Sunburn

summer sun beat down on the faces of the families in the stands during the last Little League game of the season. Moms, finding comfort in the familiar faces of friends forged through three months of uncomfortable green bleachers, bee stings and sunburns, chatted casually about the back-to-school sales for the upcoming year. A handful of men, still intently focused on the games, paced by the backstop, shouting advice to their progeny, perhaps envisioning a MLB baseball legacy. Sticky younger…

She pulls out a chair and places her unfinished assignment in front of me. Her tousled hair drops above her eyebrows. Light freckles stretch across her cheeks following no particular pattern, no set arrangement. Old wounds and sunburns patch her arms. Mismatched socks wrap around her ankles, and a loose shirt falls over her shoulders. "Can you help me with my homework?" I spent my weeks at the boys and girls club after school, sitting in the corner with my familiar books and pencils, rejecting…

“The child I was is just one breath away from me” ( Sheniz Janmohamed). In the book, Lord of The Flies, innocent small children were being flown out of England away from the war that has been taking place. All of a sudden their plane crashed dropping them in the center of the pacific islands. The young children had a difficult time situating themselves in a society which was fit to them all, and later on is where all chaos broke loose. In the Lord Of Flies the kids innocence has been lost by the…

Those people are like Jonas and Gabriel, which have the special and rare lightly colored eyes. Whenever Jonas had just turned twelve he found out he would become the new receiver, and have all the memories. He would sometimes get bad memories like sunburn and bee stings, but at the end of the day he would always get happy memories like snow and rainbows. The memories were very important to the giver but Jonas didn’t know why because he was unsure of what memories were. He never knew what he…

Results: Group A: mice from group A, showed normal features of skin, grossly it appeared as a thin and delicate layer, microscopically all of the components of mouse skin were thoroughly examined, including: Epidermis: It was the outermost part of the skin composed of 3-4 sublayers. The stratum basale and stratum spinosum were prominent, while the stratum granulosum was often inapparent, it appeared as intermitten layer, keratohyalin granules were seen in some individual cells. The thickness of…

This year, Latin was hard, and for a student, hard often means that they did not like the class. My experience could not be further from this common belief. I absolutely loved my time in Advanced Latin II, and it made me enjoy Latin for the first time since seventh grade. Eighth grade Latin was bad. We have certainly alluded to it in class, but we have never truly expressed the terribleness of 2015-2016 Latin I and Ib. Mr. Moore, in 7th grade, was fantastic, but I learned the Latin Ib material…

Lidocaine: Introduction: Thesis: Lidocaine is a widely used local anesthetic that can be used in many types of conditions, however the focus will be on the local anesthetic administration in dental procedures. 1. Structural information and chemical properties: (National Center) a. Chemical name and trade name: 2-(diethylamino)-N-(2,6-dimethylphenyl)acetamide, Lidocaine b. Chemical structure: (Figure 1: Lidocaine Structure) c. Molecular formula: C14H22N2O d. Molecular weight: 234.343 g/mol e.…

pigmented skin. The symptoms are caused by an irregularity in DNA repair as a result of cellular hypersensitivity to ultraviolet radiation. XP usually presents itself during infancy and early childhood. Just a few minutes in the sun can cause serious sunburn with redness and blistering. People with this unique condition have an expanded risk of developing skin cancer. XP mainly affects the integumentary system in many ways. An extremely heightened response to sunlight with skin blistering and…

Sunscreen Effectiveness For my science project this year, I have chosen to test the effectiveness of different SPF’s of sunscreen available in the consumer market. I hypothesize that the higher SPF sunscreens really do make a difference to the “sunburns” sustained by my test subjects. These higher SPF sunscreens are essential to help protect the skin from one of the worst kinds of skin cancer, melanoma. Even though there was a myth about the possibility of sunscreen causing cancer, that myth…

My life started the same as anyones. I was made in a tube, put into a surrogate mother, and then was born. Babies repulse everyone, so most parents can’t even stand to keep their babies. That is, until the baby gets their first surgery. After that, the moms and dads beg the adoption center for their babies back and they all live happily ever after. I understand why people are like this though. We are surrounded by beautiful people day in and day out and when we see a baby, it reminds us that…