ACT would like to highlight Janet Westerlind as the Volunteer for the Month of September. Janet has been volunteering 4 hours every Monday at Second Act thrift store for over 1 ½ years. When she first started, she was looking for a way to do some good for the women and girls in need. She says it’s the treasures she finds and the fun she has working with Amy that keeps her here. Janet tags and hangs clothing and unloads items from the donor’s cars. She says it’s a great spot to volunteer if you like to work. “It’s not easy work for an eighty-three year old, but you’re doing a lot of good for the community,” she says with a wink. Second ACT is located at 12519 S. Cleveland Ave. in Fort Myers and they’re open Monday thru Saturday from 9am-8pm
The case of Carla Washburn using the Biopsychosocial approach starts with the biological level and leads to the assessment that Carla suffers from problems with diabetes with insulin dependency. She also suffers from the physical injury she sustained after a recent fall which produced fractures to her body that needs attention. Addressing Carla’s Psychological level she exhibits symptoms of depression due to the belief that she has no one. Due to the fact that she had lost her husband fifteen years ago, moreover she also had lost both her son to a car crash and her grandson who she had raised after both parents died in a car crash to the war in Afghanistan. She also is worried about her finance because she is concerned that Medicare will not
Rosa Lee Cunningham is a 56 year old African American female. She is referred to the facility from Howard University Hospital. She was treated for a condition called osteomyelitis, which resulted from a bacterial infection while using heroin (Dash, 2006). Rosa Lee states that on October 7, 1983, she injected cocaine, which resulted in her being hospitalized at D.C. General Hospital (Dash, 2006). Prior to her hospital visit in 1983, she injected heroin, cocaine, and various substances. After a horrible breakup with her girlfriend, she used heroin for the first time (Dash, 2006). She stated that she uses speed ball of cocaine, heroin mixed injection as well as Prelundin, occasionally (Dash, 2006).
On August 23, 1980 in Conroe, Texas, is 40 miles north of Houston, a 16-year-old girl, Cheryl Fergeson, disappeared while searching for a women’s restroom at Conroe High School (Gores, 1991). Cheryl was the manager of the Bellville High girls’ volleyball team visiting Conroe High School for a preseason scrimmage. Later that day while searching for the girl two janitors, Clarence Brandley who is black, and Henry Peace who is white, found the girl’s body hidden under some scenery flats in the loft above the auditorium stage. Cheryl has been raped and strangled to death. Clarence and Henry were interrogated and made to sign statements. The two janitors were then taken to the hospital and made to give sperm, blood, and hair samples from their head
The author, Katherine Ramsland, is a forensic psychologist that teaches criminal justice. The purpose of this article is to answer the question of ‘how and why’ a human could have so much anger towards another person. Anthony Meoli holds a BS in criminal justice from Penn State University, a MA in forensic psychology from Argosy University, and a JD from John Marshall Law School. He was interviewed while I was reading this article and answered questions based off of why he was launching this project. His ultimate goal was to find a link between the creative side of their brain and the ability they have to naturally compartmentalize their live. He wants to find out why they are addicted to killing and what draws them towards that need. He
Understanding one another starts with understanding the various social intersections that make up our identities. Intersectionality, a concept developed by Kimberlé Crenshaw, analyzes how aspects of social location (gender, race, class, age, etc.) intersect and are linked, thereby creating multiple identities that relate to systems of oppression and marginalization (Carbado, Crenshaw, Mays, & Tomlinson, 2013). In this paper, the theme of intersectional identity will be explored using Janet Mock’s (2014) story as a case study, based off her book, Redefining Realness. Moreover, there will
The following vignettes were chosen by our group for highlighting Myra Bennett’s compassion for the isolated communities in northwest Newfoundland.
