...THE EFFECTS OF SMOKING ON THE BODY No matter how you smoke it, tobacco is dangerous to your health and affects your entire body. Mood Stimulation Poor Vision Anxiety and Irritability Another Cold, Another Flu Lung Cancer Constricted Blood Vessels High Cholesterol Heart Disease Stained Teeth Smelly Hair Diabetes Complications Erectile Dysfunction Early Menopause Problems with Pregnancy Appetite Suppressant Coughing COPD Bronchitis Too Much Clotting Blood Cancer Yellow Fingers Wrinkly Skin Bad Teeth Infertility Cancer Connection Cervical Cancer Problems for Newborns The Effects of Smoking on the Body Tobacco smoke is enormously harmful to your health. There’s no safe way to smoke. Replacing your cigarette with a cigar, pipe, or hookah won’t help you avoid the health risks associated with tobacco products. Cigarettes contain about 600 ingredients. When they burn, they generate more than 7,000 chemicals, according to the American Lung Association. Many of those chemicals are poisonous and at least 69 of them can cause cancer. Many of the same ingredients are found in cigars and in tobacco used in pipes and hookahs. According to the National Cancer Institute, cigars have a higher level of carcinogens, toxins, and tar than cigarettes. When using a hookah pipe, you’re likely to inhale more smoke than you would from a cigarette. Hookah smoke has many toxic compounds and exposes you to more carbon monoxide than cigarettes do. Hookahs also produce more...
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...My violin Many people have religion, beliefs, and their morals that keep them going, but the thing that keeps me going is my family. One reason my family is what I live for is because I have known them my whole life and I haven't died yet so I trust them to take care of me. Another reason is that family is family and if you have it then you just know how much they mean to you and if you lose it you lose yourself. This is why family is very important to me and I'm sure a lot of other people. The reason I would choose my family over all other beliefs is because I know it's real and that they are actually there for me. I do believe in God but it's sometimes hard to believe in something that's not right by you. The reason why I choose family over God is because I know that my family will be there for me even when I'm in a bad place. I have more hope in my family than in God just because it's the...
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...Though people may want to see me differently, I never want to shied away from who I am – my Pakistani heritage is an essential component of my life. Though I was raised in Pakistan and moved to a different culture,, my parents have always taught us to be proud of my Pakistani heritage. Although, they did not give me a name that was easy to pronounce, but encouraged me to tell my peers to take the time to learn and pronounce my name. Many people with ethnic names settle for any pronunciation just to make it easy for others. I have never allowed anybody to call me anything other than my real name: Marriam and I would not change it. I was always encouraged to show my friends what made me unique: my ability to speak three languages, participating...
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...I believe that every curse has its gifts. I remember it like it was yesterday, the moment I got sick. I was starting school after christmas break my sophomore year. I was reading my book for english The Lord of flies, when all the sudden I got an excruciating migraine. My temples were pounding and my chest become a cement block. I could feel the pressure in my body, my teeth felt knifes piercing my jawbone, and ever since then I have been sick. I was anger for longest time, thinking what I did to deserve this. I could feel my body giving up on me. After my first migraine my health decreased. My body become weak and so heavy that walking around made me tired and I could see no light coming out of the tunnel. I blamed my siblings for being...
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...In My Antonia the pioneers had to deal with a lot of prejudice. The pioneers were different. They had different beliefs, values and a completely different culture. The native people see the new settlers as beneath them. Antonia is willing to do what it takes to be happy and enjoy her life while she can. She works hard to help her family financially and she stays strong even at the worst times. I think her experiences have make her who she is. She knows what it is like to be at rock bottom and puts in a lot of work to try to rise above their unfavorable circumstances. The only contrast I saw between the natives and pioneers was the work. The natives were settled and were not struggling to make a new life. I think there are parallels between the two though. Both are homesick in some way. The pioneers miss their homeland and the natives in town miss their farms. Jim especially expresses his feelings about missing the farm. Otto had written that even Jake had “mountain fever.”...
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...My Hero is my old nabor Paul. He would fight no matter what, and he will stand up for what's right. Paul is my hero because he fought in the vietnam war, he didn’t get injured but i’m pretty sure it made him a little crazy in the head. He is very goofy just like me. That’s why we get along so well, we are just a like. I call him Paul the biker dude and he calls me his blonde haired brat. In the summer before 7th grade I had a car wash for cheer. I didn’t really know my cheer team that well cause it was our first year cheering for the school. But Paul showed up on his Harley and said, “ Girls I want this bike Squeaky clean “ The other girls were so scared of him so we worked on that bike for at least 30 minutes when we were done he gave us...
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...haircut girl, princess, lawyer and now a Police Officer/Criminal Investigator. My career choice is a Criminal Investigator/Police Officer. In my Career Cruising Assessment three of my top 25 careers had to do with law enforcement; Bailiff (#2), Detective (#19) and Crime Scene Investigator (#23). To me this can be one of the most rewarding and challenging careers. The reason I picked this as my career path is because it would allow me to use the skills that I excel in. According to My Next Move, people interested in this type of position would be leaders and able to make decisions. Some...
