Personal wellness can mean different things to different people. Some people focus solely on the spiritual branch of wellness and the balance in life. Others really push the physical side of wellness, and they focus on maintaining optimum health. In reality, wellness encompasses a wide variety of aspects in our lives. One can achieve personal wellness in areas such as spiritual and physical wellness as mentioned before, but also in areas such as academics, mental/emotional wellness, interpersonal/social…
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Preventative care can go in so many directions, and a lot can factor in when it comes to preventing diseases in your pet. Prevention begins with vaccinations, dental care, wellness visits, and communication. All these are so important and can make a huge difference in the happiness of the pet and yourself. Vaccinations are extremely important in canine and felines. According to AVMA, “Vaccinations stimulate the immune system in pets to fight future infections from disease – causing agents.” This is the main…
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quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.” (p. 14). Personal responsibility can only be applied by those willing to accept, implement a plan, and understand what relationships are involved when working towards college success. It is crucial to holding oneself accountable. Personal responsibility requires one to know and accept the importance of their individual obligations. Unlike any other responsibilities one may encounter, personal responsibility falls…
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creator, Jasmine Jachilesadaait, talks about her website, prodomently white institutions in contrast to historically black colleges, and more Jasmine Jachilesadaait is a woman who gives valuable information on how to maintain your natural hair. The positivity that she spreads through her website and social media, is something to admire. 1. Why do you feel it's important for black women to embrace their melanin? To fix their mentality. We have been taught that we hate our skin and it triggers…
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lot a college students. Even though we are not working a physical job in the evenings our busy schedule as college students often limit our ability to get the 7-8 hours a sleep that we need each night. This activities that can take us away from our sleep can include school work or even club that one may be involved in. To help contract this issue students should set a time where they are planning to be done for the night so that they can get a restful night's sleep.…
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find an ideal way of wellness. It is capable of helping one to find out the worst way to handle one’s life and get a middle point where you can improve your life. Example: if a person’s health continuum is in the dark blue this means the person is extremely healthy however, if a person suffers from a disability or illness they are shown in the red/orange area. This means that could be close to death or nowhere near healthy as a person in the blue. Question 2 – Explain why different groups within…
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What is Financial Literacy and why does it matter? It is widely believed that lack of financial literacy in our society was a major factor in the recent financial crisis. Financial literacy in today’s world is almost as important as learning to read and write and one could argue that a student’s credit history is far more important to his or her future than grade point average. Yet most students come to college ill-prepared to manage their money. What is financial literacy? Financial literacy…
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Have you felt like giving up on college in a moment? Most importantly, why do you think it is worth it to spend four years in a university? Freeman Hrabowski in his article, “College Prepares People for Life,” informs, “College prepares people for jobs, but more critically, it prepares people for life.” Without a degree, it is most likely you will not get the job you desire, will not achieve your goals, and many schools and companies will reject you. Getting a college education guarantees an individual…
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Student Fitness Center there is a large climbing wall, shaped like a boulder, full of multicolored plastic grips that long for use. Unfortunately, the amount of people who use it daily can very often be counted on a single hand. Everett Community College provides a severely underutilized resource - the bouldering wall. Currently, in order to use the wall all one must do is sign in and be in gym clothes. Looking at the sign in sheet you will notice the same names and a lack of diversity in who uses…
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In order to answer this question, I am firstly going to describe, in detail, the Biomedical and Social Models of Health. The 2 approaches are very different, and from a caring perspective, are both as important as one another when putting a care plan in place for service users such as Trevor . Models of illness are used to analyse how illness arises and to predict what treatment might be effective.; Most models are implicit and not formally described.In the context of health and illness, a model…
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