Informative Essay

Halloween is just around the corner, shops are loading their windows with witches hats, broomsticks, plastic spiders and all manner of ghoulish costumes. Here in the UK, scorn is poured on the holiday, mainly due to the fact the meaning of Halloween is largely unknown and often misunderstood. Many consider it to be an Americanisation and to some extent it is, others simply do not want to open their doors to mischievous children in cheap rubber masks. The true history of Halloween was lost long…

Aging is a marvelous, wondrous event. As we get older, we get wiser, and we have the opportunity to gather so many gorgeous life experiences. However, when we age, we become vulnerable to Alzheimer’s, a scary disease that deteriorates the memory and mind. If you think you are at risk for Alzheimer’s, or if you suspect that your senior loved ones may be developing the disease, know it’s still possible to live a fulfilling life. The compassionate caregivers at Senior Care Transition Services in…

Has breathing become more and more difficult for you? Does it feel like you can’t stop wheezing or coughing sometimes? You may just have the all too common respiratory disease asthma. Although it may seem overwhelming at first, there are ways to fight back against asthma and reclaim most of your lungs former condition! What is Asthma? By constricting and obfuscating the airways of the lungs, asthma creates uncomfortable and sometimes dangerous breathing patterns. Most moderate cases of Asthma…

Introduction Although my main subject was extremophiles and the extreme environments they live in. Today is going to talk about a different set of people that live in extreme conditions every day. These people may be all around you in your daily life. I’m talking about people with mental illness. I want to introduce two of the more common mental illnesses, anxiety and depression, as well as talk about the stigma associated with mental disorders in general. The illnesses Depression Depression a…

What we know as caffeine is also know as an alkaloid which can be found in different kinds of plants around the world. Caffeine it's self is a powerful stimulant which directly effects your central nervous system. The effect is that heightened alternates and focus you feel after drinking your morning cup of coffee or tea. And this effect is one we all love as it helps us get through every groggy morning. But the question many americans face today is caffeine good or bad for us? There doesn't…

Wouldn’t you say the best humor is the kind you relate to? Like the moment when the girl on T.V, dancing on a table, falls off; you get that deep gut laugh because a similar embarrassing memory is emerging and it takes you back to the time when the phrase “I feel your pain” became literal. Humor is all around. Even little babies who have no concept of what humor is — let alone how to spell or function on their own — know that a fart can be funny. Humor has no hold on age, gender, race, or…

Technology is everywhere- a world without the internet, smartphones, computers and many more technologies that make our life easier seem to be impossible. It has and will always change our life- warfare is not an exception. One of the most important changes in warfare within the last decades is the development of unmanned aerial vehicles-better known as drones. As the name already explains itself, drones are aerial vehicles, air crafts, without human pilots in them. They come in different…

“I don’t even know why I’m angry. I just am. It’s like a flip of a switch. I’m just some little kids entertainment. On, off, on, off.” Depression. We’ve all heard of it. It is hard to define because we do not have much knowledge about it. The best way to describe it is prolonged feelings of severe despondency and dejection. We all feel depressed sometimes, but many people can not even fathom how someone can feel desolate and melancholic all the time. In this society, depression is barely…

Baptism # 1 Today we want to take a look at the origins of what is refereed to as the Anabaptist. To do this we need to take a look at the background of Baptism (by water) in the early church and the Roman Catholic Church. http://andnowyouknowmore.blogspot.com It might be well that we take a little time about the subject of baptism. There are differing theology about this subject. For an Evangelical, baptism by immersion is a public sign that one has accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and…

Are you overweight or tired all the time? Do you have headaches, other aches and pains, frequent colds and flus, constipation or digestive problems, high blood pressure, PMS, allergies or sensitivities. Do you often drink too much alcohol, drink caffeinated beverages, smoke cigarettes, use over-the-counter or recreational drugs, or eat fast, fried or refined foods? What is a detox? Our bodies have a natural in-built detox system (made up of the digestive tract, the urinary system and the…