Environmental enrichment

The brain is probably the most amazing part of the human body. It is composed of neurons, glands, and other subsections that together run the human body, maintain homeostasis, and perform cognitive process. However, the general community may not know much about this indispensable organ’s astonishing properties. This semester I learned about these properties through Wendy Susuki’s book-Happy Brain, Happy Life, and through this book along with the aid of this class I was able to help the community through a service learning event. My service learning event consisted of teaching the attending children of the north west boys and girls club about brain plasticity and how exercise enhances this feature. The reason my team and I chose to pair up these two particular subjects was that we knew that students near the Mexican-American border on average do not perform as well on state standardized testing as other students. Additionally the students fell within the Hispanic/Latino demographic which puts them at risk of squirting diabetics and hypertension due to being overweight. My team mates and I arrived a few minutes before the event began to set up our booth which was part of the brain fest- which was hosted by Texas A&M International University. Our booth consisted of 4 modules- the introduction in which we explained brain plasticity. We stated that “the brain has plasticity and that this meant that is was able to grow and learn new thing as well as deteriorate and forget. And to…

Imagine having the choice of life or death left in your hands alone. On one end, there is a rat, who is energetically running to find a hiding spot from the broom sweeping across the floor. On the other end, there is a stay-at-home mom, jumped up on the table, violently stabbing at the rat in attempts to scare it away from her. One of them will die. Most people would choose to save the stay-at-home mother with three children and not have a guilty thought cross their mind. But what if the rat…

The key term job enrichment is a job design method that is purposely designed to “reverse the effects of tasks that are repetitive requiring little autonomy.” What is Human Resource. (n.d.). Job Enrichment. Retrieved September 24, 2015, from What is human resources: http://www.whatishumanresource.com/job-enrichment Summary (150) Frederick Herzberg, an outstanding American psychologist, who notably promoted the idea of the Motivator-Hygiene theory and job enrichment. In his report “One more…

What does it mean to you to be environmentally literate? To become environmentally literate a person must “Climb the Environmental Literacy Ladder” (What is Environmental Literacy, 2007). First s/he must be connected to nature; not just knowing about it, but also putting themselves in nature and being aware that they are a part of it. Once that connection is made one becomes more aware of all the aspects that are interconnected throughout the environment locally and globally. The more time…

restored. Nature is one of the most important gift from God. In the book of Genesis, before God even created Adam and Eve, he created the land, the sea, flowers, trees and all other things which relate to the environment. The media are full of stories about environmental disasters including global warming, endangered species, deforestation, nuclear accidents and much more. We fail to realize how important it is to keep the environment we live in. Without…

achieved through advances in technology, in ecology, and in our society. If we are to look to solutions for future generations we must investigate our past to see how we got to where we are today. It was in 1872 that the first national, Yellowstone was established, 1890 Yosemite and Sequoia reserves were created. When President Theodore Roosevelt ran for his second term in the White House and being a man of the wild, he took a stand to preserve the American land. Roosevelt added over 150…

The world is in denial, climate change is happening, and the earth is dying because people are killing it. A clear example of this denial is seen in the decline of news coverage regarding environmental change, “in 2007, the three major U.S. networks—CBS, NBC, and ABC ran 147 stories on climate change; in 2011 the networks ran just fourteen stories on the subject” (Klein, 34). People do not want to hear about climate change and decreasing natural resources. Continued denial will be the downfall…

provide long-term career opportunities for Americans of all skill levels, which in turn would greatly improve the American economy and reduce the rate of global warming. Requiring institutions to go green would not only reduce the carbon footprint we are leaving on the planet, but create many jobs within the green sector. The process of transitioning to a more environmentally friendly infrastructures would require businesses to employ local workers. The ability to outsource work would be…

There is a long history of contaminated land in England, Its past industrial revolution which took place long before modern systems of environmental controls on process emissions and waste disposal were in place, has led to the current state of land contamination. This essay will discuss the provision of the current contaminated land regime, its interaction with other environmental cleanup groups in the UK, and its complications. It will further look at it in reference to the UK 's planning…

Are Canada’s efforts towards changing our overall environment and being informed on our climate change issues effective? Canada is failing in the efforts towards improving their environmental impact. The earth’s climate is changing and developing rapidly. There are many reasons as to why our environment is the way it is to this day. This discussion topic has been going on for many years now and will continue to do so for the next hundreds of years as it changes and develops drastically,…