The operation costs $40,000, but Homer cannot afford that much, so he goes to Dr. ... In one such occurrence, Homer even tried to become eligible for disability compensation from work by gaining weight until he became heavier than 300 pounds. During his weekend long food binge, Homer gained more than 50 lbs. and ate everything, in his home, including the condiments and Play-Doh, all in an effort to avoid a 15 minute calisthenics workout at the Nuclear Power Plant. ... It is known by viewers that the Simpson family is actively Christian; they attend the First Church of Springfield every Sunda...

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Many of us wake up in a bed that lies in the comfort of our own home, drive to work or school, and eat hot meals practically every single day. ... These people are sleeping and living in places that are not stable or permanent. For example, they are sleeping on the streets, under bridges, and/or in shelters. ... If there isn't any income to pay the bills, there is no way that they will remain stable and in a permanent home. ... These people can then have social workers to keep up with them and their conditions just like they do for children that are in foster homes or group homes. ...

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The Effects of Crisis Parenting on Children Heather Dixon Randall The Metropolitan State College of Denver When you picture homelessness, do you imagine a person wandering the streets and sleeping under bridges? ... Most of these young homeless people do not wander the streets, nor do they sleep under bridges. In many cases, these youth come from poor homes and unstable living situations. ... Chaotic home environments can interfere with parenting behavior by undermining parents" confidence in their parenting and by eliciting negative parental moods. ... Increased noise, crowding,...

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Hypomylenation can also cause craniofacial abnormalities such as a high forehead, hypoplastic supraorbital ridges, epicanthal folds, midface hypoplasia, and a large fontanel, as well as renal cysts, an enlarged liver, low muscle tone in infants, seizures, sleep apnea, and a loss of appetite (Steinberg, S. ... The PEX1 gene Peroxisomal biogenesis factor 1, or PEX1 is a gene that when mutated, can cause a peroxisomal biogenesis disorder (Genetics Home Reference, 2010). ... This membrane allows for a unique environment in the lumen of the peroxisome as well as creating a membrane appropriate for ...

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My mom has always been home for me when I need her. ... On the day that they went, my parents left early, and I was home alone despite my young age, only 10 years old, I knew how to take care of myself. ... After a long time, few families member couldn't stay because they had jobs and had to leave, so it was only me and my grandmother, and my father left from the room that my mom was to called us, but warned us that we could not make a lot of noise because both my mother and Luigi were sleeping. My mother had already breastfeed him, and everything was fine, she went to sleep because she w...

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The literally homeless include adults, children, and youth sleeping in places not meant for human habitation such as the streets, parks, alleys, and parking lots. ... Sleep deprivation is another issue. How many people would find it comfortable and cozy to sleep on a concrete block in the middle of Cleveland winter? ... Why is it that we always hear about the homeless guy that was beaten or hit with a stun gun by some juvenile delinquent because they were sleeping on a bench in Public Square? ... It's hard to see people on the street, including those who fought for our country in Vietnam...

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Children living in cold homes are more than twice as likely to suffer from a variety of respiratory problems than children living in warm homes. One in four adolescents living in cold homes is at risk of multiple Lifestyle factors can also affect health, areas that witness high levels of unemployment often have higher prevalences of people drinking heavily and smoking. ... Practising relaxation techniques and stress control such as 'mindfulness', meditation, getting enough quality sleep or seeking counselling. ... For example if a patient came to a holistic practitioner suffering ...

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A serious injury or illness can lead to a loss of employment, and eventually a loss of their stable home environment. ... It is estimated that two-thirds of the homeless stay in shelters and one-third sleep on the street or without real shelter. ... It is hard for an individual to recover from an illness when they do not have a stable home environment. ... Whether the primary contributing factor is from losing their home, or it is a condition made worse after losing their home, the homeless populations have significant disparities when compared to the non-homeless population. ... Their ...

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Bringing health care home could be the better solution for long-term elderly and acute care. ... One reason for this is "today, it is argued that patients receiving home-care have a higher quality of life than those who are cared for in institutional settings such as nursing homes" (Arras 129). ... Many times patients may loose simple preferences such as meal time, bathing time, and wake and sleep time selections. ... Today, home-care patients can take new health care technologies almost anywhere an electrical outlet is present. "Technology has been made increasingly more portable...

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The effects of living in a violent home may create problems for a child throughout his or her life. Approximately 75% of all abusive men watched their fathers battering their mothers ("Open Arms Home"). ... Infants and toddlers who witness violence in their homes show extreme irritability, immature behavior, sleeping disorders, emotional suffering, fears of being alone, and decline in toileting and language skills. ... As with preschoolers, school-age children exposed to domestic violence are more prone to show an increase in sleep disturbances, and less likely to investigate and play free...

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Philip Marlowe from "The Big Sleep" written by Raymond Chandler, film directed by Howard Hawks has been thrust into a morally corrupt and decayed world of the 30's and 40's, with drugs, sex, blackmail, gamblers, pornographers and murders Crime was becoming an alarmingly large problem in the 1940's, within the major urban areas. ... The prohibition in the 1930's made life on the home front to decay into an uninhabitable hotbed of organised crime syndicates whilst also breeding a selfish minded society of opportunists. ... "The Big Sleep" through the darkness of the film ...

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Children exhibit many of the same signs or symptoms as adults regarding depression, including persistent sadness and hopelessness such as excessive crying or moping; withdrawal from friends and family; withdrawal from activities once enjoyed such as sports or other recreational events; increased irritability or agitation such as a quick temper or suddenly becoming easily irritated; an increase in school absences; poor school performance including lower grades and a decrease in class participation; changes in eating habits resulting in either a significant weight loss or weight gain; drastic ch...

