Color Blindness

This week in class we learned about the senses and how they work. I chose to do my blog on eye sight, specifically color blindness. Color blindness is the inability to see certain colors in the way that everyone else can.

I looked online for a test to see if you are color blind, I took the test and I am not color blind. Take the test for yourself!

This is a video to test colorblindness:

According to this video, the most common type of color blind deficiency is red/green and it is more common in men than women. there is also the blue/yellow type and the third type is complete absence of color. Color blindness is genetic. There is not a treatment for color blindness, but you can work your way around it.

An Awesome PSA

My favorite blog was the one that Cristina, Taylor, and Tori made. They were very cheerful the whole time, making Ashwaubenon seem like a very happy and great place to live. If I was not a resident here in Ashwaubenon, I would want to move here because they are very persuasive and did a great job at showing all of the wonderful programs and services we have to offer. While informing me of all the interesting activities I can take part in Ashwaubenon, they kept me laughing and I didn't want to change the channel.

Dementia...the sad truth

This week in class we learned about Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia. My focus is Dementia, primarily because my grandma lives with it everyday.

Dementia isn't a disease on its own, rather symptoms that affect cognitive and social abilities enough to affect everyday life. Memory loss is the main issue in Dementia, but just because you have memory loss doesn't mean you should diagnose yourself with Dementia. The memory loss is severe, you are unable to remember names and you are constantly confused as to what is going on around you. Changes in personality and social behavior occur as well.

I found a CBS news video on a woman named Gertrude Buckley who suffers from advanced dementia. A controversial study found that her illness is as deadly as cancer. Researchers found that patients who speak as little as 6 words a day will only live about 16 months and about 40% were in pain. Gertrude doesn't speak in this video, and it is sad to see that people can die from this illness that confuses you the whole time you are living with it.

True Life: I'm Addicted to Ice

My 48-hour addiction to ice cubes was actually really easy to pull off. I never had to lie to my friends because in the past 48-hours I was pretty much house bound due to all the homework I had. My family drinks ice water so when they saw my ice water, so for the most part they didn’t ask questions. That is, until Tuesday morning, my mom, oh so kindly, filled up my water bottle for me before school, but there wasn’t any ice in it. So, while I was filling it up with ice my mom asked why I dumped it out and I said, “I don’t know.” Then, this morning, she asked if I wanted ice in my water bottle again, and I had to lie about putting it in my water bottle in the first place. I didn’t feel bad about lying to her because it was just about ice, if it were something more serious like cocaine I would have a very guilty conscious.

I can see how having an addiction can break up relationships because people can usually tell when they are being lied to, and I know that if I was constantly being lied to, I would stop talking to the person that continuously lied to me. I didn’t do anything crazy or out of the ordinary (with the acceptation of putting ice in my coffee, tea, and apple juice) during this temporary addiction. No my mom didn’t notice a change in my behavior because I drink ice water all the time. However, when I asked my dad if he noticed any changes, he remembered watching me drink iced apple juice and found it odd. I think that it can be surprising to find out your kid is taking some drugs that don’t damage a person physically over time versus other drugs that allow you to see the difference physically over time.

generation x and millennial generation

generation X:These groups of learners like interaction, activity, and multi-tasking. They are non-linear and love multimedia.Xers respond best to training materials with fewer words than those designed for older generations. They don’t need as much as their older—or younger—colleagues and are attracted to pages that provide lots of visual stimulation, such as headlines, subheads, quotes, graphics, and lists.


Millennial generation:This is a powerful generation that has a holistic perspective, anticipates needed change, and has the flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances.They will need more supervision and structure than their Xer predecessors. They will look for more attention and structure from the authority figure. Their preferred learning environment combines personal challenge (like Xers), teamwork (like boomers), and technology. In a training room with lots of Millennials, give everyone a task.Millennials are motivated to learn skills and information that will help make their working lives less stressful and will move them closer to achieving personal potential and passions in the workplace.

Born Without a Brain

This week in class we learned about the functions of the brain. I was fascinated by everything the brain and body goes through just to get us to feel a burnt finger, or stubbed toe. Then, I remember seeing a video of a boy named Nicholas Coke who was born with only a brain stem, and somehow lived to the age of two. I found the article on the news station’s website.

Basically, because he was born with only a brain stem, doctors expected him to die within hours of being born, but to their amazement, he lived to be two years old. There aren’t any recent articles about the baby boy, so I don’t know if he passed or not. At the time of this video, he was on 12 medications, 8 solely for seizures.

This is something I didn’t quite understand. Today we learned that a seizure is a result from the chaos of signals being sent, for no reason, from one side of the brain to the other. If baby Nicholas Coke doesn’t have a brain, how can he have seizures?

As I’ve mentioned, Nicholas only has a brainstem. This would mean that he is incapable of talking, seeing, feeling, understanding language, thinking, and developing a personality. The brainstem contains the medulla, pons, reticular formation, and thalamus. The medulla is in charge of heartbeat and breathing, the medulla is keeping Nicholas alive. Pons help coordinate movement, so baby Nick can move, but not a lot. The reticular formation is what controls arousal, and the thalamus is where every thought and action goes so it can be sent to the brain. These two parts of the brainstem aren’t helpful in Nicholas’s case because he don’t have a brain to make them function properly. So, essentially, Nicholas Coke can only breathe, slightly move, and has a beating heart.

Here is the link to the article and video of this baby boy: Nicholas Coke