...John Smith English Composition Morals According to the English dictionary, the definition of morals is as follows: “of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong”. The way we as human beings interprets this is entirely based on our community, religion, parents, government, and the society we were raised in. But what really defines what a moral is? Who’s to say that this is right and wrong? How do other cultures view our morals compared to theirs? These are but just a few questions I will be addressing in this essay. Let’s start from the beginning and break down some of the key components of this definition. Pertaining to the rules or principles of what’s right and wrong. In the United States what we consider morally right and wrong is determined by our government and the court systems. If we plunge deeper into this topic we can take into account our religious up-bringing, the views of our parents and friends, what we see and hear from the media. What was morally wrong fifty years ago is now on everyday television and exposed to children day after day. Fifty years ago women were shunned from their families and friends if they were to sleep with one person promiscuously. Now men and women are taught to sleep with multiple partners to determine if you are sexually satisfied and can see yourself being with only that person for the rest of your life. If you look at Muslamic culture, women have absolutely...
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...used to treat high blood pressure. Also the stress from their everyday job could have had an influence. 4. For Mr. Underhill to potentially have high blood pressure the alcohol helps to expand blood vessels in the body and increase body temp. Alcohol also has the same effect and both of them together plus his high blood pressure could have cause him to have a severe heart attack or stroke. As for Mrs. Underhill, she could have pass out because of dehydration and drown. 5. I believe they died because of the alcohol and the hot temperatures of the water. Drinking dehydrated the body and with the hot water causing them to sweat also they where dehydrated at an unhealthy level. The depressant feeling in alcohol plus the hot temp of the hot tub could cause one to fall asleep or lose consciousness. PART 2 1. I believe Mr. Underhill taking the medicine, drinking, and in the hot water lowered his blood pressure to unhealthy levels causing him to pass out, and Mrs. Underhill, I believe she passed out from her alcohol consumption and died from going under water. 2. Side effects of the pill Lasix are: Muscle cramps, weakness, dizziness, thirst, headache, vomiting. He takes this medicine because of his high blood pressure and he probably felt most of the side effects. 3. Blood alcohol concentration is defined as the amount of alcohol in the bloodstream used as an indicator whether a person is legally intoxicated. 0.08 is the legal limit of blood alcohol...
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...available eye-witnesses, and emergency medical service providers Does the patient have intra or extraperitoneal bleeding that requires surgical intervention? Does the patient have peritoneal contamination requiring washout and repair of a hollow viscus? Penetrating injuries with any hemodynamic instability and/or signs of intraperitoneal injury are treated operatively at the outset of management -GSWs most often injure the small bowel followed by the colon and liver Clinical thinking Does the patient have an adequate airway, and ability to protect it? Is the patient breathing? Is oxygenation and ventilation adequate? A GSW in the abdomen may penetrate the diaphragm and cause a significant thoracic injury -Does that patient have adequate blood volume and perfusion? How does the patient respond to resuscitation, does the pt take beta blockers that may mask an appropriate tachycardia? -evaluate the pts ability to follow commands and respond appropriately. Is neurological disability a central phenomenon from shock, or is there a direct spinal cord injury? The patient must always be adequately exposed to evaluate all injuries, don’t over look the axial, back, gluteal cleft, and perineum. Patients with penetrating abdominal injuries are best served by antibiotic therapy prior to operative intervention. Initial therapy should be broad, with coverage of both gram-positive and gram negative organisms. Current practice guidelines advise broad spectrum antibiotics prior to incision and...
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...Darren Shan: Ironic Destiny Throughout the twelve book series of Cirque Du Freak Darren Shans character is put through hardships, emotional struggles, physical pain, and newfound experiences. Each book shows a specific way that Darren has changed. For example in the end of book 2 Darren changed from never drinking human blood to actually drinking the blood of his friend Sam, with his permission of course. Also through books four and six Darren begins to embrace his new lifestyle as a vampire and begins to like it unlike in book one to three where he despised vampires. At the end of book six Darren became a prince , actually the youngest prince in vampire history. To add Darren began to start liking the company of Mr. Crepsley, his master who made him a half vampire, while in book two he was planning on murdering him. To prove this even further Darren is heart broken at the death of his master in book nine. In book ten Darren states “My closest friend had been killed. My world torn apart. I didn’t care whether I lived or died.” This quote illustrates the relationship between Darren and his teacher and how strong it was. In addition Darren took his first life towards the end of book six. After he realized what he had done even though he killed the enemy he became nauseated and felt sympathy. But it became natural to him after his training with full and experienced vampires. These examples show the personal growth that Darren Shan has experienced throughout this series. He...
