Talking to a teenager about Diabetes. Diabetes is a disease that affects how the body uses glucose‚ a sugar that is the body’s main source of fuel. Just as an iPod needs a battery‚ your body needs glucose to keep running. Here’s how it should work: 1.You eat. 2.Glucose from the food gets into your bloodstream. 3.Your pancreas makes a hormone called insulin. 4.Insulin helps the glucose get into the body’s cells. 5.Your body gets the energy it needs. The pancreas is a gland near your stomach
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Comparing and Contrasting (quoted from Jim Stover‚ “Writing About Literature”) One of the best methods to help us clarify our thoughts about a character‚ an event‚ a poem‚ a story—nearly anything—is to compare and contrast. (To compare can mean to find similarities and differences. Coupled with contrast‚ however‚ to compare means to point out similarities‚ while to contrast means to point out differences.) Many of us‚ feeling weighted down by cares‚ have happened to see someone coping with a
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Estimate the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that almost one million people commit suicide every year. Within an hour‚ about 90 people killed themselves and a similar action in every 40 seconds. Meanwhile‚ 60 per cent of the total annual suicides occur in Asia where most of the nearly 200‚000 cases of China‚ India (100‚000 cases) and Japan (32‚000 cases). In Malaysia‚ in the past ten years‚ between 10 to 13 people out of 100‚000 people are estimated to commit suicide. However‚ the
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FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE? In 1989 an earthquake hit San Francisco‚ on the west coast of USA‚ killing around 63 people. Twelve years later an earthquake hit Gujarat‚ in India. This time it killed approximately 20‚000 people. In this report I will be comparing the two earthquakes‚ giving reasons why the Gujarat earthquake was so much more destructive than the one in San Francisco. An earthquake is a movement or tremor in the earth’s crust. Earthquakes happen all the time‚ but some are so weak that they
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THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF FACEBOOK ON TEENAGERS Advances in technology enhance our lives in healthy‚ positive ways. These days‚ shopping‚ education‚ communication and entertainment are only a few clicks away. Social networking‚ especially Facebook- the most popular social network site currently‚ enriches our lives by helping us to connect and share with colleagues‚ clients‚ family and friends in ways that wouldn’t otherwise be possible. Spending too much time on this site‚ however‚ can have negative
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REPORTING AND COMPARING SCHOOL PERFORMANCES Geoff N Masters Glenn Rowley John Ainley Siek Toon Khoo Paper prepared for the MCEETYA Expert Working Group to provide advice on national schools data collection and reporting for school evaluation‚ accountability and resource allocation December 2008 Commissioned by the Reporting and Accountability Branch‚ National Education Systems Group‚ Commonwealth Department of Education‚ Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) i Reporting
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Alcohol has many effects on the body‚ especially the teenage body. Alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence are not only adult problems -- they also affect a significant number of adolescents and young adults between the ages of 12 and 20‚ even though drinking under the age of 21 is illegal (Dimeff 204). Alcohol is created when grains‚ fruits‚ or vegetables are fermented. Fermentation is a process that uses yeast or bacteria to change the sugars in the food into alcohol. Fermentation is used to
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Effect of Eating Disorder to Teenagers Did you ever notice you had an eating disorder because you were much too concerned about your weight and body shape? Or do you know someone who has extreme and unhealthy eating practices in the quest to attain a perfect body? Nowadays many teens are concerned about how they look and can feel self-conscious about their bodies. This can be especially true when they undergo puberty‚ dramatic physical changes and face new social pressures. Teens don’t know or
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Pg1 Comparing Values Melanie Taylor HSM/210 Human Services in the United States 10/03/2012 Maria Brown University of Phoenix Pg2 Comparing Values 1. What values underlie your desire to help others? Answer: My values that underlie my desire to help others are the ability to make my clients my number one priority
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Comparing Authors William Shakespeare and W.H. Auden are widely known for their great poems. Shakespeare’s “My Mistress Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” is a love unlike any poem from the Elizabethan era. Shakespeare does not use false comparisons to describe his lover like most love poem do‚ which is refreshing. W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues” is another love poem that is little gloomier. However it shows how much death can affect an individual’s life. Together Shakespeare and Auden use similar and
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