When you have a skin graft done, the surgeon will take a patch of healthy skin from one area of the body and apply it to the damaged area. ... It uses all of the layers of skin and usually leaves a small scar where the skin was taken from. ... This will leave a scar where the skin was taken from. The location of the skin removal for the damaged area depends on the size of skin needed to repair the damaged area and the skin color needed. ... The laser lightens the birthmark to where it isn't very noticeable. ...

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According to the World Health Organization, nearly 77% of Nigerian women use skin-lightening products regularly (Abuja). ... An advertisement for Elliott's White Veneer Paint in 1935 provides a clear manifestation of the conspicuous, unabashed racism that took place during this time through an illustration of two boys, both of literal black skin tone. ... During this era, being white was considered a privilege while being of color was deemed a curse, therefore, the boys in the advertisement are seemingly overjoyed that they have discovered the "cure" to their "curse" o...

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For instance, the most commonly cited difference between the races is skin color. ... The light skinned Scandinavians diverge, genetically, very little from their darker olive- skinned neighbors in Southern Europe. However, the fair skinned people would suffer more severe sun burns and run a greater risk of developing skin melanomas and carcinomas due to increased solar radiation at lower latitudes. ... As a fact of adaptation, each group would eventually begin to darken or lighten respectively to cope with these changes. ... If any "racial" group of people were to be scrutinized, it would be ...

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Because of their skin color and a law called the Jim Crow laws, blacks were told they were inferior to the whites in all ways, including the color of their skin, English accents, intelligence, morality, and civilized behavior. ... Although American are always protest against discrimination for decades, many of them still trying to escape from their identity as regard to color of their skin, and appearance. People using hair straighteners and skin-lightening creams, they attempt to look white without consciously realizing they are doing so. ... Pop singer Michael Jackson's features chang...

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Lightening and sparks from motors also convert oxygen to ozone (Brunnee 3). ... It burns human skin and it damages eyes. ... Increases in melanoma, "which is a deadly human skin cancer" will result from the depletion of the ozone (Cagin 9). Scientists have estimated that if the amount of ozone continues to decrease, 100,000 more skin cancer cases will appear in the United States each year (Cagin 9 ). The government estimated, even before more recent evidence was obtained, that ozone depletion would cause, "twelve million Americans to get skin cancer over the next 50 years (Cagin 10). ...

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I then realized how there are endless things that can make a person happy--a lot of things that can make a person smile, a lot of things that can lighten up a person's day. ... I appreciate the wind tickling my skin. ... The people who cheer me up lightens up my mood even though I do not show it. ...

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Written during the war, a time of chaos and crisis in Greece, Aristophanes" play Lysistrata was an attempt to lighten the atmosphere of the country, and provide humor for the people. ... The women describe themselves with words such as "skins well creamed", "transparent negligee", "smooth", and "perfume". ...

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She grows up being told that a black girl will only know sorrow and disappointment in life (4), and this idea is drilled into her mind as she becomes increasingly aware and concerned with the color of her skin. ... When Weldon leaves her to become a Pullman porter, Emma Lou immediately blames the color of her skin for her misery and abandonment. ... Another example of Emma Lou's self-inflicted color prejudice draining her happiness may be seen in the way she tries to lighten her complexion and the reactions of her fellow workers in Harlem. Emma Lou notices that the other teachers have ...

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In the exiting novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter must find the Sorcerer's Stone through the Mirror of Erised to save his friends and himself. Harry Potter is a skinny, black haired eleven-year old boy with round black glasses, and fair skin. He has a light...

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Even though she carries a beautiful western name, her dark skin cannot betray her to be a black African. ... Beatrice also tries to hide her African identity "her dark skin, by applying a skin-lightening cream called Ambi. She believes that Ambi can help her to rub out her African identity as she thinks that her black skin represents black shame' and ugly sins'. To her, rubbing out the black skin means to get rib of all the shame, which is shared by all black Africans. ... They always went for a girl with an Ambi-lightened skin and head covered with a wig made in imitation of ...

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The next stanza portrays the violence involved in the intrusion of these westerners by describing their weapons and comparing them to lightening and thunder. ... Dipoko uses one simple image which is that their clothes have changed from real leopard skin to prints of fake lions. ...

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In the 1940's Ingrid Bergman, Jean Harlow, and Shirley Temple because of their talents were famous, and because of their porcelain white skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes were considered beautiful. ... The character Maureen Peal, a light skinned girl that comes from money, was put on a pedestal by her teachers and peers for this alone. ... In winter his mother put Jergens Lotion on his face to keep the skin from becoming ashen. Even though he was light-skinned, it was possible to ash. ... Living in a world where if we wanted blue eyes we can go out and buy contacts or change our nose or ev...

