The Integumentary system is considered the largest system in the human body that protects it from various kinds of damage‚ however this does not prevent skin disorders to appear. Keloids is a skin disorder that results from the overgrowth of scar tissue that occurs at the site of a skin injury. They occur where trauma‚ surgery‚ blisters‚ vaccinations‚ acne or body piercing have injured the skin. Keloids can affect any part of the body‚ but they are most commonly found on the chest. According
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The body is made up of a number of systems that all interlink and produce everything we need in order to survive. Within the body there is the digestive system; the circulatory system‚ the nervous system‚ the muscular system‚ the skeletal system and the reproductive system. These systems are all part of one another and they share organs‚ tissues and cells and that is how they interlink. The diagram above shows each system and where they are located in the body. Each system is shown in a different
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Reaction Paper In his article Body Rituals among the Nacirema‚ Miner effectively convinces his reader of the ridiculous nature of America’s obsession with the body’s health and visual appeal by allowing his readers to form an opinion about themselves without realizing they are their own subject. At first glance the reader may be convinced he is reading about magical beliefs and extreme practices of a little know civilization. Miner effectively employs an academic tone as he opens the paper with
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Is Reconstructive Human Cloning Unethical? Since the beginning of the mid-20th century people were trying to progress the human era and thus begin a new era of humanity. Many of these theoretical approaches and trials have failed due to lack of experience and the technology. One of the first ones to experiment with an ultra-humans or super humans were Germans during the Second World War under the command of Adolf Hitler. “Experiments on twin children in concentration camps were created to show the
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Spontaneous Human Combustion Spontaneous Human Combustion(SHC) pertains to the burning of a person’s body occurring without an outside source of ignition. The characteristics of SHC varies form different cases but most of the time evidences gathered are more likely show similar clues which we can relate to other SHC cases. Now‚ the evidences gathered are as follows; the victim is an elderly‚ the furniture around the victim stayed untouched‚ a part of the ceiling above the victim was damaged
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Spontaneous Human Combustion‚ also known as SHC‚ is a type of fire that is mysterious and unexplainable. Many scientists tried to determine if it is real. SHC is when a person bursts into flames from a chemical reaction from an external source. Spontaneous means the fire spreads quickly. Combustion means the process of burning. Most of its victims are elderly and overweight. Also most of the victims were alone at their house. A lot of people think it is a false mystery. This is a controversial topic
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Human Cloning Cloning brings advances in artificial organs‚ cosmetics‚ and age reduction‚ while at the same time taking away a human’s individuality‚ uniqueness‚ and the right to live his own life. It may correct some of the mere eight defective genes in the average human body and it may give an infertile couple the ability to have children‚ but manufacturing artificial life cannot give a child his own life without living in the shadow of another. God created us with our own qualities. We aren’t
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Different types of body modification and why people do them. It is so obvious that we as humans crave to stand out in any instance we can‚ no way are we going to let anyone out shine us. So we modify things about ourselves daily‚ drastic or not to show others that we are different and worth being noticed. Body modification has become a norm of today’s world; reasons for body modification vary from a rite of passage‚ to religious beliefs and even cultural practices. We often see body modification as
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of history‚ humanity has taken strides that have propelled us to be the most intelligent species that we have discovered. From the beginning of cavemen who could no more than grunt a command‚ to wireless communication and computer controlled systems‚ human innovation and gain have taken unbelievable strides. In one hundred years‚ we have gone from dreaming of flying through the air‚ to walking on the moon‚ and now taking pictures of distant galaxies from far away from our home planet. With the
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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate CSEC HUMAN AND SOCIAL BIOLOGY SYLLABUS Effective for examinations from May/June 2011 CXC 35/G/SYLL 09 Published by the Caribbean Examinations Council © 2010‚ Caribbean Examinations Council All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted in any form‚ or by any means electronic‚ photocopying‚ recording or otherwise without prior permission of
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