What is the harm of Asbestos in Your Home? Homes in Australia built before 1990 could contain asbestos. What is that so alarming? Asbestos is a known substance that when inhaled or ingested causes various health problems including mesothelioma and lung cancer. The following will discuss what you need to know about asbestos and what to do about it if you find out it is in your home. What is Asbestos? Asbestos is a natural silicate mineral that consists of miniscule fibres. When it gets stirred up
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Self harm is a way of expressing and dealing with deep distress and emotional pain with the result of guilt and shame. As awful as it might sound to those who don’t do it‚ hurting themselves makes them feel better. The only problem with self-harm is that it doesn’t last for very long. It’s like putting on a band aid when what you really need is stitches. The band aid stops the bleeding temporarilly but doesn’t fix the problem and creates its own . I want you to close your eyes and imagine
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office‚ as new figures reveal he has spent just half of an £84m green budget. London’s Green Party assembly member Darren Johnson today revealed that Boris Johnson will have underspent on environmental policies every year since being elected mayor in May 2008‚ meaning he has used £40m of a total £84m budget. But Jones said the mayor ditched the 2012 target because he had "blown the budget" by investing in eight new hop-on-hop-off Routemaster buses‚ at a cost of £11.37m. "I think his new vanity bus
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The technical article I read was called "Ultra sound warning: Procedure may harm unborn babies’ brains." This article explained the danger to unborn babies when ultrasounds are performed on the mother to be. Research has been conducted to test the danger of ultrasounds on unborn mice. The research has shown some of the dangerous sides of ultrasounds. The mice were injected while in the womb to track their brain development. There were 335 mice injected. The research showed that the
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Self-harm does not discriminate against any gender‚ race educational background‚ age‚ sexual orientation‚ social economic status or religion. It affects a multitude of people around the world. Self-harm‚ or self- injury is the act of intentionally injuring one’s own body that typically leaves behind marks or can even do damage to body tissues. It is used as a coping mechanism most of the time. Self- injury can include cutting‚ burning (”branding”)‚ picking at skin‚ picking at scabs‚ re-opening wounds
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Violence is a behavior involving physical force intended to hurt‚ damage‚ or kill someone or something. As defined by the World Health Organization‚ it is the intentional use of physical force or power‚ threatened or actual‚ against a person‚ or against a group or community‚ which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury‚ death‚ psychological harm‚ or deprivation. This definition associates intentionality with the committing of the act itself‚ irrespective of the outcome it produces
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200483913 PIED2558 Security Studies “What is the security dilemma and what factors exacerbate it?” Word Count: 3‚227 S. Raszewski “The greatest war in history can be produced without the intervention of any great criminals who might be out to do deliberate harm in the world. It could be produced between two powers‚ both of which were desperately anxious to avoid a conflict of any sort.” (Butterfield‚ 1951: 19–20) The security dilemma is one of the most important theoretical ideas in international
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family deaths‚ financial problems‚ depression‚ and self harm-self hate. These are just a few. The upseting truth is that hundreds of thousands of americans struggle with these everyday realities almost their entire lives. Self hate-self harm is a serious problem. Self harm can be traced back to many things; most common are bullying‚ jealousy‚ lack of self worth or self confidence. The main cause is feeling as if your not good enough. Self harm is expressed in many ways including cutting of the skin
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I was very intrigued by the Social Security Game that we were assigned to play for this assignment. I appreciated the fact that it recognized that our Social Security program is at risk of being depleted by the time my peers and myself intend on retiring. At the beginning of the game they explained that during this process‚ two approaches to fixing this Social Security issue would be liable for our approval; Benefit reductions and Revenue increases. Under the circumstances of benefit reductions there
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the endothelium gets damaged. There are many causes of atherosclerosis such as: high blood pressure‚ high cholesterol‚ high triglycerides‚ smoking‚ obesity‚ diabetes and inflammation from certain diseases. High blood pressure adds extra pressure and force to the artery walls‚ with time the extra pressure can damage arteries and will make the possibility for the arteries to fill up with plaque higher. The buildup of cholesterol is one of the main causes of Atherosclerosis. Triglycerides are a type
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