He observed and recorded the animals' responses and discovered that some of the animals experienced ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, arthritis, kidney damage, and other diseases. ... High blood pressure increases risk of heart disease, heart attack, and stroke. ... Nothing has been proven about the effects of emotional stress, behavior habits, and socioeconomic status on the risk of heart disease and heart attacks which is why most information on this subject is still hypothetical. ... Clots may then block an artery narrowed by plaque and cause a heart attack. ... Persistently elev...

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There have been multiple attacks, many as of tragedies, such as the attack on New York City. ... Therefore, this paper will focus on ISIL, what happened in the attack and how the attack has affected Paris and the West. ... Shortly after the attacks were accomplished, the Islamic state (IS) group claimed responsibility for the attack in Paris. ... There were about eight attackers, all of which were wearing suicide vests during the attacks. ... The terrorist may have attacked Paris because they know, how symbolic it is in the west since many know about Paris, and by attacking it, they attacked ...

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A common treatment for asthmatic attacks is an injection of adrenaline ( Benzedrine inhaler) and surgery is not possible because the nerves that enervate the lungs are often confused with the ones leading to the heart. ... The psychophysiologic cardiovascular reaction includes, high blood pressure, and heart attacks, also, cancer. ... The psychophysiologic cardiovascular reaction, including heart attacks and excessive heart action, high blood pressure, vascular spasms, and headaches. ... In other experiments, people learned to control their heart rhythms and degree of blood flow through dif...

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In the novel "In the Heart of the Sea,"" by Nathaniel Philbrick, the author educates his readers about the tragedy of the whaleship Essex. ... After experiencing an attack by a bull sperm whale, being shipwrecked, having limited provisions to eat, living in damaged whaleboats, killing and eating their deceased crew mates as a result of a diminishing amount of food, and being dehydrated for approximately three months, the surviving men were lucky to be alive. ... "In the Heart of the Sea " was an event-filled novel that evoked almost every emotion from me: anger, sadness, relief, happiness, sy...

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Mine My Precious The novel Heart of Darkness is a montage of many political and social themes appropriate to Joseph Conrad's era. ... "And it is precisely those desires, repressions, investments, and projections' that Heart of Darkness exposes in the discourses of imperialism."" ... The same can be said of Marlow's experience in Heart of Darkness although Conrad uses several tactics to avoid his experiences being directly linked with the experience of his main character. ... "The true center of Heart of Darkness is the subtly revealed psychology of an ethical human being s...

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It can influence the behaviour of the heart with its nerves penetrating the heart tissue, affecting things such as heart rate and blood pressure. ... Scientists have recently pieced together how stress affects the heart. ... In short, the demands on the heart all increase. ... Depression has also been found to affect the heart adversely. In a study of 194 heart attack patients, those who reported lower amounts of emotional support in their lives were nearly three times as likely to die within six months as those with higher levels of emotional support (Illness: The Mind-Body, 1999). ...

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The raucous feasts and joyous celebrations within Heorot make the reader believe that Grendel is attacking the hall out of envy, an emotion generally associated with wickedness. ... If Grendel is indeed attacking Heorot due to his loneliness and misery, which are probably caused by his exile, then one may begin to question whether Grendel is as evil and malignant as the author claims. ... Chapman raises a good point concerning the fight, he explains that Grendel does not resist Beowulf's attacks, but instead tries to flee from his monstrous power (Robert L. ... Scholars tend to agree with...

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This motto is a testimony of the 442nd Regiment's loyalty to the United States and their treatment of the attack by the Japanese Empire as an attack on them. ... The 442nd Regiment fought so successfully that news correspondents during the war called it the "Purple Heart Battalion ".  ... The Tuskegee Airmen flew their airplanes and attacked the enemy just like any other American pilots.  ... When the Tuskegee Airmen successfully flew their airplanes and attacked the enemy, they proved that they could fight as well as any other Americans. ... Taken together, the triumph of the "Purple...

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The extreme fear of witchcraft held in the hearts of the community of Salem is revealed in The Crucible when Reverend Hale pleads, "The Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points!" ... The Salem Witch Trials was not the only time in American history when the innocent became victims of the fear and paranoia held in the hearts of others. ... On September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were the targets of terrorist attacks performed by a group of Muslim people led by world-renowned terrorist Osama bin Laden. Since these attacks ...

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It increases the heart rate and the blood rushes to the muscles of the arms and legs (WebMD, 2013). ... Panic Disorder is when people with this disorder have severe attacks of panic that come without warning. These attacks may make them feel like their having a heart attack or losing control. The attack peaks in about ten minutes and includes symptoms like increased heart rate, dizziness, numbness, nausea or abdominal pains, shortness of breath, chills or hot flashes, chest pain or discomfort, sweating, trembling, tingling sensations, feeling of choking, fear of dying, fear of losing control o...

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Plaque can narrow the arteries and block the blood flow to the heart, causing heart problems and stroke. ... Besides doing exercise routines that will help keep children heart and body. ... The main risk associated with high cholesterol is coronary heart disease. ... Reduced blood flow to the heart can result in angina (chest pain) or in a heart attack in cases when blood vessel is blocked completely.... Affected individuals develop atherosclerosis at an early age, heart attacks begin in the third or fourth decade, and most die by age 60 from coronary artery disease....

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The overall adult cancer rate has risen in the past 40 years and a fatal heart attack strikes a person every 45 seconds. ... The overall adult cancer rate has risen in the past 40 years and a fatal heart attack strikes a person every 45 seconds. ...

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These are all major risk factors for getting atherosclerosis and, sequentially, heart disease. ... Belgian researchers reported in The Lancet, that air pollution causes about the same number of heart attacks as other individual factors. ... Heart disease transpires similarly in men and women. Twenty-five million general public will die from heart diseases by the year 2030 and most of the deceased will be due to stroke and heart disease. The majority of heart disease is avoidable if people talked about their possibility. ...

