Essays Tagged: "Sunburn"

Skin Cancer

the sun, children are still playing in the sun without sunscreen or protective clothing (3., p 1). Sunburn is the most preventable risk factor of skin cancer. Skin type and family history cannot be c ... to screen out and reduce the UV light that reaches the earth's surface and its people. Very simply, sunburn and UV light can damage the skin and lead to skin cancer (1., p 1). The American Cancer Soci ...

(6 pages) 132 0 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Skin Cancer

(3 pages) 91 0 3.8 Feb/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Spontaneous Human Combustion.

rvousness can cause heartburn. Remaining in the sun for too long without protection leaves you with sunburn. Play with fire and you know what happens. And that's saying nothing of rug burns that can o ...

(4 pages) 40 0 3.4 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

The problems with our ozone layer today and how to protect it for the future

ection; or so it seems. In parts of the world where the ozone is the thinnest, we see more cases of sunburn, skin cancer, skin sensitivities, cataracts and cataract blindness. This is evident in peopl ...

(2 pages) 33 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Oceanography

Safe Tanning & the benefits that come from it.

ociated with either too much or too little sunlight." Tanning is our body's natural defense against sunburn. Did you know that up to 81% of people are less likely to burn than they were before they st ... eeper radiation that may cause more damage than UVB rays if abused. UVB rays are th rays that cause sunburn. UV radiation also can have damaging affects on the immune system and could cause premature ...

(6 pages) 73 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Too much sun can be hazarous to our health

, weakening the immune system that reduces the body's ability to fight diseases. Moreover, repeated sunburns are another factor that leads to skin cancer followed by mild skin rashes. At the early sta ... that leads to skin cancer followed by mild skin rashes. At the early stage of skin cancer, too much sunburn that leads to skin redness and pain especially to the sensitive skins, are the effects of th ...

(2 pages) 26 0 2.2 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Ultaviolet Rays

tic lamp.The professional therapeutic lamp gives off powerful ultraviolet radiation and can produce sunburn in one-half to one minute. The sun lamp is not as powerful. It requires 10 to 15 minutes to ...

(2 pages) 14 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

BIRTHDAY ESSAY

he magic date and I declared that it would have to become a yearly endeavor because despite the bad sunburn and hangover it was the best birthday I could envision. So it was spoken and so it ha ...

(3 pages) 4616 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Information On Burns

rouble breathing. Keep the burned part of the body raised at all times if possible. Part II: Sunburn. To prevent sunburn stay out of the sun between 10:00am and 2:00pm because that is when the ... s effect the top layer of skin only. The skin is red, dry, and usually painful. The area may swell. Sunburn is a 1st degree and sometimes, but very rarely, a 2nd degree burn. They normally heal in one ...

(2 pages) 2308 0 0.0 Jan/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Chemistry hits the beach

ing just a few years longer. A sunguard is a cream designed to protect one's skin from being sunburned. Our bodies are incrementally damaged by each new exposure to the sun, and this damage can ...

(4 pages) 10 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Beggarland

the more I thought she looked like something has happened. Of course I recognized the freckles, the sunburn and the wet hair. But I had the expression that it was another girl that the one I had seen ...

(4 pages) 2318 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Awakened Isolation: A Feminist Analysis

llier returns from a midday swim and allows her husband to scold her as if she were a child for the sunburn she returned with. ??You are burnt beyond recognition?, he added, looking at his wife as one ...

(2 pages) 1171 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Social Marketing in New Zealand – SunSmart

e protections than adults. Children’s skin is tender that will cause more probability to incur sunburn. Sunburn not only damage skins but also has potential threat in future life. The probability ... t also has potential threat in future life. The probability of skin cancer is higher if someone had sunburn when he/she was a child (Richards, R., & McGee, R., & Knigh, Robert G. ,2001). Obvio ...

(5 pages) 16 0 0.0 May/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing