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Proper posture and body mechanics are important for clients to know and understand so that safety can be promoted, and injuries can be prevented. The most common part of the body that is injured from poor posture and body mechanics is the back. In fact, 80% of the population will have low back pain sometime during their life, and 90% of that pain is recurrent, so preventing that could improve many people’s quality of life. If back pain is serious enough, it could cause someone to miss out on work which loses money for themselves and their employer. Additionally, it could effect someone’s occupations whether it’s cooking, bathing, playing with kids/grand-kids, or any hobbies they enjoy. Lastly, it is important to educate client’s on this topic to prevent intervertebral disc damage which can be extremely painful. One thing I can do for my clients it to teach them proper lifting techniques so they can avoid straining their back. I will make sure that they are bending at their knees,...

An advertisement that sticks out to me is one from 2007 (when I was only 10 years old!). It is an ad for Orbit Gum. It’s crazy that I can still remember it 13 years later! In the commercial, a woman finds out her significant other has been seeing another woman. The women start calling each other names such as “cootie queen” and “lint licker,” which plays into Orbit’s slogan series “Dirty mouth? Clean it up with Orbit!” This commercial has always made me laugh because of the silly name-calling and the acting in it, and I am more than certain that my older brother and I have called each other these names before because of this commercial. The hippocampus is the area of my brain that is most responsible for me being able to remember this commercial after all these years. The hippocampus, which is part of the temporal lobe, stores long-term and declarative memories which allow me to recall this commercial and even some of the dialogue that occurred in it. The amygdala is also respons...

I enjoyed reading the Man from the South story from Roald Dahl. It was about a bet between an older man and a soldier. The solider was to light a lighter successfully 10 times in a row without fail. If the solider lost, the old man got to chop off his pinky finger. If the solider won, the old man had to give the soldier his Cadillac, which we found out later was not even his, but his wife’s instead. The soldier in the story thought that losing his pinky finger would not be that big of a deal and that “it doesn’t do anything for him anyway,” but assuming the solider lost the bet, he would realize that the pinky, along with the rest of the fingers, all serve a function in our hand strength and movements. The solider would have a difficult time completing his necessary tasks on his ship if he lost his little finger. The little finger provides a lot of hand strength for many different activities and losing it would mean losing a lot of strength. Navy soldiers have to do a lot of mai...

When someone jumps out and scares you, epinephrine (better known as adrenaline) is released in the body and triggers the "fight-or-flight" response.