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Diabetes Diabetes is a fairly common disease found in the modern day world, but many people still don't know what it really is. Niddk.nih.gov states that diabetes is a disease that occurs when one's blood pressure is too high or blood glucose. Blood glucose is the body’s main source of energy, and the body obtains this energy from food. If one has too much glucose in their blood for an extended period of time it can cause serious health problems such as heart disease, kidney disease, hypoglycemia foot problems, eye disease, dental problems, and nerve damage. The two most common forms of diabetes are type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is when one's body attacks the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. Someone with type 1 diabetes needs daily insulin injections to survive, this type of diabetes is usually diagnosed in children and young adults. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes it is when one’s body does not create or use insuli...

This image can be found on  ducksters.com .               The letter that I chose to read, located on  memory.loc.gov , was written by Uriah W. Oblinger to his wife Mattie V. Oblinger and his baby daughter Ella Oblinger and sent on January 19, 1873. The background of this letter is that Uriah is in Nebraska and has a homestead and is raising money to bring his wife and baby to Nebraska. Uriah is making money by hauling ice for a company but he has run into some bad luck. First, he was sick, then his wagon broke, then there was a storm which kept him from working for a while, but now he is on track and making money. He talks about missing his wife and baby and also about his friend Giles who might come to work with him. He then talks about the icy and stormy weather in Nebraska but assures his wife that it's not that bad. He also addresses his wife's concerns about the Native American people living near Uriah in Nebraska and he ...

        This image is from  postalmuseum.si.edu .           The article "Letters of Westward Expansion," on  postalmuseum.si.edu , is centered around the importance of the connectivity letters provided in the West during Westward Expansion. The article begins with the following quote which best summarizes the entire goal of the paper " Letters connected all of these migrants with the homes they had left behind, and helped to build an interconnecting network of people across the vast new country that was developing."  The article begins with the example of Anna who had gone out West to escape the poverty she was faced with at home. But to stay in touch with the family she left in Maryland she wrote them letters "correspondence between Anna and her family had allowed them to remain close for all those years." The article even goes as far as to say that Anna's correspondences provide an informat...

Western Newspaper  This image was obtained from  newspapers.com .               The weekly newspaper, published on November 27, 1880, "The Arizona Sentinel," on  chroniclingamerica.loc.gov , discusses the town of Yuma, Arizona. This edition discusses the national issue of starvation in Ireland and makes the argument that the British are to blame for starving the Irish. This particular edition also has a poem in it to add some creativity and diversity to the paper which I found quite surprising. Interestingly enough the paper also discusses technological  advancements in weaponry most notably the "torpedo boat" and the "war-ship." It was very interesting to see the advancement of scientific understanding we have had since the 1880s, by reading the astronomical section of the paper. But sadly, this paper does not include any stories of crime or scandal. Overall, this newspaper would help give one an unders...