kyphosis (backward bend) in the thoracic spine is stereotypically considered “good and proper” and is often called healthy, balanced, or neutral. Theories of “Healthy” Sitting Sitting Upright? Staffel recommended an erect posture of the trunk, neck and head, with normal slight lordoses in the lumbar and cervical areas and a light kyphosis in the thoracic spine, similar to the desired back posture when standing erect. The simple concept that sitting upright, with the thighs horizontal and the
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like it will for the flu. Many people don't know what to do if they have a concussion. As simple as it sounds, the best treatment you can get is rest. (brainline.com) Think of your brain as an engine, it runs on gas. Well when it is injured the brain will run out of gas faster due to that injury. Resting the brain and your body is the fastest and easiest way to heal a concussion. (brainline.com). Multiple concussions can result in prolonged headaches, short term memory loss, and chronic traumatic
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of the most important organs in the human body. They oxygen as its breathed in. They let the good things you breathe in spread through your body like oxygen and then get rid of the bad stuff like carbon dioxide. If we didn’t have lungs that functioned correctly our life could be at risk. So the question is, are there ways that we can improve our lung function? Exercise. Whatever way you exercise, your lungs improve their functions. There’s running, which has benefits, but another way that’s less studied
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young woman prepares to marry, but is now a personal decision rather than an obligation. Skull binding has been practiced at various points in history in widespread parts of the world, with some evidence of Neanderthal skulls that had been shaped around 45,000 BCE in Iraq. The custom of head shaping has been most notable among skulls excavated in Peru, where the practice dates back 9,000 years. The skull can only be shaped during infancy. The bones eventually harden to the point that skull modification
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to build your profile. Online profiling has truly risen to the occasion now by constantly monitoring every user browsing history. Every single search you make, every link you click on and even the emails you write are used unscrupulously for marketing (Lohr, n.d.). It is even common for search results one receives after searching from a Mac to differ from the results one receives using a PC. Naturally, no one wants to be watched or tracked. It makes the hairs on the back of one’s neck stand just
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IRRESISTIBLE // CHAPTER 1 “Look, Taylor, you really need to start focusing on your grades – they suck. This is your senior year of high school. It’s your last year of high school. The end will be here before you know it and you’ll be at college.” My dad paused his lecture to chew up a piece of meat loaf. He swallowed then held his fork in the air to make a point. “And to go to college, you nee-“ My phone started to go off. I held it up to my ear and before I could even say hi, my best friend
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child is grown and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies."-Edna St. Vincent Millay From the time I was born to the time I was five years old, I traveled a lot. From home to home, town to town, and family to family. Frequently uprooting made times difficult. But, things changed when I was given a very special friend upon entering my last foster home. He was a brown stuffed dog with a purple ribbon tied in a big bow around its neck. His name was Scooter and, once given
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EL DIABLO I remember always playing with my grandmother’s tarot deck when I was five. My grandmother, also a witch, said that I could see things in a way nobody else could. My red hair didn’t match my dark eyes, but she said that the full moons in my eyes meant I had a darkness and heaviness that only someone who had lived many lives could have. I didn’t know that my eyes would grow darker over time, I had endured a lot, more than any child should. Every time my hand would hover over the
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so unhuman. They step outside of their rooms as I spin around becoming suffocated by lack of space. I duck into a nurse station in the middle of the hall, to my surprise was empty. I fumble for the keys to lock the door. I step back as I see the once dead woman with throat slit and all staring at me through the door glass, and her eyes are unforgiving. My prayer was insincere. The door begins to rattle and then vibrate it moves the air around my body, and making my skin
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exactly what was going to be happening. It was definitely a very social event, when I first got there I had to wait in a line that probably had fifty people in front of me. This was definitely a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be. One thing that I liked right off the bat was the music they were playing. I was surprised that the school allowed them to play rap music that is recent that I have heard on the radio. So to me it wasn’t as much as a school event feel, as it felt more like
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