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- 4041: American Indians 2
- ... history. As children, we are taught that in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue , and that Peter Minuet bought all of Manhattan Island from the Indians for only twenty-four dollars worth of trinkets. In high school, we were taught that in World War II, the Germans were all heartless savages, and that the best course of action to end the war was to use the atomic bomb on Japan. It is ...
- 4042: The Nursing Home: A Nice Place for the Elderly
- ... recall visiting a local nursing home with my second grade Brownie troop. We sang songs and made crafts with the residents. It was an enjoyable experience for everyone. Just last year, I went with my high school's Beta Club to a nearby nursing home where we held a Valentine's Day party with cake and ice cream for all of the residents. They really enjoyed our company. Aside from outside visitors ...
- 4043: The Heart
- ... that moves blood into the right ventricle through the tricuspid valve. The atria are the two upper chambers of the heart. The right atrium receives blood from the veins which is low in oxygen and high in carbon dioxide; this blood is then transferred to the right lower chamber, or right ventricle, and is pumped into the lungs. Ventricles The ventricle is a muscular chamber that pumps blood out of the ... its heart so there is an increased blood flow from the left side to the right side because the left side has more pressure than right side. The lungs at this state are under very high in pressure. Treatment for this disease depends on it size of defect. About 30%-50% of small defects close spontaneously during the first year of life. Artrial Septal Defect Atrial Septal defect is a opening which is high in the heart between the upper chambers (atria). This disease is more common in female infants than in male infants, and it often occurs with children who have Down syndrome. Disorders of Heart Rate ...
- 4044: Smoking Tobacco
- ... anywhere. All the stores are selling cigaretes. You don't even need an identification card to identify your age if you want legal! Almost anyone can buy them! Yes, the are legal! Nowadays, even middle high school students are already smoking, and willl even lead to using drugs such as: marijuana, cocaine, and heroin. Smoking causes all sorts of cancer. It affects your brain and it do not prolong your life, not ...
- 4045: Smoking
- ... males who smoke decreased from more than 60 percent to about 25 percent; however, the percentage of women who smoke cigarettes increased. Smoking also became more prevalent among young adults, with about 29 percent of high school seniors admitting to smoking in 1975; but by 1987 this proportion decreased to 18.7 percent. There are programs that exist to help smokers quit. Some involve group support, whereas others use aversive techniques in ...
- 4046: Tim Paterson
- ... Paterson claims, "it is an accomplishment that probably can't be repeated by anyone ever." After Paterson graduated from University of Washington in Seattle with a bachelors of science degree, he tried going to graduate school but lost interest. "I thought they were too oriented towards theory and not what I needed." Although he received a good education at U of W, Paterson did not learn the majority of his computer ... was working for a larger corporation, big companies such as IBM wanted better computer programs to fit their computers. So Paterson headed up the division to make an eleven versions of MS-DOS. With these high demands came a lot of bickering from the company. "The whole process drove me crazy. A lot of bugs - PTR's (Program Trouble Reports)--kept dribbling in and IBM would make a telephone call a ...
- 4047: Age Of Reform In America
- ... of capital and the servility of labor (Brinkley 337). Mann recognized that the strongest backing of democracy was education. Horace Mann is known foremost for the great amount of changes he brought to the Massachusetts school system, making it a much more education-friendly environment. All across America public support for school systems was increasing. Elementary schools were now commonly found from town to town as opposed to the rarely seen schoolhouses of the past. Due to America s diversity as a nation, along with the fact ... teachers weren t even well-taught themselves compared to those in New England. In the South, the slavery system forbade black education. Besides that, very little of the white population went to schools anyway. Establishing school systems in these areas was a tricky job. Despite problems in the South and West with education, America had grown into a more learned nation. Over 80% of the population (excluding the slavery population) ...
- 4048: Schizophrenia
- ... of schizophrenics usually begin in late adolescence or early adulthood. The syndrome begins with a gradual deterioration of behavior that may be more noticeable to the patient's friends than to parents, especially in a high-school-aged person. Schizophrenia occurs in equal numbers in males and females, but women, on average, seem to develop the disease four or five years later than men do. Rarely does schizophrenia first appear in either ...
- 4049: Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenia "In my senior year of high school, I began to experience personality changes. I did not realize the significance of the changes at the time, and I think others denied them, but looking back I can see that they were the earliest ...
- 4050: The Life Of Chief Seattle
- ... memories I have were that they were the two teams that didn't have any uniforms. Now I look back and for all I know maybe they couldn't afford any. While I was in high school I remember driving with my friends to the Indian reservations to buy illegal fireworks. I never really gave it much thought beyond the fact that they were places to get illegal fireworks. Anyway, like I ...
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