SILENT KILLER: PANCREATIC CANCER Background of Personal Experience with Pancreatic Cancer My family never knew that pancreatic cancer was such a deadly disease that can creep up on you‚ until my aunt‚ Cathy L. Usey‚ was diagnosed with it in Aug.2008. My aunt Cathy better known as Big Mama was a 13 year breast cancer survivor when she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. I know you’re probably thinking the same thing my family was thinking "how could someone who had already survived a cancer be
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The Bullying Virus Every day‚ a sinister virus plagues our schools‚ striking fear into the hearts of innocent children. This lethal disease is identified by the common term – bullying. Studies show that 1 in every 4 students is bullied on a day-to-day basis. Another study reports that 9 out of every 10 LGBT students face harassment at school and online. Bullying contributes to a variety of concerns afflicting the student body today‚ including but not limited to a higher suicide
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People are like clay in the process of being sculpted‚ always changing and never be the same afterwards. We age‚ learn and grow everyday of our lives. Sometimes we experience events that change us in some way and we can look back on that event and recognize a difference before and after that moment. A life-changing experience that greatly contributed to forming the person I am today occurred during a three day confirmation retreat. I was born and raised Catholic‚ so it was expected that I would
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Too many kids are getting bullied all around the world. Which is worse a bully‚ or a bystander. Bullying is a bad issue all around school‚ and on the internet. A bully is worse because he is the one doing the action to the kid. Let’s try to stop this. According to‚ “Tales of bullying‚” The reason is that bullies are the ones hurting people almost every day. They always push‚ hit‚ kick‚ call names‚ or even curse. This could affect the life of the kid getting bullied. It could start an argument
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Bullying in schools continues to be a serious problem today. Bullying can happen in any school to a child of any age or gender. The sad part about being bullied is that the victim can have lasting scars all their life. Usually a child being victimize in school by bullies ‘is not popular or their physical appearance is not up to their standards. These children usually suffer verbal abuse‚ emotional abuse‚ physical abuse‚ or all three abuses by their bullies’. The scars I suffered from being bullied
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Students‚ parents‚ and educators across the nation are being asked to take the “Megan Pledge”. The pledge’s conditions state to take a stand against cyberbullying. Please report signs bullying if you have knowledge of its presence and do not make suicide an option. Plans are now being executed to handle bullying with new state laws. In Florida‚ school districts are being forced to apply a cyberbullying policy. In “Online Bullies Pull Schools Into the Fray” Jan Hoffman states‚ “The Supreme Court
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Personal Narrative Rough Draft Prompt: Evaluate a significant experience‚ achievement‚ risk you have taken‚ or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you. As I heard the screams and yelps of kids and adults across Central Michigan University’s football stadium for the first time‚ I realized this‚ volunteering at events meant for “creating a healthier‚ more respectful and welcoming world for all” as the Special Olympics home page states. Growing up‚ I have always known that I wanted to
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Hearing about my mother’s experiences in her youth with her manic-depressive mother gave me a twisted misconception about how mental illness took over lives. When an urgent care counselor talked with me about the possibility of me having bipolar disorder in grade ten‚ this vision seemed
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loss that can be closely related to melancholy and understood only by the natives of Istanbul‚ proposing that insiders and outsiders experience the city differently. Outsiders might not share similar feelings as the natives due to differences in experiences and lack of cultural and social knowledge to their shared environment‚ as did I. Recalling my personal experience of moving from India to starting a new way of life in USA helped me realize that I‚ too‚ shared a different perceptive to my new environment
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BULLYING “Young people seek help from only adults that they see as caring and nurturing” (Brendtro 29). Not many people understand what bullying is. Some cannot even see when someone is being bullied. People may ask what is bullying. What types of bulling are there? Bullying can also include injuries and even deaths. There are many ways to prevent bullying. There are even some laws on bullying. The state or federal government should put laws into place to prevent bullying. As young children
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