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During World War I, soldiers decided to construct trenches in order to protect themselves on the frontlines. This ultimately led to a common medical condition called trench foot, which caused the feet to swell two or three times their normal size and go completely numb. Soldiers were forced to stand in these trenches where the environment was damp, unsanitary, and cold in order to survive. If the condition was left untreated, symptoms would become so severe that amputation was required since the…

sometimes result in memory loss, numbness, dizziness headaches and even sterility, miscarriages and menstrual problems. Sexually transmitted diseases are also a common contingency for victims, including HIV/AIDS, gonorrhea, syphilis, UTIs and pubic lice. Other diseases can also be acquired, such as hepatitis, malaria, tuberculosis and pneumonia. Not only do women suffer from all sorts of physical injuries, they also can have major emotional and psychological damage. Victims can experience…

The Mirror (A reflection of self): This paper explores the characteristics and causes of homeless individual and families with children and I will also like to reflect and share some of the remarkable things I learned during community assessment to a homeless shelter. I had the opportunity to visit Grassroots crisis intervention center. This center operates the only general emergency shelter in Howard County at 6700 Freetown Road in Columbia, MD. The program has 33 beds for families and single…

c. They feel powerless, as they realize that they cannot control other children’s insensitive stares and comments about their child’s condition. They grapple with trying to understand the senselessness of why their child had to be afflicted and seeing their child suffer through the question of “Why me?” i. I know Dani has been asked about it and had to explain it to kids, some who have been mean. I hate that she gets shunned for the flakes or the patches. I hate that people think she is…

Throughout his memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Nick Flynn discusses the varying causes of homelessness in America. He discuses every topic from mental illness to poverty, drug abuse to alcoholism, and how each had there own effect on the homeless. While there are a multitude of possible reasons as to why someone is living on the street, Flynn focuses on the effects it has on an individual and on the reactions of society. Flynn calls attention to the rampant crisis of homelessness in…

In a world where there are a number of tragedies and issues that are likely to take precedence, there is an issue that is right in front of a lot of our faces but a lot of us tend to ignore or shove to the side. You see it whenever you go to a supermarket, people sitting with cardboard signs that say they will work for food or shelter. Some people do help them but a lot just look right through them and take their route home. With overflowing shelters, deaths in the streets and a general…

Pediatric nurses (aka Ped nurses) provide health and medical care for children, from birth all the way through their late teens. Ped. nurses are supposed to provide excellent quality care to the children that are in their care, and to also work with the families of the children they care for; to address their concerns, fears, problems, and options. What all exactly a Pediatric nurse varies depending on their work setting. But a few of the most important tasks according to the National…

Have you ever heard of Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? Well if you haven 't, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, “PTSD is a serious potentially debilitating condition that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a natural disaster, serious accident, terrorist incident, sudden death of a loved one, war, violent personal assault such as rape, or other life-threatening events. Research has recently shown that PTSD among military personnel may be a…

65,000,000 years ago, an entire species was killed off. There are so many different theories of how the dinosaurs dissapeared. There are many different ways to explain the extinction which took place 65 million years ago. One of the main reasons was the possibility of a sudden change in the climate or atmosphere. For instance, a nearby supernova explosion could heat up the upper atmosphere, disturbing the ozone layer. Disturbing the ozone layer could produce large ice clouds which would cool…

The debate over creation is one that has been around since the beginning of time. Some say God, some say science. But what about other intelligent life? Is it possible that they created our universe? While this notion may sound outlandish and completely irrational, there is actually quite a bit of logical evidence to back it up. All it would take to create a universe is a particle accelerator only slightly more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider. When the LHC was fired up in 2008, there…