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Late Eighteenth Century British North America
2,918 words... tes often greater than for all other overseas trades combined. Slave mortality usually increased during the last stages of a particularly long passage when there were shortages of food and water. The Atlantic crossing lasted three to five weeks from West African trading sites such as the Gambia, Senegal, and Sierra Leone Rivers. Near the equator, in regions such as the Bights of Benin and Biafra (near present-day Nigeria), the voyage to the Americas took several months. A few French ships tr...
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Russian Navy Nuclear Submarine
1,673 wordsThe White Sea and the Barents Sea have been of importance to the Russian merchant fleet ever since the 15 th century. Because of this, Russias Navy has always been an important part of the Russian Military. The matter of access to ice free harbors in the north became even more important after Germany became a significant naval power in the Baltic Sea. Events during World War I increased the importance of the Kola Peninsula to Russia very much. The Kola Peninsula and the White sea played an vital...
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Post Cold War Second World War
2,205 words... latin was to launch the infamous Kamikaze anti shipping campaign. Though Japanese Army Air Force pilots occasionally flew on such one-way suicide missions, the overwhelming majority of Kamikazes were Japanese naval attackers. The threat of the Kamikaze was the greatest aerial anti shipping threat faced by Allied warfare forces in the war. Approximately 2, 800 Kamikaze attackers sunk 34 Navy ships, damaged 368 others, killed 4, 900 sailors, and wounded over 4, 800. The Kamikaze anticipated th...
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Supreme Court Case One Hundred And Fifty
1,965 wordsDuring the eighteen hundreds how did the simple transportation device of steamboats affect the political makeup in the United States government? Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the use of steamboats grew heavily throughout the nation of the United States, as well as world wide. During this time the United States was in desperate need of a new sufficient source of transportation, the steamboat allowed a large expansion of the growing nation, through its many natural waterw...
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Captains Log Of Kptlt Otto Hersing
1,453 wordsH 2 >Captains Recovery Captains Log is about a Captain commanding a German submarine in World War I. He commands one of the most important and renowned naval vessels in the German fleet. Receiving a medal for two years in the sea, he became famous and hated by the allies. I received this amount as a combination of a Social Studies and English project. I had to write about something in World War I so I chose a naval vessel in the German Imperial Navy. The way I came up with this topic was ...
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Bronze And The Shang Dynasty
1,339 wordsA societies use of the materials surrounding them is imperative to their success as a prominent civilization. The reign of the Shang dynasty roughly began around c 1600 - c 1050 bc, during this time the middle class artisans devoted much of their time to perfecting bronze work for ritualistic purposes as well as military basis; while the Shang kings and nobles held positions of high power and prestige over the common day labourer. The kings were thought as having a special connection with the an...
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White Blood Cells Parts Of The Body
1,025 wordsCirculatory System is the combined function of the heart, blood, and blood vessels to transport oxygen and nutrients to organs and tissues throughout the body and carry away waste products. The circulatory system increases the flow of blood to meet increased energy demands during exercise and regulates body temperature. Also, when foreign substances or organisms invade the body, the circulatory system quickly sends disease-fighting elements of the immune system, such as white blood cells and ant...
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Coronary Artery Disease High Blood Pressure
2,644 wordsAneurysm-This term refers to a localized dilation of an artery or chamber of the heart. The behavior and prognosis for aneurysms varies, depending on their size and location. Aneurysms of the heart are usually the result of a prior heart attack. They generally don't require surgical resection. They may result in congestive heart failure and arrhythmias. Aneurysms of the main artery of the body, the aorta, generally require resection once they reach a certain size-anywhere from 4. 5 to 6. 0 centi...
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Coronary Arteries Beta Blockers
2,398 words... ot a frank heart attack. The condition is stabilized with antiplatelet agents, anticoagulants, nitrates and beta blockers. Diagnostically, an angiogram or (after stabilization) a stress test is often performed to confirm whether or not the presenting symptoms were truly from the heart and if so, whether an angioplasty or bypass operation is needed. RETURN TO TOP -V- Varicose Veins-These are dilated veins in the legs that do not drain the blood out of the legs properly. They occur with aging ...
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Sickle Cell Disease Red Blood Cells
1,334 wordsdisorder that affects red blood cells. People with sickle cell have red blood cells that have mostly hemoglobin's, Sometimes these red blood cells become sickle-shaped or crescent shaped and have trouble going through small blood vessels. When sickle-shaped cells block small blood vessels, less blood can get to that part of the body. Tissue that does not get a normal blood flow eventually becomes damaged. This is what causes the problems of sickle cell disease. As to this day there is really no ...
