Essays on Succumb

Specifically, health disparities refer to health variances of different groups of people. In most cases, health disparities occur based on race, age, sexual orientation, religions, and gender, among others. For example, research suggests that black women have a relatively higher number of deaths from breast cancer than women from other racial groups (Breast Cancer Action, 2013). Generally, about 40,000 women succumb to breast cancer and related complications annually. Over 40% of black women that are diagnosed with the disease condition are more likely to die of the condition than white women. On the other hand, nearly 1800 fewer ...

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In the novel ‘Black Hole,’ teenagers who engage in sexual behavior contract a decision that leads to genetic mutations which are hard to conceal. The disease is a replica of the Aids Pandemic and the struggles which teenagers have to endure during their adolescent years. The importance of the study is to identify how teenagers in the book the black Hole relate to the youth in the current society. Teenagers experience hormonal imbalances which cause them to lose control and are mostly controlled by their sex drives. Sexual attractions are common during this developmental stage of life, and most ...

Everybody, in one way or the other, has got this internal urge to be powerful; to be able to exercise some levels of authority. Let us take an example of a student going to school. Any focused student will always want to achieve excellence in all their fields of endeavor. Their quest for excellence is not just intrinsic; all they want is to be better than others. John Emerich, in 1887 observed the rule of absolute monarchy. The monarchical king or queen had almost absolute power over the subject. They would wake up in the morning and just decide ...

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The core concepts of Jean Watson’s theory of human caring play a major role in nursing theory development. The concepts include a relational caring for self and others, transpersonal caring relationship, caring moment, multiple ways of knowing, and reflective or meditative approach for human caring (Vance, 2003). Dr. Watson's theory of caring was published in 1979, and it is one of the modern grand theories in the nursing field. She emphasizes on the human aspects of nursing and the manner in which they intertwine with the scientific knowledge and the entire nursing practice. The theory of caring also ...

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Drugs and Suicide among adolescents have become rampant in the last few years. Most cases do happen as a result of peer influence, and low stress management levels in these youngsters. Parents also do play a big role in these malpractices in most adolescents. Although this may account close to 20 percent of most of the drug abuse cases, when it comes to suicide cases that number doubles up increasingly. This may be attributed to several causes and factors that are as a result of effect from the environment and the social upbringing. In a matter of fact, it is of valuable evidence ...

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Man is no match to the extreme cold, especially when he travels alone. His skills on how to build a fire are not enough to assure his survival against the harsh weather. It takes more than skills and fitness to conquer the challenges of life. In the succeeding paragraphs, the experiences of the protagonist in To Build a Fire are discussed. Jack London, through this story, is emphasizing the qualities that a man should have to survive the difficulties he encounters in life. His use of the extreme cold as the setting and only the man and the dog as the characters ...

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The Vietnam War will always be remembered throughout much of the history of the United States (US) as a mighty assertion by the nation of its status as a reckonable political and moral influence in the international community. Democracy has since been the driving force of the US in its pursuance of goals in the Asia-Pacific region – an area the nation sought to contain against communism by the former Soviet Union (USSR). Indochina, geopolitically adjacent to communist-led China through its location in mainland Asia, stands as perhaps the area in the Asia-Pacific region that is most affected by communism. Under the ...

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Cyberbullying is a recurrent reason of emotional distress among children and adolescents. This situation becomes further complex by interpersonal safety issues. These safety issues come through the peer group of adolescents and are difficult to control and monitor. This paper will give an account of cyber bullying, some common responses of adolescents to cyberbullying and the ways to fight it. There exist a lot of technological tools to combat cyberbullying. But it is an interpersonal issue in the social situation. It is, therefore, necessary to build a foundation ...

for Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

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Will humanity be able to survive itself or will it succumb to it’s own madness? Or will humanity succumb to its own stupidity?

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Felix Hoenikker – One of the key researchers who worked to create the nuclear bomb that was dropped on Japan. He is cagey, irritable, and seems more to resent his kids than appreciate them. He resents them because she died giving birth to her third born. This affects the way that he treats his youngest son, and how the youngest son is raised. Emily Hoenikker - Southern Bell. ...

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No one should have to endure and experience the death of a child, particularly when a child is such an early age. However, there are factors that would tend to redirect the focus of the death of the child to more scientific reasons rather than just mere negligence. True, there are situations that criminal angles are factors in the death of these infants, but whether these were in control of their faculties’ remains to be discussed. The paper seeks to determine the reasons behind “sudden infant death syndrome,” the possible scientific and legal foundations, and when can these be separated from ...

Linda Hogan is among the authors who have written about her real life experiences considering every pain that she passed through without any fear. This has mostly happened because she has words of encouraging more people who could be under such suffocation and bondages. above all, she helps them know what they can do or go about their situations by just telling what she felt it best if they relate to her life experience to enable them to face any challenge that comes their way. “Self-telling is very rare for a native woman, but when I allow myself to be ...

In United States of America, almost 3.5 million people are homeless every year and strikingly, over 1 million of them are children. The homeless people have to sustain facing the brunt of the hardships of life. Those people who sleep in shelters or on park benches are homeless. It can also be the case that a person is homeless, though he or she has employment. Such individuals would be seen lodging in hotel rooms or sleeping at their friend’s place. People who are homeless have no relationship with their family and are left to toil their way through life ...

