Skill Building the Course Work Has Immensely
The course work has immensely improved my reading, writing, and thinking skills I ask myself if my reading is for a purpose or it is for leisure, and the things I hope to learn after reading. By skimming through the titles and the introductory paragraph of the articles, I was able to select articles that gave me an insight into the current U.S. healthcare system and racist issue My writing skills have improved such that I can identify and list key items required for a discussion. My thinking skills also improved with the course, as I am able to rely on rationality, where I use reason over emotion in interpreting text
Essential elements of reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary
¶ … 2000, the National Reading Panel developed and publicized a report that included give critical areas that need to be addressed in order to provide effective reading instruction: 1) Phonemic awareness, 2) Phonics, 3)…
Fetal alcohol syndrome: causes, effects, and clinical outcomes
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) refers to the range of growth, mental, physical, and other problems that manifest in infants when a mother consumes alcohol during any point during her pregnancy. There are distinct patterns of mental and physical defects that developed in the fetuses with higher levels of alcohol consumption (of the mother) during gestation. Though in some countries such as the United States of America, there exist health care professionals that advise women that a minimal amount of alcohol such as wine is permissible during certain stages of pregnancy, bodies such as the Surgeon General of the USA, the US National Library of Medicine, the Mayo Clinic, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), wholly recommend that pregnant women should not consume any amount of alcohol during any point of her pregnancy. FAS is a 100% preventable disease and does not occur in women who refrain from alcohol consumption.