Chronic Illness Paper Mr. KT is a 28 year old‚ 200 pound‚ 5-foot 8-inch‚ unemployed drug addict at the Grays Harbor community hospital. He started using drugs at age 13‚ starting with alcohol and marijuana‚ and eventually landing with methamphetamine (was smoking one gram of meth/day). His emaciated appearance connotes disorganization and poor hygiene. He has short‚ dark brown hair with a bald spot on the back of his head. His diagnosis is Type 1 Untreated Diabetes (Chronic Hyperglycemic). He was admitted
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Study Guide 1. What are the indirect fctors spread by trade? Many indirect factors were spread by trade. Trade became the vehicle for the spread of religious ideas‚ technological innovations‚ disease-bearing germs‚ and plants and animals to regions far from there places of origin. Trade also shaped a lot of societies‚ whether it was politically‚ structurally‚ or economically. Economically it often altered consumption‚ for example enabling West Africans to import scarce salt‚ necessary for human
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In article My Daughters Have No Mother‚ author Max Mutchnick describes his feelings and opinions about the experience having a baby carried by a donor. Author particularly writes about homosexuals having their own baby. Feelings that are involved in homosexual individuals question themselves if they are normal or if they are like everyone else (Mutchnick). Heterosexual couples that cannot have baby might question themselves too “if they are like everyone else”. Concerns that are in their
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feat of energy has been the most multipurpose. It has practically transformed the present of the livelong group. Redbrick period and all its support and conveniences depend often upon this crucial exploit. The uses to which electricity has been put are galore. It has short length. It helps us in dynamical automobile tramways‚ railways‚ and locomote vehicles. We can now go from one spot to other without overmuch failure of quantify. Telegraphic messages can be transmitted from rank to space in
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can be represented in many ways and forms. Society has changed gradually over the courses of the years through education‚ technology‚ and fashion. There are major and minor changes that go on in society everyday the effects people in a good or bad way. Education has changed over the past decades for students that were unable to receive education are now able to obtain it and receive a bachelor or masters in their choice of field. In the 1950’s colored children were unable to attend a white school
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Abstract According to the CDC (2012)‚ 13‚000 youths are diagnosed with type 1 Diabetes every year. Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the pancreas fails to secrete insulin. If not well managed‚ this condition can be fatal. Children and adolescents are of a particular concern because they are still in a psychosocial developmental stage that does not promote favorable behaviors towards the proper management of the disease. This paper is a review of the literature on closed-loop insulin
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Beginning with When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats‚ we as the reader’s first notice the rhyme scheme used. Readers observe that the first and fourth lines of the poem rhyme‚ as well as the second and third lines. Correspondingly‚ the poem grasps an iambic pentameter which gives Yeats poem a more musical characteristic. The word “And” appears in this poem more than six times just in the first stanza alone which keeps the rhythm of the meter constant. In my opinion‚ I believe that the narrator
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“What effects has the computer had on our lives?” The twenty-first century is already turning out to be the century of the computer. The computer revolution that started after the Second World War is now developing exponentially and computers are beginning to influence and take over nearly every aspect of our lives. How are computers changing and affecting society? There are two areas in which computers have brought about a profound change in our lives: one is in the economic field‚ the other
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Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: an Overview Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as any degree of glucose intolerance with the onset or first recognition during pregnancy. Ninety percent of those diagnosed with diabetes during pregnancy will resolve after delivery (Scollan-Koliopoulos‚ Guadagno‚ & Walker‚ 2006). Pregnancy causes estrogen‚ progesterone and human placental lactogen to become elevated which provokes malfunctioning insulin‚ which can lead to insulin resistance and decreased
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young women of the time who slicked back her hair‚ wore fashionable camel-hair jackets loos‚ flannel pants and long raccoon coats (Chris Routledge‚ Sara Pendergast‚ and Edward Moran: 2012). Even though there were two types of women in the 20’s‚ flappers were the most popular. Some may believe that the reason the clothing style was so highly liked‚ even until this day‚ is because it was more “sinful” and “disgraceful” than what was worn in the decades before. Flappers had a unique attitude and vibe
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