A lot of different factors affect a person's political socialization. Personal factors, such as your family, social and economic classes, education and peer groups, all influence your political values. More general items, like the mass media and key world events, also affect your political values.
Growth plates are located at the ends of long bones such as the femur. It is the area from which growth occurs in the bone and is the last area of the bone to fully harden and turn from cartilage into bone.
Fractures of the Femur. The femur is the bone in your thigh. It extends from your hip joint down to your knee joint. It is one of the largest and strongest bones in your body, and because of this, it usually takes a very high energy force or injury to cause the femur to break (fracture). If your bone is weak, for example in osteoporosis, your femur can fracture with a relatively minor fall. Fractures of the femur are categorised by the exact location of the break (fracture): 1  Proximal femoral fractures. 2  Proximal femur fractures, also called hip fractures, involve the upper-most portion of the thigh bone, just adjacent to the hip joint.