street gangs with over 150,000 members. In the City of Los Angeles alone, there are over 400 separate gangs and an estimated 39,000-gang member. The most common gangs that are in the Los Angeles area are the Bloods and the Crips. Both are recognized but the “colors” that they wear. Bloods wear bandanas, or other articles of the clothes that have a red color, Crips wear blue. Though they are known by their distinct colors, these two gangs are rival enemies. Also, they can be recognized by the different
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impairing its ability to take in oxygen. A smoker’s lungs also has decreased blood flow, robbing both the lung and body tissue of the nutrients and oxygen they need to be healthy and to function normally. (Whelan, 1996) This leads to lung disease and later can turn into lung cancer. When a person lights up a cigarette and starts smoking their heart rate begins to rise, and does not return to normal until after smoking has stopped. Blood pressure also returns to normal between episodes of smoking. But smoking
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Christina Doner Our bodies are made up of mostly water. What does that mean? Exactly how it sounds. Water is found in every part of the body; from tissue, to muscle, and in the bone. Bodies depend on water for lubrication, protection, oxygen in the blood (which too is mainly water), in addition to the delivery of nutrients throughout the body. Consequently, water is essential to the survival of human life. Most importantly, bodies do not store water, resulting in obligatory consumption of water on
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Body Burden John Doe Anthropology 200h Professor Smith The environment that we inhabit today is filled with massive quantities of toxic chemicals of all sorts. To be specific, there are more than 80,000 known chemicals floating around us, some naturally occurring and some man-made. We are exposed to chemicals through the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink and clean ourselves in. All of these factors are dependent on the environment we choose to live in, though; a
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yellow, green, blue, orange, cyan and brown and vs verse for a woman as long as all of them are sexually attractive to her she will have them all. Racism is stupid and I hate everybody equally nobody gets left out because we are all human same blood and guts and all that on the inside, some of us just got left in the over to long or just right depends on who you ask. When a black person can walk down a country road in Podunk Alabama in the middle of the night and not be scared then America is
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plants to kill insects. It is an addictive chemical. Carbon monoxide affects the reparatory system really badly because it affects the ability of the respiratory system to deliver oxygen to the body cells. Carbon Monoxide actually diffuses into the blood stream instead of the opposite. Tar is also very bad because of its stickiness it accumulates in the alveoli and of Corse this can lead to problems in gas exchange. The tar itself is also made up of hundreds of different chemicals that are toxic
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prevent dehydration. 2. Monitoring of blood count. Doctors check the hematocrit and platelet count regularly to see if there is a need to transfuse blood components. 3. Consider giving medicines to prevent ulcer, since bleeding is a possibility. 4. Encourage the patient to eat regularly, specifically soft, easily digestible foods. Patients are advised to avoid eating dark colored foods, because we need to monitor the stool's color. (Black stools means blood for doctors.) 5. Tawa Tawa plant might
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inflammation and scarring present there. The injury site also typically has very limited blood supply and connective tissue, which might prevent donor cells from getting the nutrients they require. Dr. Zhang's gel, however, can be loaded with different chemicals to stimulate various biological processes at the site of injury. In previous research done on rats, she was able to use the gel to help re-establish full blood supply at the site of brain injury. This could help create a better environment for
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Burke County Middle School Science Constructive Response 6th and 7th Grade Science 6th Grade Constructed Response 1. What are the three major classifications of rocks formed on Earth? Which one would you find fossils in and why would you find fossils in this rock. Explain how fossils form. (6.E.2.4) Answer: Metamorphic Sedimentary Igneous You would find fossils in sedimentary rock Layers of soil are laid down on dead animals or plants embalming them. The minerals replace the
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DOCTOR’S CLJNIC A clinic (or outpatient clinic or ambulatory care clinic) is a health care facility that is primarily devoted to the care of outpatients. Clinics can be privately operated or publicly managed and funded, and typically cover the primary health care needs of populations in local communities, in contrast to larger hospitals which offer specialised treatments and admit inpatients for overnight stays. Some clinics grow to be institutions as large as major hospitals, or become associated
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