... is divided into four cavities, two of them are called atria and the other two are called ventricles. The left side of the heart houses one atrium and one ventricle. The right is the same. The smooth inside lining of the heart is the endocardium. The middle of the heart is called myocardium. And the fluid filled sac that surrounds the myocardium is the pericardium.  Location: If you were to take your fist and put ... into the left atrium. Then from there the left atrium contracts sending the blood through the mitral valve and into the left ventricle. This is the strongest muscle in yo...

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... you smoke, it's like cutting 5 minutes of your life and there are many ways to quit. About 430,000 people in the US die every year from smoking related problems. Everyone knows that smoking effects the heart and the lungs. But what about the other parts of our body. Our skin our eyes our skin and our fertility are all critical area that are all ... . Every time a woman smokes she is giving her child less food and oxygen, therefore, the baby can and maybe will not be wealthy. It is very easy for a pregnant woman to stop smoking when the people around her do not smoke. When a baby is born ...

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... present, it does not mean that the baby will be born with a heart defect. Also, babies can be born with heart defects even when none of these conditions are present. Rarely can families predict or prevent congenital heart defects. Doctors can usually detect most heart defects while the child is still very young. Some children live with a defect for years before it is diagnosed. In ... some cases, doctors can spot congenital heart defects before the baby is even born. They cannot diagnose all defects before birth though, because ... the heart continues to develop in the days after the b...

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... no cholesterol. It's OK."  MYTH # 9: A few drinks every day are good for you  MYTH # 10: "Women don't get heart disease" or "I'm too young to have a heart attack". Facts About Heart Disease FACT# 1: 7 million Americans suffer from Coronary Heart Disease. FACT# 2: CHD is the number 1 killer for both men and women. FACT# 3: 500,000 Americans die of heart attacks cause by CHD each year. FACT# 4: Over 57 million Americans ... have one or more types of cardiovascular disease. FACT# 5: 41.8% of all deaths in the United States (1 out of every ... ...

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... Mr. Mallard turns up alive, at the end of the story that is when Mrs. Mallard dies of a heart attack. One of the themes present in this story is the desire to be free. Although Mrs. Mallard loves her husband "sometimes", she secretly was relieved to know that her husband was no longer around to make decisions for her. "There would be no ... impose a private will upon a fellow-creature"(Baym,426). The open window that Mrs. Mallard stares out of through the story symbolizes her desire to be free. This window is showing her the opportunities that are waiting for her now that no one is ther...

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... have mouth cancer. It's just a cancer of the esophagus. That's why when some people have this cancer they have to use a voice box. Because if they talk there throat will hurt extremely badly!!! Also you could get heart disease chewing tobacco; you will have heart attacks strokes and high blood pressure. Other diseases are ... in nuclear weapons, nicotine an additive drug, and Benzopyrene a cancer causing agent. I think people use this under peer pressure or something. But for sure I wouldn't use that drug. ATHLETES It was believed that chewing tobacco inhanced athletic performance so a lo...

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... become a serious problem today for numerous adults, taking years away from their lives. Its is the first leading cause of death in America today. There are several risk factors to consider to see if you would be susceptible to having heart attack. On factor would be a lack of exercise daily. Excercise, such as aerobics, increases the cardiac output and speeds up your body metabolic ... fat adheres to. One is LDL, which stands for low-density lipoprotein.The other is HDL, which is high-density lipoprotein and is considered the best one because, "together with the cholesterol it's carryin...

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... you exercise, you wouldn't have to worry about heart disease, arthritis, or high blood pressure. America's number one killer is heart disease. The more body fat that you have, the greater the risk of heart disease. However, this condition can be prevented or controlled by exercising, making your heart muscles stronger. Aside from heart disease, exercise also helps prevent arthritis. Exercising helps ... increase strength and flexibility, strengthening the muscles around your joints. Without doing any exercise ... to control it. With a stronger heart, your heart pumps more blood with les...

