...Boom! Boom! Bdddd! Do you hear that? All i hear is soldiers marching to a steady beat. The drummer boy of shiloh makes the beat that you hear. He marches the army into battle in April 6, 1862. “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” a short story by Ray Bradbury. Ray emphasizes the importance of having courage to represent what you want to represent. For example Joby represents the heart of the army. Not just because he’s there. He represents the heart of the army because he is the one that leads them into battle. He makes them feel confident by the beat he plays whether it’s upbeat or downbeat. The drum is what gives the army courage to keep going. It symbolizes the General’s courage when or if the general isn’t there.The drum symbolizes things in my...
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...Heart Blocks 7/ 2005 Hi all. Yet another one, which occurred to me that I should do about two weeks ago, when a patient was doing some pretty strange things on the monitor. As usual, please remember that this is not meant to be an official reference, but is supposed to represent the information that a preceptor would pass on to a new orientee in the unit. Please get back to me if things aren’t clear, have been left out, or are just plain wrong, and I’ll fix them up right away. Thanks! 1- What is a heart block? 2- What exactly is being “blocked” in heart block? 2-1- The key idea: all of the time, some of the time, none of the time… 2-2- It can not be that simple… 3- Why do heart blocks happen? 4- What are the three types, or degrees of heart block? What is a “dropped beat”? 4-1- A normal rhythm for reference. 4-2- First degree heart block. 4-3- Second degree heart block. 4-3-1- Second degree, type 1: Wenckebach/ Mobitz 1 4-3-2- Second degree, type 2: Mobitz 2 4-4- How I tell them apart? 4-5- Third degree (complete) heart block. 5- A puzzler… 6- What is the treatment for heart block? 7- Where can I learn more about pacemakers? 1- What is a heart block? Heart block is a kind of arrhythmia, usually caused by ischemia or an MI. There are three kinds, or degrees of heart block, and although sometimes people get confused about them, actually they’re pretty simple to...
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...African origin being pushed away from swimming and towards long distance running) 2 HEALTH and WELLBEING influences * Illness (sometimes even a short illness like a cold can prevent us from doing things) * Health problems (long-term illnesses and health problems can make continuing any form of physical activity really difficult) 2 IMAGE influences * Media * Fashion 4 RESOURCES influence * Availability * Access * Location * Time * 3 PEOPLE influences * Family * Peers * Role Models 2 SOCIO-ECONOMIC influences * Cost * Status Opportunities for getting involved in sport Role | Qualities | Explanation | Leadership (e.g. coach, manager) | Good organisational skills | To run teams and arrange fixtures and plan training sessions | | Good communication skills | So people understand exactly what they need to do | | Good knowledge of the activity | To plan training sessions appropriate to the activity | Performer | Good level of fitness | To be able to meet the demands of the activity | | Good level of ability | To be able to perform well in the activity | | Good level of motivation | To carry on going and work hard even if they are losing | Officiating (e.g. referee, umpire) | Good level of fitness | To be able to keep up with the play | | Good communication...
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...Cardiovascular System INTRODUCTION Caffeine is a stimulant that makes a person’s heart beat faster (Nunley 2013). This effect of caffeine is usually seen as a negative one and that it hearts your cardiovascular health overall. A lower heart rate, both resting and post exercise, is said to be better if the rate is lower because it puts you at a lower risk of having a stroke or heart disease (Boyles 2002). Having a lower rate is preferred because it means that your heart is working at a slower sped to pump the amount of blood necessary for your body. (Simon 2015) We predicted that people with lower daily caffeine consumption will have lower resting and lower post exercise heart rates. MATERIALS AND METHODS We had teams of three. Each person took a tally of their normal caffeine consumption on an average day. Each team took their resting pulse (after waiting until they were sitting down for at least five minutes to make sure our pulse was back to normal resting heart rate) by counting the amount of times they could feel a beat on either their wrist or their neck for a whole 60 seconds. The groups of students then completed the 3-minute step test where they followed the beat of a metronome at 100 bpm on a step that was 12 inches in height. Immediately following the ending of the step test, the students took their pulse once again for an entire 60 seconds. We then took a look at our heart rates compared to the national rankings to see how well we compared. Each team’s results...
