...According to "American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology" (2015), “The number of people with asthma continues to grow. One in 12 people (about 25 million, or 8% of the U.S. population) had asthma in 2009, compared with 1 in 14 (about 20 million, or 7%) in 2001.” Another scary eye opener is that more than half 53% to be exact of people with asthma had an attack in 2008. Out of that 53 percent of people more children suffered from asthma attacks then adults. In 2007 a whopping 185 children and 3,262 adults died from asthma ("American Academy Of Allergy Asthma And Immunology", 2015). Asthma can be a very scary chronic diseases. Asthma is a chronic lung disease that happens to be long-term this disease inflames and narrows the airway. Asthma causes recurring periods of wheezing which could sound like a person is trying to whistling when they are breathing. They also suffer from recurring chest tightness, shortness of breath, and coughing. A person with asthma coughing usually happens in the morning when they first wake up or at night when they getting ready for bed ("National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute", 2016). To really understand how asthma effect a person you have go to understand how the human airway works. You may not pay attention to the length of what our body does to help us breath. We breathe twelve to twenty times per minute day after day due to our wonderful respiratory systems. Our lungs expand and contract supplying our body with oxygen and helps remove...
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...(Internet) about why is the heart attack significant to Americans. The articles are going to talk about how Americans can get a heart attack and not to risk lives from getting a heart attack. World Health Organization (2005) suggests that we should avoid heart attacks and strokes because everyone can be a victim from it. Others items relate to the important of having a heart attack and strokes. Also, why heart attacks runs in our family. Heart Attack is important to all Americans because each year millions of Americans in United States has heart attacks and almost half of them die. Many people were able to know how they can survive a heart attack. Brought attention...
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...involves the heart and /or vessels. When plaque builds up in the walls of the arteries this buildup narrows the arteries, making it harder for blood to flow through. If a blood clot forms, it can stop the blood flow. This is reasons why people have heart attacks and strokes. There are other reasons as well that can cause you to have heart disease but this is just some of the reasons.The causes of cardiovascular disease are diverse besides aging there are a number of physiological changes that alter cardiovascular function that lead to subsequently increased risk of cardiovascular disease, even in healthy individuals. Risk factors for heart disease are age, gender, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, smoking, a lot of alcohol consumption, family history, being overweight , No physical activity, psychosocial factors are just a few that can cause heart disease. To make sure that you don’t end up having heart disease and to stay fit and healthy you need to make sure that you eat right, decrease body fat, increase daily activity. The life Changes I choose to make in my life are to eat right, exercise on a daily basis, whether it is just house work or having to get up and do cardio. Since I don’t eat as healthy as I should I do plan to make sure that I eat more fruits and vegetables and I have had my Cholesterol checked and since this is fine I don’t have to do anything except keep maintain to a good level. I do know that I need to lose weight although heart disease is...
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...involves the heart and /or vessels. When plaque builds up in the walls of the arteries this buildup narrows the arteries, making it harder for blood to flow through. If a blood clot forms, it can stop the blood flow. This is reasons why people have heart attacks and strokes. There are other reasons as well that can cause you to have heart disease but this is just some of the reasons.The causes of cardiovascular disease are diverse besides aging there are a number of physiological changes that alter cardiovascular function that lead to subsequently increased risk of cardiovascular disease, even in healthy individuals. Risk factors for heart disease are age, gender, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, smoking, a lot of alcohol consumption, family history, being overweight , No physical activity, psychosocial factors are just a few that can cause heart disease. To make sure that you don’t end up having heart disease and to stay fit and healthy you need to make sure that you eat right, decrease body fat, increase daily activity. The life Changes I choose to make in my life are to eat right, exercise on a daily basis, whether it is just house work or having to get up and do cardio. Since I don’t eat as healthy as I should I do plan to make sure that I eat more fruits and vegetables and I have had my Cholesterol checked and since this is fine I don’t have to do anything except keep maintain to a good level. I do know that I need to lose weight although heart disease is...
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...is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. Fear is an unavoidable part of everyday life, and affects everyone in the world. However, there is a more powerful form of fear known as a phobia. Not everyone is affected by phobias, approximately eleven percent of the worlds population is (de Jong & Merckelbach, 2000). The world today associates any fear as a phobia, by tacking on the suffix “phobia” to the end of any word. However, a fear is not the same as a phobia. A phobia is a psychological disorder, not just an irrational fear. Belief that a phobia is not the same as a fear is controversial. This is increasingly important in this age of advanced psychology, medicine, and technology. Many people think that a phobia is defined as having a fear of a certain stimuli, but seem to overlook the fact that a phobia is more than a fear it is a psychological disorder. Phobias are quite difficult to understand, even to a person who has one. A phobia is an unrealistic and disproportionate fear of a certain stimuli resulting in panic, severe anxiety, lack of control and impairment. Phobias can be classified into two main groups, simple specific and complex general. Simple specific phobias are defined as an irrational fear to one specific stimulus, like a snake for example. People with this type of phobia only react to that one thing, and the reaction only results when the certain stimulus is encountered. Some examples of simple specific phobias are emetaphobia, the fear of vomiting...
