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Jane Addams Hull House
1,362 wordsJane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860, and the eighth of nine children. Her father, John Addams, was a prosperous miller and local political leader who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War, he was a friend of Abraham Jane's mother dies when she was only two. Her father remarried and her new stepmother brought along two new stepbrothers to add to the already large family. With the fact of Jane's mother passing away she w...
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Chill Ran My Spine Thoughts Were Lost Road
1,035 wordsThe movie had just ended and the picture on the television set screamed black and white fuzz. My eyes shifted to the window and were greeted by the same picture as that on the television. It had begun sleeting earlier that day. Later it turned to snow, which was still pelting the white-blanketed earth. After reading the time from my watch, three-thirty a. m. , I decided I should probably head for home. My mind was thinking of the basketball practice our coach had graciously scheduled for seven o...
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Spina Bifida Spinal Cord
489 wordsSpina Bifida is a Latin term meaning split spine. It is the name given to a group of birth defects, which interfere with the development of the central nervous system: the brain, the spinal cord and the nerve tissues. It results from the failure of the spine to close properly during the first month of pregnancy. In severe cases, the spinal cord protrudes through the back and may be covered by skin or a thin membrane. Surgery to close a newborn's back is generally performed within 24 hours after ...
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Tae Kwon Mcgraw Hill
1,600 wordsHow does a roundhouse kick work? Tae Kwon Do is a Korean, unarmed martial art and is best known for its kicks (Park, 2001). The roundhouse kick is a turning kick and happens to be the most commonly used kick during competition (Lee, 1996). For this reason, the roundhouse kick will be analyzed in reference to sparring competition. The roundhouse kick, a multi planar skill, starts with the kicking leg traveling in an arc towards the front with the knee in a chambered position (Pearson, 1997). The ...
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Concept Of Time Bombing Of Dresden
1,078 wordsBilly Pilgrim has been through many cruelties in his life. As a child his own father was cruel to him. They had gone to the Y. M. C. A. to teach Billy how to swim. A horrible, traumatic, event that would stay with Billy for the rest of his life. "Little Billy was terrified, because his father had said Billy was going to learn to swim by the method of sink-or -swim. His father was going to throw Billy into the deep end, and Billy was going to damn well swim" (43). Roland Wear was a very cruel man...
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Form Of Meditation Pituitary Gland
1,026 words... of the head, most likely in one of the ears. You should not listen to the sound current in the left ear because this is psychically harmful. Listen to it in the right ear, and gradually try to move it to the center and top of the brain. From this vertex center, known as the Sahasraram Chakra (whose associated gland is the pineal body), allow the vibration of the sound current to fill the entire head and to then expand beyond the head into the surrounding space. This is one of the classical m...
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Form Of Meditation Pituitary Gland
988 words... head. It relates to the sound current and the faculty of clairvoyant hearing, and is the most spiritual of all the chakras. When this chakra is fully developed, union with God-consciousness is possible, and Illumination takes place. By focusing the attention in any one of the chakras, the lower overtones of the concentration of consciousness in that location activates that chakra and increases the energy flow in it, making possible a conscious entry into the superphysical planes of energy. M...
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Long Term Effects Rheumatoid Arthritis
1,578 wordsIntroduction There are more than 115 different types of arthritis. Some are very serious and hold the potential for severe disability and deformity, if left untreated. Others may generate only mild discomfort, which may be totally controlled with relative ease. Myths and misconceptions thrive everywhere. Despite the continued efforts of medical professionals, and The Arthritis Society, a large proportion of the population still believes that arthritis is nothing more that aches and pains, is nev...
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One Of The Most Common Back Pain
521 wordsBackache is one of the most common of all diseases - and probably the most disabling. Between one-half and three-quarters of British adults suffer from it. In any two week period between one-quarter and one-third of all adults get some back pain. Among 30 -, 40 - and 50 -year olds backache is so common as to be more normal than abnormal. The pain and the personal agony caused by all this backache is phenomenal but impossible to estimate in any measurable terms, and over the years doctors have ma...
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Cutting Edge Medical School
673 wordsDisorders of the brain, spine and nerves commonly treated by neurosurgeons include: Carotid Artery Disease, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Cervical Spine Disorders, Chronic Pain, Craniosynostosis, Epilepsy, Head Injury, Herniated Disk, Hydrocephalus, Intracranial Aneurysm, Lumbar Spinal, Stenosis, Meningomyelocele, Parkinson's Disease, Spina Bifida, Spinal Cord Injury, Stroke (Brain Attack), Trigeminal Neuralgia, Tumors. After four years of medical school and an internship program, the doctor enters a ...