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...Harvard Business School 9-698-004 July 8, 1997 We’ve Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corporation’s Cardiac Pacemaker Business The legacy of Medtronic Corporation, the company that created the cardiac pacemaker industry, is a proud one. Starting from its earliest pacemakers, which had to be carried outside the body, Medtronic had achieved dramatic improvements in the functionality, size and reliability of these devices. In so doing it had extended the lives, and improved the quality of life, for hundreds of thousands of people in whom pacemakers had been implanted. The pacemaker has been designated as one of the ten most outstanding engineering achievements in the world over the past 50 years, along with the digital computer and the Apollo 11 moon landing. 1 Medtronic, which in 1995 booked operating profit of $300 million on revenues of $1.7 billion, had been founded in 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota by Earl Bakken, a researcher and inventor who had to his credit patents on several of the crucial technologies that led to the modern heart pacemaker. Pacemakers were small, battery-powered devices which, when implanted within a patient, helped a malfunctioning heart to beat in a steady, fixed rhythm. Because Medtronic was the first entrant into the pacemaker field and built a strong technological lead, it enjoyed a substantial portion (over 70%) of the market share for cardiac pacing through the 1960s. Building upon Medtronic’s legacy of leadership was not easy, however...
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...The article titled Who Dies from Heart Disease? “New Research Defines Those at Highest Risk” 2011, is written by Meredith Melnick. She is a journalist for TIME Healthland online magazine. Her writings have appeared in the New York Daily News, The Record, House & Garden and on Newsweek.com, was a Digital Media Fellow at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The author sets out to show that newly uncovered risk factors in heart disease may help doctors and patients to recognize those who might be at higher risk of dying from heart incidents, and encourage them to pay close attention to maintaining their hearts healthy. The author’s evidence was supported from a report in the British Medical Journal's Health. The research was conducted by a team of physicians from the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center One notable source from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is a physician named Dr. Elsayed Z. Soliman. The doctor’s input was instrumental in holding my attention and further solidified the article’s authentication. Dr. Elsayed Z. Soliman explained “Identifying specific predictors that separate the risk of sudden cardiac death from that of non-fatal or not immediately fatal heart attacks would be the first step to address this problem, which was the basis for our study” (Time Magazine healthland,2011) He included other useful information such as risk factors that include ethnicity, blood pressure, body mass index (BMI) and an ECG report. These risk factors could...
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...you give your friends valentines and little heart-shaped candies on Valentine's Day? Do you ever cross your heart when making a promise that you really, really mean? Or turn on the radio to hear a guy singing about his broken heart? We see and hear about hearts everywhere. A long time ago, people even thought that their emotions came from their hearts, maybe because the heart beats faster when a person is scared or excited. Now we know that emotions come from the brain, and in this case, the brain tells the heart to speed up. So what's the heart up to, then? How does it keep busy? What does it look like? Let's find out. Working That Muscle Your heart is really a muscle. It's located a little to the left of the middle of your chest, and it's about the size of your fist. There are lots of muscles all over your body — in your arms, in your legs, in your back, even in your behind. But the heart muscle is special because of what it does. The heart sends blood around your body. The blood provides your body with the oxygen and nutrients it needs. It also carries away waste. Your heart is sort of like a pump, or two pumps in one. The right side of your heart receives blood from the body and pumps it to the lungs. The left side of the heart does the exact opposite: It receives blood from the lungs and pumps it out to the body. You probably guessed that the blood just doesn't slosh around your body once it leaves the heart. It moves through many tubes called arteries...
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...it should as I plunged toward my destination. I clutched the baton in my sweaty palms, promising myself not to let go. My long legs moved me as fast as I could go as I hugged the corner of the line like a toddler hugging their favorite teddy bear. The steps were just like I had practiced. As I came closer to my final steps, my stomac started twisting and my heart beat began to rise. The different colors of arrows started to pass under my feet, and I knew it was time. "Reach," I yelled to Susan, whom had seemed unusually far away. Yelling, "Slow down, slow down," turned into "Stop!" Susan halted to a stop as the gold baton fell into her hands and she took off into a dead sprint. The red colored flag rose. We were disqualified from something that we all dreaded; going out of the exchange zone. I had never really been a part of a team that had a chance to win something, but the potential was always there. I finally got my chance to be a part of such a team my sophomore year of track. Mr. McCain, the head track coach, had decided to experiment with some different races to gain more team points. Since the girls' team lacked a medley relay, he placed Ebony, Adeya, Susan and I in those spots. Ebony would run the 400, Adeya would run the 200, and Susan and I would start the race off by each running the 100. We all had worked viciously to earn those spots by running off against our teammates. Going into the first race we had not expected much since Susan and I had never...