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...Can't Breath Most of you may not think of asthma as a killer disease, yet more that 5,000 Americans die of asthma each year. “According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute web page, asthma also accounts for more that 400,000 hospital discharges annually” (What is Asthma?, 8/24) . As the number of people with asthma increases, the more likely you are to meet a person who has the disease. I have a close and personal relationship with asthma. My ex wife three sons have asthma and they deal with the disease everyday each case a little different. Today, I will discuss some interesting facts about asthma; I will specifically focus on what are asthma, warning signs, symptoms, causes, and the treatments that are used. What is Asthma? Asthma is best described by its technical name: Reversible Obstructive Airway Disease (ROAD). In other words, asthma is a condition in which the airways of the lungs become either narrowed or blocked. The results are usually temporary but they cause shortness of breath, breathing trouble, wheezing, coughing, and tightness in the chest. To know what it really feels like to have asthma, I would like everyone to pick up the straw and put it in his or her mouth as if they were using it to drink something. Then, pinch your nose. Try breathing for twenty seconds. A real attack can last up to more than ten minutes and you are only doing it for twenty seconds. Juice, the youngest child, chest would rise so big because he could not breath...
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...disorder fear from being judged by others. They fear going out and being a part of society, they fear that they will have a massive panic attack out of know where. This disorder creates social anxiety, affects personal life, and creates panic attacks in the person suffering. Social anxiety is the extreme fear of being scrutinized and judged by others in social or performance situations “Anxiety and depression association of America, 2014.” People dealing with social anxiety have a hard time being in situations that make them have to deal with or be around other people. Here is an example about social anxiety effecting a man named Greg. One day Greg got talked into going to a party with his roommate. However, Greg’s roommate suddenly had to work that day and could no longer attend. Greg now was going alone and had not been able to come up with a good reason to no longer go. When he arrived his anxiety was starting to hit him; he was sweating vigorously. Once he entered the party, he no longer wanted to be there. His new objective for the night was to hide in plain sight and get out as soon as he could (Jantz, 2014). The fear of letting down his roommate made it to where Greg felt obligated to go to this party. By doing this it triggered his anxiety and he no longer wanted to be there. He was now in fear of being around these people. Having fear of people can lead to a path of destruction. A study that was conducted found that in the 131 participants who had anxiety symptoms,...
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...Brown HIS/145 December 12, 2013 Andrea Keefer Abstract Preparing for the threat of nuclear attack in itself is a threat, fear, and a form of terrorism. Not knowing each night before going to bed if waking up the next day is an option or safe and out of harm’s way, is atrocious, scary, and not a way anyone would ever be expect to live their life. This should never become a normal way of life. Everyone has a reasonable expectation to always feel safe in their own homes, streets, schools, neighborhoods, where ever they are because this is a civil society and for someone to threaten that way of life is quite breath taking. Nuclear Threat Preparedness It is almost unimaginable to think of how people had to feel back then under the constant threat of a nuclear attack. Imagine a government constantly telling its citizens that an attack will probably happen and to be prepared, be prepared, and be prepared. Preparing to die, to live in fear, to think feel the need to always look back over ones shoulder, or to start looking at a neighbor as if they may be the enemy that is a lot of pressure to live under every day. It would be like always having to stop to catch your breath because you are always running frantically in your head all the possibilities of death and survival. As no one wants to die. Then the guilt of knowing that someone somewhere in another country is being attack by a nuclear weapon like Japan with not one but two atomic bombs. The aftermath had to have been horrible...
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...owner, they can become aggressive and attack. ¨Pet Pomeranian¨ states that in 2000 there was a case of a Pomeranian killing a 6-week old baby for supposedly no reason. There clearly had to have been something wrong for this dog to attack. This goes to show that, with the wrong ownership and training, even the dogs that aren't labeled aggressive can do some damage on other creatures, including humans. It may be unfortunate, but it is true and there are more pieces of evidence showing...
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...My First True Love As a kid, I often wondered what the people I saw around me feared the most, was it a grand scale catastrophe like a war or an attack from a terrorist? Or was it more personal like the death of someone close to them? I never answered my questions but I was convinced that whatever it was, it must have been significant to each and every one of them. Who knows? Maybe we all fear the same thing! At the age of 6, what I taught I feared most was losing my dog Zulu. To my dissatisfaction, I wasn’t as freaked out as I taught I would have been when Zulu died. I had to find something that made me feel vulnerable and scared so I resulted to watching the forbidden ‘scary movies’. I was good at being sneaky for an 8year old child; nobody was ever close to nabbing my scheme. As scary as the movies were, their effects were only as weak and short lived as Zulu so I quit on them. It was not long before I had myself believe that I was fearless so I would take it upon myself to do the thing that scared my friends. I did a lot of extreme things and soon earned the reputation as the “dare devil”. I was born into a family of 4, 3boys of whom I would coax to get anything from and myself. I was nothing less than invincible and I was sure to use my talent to the fullest in the planning of my 10th birthday. My 10th birthday was in one word EXTREME. I stared my plan the day I clocked 9. I was determined to make my birthday grand to the best of my understanding. My mother was...
