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Prince William Sound Exxon Valdez
874 wordsThe Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: 10 Years Later The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: 10 Years Later Four minutes after midnight on March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound. Eleven million gallons of North Slope oil spewed into one of the most bountiful marine ecosystems in the world, killing birds, marine mammals, fish, and devastating the ecosystem. (Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Could It Happen Again? , 2000, May 10) Exxon claims the Sound has recovered, but envi...
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Cancer Has Spread Digestive Enzymes
1,149 wordsThe pancreas is a long narrow gland, which is part of both the digestive system and the endocrine system. This small organ is approximately six inches long and one inch thick. It is located in the upper abdomen and is attached to the duodenum, which is the upper part of the small intestine. It extends upward behind the stomach to the spleen. The pancreas is made up of two different types of tissue, the islets of Langerhans and acing cells. The pancreas has five sections: the wider end is called ...
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Part Of The Brain Blood Vessel
549 wordsWhen a family member has a stroke, the family could also be highly affected. The person may have slurred speech, facial weakness, loss of bladder control, difficulty in breathing and swallowing, and paralysis or weakness, particularly on one side of the body. A stroke is also referred to as cerebral apoplexy and cerebrovascular accident (CVA). It is a cardiovascular disease that affects the blood vessels supplying blood to the brain. It is also called a brain attack. A stroke occurs when a blood...
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Sickle Cell Anemia Red Blood Cells
678 wordsWhat is It? How can I get It? How do I know if I have It? Can I get It from my boyfriend? If I do have It, how can I treat It? Questions, after questions, all pertaining to one subject, sickle cell anemia, a disease that has affected the lives and homes of many people. Not knowing all you can know about this disease is the 5 % added to your chances of recieving it. Sickle cell anemia is an inherited blood disease which can cause bouts of pain, damage vital organs or even cause death in early chi...
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Sao Paulo Raw Sewage
735 wordsWater is polluted when any harmful substance is released into the water thus contaminating or making it unsuitable for marine life to survive. 3) Pesticides 7) Litter Take a look at a picture of a polluted river in Sao Caetano do Sul in Sao Paulo, Brazil. -- -- Factory waste is made out of a wide range of of impurities including poisonous substances such as memory, cyanide and lead; and corrosive, acidic or alkaline solutions. Toxic wastes when discharged into rivers and seas pollutes and poison...
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Inca Emperor Three Years Pizarro
562 wordsFrancisco Pizarro was born in the year 1445 in Trujillo, Spain, a small town near Caceres, Spain. He was the son of a Spanish infantry captain. He spent his childhood in one of the poorest regions of Spain with his grandparents. He never really learned to read and write. In 1502, he traveled to the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola with the governor of that Spanish colony. Pizarro took part in an expedition to Columbia in 1510, and three years later accompanied Vasco Nunez de Balboa in a journey th...
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Trade With China Century A D
2,102 wordsHistory has recorded that England and China used ceramic ware to drink their tea and those records go into great detail, showing contrasts and similarities between each culture's ceramics. The vast ideological differences between England and China show how social, political and ritualistic issues were reflected in the developments and changes made to the ware visually, as well as its functionality. Were the issues in each culture a result of external or internal influences, exchange, inspiration...
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First Nations Government Interference
1,643 wordsAfter reading Brian Maracle's book Back On The Rez, finding the way home, I discovered that First Nations culture is more important than any thing else in their lives. Without their original culture they would just be normal everyday Canadians with really great tans. I have decided that the three parts of culture I am going to descriptively explore are Taxophobia, the language, and Government interference. Taxophobia is a section in Maracle's book that could not have another title; there is no o...
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Spinal Cord Cerebrospinal Fluid
1,005 words... main, in short it's what makes humans, humans. IN THE FUTURE Today many experiments are being conducted that may be break through's for the future. For instance "brain grafting" is one procedure that may be used in the future. Brain grafting is to transplant a very thin layer of brain skin from one person to another. This would result in control of parkinson's disease and other seizure related diseases. Another radical idea that has already been successfully been tried on rhesus monkey's is,...
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Red Blood Cells Small Amounts
569 wordsJason's case is not unmoral for children of his age. After taking into consideration all of his ailing factors and noted symptoms it is apparent that Jason is suffering from Glomerulonephritis. Glomerulonephritis is the term used for several related diseases that damage the Glomeruli, the tiny filtering units in your kidneys. Glomerulonephritis is associated with disorders in which your immune system attacks the Glomeruli. In a healthy kidney, blood passes through the Glomeruli, which filter out...
