...Autoimmune Diseases Your body's immune system protects you from disease and infection. But if you have an autoimmune disease, your immune system attacks healthy cells in your body by mistake. Autoimmune diseases can affect many parts of the body. These diseases tend to run in families. Women - particularly African-American, Hispanic-American, and Native-American women - have a higher risk for some autoimmune diseases. The diseases may also have flare-ups, when they get worse, and remissions, when they all but disappear. The diseases do not usually go away, but symptoms can be treated. Multiple Sclerosis Is a disease affecting nerves in the brain and spinal cord, causing problems with muscle movement,balance and vision. Every nrve fibre in the brain and spinal cord is surrounded by a layer of protein called myelin which protects the nerve and helps electrical signals from the brain travel to the rest of the body. In MS, the myelin becomes damaged. This disrupts the transfer the transfer of these nerve signals,causing a wide range of potential symptoms such as: * numbness and tingling * blurring of vision * problems with mobility and balance * muscle weakness and tightness * MS can damage nerve fibres in your brain and spinal cord, which can cause muscles to contract tightly and painfully (spasm). Your muscles may also become stiff and resistant to movement, which is known as spasticity. * Neuropathic pain – caused by damage to the nerve fibres in...
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...Chronic Atrophic Gastritis occurs when the stomach lining does not secrete intrinsic factor and hydrochloric acid. In order for vitamin b12 and hydrochloric acid to be absorbed, intrinsic factor is required. Hydrochloric acid is helps proteins to be produced. Many factors can contribute to this disease, such as a history with alcoholism, specific foods or excessive use of aspirin. Atrophic means "wasting" as in "wasting away" which suggests there is little that can be done to treat this disease. However, the underlying cause of the disease must be eliminated in order to better the sufferer's quality of life. If an individual is diagnosed with Chronic Atrophic Gastritis, they should make changes determined by the root of the illness. Therefore, if an individual acquires this disease because they have stomach cancer, it is important to gain as much control over the cancer as possible. If a person is diagnosed with this disease and has abused alcohol their whole lives, it is important to take control of their habit and make a change. Alcohol can really have an impact on an individual's life. Many people do not care about their health nearly as much as they should, especially when they are addicted. That simple fact can make putting a stop to alcohol consumption difficult. Especially when a person is under the impression that they are going to die anyway. The friends and family of the sufferer play a huge role in this, in my opinion. Sometimes, a person cannot find...
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...Case Scenario Report: Mrs. Annika Akerman, age 60 years, is a C/M/F, vegetarian, of Scandinavian descent, admitted today. She had a total gastrectomy one month ago and was discharged to her home. She was readmitted today because of numbness and tingling in her hands and feet and progressive weakness in both legs making it difficult for her to walk or stand. She has just arrived on the unit. Vital signs are Height 5’5”, weight 112 pounds, BP:102/65, Temp: 99, Pulse: 75, Respirations 18, SaO2: 90%. On oxygen at 2L per nasal canula. Heart sounds normal with no murmur. Admission History Diagnosis Arthritis 2 years ago Diagnosis Ulcerative Colitis 6 months ago after experiencing abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea. Despite treatment, progression of the disease required surgical intervention one month ago. She agreed to have a total gastrectomy done at that time. Allergies: NKDA Home Meds Sulfasalazine 1g PO QID Loperamide 2mg PRN after each loose stool Surgical History Total Gastrectomy, Dr. Slice, Wish Hospital 1 month ago Social Married 40 years, no children, retired school teacher Non-smoker Does not drink alcoholic beverages Vegetarian Diet Drinks 2-3 cups of coffee daily During the interview, Mrs. Akerman states “This is very frustrating. I have always had a well balanced diet. I just don’t understand why I feel so tired and dizzy lately. Before my surgery I used to go on a morning walk every day. But now I feel winded and unsteady just by walking around my kitchen...
