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Hypertension What is hypertension? In medical terms, hypertension is high blood pressure. When it comes to cardiovascular disease it is very common in the United States. “In fact, it is the most widespread chronic disease in Western society.” (Brill, 2013) There are many prescriptions written for the common diagnosis of hypertension in the United States. According to the book Blood Pressure Down, it is the number one cause of stroke and kidney disease and can be a secondary cause for heart…

case The “kitchen” doesn’t refer to an actual kitchen where someone would cook food. It refers to area on the back of the head where our necks meet the shirt collar “As gates goes on to say, “no one nor thing can straighten the kitchen”. Meaning the kinks on the back on my neck will always be there so there is no point trying to straighten it. Then he begins to describe the political significance to hair, gates attitude towards the kitchen is negative because he doesn’t agree the politics of it.…

Wearing her bulky orange life vest made the task next to impossible, it put a major kink in her neck. How could anyone be able to sleep with such an item on? She piled the extra bunk’s pillows behind her head looking for a small measure of comfort. She closed her eyes and said a small prayer to find some relief tonight. As she started…

NYU Shushanna Guy Jan-25-2016 Writing Workshop 2 Questions: “Documents”-Charles D’ambrosio When Charles D’ambrosio, asked his father about events from the past why do you feel that the father became so defensive? Why had he written off what Charles said as fictional? 2. Danny’s final wish, in which he stated two times and was deliberately added a signature each time was for them to keep the way how he died a secret. However, In writing this personal anecdote Charles disobeys his…

In addition, they are also aware they diligent when allocating their rooms. As hotel casinos progress to improve their revenue management method, there are a few kinks there can always be improved. For example, communication between departments and final decisions of rooms of how rooms are allocated are disperse. With technology always improving, hotel casinos are now able to identify their customers overall worth…

The service organization that I received training by was the Holiday Inn; I was hired to work at the front desk. I have worked in a couple different service jobs, but this particular one required training that I had never experienced before. After I got hired I had to complete various training exercises: video demonstrations, role plays, housekeeping duties, computer program test, tour of the building, and phone conversations. I had to pass each exercise in order to be on the schedule. There…

We all know that smoking cigarettes or other tobacco products are bad for you and harmful to your health. According to the American Lung Association, “more than 480,000 people die from tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke, making it the leading cause of preventable death in this country.” (www.lung.org, n.d.) Another staggering fact is that “smoking is related to higher risks of serious diseases and is expected to kill more than 5 million people every year.” (Lüscher, et al., 2015)…

The ball is one with the birds as it cuts through the hot summer air, towards the outfield fence. Trying as hard as it can to escape the diamond, it gets a push of momentum from a westward gust of wind. Despite the effort, the breeze was not enough as the ball rattled off the top of the fence and fell to the damp, warning track dirt. It laid there patiently waiting until the sweaty hand of a center fielder grasped the laces with three fingers and launched it back into action. Again, it was…

In “Wisdom of Repugnance” in his book “Ethics of Human Cloning” Leon Kass blames the willingness of people to entertain and use alternative forms of human reproduction on the media and being “softened up” Kass contends that it is procedure like test tube babies, surrogacy and invitro-fertilization that has opened the door to the possibility of cloning. He believes that these changes threaten to change the connections within the family dynamic because cloning allows the people to reproduce…

The essay Life with Daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant spark an insight into black beauty in a white dominated world. Throughout black history women have been subjected to thoughts that their bodies were inferior. Many African American women do not feel comfortable with their hair or color of their bodies because of the upward battle they face to try to fit into society’s standards of straight hair and light skinned women. We see from the day Europeans arrived in Africa they tried to…