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In the next stanza, Byron writes, One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o"er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. ... The soft cheeks, the winning smile, the tints in the skin eloquently express not only physical beauty, but they also compliment her morality. ... II One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o"er her face; Where thoughts serenely s...

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The image of a woman with worms crawling through her untouched skin is morbid and completely out of context if it were meant as a sincere love letter. ... There seems to be a sense of truth to his words when he says, "while the youthful hue sits on they skin like morning dew, and while thy willing soul transpires at every pore with instant fires" (436). ... Yet, when he discusses her soul he only mentions it in relation to her skin. He devalues her by implying her soul is only skin deep when saying "while thy willing soul transpires" as if her soul could seep out through her pores (436). ....

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As he speaks, his light, almost joking, voice is able to lighten the aftermath of the murder scene and when he speaks to Samuel, he could be seen as a person who could take short cuts (i.e. he calls Samuel Sam' after Rachael calls him Samuel') but as someone who can be understanding, especially towards a small boy who has seen something awful. ... He had dark skin?'). ...

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As a baby, we identify our families by their individual scents, we are calmed by their heartbeats, and we learn the feel and pattern of their skin through skin-to-skin contact. Skin-to-skin contact is important for fathers as well as it is mothers. ... Studies suggest that fathers taking paternity leave lighten up the household, increase positive emotions, and are less likely to divorce (Steingrimsdottir and Hardardottir). ...

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Outline I. Beluga whale A. Order II. Life history A. Appearance B. Size C. Habitat D. Characteristics E. Sound F. Eating habit III. Reason for endangered classification A. Hunting B. Pollution C. Predator IV. World population V. Efforts to save the species A. Conservation VI. C...

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Outline I. Beluga whale A. Order II. Life history A. Appearance B. Size C. Habitat D. Characteristics E. Sound F. Eating habit III. Reason for endangered classification A. Hunting B. Pollution C. Predator IV. World population V. Efforts to save the species A. Conservation VI. C...

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"Cutaneous anthrax is transmitted when someone is handling contaminated wool, hides leather, or hair products of infected animals, and the anthrax spores enter through a cut or an abrasion on the skin" (Regush, Carpenter). "The skin infection then turns into a raised itchy bump that is dark in color and resembles an insect bite. ... America should not lighten up on security just because no cases of anthrax or any other type of terrorism have been discovered. ...

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"Cutaneous anthrax is transmitted when someone is handling contaminated wool, hides leather, or hair products of infected animals, and the anthrax spores enter through a cut or an abrasion on the skin" (Regush, Carpenter). "The skin infection then turns into a raised itchy bump that is dark in color and resembles an insect bite. ... America should not lighten up on security just because no cases of anthrax or any other type of terrorism have been discovered. ...

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Ayurveda- New Delhi, India- beauty, skin products Company's Vision- Combii Organochem's (company's creator) philosophy of activating the body to help itself, so that healing and correction can take place from within, continues to spearhead the company, to attain with its Herbline range of products, a greater level of product improvement, quality enhancement and customer satisfaction. - taken from www.herbline.com Ayurveda is a product line made by Herbline, which creates beauty, skin and hair products. ... With these strong values I also find it interesting that Ayurveda m...

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Oils and fats were used to protect the skin. ... All women needed to oil their skin because they lived in a hot, dry climate--it was a necessity. ... They washed and scented their hair and sometimes lightened it with henna. ...

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Snakes Snakes are the most modern of reptiles but perhaps the least understood reptiles. Most people are afraid of snakes, even those with an educated understanding of the environment and nature. This is unfortunate because the average snakes that turns up in the backyard or the forest...

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A growing number of barbers are trained to provide skin care and nail treatment. ... They may advise clients on how to care for their hair, straighten or permanent wave hair, or lighten or darken hair color. ... Another group of specialists is skin care specialists, or estheticians, who cleanse and beautify the skin by giving facials, full-body treatments, head and neck massages, and removing hair through waxing. ... The lectures students attend include care of instruments, sanitation, chemistry, and recognition of skin problems. ...

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A growing number of barbers are trained to provide skin care and nail treatment. ... They may advise clients on how to care for their hair, straighten or permanent wave hair, or lighten or darken hair color. ... Another group of specialists is skin care specialists, or estheticians, who cleanse and beautify the skin by giving facials, full-body treatments, head and neck massages, and removing hair through waxing. ... The lectures students attend include care of instruments, sanitation, chemistry, and recognition of skin problems. ...

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