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- 5211: Summary of Jane Eyre
- ... nightmare. Late at night she is taken back to her room by Bessie, the nurse. She isn't well so Bessie call's the apothecary. To him Jane says that she wants to go to school. For weeks nothing happens. At one day Mr. Brocklehurst arrives. He is the head of Lowood Institute. Jane goes to Lowood and meets Helen, a very intelligent child. Helen dies of tuberculosis. Many other children ... John Rivers and his two sisters Diana and Mary take her care of. After many weeks she wants to pick up her life and becomes a village teacher. Mary and Diana become both governess. The school is a success thanks to Jane. One day Mr. Rivers arrives and wants to tell Jane something. He tells her that he is her cousin and that she has inherited a fortune from her deceased ...
- 5212: 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 ...
- 5213: Real Meaning Of LIfe
- ... why they persist. However, it doesn't directly explain WHY we are as we are. Saying that men seek power and status for sex and are violent to fight over women; and that women seek high status males; or that genes seek to maximize reproductive fitness is a useful model (stereotype)- a teleological explanation- but it's certainly not the "meaning of life". The primary focus of natural selection has always ... greatest energy potential is as embryos; living is an inevitable progression towards death (and in the process, we consume so much). In fact, all of human progress and the ever increasing amount of energy our high-tech civilization consumes might be seen as promoting entropy. Maybe then, all of existence is simply an expression of entropy and we're the means (agents of entropy) by which the universe expends its energy ...
- 5214: A Separate Peace Is A Story Of
- ... goes AWOL from the army after enlisting. Gene dexcribes his relationship with Leper as "always a fight, a hard fight to win when you're seventeen years old and lived in a keyed up, competing school, to avoid making fun of him. But as I had gotten to know him better this fight had been easier to win." (Knowles 87) They sat down to have a nice conversation and ended up ... he never killed anybody and never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because his war ended before he ever put on a uniform; he was on active duty all his time at school; he killed his enemy there." (Knowles 196) This proves "A Spearate Peace" is a story of war because all of the death, hate, jealousy, and ignorance that go into the story are what the story ...
- 5215: The Lady with the Pet Dog: A Review
- ... Anna. He recognizes that they have a lot on common. They are both married, not of their free choosing. Dmitry, whos marriage was chosen for him when he was in the second year of school. Anna, who was married two years ago, did not even know what her husband did for a living. Dmitry learned that she had been a schoolgirl only a short while ago, doing lessons just like his own daughter in school. He started knowing that there was something more to this affair than what he expected. He would look at Anna and think to himself What encounters life offers! He remembered the past affairs, the happiness ...
- 5216: The Ebola Virus
- ... vagina. Capillary leakage and bleeding leads to a massive loss in intravascular volume. In fatal cases, shock and acute respiratory disorder can also be seen along with the bleeding. Numerous victims are delirious due to high fevers and many die of intractable shock. SYMPTOMS During the onset of Ebola, the host will experience weakness, fever, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. As the infection progresses, vomiting (usually black), limited kidney and ... Ebola virus may take up to 10 days. The methods used to detect the virus are very slow, compared to how rapid Ebola can kill its victims. Blood or tissue samples are sent to a high- containment laboratory designed for working with infected substances and are tested for specific antigens, antibodies or the viruses genetic material itself. Recently, a skin test has been developed which can detect infections much faster. A ...
- 5217: Fascination Of Motorcycles 2
- ... is relatively cheap to fill. If you compare the price tag on a four-wheeled vehicle to that of a motorcycle then you quickly see the difference. If speed is your desire, then compare a high performance car (say a Corvette) to a high performance motorcycle (say a YZF-R1). The Corvette does about 170mph for around $45,000. The YZF-R1 does about 180mph for around $10,500. The Corvette costs about $264.70/mph, the YZF-R1 ...
- 5218: Tourette Syndrome
- ... will also display some type of learning disorder. Such disorders include: having difficulty organizing work, having difficulty playing quietly, talking excessively, interrupting and intruding on others, having a shorter attention span, losing necessary materials for school and home, and engaging in physically dangerous activity, with no thought given to the ramifications of their actions. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is also found in sixty percent of those with Tourette Syndrome. Those with ... to friends, and staying away from social gatherings, and learning to deal with emotional trauma. Help however is available for Tourette Syndrome. The goals of health professionals concerning this disorder is to clarify reasons for school problems, and to develop and individualized multimodality treatment program.
- 5219: Gauss
- ... born on April 30, 1777 in Brunswick. Brunswick is what is now called West Germany, He was born to peasant couple. Gauss's father didn't want Gauss to go to a University. In elementary school he soon impressed his teacher, who is said to have convinced Gauss's father that his son should be permitted to study with a view toward entering a university. In secondary school nobody recognize his talent for math and science because he rapidly distinguished himself in ancient languages. When Gauss was 14 he impressed the duke of Brunswick with his computing skill. The duke was so impressed ...
- 5220: Synthetic Drugs of Abuse
- ... stimulation and mild hallucinations. Many of the new drugs were also highly addictive. A couple of years ago cocaine freebase, better know as "crack", gained popularity. The drug gave the user a ten minutes long "high". The drug is physically addictive the first time it is used. Another even more addictive and potent drug appeared on the american market in 1994. It is called methcathinone, or "cat". The user is high for 72 hours after using only 10-20 mg. Although the user does not get physically addictet right away, the rush is so pleasant, that only very few people has reported using it only once ...
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