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Transitioning from secondary school to university, living away from home, and receiving great amounts of homework of even greater complexities has been extremely difficult and stressful to deal with. I have found myself constantly worrying about assignment deadlines, lack of sleep, no social life, my health, my performance in my courses in terms of my grades, and meeting my parents' expectations of succeeding in school. ... When I am under stress, my current habits involve eating poorly, as I often miss major meals to do work, and sleeping very late at night. ... The authors found that st...

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They may experience changes in eating or sleeping habits as well as a more serious symptom, thoughts of suicide. ... Much like the depressive phase of bipolar, people with unipolar depression experience long periods (at least two weeks) of; irregular sleep schedules, irregular eating patterns, lethargy and withdrawal from positive aspects of their lives (Bressert 2007). ... Anxiety related to lack of income, child care cost, and lack of support at home or at work can trigger postpartum depression, and can cause problems in the bonding process between mother and child. ...

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Pollan believes that the modern traditional family consumes too much fast, easy, and cheap foods and that instead, everyone should take the time to prepare and enjoy a nice home-cooked meal. ... The fourth cause is that watching too much TV can cause different and odd sleeping patterns which is a widely known risk for obesity. Studies have shown that watching television for three or more hours a day increases the risk of sleeping problems. Sleep loss has been linked to eating more than is recommended. ...

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The violence can involve physical abuse, sexual assault and threats, but sometimes it's more subtle, such as making someone feel worthless, not letting them have any money, or not allowing them to leave the home. ... Social abuse can be defined as the deliberate isolation, preventing the victim from leaving the home, disconnecting or controlling the victim's use of the phone, making the victim constantly account for their whereabouts. ... Common effects of domestic violence include: Guilt, grief, distrust of others, low self-esteem, fear, shame and sometimes sleep disturbances and...

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Respiratory conditions include sleep-disordered breathing. ... These include hypertension, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea and respiratory problems, many cancers, and depression (NIH, 1998). ... Modern industrialized societies provide abundant, relatively inexpensive food; modern life is organized to reduce energy expenditure at work and at home, through technology and urbanization. ... Whereas leisure time physical activity has increased in men and remained constant in women over the past four decades in the United States, acti...

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People with Dissociative Disorders may experience any of the following: depression, mood swings, suicidal tendencies, sleep disorders (insomnia, night terrors, and sleep walking), panic attacks and phobias (flashbacks, reactions to stimuli or "triggers"), alcohol and drug abuse, compulsions and rituals, psychotic-like symptoms (including auditory and visual hallucinations), and eating disorders. ... Therefore, there is "no one home" to have the Disorder of Identity. ...

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Unfortunately, only one champion is allowed to take home the medal, while the others try their best again the following year. In the first category, the die-hard ballerinas are the most pressured ones who eat, sleep and breathe ballet. They are known to spend every minute of their lives practicing, memorizing and rehearsing their steps, even in their sleep. ...

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The physical evaluation should include a complete exam since some other illnesses could be the reason for the feelings of worthlessness, loss of energy, changes in appetite or sleep patterns, prolonged sadness, unexplained aches and pains, and social withdrawal, which are all possible indications of depression. ... Symptoms of the depressive state include a persistent sad mood, loss of interest and pleasure in once enjoyed activities, insomnia or constant desire to sleep, lethargy and agitation, along with inappropriate feelings of guilt and worthlessness (Clayton, 2005). ... This title is b...

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For many people, college is their first opportunity to live away from their parents" home and to be free from significant parental control and supervision. ... From an early age, many American children see adults drinking at home, in restaurants and clubs, and at parties. ... Sleep loss and interrupted study time caused by students who are drunk is a reality of college life. ... How close to home must it hit? ... My friend, Melanie, was returning home from Michigan State, for a holiday weekend with her family. ...

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Trafficking victims often are passed among multiple traffickers, moving further away from home. ... Domestic work accounts for 7.5 per cent of women's wage employment worldwide, and a far greater share in some regions.4 Normally domestic workers are being trafficked into private homes; making is even more difficult to identify the trafficker. ... Some domestic workers experience a lack of food and poor living conditions such as having to sleep on the floor in a utility room. ... However, after each victim is "returned" back to their home, they are in a very traumatic state becau...

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The term suicide' can be defined in three ways - the dictionary definition, the legal definition and the suicidological definition. The dictionary definition states that suicide is "the act of killing oneself or attempting to kill oneself."" Legally, suicide has been defined as, "the act of malicious self-murder, felo de se."" Suicidology combines knowledge and the methods of inquiry from several fields such as psychology, psychiatry, physiology and sociology for the research, treatment and prevention of suicide. Naturally, suicidologists have their own definition of suicide. ...

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On May 1, 2011, Hall killed his father with his own gun whilst he was sleeping. ... Parental abuse and neglect was persistent in Hall's home as the judge noted, 'He was abused, and he was neglected from the womb forward' (Wallace, 2013). ... Hall was expelled from many schools, and then finally home-schooled by his parents (Wallace, 2013). Hall had inadequate or no conventional support, as he was not only neglected by his father, but also lacked peers or teachers he could turn to, being home-schooled and distanced from society. ... The murder took place after Hall woke up in th...

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In order to ensure that diagnosis is accurate, it is also a condition of DSM-IV that symptoms must have been present for at least six months, that "some hyperactive - impulsive or inattentive symptoms that caused impairment need to have been present before the child was seven years old" (Rabiner, 1997) though not necessarily to the same extent, and also that symptoms must have caused impairment in at least two separate settings for example home and school. ... These are drug therapy, counselling programmes and supportive services at home, in school and in the community. ... In some cases, ...

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