The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down tells the story of Lia Lee‚ a Hmong child with epilepsy‚ whose tragic downfall reveals the dangers of a lack of cross-cultural communication in the medical profession. At the age of three months‚ Lia had her first seizure caused by the sound of a door being slammed shut‚ by her older sister Yer. Their parents‚ Foua and Nao Kao believed that the sound of the door had caused Lia’s soul to flee‚ they called her illness “qaug dab peg”‚ which means “the spirit
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warm water and slower in the cold water because the more heat something has the more energy the atoms or molecules in the object get. So in hot water the molecules inside are moving around really fast and have tons of energy to dissolve the tablet while in cold water the molecules are still moving around but at a slower pace therefore taking longer to dissolve the tablet. The materials I used are: * Alka-Seltzers (15)‚ * Tap water (100 ml)‚ * Warm water (100 ml)‚ * Acidic water/vinegar
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that choices she makes while pregnant can affect her unborn baby in negative ways. Teratogens which are “any environmental agent that causes damage during the prenatal period” (Berk 65) are a frightening reality that every new mother needs to be aware of. Teratogens include drinking alcohol‚ taking prescription and non prescription drugs‚ radiation‚ pollution and many other things a woman might ingest or be exposed to while pregnant. One of the most common things woman do while pregnant and do not
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dispatched to the One Stop‚ 33 N. Main St. for an assault. Schuylkill County Communications (County)advised there was an unconscious female who was struck in the head with a bottle. County advised the actors were Bryce Beaver and Leah Clark‚ who had fled the area on foot. Officers arrived on the scene‚ the victim Julie Allen was inside the One Stop. Stamets spoke with Allen while I spoke with witnesses‚ Brian O’Connell Jaleesa Ortiz. O’Connell stated Allen had walked out of the One Stop and Beaver and
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How to Stop Corruption|10 Tips for Prevention & Eradication Corruption is a habit and hence everyone who is in the position are susceptible to it. There are people who are ready to compete for those jobs with greater chances of corruption and those who don’t have the chance‚ expect to minimize the corruption and keep complaining about it. But prevention and eradication of corruption is an absolute requirement for better social and public life. This corruption takes an interesting turn in such a
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Technological advances in today’s world have come to such an extent that people have now begun relying on it for essential needs. The Machine Stops is a short story by E.M. Forster that warns us of a possibility of a world that is dominated by a machine. The story is set in the distant future when humans are forced out of the surface of the Earth and depend on a machine housed underneath the surface for their every need; food‚ communication‚ housing etc. In return‚ this dependence has allowed mankind
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In the book‚ All the Light We Cannot See‚ by Anthony Doerr‚ many of the characters stories can seem fascinating to the modern reader. Marie’s story deals with her blindness‚ and how her father attempts to assist her by making a model of the neighborhood they used to live in‚ making puzzle boxes for her to solve on her birthdays‚ and even traveling with her on his back through the French countryside to Saint-Malo when the Germans attacked their town. Werner’s story‚ which is quite fascinating‚ deals
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Stop American Sexism By Killing the Idea of Dress Codes Is this what the world has come to‚ discriminating others for their clothes. A group of high school girls from South Orange‚ New Jersey‚ had launched a worldwide campaign called “#IAmMoreThanADistraction”. This single tag has become a trend all over the internet with the help of social media. Millions responded‚ with their own experience‚ which led to South Orange school taking the role of a dress code out of their handbook(Zhou
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Stop Texting While Driving Introduction I. Attention Getter- audience participation/ survey a. How many of own a cell phone with texting privileges? b. Now how many of you have ever texted while driving? II. Thesis Statement- Did you know that texting while driving can be more dangerous than driving while drunk? III. Credibility- I found these statistics along with other information on drivinglaws.org and various other sites. IV. Preview- Today I will be discussing statistics‚ a few laws
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Controlled assessment- How concentration affects the rate of reaction between sodium thiosulfate and hydrochloric acid. SA): Strategy Scientific knowledge Sodium thiosulfate (Na2S2O3)‚ also spelled sodium thiosulphate‚ is a colourless crystalline compound that is more familiar as the pentahydrate‚Na2S2O3·5H2O‚ an efflorescent‚ monoclinic crystalline substance also called sodium hyposulfite or “hypo.” Sodium thiosulphate has a melting point of 48 degrees C. It is freely soluble in water. It contains
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