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    Car Theft Short Story

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    Car Theft With the television on and my mom asleep I found myself with a problem. With my mind open and my knees bouncing I searched the house looking for something to do. After several laps around the house I found my mom’s keys. Without hesitation I bolted out the back door slowly shutting it behind me. Jumping the fence and approaching the car I finally decided to jump in. Already knowing how to drive‚ I wasn’t nervous. Leaving the lights off so that the glare wouldn’t seep into my mom’s

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    malaria arose because of the poor hygiene all over the neighborhoods. People dumped the waste out of the windows and it was plagued with dogs and flies. Therefore‚ disease spread quickly. Rome also got the back end of small pox coming from the Han dynasty. The Han dynasty has small pox and measles brought to them from immigrants and interactions. Several

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    Shingles

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    Shingles also known as Herpes Zoster‚ is a blistering rash caused by the Varicella virus‚ or more commonly known as the Chicken Pox virus. This rash only affects a limited area of the skin‚ and is usually associated with pain. It can make you feel tired‚ run down‚ and even depressed. (1) Shingles has existed since the middle ages and was mistaken for small pox‚ which at the time was the prevalent disease. The origin wasn’t first discussed till 1831‚ by a scientist named Richard Bright‚ who hypothesized

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    Chicken pox is caused by the Varicella zoster virus and is an airborne infection that is commonly accompanied but the Varicella rash. The Varicella Zoster virus enters ‘through the respiratory tract and conjunctiva’ (Varicella‚ Dr Cindy Weinbaum) where replication of the viruses starts to take place within 24 – 48hours of being in contact with a primary host. Varicella (Chicken pox) is seen throughout the world as it is a common virus‚ which is

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    Varicella

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    CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Varicella (chicken pox) is highly communicable and is a common epidemic disease of childhood (peak incidence in children age 2-6 years). Adult cases do occur. Zoster occurs sporadically‚ chiefly in adults and without seasonal prevalence. Ten to 20 percent of adults will experience at least one zoster attack during their lifetime. It is much more common in winter and spring than in summer in temperate climates. Varicella spreads readily by airborne droplets

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    Phytochemical

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    Euphorbia hirta‚ Ocimum gratissimum‚ Persea americana‚ Peperomia pellucida‚ and Vernonia amygdalina). Qualitative phytochemical analyses of the plant parts have revealed the presence of various components of medical importance including tannins‚ flavonoids‚ cardiac glycosides‚ alkaloids‚ saponin and inulins. Cardiac glycosides were present in all the species studied while alkaloids were present in all except A. sativum‚ A. cepa‚ O. gratissimum and P. americana. Saponnins were present in all except the

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    The Five Senses

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    Encyclopedia Brittanica(Vol. 24‚ pp. 785-860). USA: Encyclopedia Brittanica. 3) Hodgson‚ E.S. (2000). Taste. Encyclopedia Americana(Vol. 26 pp. 309) USA: Grolier 4) Chandler‚ J.R. (2000). Tongue. Encyclopedia Americana(Vol. 26 pp. 838) USA: Grolier 5) Encyclopedia Americana (2000). Smell. Encyclopedia Americana(Vol. 25 pp. 50) USA: Grolier 6) Karlson‚ B.M. (2000). Nose. Encyclopedia Americana(Vol. 20 pp. 482-485) USA: Grolier

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    Vaccines Pros Cons

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    These vaccines continue to grow as the years went by. The government had made the vaccinations mandatory in 1905. The‚ “U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Jacobson vs. Massachusetts upheld the constitutionality of mandatory small pox vaccination programs to preserve the public health” (History). This law required everyone to take the vaccine to stop the virus from further infecting people. If anyone rejected it they would be fined. However‚ this violated the 14th amendment. A minister

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    Task a Childcare may be provided within a variety of settings‚ from a childminders home through to a purpose built building‚ making it difficult to be too prescriptive about how a safe environment can be achieved. The obvious starting point is to ensure that basic principles are being followed; for example‚ no matter how good the security of a building is‚ the doors must be closed properly in the first place‚ otherwise all other efforts are likely to be worthless. The message that safety begins

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    Reye Syndrome

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    occasionally called Reye-Jacobsen’s Syndrome‚ is known to follow any viral infection. Two of the most common viral infections it precedes is influenza‚ "the flu"‚ and chicken pox. A now-familiar warning on bottles of aspirin‚ most notably Tylenol‚ is not to give Tylenol to a child who is recovering from the chicken pox‚ a fever‚ or any other viral infection. The link between aspirin and Reye’s Syndrome and is not fully understood‚ but all reported cases of Reye’s Syndrome include a child who

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