Informative Speech
Sp: To inform
:On skeletal remains identification
Introduction
After flesh has gone , and your physical appearance that gives you identity has somehow become unable to see, and the dna that has previously lived within your bones is no longer available , who and how could someone tell what , better yet, who you are?
Yes, I am speaking of your human remains, I would hope that this process isn’t something your body must undergo. but there is a science to identifying and interpreting the human body. Many don’t consider how unique one skeleton is compared to the next, but there is a true difference. You just have to know where to look to find the age and sex of an unidentified body. After figuring out one way , we have found
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many more.According to the Smithsonian website “Skeletons are good age markers because teeth and bones mature at fairly predictable rates. For toddlers to teenagers up to age 21, teeth are the most accurate age indicators. Some of the best indicators of adult age are in the pelvis.” (Smithsonian Institution) Body Firstly, no I am not doctor G. or any other sort of doctor, but I do know from experience how to identify a body. I attended 3 summer courses over the past three years on forensic sciences along with two semesters of criminal justice classes. There is several methods to identifying the age of body remains , I will explain to you the most common out of the many.
II. This brings me to my second point, bones are the easiest way to determine age because they do mature at the same rate in most of all people alike. Bones show age through your skull, and throughout your joints and spine.
The skull is made of many bones that enclose the brain. These grow together during childhood along lines called cranial sutures. As a body ages, bone morphing and smoothing of these lines may cause them to fade at a slow rate that varies amongst the person. Catherine A Key discusses that, “ For a truly accurate age estimation technique based on cranial suture we would need to know more about the causes and functions of suture closure..” (Key, Cathrine A. "Cranial Suture Closure and Its Implications For Age Estimation.) This is why there is a rough estimate in each method, though your skeleton looks like the next one it won’t necessarily be the same age as the remains you’re identifying. The lack of appearance of cranial sutures gives a general indicator of the age of a person. of cranial sutures gives general information about a person's age. It is best used with additional indicators to estimate age, or when other age indicators are
unavailable. To determine further how old remains are you can see a very prominent difference in young bones and old ones. basically, the smoother the surface of a joint or bone ending, the younger the person. The jagged edges on bone endings from lack of cartilage and porse structure with less compact structure are telltale signs of an aged skeleton with arthritis and or osteoporosis. III. Lastly, how to determine the gender of body remains. I saved this for last because of the true simplicity of this method. pubic bones are good for age and sex identification. A pubic bone for a male is long and narrow, with no appearance of outward turning. For one simple reason, males do not give birth! A woman's pubic bone is often a good source for age and gender. Once fully mature so post twenties a woman's pubic bone will often times be wide and open with an outward resting place upon the thigh bone, IIII. In Summary, The age and sex of skeletal remains have many different methods of identification. with all of these methods playing one roll together they have a very good shot of having an almost always accurate results.
The skeleton had a hideous impact to the community and was predicted by local investigators to be reasonably modern. To get better understanding and avoid confusion, a bone sample was sent to a laboratory in the USA for investigation and analysation using series of scientific
The show portrays that forensic anthropologists are responsible for almost every aspect of the death investigation, which does not correctly depict the role of forensic anthropologists (Wood,2017a). The method of which components of the biological profile, like sex of the remains, is also incorrectly portrayed as Dr. Brennan estimated the sex using a trait that does not accurately indicate sexual dimorphism (Wood, 2017c). Lastly, the complexity of personal identification, which is one of the most important aspects of forensic anthropology casework (Krishan et al, 2016), is not portrayed correctly as Dr. Brennan and her team based the identification of the remains on one trait that has questionable reliability (Charles & Levisetti, 2011). All in all, ‘The feet on the beach’ episode of ‘Bones’ does not accurately portray the forensic anthropology as it is romanticized for entertainment and overly simplified for a lay person to
Osteoporosis may be described in many ways. Which of the following accurately characterizes osteoporosis? More than one may apply.
Every person thinks about a certain question at least once in the lifetime. The question that is most thought about is, ¨Who am I?¨ Many people would respond with their name, their parents, or where they live. Others use their reputation, their occupation, and their looks. At last, a few others identify themselves by their significant actions they have done. In some stories, characters try to find out who they really are. In the short stories ¨Fish Cheeks¨ by Amy Tan, ¨Two Kinds¨ by Amy Tan, and ¨Papa´s Parrot¨ by Cynthia Rylant,the characters learn about their identities through significant moments.