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...in sight. After a back and forth with no one scoring, the opposing team finally broke through, they scored. Twenty-five seconds left in the game, sealing their win along with the title, which we had worked so hard for. We had had so many battles throughout the year, overtime victories and over time loses but their overconfidence was infuriating. Losing to them felt like the most painful and heart-wrenching thing imaginable, like a cruel joke from God. It hurt me so much that I dwelled on it for months contemplating what I could have and should have done to change the outcome of the game. Maybe if I had called an audible on this play or read this play better, the...
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...cases achieve spontaneous and complete recovery of left ventricular function after gestation. However，the remaining present with a much more progressive disease which may require intensive treatments and even heart transplantation [3]. Here we report a fatal case of PPCM, which was successfully managed...
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...a story no one could write. The ultimate example of David conquering Goliath and capturing the hearts of everyone. It was so miraculous that no one would believe that it happened twice. The story of the 1980 Olympic United States hockey team is well publicized in American and world sports history as the greatest underdog story of all time. It has been immortalized by Al Michael’s phrase, “Do you believe in miracles? YES!” Still within the grip of the Cold War, a team of college kids took down the all-mighty Soviet Union. The Soviet team had won the last four Olympics and were widely considered the best hockey team to ever put on a pair of skates. In 1980, the scene set in Lake Placid, New York, the U.S. Olympic team became enshrined in hockey history as they beat the Soviets 4-3. The 1980 team seemed destined to repeat the less well known success of the 1960 team. Widely overlooked in the pages of hockey history stands the story of the 1960 United States hockey team and its gold medal now known as the “Forgotten Miracle.” Although twenty years separated the two teams, their stories are strangely similar. Both teams played the Soviet Union when political tensions polarized the two countries. Behind the bench of both teams were demanding coaches leading a bunch of amateur players from Boston and Minnesota. Each team had talented amateurs but relied on comebacks and star-studded performances by the goaltenders. Both teams won their medals on U.S. soil. The 1960 team won in Squaw...
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...An important question regarding people today, from the ages of 9 to 90 is why is physical education important? Physical education is important for a number of reasons, one of the biggest reasons being that if someone is physical fit and participates in physical activity daily, the chances are, their going to live a longer, healthier life than one who is not physical fit and does not participate in physical activity on a daily basis. Another big reason is physical education and athletics help define a person and shape them and people can learn a lot about themselves by participating in activities, such as how well they handle situations, anger problems, and maturity. These reasons, among several other reasons which will be covered is why physical education is important and should be essential to everyone’s life. First of all, physical education is an educational process that uses physical activity as a means to help people acquire skills, fitness, knowledge and attitudes that contribute to their optimal development and well-being. Physical education should be introduced to children from the time their communication skills with the parents develops, although most children don’t experience what physical education is until they enter school, with which physical education is being taught in school. It’s important for parents to communicate to their children before they enter school on why physical activity is important because America is on the incline with obesity rates and...
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...eye. In less than half a second, I lost what I had fought so hard to gain for nearly five months,” explains Rachel Strons as she opens up about her arduous journey to becoming a varsity cross country and track star. In the fall of 2010, Rachel began her journey as a long-distance runner. Walking into her first practice, she didn’t even know what cross country had in store for her, or even how good she would be. Encouraged by her friends to join the team, Rachel was about to meet the true runner that she was. “My grade school coach had us all line up in a straight line across the 10-yard-line and told us that we were to run as fast as our legs could take us to the other side of the field. Let me told you, I was incredibly nervous.” The very first run of Rachel Strons’s career was a race to see who was the fastest on the team, and she believed that she was not going to be that person. Runners ranging from fifth to eighth grade took their positions as the coach began to shout, “Ready. Set.” Before he could shout “go”, Rachel’s heart began to pound in her chest and her legs froze where she stood. She lost all hope of leaving the 10-yard-line....
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...characters in her book are tenacious survivors who pay concentrated efforts to survive. Although Station Eleven is fictional, but it still has to follow the nature’s basic rules. Yet without clarifying the exertions that the groups have made for survival, Mandel makes her post-apocalypse world too ideal. Another problem with artists is that their skills and behaviors are not matched with survival. In Mandel’s story, one of the caravans uses a...
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...learning how to crawl for the first time, YES that’s a moment to remember. Then you’re able to walk then fall, until you master the concept of gravity. The one that’s worth every bruise and bump from crawling and falling is the running. It is great to see people run and their chest pumping with a drilling and rush. Also, when someone inputs that it’s proven that running is a contributing factor to lowering your stress rate. To see your friends and family enjoy the common activity is full of amusement and...
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