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few of the June 2012 headlines: • Payson, Arizona - two attacks in one week • British Colombia, Canada - man attacked while in his hot tub at home • Cape Cod, Massachusetts - rare sighting of animal roving Cape Cod • Boulder, Colorado - animal roaming campus of University of Colorado • Greenwich, New Jersey - bear wandering neighborhood • Grafton, New Hampshire - woman attached at her back door • Manchester, New Hampshire - found wandering streets of Manchester We can all sympathize with these…

close relationship with her grandfather who told her stories about his childhood during the Civil War. These stories helped her write books and they became the basis of her books. She graduated from the University of Illinois in Urbana, and after she earned her master’s degree, she when to the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Hunt taught English and French in public school in Oak Park, Illinois.…

all-around exercises as it improves circulation, improves bones, lightens moods, strengthens muscles and leads to weight loss. Walking has even been shown to improve sleep. Inf fact, a study of post-menopausal women conducted at the University of Colorado at Boulder found that just two miles of walking a day reduced blood pressure 11 points in just 6 months. Just 30 minutes of walking a day decreased stroke risk by 20 to 40 percent. Few people dispute the benefits of walking, but many seniors…

Names are identities. Whether on the internet succeeding a Commercial At, a television screen, or on top of a text messaging thread. It seems, as it should, that our names have meaning, regardless of accuracy or desire. In Melissa Faebos’s book Abandon Me she illustrates a grand irony in her chapter “Call My Name”, to have a name mean one thing but the adverse be your reality. Within my own life, I’ve set goals, maintained demeanors, and pushed the status quo all in the pursuit that one day my…

Rob Kuchta’s lab at CU Boulder, I had the opportunity to work on two wholly different projects. The Kuchta Lab is broadly interested in the mechanisms of DNA replication as well as unnatural building blocks of DNA, such as nucleotide analogues. Under Dr. Kuchta’s guidance, I investigated…

Nursing Theory Analysis Paper: The Philosophy of Jean Watson and her Theory of Human Caring Jean Watson is a caring and compassionate individual who has devoted her life’s work to the phenomena of human caring within the nursing practice (Watson, 2016a). Her Theory of Human Caring is a middle-range theory that focuses on the spiritual experience between the healthcare professional and the patient that can often be overlooked by medical science (Watson, 2016a). Further discussion will reveal how…

College is a source where students get the golden ticket of their dreams. A lot of high schoolers might have a dream to attend college one day to gain more knowledge but to get higher degree one might need a lot of money, and colleges will give chances where people can take loans but when it leads to debt it can be worrisome. According to the Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning (Volume 27) , “Going to college without enduring student loans is impossible and most students do not know…

the Washington Post, data has proven that there is a direct correlation between high school grade point average and the average annual adulthood earnings. According to Michael T. French, he director of the health economics research groups at the University of Miami, said “A one-unit increase in your GPA has a very sizable impact on your education and earnings.” It is for that reason that we must affirm today’s resolution to mandate a national minimum grade point average. The first point I…

Good evening it is good to see so many familiar faces again! I am Christal Klinger a born and raised Colorado native growing up in different suburbs around the Denver Metro area until my family settled in the mountains above Boulder, Colorado. Once I graduated from high school, I went back to Denver, found the love of my life (we just celebrated 22 blissful years) and then moved and have lived for the past 17 years in a small town on the High Plains called Kiowa (like the Native American tribe).…

The chemists' main objection focused on two isotopes of the element neodymium. By measuring the relative abundances of the isotopes in a rock, geochemists can tell whether the rock originated in the mantle lithosphere -- the slice of the North American jelly sandwich that, according to Bird, the Farallon Plate had dragged away. When the chemists checked the neodymium, however, the rocks proclaimed that the mantle lithosphere is very much intact. The evidence was compelling; many of Bird's…