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- 5171: Insulin-Dependent Diabetes
- ... The onset of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes begins with frequent urination, extreme thirst, constant hunger, and unexplained weight loss. Because people with Type I Diabetes lack sufficient insulin, glucose accumulates in the blood to levels too high for the kidneys to excrete. In an effort to remove the excess sugar, the kidneys excrete large amounts of water as well as essential body elements resulting in frequent urination, thirst, and weakness. Hunger and ... environment may play important roles in the development of diabetes. Research suggests that certain viruses, in combination with genetic susceptibility and other unknown environmental factors, may trigger the onset of some types of this disorder. High levels of growth hormone in adolescents and adults under stress may also stimulate the production of glucose by the liver.
- 5172: Color Purple 2
- ... get a better life that she had at the end. Celie sees herself ugly and stupid. The reason for this is because her father and later her husband told her so. Celie had to leave school because her father raped her and got her pregnant. This brought a lot of pain and emotional downfall but in spite of this with a great help of her younger sister Nettie, Celie tried her best to learn what she missed in school. It was very important for her, because she realized that knowledge is one of the ways to become strong and to improve in life. Us both be hitting Nettie s schoolbooks pretty hard, cause us ...
- 5173: Bermuda Triangle
- ... wreckage that may have washed ashore. One search and rescue ship, the S.S. Gaines Mills, radioed at 7:50 p.m. that they had observed a burst of flames that rose one hundred feet high and lasted for about ten minutes. Ships and planes rushed to the area, but no signs of debris or survivors were found. After five days of intense searching, the rescue mission was canceled. No wreckage ... a refueling stop scheduled in Bermuda. After a brief stop in Bermuda, Stern resumed his journey. Shortly after returning to the air, his plane flipped over and was violently tossed through the air at a high rate of speed. He was able to regain control of the aircraft only after an intense struggle with an unexplained force. Upon his return to Bermuda, he learned that five of the seven bombers in ...
- 5174: A Motherly Role-The Joy Luck C
- ... held in such a spotlight, as to be called a prodigy. Suyuan takes it upon herself to make her daughter rise above the accomplishments of her peers, and prove to the mothers their family is high in the running competition, whether Jing-Mei approves or disapproves. Suyuan decides that with piano lessons she and her daughter will rise above Lindo and Waverly. Jing-Mei only sees tedious lessons and hours of ... between Suyuan and her daughter, Amy Tan clearly suggests Chinese mothers rely on success to establish status. Other’s thoughts determine their statue, and the mother will go to extremes to be accepted in the high flown Chinese community. Unlike Suyuan and Jing-Mei of The Joy Luck Club, Winnie and Pearl of The Kitchen God’s Wife, learn about each other’s secrets; instead of tension and pressure as large ...
- 5175: Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson, America’s third President, was a man of many talents and characteristics. He is remembered in history not only for the offices he held, but for his superb literary talents, his high morals and, unfortunately, his hypocrisy. Though not flawless, Jefferson’s contributions helped define American society and the lives of the American people both of his time and the modern world. (1) Events and occurrences help ... his plantation just as all the surrounding plantation owners did. Thomas Jefferson laid down the base of our modern United States of America with his liberal yet simple views. (8) He was a man of high standards, great talent, and confusing contradiction. However, his commitment to America and his many contributions to framing society should overshadow his negative traits. “His impact on his times is equaled by few others in American ...
- 5176: Warren Harding
- Warren Harding Warren went to school at Blooming Groves one room school. He showed early instincts of the declamation. When he was 14, he entered Ohio Central College. He graduated after two years with a bachelor’s degree in science. He and two of his friends acquired ...
- 5177: The Ebola Virus
- ... the onset of the fever and other clinical manifestations (Ornstein, Matthews and Johnson 7). In most outbreaks, transmission from patient to patient within hospitals has been associated within the reuse of unsterile needles and syringes. High rates of transmission in outbreaks have occurred from patients to heath-care workers and to family members who provide nursing care without appropriate precautions to prevent exposure to blood, other body fluids, vomitus, urine and ... chimpanzee may have contracted the disease. The usual hosts for these types of hemorrhagic causing viruses are rodents, ticks or mosquitos. The natural reservoir for Ebola viruses has not been identified and ... because of the high mortality rate seen in apes they are unlikely to be the reservoir (Le Guenno et al 1271). Thousands of animals captured near outbreak areas, are tested for the virus, but efforts have always been unsuccessful ...
- 5178: An Analysis Of Violence In The
- By: Carl Hayden Recently, violence in the schools has been a great concern in our society as a whole. The attention is justified by the abundance of media coverage on a number of recent school shootings. With all these news clips and sound bites swirling around our heads, one might conclude that our children are more violent than previous generations. It might seem in fact, that something has made children ... of 'preferred groups' they may be scrutinized by the clique and/or become self-critical. How they cope with this situation can determine their potential to be violent in a social environment like a public school. Many different factors have been analyzed in an attempt to stop the violent behaviour. Is the media to blame? Is the in-crowd to blame? Are parents to blame? Do we need to bring back ...
- 5179: AIDS and You
- ... into contact with the blood of an uninfected person. Sex involving penetration of the penis into either the vagina of a woman or the rectum of either a woman or a man has a very high risk of transmitting the disease. It is felt to be about four times MORE likely for an infected male to transmit AIDS to an uninfected woman in the course of vaginal sex than it is ... many months of safe sex with the diseased person. It is particularly encouraging to note that, due to education programs among San Francisco gay males, the incidence of new cases of AIDS infection among that high risk group has dropped massively. Between practice of safe sex and a significant reduction in the number of casual sexual contacts, the spread of AIDS is being massively slowed in that group. Similar responsible action ...
- 5180: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... Franks great grandfathers name. His mother thought it would be a tradition if the name stayed in the family, and that it did. Wright studied architecture at the University of Wisconsin. He thought that the school was the pits in architecture from 1885-1886. He did not lead the coolest life there but infact that of a nerd. After school he moved to Chiago in 1887. Worked and studied with Joesph Lyman Silsbee as an architectural detailer.
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