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...." isn't one of the most horrific films made, and is at heart a black comedy, it still includes a lot of codes and conventions of the horror genre which makes it not only a horrific film, but one of the most memorable werewolf films in movie history. Using special effects and filled with bloody gore, "An American Werewolf" still looks as horrifyingly real as it did 27 years ago. Opening on the eerie Yorkshire moors, "An American Werewolf" centers around two American backpackers who are attacked by a werewolf after leaving a small village in the middle of nowhere. Having been warned by mysterious locals not to leave the road or go onto the moors, the two ignore the warnings and pay for it when one of them is killed and the other bitten by the wolf. In these opening fifteen minutes, the follows many codes and conventions used throughout the horror/monster genre. The first convention is the gothic setting of the opening that is the yorkshire moors. Typically of the horror genre, the setting is shown to be damp, cold, dark and full of mist. Preying on the audience's fears of being alone in the middle of the wilderness the film displays the truly horrific nature of isolation. Like any typical horror film, the setting for the attack isn't a warm, inviting place but rather an eerie place full of mist, that blinds the two protagonists, so that they cannot find shelter or see if anything may be coming to attack them. This gothic setting is the most likely place to set...
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...Carolina Garcia Aguilar Psychological Disorders Panic disorder is a psychological disorder. The main features are recurrent events of panic abrupt, events of extreme fear, bordering on terror. The person not only experiences the recurrent events, but also a pounding heart, shortness of breath, faintness, and shaking. All these happen unexpectedly and are sometimes unexplainable. These recurrent events can play in the person’s head for up to 10-20 minutes. There is a relatively history of this psychological disorder, different causes and effects, those who are more likely to suffer from panic, and there are also treatments found for panic disorder. Psychological disorders have had different names throughout time, like mentioned in the book Understanding Panic and Other Anxiety Disorders, the author mentions, “During the American Civil War, Dr. Jacob Mendes DaCosta described finding in soldiers what he believed to be a cardiovascular disorder involving chest pains and palpitations of the heart, but, as it turned out, actual heart disease was not usually present” (Root 1). This syndrome became known as neurocirculatory asthenia, also known as effort syndrome, cardiac neurosis, soldier’s heart, and DaCosta’s syndrome. It was linked with the emotional and physical distress of war. During the twentieth century’s two world wars, sufferers of panic disorder slowly but surely came to be treated less often by those in the field of internal medicine and more often by psychiatrists. Observers...
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...normal life. A life filled with fun, with people who will care for them, a life where they are not abused or looked at like constant aggressors. a. Just like any dog you can choose, they just need proper training and ownership. They are just as smart as other dogs and can learn just as quickly. b. They are playful just like any other dog you can get and want to spend time with other dogs and a new family without the misconception that they are going to harm someone. c. They want a family to love, who will love them in return. Transition: The misconception of this breed should not determine if they are actually good dogs. B. This is why they deserve a second chance at life. 1. Waiting to see if someone will open their hearts to them is the only thing they can do. 2. Most of the time they are euthanized because of their breed. a. These dogs have done nothing wrong but live in a world of abuse...
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...You’re the epitome of confidence in front of the bathroom mirror. You invite a friend to view your presentation and dazzle her with your poise. She loyally claps and smiles and offers words of encouragement. It’s just that there’s this nagging flutter in your stomach every time you think about getting up in front of a group to speak. A nagging flutter? Are you kidding? More like an attack of killer butterflies! Even the thought of speaking in public can start your heart pounding, palms sweating and fill your mouth with cotton. If you make it to the stage, your knees knock, your breath comes in gasps and you feel light-headed. Even if you get past all that, you’re voice shakes. You experience “brain freeze” and you “choke”. You open your mouth to speak and…nothing. At least that’s your nightmare! It usually is just a nightmare; the fearful things we conjure up in our imagination are almost always worse than the real thing. But when we’re in the middle of the anxiety we think, “JUST a nightmare? Is there anything scarier than getting up in front of a group of people to speak?” Apparently not. There’s little we humans are as universally afraid of as speaking in public. It tops the list. Personally, spiders that bite and being stuck in quicksand top my list. If you're fearful of speaking in public, you’re definitely not alone. Public speaking is stressful to a large number of people. Our bodies don’t seem to know the difference between being chased by a hungry saber-toothed...
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...Doodle Bug In the story the Scarlet Ibis contains two main characters Doodle a young boy born with a heart defect and his brother to whom this writing is based on. This story was told through a first person point of view through doodles brother eyes his brother showed love,ignorance and caringness. Doodles brother was embarrassed at first of his brother and did not show much love towards his brother as shown in this sentence “When Doodle was five I was embarrassed by having a brother that age who couldn’t walk".He was embarrassed by his brother because he could not do all the same things that a person without the problems he had could do. Doodles brother becomes so embarrassed that it pushes him to teach his brother how to walk although...
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