Archive | July 4, 2012

H + Homeless = Harvard

Homeless, but not helpless.This young teenage girl took advantage of what most people would consider a hopeless case and turned it into an opportunity of a lifetime. This just goes to show that no matter what circumstance come your way look at it as a life lesson and seek beyond the obvious.

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Very Early Signs You'll Have A Heart Attack

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According to a recent Harvard study, only 25 percent of heart attack victims had no prior symptoms. The trouble is, these danger signs aren't necessarily the symptoms you've been warned about.

Here are seven early warning signs that could save a life.

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Rapid/Irregular Heartbeat

Sudden, unexplained episodes of rapid, irregular heartbeat and pulse can predate a heart attack by weeks or months.

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Frank Talk About HIV/AIDS With Black Men

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HIV/AIDS is increasingly an epidemic in the black community. African Americans account for a whopping 50% of all those living with HIV today, 45% of those newly infected each year and about half of all deaths.

If black America were its own country, it would rank 105th in the world for life expectancy, behind places like Algeria, the Dominican Republic and Sri Lanka (the US as a whole is 49th).

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YDS Movie Review: Disney Pixars: BRAVE

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One of the best animated movies of the summer comes from the brilliant minds at Walt Disney, and Pixar studios. Brave is about a teenage girl, growing up in a Scottish royalty family, with thousands of expectations, and a planned out life, and a mother that wants her daughter to be just like her.

This is the story of Merida, a girl who just wanted to be herself, and tell her own story, and not have someone write her story for her.

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