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- 4131: Blood Pressure
- ... increased force against the walls of the arteries causes them to become thicker and crooked, decreasing the flow of blood to the heart, brain, kidneys, and eyes. Cardiovascular disease is the NO. 1 cause of death in the United States. Death rates are higher when high blood pressure is also present and even higher when the high blood pressure is associated with other risk factors such as cigarette smoking and high blood cholesterol. Target Organs Heart ...
- 4132: Bubonic Plague
- ... approximately the size of a chicken egg. If a case is nonfatal than the temperature will begin to fall in about five days, and returnt to normal in about two weeks, but in fatal cases death will probably occur within four days. Yersinia Pestis, an infectious, round and rod shaped agent is the cause of the Bubonic Plague. Yersina Pestis is a bacteria, which means the cells lack the internal organization ... is a element of risk to this vaccination. This vaccination has been proven to be ineffective with people younger than eighteen and older than sixty. The side effects of this vaccination can sometimes result in death and therefore it is not a good idea to use it. During the Middle Ages, people did not have a clue as to why the plague was spreading so quickly. But now we know that ...
- 4133: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
- ... you understand the characters, and what goes on behind the patients backs. Kesey also uses the actions of the characters to develop their personalities. Desert- The Chief grew up in a desert, which could imply death and hopelessness, because his father fought to keep it and the struggle made a shell of a man out of him. Fog- Throughout the novel, fog is used to symbolize unawareness and confusion amongst the ... the fog, which symbolizes confusion and naivete of the patients. Ignorance is bliss to these people and it s hard for McMurphy to understand that. Old Rawler. Cut both his nuts off and bled to death, sitting right on the can in the latrine, half a dozen people with him didn t know it till he fell off to the floor, dead. What makes people so impatient is what I can ...
- 4134: Herman Melville: An Anti-Transcendentalist Or Not
- ... Dick. The story revolves around the idea of an awesome sea mammal, which drives the passions of revenge in one man and forces him to pursue a course of action which leads ultimately to his death as well as the deaths of his companions. There is a great deal of imagination involved in these stories and the creativity is highly apparent. There is an expression of belief in the supernatural, as ... image of a hard core idealist who is converted to a realist through the experiences that he goes through. This also drew on his seafaring days as experience and he struggled to bring across the death of the idealist and the birth of the realist. But at the end of the day, whatever emotions he possessed about the nature of idealism and idealistic thought, still form an integral part of him ...
- 4135: Old Man And The Sea, Santiago
- ... not. He decides to kill. " 'I'll kill him though,' he said. 'In all his greatness and his glory.' Although it is unjust, he thought." The tragic man can endure pain and does not fear death. The old man sits in his skiff with the fishing line wrapped around his back. He is in a very uncomfortable position and the moving rope slices his hands. "I must hold his pain where ... Cuba. When the fish bites into the hook, the conflict between the marlin and Santiago begins. The old man remains locked in the battle. He will not waiver until the denouement, even if it means death. " 'Fish,' he said softly aloud, 'I'll stay with you until I am dead.' " The tragic man can change his decision and stop the conflict, but he always asserts his freedom of choose in order ...
- 4136: Of Mice And Men 3
- ... trust in Lennie. Lennie is mentally handicapped, and everyone refers to him as "a cuckoo". George becomes too reliant in Lennie, and Lennieends up breaking Curley's wife's neck, and killing her. With the death of Curley's wife, George and Lennie's dream also die. George replies to Candy when he asks if they can still "get that little place", "--I think I knowed from the very first. I ... t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How'd you like to not talk to nobody?" Curley's wife died because she wanted to be popular and her dream, ironically, caused her death. Crooks is another major character that contributes to John Steinbeck's conception of dreams. The social power group oppresses Crooks because he is black. Anytime the boss gets upset he takes it out on Crooks ...
- 4137: Alcohol
- ... from a combination of a wide range of physiological, psychological, social, and genetic factors. It is characterized by an emotional and often physical dependence on alcohol, and it frequently leads to brain damage or early death. Some ten percent of the adult drinkers in the United States are considered alcoholics or at least they experience drinking problems to some degree. More males than females are affected, but drinking among the young ... involved in the most serious alcohol withdrawal syndrome, delirium tremens, which can prove fatal despite prompt treatment. This is in contrast to withdrawal from narcotic drugs such as heroin, which, although distressful, rarely results in death. Recent evidence has shown that heavy and even moderate drinking during pregnancy can cause serious damage to the unborn child: physical or mental retardation or both; a rare but severe expression of this damage is ...
- 4138: Billy the Kid: The True Story
- ... Orleans to New York about six months before the birth of Billy. Sometime between 1862 & 1864, Billy’s father, William H. McCarty died. No one seems to be sure of the exact date since no death certificate or obituary has been located yet. Soon after the death, his mother married a man named William Antrim in 1873. Up until the age of twelve Billy showed no signs prophesying his desperate and disastrous future ahead. He was a favorite with all classes and ...
- 4139: Alexander The Great, King Of Macedonia
- ... B.C., after the worst sufferings and losses of the entire campaign, to find his personal control over the heart of the empire weakened by the many years of his absence and rumors of his death. On his return he executed several of his governors and senior officials and replaced others. In the spring on 324 B.C. Alexander held a great victory celebration at Susa. He and 80 close associates ... a long-term solution(he was only 32)by breeding a new body of high nobles and mixed blood and also creating the core of a royal army attached only to himself. But, after his death nearly all the noble marriages were disolved. In the autumn of 324 B.C., at Ecbatan, Alexander lost his boyhood friend Hephaestion, by then his grand-vizer, he was probably the only person Alexander had ...
- 4140: Bible - Epistles
- ... covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died; the very commandment which promised life proved to be death to me. For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me. So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good (Romans 7:7-12). Clearly ... law God created as evil. "The law then is `the power of sin' and release from this demonic power is for Paul as certainty an element in our salvation as is release from sin and death" (Knox 59). Yet, Paul contradicts himself. In Romans 7:12, Paul says "So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good. Paul also states that "the law is spiritual" (Romans ...
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