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Epidural And Natural Childbirth
1,530 wordsEpidural and Natural Childbirth Childbirth is principal and very important mission for every woman. Every future mum looks forward to happiness of bringing a new person to this world, and to joy of seeing him growing up and developing. But at the same time every pregnant woman is usually very anxious about the severe pain and suffering, which always accompany the whole long process of natural childbirth. Modern medical technologies offer some opportunities to cope with the pain by using, for exa...
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Womens Basketball Physical Characteristics
1,456 wordsEpidemiology of Varsity Sports Varsity sports is in many schools as important as academics, especially in the United States. These schools rely a great deal on the success of their teams for financial stability and enrollment interest. The athletes as well take their sport very seriously, if only for the sake of their pride. It therefore follows that each team strives to be the very best, and only 100 % effort is enough. Unfortunately, when competition climaxes, more often than not injuries resu...
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Child Was Born Pure Evil
816 wordsThe doors of the empty house swung open and drifted gently back and forth in the wind. Empty? Muffled screams came from one of the rooms. I opened the door to a scene of inhuman, blasphemous, butchery. Naked men and women were nailed upside down on inverted crucifixes. Blood was dripping down the walls of the pentagonal shaped room. Bits and pieces of rotting flesh was strewn about the place. In the center of the room was a huge inverted pentagram drawn in blood. At each of the five points burnt...
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Genetic Disorders Birth Defect
363 wordsGenetic disorders, affecting many different races and genders, have been around for a very long time. Genetic disorders, usually caused by recessive genes, range from minor traits to conditions that prove fatal. Moreover, disorders often result in multiple abnormalities. Furthermore, skeletal and muscular disorders are often transmitted by a single gene, like achondroplasia, a type of dwarfism characterized by abnormal proportions of the arms, legs and body, results from impaired cartilage growt...
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Bone Mass Bone Loss
1,457 wordscondition Hypogravitational Osteoporosis Osteoporosis: a condition characterized by an absolute decrease in the amount of bone present to a level below which it is capable of maintaining the structural integrity of the skeleton. To state the obvious, Human beings have evolved under Earths gravity " 1 G" . Our musculo skeleton system have developed to help us navigate in this gravitational field, endowed with ability to adapt as needed under various stress, strains and available energy ...
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Dream Come True James Dean
1,137 wordsAs far James Dean Bio As far back as I can remember, the one constant in my life has been music, says Jessica Andrews. I was raised around it. My mom was in some bands, and her whole family had a talent for singing. Wed all get together and play music everyone would sing a cappella. Those sing-alongs were my favorite pastime. To be able to make a record and perform all over the country is just a dream come true! With her debut DreamWorks release, Heart Shaped World, Jessica Andrews is seeing the...
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Surface Of The Water One Arm
1,078 wordsIn swimming there is no stroke harder to learn then the Butterfly stroke. This is the stroke where the swimmer swims kicking like a dolphin and pulling with his or her hands at the same time under the water and recovering for the next stroke above water with both arms at the same time in an almost circular motion. There are many steps in learning how to execute this stroke correctly. These steps are called drills, when you perform them in the pool. The first drill you should learn is the Kick dr...
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Spinal Cord Spinal Injuries
454 wordsSpinal injuries are a very serious, and even life-threatening, problem facing almost everyone at some point in there lives. If a broken vertebra pinches a spinal nerve, paralysis may result. The spine is a column of vertebrae stacked one on the next from the skull s base to the tail bone. Each vertebra is hollow through the center where the spinal cord runs through. There are some signs and symptoms that you should check for if you suspect spinal injury on an injured person. Head injuries may in...
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Spinal Injuries Spinal Cord
456 wordsSpinal Injuries Spinal injuries are a very serious, and even life-threatening, problem facing almost everyone at some point in there lives. If a broken vertebra pinches a spinal nerve, paralysis may result. The spine is a column of vertebrae stacked one on the next from the skull s base to the tail bone. Each vertebra is hollow through the center where the spinal cord runs through. There are some signs and symptoms that you should check for if you suspect spinal injury on an injured person. Head...
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Spina Bifida Spinal Cord
772 wordsWhat is Spina Bifida? Spina bifida is a neural tube defect (NTD) which occurs within the first four weeks of pregnancy. The NTD occurs when the vertebrae and / or spinal cord of the fetus fail to develop properly, and results in varying degrees of damage to the spinal cord and nervous system. The damage is permanent. SB is usually accompanied by hydrocephalus. Treatment is urgent to minimize further neurological damage in the opening in the spine. The three most common types of SB are: Myelomeni...
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