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    Background: Before January 2008, industrial accidents were the main cause of Hydrogen Sulfide poisonings in Japan. Since then, the use of this gas in chemical or “detergent” suicides increased exponentially, over 2,000 such suicides have been reported in Japan. This trend was next encountered by first responders in America, with 3 cases reported in 2008, 9 in 2009 and over 30 incidents in 2010 (Morii et al., 2010). The new trend was shared via internet message boards. Dependant of the mixture of

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    What Are Dangers?

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    Parents often try to protect their children from all dangers as much as possible, especially at a young age. However, it is easy to overlook the fact that a child’s surroundings alone could lead to significant health issues. Even factors that might not seem threatening at first thought, such as food and water, can prove to be incredibly harmful due to the chemicals they contain. For Jamie and Sam Kelly, residents of Williamtown, Australia, the possibility of unknowingly harming their child became

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    betrayed Gu Xiaobai and poisoned him and Fan Su. He then raped Fan Su and then killed her. Gu Xiaobai was about to kill Zhu Rong out of rage, but it seemed that because of the poison, he was a bit weaker than Zhu Rong, making him unable to beat him. Thus he attempted to escape Zhu Rong and go to another place in order to dispel to poison, but in the end he could not escape the grasp of Zhu Rong. “Gu Xiaobai, I really do thank you for saving me that day, but you know that I was in deep love with Fan Su

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    “Hold up I know you may think am all bad and stuff but I didn’t mean to poison her I baked her a simple pie an apple pie that is and she got food poisoning. But am just a bad cook, I didn’t mean to….. Its me “The Evil Queen”. By the way anyway let’s get on with the TURE story of Snow White [Whistle] nararator.” Snow White’s point of view I stepped into the kitchen the kitchen looked very clean. It was as shiny as gold, there wasn’t any dish’s in the sink and the counter were as polish a boot.

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    of the power of poetry and why we should read poetry is the section in which Terence is talking about King Mithridates, and that he built up an immunity to the world's poisons by eating little bits of the poison so when others tried to assassinate him, he was immune. Terence suggests that poetry can be like little bits of poison, so when the bad times come, you will be ready. Terence This is Stupid Stuff, by A.E. Housman is about the theme of the power of poetry and why we should read poetry. One

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    In the Film, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Directed by, Mark Herman takes place during World War II. The main characters are Bruno, a German boy who is the son of an SS officer that is played by Asa Butterfield, and Shmuel a Jewish boy who is captured inside a concentration camp, played by Jack Scanlon. This film is art because it does an amazing job of portraying how they treated people in the camps thus making you feel anger and sympathy. To help Shmuel, Bruno dug a hole under the fence and dressed

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    Antipater sent his son Cassander instead in fear of being executed by Alexander. His son also had an allegedly brought a mule’s hoof that Aristotle had prepared poison and filled. As he blamed Alexander for the death of the court historian who was suspected in an earlier conspiracy to kill Alexander. The compounds of the plant could easily be extracted and fermented along with alcohol. Therefore, making it very

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    Element 80 History

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    Element 80, or mercury, is an element with quite an interesting and extensive history. I chose this particular element because of this. I have a basic knowledge of mercury already, but I would love to learn all that I can about it. I enjoy history and I take advantage of every opportunity I can to learn more about it and from it. I am interested in this element because of the name it was given, the uses we have and have had in the past for it, and the fact that the atomic number is 80, which includes

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    “Why cant it ever be easy.”Growled Cardinal “Dont know dont care I get to fight someone so i'm happy.” Said Coyote. “Don't get excited yet, if you touch it you die.His scales are poisonous and he can shoot acid.” “Oh, well then I just won't touch him.”Coyote smiled as she shot a huge ball of fire straight at Toxin, he jumped aside and landed right in front of the dragonets acid fog coming from his mouth. Cardinal recognized a sound similar to the sound a skywing makes before shooting fire, and

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    In the Molly Wright case she was bludgeoned to death in her home and the blood stain patterns that I analyzed form the experiment where the point of impact was when she was hit there was a lot of blood located at the point Mrs. Wright was hit upon impact the area where Wright was struck the blood splatter did however splatter all around and the killer would have for sure had plenty of blood stains on their clothing along with the splatter landing on everything around where she was hit this would

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