Gabrielle Giffords

Gabrielle Gifford Gabrielle “Gabby” Gifford was shot in the head by Jared Lee Loughner in January 8, 2011 at a supermarket parking lot in Casas Adobes, Arizona. Gabby was shot by a 9mm handgun, its bullet entering through the rear left portion of the brain and exiting to the front left portion - leaving no smaller fragments of the bullet and only affecting the left-Hemisphere. Gabby was hospitalized as critical in the University of Arizona at Medical Center in Tucson by Dr. Dong Kim. Kim used a surgery process known as Decompressive Hemi Craniotomy (also known as DHC) to treat Gabby’s brain swelling. DHC is the process where a large portion of the cranium is drilled away to prevent swelling and protects other unharmed parts of the brain. Dr. Kim made a piece of synthetic bone to cover the drilled hole once the…

look back and highlight the career of Hall of Famer Frank Gifford! You are in for a real treat tonight! It all started in Bakersfield, California, where the young Gifford showed off his versatile skills to get him into the University of Southern California. From there, he emerged into one of the legendary figures in the NFL as a player for the New York Giants and broadcasting on ABC’s Monday Night Football. Early Life Struggles and Triumphs On August 16th, 1930, Frank Newton Gifford was born…

1. Describe your overall impressions of the play. My overall impression of the play was good. But it was a little boring because we knew what would happen word for word. I think I would have enjoyed the play a little more if we just read the synopsis. The play talks about a lot of issues that are still here today. I would rate this play 7.5/10. 2. What part of the play stood out to you the most? Choose a quote from that part to support your answer. “MAMA: Oh—So now it’s life. Money is…

A major part of life is pursuing dreams. Life would almost be pointless if people did not have ambitions. We wouldn’t have a reason to get out of bed if they did not have a dream that they want to achieve. Anne Laurel Cartier, the author of the short story “Leaving the iron lung,” specifically looks at how having a dream can affect one’s life. Carter uses conflicting characters, character transformation, and the setting to illustrate that to be content with life one needs to follow their dream,…

return to the thrower, and which requires high dexterity to catch. Even though Xena is trained in many different weapons she likes to use hand to hand combat and her chakram. Xena also knows pressure points, and she uses them when she fights, and later in the series she has the ability to kill the Gods. She got that ability after her daughter Eve was baptized. Also Xena has a sidekick that helps her fight against the kings, warlords, and Gods. Her sidekicks name is Gabrielle and she is an Amazon…

Would you want to continue to live if all your family was dead? Is that a decision you would want to make yourself, or would you like someone else to make it for you? In the book if i stay, by Gayle Forman, Mia Hall is a 17-year-old cellist with loving parents, and a younger brother. She lives in Oregon, and spends her time playing her cello, and hanging out with her rocker boyfriend, Adam, and best friend, Kim. Mia is very talented and has the prospect of going to Juilliard in the fall. That is…

directly affected the expansion of the railroad that was being used to move the mining and logging products. While organizing his federal policies concerning land conservation, he placed a man of similar views in charge of the Forest Service. In 1905, Gifford Pinchot became the 1st Chief of Forest Service. Pinchot, much like Roosevelt, believed environmental conservation. He believed that natural resources were meant to be used to assist the growing American population, but he believed in…

Gifford Pinchot protecting the environment The environment is extremely valuable, once it is ruined, it will be very hard to repair and recover. In some cases, it would be impossible to turn back around. Once it happens the Earth would be stuck like that forever, or at least until the end of time. People like Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson saw this, and they decided to do something about it. “It is ours to use and conserve for ourselves and our descendants,…

naturalists such as John Muir (1838-1914) (“Conservative Movement”). Less well known than Muir, yet no less a significant figure in the movement is Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), the first Chief of the United States Forest Service and later Governor of Pennsylvania who was dubbed “the Father of American Conservation”…

value of gasoline, he was dumping it into the rivers because it was a byproduct of kerosine. With no regulations by the government, factories were pumping pollution into the air constantly. People were also cutting down as many trees as they could to keep up with the increasing population. It may not have been obvious then, but the government was smart enough to realize the environmental problems created by the industrialization era. Although the effects can still be seen today, it is…