Posted on March 31st, 2008 by elizadwest
This poem reminds me of around a decade ago. The summers used to seem forever long, and I would spend most of the time wishing I was back in school. Summers were spent as months full of watermelon-eating contests, being with my family, and writing in my nifty journals (that only lasted for a few weeks.) This reminds me of one of the yearly Brownie Girl Scout outings. They were all a couple hours away from Atlanta, and one year we so fortunate the be located in a trailer park with some cool truckers. I remember getting stuck in the woods around the park lots of times, and imaginged that someone was going to come and kill me with a chain saw. I remember going to fetch some sasafras in the woods, and making tea out of it (even though all of the adults thought that we were stupid.) I, along with my dad, rode a bike along a biking trail that never ended and we spent hours in a store with no air conditioning and looking at old cars. We ate hamburgers and went star-watching every night. I only slept for about two and a half hours because I sat listening to parents snore and blow-up matresses inflate every few minutes. Every once and a while, I would lie down then sit right back up to make sure that I did not see any animal shadows beaming down onto my square yellow tent. I smelt air and dewy grass everywhere, and my nerves were tense since we had told ghost stories only a few hours before. These trip was filled with memories of my childhood, family, and friends, and it is one that I am sure not to forget.
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Posted on February 6th, 2008 by elizadwest
Some people might disapprove of the addition of fluoride to drinking water because they think that the levels of flouride might become too high, and cause staining and tooth decay. In toothpaste, all three tooth decay-preventing compounds are derived from hydrofluoric acid. Among other acids, it can penetrate tissue, because of the high electronegtivity between the flourine anion which holds onto the hydrogen cation closely. I am not concerned about this addition to water because the toothpaste companies know what they’re doing and haven’t made a mistake in some 60 years. They have precise machines that count every miniscule that enters the toothpaste. Harsh reactions to hydrofluoric acid are especially rare in the United States. The FDA discovered stannous fluoride, sodium fluoride, and sodium monofluorophosphate, which prevent tooth decay. After the second World War, advancements in synthetic detergents ceased the existence of soaps in toothpaste. They used sodium ricinoleate and sodium lauryl sulfate instead. The first electric toothbrush was marketed in the United States in 1960 by Squibb. The National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences has shown that Fluoride causes Cancer. I am not overly concerned about this fact because they also say that people who live in fluoridated areas are more prone to hip fractures. Another web-source mentioned the increasing threat of a “fluoride-thyroid” connection. They go on to say that when a patient is treated for thyroid problems, the doctors use fluoride to purposely slow down the Thyroid Gland. I’ve been drinking fluoridated water my whole life, and was unaware of these threats, however this will not conclude or slow my consumption of these toothpastes, mouthwashes, or waters.
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Posted on January 14th, 2008 by elizadwest
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