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...First Paper The traditional retail model has focused on finding high-margin, high-volume products or services because limited space means reduced space inventory. For example, organizations such as Walmart select the biggest hits from the broadest genres, called the “short head.” The short head means Walmart will only carry a select mix of country, pop, and rock that is calculated to provide the greatest cost/benefit. The business model of Amazon is different. Amazon provides the short head but also provides the “long tail” of more than 100,000 different audio selections. The competition for customers between the Walmart and Amazon marketplace is profoundly changing the face of retail business today. Using the assigned reading and the Argosy University online library resources, find at least three scholarly articles that address similar current trends related to e-business and how e-business is changing the face of businesses today. Using your company or a real-world example from your research, respond to the following: * Describe how technology is changing the face of businesses today. * Describe the most critical business processes that utilize information systems in your selected company. * Explain how IT makes the company’s business processes faster, cheaper, more accurate, and customer-savvy than that of competitors. * Cite at least three sources found in your online library research. Give reasons and examples from your research to support your responses...
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...The sun threw itself in the air as it rose through the darkness that had shadowed the whole area, soon replacing the coldness and sadness with warmth and happiness. Birds flew in the air after lying low from the darkness, chirping loudly as they felt alive and free once again on the winter day, The sea sparkled in the welcoming sun, swishing and swaying with joy, softly so that it wouldn’t distract anyone that was sleeping. Greenery swished in the breezy wind, the sky filled with blissful clouds, everyone outside with joy. Except me. That was the only thing keeping me alive in my compact room. The window shined with pride, the darkness fighting it with anger, trying to get rid of it, pausing as the curtain flew and covered most of light before it shone again. The beam reflected on my mirror, lighting the whole room, the darkness holding on to the last piece till finally it flew off. My room ached with delight as it finally shimmered in the warmth, the door finally getting the food it wanted as it could not reach before for it because it was shut tight away from the chilling darkness as if the sun was right inside my house. “I will be free, I will be free, I will be free…” I muttered to window as I stared at it, not blinking as if there was a staring contest going on, not noticing how suddenly my room had lit up and that the door was slowly, silently creaking open. A shadow appeared in front of me as it pushed me back from the window, realizing that someone was in my...
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...A) Write about the techniques Tennyson uses to tell the story in Tithonus The purpose of this essay is to discuss narrative methods and techniques used by Tennyson to tell the story in the poem Tithonus. Tennyson uses the theme of light to effectively illustrate the intense love Tithonus felt for Aurora but simultaneously this also highlight the love Tithonus will never feel again. This is shown by constantly mentioning the East where the sun rises, and also by the words ‘Thy sweet eyes brighten slowly….yet they blind the stars’- by saying her eyes blind the stars Tennyson could also be saying how he (Tithonus) too was at one point blinded by his love for her. The use of imagery within the poem like ‘glimmering’ and ‘lights’ gives readers the idea that his life was happy with her in it yet, the contrast of language, ‘gloomy’, ‘shadows’, ‘twilight’ underlines the fact that he is no longer joyful as he is now without her. Another reason we could argue that he is no longer happy is that he may be envious of how she is immortal and forever youthful but he is immortal but consistently aging; this interpretation is supported by the continuous mentioning of immortal youth ‘To dwell in the presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth’. Also the use of the word twilight suggests that Tithonus state is that he is caught in the middle, forever watching the circle of life without him in it – ‘the woods decay…dies the...
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...in the 21st Century. She gets in her car and immediately turns on her favorite pop radio station on the way to work. Her friends from college invite her to a party after her shift ends, and she invites a few friends as well. In the car on the way to the party, while chit chatting over upbeat background music, one of them exclaims, “Oh! I love this song!” One of them turns the volume up and they all sing together to the catchy tune and the easy words of “Young, Wild, and Free” by Wiz Khalifah, “Roll one. Smoke one. When you live like this you’re supposed to party…” This line in the song is extremely easy to learn because it has been repeated several times in less than three minutes, and is set to the sound of a catchy tune. Perhaps pop music has been designed to fit into this modern lifestyle, where one is always on the go, and wants to stay active and energetic. Who has time to really listen to what the song is saying if it has rhythm and is easy to sing along to? Without listening, we tune out the important form of expression that is musical lyrics, and this drop in emphasis encourages a lack of investment in song composition. American Pop music’s language is digressing to the point where it is more offensive, repetitive, and shallower than ever. Offensive language in modern pop music is becoming more normal. The modern American parent can be easily deceived by the “happy” nature of a pop song and think nothing of their eight year old listening to it, but after hearing...
