As soon as I walk into a room and smell germ x hand sanitizer I am thrown back into the days where I had chemotherapy. The picture that I get in my flash back is of a hospital room with me on the bed holding my dad’s hand while Dr. Salvi puts the needle into my port. Dr. Salvi was the best in the business‚ there was no better than him and his partener. I would not feel any pain as the doctor slips the butterfly needle into my port because I had put numbing cream on it two hour before. I had always
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Recently a poll was conducted among high school students to get their point of view on regifting. 89% of students said they enjoy receiving regifted gifts. Regifting is defined as giving a gift that one has received to another individual who the original owner did not intended for the gift to be for. Around Christmas time there are so many arguments on whether regifting is ethical or dishonest. So is it acceptable to regift? Regifting is very acceptable. For example‚ if your grandma gives you a shirt
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Green‚ Tall‚ and Scary are just a few of the words associated with the monster Frankenstein‚ however‚ this association is wrong. In today’s culture the monster from the story is often called Frankenstein‚ which may have a lot do with the title of the book‚ and the fact that the monster is never named. However‚ Frankenstein is the man who created the monster. Frankenstein‚ written by Mary Shelley‚ explains the events in which took place regrading Victor Frankenstein’s monster. Mary Shelley’s monster
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The concept of incarceration started to emerge in the United States as a form of control over minorities. This began shortly after the end of slavery and targeted freed slaves to provide free labor during prison. This system of large scale prisons continued to gain popularity after the large spike in drug use around the 1960’s and 1970’s. The problems we have today with mass incarceration is due to our deteriorating criminal justice system which originally provided rehabilitation programs and
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Have you ever observed that occasionally people use "simple" as a negative word? Likewise‚ you can visualize someone who says "this book is simple" and actually means "this book is not very smart". Well‚ that’s not what I mean when I say it. Sometimes a book can be straightforward for a reason. For example‚ recall when Ender plays the game and discovers a park full of wolf children (in Chapter 7)? And when he tries to use the playground‚ Ender’s character fails. Surely this game seems to tell us
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The Broadway musical Annie has arrived at the Clemens Center‚ but the musical’s story of adoption is relatable to more than 90 kids in Chemung County’s foster care system. Wednesday and Thursday nights shows are much more than a song and dance story about adoption with a happy ending. It’s a personal story for the cast‚ and hits home for the audience‚ as the need for foster parents in Chemung County is a growing issue. "I firmly believe adoption is life. I firmly believe that foster
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Imagine if you were a parent of a child with cerebral palsy and you have tried many many treatments for your child and they don’t seem to be working. Then‚ out of the blue‚ you see something about a therapy called hippotherapy on Facebook. You read about how the program works and you read the comments and see that this could be the start of developing your child’s motor functions. I think that people should use hippotherapy because it is an effective therapy. Hippotherapy helps children with neuromuscularskeletal
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Genetic Factors It has been debated whether children who develop Schizophrenia have a notable genetic connection or not. Researchers question whether the disease is passed down in familial lines or it is just triggered by an external source‚ but there is data that show genetic abnormalities in patients who develop childhood-onset Schizophrenia. In a study by C.J. Carter‚ he concluded “genes related to glutamatergic and in particular NMDA receptor signaling” have been associated with Schizophrenia
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When you think of a lottery you really think of money and happiness. Technically speaking‚ on September 13‚ 2004 Tessie Hutchinson was killed after being stoned to death in Charlestone‚ New York. On the 13th the townspeople & other residents gathered around for their annual “Lottery”. Mr. Summers who runs the lottery made sure that everyone was there and everyone was going to get a card. But this was no ordinary lottery‚ when you grabbed your card and you did not had a black-dot on it you were
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Just a couple days ago‚ a mass shooting took place in Orlando in which 49 people were gunned down at a gay nightclub. This was the deadliest mass shooting in the United States and the nation’s worst terror attack since 9/11 according to CNN news. Omar Mateen carried an assault rifle and a pistol into the packed Pulse club about 2 a.m. Sunday and started shooting‚ killing 49 people and wounding at least 53‚ officials said in CNN news. U.S. President Barack Obama called the tragedy “an act of terror
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