on the low end of the scale; the moderate scale ranges from 30%-70%. Altogether, I did not score over 40.0% in potential distress. Majority of the high scored…

Disorder: A Review Conduct Disorder was first introduced in the DSM-III in 1980 (Hinshaw & Lee, 2003). Currently, Conduct Disorder is defined in the DSM-V as “a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic right of others or major age-appropriate societal norms or rules are violated” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) (p. 429). The symptom criterion that makes up Conduct Disorder, as defined by the DSM-V, falls into four main categories: aggression to people and…

The integumentary system is made up of skin, hair, nails, and exocrine glands. The integumentary system is also the largest organ in the body. With this being said, there are many diseases that can arise. The disease that I’ve decided to cover is, Psoriasis. Psoriasis is a condition in which skin cells build up and form scales and itchy, dry patches. No one really knows exactly what causes psoriasis, but most researchers agree that it is related to the immune system and genetics. No special…

There are many diseases that affect certain age and gender groups. Tay Sachs is an age specific disease, which is genetically passed down from parent to child. Tay Sachs can be diagnosed as early as 11 weeks into pregnancy using chorionic villi sampling (CVS). If Tay Sachs is not diagnosed before birth, a red spot on the macula, is also an indicator that a child has the genetically fatal disease. Tay Sachs begins to affect infants as early as 3-6 months of age. Symptoms of Tay Sachs become…

not only exemplify what they are doing/did do wrong, but how our entire country is becoming a criminogenic environment and that there may be no way to save it before we hit rock bottom. A specific example that Hayes talks about is when he discusses Major League Baseball (MLB) and steroids. Ever since I was a little girl, baseball was a big part of my family, so I could talk and listen to people talk about all day. When that topic arose, it was something that I could relate to. Before when I…

The brain is an organ which controls all systems of the body. Unfortunately, there are some diseases which make a defect called mental illness. Two specific diseases which affect in patient's behavior are borderline personality disorder and depression. Borderline personality disorder and depression have many common things in some symptoms, diagnosis, and the methods of the treatment. These disorders also can be contrasted in another symptoms, results of untreated disorders, and priority of using…

Whether it be riding to Citi Field to watch my Mets play on a warm May night, or sitting on the couch at home, watching baseball has always been my favorite pastime. And a few years ago, I was introduced to an element of baseball that involves another passion of mine, mathematics. The study of the utterly distinct, yet blissful marriage of baseball and mathematics is known as sabermetrics, and it has brought my love of baseball to a new level. “Sabermetricians,” attempt to analyze baseball from…

Dr. Solomon in the beginning of the lecture quoted Robert Jay Lifton, saying that we are responsible for our own extinction. He was relating to the growth of weaponry in the 20th century; yet, I believe that some of the points he made about “death” throughout the lecture, they could also be applied to the statement about extinction. To me, this lecture was not just about death, but life as well. Depression and substance abuse is a current— or even past—problem for many Americans. I am…