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It is an attack on the city, and Bleak House did very well in attacking London and what transpired within its walls in terms of government and social ideas. ... But the fog is also representative of something more, of everything that is bad in the city, from the poverty to the politics, and the Chancellor sits in Chancery at the heart of it, literally, but that he sits at the centre of this representative fog shows that he is also at the heart of what is bad with London, he represents the authority of high political powers, the rich and capitalism, something which is hinted towards with &apos...

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Physical feelings may include heart racing, sweating, dry mouth, shaking, dizziness, and other unpleasant symptoms. ... According to Abnormal Psychology and Life: A Dimensional Approach (Kearney & Trull, 2012), "people who regularly experience uncued panic attacks have panic disorder". ... Panic disorder, however, principally causes symptoms that include recurring panic attacks. These attacks are often described as intense fear accompanied by trembling, difficulty breathing, and sweating. Out of fear of experiencing another attack, many panic disorder sufferers will avoid certain s...

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Furthermore, since refined sugar is rapidly converted in the blood to fat (triglycerides), it promotes obesity, risk of heart disease, and diabetes. ... According to the American Heart Association, the human body does not require refined sugars to function properly but add superfluous calories and zero nutrients to foodstuffs. ... When these relatively innocuous body zones are filled, fatty acids are transported to active organs like the heart and kidneys causing these tissues to deteriorate and turn to fat so the entire body is impacted by their diminished ability resulting in abnormal blood ...

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As a result of the attacks on September 11th, the United States took huge steps toward strengthening and extending the reach of its counterterrorism programs. On September 14, 2001, congress passed Joint Resolution 23, commonly known as the Authorization for Use of Military Force, which authorizes "the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States.... The Reaper's seven weapon stations can carry a combination of up to 14 Hellfire missiles, two 500-pound laser-guided Paveway bombs and 500-pound Joint Direct Attack...

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With increased and habitual use, alcohol can push blood pressure up to a hazardous level, while at the same time, increasing heart size. This leads to a weakened heart muscle, with greater chances of blood clots forming, and ultimately, a relatively good likelihood of a stroke occurring. ... A long-term period of excessive drinking is associated with a number of psychological problems, the most common being depression, and anxiety, or panic attacks. ... Because of the person's habit of using alcohol as a crutch, they themselves become weaker to resist these feelings of anxiousness, or ...

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Despite this, the age 60 rule continues to be justified by claims that the human factor of age leads to decreased performance in cognitive skills and an increased risk of pilot incapacitation from age related illnesses such as heart attack or stroke (Woerth). ... "An analysis in one US airline showed that [gastrointestinal disorders] represented nearly half the total in-flight incapacitation's of pilots, while heart attacks accounted for only one seventh" (Hawkins, 1987, p84). ...

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Just as the government can not force Americans to not eat too much cholesterol because it leads to heart disease, the government should not hold a drug control policy over Americans as well. ... Along with a lower monthly income, about 10,000 rural residents may be displaced because of the Coca eradication.# As well as destroying Coca plants in Columbia, President Bush has also been playing on the hearts and fears of many Americans since the September 11th terrorist attacks by stating that drugs support terrorism. These ludicrous statements have no common thread behind them that show that d...

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On September 11, 2001 the culmination of a series of attacks upon the United States took place when the twin towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed. This was preceded by attacks on the marines in Lebanon, upon the US embassy in Kenya, upon the USS Cole, and upon the World Trade Center in 1993 when terrorists attempted to topple the twin towers. ... The American message was: if you support attacks on America, no matter how tangential the connection, we are going to take your governments out wherever they are. ... Referring to himself in the third person, Saddam was quoted in a speech...

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Interestingly, the vampire bites are referred to as "kisses," which does not seem to imply the idea of an attack. Jonathan Harker's encounter with the female vampires is evocative of an erotic experience, and although his life is supposedly at great risk, Harker does not seem to manifest much resistance to the "attack," seemingly anticipating the "kisses" of the three vampire women: "The fair girl went on her knees and bent over me, fairly gloating. ... I closed my eyes in languorous ecstasy and waited- waited with beating heart." ...

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Marijuana also causes many mental disorders, including acute toxic psychosis, panic attacks, flashbacks, delusions, depersonalization, hallucinations, paranoia, depression, and "uncontrollable hostility" (Marijuana Briefs). ... When the heart rate is increased, the heart needs additional oxygen. Marijuana increases the amount of carbon monoxide in the blood, which decreases the amount of oxygen delivered to the heart. While a person is smoking marijuana less oxygen is available to the heart. ...

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Williams for instance, proceeds to suggests that the attack on the Irminsul had an underlying religious significance. After all, this is the first recorded evidence of the Franks devising a pre-planned attack on a Saxon religious centre. ... Therefore, we can only assume that the true motive behind the Frank's invasion of the Huns was for plunder, as there is certainly no evidence to suggest that there was any religious intent behind the attack. ... Einhard highlights a key point in saying that Charlemagne was induced by the Bishop of Rome to wage war on the Lombards, thus suggesting th...

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"December 7, 1941: A day that will live in infamy,"" went President Roosevelt's address to the nation following the terrible attack on Pearl Harbor. ... Hawaii served as America's midway point between the mainland and Japan, and although the Japanese attempted to wipe out much of those offenses in the Pearl Harbor attacks, the American naval fleet struck back with a vengeance. ... Still today, warnings of possible nuclear-based terrorist attacks, and of North Korea's development of a nuclear arsenal, strike fear into the hearts of free citizens of the world. ...

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