for a reason. She had been given a death sentence but her faith was unfailable. She was diagnosed at the age of sixty eight and the motality rate of women with ovarian cancer older than sixty insurmountable. Ninety two percent of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer after the age of sixty five die within the first year. The first month after her diagnosis she broke her hip and was put in the intensive care unit from an infection…
similar layout with a central, dense core, rocky mantle, and a solid crust. Since Mars is the fourth planet in the solar system, its rotation, degree, and seasons are similar to Earth’s patterns. According to NASA, Mars has a degree tilt of twenty-five degrees, which is not that far off from Earth’s tilt at twenty three and four tenths degrees. Although these numbers seem not that far apart, a…
A category one hurricane consists of winds from seventy-four to ninety-five mile per hour winds. Light damage might occur such as roof tiles being torn off, power lines being broken, and broken windows if they are unprotected. A category two hurricane consists of winds from ninety-six up to one-hundred-and-ten miles per hour. The damage that occurs can cause injury to humans and animals due to the flying debris. Power outages…
player. Messi became the first player to score five goals in a Champions League match in early March. A few weeks later, he surpassed Cesar Rodriguez's club-record of two hundred and thirty two goals to become Barcelona's all-time leading scorer. By the end of 2010, Lionel Messi was awarded his second FIFA Ballon D’or. By the end of 2012, Messi had accumulated an astounding ninety one goals in club and international play, excelling the eighty five netted in a single calendar year by Gerd Muller…
nearly 5 million people are treated for skin cancer” (Guy)? That’s a large number of people every single year. Although five million of the 316 million American population get skin cancer yearly, the causes of skin cancer can be a plethora of things. According to unitypoint.org, only five to ten percent of all cancer cases are due to genetic defects. The remaining ninety to ninety-five percent are due to environment and lifestyle factors. Since the largest…
The Central Park jogger case is still centered around the fact that an innocent woman was assaulted and raped, left for dead in the park; it is not just about the miscarriage of justice that sent five youths to prison for a crime they did not commit. Rather than remotely having any sympathy for the victim, she uses the idea of rape for satiric effect in her article. Coulter even brings politics into her claim, outlandishly stating that “liberals…
trip. Our goal was to build a home for a needy family. I did not know what to expect on my way to Mexico. When I got off the bus, the first surprise was the hot climate. Being from temperate San Francisco, the heat stunned me; it was a blistering ninety five degrees. The second surprise were the living conditions and environment. I was surrounded by dirt, run down houses, and unpaved streets. After meeting the family, we started building the foundation for the house. On my break, I would go…
The Indian removal was a conflict between the five civilized tribes, Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, and the white settlers. The conflicts between both sides happened for many years but the Indian Removal Act was passed in 1830. Some Indian tribes lived in the Louisiana territory, but the five civilized tribes in the American settler territories. The reasons for the tribes to have to move was white settlers wanted more land to have control over. The Indians view of land is…
intensity of sound. When measuring a person’s hearing ability, hearing loss is recorded when the person cannot hear a sound lower than twenty-six decibels. In comparison, profound hearing loss is described when a person cannot hear a sound lower than ninety-five decibels (Clason). According to the Hearing Loss Association of America, twenty percent of Americans, which translates into forty-eight million people have some degree of hearing loss (“Basic Facts About Hearing Loss”). While this is a…
killed thousands. They call it Hurricane Katrina. Katrina initially formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 205 as a tropical depression .on the North side of the storm circulating in the center early in the morning of August 24 , 2005 , forty to sixty five miles wide , the storm now name a tropical storm , a tropical storm called Katrina . On August 24, 2005 this storm was the first to appear on the satellite images. Now on the Saffir Simpson Hurricane scale read the winds of hundred to hundred…