Personal identity, in the context of philosophy, does not attempt to address clichéd, qualitative questions of what makes us us. Instead, personal identity refers to numerical identity or sameness over time. For example, identical twins appear to be exactly alike, but their qualitative likeness in appearance does not make them the same person; each twin, instead, has one and only one identity – a numerical identity. As such, philosophers studying personal identity focus on questions of what has to persist for an individual to keep his or her numerical identity over time and of what the pronoun “I” refers to when an individual uses it. Over the years, theories of personal identity have been established to answer these very questions, but the
the right answer is that it has nothing to do with age, it is determined by
With healthcare in the United States advancing so rapidly, there are new ways to treat just about any kind of illness every day. With being able to treat illnesses in new ways, and also the advancement of medical equipment, comes the possibility of a lot more people living up into their 90’s, and maybe even getting to reach 100. The aging population, which keeps growing every so rapidly, will be using up a lot more sources as the years go by. This means, that we need to educate more doctors and nurses, etc., and also make more living facilities for older adults. The question that comes up in my mind, is when is “old” actually”. Most people stereotypically consider ages 75 and older old, but that doesn’t mean they are actually “old”, does it?
Well I spose I am 95. But I am not so sure. Most days I feel olders, others I feels a bit younger.
Hello my name is Nick and I am giving my speech on Alzheimer’s Disease. I was thinking of what I could do for a speech. Then I thought I wanted to inform people on something that little know about. Then it hit me. Alzheimer’s Disease it has affected my life so much and I know so much about it. So I am going to tell you how it has affected my life in more ways than one. Before I start I want you to imagine something. Look around you know everyone right? All these faces you see practically see everyday take all that you know about them and forget it. Can you do it? I can’t. So try to imagine now that it could happen to you years down the road and the disease gets so bad you cant remember your kids, your mother, or even your family. You probably are thinking right now, it will not happen to me. Well that is what my grandfather said about 6 years ago and now he cant even remember my name.
A person’s identity is not something that can be removed, It can only change over time. Some people may feel as if they have lost their identity, but they have not lost it. It is only hidden. Many people have different definitions of identity, but there should only be one, universal definition. The definition of identity is the values someone has, and how said person treats others.
What is personal identity? This question has been asked and debated by philosophers for centuries. The problem of personal identity is determining what conditions and qualities are necessary and sufficient for a person to exist as the same being at one time as another. Some think personal identity is physical, taking a materialistic perspective believing that bodily continuity or physicality is what makes a person a person with the view that even mental things are caused by some kind of physical occurrence. Others take a more idealist approach with the belief that mental continuity is the sole factor in establishing personal identity holding that physical things are just reflections of the mind. One more perspective on personal identity and the one I will attempt to explain and defend in this paper is that personal identity requires both physical and psychological continuity; my argument is as follows:
Think of a stacking doll. Each outer doll removed reveals another; smaller and more volnerable than the previous. With each section combined there is a whole, but with only a section you cannot see the doll in it’s entirety and it is impossible to see whether another is hiding inside. Ones identity is similar. With little knowlege of a person it is impossible to know what is inside and whether there is more to see. Identity is broader than one word definitions, different aspects such as feelings and memories contribute. In order to get the full sense of who a person is, the inner layers must be revealed.
I am a human being. As such, I have several distinctive and inseparable parts. There is my physical side: namely my body with all its many tangible parts. This is not really me, though on this side of the great veil I couldn't survive without it. You may as well say that this body is merely a suit that houses the real me. But who is the real me?
The purpose of post-mortem examination of human remains plays a crucial part within criminal investigation. The role of post-mortem examination is to establish three relevant facts which are causes of death, identification of the deceased and the time that death occurred (Jackson and Jackson, 2011). The reason why gathering the time of death, is so important, is that it can be used against statements or alibis that may be developed through the course of a criminal investigation (Adcock and Chancellor, 2013). If the post-mortem examination takes place within the first 72 hours, normally the pathologist will be able to give a relatively accurate time of death, basing this on the fall in body temperature and the condition of the body itself, however outside of this time zone; there is less medical information to correlate the post-mortem interval, referred to as PMI (Gennard, 2007). PMI is harder to correlate after this 72 time zone for one reason, and that is temperature, once death has occurred the human body temperature starts to drop from around 37°C to that of the surrounding environment which enables the pathologist to back track to come to the PMI (Jackson and Jackson, 2011), the problems with this method for correlating PMI come in two different ways. The first of these problems is factors which can affect the rate at which a corpse cools, such as the temperature, humidity, precipitation and exposure of the corpse to the environment (Jackson and Jackson, 2011) and the second being that after 42 hours, decomposition is normally established, which is expected to normally increase the temperature of the body slightly (Jackson and Jackson, 2011).
These theories determine; factors influencing ageing, which are ultimately determining the age related differences. There is no description of the origin of these differences. Modifications of these theories include efficiency of information processing stages; strategy based differences or altered cognitive performance.