Osteoporosis One disease of the bones that affects over 1 million Australians is osteoporosis. This bone-thinning disease greatly increases the risk of fractures and occurs when the “…ratio of bone formation to bone break- down…” becomes out of balance, triggering osteoblast activity to slow down (Whitney, Rady Rolfes, Crow, Cameron-smith & Walsh, 2014, p. 199). Affected bones rapidly lose important minerals, such as calcium, rendering them ineffective in replacing these important minerals…
1.Describe the community you live in. Located 2,875 feet above sea level known as the High Desert is a large median sized city known by Victorville .With a population of 116,024 with 16 constant neighborhood .A community with extremely ethnically - diverse . The average household size up to 3.4 and a family size of 3.77 .Many families live here and commute about an hour to work .Affordable home prices ,rent is fairly lower than most cities . Demographic-approximate size of community ,average age…
NICHOLS (WENY) - With the new expansion coming to Tioga Downs, the casino is looking to build a full house. Monday, the casino hosted a career summit for potential employees to get a first hand look at what jobs may soon be available. As Tioga Downs Casino is preparing to get its full gaming license, a $195 million expansion is already underway. By July, they're anticipating 445 new jobs will need to be filled. "If you're looking for a fun job. People are coming here for entertainment and they…
Djibouti is home to more than 846, 687 people (www.cia.gov). Djiboutians lack the basic necessities to make it through everyday life. They do not have the same opportunities and necessities as we do here in the United States. The capital of Djibouti is Djibouti City and it is located in northeastern Africa (the world book 257). Djiboutians speak more than one language including, French, Arabic, Somali, and Afar (www.cia.gov). Even though Djibouti is in poverty, there is still an interesting…
Yerisa F. Abreu Ms. Jassinya Alvarado Societal Issues 21 February 2018 Societal Writing Assignment Overpopulation happens when a species' population exceeds the carrying capacity of its ecological niche. The United States is already overpopulated in the sense that we are consuming our national. The way we are taking space from our nation doesn’t only mean we are running out of space to live but that we are making this into a social issue. If this overpopulation continues we soon won't have…
Jared Diamond, a geography professor and the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, was asked a question posed by a native, Yali, to the island of New Guinea. Why do some people have “cargo”, meaning material goods and other useful items, but others did not? This simple question had such complex possible answers and Diamond attempted to create his own. According to Diamond the environment where societies initially started evolving was the main factor that decided whether…
all at different population amounts. This is due to the fact that, in nature, the carrying capacity changes in response to environmental changes. Also, this population experienced a few population crashes, an abrupt decline from a high to low population density. This is commonly caused by an exhaustion…
Budget limitations are an issue that every department, regardless of size, must operate within. Larger departments by necessity have larger budgets but this does not always mean that they are more successful in completing their goals. The larger a budget the more patrol officers the department can put on the road. Each officer on the road must be paid their salary, trained properly, provided a vehicle capable of accomplishing their tasks, and provided the tools and equipment needed for their…
Gun Control With many shootings and massacres happening within the past decade, gun control has become the heated topic of today’s society. There’s a debate on the legislation of gun control, determining rather or not legislation is needed. Those in the support of more legislation on gun control believe that the number of deaths caused by guns will be brought down. According to the Counterpoint Article, Japan and England hold some of the strictest gun control laws, leading to the results in…
analyzing the effects of pollution from surround areas that apply to the basin. Once the matrix was created, the Rio Verde Lake Basin was still considered to be in a positive aquatic state. Many of the different concentrations of substances were very low. This sense of monitoring could help land-use officials to create different policies that would help their nearby ecosystem. This kind of matrix can apply to any given water source to present concerns and lead to ideas to deal with…