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    I was climbing a bench at Brea Mall and suddenly blood was all over the floor and my face was hurting so bad. I thought I could cry 5 gallons of water. Finally by the time we got home I went straight to my mom and dads room and I noticed “I WAS MISSING A TOOTH” I screamed at the top of my lungs and my mom rushed to the room but eventually I stopped screaming and calmly laid down on the bed and fell asleep while watching the show Phineas and Ferb(I was only 6 so I should be aloud to watch the

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    the U.S‚ has a large homeless community that could benefit from our help and we feel that Drexel has the potential to do so. The goal for our campaign is to help our local homeless community while using the dining dollars that would otherwise not have been used. There is always an abundance of meal swipes left over as most students do not end up using all of them. The remaining amount of food that would have been purchased with those meal swipes can be donated to a local homeless shelter or soup kitchen

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    “BREAKING NEWS: 2 WWI Veterans and Infant Killed‚ While 8-Year-Old Was Blinded By Tear Gas‚” read the headlines in 1932 during the great depression. In the years leading up to the protest the government had promised WWI veterans a bonus for their service to our country. The WWI Veterans protest was one of the most famous protests because of who the attack was made on. This protests was one of the hardest taken by the United States because our own president drove the people who fought for our country

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    By far‚ the Veteran Health Administration‚ is one of the largest integrated health care systems‚ not only nationally‚ but internationally. Nationwide‚ with “150 medical centers‚ 1‚400 community-based outpatient clinics‚ community living centers‚ and Vet Centers‚” (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs‚ 2015)‚ this health care system provides a wide range of services to more than approximately ten million veterans annually. Internationally the Veterans Health Administration in combination with the Foreign

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    For Veterans with PTSD‚ A New Demon: Their Meds Threat of Addiction to Prescription Painkillers Heightened With Mental Illness By Thomas Catan  @tomcatan  Thomas.Catan@wsj.com  Thomas Catan  Biography  Thomas Catan  @tomcatan  Thomas.Catan@wsj.com  Thomas Catan  Biography Updated Nov. 10‚ 2013 10:32 p.m. ET NEWPORT‚ N.H.—Desperation drove Timothy Fazio‚ a former Marine‚ to turn up around midnight at a veterans’ hospital near Boston. His post-traumatic stress disorder was causing

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    The Growing Social Problems Facing our U.S. Veterans Today There are numerous social problems that plague our world today. These issues can be very detrimental to our society as a whole and can also have very negative impacts on many lives. One major social problem we are facing today is the way we are dealing with and handling our United States Veterans. Despite the fact that we are one of the world’s most powerful nations we are failing to properly take care of our service members who put

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    Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Washington‚ DC 20420 VHA HANDBOOK 1101.03 Transmittal Sheet April 30‚ 2009 ORGAN‚ TISSUE‚ AND EYE DONATION PROCESS 1. REASON FOR ISSUE. This Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Handbook describes the procedures for processing referrals to local procurement organizations‚ which encompass solid organ‚ tissue‚ and eye donation. 2. SUMMARY OF CHANGES. This is a new Handbook defining the parameters of Organ‚ Tissue‚ and Eye Donation within

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    Poverty and Homeless March 20‚ 2012 Poverty and Homeless Poverty Poverty can be defined in several ways and can mean different things to people of different societies. Absolute poverty is to have inadequate funds to provide a minimum standard of living for oneself or one’s family. Relative poverty is defined as doing worse off financially than the average person in a given society. Persons living in relative poverty may have no car‚ no television‚ and no toys for their children but have

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    always last for one month. According to the Department of Veteran Affairs‚ the number of Veterans with PTSD varies by service era. For example‚ in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom‚ about 11-20 out of every 100 veterans who served in OIF or OEF have PTSD in a given year. With the Gulf War‚ about 12 out every 100 Gulf War Veterans have PTSD in a given year. When it comes to the Vietnam War veterans‚ about 15 out of every 100 veterans were currently diagnosed with PTSD at the time of a study

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    Communication thru Art Although it does not look like there was not too much thought into the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial‚ there was actually an extreme amount of thought put into it. One end of the memorial points to Washington Monument that represents the first president of the US. The other end of the Memorial points to the Lincoln Memorial which not only represent another president but where other historical events took place. Its shape can be left up to your interpretation;

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