Smoking and Your Health Most people associate cigarette smoking and tobacco use with breathing problems and lung cancer. But smoking is also a major cause of cardiovascular (heart and blood vessel) disease. Smoking: the No. 1 cause of preventable disease and death Smoking and tobacco use are significant risk factors for a variety of chronic disorders. According to the American Heart Association‚ cigarette smoking is the most important preventable cause of premature death in the United States
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You Only Choose Your Career Once (YOCYCO) Stories of depressed teenagers and overwhelmed students are not as uncommon as they used to be‚ especially when they’re nearing the ages of fifteen to seventeen. Those are the valuable years in a student’s life in which he or she has to make one of the biggest choices of their lives--their career. However‚ they’re not only important to the student‚ but also to their parents. While parents should play a supportive role in this tremendous decision‚ no one
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powerful barons (his leading subordinates). The barons constantly battled with each other. The king stayed above this conflict‚ occasionally backing one side or the other. The best way to get a decision was to get to Hitler personally. His orders‚ when he bothered to issue them‚ were all that counted in the last resort. This was a chaotic way to run a modern country. It was certainly NOT "totalitarian"! Historians are currently disputing these issues: 1) Some historians argue that despite the
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Do you know what your purpose is? Do you know what drives you? As you think about that question‚ you may be picturing a certain aspect of your life. For example: · Home life · Spiritual life · Work life · Recreational life · School life · Etc. We have compartmentalized our lives. But with God‚ there is no distinction between the different areas of our lives. God has a purpose for our life. Sadly‚ many of us don’t have any idea what that purpose is. · Joke: Did you hear about the little girl
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Why RN TO BSN The Need for Highly-Educated Nurses In the 21st century‚ the health challenges facing the nation have shifted dramatically. The American population is older—Americans 65 and older will be nearly 20 percent of the population by 2030—as well as more diverse with respect not only to race and ethnicity but also other cultural and socioeconomic factors. In addition to shifts in the nation’s demographics‚ there also have been shifts in that nation’s health care needs. Most health care
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Outline for “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” I. Introduction to Flannery O’Connor A. Quote 1 – “O’Connor was born in 1925 to a prominent Georgia family of devout Roman Catholics—an anomaly in the largely Protestant South.” “She finally succumbed to lupus in August 1964 at age 39.” B. Quote 2 – “She moved back to Georgia to live with her mother on a dairy farm and continued to write‚ publishing Wise Blood in 1952‚ the story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find in 1955‚ and a second novel
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Can you say what your strategy is? - David J. Collis and Michael G. Rukstad The authors emphasize on the importance of having a short (35 words max) company strategy‚ and communicating it to the employees. This is important to direct the companies operations in a coherent manner. The company and its employees need to know where the road is going. A strategy is not about your values of your mission‚ but simply about what your competitive game will be: what are you doing differently to your competitors
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.ASSIGNMENT: # 1 - MODES OF BUSINESS COMMUNICATION Do you think it is appropriate to add your boss as a friend on Facebook or Twitter and send work correspondence this way? E.g. you will be late or absent from work. Facebook and Twitter are an online social networking service which can be used as often as you choose. These websites are used by people to keep up with family and friends sometimes also for business purposes‚ near and far to send messages or chat with one another. Facebook and
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Chemistry 12 Formal Report Measuring Reaction Rate using Volume of Gas Produced By John Doe 23th October 2012 Introduction An essential element of chemistry is finding reaction rates. This is because chemists need to know how long a reaction should take. In addition to needing to know the rate of a reaction at any point in time to monitor how the reaction is proceeding. Many factors effect reaction rates‚ two shown above include temperature and concentration. Concentration affects the
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Change Your Lens and Change Your World The book starts with the story of the writer Faiez Seyal himself. The story concludes how a boy of sixteen years started supporting himself by teaching the primary classes and after getting married at the age of just 17 with nothing in his hand to support him‚ he struggles very hard to fulfill his promise. Then he moves abroad for higher education for his family and come back after completing his education to serve his country. Still he was feeling something
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