imagine your family holding you down. The blade creeping between your legs‚ you scream but no one cares. You beg your family‚ your mother‚ your father to help but then it happens. Now open your eyes. In Somalia alone‚ 98 percent of women experience Female Genital Mutilation at one stage in their lives. FGM is the destruction of women and girls sexual organs for non-medicinal reasons. This act is practice globally in 29 countries and due to immigration‚ FGM has spread to western countries such as Australia
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Huffington Post readers to a group of important diseases that most had never heard of -- neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). In that piece‚ I mentioned one disease that has a particularly devastating impact on girls and women in developing countries -- female genital schistosomiasis (FGS). Schistosomiasis‚ also known as bilharzia or "snail fever‚" is a parasitic disease carried by fresh water snails. It is transmitted by contact with contaminated fresh water‚ so swimming‚ bathing‚ fishing and even domestic
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Genital Herpes Do we all know what genital herpes is? Do we know what causes it and how to prevent or how to treat it? First let’s start my explaining what genital herpes is‚ it’s a STD caused by being sexually transmitted from one partner to another; having sex means anal‚ vaginal‚ or oral. This is a type of infection caused by HSV which is herpes simplex virus. This virus affects the genitals‚ as well as the skin in other parts of the body. Most people have no signs or symptoms of the virus.
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I picked Genital Herpes amongst the teenage population‚ because a lot of teens these days don’t think that STDs are a factor in their lives. A lot of them think they can’t get STDs and it couldn’t or wouldn’t happen to them‚ when in fact it can. Studies have represented that the genital herpes infection is most common in the United States‚ and over the past decade the percentage of Americans with this infection has remained stable. This infection is more common in women‚ one out of five women from
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Aubrey Merrell Gender-G 300 September 20‚ 2012 Biological genitals vs. Cultural genitals When considering the ideas of both sex and gender‚ it is universally understood‚ by most‚ that they are both intertwined; that is to say that gender cannot be discussed without bringing sex into the conversation‚ and vice versa. Here it is understood that the term “sex” is being used to signify the existing genitalia on an individual’s material body‚ and that the term “gender” is relating to markers of
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the name of a family of viruses of which herpes simplex virus 1 and herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2) are the most serious human pathogens. HSV-1 is normally associated with orofacial infections and encephalitis‚ whereas HSV-2 usually causes genital infections and can be transmitted from infected mothers to neonates. Both viruses establish latent infections in sensory neurons and‚ upon reactivation‚ cause lesions at or near point of entry into the body. While HSV-1 and HSV-2 are different
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Class Presentation Genital Mutilation Should women be forced to do something they do not want to participate in? This is definitely not an option in countries where religious beliefs and culture is above woman’s rights. There was a case where a girl from Togo was getting forced to do cultural things that she nor her parents agreed on doing‚ so the girl decides to flee the country. What was so bad that the girl had to flee her country in order to prevent her from getting forced in to doing
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HISTORY OF CUTTING TOOL MATERIALS • Cutting tool used during the industrial revolution in 1800 A.D • First cutting tool was cast using crucible method (1740) and slight hardened by H.T. • 1868: R. Mushet found by adding Tungsten we can increase hardness and tool life ( Air Quenching) • F.W.Taylor in Pennsylvania did the most basic research in metal cutting between 1880-1905 • Invented high speed steel (better H.T. process) • Better alloy
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Cost Cutting Tips Most of us spend more than we need to for a lot of things. If you really can afford luxuries such as gourmet teas or designer clothing and still save for your future‚ you’re lucky. However‚ if you’re struggling to meet the financial goals you’ve set on your retirement roadmap‚ it’s time to look for ways to cut expenses—daily‚ monthly‚ and long-term. Start by seeing if you’d benefit from either of these big cost-cutting strategies: •If you’re paying high interest on a mortgage
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Engineering Production 1 (EngM 324) Cutting Tool Angles and their Significance Dr. Amr Shehata Fayed‚ Ph.D. Associate Professor Importance of clearance angle in cutting process P Leading Edge Cutting F Tool Workpiece (a) Heel fouls work and prevents leading edge from cutting Dr. Amr Shehata Fayed Mech. Eng. Dept.‚ College of Engineering‚ Jazan University Cutting Tool Angles – Page 2 Clearance Angle (a) Flat Surface (6o to 8o) P F Clearance angle (b) Heel
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