The cries of children are heard in the thick of the night as mothers try their best to breast feed the infants. Young brothers and sisters push each other and struggle for the last bit of food left in the plate. The elderly sit down in total weakness as they watch their strength drain away one day after another. People that are known to be strong and well ambled sit down in despair as they watch their loved ones perish in hunger and diseases. This is not just a thrilling story for entertainment, but is a reality in a number of the developing ...

Shortly after the First World War and before the dawn of the Second World War, many had thought that they could easily recover from the losses brought by the wars to their living. In the case of the United States, as they only entered the war in the latter stages, they would not succumb to the losses experienced by the Europeans due to their location and due to their self-efficiency. However, it is visible that even they would not be able to escape the clutches of the economic depression that has hit throughout the 1930s to the mid-1940s as ...

Animal testing is perhaps one of the most controversial and debatable topics that we have today. There are flip sides to the argument of animal testing and each side has vociferous and strong supporters. Animal Testing, in very lucid and simple terms, can be defined as the experimentation carried out on animals to assess or gauge the safety, effectiveness and performance of everything ranging from medication, cosmetics to Food additives and Supplements. Animal testing is also used widely for better understanding of how human body works among the medical lobby. The very mention of the topic is capable of generating ...

In recent news, the Greek Debt Crisis continues to escalate further given Greece’s continues debt despite the bailout funds provided by the EU, IMF, and the World Bank. Considered as one of the primary reasons for the on-going Eurozone crisis, the Greek Debt Crisis showcases not just the Greek government’s incapacities to improve its economic status but also the impact of an unstable economy to the remaining members of the Eurozone. Prior to the announcement of the Greek debt crisis, experts had already seen Greece’s economic instability that would prove fatal in the long-run and led ...

Webster Dictionary defines gender as ‘socio-cultural characterization of man and woman, the way societies make a distinction between men and women and assign them social roles. The distinction between sex and gender was introduced to deal with the general tendency to attribute women's subordination to their anatomy.’ Keeping in mind this definition, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that it is important to treat men and women equally for a better society. The main view, when it comes to gender inequality, is that this begins from the childhood. Parents treat their daughters and sons differently. In many families it ...

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Since 2007, the European markets continued to experience a decline as several European nations had felt the consequences of applying the unstable Euro into their countries that had influenced the nation’s economic instability as seen in the case of Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. In recent news, the European debt crisis continues to prevail as the Eurozone reaches its all-time low for the past5 years as both strong and weak European markets now enter a state of recession that affects the entire world market. With the current European Debt Crisis continuing to influence the European markets, the United States may ...

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HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is an epidemic. This is the case because out of the word’s HIV/AIDS infected population, 70% of this population resides in the region. The objective of this study was to analyse the HIV survival rate in Turkana County, a vast and remote region found in the northern section of the Kenyan Rift Valley. The study involved a sample of 1074 subjects that were urban and selected randomly from the Turkana district hospital database. The major variables were death and the time taken for the subjects to succumb to the HIV/AIDS virus. In addition to this, ...

Sexual abuse is seen as one of the gravest crimes a person could commit after murder or killing. A victim is physically and sexually tortured or abused by the suspect, either by forced intercourse or similar acts, which often leads to traumatizing effects for the victim. Some would often find victims mentally unstable after the assault, traumatized to see people with the same gender as their attacker or even be with people. Others would become haunted by nightmares, leading them to taking their lives or succumb to insanity. A few may only attempt to recreate the act and become the ...

Alcohol is considered one of the deadly vices one can learn as a person enters his legal age of `18 or 21. It is also considered the deadliest drinks a person could ever consume as many have acquired health complications with too much drinking of the substance. Heart attacks, kidney and liver complications, and organ failure are the known complications due to alcohol. However, cases of teenage consumption of alcohol are slowly growing as alcohol is now easily purchased and obtained. Many have fell into the state of addiction and seek more alcohol drinks with higher alcohol percentage, putting them in ...

Ted Turner

Ted Turner is one of the wealthiest individuals in earth, a media mogul, and a UN philanthropist from the United States. Born Edward Robert “Ted” Turner III on 19 November 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ted Turner has lived to be an influential person who has transformed the telecommunications industry all over the world (Auletta, 2004). Ted Turner’s family moved to Savannah, Georgia when he was aged nine years. He began his schooling at Georgia Military academy and, he proceeded to McCallie Boys Preparatory School in Tennessee for his high school (Auletta, 2004). Ted Turner began his University education at Brown ...

Week 6: DQ1 Posted: Mon 06/06/2011 05:58 AM , by: Instructor

If I were asked to make sure that the assertion that taking just one hit of a drug is enough to get one addicted, I would take a look at any scientifically accurate surveys toward that end. Any team of researchers who performed scientifically sound research and studies and published their findings would provide helpful information. The Internet, given the properly accredited and sourced information, could be an excellent resource for determining this information.

In the event I had real, physical access to any of these researchers or anyone related to this field of study, I would be sure to talk ...

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Real estate economics entails the use of economic analysis techniques to determine the trends in real estate markets. The underlying objective of real estate economics is to offer a description, explanation and a prediction of the trends of demand and supply in real estate markers. This denotes the significance of analyzing the impacts of structural and business factors on the trends of real estate market. The most significant factors that influence demand in real estate markets are demographic factors. However, there are other factors such as levels of income, credit availability, and preferences of the consumers, price of housing substitutes, and ...