something stupid again‚ or even maybe‚ they broke up. I was terribly wrong. While the rest of the class started discussing the latest chapter of To Kill a Mockingbird‚ she knelt down next to my desk and quietly wrote on the corner of my notebook: “I have leukemia.” It felt as if someone pressed the mute button on my senses. The harmonies of my surroundings were sucked out of my ears. The vivid and colorful world became dim and gloomy. The candied life that I thought existed melted away and left a barren vacuum
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Spotting and Revising Wordy Hedging Hedging – is a strategy in which you state conditions‚ qualifications‚ exceptions to an assertion -- an admission that something might contradict your assertion Examples: 1. Legitimate hedging: If it rains tomorrow‚ I won’t paint the front door. (The if clause establishes a condition: rain) 2. Legitimate hedging: In the middle ages‚ the world was thought to be flat. (This sets up a condition based on time‚ history. ) 3. Legitimate hedging:
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Book Report My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult is about a family in Rhode Island. Kate is the middle of three children and she has been suffering from leukemia since she was a kid. Anna‚ the youngest‚ was conceived as a “lab baby” by means of in vitro fertilization to be a donor to Kate. When we meet the family‚ Anna is suing her parents for the rights to her own body‚ so she would no longer have to be a donor to Kate. There are many points throughout the book where physical health‚ emotional
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expansion of air. The result was the immediate death of 75‚000 people. (www.grolier.com) The long-term effects of the bomb on the environment and children are horrible. Atomic blasts cause many prolonged injuries such as‚ keloids‚ cataracts‚ leukemia and other cancers. (earthbase.org) The total death count for the atomic bombing is estimated at 140‚000. This means that almost as many people died from the long-term effects as were killed in the initial explosion. People who think that dropping
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tremendous enjoyment I got out of these winter months. Looking at this photograph‚ I would compare it to the calm before the storm. First off‚ this is the last photo we took as a whole family‚ before my great grandma lost her long and gruesome battle to Leukemia. It was before the wearying events of December. I remember this day‚ and this weekend even quite vividly. We all knew my great grandma wouldn’t be with us much longer‚ which made us
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struggle with leukemia‚ and how he overcame it. Hughes uses theme to weave a well-developed plot by using her unique style of writing. Sixteen-year-old Mike Rankin is preparing for a hunting trip‚ with his best friend Doug O’Reilly‚ that he has been planning and waiting for all year. He is sent to the hospital for treatment‚ as a result‚ he misses the hunting trip. Mike’s parents refuses to tell him about his sickness for fear of hurting his feelings‚ and he had to discover that he has leukemia by tracking
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next morning as the sky filled with storm clouds the rain fell as a dark‚ oily‚ seemingly clotting liquid. It stained not only building but also people. Among the long-term effects suffered by atomic bomb survivors‚ the most deadly was leukemia. An increase in leukemia appeared about two years after the attacks and peaked around four to six years later. One of the most immediate concerns after the attacks regarding the future of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki was what health effects the radiation would
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basically sub issues that either lead too or stray away from this main ethical issue. II. Research 1. Mosby’s Medical‚ Nursing‚ & Allied Health DictionaryEdition 5‚ 1998‚ p02AE‚ This text basically taught me that Acute Childhood Lymphoid Leukemia is a malignant (cancerous) disease of the blood producing parts of the body (spleen‚ Bone Marrow‚ and Lymph nodes)‚ The peak years for a child to get this disease are between the ages of 2 and 5‚ and this disease has a nearly a twenty percent chance
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the man whose murder the gods were previously discussing)‚ want to know why. After all‚ there haven’t been any meetings since Odysseus left. Considering it’s been almost twenty years‚ we’re thinking these Ithacans aren’t exactly bureaucratic go-getters. Telemachus bellyaches for a while about the suitors who have annexed his house‚ wolfed his food‚ imbibed his wine‚ and tried to get with his mother. Not one person has the courage to challenge his righteous anger aside from Antinoös‚
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of caffeine consumption. Thesis Statement: The three areas I will cover in my speech are the beneficial effects of caffeine‚ the negative effects and discuss what are considered safe levels of caffeine consumption. Introduction Attention-Getter: If you are still standing you are part of a rare group of Americans because statistics show that 90% of Americans consume caffeine daily. Audience Justification: Caffeine is pervasive in our society these days and every few months we hear
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