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    Pressure Sores

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    At Home Caregivers and Pressure Sores Pressure sores, also known as bed sores, decubitus ulcers, or pressure ulcers, are skin injuries caused by excessive pressure on the skin, especially in areas where there is little tissue between the skin and the bones. With pressure sores, the skin is worn or torn away leaving an open wound. The most common areas on the body for pressure sores are the hips, tailbone, shoulder blades, ankles, and heels. For individuals who are confined to a wheelchair, the backs

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    risk. Parents need to think about their teens tanning in beds. What they are doing to their body? What are the effects on tanning? What is the age limit? I am against it, because there will be consequence. Teens now these day they don't know what danger they're putting themselves. They just think I am tanning in a bed machine. Teens are putting themselves in risk when they tan in a bed.Teens have a high chance getting melanoma. In general there is more case of skin cancer than, other types of cancer

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    Ever since the fall into sin nations have fought over resources and over who could have the most power. World War I, also known as the Great War was the outcome of many tensions and a sequence of calamitous incidents that plunged Europe into a disaster zone. Due to the use of the machine gun and trench warfare, most of the war was a battle of attrition between the “Triple Alliance” and the “Triple Entente”. Millions of people fought and died in this war, among them thousands of Canadians. There

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    "The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees.” In the short story The Most Dangerous Game which was written by Richard Connell there are two main characters, Rainsford and General Zaroff. Rainsford thought that General Zaroff wanted to hunt with him when in all reality General Zaroff wanted to hunt him(Rainsford) himself. Richard Connell uses irony, theme and characterization to develop the plot and characters. The use of these literary devices suggests that Connell wanted to

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    anyone else who’s normal, Rainsford wakes up, eats breakfast while listening to the news. He goes to work every morning and comes home at night. He eats his dinner and goes to bed just like anyone else right? WRONG, Rainsford, like everyone else, had a secret, but it’s not a normal secret. Each night Rainsford would go to bed but wake up at the break of dawn in the middle of the woods sweaty, dirty, smelly, out of breathe, with his hunting gear all used up, and no memory of the night. He was terrified

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    he was going to die. Earlier that day, he had killed one of the main leaders of the enemy, and had been promoted to colonel. And now, he was lying on the battlefield, cold and lifeless. Now, I had known that this soldier was going to die this day. As soon as I followed him, he was gone. This soldier’s name was John, John Fernandez. He was in

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    Will Rainsford Ever Hunt Again? Savage is a member of people that are regarded as primitive and uncivilized. In ¨The Most Dangerous Game¨ the main character Rainsford faces many hardships and needs to survive from the General Zaroff who insanely hunts and kill people much like a savage. If Rainsford was still on the island he would not hunt again because he understands that he doesn’t need to and he might be physiologically scarred. First and foremost, the protagonist won’t hunt again because

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    Grimm Godfather Death

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    Then Death comes along, "I am Death, who makes everyone equal." "You are the right one. You take away the rich as well as the poor, without distinction. "I will make your child rich and famous, for he who has me for a friend cannot fail" (13). In general, people greed, selfishness and desire for power always cause them to lose everything. “What good does love, money, status, and power do, if a man loses his life?” The symbol death plays a major role in the story, a young doctor making bad choices

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    on much they know about hunting and how good they are at doing it. How ever in the book the General hunts humans and kills them for fun he thinks it makes a great game. Richard Connell wrote the book "The most dangerous game". Rainsford falls off his boat and finds himself playing this game of survival for his life and for a way home if he wins the game he can go home and he gets to sleep in generals bed it's the ultimate game of survival. In the first half of the book the mood is sad

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    “The fear of death flows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time” By Mark Twain. If a life is lived fully then the owner of the life will be prepared to die at any time. The way a person lives their life determines how accepting they are of death. In The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury the topic of accepting death plays a major role in the characters’ lives. Bradbury contemplates the impact of a life lived to the fullest, on a person’s ability to accept death

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