Julia Louise, 21 and Diyonte Rowe, 25 were residents of Columbia and were victims in a car crash on Sunday afternoon. Neither Louise or Rowe was wearing a seatbelt, and bother were ejected from the vehicle and died from head injuries. Louise died at the scene and Rowe was pronounced dead in the emergency room at a local hospital. Their car was traveling south in the 2900 block of Two Notch Road, near the intersection with west Beltline Boulevard, around 4 a.m. Saturday when it ran off the side of the road and hit a curb and utility pole. The car flipped and rolled across west Beltline and landed in a parking lot, no other cars were involved in the accident. “You double your chances of survival if you are wearing a seatbelt.” - Gary Watts
The article Natalie Keepers: Once-promising student now faces prospect of prison by Eliott C. McLaughlin, was about a Virginia Tech Engineering student who was arrested for helping a murder of a 13 year old girl. The first arrested student was a Virginia Tech Engineering student named David Eisenhauer who had some kind of a relationship with a 13 year old middle schooler, Nicole Lovell. Natalie Keepers was the second student who was arrested for helping with the murder. She was an outstanding student with excellent grades and extracurricular activities, who also does not have a delinquent background. She helped murder a girl who she, herself does not know with a man who she, has no romantic connection with. The case continues with Natalie Keepers,
Heather Millard was born in Bradenton, Florida. She was raised by her mother in Port Charlotte. After the parents divorced when Mrs. Millard was two years old the mother decide to move to Port Charlotte with a friend. The family also resided in Okeechobee, FL for a short period of time. The client’s mother had three marriages. The client stated that she has a good relationship with her current stepfather. Besides her mother and stepfather she also lives with 2 whole sisters, one half brother and two step siblings. She is single and has never been married.
The Office of the Attorney General, by Nichole C. Gatewood, Assistant Attorney General, in response to the Court’s May 11, 2018, Order (ECF No. 8) states as follows:
Finding the job that is perfect for you can be a difficult endeavor. Most people still don’t know what they want to do after college. After gaining some job experience, finding that perfect job becomes easier. This is what happened to Lisa Stewart. She finally found her perfect job or should I say jobs. Lisa Stewart has several jobs. First and for most she is a wife and mother of two girls, but her first paying job is being a dietician at Council Bluffs Community Schools, and second she is a Infant Nutrition Lab Technician at Methodist Hospital, though this wasn’t her original plan.
In the year of 1896, the court ruled that it was legal to have "separate but equal" schools, in the case Plessy v. Ferguson. Thurgood Marshall, the main lawyer for NAACP decided he was going to challenge this. To do this he used 7 year- old Linda Brown's case. This African American girl was not allowed to attend an all- white school just down the street, rather than one across town. After that, the Brown family asked the court to let her go to the nearby school but sadly lost. Thurgood took little Linda's case all the way to the Supreme Court. They argued saying, that under segregation, schools provided for African Americans were not- and could not be- equal to white schools. On May 17 in the year of 1954, the court gave its ruling, Furthermore,
Andrea, Marya McQuirter is a contractor working in IT department who needs access to the museum. I am awaiting for her supervisor Adam Martin, who cc’d on this email provide the level of access for her, until then for audit purposes, can you please program her badge for general and 5th floor access? – Thank you
Rosa Lee Cunningham is a 52-year old African American female. She is 5-foot-1-inch, 145 pounds. Rosa Lee is married however, is living separately from her husband. She has eight adult children, Bobby, Richard, Ronnie, Donna (Patty), Alvin, Eric, Donald (Ducky) and one child who name she did not disclose. She bore her eldest child at age fourteen and six different men fathered her children. At Rosa Lee’s recent hospital admission to Howard University Hospital emergency room blood test revealed she is still using heroin. Though Rosa Lee recently enrolled in a drug-treatment program it does not appear that she has any intention on ending her drug usage. When asked why she no longer uses heroin she stated she doesn’t always have the resources to support her addiction. Rosa Lee is unemployed and receiving very little in government assistance. She appears to
Research has found that adolescents are more likely than adults to engage in risky behavior. Adolescents, or "young adults" are expected to act more mature than children yet expected to more than likely engage in risky behaviors. Our frontal lobe is not fully developed until our mid 20 's, sometimes late 30 's which could explain the maturity levels at a given age. By mid-teens, kids should be able to fully distinguish between right and wrong. They should also know how to control themselves and know how to behave in a given situation or surrounding. Could it explain why adolescents are let off the hook easily in hopes