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    Women Who Smoke While Pregnant Over the years, statistics show that smoking cigarettes can cause many serious health issues. These issues compound when the smoker is expecting. Fourteen percent of U.S. mothers smoke while pregnant despite knowing the fact that smoking causes harm to both mother and child. In younger mothers, age 25 and under, that number rises significantly to 20 percent. If a woman smokes then becomes pregnant, she must decide whether or not to quit. Woman are aware that cigarettes

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    available today. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when essential oils were first used, but experts suggest that they have been used since the days of Mesopotamia, as early as 4500 BC. Egyptians, some of the earliest users, used cedar wood oil for embalming and hygiene purposes. More importantly, essential oils are full of fragrance. They have been known to be used for perfumes, incense, religious ceremonies, medicinal care, beauty care, food preparation and preservation, and many more uses in cultures

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    the afterlife. The pictures on the delicate wrappings are extremely significant as everything represents something in Egyptian culture. The painted wrappings of the child held two green jackals at the top, the jackals representing Anubis, god of embalming. The color green signifies renewal and rebirth which expresses the hope for immortality of the departed. The red diamond shape in the middle of the jackals represents the child’s heart. The mourning females are the goddesses Isis and

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    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints also known as the Mormons was formally organized in a small log cabin in upstate New York in 1830 (Worldwide Statistics, 2017). By 1947, the initial six-member church had grown to one million members. Today, current church members are over fifteen million. One of the Mormons religious belief is missionary work. The Mormons missionary work is based on the New Testament. They serve in pairs and teach the gospel and try to attract believers to the name

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    Chan Kook Choe Survey of Art in Western World I Professor Strum October 27, 2014 The Canopic Jars from Albany Institute of History and Art come from the Dynasty 26 of Late Period Ancient Egypt. In this time period, the jars were still used to store the viscera during mummification for dead men with wish of revival after deaths. Ancient Egyptians from the Old Kingdom through New Kingdom and later on Late Period or Ptolemaic Period used the mummification based on the idea that the dead ones souls

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    not sure a Texas Ranger by the name of Frank Harner walked to the car and shot a few more bullets into Bonnie’s dead body. Facts state Clyde body had 17 holes within it and Bonnie had 26, both bodies had so many holes in them they would not hold embalming fluid. As Bonnie and Clyde lay dead in their bullet filled car, many gathered around as the car was took to Sailes, Louisiana, on lookers needed keep sakes. These would include items such as pieces of hair, materialistic items, and even attempted

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    Ancient China and Ancient Egypt were one of the two greatest civilizations that each left their own impact on today’s world . They were both influential civilizations, but had many differences in their beliefs and practices. Main Idea Ancient Egypt was located in Northeast Africa and lasted for over 3000 years! The people living there were very dependent on the nile for transportation, food, and irrigation. Large floods would come consistently each year and left fertile soil for growing food

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    The Discovery Of The Tomb

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    Introduction In ancient Egypt, a boy dies mysteriously. Quickly buried in a small tomb, he lies peacefully, undisturbed. Thousands of years later, in February 1922, a man named Howard Carter finds the boy 's tomb. Named the discovery of the century, the discovery of the tomb answers so many questions, but creates a mystery that takes its place in the world 's greatest unsolved mysteries. I selected the topic of Tutankhamun because I have an interest in Egyptian pharaohs, and Tutankhamun 's mystery

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    people all had a role in the trading industry. Salt trade was very important during ancient history for several reasons. One is that salt could be made into many different things and used for many diverse reasons too. It was used for preserving or embalming people after the person died, but mostly pharaohs or kings (Kurlansky 42). Salt was also made into soy sauce or shoyu, salt fish, cured hides, and medicine to minimize childbirth pains, birth control, and epilepsy (20, 205). Another reason is the

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    Patients Having the Scents to Heal: Aromatherapy Kelsie Schweer The University of Alabama Capstone College of Nursing NUR 308: Conceptual Foundations of Nursing Summer, 2015 Patients Having the Scents to Heal: Aromatherapy Though widely varying around the world, patients have sought reduction of chronic pains and cures from complementary and alternative medicine. In the United States, the National Institutes of Health defined Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) as “a group of diverse

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