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    Shaun Bostick According to the Institute of Medicine of The National Academies‚ the number of Americans who suffer from chronic back pain is 100 million (AAPM). Fortunately‚ there are many options out there that may help these Americans with their back pain. Relief ranges from surgeries to injections and from chiropractors to physical therapists and all in between. Having been diagnosed with scoliosis and degenerative disk disease since 2006‚ I have personal experience with most all of these

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    The Book All Quiet on the Western Front is written by Erich Maria Remarque. The story takes place in late World War I in German and French front line. The Author has written the book combining his own experiences from war. He also tried to educate his readers about brutality‚ destruction and soldiers’ point of views of war. The protagonist in the book is a young soldier called Paul Baumer. There is no specific character as antagonist but I think the antagonist is the war itself. Even though Paul

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    Let me set the stage – Fall had just begun‚ but with so many trees in our yard and around the neighborhood – the yard was already brimming over with autumn leaves. To make things even more interesting (some would say worse) we live at the end of the block. Every breeze guides whatever debris it finds (including neighbor’s leaves) right to our front door. I’m talking tons of leaves. It’s a mess! For some homeowners‚ this inevitable yearly chore would spell disaster – but we love the house‚ so we

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    following views. One of the reasons is that textbooks lead to back pains and shoulder problems. “Kids who wear their backpacks full of textbooks over their shoulders‚ as many do‚ since it looks better or just feels easier- may end up leaning to one side to offset the extra weight. They might develop lower and upper back pain and strain their shoulders and neck”. “Doctors say they are observing a growing number of children suffering serious back pain as the result of carrying around overloaded backpacks

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    from their positions and made their way to the door‚ as I was putting my jotter in my folder the whole thing burst from the bottom‚ spilling all my work onto the floor‚ I let out a loud sigh and bent down to pick it up‚ when I had finished I stood back up ‚ I listened for the loud voices of the pupils making their way out of school but instead I picked up silence‚ I noticed the teacher was gone but all of his belongings still at his desk. I slowly put down my folder and walked out the classroom‚

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    All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is the greatest war novel of all time. This is not true because it is a cliche story about a war hero who saves many lives‚ but rather because it illustrates the true horrors of war and its effects on the soldiers. This book demonstrates the bloody and dehumanizing effect that was has on a soldier such as Paul Bäumer. Paul Bäumer is the protagonist in this novel‚ a nineteen-year-old boy who enlists in the army with his school mates at the encouragement

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    Erich Maria Remarque was born in Germany in the year 1898 into a lower-middle-class family. In 1916‚ he was drafted into the German army to fight in World War I where he was badly wounded. Ten years after the war ended‚ he published a book which was translated a year later into English with the title All Quiet on the Western Front. This is a novel about the experiences of ordinary German soldiers during World War I. Remarque starts off the novel by stating‚ "This book is to be neither an accusation

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    term for back problems. Many people are unaware that the term ‘slipped disc’ can refer to a range of medical problems; all of which relate to the discs of soft tissue that separate the vertebrae in the spinal column. The spine is made up of 24 vertebrae‚ these vertebrae allow for a variety of movement. Flexion and extention [to bend forwards or backwards] and lateral flexion [side way movement and twisting.]. Constant combinations of the two movements can put great strain on to the back‚ which can

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    "I am young‚ I am twenty years old; yet I know no thing of life but despair‚ death‚ fear‚ and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow...." said by Paul Baumer during his time at war in All Quiet on the Western Front. This quote represents how the war changed Paul’s view and attitude toward life. Paul‚ a once hopeful‚ sensitive boy‚ enlisted into the war right out of school‚ faced traumatizing experiences that changed him into a lonely man who saw life in a bitter‚ pessimistic way. In

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    if he had to give up one son to the army‚ it might as well be Benny who was a quiet boy‚ and who wouldn’t push where he shouldn’t; and Mrs. Garber thought: “my Benny‚ he’ll take care‚ he’ll watch out;” and Benny’s brother Abe thought “when he comes back‚ I’ll have a garage of my own‚ you bet‚ and I’ll be able to give him a job.” Benny wrote every week‚ and every week the Garbers sent him parcels full of good things that a Jewish boy should always have‚ like salami and pickled herring and shtrudel

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