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- 591: Tradition: Lost and Kept
- ... in the world follows its own customs and traditions. These traditions, however, are sometimes broken to allow a compromise in their society, or are still kept throughout the culture's existence. In the story The Rain Came, an African tribe faces a harsh and desolate time because their tribe is experiencing a severe drought and as a result the livestock is dying from dehydration, the crops are drying out, and the ... the prying eyes of her ancestors and the wrath of the monsters. She agreed to the plan and both sprinted far away from the sacred land and avoiding the path of the ancestors. That evening, rain poured out of the sky gallons by gallons, yet Oganda had not been sacrificed according to tradition. This was a great example of how the tribal traditions were completely lost and compromised by Osinda and ...
- 592: Creative Writing: The Search
- ... see the treetops speeding beneath me. Watching the scenery pass, I failed to notice the time. The fog-covered Seattle skyline lay before me in no time. The streets were slick and shiny black, the rain having subsided. Agent Hill, of the Seattle department, drove me out to see Brown's parents. The fresh scent of rain filled my nostrils and my thoughts again drifted toward home. It was cool, about sixty-five degrees with an overcast sky. It was a short drive, only ten minutes. We arrived at a homey, two ...
- 593: Melatonin And The Pineal Gland
- ... produce adrenaline, which causes our metabolism to speed up, our muscles to tense, our heart to beat faster, which often causes us to become hot or start to sweat, and often to produce excess stomach acid. In this day and age, however, we can't always release this tension the way that our body may intend us to. For example, in a threatening confrontation with a teacher, I could niether punch ... be acted on, and unresolved they do us harm. Melatonin neutralizes adrenaline and other excitement hormones, thereby calming us down. That means no tense knots of muscle from an unrelieved situation, and no excess stomach acid creating an ulcer in my stomach. with regard to jet-lag and energy loss, the answer is closely related to getting more and better sleep. Jet-lag occurs when our body clocks are slow to ...
- 594: Ode to the West Wind Essay
- ... power of the wind to be able to destroy nature. At the end of the second section of the poem the speaker describes the destructiveness of the wind in the heavens. Here he describes the rain as being "Black rain", with fire falling from the sky. This is an extremely dark and dreary scene. This leaves the reader with the idea that the wind is a destructive force. In the third section of the poem ...
- 595: Lassa Fever: An Old World Arenavirus
- ... viruses, among them the Junin, Machupo and Guanarito viruses, which cause, respectively, Argentine, Bolivian and Venezuelan hemorrhagic fevers along with a few other non - pathogenic viruses. These viruses, long hidden in the deepest recesses of rain forests, are making their presence felt as much of the rain forest and other isolated areas become more and more accessible. Lassa fever is mostly on the rise as its main vector, the rodent Mastomys natalensis, is increasing in numbers due (indirectly) to an increase in ...
- 596: Iron Absorption from the Whole Diet: Comparison of the Effect of Two Different Distributions of Daily Calcium Intake
- ... the radioisotopic iron standard solutionjust before serving I amounts that gave exactly the same specific activity of nonheme iron in all meals. Fresh samples of raw and boiled vegetables and potatoes were analyzed for ascorbic acid on the same day that they were served. Weighed amounts from the meat dishes were analyzed for total iron and analysis of nonheme iron content of the meat. The mineral analyses of calcium, phosphorous, and magnesium were made after completion of the wet-ash method in sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide. The measurement of nonheme iron absorption was done by using a liquid- scintillation spectrometer. The following equation wasused to determine heme iron absorption: heme iron absorption% = reference dose absorption % X 0.322 ...
- 597: Dune
- ... of Paul's dreams and training paid off by their victory over the Harkonnens. Now he can rebuild the empire to be what he was destined to make it. Once victory was achieved, Paul made rain clouds appear and rain poured onto the dry sands. All were amazed by his powers and no on ever questioned him or his decisions again. Paul was now the almighty ruler. In making a story get the readers appreciation ...
- 598: How Nutrients Get in, and Wastes Out.
- ... the esophageal sphincter, a ring of muscle at the upper end of the stomach. This sphincter then opens to let the food into the stomach. Digestion in the Stomach Here, salivary digestion continues until the acid of the gastric juice penetrates the food mass, and destroys the salivary amylase. The food mass is then saturated with gastric juice, and the gastric phase of digestion is initiated. The gastric phase of digestion is chiefly proteolytic, or protein-splitting. Within this process, the gastric glands secrete the enzymes pepsin and rennin. These enzymes, aided by gastric acid, converts a fairly large amount of the proteins to smaller forms, such as metaproteins, proteoses and peptones. There also may be a small amount of fat digestion in the stomach, since a small amount of ...
- 599: Ebola
- ... where ebola comes from or what the original host is.However, scientists know that man is not ebola's natural host(3).The host was first suspected of being carried by monkeys in the African rain forests(4), but in one case the monkeys at a holding facility broke out and had to be killed. In the pursuit of a cure and an origin, there have beenseveral teams of scientists whose ... the index patient is thatthis way they can trace the patients movements and try to find the origin of the virus. Scientists are now arguing that if there wasn't so much interference with the rain forests that therewouldn't be new diseases emerging all the time(12). The most recent outbreak happened in January of 1996 in a small village in inland Zaire. Two children were playing when the came ...
- 600: Diseases: Sex Linked and Sex Influenced
- ... is the "hereditary metabolic disorder that is characterized by recurrent acute attacks of severe inflammation in one or more of the extremities"(Norton 5:392). This inflammation is caused by an excess deposition of uric acid in and about the joints. Like baldness, this condition strikes men predominantly, but can also be found in women. The exact cause of gout is not yet known, however, it is logical to believe that ... hormonal imbalances as baldness, and that is why it is classified as a sex influenced disease. Gout is inborn, however the symptoms do not occur until middle age. Before the attacks, small amount of uric acid build up in the joints. All joints, especially the big toe, are susceptible. Symptoms such as heat, redness of the skin, and extreme tenderness and pain accompany the affected joints. Numerous gout attacks can cause ...
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