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...The Causes and Effects of Doping in Sport Hou Juin Yew, Calvin B1201067 HELP University Outline I. Introduction A. Opener : The history of doping in sports B. Thesis statement: There are few causes that is undergone family problems, huge amount of debts, cope with a live of stress and face a lot of pain during training and few effects that lead in to problems in body function and mental effects. II. The causes of why athletes dope in sports. A. Family problems B. Huge amount of debts C. Live of stress D. A lot of pain in training III. The effect in the body function of a person when a person dope in sport. A. The uses of steroid in sports 1. The diseases when dope in sports 2. The body function of a person B. The uses of stimulants in sports 1. The type of drugs and the problems C. The uses of peptide hormones 1. Type of peptide hormone and the effects of the substances IV. The effect in the mental problems A. The type of disease that effect the mental problems V. Conclusions The Causes and Effects of Doping in Sport Doping in sport is means the use of drug to increase the performance of an athletic above average in an athletic competition...
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...Dangers of stress Stress Puts You in Danger Dina Haidar Global University Stress Puts You in Danger Stress is like spice - in the right proportion it enhances the flavor of a dish. Too little produces a bland, dull meal; too much may choke you" Donald Tubesing (Madison, 2011). Walter Cannon have found out during the year 1940 that stress triggers the fight-or-flight reaction which is positive mainly because it is designed to save our lives. And he described it as “an emergency reaction that prepares an animal for running or fighting” (Tennant, 2005). Under stress circumstances your heart pounds faster, blood pressure rises, breath quickens ,your senses becomes sharper. These reactions increases your stamina, speeds your reaction, and enhance your focus preparing you to either fight or flee (Tennant, john hopkins university schools of education, 2005) .it is optimistic when a person feels stimulated and able to manage the situation, handle emergencies meet challenges and excel. (Tennant, 2005) But there is no doubt that the negative effects dominates over the positives. . Stress is often related to deleterious physiological complications, It corrupts almost every system in the human body (Melinda Smith, 2012).A recent study has shown that 80% of the most commonly prescripted medicines in the U.S. are those of relates to stress illnesses (institute, 2009) .Everyone experience stress, and stress in...
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...Final Project, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, and Exercise Plan SCI/241 Version 6 Carlos E. Matta University of Phoenix Final Project, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, and Exercise Plan In my first report I indicated my age 42 years old, my weight was 165 pounds and height 5’6”. My daily exercise was riding bike between 6 to 8 miles a day for 3 days during the week for a total of 350 minutes of Physical Activity. Week one 3 day analysis for breakfast I had a cup of coffee with flavored cream with sandwich or cereals, for lunch I had sandwich or reheated food from previous day, snack I had wheat cake, fruits or chips and for dinner; Latin food, hamburger or pasta, don’t drink soft drinks, but drink Lipton Iced Tea and water. (Matta) (2012). Based on the first report I was over in grains on vegetables, fruits, dairy, protein foods, oils I was under; empty calories I was under with 280 calories, total calories average was 1785 status and sodium was high on all 3 days. (SuperTracker) (n.d.). After the first report I tried to modified some eating habits measuring the amount of food; cereal, pasta, rice and beans in cups, steaks and fish cut in 4 ounces, drink more water and less alcoholic drinks and increase my daily exercise adding two days of walking 3 miles per day increasing my weekly Physical Activity to 630 minutes. (Matta) (2013). The latest report from January 2nd through January 4th, all the food groups where under my empty calories was lower then the first one at 208...