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... her husband's death through third person narration. Setting This story takes place in the 1890's around springtime inside the home of Mr. And Mrs. Mallard. The short story revolves around what goes through a person's head when informed that a close family member has perished. Mallard is a young married women who suffers from heart trouble, and that's why her closest relatives feel that they have to ... break news to her gently as possible. Immediately after hearing the news, Louise starts crying, and storms into her room. Since Louise spends the majority of the short story in her room, ...

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... body and soul were linked. The disappointment of Brently not being dead could have caused her heart to fail. The ending line explains the reason of death as "heart disease - of joy that kills." So, she could have also been experiencing doubts about her future and been extremely joyful that Brently was not dead. Either way, the shock was too much for her heart, described as not being ... well early in the story, and she died as soon ... as she saw Brently. Aside from the basic storyline, descriptive elements in the story lend to the freedom theme. The season of Louise's awakening is ear...

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... For example, She leaves to her room by her self, and while everyone else believes she is mourning she is actually experiencing a revelation of freedom. Another example would be the weather, which is bright, warm, and beautiful, contrasting the situation of her husbands death and the grief most people would be experiencing in her situation. The story tells of Mrs. Mallard's heart trouble in the beginning ... , yet it doesn"t linger with the readers as they move on in the story. This story contains three types of irony: ... irony. Josephine begs Louise for admission to her room because sh...

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... death, she"ll cry for him. The characters and the readers constructs Louise's outer and inner images. The characters find Louise normal ordinary wife in the time period of setting in the story and the readers find Louise as victim of stereotyped feminist. The construction of Louise's characteristic contribute to the irony in the story of an hour when Louise dies at the end of the story with a heart attack when she saw ... she was just about to get started, she sees him alive, standing tall, no harm done. It was all that sweet dreams being crushed when her husband appealed gave her heart...

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... Mrs. Mallard. The last line of the story states, "When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease---of joy that kills." Mrs. Mallard had died at the sight of seeing her husband alive after believing that she was free from him to live her life for her. During the class discussion, I learned more about certain characters of the short story by the interpretations and views ... of other students. For instance some of the students believed Brently Mallard to ... in her heart anymore. Another instance of symbolism is that the window represents a gateway to happiness and rebirth...

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... a third."(38) They also say "it's good advice to make your lifestyle to consume high fiber."(38) I found that running can also reduce the risk of heart disease. The article "Run for your life" talks about Mitchell H. Whaley, the director of adult physical fitness program at Ball State University. He analyzed data collected from a group of men, which included runners. Mitchell Whaley found that ... have a higher risk of developing premature coronary artery decease that those who were more fit."(47) The article also talks about Martha L. Slattery, Ph.D., from the University of Utah Medica...

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... ;right" way for women to behave but her internal thoughts are nothing similar. The thought of her husband actually dying can eventually hit her but once she is out everyone else's sight, her private thoughts concerns her newfound life and opportunities. Chopin also didn't refer to her heart as a disease but as "heart trouble" which could be her heart's physical and emotional ... new life ironically takes a tragic twist at the end resulting in her death. The word "mallard" is a word for a kind of duck, and it fits the story that wild birds symbolizes Louise's freedom. Chopin begins and en...

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... in its two main pumping chambers, the right and left ventricles. The right ventricle pumps blood to the lungs, where the blood picks up lots of oxygen. And the left ventricle pumps blood to the rest of the body (including the heart itself), where that oxygen is used up. Common defects A PDA stands for "patent ductus arteriosus-. A PDA is an abnormal opening between the aorta and the pulmonary artery. This opening causes ... normally. An ASD stands for "atrial septal defect-. This is a hole in the heart, located between the left and right atriums. This type of "hole in the heart- can be ...

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... undesirable marriage. This story, through vivid descriptions, portrays a woman's tormented lifetime and then exposes the momentary joy she feels when that torment surprisingly vanishes. Louise Mallard, the main character or protagonist, is a frail woman with a heart condition who upon being told her husband has died in a railroad accident, grieves for a moment, then becomes immensely delighted because she will be free to live her own ... life, that is until her husband walks in the door. At that moment, Mrs. Mallard passes away ... , and as the events unfold, it becomes clear that the th...

