Free College Essays.com - Free Essays, Term Papers and Book Reports.


		Search Lots of Essays

	Data Base
	• Home • Custom Term Papers • Free Essays • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism?
	Links
	• Search 101,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com • Search 100,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 95,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com
	Free Essays
	• ChuckIII's Free Essays • College Term Papers • Free Essays • Free College Essays • Learn Essays • 123 School Work
	Contact Us
	• Contact Us

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ALL

You Have Viewed Too Many Free
Essays, Term Papers, and Book Reports.

Important Person

Important Person

In 1954, a pregnant young Jewish doctor watched from a window in terror as a mushroom cloud rose thousands of feet above the horizon.  It was followed by a shockwave that violently shook the village, shattering every window in its path, including the one she had been looking through.  
	The terrified doctor was my grandmother, sent to the poor, barren lands of Khazakstan by the communist and anti-Semitic Soviet government.  My grandmother, who had graduated at the top of her class in medical school in Moscow, was sent far away to Khazakstan because she was Jewish, and the photograph attached was taken there early in her professional life.  
	My grandmother immediatly started treating victims of the atomic tests who suffered from severe burns, as well as chronic headaches and hyperactivity.  It was later discovered that such symptoms were related to acute radiation poisoning.   During that year most pregnancies ended with miscarriages; if the pregnancy was carried to term, the baby would often be either still born or mutated: born with incorrect number or limbs, infant blindness, and large tumors.  These symptoms are now known to be linked with exposure to radiation, but

radiation, grandmother, victims, exposure, way, people, mother, life, help, example, born, years, women, window, thyroid, tests, term, symptoms, suffer, skin, sent, problems, pregnancy, poor, one, mutations, medicine, khazakstan, jewish, grandmother's, grandchildren, government, even, either, early

Word Count: 509

Acceptance_Essays

American_History

Anatomy_&_Physiology

Animal_Science_&_Zoology

Anthropology

Architecture

Art

Astronomy

Aviation

Biographies

Book_Reports

Business

Computers

Creative_Writing

Current_Events

Economics

Education

Engineering

English

Environmental_Science

Ethics

European_History

Film_&_TV

Foreign_Languages

Geography

Government_&_Politics

Health_&_Beauty

History_Other

Human_Sexuality

Legal_Issues

Marketing

Mathematics

Medicine

Miscellaneous

Music

Mythology

Philosophy

Physics

Poetry

Political_Science

Psychology

Religion

Science

Shakespeare

Social_Issues

Sociology

Speech

Sports_&_Recreation

Supernatural

Technology

Theater

Theses_&_Dissertations

	Search
	• Search 101,00 papers @ Direct Essays