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Benign Tumors Malignant Tumors
1,817 wordsSarcoma Sarcoma, highly malignant tumor arising in connective- and muscle-cell tissue. It is the result of oncogenes (the cancer causing genes of some viruses) and proto-oncogenes (cancer causing genes in human cells). It may affect bone, cartilage, blood vessels, lymph nodes, and skin. Soft tissue sarcomas are malignant (cancerous) tumors that can develop from fat, muscle, nerve, joint, blood vessel, or deep skin tissues. They can develop in any part of the body. Half of them develop in the arm...
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Blood Vessels Second Degree
2,792 wordsHuman Skin In human anatomy skin can be defined as the covering, or integument, of the body's surface that both provides protection and receives sensory stimuli from the external environment. The skin consists of three layers of tissue: the epidermis, an outermost layer that contains the primary protective structure, the stratum corneum; the dermis, a fibrous layer that supports and strengthens the epidermis; and the sub cutis, a subcutaneous layer of fat beneath the dermis that supplies nutrien...
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Vessels In The Back Blood Vessels In The Back Eye
431 wordsSeeing the Vessels of the Retina Have you ever seen a doctor look into a patients eye with an instrument called an ophthalmoscope? The instrument lights up the inside of the eye and magnifies the vessels of the retina in the rear of the eye. This gives the doctor an idea about how healthy you are as he looks at all the vessels in the back of your eye. HYPOTHESIS I wanted to know if a person could see the blood vessels in the back of their own eye without using the instrument that the doctor uses...
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Coronary Artery Disease Coronary Heart Disease
5,798 wordsINTRODUCTION In todays society, people are gaining medical knowledge at quite a fast pace. Treatments, cures, and vaccines for various diseases and disorders are being developed constantly, and yet, coronary heart disease remains the number one killer in the world. The media today concentrates intensely on drug and alcohol abuse, homicides, AIDS and so on. What a lot of people are not realizing is that coronary heart disease actually accounts for about 80 % of all sudden deaths. In fact, the num...
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Men And Women Enemy Soldiers
5,151 wordsThe Fall of Constantinople, 1453 When, at the age of twenty-one, Mehmed II (1451 - 1481) sat on the throne of the Ottoman Sultans his first thoughts turned to Constantinople. The capital was all that was left from the mighty Christian Roman Empire and its presence, in the midst of the dominions of the powerful new rulers of the lands of Romania, was pregnant with danger. The new Sultan demonstrated diplomatic abilities, during his early attempts to isolate politically the Byzantine capital, when...
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White Blood Cells Lymph Nodes
480 wordsHodgkins disease, sometimes called Hodgkins lymphoma, is a cancer that starts in lymphatic tissue. Lymphatic tissue includes the lymph nodes and related organs that are part of the bodys immune and blood-forming systems. The lymph nodes are small, bean-shaped organs found underneath the skin in the neck, underarm, groin, and elsewhere in the body. They are also found inside the chest, abdomen, and pelvis. Lymph nodes make and store infection-fighting white blood cells, called lymphocytes. They a...
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Tricyclic Antidepressants Coronary Artery
4,629 wordsCardiac Location and Structures The heart is the driving force of the circulatory system, contracting about 70 times / minute to pump an adequate volume of blood with sufficient pressure to perfuse all body organs and tissues. The muscular organ, about the size of a clenched fist, weights from 300 to 400 g. It is located within the mediastinum of the thoracic cavity, above the diaphragm and between the lungs. This location subjects the heart? s activity to influence from all pressure variances d...
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Red Blood Cells Pulmonary Artery
6,589 wordsForwards and backwards to the right and are at the same level of the fifth to eight dorsal vertebrae. The apex of the heart points downwards and forwards to the left and corresponds to the space between the fifth and sixth ribs. However, in thin people, the hearts apex may be pointing more downwards than to the left. Its atrial border corresponds to a line drawn across the sternum on a level with the upper border of the third costal cartilage. Its apex corresponds to a line drawn across the lowe...
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Food And Water End The War
2,370 wordsThe word privateer conjures a romantic image in the minds of most Americans. Tales of battle and bounty pervade the folklore of privateering, which has become a cherished, if often overlooked part of our shared heritage. Legends were forged during the battle for American independence, and these men were understandably glorified as part of the formation of our national identity. The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of these men were common opportunists, if noteworthy naval warriors. T...
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Sickle Cell Anemia Red Blood Cells
827 wordsSickle Cell Sickle cell is the most common inherited blood disease, which causes waves of pain, damage to vital organs, and some die in childhood or early adulthood. The disease is most commonly found in blacks and Hispanics of Caribbean descent. Around one out of every 400 blacks inherits the sickle cell disease. Sickle cell occurs when two sickle cell genes or a combination of one sickle cell gene plus any one of several other hemoglobin genes. This report will go in depth with many major issu...
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