The Family of Blood

Who is a teenage girl’s family if they are in foster care or are adopted? There are many literal terms for family, and many people with different opinions. There are many things that create a family, whether it is related by blood or relationships. The broad definition being who someone lives with in a home. So who is a teenage girl’s family who’s been adopted or in foster care? Family is the relationship with a parent, sibling or friend. However, who are a teenage girl’s parents? How about…

My grandfather suffered from colon cancer, high blood pressure, and diabetes and passed away at seventy-two years old. My grandmother suffered from high blood pressure and strokes for most of her life and passed away at the age of seventy years old. My mother is currently suffering from obesity and high blood pressure. High blood pressure…

“This is my best friend, but he’s more like family to me,” a phrase that has been uttered many times and still causes me to stop and contemplate; what is “like family”? A simple person might pull out his or her dictionary and tell you that family is, a group of persons who are related by blood and/or marriage. They may describe the traditional family as consisting of a mother, father and the offspring which they produced. But, what about families that fall outside of that scope, such as…

will need blood in their lifetime, so whether it is a friend, family member, or colleague, everyone will know someone who is in need of a blood transfusion or donation. One organ donor can save up to eight lives and affect the lives of more than 50 people with their donation(s), which can can help lessen the statistics of 22 people dying every day waiting for a transplant. The history of blood transfusions connects back to physician William Harvey discovering the circulation in blood in the…

There are a number of familial health issues that run on both of my parents ' sides of my family. On my mother 's side cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure, and diabetes seem to be common issues. On my dad 's side cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and gout are prevalent ( records on my dad 's side of the family only go up to my grandparents due to lack of clear records) My grandfather (dad 's side)also passed away from an aneurysm, but…

Disease (CAD) is, so the patient and family will have a better understanding of the disease. Coronary Artery Disease is thought to “begin in early childhood and is evident in the teenage years” (http://www.heart.org/). The plaque keeps building up each year and stays with a person for life. As a person ages the risks of coronary artery disease becomes higher with the type of lifestyle a person chooses. “The leading causes of CAD are “high cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes…

An estimated 1.4 million blood donations are annually assimilated by The Australian Red Cross Blood Service (ARCBS) in Australia alone. ARCBS uses this picture as propaganda to persuade the adult audience to aid hospital patients by donating blood. The message of this ad is that ARCBS is majorly in need of blood contributions and also of money. The significance of this ad is to be able to reveal to the audience the desperate need of blood and money donations The purpose of this image is to…

Every minute, the heart pumps about 1.5 gallons of blood through the body. The heart is “just above the diaphragm, between the right and left lungs” (Balaban 197). About two-thirds of the heart are located on the left side of the chest, while only about one-third of the heart is located on the right side of the ribcage. The cardiovascular system provides a transport system between the heart and lungs. The heart’s most important function is to indulge indispensable nutrients to the tissues and to…

last point of his journey, Richmond. It illustrated the extent of the division that whites had placed not only between himself and the blacks but also between blacks and the mixed bloods. In this passage, Delany introduced us once again to another portion of the mixed bloods. As Henry discovered, not many mixed bloods were amicable to the black race. Many of them took it upon themselves to spread the hatred of the blacks. This was due to the identity issue that the whites had placed upon them.…

Definition of Family The word “family” has had several different definitions depending on what reference you use. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term derives from the Latin word familia, which includes people living under one roof. This includes the father, mother, children, and even servants. During the 1660s, it was classified as a more specific term in English as children and their parents whether they live together or not, or people who are related by blood. This included…