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...being passed from person to person. As my mom would tell her players how to make the best play possible. I watched as the players threw their bodies across the floor in an effort to keep the ball off of the floor, and stretch to kill the ball. Spending hour after hour at the gym watching, and learning new techniques to become a better player. This is when I knew I wanted to be a volleyball player, and I could not do it without the help from my mom. I would dread waking up at eight in the morning everyday in the humid month of August. My mom dragging me out of bed and taking me to the gym. I would hate sitting on the floor until my body went numb everyday. One practice, I was sitting on the floor dazing off in my young imagination when my mom yelled my name. I jolted out of my daze and walked over to her. Twelve girls were huddled around my mom. They all seemed intimidating. My mom gave me the volleyball, told me to go back to the end line and serve. It seems like an easy task, but when my mom told me if I missed the team would have to run it was not so easy. My hands were sweating and my heart was beating at a...
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...advice administered by friends has been quite excellent and developed from personal experience, and it should be taken seriously. However, there are people in the world who like to discover lessons the difficult way, rather than taking the word of others. For example, a person will advise another person, not to read My Antonia, because it is a boring drab story like most books written a long time ago, despite once being great and well-received (people’s interests change over 100 years). Furthermore, the person receiving this advice may be slightly stubborn and read the book anyway, and that person will find out for themselves how awful the book truly is. My Antonia was not a good book, it was in fact a very awful and boring book. At no point in the story did it ever become interesting or exciting (a common theme in many of these stories). Furthermore, the overall story of its completion is one of the most stupid and pointless story arcs ever. Also, the characters (another common issue I have with older literature) are not interesting at all. My Antonia was one of the worst books ever, and it should be burned in a fire for being so terrible. The first issue with My Antonia has been the level of interest to the story. The story is so...
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...There’s many reasons I feel you guys should accept me into Central State University. My gpa may not be as high as others But, it only made me who I am today. Working hard is very important to me, I strive to do better every single day and make a difference no matter if it’s through the people around me or just in my community. Coming to your university I know will prepare me for greatness. There’s many times where I felt as if I wasn’t good enough but Getting through a rough day I always read this quote, and it states this. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” And this quotes helps me understand that without failing you can’t succeed and before you succeed you have to fail. And here are reasons...
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...My Tribe I was born and raise in Sena Niwan, a small community located in the middle of Bangkok, Thailand. Every one in my community was a Buddhist. Each house had their own way of worshiping Buddha, ranging from submitting a Morning Prayer and doing good deed to devoting one’s life to Buddhism and becoming a monk or a nun. While most people ended up doing charity and some meditations, my family located on the extreme end and practiced Buddhism very seriously. Since my grandpa was a monk and my grandma was a nun, I was born to the scent of incense and the sound of praying. Every morning, my grandma would wake up, light the incense, and start the Morning Prayer. When the smell of incense reached my nose, I instantly rolled myself out of my...
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...Jamaica, my family and I grew up in the islands. At the time we didn’t have the best house, government, healthcare and education. But what we did have was hope, we had to strive to live a better life to become something great. We had the persevere and have a deep desire to make it out our tough situation. I can recall not going to school at times because in Jamaica the school system isn’t free. My family couldn’t afford the cost of living and sending me to school. My mother was a maid and my dad was a handyman. They did the best they could to provide for me and give me the best life I could possibly have. On the other hand, I had my aunt, she would wake me up every morning to keep me productive in daily activities....
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...those of the most mesmerizing or eye grasping backgrounds. But, are those people really making change. See, my whole idea of me truly looking up to someone to call them my Hero is for them to show me that wholeheartedly desire to be that person, to be the change they want to see in the world, to be that difference maker. Although in some ways Hero must come from the noble background or birth and have a epic story to tell. The simplistic definition of a hero is one of noble qualities, and that is all I take from a Hero. To be a Hero you must take from what you have not done, not what you have come from. What you do in the moment as a good person will...
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...individual who is experienced and can communicate ideas in unique, interesting ways. I believe that I can do these tasks and more. I am a strong candidate for the LEAP mentor position because of my prior mentorship experiences, unique college perspective, useful skills that I have gained throughout my education, and my commitment to helping others succeed. The main reason I want to become peer mentor is that I desire to continue impacting the lives of others. Throughout my life, I have served as a mentor in various organizations. During my middle and high school education, I was a member of a mentorship program that assisted underclassmen with their academic and social development. Furthermore, I was in other organizations in which I taught and mentored other peers. Currently, I am a Peer Academic Coach at Fayetteville State. In this position, I collaborate with current freshman and early college students every day to guarantee their future academic success. Through these experiences, I learned how to assist others to become better...
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...When I was first given the grit assignment a lot of people came to mind, but I had my mind set on who I would do. This person is my Dad, he is not only my loving father but someone I look up to. Before I was given this project, I was well aware of some of the struggles that my Dad had endured in his life, but this project gave me the opportunity to learn more about his life in the past. Jesus, my father, was born in Mexico and eventually arrived in the United States when he was 2. He lived in California for the first 18 years of his life and grew up in a neighborhood filled with gang violence and bad influences. These bad influences got to him as early as elementary school, where he and some friends were smoking cigarettes. When my grandpa found out what he was doing he became furious with him and set him straight with a good spanking. My Dad entered the workforce at the age of 12, where he worked in grape fields picking grapes in the summers with my grandpa. His soft hands were easily blistered while he worked in the fields, this is what developed his large leathery hands today. Besides working in the fields, school was another challenge for him. He struggled in school mainly because my grandparents only knew Spanish and they could not help him with most of his schoolwork. This is what caused his lack of motivation to get an education. My Dad began...
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