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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viernes‚ 31 de agosto de 2012 Economic effects of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki The morning of 6 of August 1945 a single atomic bomb called “Little Boy” exploded over the city of Hiroshima at 8:15‚ devastating almost the entire metropolis. “Little Boy” was 10 feet long‚ weighted 9‚000 pounds‚ and was dropped from a height of 31‚600 feet‚ exploding at 2‚000 above Hiroshima with the force of 20K tons of TNT. A conventional bomb would have destroyed only the wooden structures within
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Amanda Professor Dotseth English 291 5 May 2014 Were the Atomic Bombs Used in World War II Justified? The research of the atomic bomb was brought up to President Roosevelt during World War II by Albert Einstein who had fled from Germany and Enrico Fermi‚ who also fled Italy. They both knew how about the atomic technology being researched by the Axis powers and both agreed that the President of the United States should know about it. This information is what started the effort and design of
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about the animals and how to prevent many serious medical conditions concerning animals. Paragraph 4‚ passage 1‚ states that "Humans are not the only ones that benefit from animal testing. Diseases like rabies‚ distemper‚ anthrax‚ hepatitis‚ feline leukemia‚ and many more are all treatable thanks to animal testing.". Also‚ drugs that save lives would not reach the market‚ because we would have no way to test them. if we were to stop animal testing then there would be many humans dying from diseases
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In January 2012‚ the Center for Disease Control and Prevention released their Preliminary Data for the Leading Causes of Death in the United States. Their report showed that cancer is ranked at number two once again. As cancer rates remain high‚ it becomes increasingly important to understand what kinds of carcinogens‚ or cancer-causing agents‚ are around us‚ and how much they impact us. The known carcinogens that are well documented in terms of cancer death rates include smoking‚ alcohol consumption
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1.What Is Cancer? CANCER‚ a 6 letter word that makes our world upside down. Cancer is not just one disease‚ but a large group of almost 100 diseases. Its two main characteristics are uncontrolled growth of the cells in the human body and the ability of these cells to migrate from the original site and spread to distant sites. If the spread is not controlled‚ cancer can result in death. 2.How does cancer occur? The body is made up of trillions of living cells. These cells grow‚ divide‚ and die in
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