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When patients with cancer need to undergo therapies such as chemotherapy or radiation many side effects occur during those processes that could severely damage the patient’s self confidence. Cosmetics hold a high value with great significance for these patients, that help women stay intact with their culture and confidence from using wigs, makeup, body therapies, and plastic surgeries. Cosmetologist and oncoplastic surgeons take required college courses to pursue a career in this field. These…

Uranium is the element that I chose to write about. Uranium is a element that is a naturally radioactive element that comes in a silverish metal when it’s pure. Uranium quickly oxidizes in air and it can be used to color glass that glows greenish - yellow under a blacklight. Uranium is one of the key ingredients in atomic bombs. Only 1.38% of the uranium in the bomb “Little Boy” detonated over Hiroshima underwent fission and there was 140 pounds of Uranium in total. Uranium is an element that…

Introduction “The Radioactive Boy Scout is about David Hahn who has a love for science. David starts out working on his boy scout badge, but soon turns to nuclear energy. He soon starts on a new project; building a nuclear breeder reactor. Posing as a physics professor, David solicited information on reactor design from the U. S. Government and from industry experts. He spent a lot his time in the garden shed putting things together to help him with his inventions. Key Idea 1 David's parents…

1901. He served one year in the military. In 1904, he went to London to learn English and ended up working at the University College. At University College, Hahn ended up working with physical chemisist Sir William Ramsay. Ramsay gave Hahn crude radium to purify. While purifying, Hahn discovered a new radioactive substance that he later named radiothorium. After this discovery, Ramsay pushed Hahn to further his research in radioactivity instead of in industry. In 1906, Hahn returned to…

This barbaric act has everyone questioned. At 8:15 am on August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb which carried 20,000 tons of TNT on Hiroshima, Japan instantly wiping out about 140,000 people. After three days later another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. About 80,000 more people died. Mostly civilians died during this tragic time. The decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not a military necessity because civilians were harmed, it went against the…

the chance to get an amazing education. An education is always extremely important. Without an education, I would have never been able to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre Curie and Antoine-Henri Becquerel for discovering polonium and radium. In addition, I agree with how Barack Obama says that he wants children to have similar opportunities compared to him and his wife. It would have been nice if everyone had the same opportunities in Poland. The Russians had way more chances at…

acid, and calcium hydroxide are just a few chemicals that are constantly added into our water. Then you have to take into consideration how many containments water gets while traveling through the pipes to you. Typical water content includes salts of radium, aluminum, copper, lead, mercury, barium, and…

testing and mitigation. This will affect homeowners, homebuilders, schools, and the workplace. Radon is everywhere in our environment. Radon comes up from the ground and into our home and schools. Colorless and odorless, radon is a decay product of radium (Radon Encyclopedia). Radon continues to break down into products termed radon progeny (Radon Encyclopedia). It is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States today. To protect people’s health, the government is requiring…

Why did the Law for Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Mental Illnesses become a law? What type of treatments did the people go through? What effects did it have on the patients, the people who performed the sterilizations/ surgeries, and local citizens? The Law for Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Mental Illnesses became a law because the Germans wanted a pure race. The treatments were brutal and the effects differed from the person’s view of the German race and what a part they…

Rebecca Skloot’s book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” has been a life-changing experience for my career as a Public Health student. This book reveals a new area of medical history in which I had limited knowledge of. For instance, my knowledge of African Americans contribution to science was slight until I heard about the HeLa Cells. One important issue that is addressed in the book is Henrietta Lack’s family and their connection with the medical world. I personally believed that…