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...Company Profile and History Founded in the year 1985, MediTech Global (MTG) is a United States based limited liability company operating for the past 27 years specializing in the manufacturing and distribution of high end medical equipment to health care providers. It was founded in Boston Massachusetts, where the current head office of the company is located. It operates in United States, Canada, London and China. Manufacturing plants are based in the United States and China and it operates as joint ventures and foreign direct investments the other countries. MTG ventured into the medical equipment industry with a sole intention of providing durable, affordable medical equipment for growing needs of medical attention of the United States and the world. The company has, since grown tremendously and has started producing different kinds of medical equipment ranging from everyday usage equipment, diagnostic equipment, and therapeutic usage equipment to life saving equipment. MTG currently employs around 5000 employees all over the world that includes technical personnel, researchers, factory workers and executives. The company has grown to be the third largest medical equipment manufacturer and provider in the United States with annual sales of $2.5 billion dollars. Currently the company acquires 15% (8% from China and 7% from China) of its revenue from international sales and looks forward to doubling that to 30% and increasing overall growth by 20%. Management Bios Perdita...
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...it is hard for researchers to establish a definite cause and effect relationship between stress and specific physical symptoms or illnesses. Not only do people's minds and bodies react differently to stress, but there also are other factors at work when someone falls ill. Most researchers have found the more a person suffers from stress the weaker his or hers immune system becomes. In trying to understand why stress can be bad for the body is to look at it from an evolutionary perspective, where in the past our ancestors were often confronted with life threatening situations and as a result the ‘fight or flight’ response evolved. Whilst being confronted by dangerous situations such as confrontation with a predator it was necessary to send blood to the muscles and be in a heightened state of arousal, however today it might not be relevant to most everyday stressors. So we can say most stressors do not pose a physical danger to us yet the way our nervous and endocrine systems have evolved we react to the stressors as if they did, whilst it might have been an adaptive response for our ancestors it has become maladaptive for us today. In a study done by Cohen et al (1991) the direct effect stress can have on illness was demonstrated when 394 healthy participants were asked to complete a questionnaire assessing their stress levels, there after they were exposed to five respiratory viruses. Those that experienced the most stress were the most likely to develop...
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...different genetic disorders. Hemophilia is a sex- Linked disorder that affects the way a person’s blood clots. A sex-linked disorder has to do with the XX chromosomes of the mother and the XY chromosomes of the father. These genes have more functions than just identifying the sex of the person. Sometimes there are genetic mutations to these genes or certain traits that are passed down from parent to child. When a normal healthy person gets injured there blood clots or thickens so that they will stop bleeding and make a scab to protect the wound and begin the healing proses. Platelets are tiny elements made in the marrow of your bones. They flow though the blood stream waiting for bleeding to occur. After the body detects bleeding, it floods the damaged area with platelets. These platelets go through a chemical reaction that makes the outside of the sticky. They begin to stick to the damaged area and each other. This forms what is known as a white clot. The second thing that happens in the blood clotting procedure is many blood proteins in the thrombin system get activated when the body detects bleeding. When these proteins are activated they go through many chemical reactions to produce fibrin. Fibrin is a sticky string like substance that covers the wound in a Genetic Disorder 3 Web-like pattern. This is how a red clot forms. The web like design traps many red blood cells in it and that’s how it gets its red color. When someone has hemophilia there body has little...
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...INTRODUCTION Blood is a biological fluid found in animals that delivers necessary nutrients and oxygen throughout the body and carries away metabolic waste products. The average adult has a blood volume of roughly 5 liters, comprising of plasma, blood cells and platelets, and it is usually red in color, though not always. The most abundant cells in vertebrate blood are red blood cells, constituting about 45% of whole blood. These cells contain hemoglobin, an iron-containing protein, which distributes oxygen throughout the human body. Blood is circulated around the body through blood vessels by the pumping action of the heart. In humans, blood is pumped from the strong left ventricle of the heart through arteries to peripheral tissues and returns to the right atrium of the heart through the superior vena cava (see Fig 1). It then enters the right ventricle and is pumped through the pulmonary artery to the lungs and returns to the left atrium through the pulmonary veins. Blood then enters the left ventricle to be circulated again. (Fig 1: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Diagram_of_the_human_heart_%28cropped%29.svg/220px-Diagram_of_the_human_heart_%28cropped%29.svg.png) Blood is a type of evidence found most often at violent crime scenes and submitted to forensic laboratories for further identification and analysis. The investigators at the crime scene always seek to answer three questions when in contact with bloodstains: (1) Is this blood? (2) Is it...