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Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed Ibrahim Twins
721 wordsAhmed & Mohamed Ibrahim were separated Sunday, October 12, 2003 in a 33 hour marathon surgery. The actual physical separation occurred 26 hours into the surgery at 11: 17 am CST, however an additional 7 hours was needed to close the wounds. Ahmed & Mohamed Ibrahim were born in a small town 500 miles south of Cairo on June 2, 2001. They are identical twin boys, conjoined at the skull. They are normal little boys in every other way, but just happened to be born fused at the top of their skulls. Th...
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Feet Per Second Blood Vessels
1,014 wordsGunshot Wounds The handgun is the primary weapon in law enforcement. It is the one weapon any officer or agent can be expected to have available whenever needed. Its purpose is to apply deadly force to not only protect the life of the officer and the lives of others, but to prevent serious physical harm to them as well. When an officer shoots a subject, it is done with the explicit intention of immediately incapacitating that subject in order to stop the subject poses. Immediate incapacitation i...
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Pectoral Fins Fibrous Tissue
1,093 wordsDolphins are sleek Dolphins Dolphins Dolphins are sleek and powerful swimmers found in all seas. Dolphins are distinguished from porpoises by well-defined, beak-like snouts and conical teeth. There are at least 32 species of dolphins. Typical examples are the bottle-nosed dolphin, a popular performer in sea aquariums, and the common dolphin, which inspired many Mediterranean folk legends. Both often appear in open waters. Several freshwater species inhabit river estuaries in Asia and South Ameri...
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Coronary Artery Disease Coronary Heart Disease
1,297 wordsHeart attacks cause the death of millions of people per year. In this paper I will talk about the scientific names for heart attacks, the main causes of heart attacks, the symptoms of them, the treatments for them, and the last thing we will talk about is who is at risk for having a heart attack. But, before we can talk about these things we really should determine what heart attack really means. Heart Attack (noun): an acute episode of heart disease (as a myocardial infarction) due to insuffici...
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Coronary Artery Disease Coronary Heart Disease
871 wordsHeart attacks cause the death of millions of people per year. In this paper I will talk about the scientific names for heart attacks, the main causes of heart attacks, the symptoms of them, the treatments for them, and the last thing we will talk about is who is at risk for having a heart attack. But, before we can talk about these things we really should determine what heart attack really means. Heart Attack (noun): an acute episode of heart disease (as a myocardial infarction) due to insuffici...
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Coronary Artery Disease Heart Disease
809 wordsIt Heart Disease Heart Disease It is the time of progress. The time of supercomputers, space shuttles, and many other wonders of technology. We have walked on the moon. We do our shopping at home via Internet navigation. We can not only talk with, but we can see the person we are talking to thousands of miles away. It is mankind s greatest hour. Yet sadly, it is also our time of dying. Strange that no matter how advanced our society has become, our nation s health hasn t caught up. After all, he...
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Jay Treaty Domestic Policies
601 wordsFree-Response Essay There is no American history separate from the history of Europe. The truth in this statement can be widely examined, with one taking a justifiable position that American history greatly derives from the history of Europe. This opinion can be supported by considering the impact of European events on the domestic policies of the United States from 1789 - 1815. In 1789, the French Revolution erupted, with war breaking out four years later between France and Great Britain and mo...
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Congress Passed President Roosevelt
843 wordsIn the early 1930 s, America was troubled by the rise of dictatorships in Italy and Germany, and a militaristic government in Japan, but felt unable, and unwilling, to do anything about these developments. The inability of the League Of Nations to halt aggressor nations further strengthened American isolationists. As a result, isolationist congressmen succeeded in passing neutrality acts intended to keep the United States out of another war. President Roosevelt invoked the Neutrality Acts agains...
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Grand Duke Blood Vessels
963 wordsIn his book, The Last Tsar, Edvard Radzinsky describes a very interesting viewpoint of the life and death of Nicholas Alexandrovich, the last Russian Tsar. Radzinsky's illustration of this ill-fated monarch follows the diaries of Nicholas from their beginning on March 1, 1881, to the final entry on July 16, 1918. 1 Radzinsky mainly goes over pre-marital relationship between Nicholas and Alexandra, the medical condition of Nicholas son, Alexei, and the imprisonment and execution of Nicholas and h...
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Breast Milk Thirty Eight
1,232 wordsPremature Infancy Premature babies, otherwise known as preterm babies, or preemies, are babies that are born earlier than the full-term of thirty-eight to forty-two weeks of pregnancy. These babies are generally born between the twentieth and thirty-eighth week. Almost 250, 000 babies, nearly seven percent of newborns, are premature (Grant 4). Prematurity, even with all the advances in technology, is still a major cause of fetal and neonatal death. Actually, around seventy-five percent of perina...
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