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    what plywood burns faster. They tested many different types of wood that was plywood; however what burned the most was the modified plywood. Even the pine plywood that was runner up was not even close to how fast the modified plywood was burning. During the 70s the plywood people used was the local wood around them. For example cypress plywood is used mainly in Florida and Hemlock was mainly used in and around Tennessee. While today most homes are made of this designed wood that can burn faster. What’s

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    Living With a Burn Injury The number of burns that require medical attention in the United States are 1.1 million every year. Burns are injuries caused either by heat, chemicals, sunlight, radiation, or electricity (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (n.d.). Statistics show most burn injuries for women and children occur in the home and for men they typically occur at the workplace. They are classified as first, second, or third degree, usually by how deep and severely they breach the skins

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    related “deaths (76.5%), fire injuries (78.0%) and fire dollar loss (55.0%)” in the United States (United States Fire Administration, 2013). The most popular injuries related to fires are burn wounds. Burn wounds can be categorized into three different levels: first degree, second degree, and third degree burns. As the degree

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    Burn Injury: A Case Study

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    To calculate the extent of any burn injury, you need to know the areas that the patient is burned per body surface area. According to Code Health (2018), the adult rule of nines includes: total head 9% (front and back each equal 4.5%), the arms equal 9% each (18% total), the torso is 18% front and 18% back (total 36%), legs equal 18% each (total for both equals 36%), and the groin is a total of 1%. Code Health (2018) stated that you can almost use the patient’s size of their palm to determine

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    Burns are classified by the depth of the skin affected; There are two categories of burns partial thickness burns, first and second-degree burns, and full thickness burns, third-degree burns. First-degree burns can be obtained through sunburns or brief exposer to very hot or cold objects and are the least serious with only damage to the epidermis or top layer of the skin. You can identify first-degree burns through red skin with possible slight swelling and pain. Since these burns are not very serious

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    Water and Fire Water and fire, two very different elements. But, What really makes these two elements different? Fire burns. It is used to hurt and to kill, but it can also be used for heat and for light. Water soothes. It is used to revive people who are sick and to help to cool off in a hot summer day, but it can it be used for torture and to drown living things. In spite of all of their differences they do have three things in common Oxygen, they both kill, and they are both necessary for survival

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    to the wall. We stood there not thinking of the consequences of our actions, looked at one another and grinned a big grin. I turned the knob slowly, we started speed walking the running and running faster till we were panting, the knob was on fast burn the fastest setting on the treadmill. Jerry jumped off, me on the other hand tripped over my socks, I fell and the treadmill still on the fasts setting pushed me up against the wall my neck to the back of the treadmill and my legs bent over my head

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    America is the home of the brave and land of the free. It’s the continent known for the start of new beginnings, and renewal of life. You are free to believe what you want, love who you wish, and be you think you are designed to be. Although America may have many benefits that most countries and continents don’t, it came at a price. America had to fight her way to the top, and every constitutional right was earned by the endurance and victories it took to make them possible.From a fledgling nation

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    empathy (Goleman, Boyatzis, & McKee, 2013). These components of emotional intelligence are also in alignment with the biblical principles of leadership (Bryant, 2011). And all of these characteristics can be found in the dynamic Ms. Ursula Burns. Ursula Burns is chairman and chief executive officer of Xerox Corporation. Or as she likes to call herself a chief storyteller (Hymowitz, 2013). She is also the first black

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    dreams often go wrong. Discuss how John Steinbeck achieves this. One of the main themes that runs through Of Mice And Men is of dreams and how they go wrong. The title of the book is very appropriate to this theme as it comes from a poem by Robert Burns called To A Mouse, On Turning Up Her Nest With The Plough: 'The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a gley And lea'e us nought but grief and pain For promised joys." Of Mice And Men is a tale of people's dreams that go wrong

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