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...in-hospital deaths, increased length of stay and added medical costs. Both adult and pediatric patients who have catheters inserted into their blood vessels face increased risk of an infection developing along the invasive plastic devices which can become life-threatening as they spread into the bloodstream. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 248,000 blood stream infections are reported per year (CDC, June 2010), and mortality rate of 12%-25 %( CDC, 2011) .This dangerous lethal medical complication can be prevented by proper management of the catheter insertion and strict aseptic technique during care. Even though CDC has recommended standard catheter associated blood stream infections (CA-BSI) prevention strategies, the study shows areas of variability in the surveillance. A central line is an intravascular catheter that terminates at or close to the heart or in one of the great vessels which is used for infusion, withdrawal of blood, or hemodynamic monitoring. The Aorta, pulmonary artery, superior vena cava, inferior vena cava, brachiocephalic veins, internal jugular veins, subclavian veins, external iliac veins, common iliac veins, common femoral veins, and the umbilical artery/vein in neonates are considered to be the commonly used great vessels for the purpose of reporting the central line blood stream infection (CLBSI). Central line plays a crucial role in medical practice, especially in intensive care unit, during major...
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...human body. Without water life would not exist. Water is amazing, it covers 70% of the earth, is the only substance on the earth that occurs naturally as a solid, a liquid and a gas, and is more necessary to human life to exist than any other substance. Water fills our cells, water is the main component in blood, that moves nutrients through the body, water helps with digestion, from saliva to moving waste through the bowels to elimination. Being only 2% dehydrated can cause some serious physical and mental degradation and being 15% can be lethal. (http://www.spartafit.com/nutrition/water.php ) Water is the foundation for every living thing, in this paper I will discuss why it is essential to health maintenance, the functions of water in the body, and the effects of dehydration. Water is mandatory for life. Water makes up about 60% of adult body weight, water isn't stored in the body, so there is a need for humans to always be taking in more water to replace what is lost through body processes such as respiration, perspiration, urination, etc. The body needs water to lubricate joints, for saliva, to aid in every part of the digestion process, to transport nutrients in the blood, and it is a major component in every cell. No body process would be possible without water. It is important to drink water, about 3 liters per day for women and 4 liters per day for men (http://www.spartafit.com/nutrition/water.php) is needed to replace all of the water lost during normal daily processes...
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...baby to be the perfect match for Kate as a blood and bone-marrow donor. For thirteen years. Anna has gone along with it, but when her parents ask for a kidney, she gets herself a lawyer and sues for medical emancipation; the right over her own body. My Sister’s Keeper covers issues concerning genetic engineering, PGD and savior siblings The story revolves around 13-year-old Anna, a child created in order to serve as a matched tissue donor for her older sister Kate, who suffers from leukemia. At the very beginning of the movie, Anna says, “I’m an allogenic donor—a perfect sibling match. When Kate needs leukocytes or stem cells or bone marrow to fool her body into thinking it’s healthy, I’m the one who provides them. Nearly every time Kate’s hospitalized, I wind up there, too. None of which means anything, except that you shouldn’t believe what you hear about me, least of all that which I tell you myself.” Anna is a savior sibling is a child who was born to provide an organ or cell transplant to Kate, who is affected with a fatal disease in leukemia.Technicians, can screen the multiple embryos that are typically produced with in vitro fertilization and choose those that have the desired genetic characteristics. The embryo selection procedure is known as pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). She was conceived through vitro fertilization. The procedure is very controversial nowadays (Savior Children par. 4).Anna’s umbilical cord blood is harvested when she is born. As she gets...
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...Another characteristic is that it affects many parts of a person’s life. For example, when you have cancer, self esteem will be affected. When self esteem is affected, other parts of your life are going to be affected. Another characteristic is that it brings uncertainty. What is the future going to hold? Will I have to deal with this forever? These are some questions that a person with a chronic illness will ask themselves everyday. The relationship between a healthy nutritional program and cardiovascular disease is simple. When it comes to eating a diet high in fats, sugars, and cholesterol, there is a higher risk for cardiovascular disease. When an individual can understand how to control the factors such as high fat foods, stress, blood pressure, etc, they will be able to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. A great way to start to control those factors would be to exercise. If you can get your heart rate up to a safe level, you will begin to burn calories. Burning calories will allow the body to start reducing fat. However, along with exercise, a proper diet needs to be in place. By eating low cholesterol foods, fresh fruits, and...
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