NATIONAL CENTER FOR CASE STUDY TEACHING IN SCIENCE Water Can Kill? Exploring Effects of Osmosis by Susan D. Hester Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology University of Arizona‚ Tucson‚ AZ Part I – Three True Stories Case 1: Jennifer Strange 1‚2 Jennifer Strange was a 28-year-old mother of three who entered a radio contest to try to win a Nintendo Wii game system for her children. As part of KDND’s “Hold your wee for a Wii” contest‚ Jennifer drank bottle after bottle of water for hours without
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Personal Space and Boundaries; making friends in USA Most of the foreign students who come to the United States to study find out that the concept of friendship is not what they know‚ or not what they have been brought up to believe. They believe that Americans seem very friendly at in the beginning stage of friendship and then they sort o disappear. In my culture‚ people who don’t know each other don’t say “Hello‚ how are you etc.” to people they don’t know or they don’t get into conversation
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The Making of Europe In The Making of Europe‚ Christopher Dawson set out to rewrite European History from a European point-of-view to understand the unity of the common civilization instead of a national identity. He advocates for Europe to develop a common European consciousness and a sense of its historic and organic unity. Dawson argues that there should not be a separate history for each country‚ but a common history entertained with all. The Making of Europe adeptly corroborates Dawson’s thesis
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The threat of being struck by a vehicle is a constant danger for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) members. Just in the Edmonton Metro zone EMS members respond to on an average of 350 events per day. Each event involves EMS member entering an ambulance and driving to the event‚ upon arrival the member exits and retrieves medical kits (side compartment) and stretcher (back of the unit). Which relates to 700 times per day when they are in harms way of being struck by a moving vehicle. This risk is increased
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Griffin argues that everyone in society is a part of a larger matrix; that if we had been born to a different family‚ in a different time period‚ or to a different world‚ we would not be the same people we are today. Throughout her essay‚ Griffin ties together four seemingly separate people through their fears and secrets. Secrets are very powerful‚ in that just one secret can impact the lives of many‚ even if the person keeping the secret has no intentions of hurting anybody or changing the lives
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Kye Schnittgen Kill In the book “Killing Mr. Griffin” written by Lois Duncan‚ there is a character named Mark and here’s a few of his attributes; He’s quiet‚ a leader‚ and he is pretty calm. Mark doesn’t talk unless he feels like what he has to say is important. He doesn’t even tell him family he’s leaving to school or answer any of his aunt’s questions. “Jeff came by for him earlier than usual this morning. He was honking the car horn out there at seven-thirty and Mark was out the door before
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Friends For Life © Angelica N. Brissett We are Friends I got your back You got mine‚ I’ll help you out Anytime! To see you hurt To see you cry Makes me weep And wanna die And if you agree To never fight It wouldn’t matter Who’s wrong or right If a broken heart Needs a mend I’ll be right there Till the end If your cheeks are wet From drops of tears Don’t worry Let go of your fears Hand in hand Love is sent‚ We’ll be friends Till the end!!!! My Sister‚ My Friend © Zhai
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By: Krysten G. Navy Veteran Griffin Kirsch Did you know the Navy is the only branch where you get to pick your job and what you want to do for that branch? Also there are sometimes in the Navy where it takes about 4 months or even more to get to where they needed to be in order to fight. I did not know a lot of those facts until I decided to interview my cousin‚ Griffin. He has recently just stopped serving in the military because he never gets to see his family
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a) What do the authors agree and disagree on? Both Wesley and the author of “ Society of the Friends of Blacks” believe that slave trading must be out to an end. The way the slaves are being treated is unacceptable and inhumane‚ which is not how we should treat a fellow human. They both want everyone to be treated with kindness‚ since they are part of the human race. The author of “Society of the Friends of Blacks”‚ however‚ does not want the slaves to be emancipated because it will be too much freedom
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Plot summary Ellie goes out camping in the bush for a week with her friends Homer‚ Lee‚ Kevin‚ Corrie‚ Robyn‚ and Fiona. Later on‚ they find Chris‚ one of their school friends. They find a way into a large‚ vegetated sinkhole in a remote area of bush the locals have dubbed "Hell"‚ and camp there for the week. During this time they see large numbers of planes flying through the night without lights‚ and though it is mentioned in conversation the following morning‚ they think little of it. When they
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