If their symptoms last more than 15 minutes, the guidelines say, athletes need to be monitored for up to a week and return to competition gradually based on tolerance of increasing physical demands. ... In the case of a simple concussion, the symptoms do not last longer fifteen minutes. If the symptoms persist longer than fifteen minutes, or if symptoms reoccur with exercise, or if the individual experiences unconsciousness, then the individual is said to have experienced a complex concussion. ... Research has now shown that although an individual may recover from the initial symptoms of the c...

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During the five minutes between the crew leaving and the band taking the stage, everything went crazy. ... After five minutes the crowd was growing anxious and you could tell that many could only handle so much more waiting. ... Up to that point, I never understood what kind of impact that six men could bring upon fifteen thousand people, merely by walking on stage. ...

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Likewise, the theme of the morality of Sethe's murderous actions was covered in a fifteen minute dialogue between Sethe and Paul D despite the fact that it was a major issue that was questioned throughout much of the novel. ... A novel of Beloved's size requires several hours of reading spaced over a few days, whereas the film was two hours and forty-five minutes long and is created to be viewed in one sitting. ...

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Moreover, it took fifteen days for it to be announced to the House, earning a rebuke from the speaker. ... Blair announced without any consultation that Prime Minister's question time would be reduced from two fifteen-minute sessions per week to one of thirty minutes on Wednesdays, suggesting he wished to insulate himself from parliamentary criticism. ... Blair's confident style enables more questions in thirty minutes than used to be allowed in two fifteen-minute sessions. ...

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The constitution of the US, however, is a single written document, which is also made up of government decisions and laws, but only took about fifteen years to create. ... There is question time for 55 minutes on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday when ministers answer MPs' questions. ...

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Most of us are aware that consuming a healthy, nutritious diet will allow any athlete to capitalize on his or her sports performance. Some athletes can be somewhat anxious about consuming more calories for fear of gaining weight, although it is almost a necessity when exerting large amounts of energ...

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In the early 20th century, otherwise known as the Roaring Twenties, the United States did not only dramatically change economically, but the sudden burst of popular entertainment, new intuitive inventions, and the initiation of mass productions, made America the wealthiest country in the world. This...

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Ross Rebagliati, from Whistler, British Columbia, won the men's giant slalom snowboarding gold medal, with a time of two minutes and 3.96 seconds. ... Hepler later reported in great details that four percent marijuana cigarettes lowered the IOP about twenty-seven percent more than a placebo did at thirty minutes. One patient demonstrated a reduction from forty millimeter of mercury to ten in one eye and from thirty-five millimeters of mercury to fifteen in the other. ...

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Claude Monet was a key figure in the Impressionist movement that transformed French painting in the second half of the nineteenth century. Throughout his long career, Monet consistently depicted the landscape and leisure activities of Paris and its environs as well as the Normandy coast. He led th...

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It was over fifty years ago, on May 14, 1948, that Britain ended its mandate over Palestine and Jew declared the establishment of Israel. At 4pm local time in Tel Aviv, David Ben-Gurion read the proclamation of independence, declaring the birth of Israel as of midnight. Although Ben-Gurion's procl...

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The topic of abortion is anything but simple, and our laws governing the matter are always changing to try to achieve a middle ground. The word abortion alone provokes strong emotion in both women and men. There are many different viewpoints on abortion and it is important to exam both sides of the abortion controversy. Abortion has been around for centuries in the United States and to understand how abortion became a social issue and how it developed you must explore the history of it. Over the centuries there have been dramatic changes in abortion procedures and the emotions of the p...

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On November 22, 1963, shots rang out in Dealey Plaza that would change our country forever. As our 35th president was killed, a country began mourning the death of one of its great visionaries, a man who believed in peace and racial equality, a man unlike any leader before him. The assassination of John F. Kennedy was one of the most tragic events in our nations history, but as horrific as the shooting itself were the lies which were told to the American people in the aftermath. We live in a country where the government was established to be "of the people, by the people, and for the people" a...

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When King Henry VII dissolved the Catholic Church and made the Church of England rendering the Pope powerless in all English affairs (Williams, 4), some people, non-conformists, were not happy. They were persecuted for practicing their religion, so when they found a chance to leave, they did. This first group of people had been living in self-exile in Leyden, Holland. They were known by 3 different names, their leader William Bradford called them Pilgrims, those who held them in contempt called them Brownists, and to King James and his court they were known as Separatists (Williams, 48). Th...

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Those suppliers in turn would have an idea of what components would be needed from them, to facilitate timely delivery they expected to be located at least fifteen minutes away from Dell's factory. ...

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However, if the company's servers go offline for only a couple of minutes, thousands, even millions of dollars in revenue can be lost. ... With current tape technology, in order to stream data at 113 megabytes/second it would require about fifteen tape devices" (Sun, 8). ...

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In many countries, alcoholism is a major health problem. The treatment method of controlled drinking as opposed to abstinence is a continuing cause of controversy in alcohol research to this day. The US is different from Europe in its acceptance of controlled drinking as a goal of treatment: "in the US alcohol dependence is typically depicted as a 'recurring disease' and the 'successful abstainer' as a 'recovering' though never 'recovered' alcoholic" (Coldwell, 2005). Depending on the alcohol abuse patient's individual characteristics,...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Statement Chapter 1: A Personal Perspective on Generational Homogeneity Chapter 2: Generational Homogeneity: The Empirical Research Chapter 3: Reasons for Generational Homogeneity: A Perspective from Young Adults Chapter 4: Dissemination Challenges Chapter 5: Solutions Con...

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