Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that can be found in food but significant amounts of vitamin D can also be produced by the body. It can be obtained from sun exposure‚ food‚ and supplements are biologically inert and must undergo two hydroxylations in the body for activation. The two major forms of which are vitamins D2 (ergocalciferol) and vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol). This paper not only looks into the essential function of vitamin D on the subject of bone health‚ but also other non-calcemic
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John Smith Professor Stephens Speech 140 10 December 2010 Rhetoric Analysis of Dwight D. Eisenhower Speech plays a huge role in the world today and has greatly impacted the world in the past. Speech is not as easy as it may seem. Many tactics are combined to make a speech and the message delivered is far more than just words. Of these tactics rhetoric plays a huge role. Rhetoric is defined as the study of how messages effect people. This study has given speakers more ways to address their
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Summary A&D High Tech is a US medium size company that started to operate in the business of computer systems products and services in 1988. Due to fierce competition and decreasing profit margins‚ the company founder and CEO was seeking other growth opportunities by adopting two new strategies‚ namely: * Increasing sales nationally * Utilizing modern technology to increase operational efficiency The company online store was the answer that would enable A&D High Tech to realize
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editbeta] Born on May 7‚ 1921‚ in Junction City‚ Kansas‚ Ehlers joined the Army from the city of Manhattan in October 1940.[1] He and his older brother Roland served in the same unit and participated in the fighting in North Africa and Sicily.[2] By D-Day on June 6‚ 1944‚ Ehlers was a staff sergeant and squad leader in the 18th Infantry Regiment‚ 1st Infantry Division. His squad‚ part of the invasion’s second wave‚ waited off shore in a Landing Craft‚ Infantry‚ while the first group of soldiers landed
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Medicare Part D Drug Plan was created by Congress in 2003 to aid the elderly‚ disabled‚ and sick persons in affording their medication. Coverage for the drug plan went into affect January 1‚ 2006. This plan was called the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) (Cassel‚ 2005). The final bill that passed‚ was influenced by drug-company and health insurance lobbyists and focused mainly on the needs of those industries instead of the seniors it was meant to serve
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In this chapter Roger Crook attempts to explain biblical ethics. He elaborates on Jesus ethical teachings‚ and the teachings of Paul. He basically tries to convey the message set forth in the Bible regarding the laws to be followed and the role that Jesus played as a prophet. I was impacted by the acknowledgement that Jesus was not a methodical teacher. He was not like the others in the sense that he preached to the people‚ and just expected them to do as he said. Jesus had a very unique way
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Axia College Material Appendix D Psychological and Psychophysiological Stress Disorders Respond to the following: 1. Stress can be the root cause of psychological disorders. Name four symptoms shared by acute and posttraumatic stress disorders. a) Nightmares‚ or even re-experiencing events that had occurred through flashbacks b) Avoiding situations that the person perceives as traumatic c) Feeling alone and less responsiveness to what was once
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In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd‚ we are brought to a startling realization when‚ in the end‚ it is revealed that our very own narrator‚ Dr. Sheppard‚ is the killer all along. However‚ this does not make him an unreliable narrator. In fact‚ Dr. Sheppard‚ as the “author” of this story‚ is a very honest and dependable narrator- using subtle clues in his writing in order to reveal himself as the killer from the very beginning. When it comes to evidence‚ Dr. Sheppard uses specific words
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Archibald D. Murphey was born in Orange County‚ North Carolina‚ in an area that would later become Caswell County. His father Archibald Murphey was a Pennsylvania Revolutionary Officer. His mother‚ Jane DeBow was from New Jersey. Archibald was one of seven children. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1799 with honors‚ and later became a professor at the University‚ but only for a few years. From there he moved to Hillsborough so that he could study law. He ended up marring a woman
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The Man in the Water In the essay "The Man in the Water" by Roger Rosenblatt‚ the Man in the Water did something heroic that most other people probably would not do. He and a great deal of other people were in a plane crash and landed in the Arctic Ocean. They were floating in the middle of freezing cold water with no one around to help. Soon enough‚ a helicopter rescue team came to save the group of people that had crashed by pulling them out of the water. Every time the rescue team lowered
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