The total blast had a VEI of 6, which is equivalent to 200 megatons of TNT. The shock waves travelled around the world seven times, and the force of the blast was some 10,000 times greater than that of the hydrogen bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The volcano left 36,000 people dead and the survivors battled to cope with tsunamis, further eruptions and superheated ash clouds. As the volcano erupted, a plume of ash swept 80km into the sky, the hot gas became unstable and raced across nearby islands at 150km (Australia n.p). "Those who weren't killed by the intense heat," says Dr. Dave Rothery, from the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University, "would have been sandblasted to death.
Comprehensive sex education is mostly trying to stop the spreading of sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancies. The class does teach that abstinence is the best way of making 100 percent sure a person does not get pregnant or get a sexually transmitted disease. They spend more of the class teaching about protection and contraceptives. Abstinence by itself is another way of teaching that can prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancy. The teaching of abstinence is telling people to not have sex until marriage.
Lavin & Cox (2012) opined that the teen pregnancy is still a subject of public concern in United States despite the fact that the rate is declining every year. They further observed “unintended teen pregnancies impose potentially serious social and health burdens on teen parents and their children, as well as costs to society.” PERSONAL AWARENESS Growing up in Nigeria, West-Africa, my strong held view of teenage mothers is of wayward teenage
There are many community based issues that falls under the goals of Healthy People 2020 that needs public healthcare and nursing intervention. The three Community Nursing Diagnoses I have chosen for this paper are: Risk for impaired parenting due to teenage pregnancy, Ineffective coping related to adolescents who experience major depressive episodes, and Risk for associated health complications related to obesity. The first diagnosis I will discuss is teenage pregnancy. Although the number of teens who get pregnant in the United States has fallen in recent years, the U.S. teen birth rate is still the highest of any developed country, with more than 400,000 births in 2009, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the report, 50.1% of girls aged 15 to 19 who had an unintended pregnancy were not using any form of contraception when they got pregnant, and 31.4% thought they could not get pregnant at the time (nim.nih.gov).
I chose, however, to spotlight on the issues of adolescent pregnancy and substance abuse. According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, after fourteen straight years of decline, three in ten girls in the United States become pregnant by age 20 and the teen pregnancy and birth rates are now on the rise. At present, there are about 750,000 teen pregnancies and more than 400,000 teen births annually (2010). In Lancaster, Calif. the teen pregnancy rate is the second highest for all of Los Angeles County. Community nurses need to be aware of the trends that are obviously having an effect on families.
Florida alone had 354,000 teen births between 1991 and 2004, costing taxpayers $8.1 billion. On a local level, Orange County, Florida, had 1771 teen births in 2004, costing the county around $36 million (“State of denial:,” n.d.). From a socioeconomic standpoint, teen births in the UNITED STATES are too high to confine the data to one economic group or household makeup. More encouragingly, the teen birth rate for young women between the ages of 15 and 19 decreased by 2% in 2007/2008 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. Birth rates data for ethnic groups showed a decrease across the boards according to the National Center for Health Statistics (“The national campaign,” 2011).
The world's first nuclear weapons explosion on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico, when the United States tested its first nuclear bomb. Not three weeks later, the world changed. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It killed or wounded nearly 130,000 people. Three days later, the United States bombed Nagasaki.
Sixty-five years ago towards the end of the Second World War, on August 6, 1945, at 8.15 a.m.[1] local time, the United States of America dropped a uranium-fuelled atom bomb (nicknamed “Little Boy”) on Hiroshima. Between 70,000 to 80,000 people, most of them women and children, died instantaneously. Another several hundred thousand were to die later of injuries, diseases and illnesses due to fallout and radiation[2]. Three days later, on August 9 at 11.02 a.m. local time, the U.S. dropped another – more deadly – plutonium-fuelled atom bomb (nicknamed “Fat Man”) on the port city of Nagasaki. This time the atom bomb killed around 40,000 people instantly.
- Lubbock, Texas : the highest rates of unwanted teen pregnancy and STD rate in the nation (despite their emphasis on abstinence sex education) - Her fight for comprehensive sex education in public schools but faces hardships from conservative southern Baptist churches and schools. Selling Safe Sex in Public Schools Seungshin Kwak Jinhyung Hong Target Audience Rhetorical Situation Author's Background Michelle Bryant Comprehensive Sex Education Shelby Knox Abstinence Only Sex Education Church, School vs Audience - Southern Baptist Church - School Demand from Rhetor - Shelby Knox wants the public school and the community to understand the importance of comprehensive sex education in Lubbock, Texas. Intentionally Excluded audience - State of Texas Exigence Constraints Material Ideological Shelby Knox - Works in the Office of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. - A devout Christian, Feminist - Nationally known as the subject of the film "The Education of Shelby Knox" - Travels across the country as an itinerant feminist organizer, doing trainings, workshops and civil disobedience "The Education of Shelby Knox" Trailer The Education of Shelby Knox A 2005 documentary film The coming-of-age story of public speaker and feminist Shelby Knox Received a number of awards - 2005 Sundance Film Festival (Excellence in Cinematography, Documentary Category) - 2005 SXSW Film Festival (Audience Award) - 2005 Sonoma Valley Film Festival (Jury Prize) etc. Welcoming Conversations Shelby Knox Teaser Rhetorical Analysis -Aristotelian Appeal Passage “Although her hometown’s high schools teach abstinence as the only safe alternative, Knox was shocked to learn that Lubbock, Texas, has some of the highest rates of teen pregnancy and STDs in the nation” (Bryant, 872).
Ethics of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing A look into the morality of using the first and only atomic bombs in battle. Background: On August 6th 1945 the very first atomic bomb was used in an act of war. The bomb was dropped over the city of Hiroshima, Japan instantaneously killing 70,000 people. Three days later, on August 9th, the second and last atomic bomb ever used as a weapon was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan killing roughly 40,000 people. Within the first four months after the bombings, thousands of other Japanese citizens lost their lives due to complications from burns, radiation poisoning, and other injuries.