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Jackson tends to have a small panic attack when he sees a spider, believes something has germs, or when he is faced with heights. His current strategies for seeing a spider are to avoid the spider and to tell an adult, he at times gets too panicked and is unable to tell the adult what is wrong and tends to frighten the other children in class. Jackson’s parents and teachers continue to explain that spiders are not dangerous and that they are helpful in the environment, but it is difficult to…

Imagine you are a college football player in the 1860’s when it was invented. You are handed the ball and you are running through the pack when you slam head first into a 300 pound defensive player. From that day on you cannot move the rest of your body because a spinal fracture in you neck. Luckily today, players are much less likely to do this because of how football gear has improved. Football gear long ago had many issues, solved, by modern equipment. The first type of football gear added…

workers usually traveled on their own, granted it was much easier. In his novella, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses Candy, Curley’s Wife, and Crooks to demonstrate unimaginable things people will do to avoid loneliness. To begin, Steinbeck uses Candy to show how people will do desperate things to avoid being lonely. The protagonists, George and Lennie seemed to be the only men who traveled…

Imagine this, a world where every kid is never made fun of eat right and enjoy life overall. Every single kid. The junk that is sold in school cafeteria would prevent this from happening and anything close to it. The vast amount of fat and unwanted sugar is overwhelming. It is a necessity to at the least cut down on repulsive foods like these for children across the nation. Although some think that junk food in school cafeteria are not causing any conflicts among students, the reality is they…

Many athletes, especially those in high school, play contact sports like football or wrestling that require athletes to be in heavy contact with each other, increasing the chance of injury. Perhaps the most serious injury that many coaches, parents, and even athletes shrug off is the concussion. A concussion occurs when the athlete experiences trauma to the brain that alters their cognitive ability, memory, or judgement. Concussions are extremely serious injuries that must be handled with care…

Every year millions of people print out those college basketball brackets and participate in their office pools. However what many of us do not know is that the NCAA generates 900 million dollars over a three week span we know as March Madness (Berr 1). The only madness about this is the fact that out of the 900 million dollars the players of the 68 teams do not see a penny. There is a major issue with these student athletes especially in the sports of men's football and men's and women's…

Childhood Obesity December 1, 2014 Health Science Lauren Coady David Beltran Kyle Free Melanie Bonilla Mauricio Enriquez Childhood obesity affects 1 in every 3 children in the United States. It is a disease that has become the number 1 health concern among parents due to the physical and mental health effects. Obesity is defined as having too much body fat, or excess of. This is to not be confused with overweight, which is just simply weighing too much. Childhood…

According to Indianapolis Colts safety Jamie Silva, “If you get a little headache or something, you’re not going to say anything. This is football, and everyone gets their heads rattled a little bit.” An average of 1 out of 10 players on a fifty-three-man roster will suffer a concussion during a 10-week season. A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury caused by a blow to the head. Concussions in sports happen all of the time, but occur more frequently in football. While many players have…

College tuition has been on the rise in recent years. We all know college is very expensive and yet college is full of amenities that entice students to want to spend their four years after high school there. The problem is that more and more students are unable to afford the high cost of education. College administrators need to realize that to increase enrollment at their colleges they need to keep tuition affordable rather than focusing on their facilities and trying to look better than…

The drought might have lasted a very long time but now it seems that it might be over. California has experienced a lot of rain which helped California come out of the drought. California has places where water is being stored and where extra water will be stored. California also has some ideas to increase storage capacity and many ways on how to conserve water to last California a longer time. California has a lot of places that we store water. The total average storage between all…