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- 4411: Personal Writing: My American Dream
- ... courage is more than the absence of fear. It is the ability to go forward even when one is afraid to overcome fear and carry on. I plan to go to college when I finish high school, and become an optomerist so that I might help people by finding if not the cure for River blindness and leprosy, then prevention and making my dream come true.
- 4412: Diabetes 3
- Diabetes Mellitus is a disorder in which blood levels of glucose are abnormally high because the body doesn’t release or use insulin adequately. Diabetes Mellitus affects many organs of the body. It affects the blood vessels because Atherosclerotic plaque builds up and blocks large or medium-sized arteries ... requirements for insulin. Poorly controlled diabetes may endanger the fetus as well as the woman. With proper adjustments in insulin the risks lessen. Diabetes increases a pregnant woman’s risk of infection, early labor, and high blood pressure caused by pregnancy. The baby of a diabetic woman may be unusually large at birth. The risk of birth defects is two times higher in babies of women who have diabetes. Most women who have diabetes can have vaginal deliveries. After birth, the babies are assessed carefully because they are at increased risk of developing breathing difficulties, low blood sugar and calcium levels, jaundice, and a high red blood cell count. These problems are temporary and can be treated. Six percent of the United States population has some form of diabetes. Ten percent have type 1 form of the disease. Most ...
- 4413: Creative Essay: Being A Student and An Athlete
- ... none of these attributes rubbed off on my schooling. The university said that they would help me out with my schoolwork but that was just a lie, one in which they still use today. The school put me into these "easy" classes which didn't teach me anything except how to fall asleep in class. The university was only worried about winning games and being nationally recognized. They didn't help ... was accomplishing nothing I my life. This was a reality check, I realized that if I didn't start doing something now, I would never amount to anything. I was going to go back to school do the best I can possibly do. It worked out, and this attitude I had carried over to my job in D.C. After this whole experience I have realized that I can do anything ... that I want to do or become anyone I want to be, from a cartographer to a schoolteacher. This experience had led me into many different directions; even now it has led me into graduate school for education. Being an adolescent has its ups and downs, which I found out the hard way. Adolescence is all about trial and error, taking chances. Without mistakes how does one learn? Know I ...
- 4414: Lord Of Fliez
- ... brother. Which causes Myra to have no time for herself or the people around her. Another example of this is the narrator and her mother. The mother makes the red dress for her daughters first high school dance out of love, but she doesn’t realize the pain that she’s causing her daughter. The daughter feels that by her mother making her the dress, without any consent by herself, it leaves ...
- 4415: Lord Of The Flies
- ... uses this form of symbolism. From the very beginning of the story the boys inwardly strip themselves of the remnants of the basic civilized world. This is shown when the boys shed their clothes; their school sweaters, then the rest of their clothes are torn off. Their hair becomes increasingly disheveled, long, and entangled with small twigs. Since the boys are left without any adult supervision they have to turn to ... boys on the island and remains the leader throughout most of the novel. He is described as a pure, English lad. Such details as his fair hair and the fact that he is wearing his school sweater symbolizes many things. First of all the fact that he has fair hair represents that he will be the positive force throughout the novel, as opposed to Jack who is described as having red hair. The fact that he keeps his school sweater symbolizes his desire to keep the island somewhat civilized. He does everything he can to keep the boys under some kind of society. He makes laws including the freedom of speech. Ralph becomes ...
- 4416: The Jungle
- ... not really know what the contract says, Elzbieta signs the contract. At first, Jurgis was pleased with the job but soon learns that corruption, dishonesty, and bribery plague America. He is forced to work at high speeds for long hours with low pay, and so is the rest of the family. He is cheated out of his money several times. Him and Ona find out that their house is 15 years ... they paid for it. This woman also tells them that they have to pay interest on the mortgage. Jurgis never knew about this. Now they are faced with even more bills. The children must leave school and go to work to help the family survive. This means they will never receive the education they need to rise above this. Ona is not permitted to take a holiday, even for her own ...
- 4417: The Great Gatsby
- ... Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a universal and timeless literary masterpiece. Fitzgerald writes the novel during his time, about his time, and showing the bitter deterioration of his time. A combination of the 1920s high society lifestyle and the desperate attempts to reach its illusionary goals through wealth and power creates the essence behind The Great Gatsby. Nick Carraway, the narrator, moves to a quaint neighborhood outside of New York ... Gatsby takes place in the decade of the “Roarin’ Twenties”. Fitzgerald splendidly incorporates the truth behind the 1920s into his writing. Looking back upon the decade, a spirited vision of dancing and merriment emerges. The high-class American society was in a state of celebration; World War I had finally came to closure. When asked about the purpose of life, Daisy replied, “I don’t know, but it has to do ... Regardless of how conceited one may seem, he or she secretly had no idea of what he or she was doing. The corrupt, immoral things the characters in The Great Gatsby do directly represent the high-society lifestyle of the 20’s. The three main homes of the characters also greatly correspond with their place in society. Jay Gatsby lives in an enormous mansion, which housed a large Gothic library. ...
- 4418: Multi-regional Continuity: The Fossil Evidence
- ... is used here include thin cranial walls, small supraorbital ridges, small teeth, small eye sockets, broad, flat foreheads, large cranial volume (above 1200 cc.), low prognathism in the area of the lower face, and a high, vaulted shape in the area of the cranium. Archaic features in skull morphology include thick cranial walls, heavy supraorbital ridges, large teeth, large eye sockets, sloping foreheads, low cranial volume (below 1200 cc.), high prognathism in the area of the lower face, and a small, football-shaped cranium. The presence of various mixtures of these modern and archaic traits forms the basis for identifying a fossil as transitional modern ... the Solo remains in the classification of Homo erectus, but the skulls display at least one distinctive modern trait: they have, as a group, a much larger cranial volume than average Homo erectus specimens, as high as 1,300 cc. (222). The occurence of this modern cranial capacity with other archaic traits in specimens consistent with a limited geographical setting suggests a local transition from primitive to more modern traits, ...
- 4419: Popular Guy
- ... season, after all it was our homecoming game. As I got into my car, my watch read 7:53 and I had to pick up Thomas at his house at 7:55 to go to school. When I arrived at his house he looked at me in a harsh way. We drove almost half way then Thomas started to speak out. “Hey man I can’t believe it today is the ... is the biggest rivalry west of the Mississippi. Anyway the point was to treat it just like any other game, and not let the massive crowds get to you. As I was driving around the school Thomas was looking for a parking spot, we saw the girls over in the corner looking at us like we were gods. “You know why they are looking at us right” busted out Thomas. Yeah ... over. We lost! That buzzer rang in my ears the entire bus ride back home. That next morning I woke up like I did everyday and I drove to pick up Thomas. We drove to school and something felt different there were no girls all around us and people didn’t look at us the same way. “It’s gone man” “What is?” “The power” “What power?” “You know the ...
- 4420: Ghandi's Death
- ... Kramer's head messing up his trademark hair. Kramer then took his beer nuts and threw them at Cliff. He ducked and they hit Norm. Edith, who was an ex-lunch aid at Saddle Brook High School, could not stand a mess and called her lunch aid friends to contain the matter. Meanwhile, Cliff took his mailbag and smacked Kramer with it. All of the sudden Superfly Jimmy Snucka entered the bar ...
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