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                                                 It’s all fun and games till you meet a burn survivor. At Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, it was fire safety awareness week last week, and we had two burn survivors as guest speakers. They survived an arson fire that happened in their dorm in Seton Hall University, New Jersey, in the year 2000. Their names are Alvaro and Shawn, and they were two eighteen year old college freshmen who were one of the 58 people to get burned that fateful morning. By God’s grace, they pulled through and lived to tell the story. 3 students died as a result of the incident, and 4 out of the 58 students and fire fighters were severely burned, including Alvaro and Shawn. You can read more about the story here . I decided to write an article on fire safety based on what I learned from Alvaro and Shawn’s story. The...

thefruitdoctor.com Cancer is a something that has affected me personally on 2 occasions, taking away people that meant a lot to me. If I could take back the hands of time, I would probably have started this blog earlier, but even then, the internet was not as popular as it is now, and I was too young to fully understand what cancer really meant. The truth about cancer is that a variety of risk factors can be associated with one type of cancer. For example, smoking, a bad diet, genes, and alcohol intake are all risk factors just for breast cancer, and there is more. Before we even go on, let me define cancer just so we know what we are talking about. It is the uncontrolled growth of a cell. Like I said on an earlier post about ugly bananas , cells are supposed to continuously divide. When they can no longer do this and continue to grow, they become cancerous and can spread that inability to other cells in the body. To defeat cancer, early detection is crucial, and of course,...