Imagine waking up in a hospital room having to gasp for air. Oxygen tubes covering your throat making it hard to relax. Cranial tubes pushed into your skull trickling blood onto your hospital outfit/gown forming you to be nauseated‚ all as a result of a hard knock to the head. Concussions are among the most common and most dangerous injuries youth athletes receive. The majority of concussions and other mellow traumatic brain injuries should ultimately go away within one to six weeks. In some cases
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jellyfish. But the things we humans do -- we fish‚ we pollute‚ we dam‚ we build‚ we translocate making life harder for fish and better for jellyfish. And so‚ as we look around the world‚ we see that many of the most heavily disturbed ecosystems have "flipped" to being dominated by jellyfish instead of fish. Refrigerator-sized jellies growing in the seas of China and drifting into Japanese and Korean waters. And once in control‚ they don’t seem to be letting go. We don’t have a solution for the damages
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flew off the back of the tube the moment we collided with the monster wave. We began to tip and before I knew it‚ we were vertical in the air with me on the top‚ Annette in the middle‚ and Sami already plummeting into the blue waters. The whole tube flipped on it’s stomach and I was soaring through the air when I landed straight on my bottom like I lept into a cannonball. When everyone surfaced‚ we started screaming with laughter and bewilderment at what just occurred. Not only will I never forget that
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Description of the solution Our ‘wonderchairs’ are like glossy silver eggs made from hard glass-fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP). Chairs have three foldable layers with two wheels at the bottom. The top layer with one side stuffed with rayon can be flipped over as a backrest. The backrest is positioned at an angle of 100°and stuffed with soft Rayon stuffing which supports the back of the body comfortably. The second layer serves as a table with a 22cm-radius‚ overcoming the existing defect of being
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panel‚ which was enough to amuse the children. If she didn’t have clever ways to get her thoughts across‚ she would be completely ignored. The parents have been setting the wrong example for their children by disrespecting Grandmother. When the car flipped the Grandmother feared her son’s hostility. She was immediately guilt ridden and made herself look as vulnerable as possible. Her family had every right to be upset with her and she knew it. The family‚ used to hearing her ridiculous stories and
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On a warm‚ wishful week in August marked the beginning of a new school year for me in California. I had already been through one year of elementary school in this new state and now I was going to fourth grade. Elementary school is not the hardest experience for anyone to go through‚ but for me‚ it was the most traumatic and one week was all it took. At my cheerful looking elementary school‚ every class had a specific table assigned to them and that was the place they would eat lunch and you were
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develop a phobia of roller coasters later on in their life. When I was about 8 years old‚ my family took me to Universal Studios in Orlando‚ Florida. At that time‚ I had no idea what a roller coaster really was. They asked me to get on a ride that flipped me every direction possible. I felt sick to my stomach‚ scared and wanted to cry. I still to this day‚ will never get on a roller coaster. I’m terrified of heights‚ flipping upside down and going extremely fast. I’m hoping‚ one day I will conquer
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old sister gasped in shock. This was when I was certain that I was right. “Our backyard window is broken!” I stopped in the middle of the hallway. “What happened?” was all I could manage to sputter out‚ but I already knew the answer. The couch was flipped over and the TV was gone. Being only thirteen at the time‚ I thought
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“Aha!” She confidently walks in and drops a large shoebox in my lap. “...so what do you want me to do with it?” I ask. I pick it up and look at its surface‚ trying to find a name or something on it. A small border on the bottom catches my eye and I flipped the box over to see what was on it. Ultimately‚ that ends up with all the contents in the box spilling in my lap and on the
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So you may wonder what happened to this nice housewife‚ she just went crazy. Well actually she was put in an asylum when she was little and she developed a very weird double personality. She actually ran away from the police and became a whole new person. She was planning to kill Mr. Maloney for a while because she wanted was a child of her own to keep her sane. But she had no idea what was to come. The police officers didn’t leave her house until pretty late. She was acting you would think someone
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