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... first paragraph has foreshadowing in it. When Chopin mentions Mrs. Mallard's "heart trouble" she sets up the end of the story, when that very heart trouble kills her. Next, in paragraph four Chopin mentions the appearance of "new spring life." This foreshadows the appearance of the new life that Mrs. Mallard soon sees for herself. Later, Chopin says, "she was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching ... appearance, along with Mrs. Mallard's piercing cry and the early mention of her heart trouble, foreshadows Mrs. Mallard's death. Somehow, when Mr. Mallard appears and the n...

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... such a long time. This story is filled with irony. Every time that you think that you have the plot figured out, Chopin tosses in another twist that throws our minds for a loop. As I read this story the first time I thought how strange, but as I read it again and again I started pick up ... I believed Mrs. Mallard to be an older woman. I thought this because we are told that she is afflicted with a heart trouble. I realize that having heart trouble does not ultimately mean old, but that is just the way our minds work. I was surprised to find that Mrs. Mallard was actually a young woman, ...

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... obesity. As a result, their body starts developing a serious deadly disease such as diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers. Moreover, fast food items and junk foods contain more diet than healthy food. Eating too much or eating the wrong foods could lead us to gain weight and raise of obesity. For example, when people go to buffet all they think about is they should ... and fast foods that cost less money. As a result, these lacks of healthy options cause unhealthy lifestyles as well as obesity. Lack of exercise is also one of the reasons for being obesity. For example, the modern de...

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... physical activities. Larger kids tire more quickly and lack the stamina of leaner kids. For most sports children need to be quick and often graceful, which for the most part heavier kids are not. Because of this overweight children are picked last for sports. Being overweight can pose a wide variety of health risks including diabetes, heart disease, stroke and glaucoma. Husky kids are two times ... as likely to develop the life threatening disease of diabetes. In it's extreme form diabetes ... person to be dependant on dialysis for their very life, since their kidneys will no longer fi...

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... an Hour": An Ironic Dream In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" the first paragraph lays the groundwork for the irony that exists throughout the whole story. It lets you know from the beginning that Louise Mallard has some type of heart trouble before she even finds out about the death of her husband, Brently. "The Story of an Hour" contains a variety of different types of irony, situational, dramatic ... , and cosmic ironies are used. Since Mrs. Mallard had heart trouble her ... ...

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... a drop in blood pressure and an altered heart rhythm. (S.B., P.93) Another type of heart disease is a heart attack it is the result of and active blockage in an artery. (S.B., P.247) A heart attack occurs when the blood supply to the heart is reduced or stopped. Without the nutrients of the blood the heart muscle can not work, if the supply is cut off severely for a long time the heart muscle tissue becomes permanently damaged or dies. (C.A., P.59 ... ) There are a lot of statistics and facts about heart disease. I didn't know that heart disease is the leading cause of death in the Unite...

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... a drop in blood pressure and an altered heart rhythm. (S.B., P.93) Another type of heart disease is a heart attack it is the result of and active blockage in an artery. (S.B., P.247) A heart attack occurs when the blood supply to the heart is reduced or stopped. Without the nutrients of the blood the heart muscle can not work, if the supply is cut off severely for a long time the heart muscle tissue becomes permanently damaged or dies. (C.A., P.59 ... ) There are a lot of statistics and facts about heart disease. I didn't know that heart disease is the leading cause of death in the Unite...

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... implies that she needs her husband in her life. Her husband was died and abandoned her, she feel lonely and desperate because she is a wife and relies on her husband for the income. She cannot do anything because she just takecare of houshold duties. Again, it seems that there is gender inqualities, women look that they cannot do anything without any help ... no suppression from man for her again. She starts her new life, her better life without any controlled from her husband. In the end of the story, Mr. Mallard appears and he have been far from the scene of the accident. And Mrs. Mal...

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