gentleman at the table next to us decided to light up a cigarette. The smoke went right in my face and lungs. All of a sudden I couldn’t breathe‚ my chest hurt and I panicked. Ladies and gentlemen‚ by the end of this year more people will die from second hand smoke related deaths than the average crowd at a Major League Baseball game. Secondhand‚ or passive smoke‚ is an insidious killer that is harming adults‚ and more critically‚ children around the country every day. My goal in speaking to you today is
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Artificial Heart/ Heart Transplants A natural heart has two pumps‚ each has two chambers. The right atrium pumps oxygen-depleted blood from the body into the right ventricle. The right ventricle pumps blood to the lungs. The left atrium sends aerated blood from the lungs into the left ventricle‚ which pumps blood out of the body. With each heartbeat‚ the two atria contracts together‚ followed by the large ventricles. Congestive heart failure is when the heart fails to pump blood. Heart failure
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million Americans suffer a heart attack every year‚ and almost half a million die‚ according to the American Heart Association. A heart attack often is the first symptom of coronary artery disease. The blockage usually is caused by atherosclerosis‚ the build-up of plaque in the artery walls‚ and/or by a blood clot in a coronary artery. A slow buildup of this plaque may almost block one of your coronary arteries. The cause of the heart is not always known. Heart attacks may occur when you are
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credit‚ Trask pulls no punches in telling of struggles for hegemony and the legacies of violence preserved in everything from images of bombed aina‚ to institutional racism and sexism in our own American Studies department(!)‚ to the “lovely hula hands” of dusky‚ dancing Hawaiian maidens that are drooled over in international imaginations. Doing so‚ Trask participates in many important practical and theoretical debates‚ and writes purposefully and passionately against the continued
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how advanced our society has become‚ our nation ’s health hasn ’t caught up. After all‚ heart disease‚ also known as cardiovascular disease‚ is our nation ’s number one killer (Preventive Magazine Health Books p. 153). <br><br>The most common‚ and most preventable‚ heart disease of all is coronary artery disease. This is caused when blockages develop in the blood vessels that provide oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle. A more general term for any impairment of blood flow through the blood vessels
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Henry Heimlich is an American Thoracic Surgeon‚ and is also known for creating the “Heimlich Maneuver”. Heimlich was a very smart intelligent man. He has thought of ways to save lives today that no one else would have thought of. Dr. Heimlich invented the chest drain valve‚ gastric tube operation and much more. Thankfully for this man today doctors have saved thousands of lives. Heimlich was born on February 1920 (age 95)‚ Wilmington‚ Delaware. (Henry Heimlich). Before fame he graduated from Cornell
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lion heart Amanda Chong You came out of the sea‚ skin dappled scales of sunlight; Riding crests‚ waves of fish in your fists. Washed up‚ your gills snapped shut. Water whipped the first breath of your lungs‚ Your lips’ bud teased by morning mists. You conquered the shore‚ its ivory coast. Your legs still rocked with the memory of waves. Sinews of sand ran across your back- Rising runes of your oceanic origins. Your heart thumped- an animal skin drum heralding the coming of a prince. In the jungle
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Industries public in 1977‚ and by 2007 the combined fortune of the family was $60 billion‚ making the Ambanis the second richest family in the world. Ambani died on 6 July 2002.[3] Contents [show] Early career[edit] Ambani started with rupee 1 in his hand and earned money by working with a firm in Yemen in the 1950s and moved to Mumbai in 1958 to start his own business in spices. After making modest profits‚ he moved into textiles and opened a mill in Naroda industrial area of Ahmedabad. He founded
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Sir Henry Morgan Sir Henry Morgan was a Welsh privateer‚ pirate‚ and admiral of the English Royal Navy. He made a name for himself during the activities in the Caribbean. Primarily‚ he earned a reputation as one of the most notorious and successful privateers in history. He also became known as one of the most ruthless among those active along the Spanish Main. Henry morgan was the eldest son of Robert Morgan‚ a farmer living in Rhymney‚ situated on the Rhymney River‚ in south-east Wales‚ within
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Technique Table Henry Lawson Short Stories The Drover’s Wife Technique | Example | Effect | Setting | ‘’The bush consists of stunted‚ rotten … trees’’ | Introduces the area that the character/author is experiencing first hand. | Repetition | ‘’Snake! Mother‚ here’s a snake!’’ | Responder would feel the urgency and the traumatising experience that the character is going through. | Colloquial Language | ‘’Mummy! Tommy’s skinnin’ me alive wif his club’’ | Presents to the responder that
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