Lead poisoning

we had a community garden, we could save money. First, community gardens helps you communicate with other people. They increase a sense of community ownership and stewardship. Community gardens offer a focal point for community organizing, and can lead to community-based efforts to deal with other social concerns. They are recognized by many police departments as an effective community crime prevention safety. Community gardens offer unique opportunities for new immigrants who tend to be…

natural disasters, fires, foreclosures/evictions, or more devastating, being kicked out. Homelessness impacts each aspect of a child’s life, hindering their physical, psychological, social, and behavioral advancement. The effects of this change could lead to social impairment, depression, and suicide. Being homeless can reduce the chance of developing a career because most do not have the proper education they may need. Housing plays an important role in the prosperity of children. Stable…

is that insects will naturally be selected and reproduced based on their genes that will allow them to survive the toxin and these bugs will reproduce and so on creating resistant bugs and bacteria that will be harder to kill. These new insects may lead to a decrease in biodiversity in the soil due to the resistant organism being more likely to survive. Iowa State University says that some GMOS have antibiotic features that may cause immune viruses or disease in humans, causing known antibiotics…

Binge drinking is defined as “consuming large quantities of alcohol in a single session with the intention of getting drunk” (Youth Central, 2014). This usually means five or more standard drinks for men and four or more drinks for women. Standard drink in Australia is defined as containing 10 grams of pure alcohol, and for example one can of mid-strength beer, a 100ml glass of wine or a 30ml shot of spirits is one standard drink (National Health and Medical Research Council, 2015). Many young…

One of the federal agencies in the United States that track suicide rates, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), defines suicide as “death from injury, poisoning, or suffocation where injury was self-inflicted and that the decedent intended to kill himself/herself”. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), suicide is the second leading cause of death worldwide among people ages 14 to 44 (World Health Organization,2002). Statistics indicate that one person dies of it…

household. However, Mama stands up to Papa when she finally feels she has had enough of his abuse which has caused her several miscarriages. Wanting to end the suffering she and her children endure in Papa’s hands, she rebels against Papa by slowly poisoning him. After Papa dies, when it is found that there is poison in the body, Mama immediately confesses to her children that she “started putting poison in his tea before [she] came to Nsukka” (290). Mama poisons her own husband Papa in order to…

infection or illness that affected the developing brain of a fetus during pregnancy lack of oxygen to an infant's brain during childbirth meningitis, encephalitis, or any other type of infection that affects the brain brain tumors or strokes poisoning, such as lead or alcohol…

Introduction In 2011, the estimated population of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians was 669 000, of which the majority was aged between 0-24 (ABS 2016b). Improving physical health of young Indigenous Australians is, therefore, essential to promote population health and public health. This report will employ the modified national indicator framework of young people’s health and wellbeing (AIHW 2010) to provide a comprehensive overview of young Indigenous Australians’ current…

to $2 billion every year advertising in the United States alone. From 2001 to 2007, these companies aired more than two million television ads and published more than 20,000 magazine advertisements (Jernigan). This much advertising will inevitably lead to exposure to teens. If it is against the law for anyone…

relevant real world support that validates my prediction. Divorce, which is more common now than it was in the 1960s, and bullying, which is more frequent with the emergence of social media, is two important factors to consider. Both divorce and suicide lead to depression, which is the number one cause for…