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...An Analysis of A Bigger Splash painted by David Hockney The very famous painting, A Bigger Splash, was painted by David Hockney in 1967. It was painted with acrylic. David Hockney is known to be best British artist of his generation. In the painting A Bigger Splash, I first noticed the brilliant and vibrant colours that are in the painting. The colours stand out and catch your eye fast, but at the same time the splash also catches my attention very quickly. David Hockney was known for painting California swimming pools but in A Bigger Splash, he seemed to have changed and done less detail than in his previous paintings of swimming pools. In this painting there is a big splash but no figure to of switch made the splash. In the background, there is a home with two palm trees by the right side, and a sky, which seems to be painted the same as the swimming pool but with a lighter shade of blue. The only real item in the painting is the chair appears to be alone on which may be sand or even concrete. The painting seems to mainly consist of straight lines except from the splash. When not including the splash, the painting appears to be very flat. The splash appears to be a lot more detailed than anything else in the water. Thos also makes the splash stand out. The splash obviously is the main part of this painting because how much detail it has compared to the rest of the painting. Overall, I think this is a fairly good painting. I chose this painting because the colours struck...
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...America's foremost portraitists. His best-known work, the unfinished portrait (Open Style Realism) of George Washington that is sometimes referred to as The Athenaeum, was begun in 1796 and never finished; Stuart retained the portrait, which he sold for $100 each. The image of George Washington featured in the painting has appeared on the United States one-dollar bill for over a century. His mentor was Benjamin West, travel to (1787) Ireland and UK returning to us in 1792. He live very extravagant life style had money problems. The Athenaeum (39 5/8” X 34 1/2”) 1796 (Lansdowne Portrait) manipulation of light & shade Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923– September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. (Realistic) attended Ohio State University, He was known examples of pop art, adapted a comic-book panel. George Washington (1962) oil on canvas 51” X 38”. Younger more glamour & success like a comic book hero no sense of brush strokes John Matos (known as Crash), Bronx, New York, Oct. 11, 1961) is an “Urban” graffiti artist. (His own subway style) His Art is a "visual link between street life and established society.” A very unique style like Jackson Pollock Arcadia Revisited (1988) Spray Paint on Canvas 96 ¼” X 68” Liner Quality overlapping gestures & unique color focal point is the eye /spark Jackson Pollock (known as Action Jackson) stick painter Action Painting...
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...Good morning to Miss Liana and fellow classmates, my name is Chua Wen Yee and the topic I’m going to talk about today is K-Pop. First of all, I’ll start off with some basic facts. K-Pop is a musical genre originated from South Korea. The pioneer of K-Pop is Seo Taeji and The Boys, which one of the member is the CEO of YG Entertainment, home of Big Bang and 2NE1 now. K-Pop was strongly criticized by a lot of people, including me. However it has been rising day by day and not only conquered the Asia music market but it is also globalized in the sense that there are K-Pop fans all over the world. According to my research, in year 2012, 68 K-Pop groups made their debut compared to 12 in year 2008. From hate to love, from critics to praise, how does this happened? I think everyone of you definitely has a friend who is a hardcore K-Pop fan. Most of you must have suffered a lot because they like to share their K-Pop information and ask you to watch funny videos very much. Thanks to them, you’ll slowly found out that you are starting to love K-Pop and soon you’ll become one of them. Seriously, some of you may wonder why people love K-Pop so much? The reasons are simple. First of all, the songs are really nice. There are three main components in a song, melody, choreography and visual. Catchy and repeated chorus is one of the reasons why K-Pop songs can be viral and popular. For example, “Wow, fantastic baby”, “because I’m shadow, shadow, shadow”, “bwara Mr. simple simple” or “I...
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..."Jack, I’m cold” said Rose. Jack said, “It’s ok Rose just hold on just a bit longer, a boat is bound to come back.” Ok Jack I trust you” said Rose. Just then Jack thought of an idea. He said “Rose, stay here I’ll be right back,” and he started swimming to dead bodies, and every time he got to a dead body he took the life jacket from them. He also took an oar that someone had abandoned. Pretty soon Jack had five life jackets and an oar and he swam back to Rose. He gave Rose the oar and said, “Okay Rose, “I have some life jackets, I’m going to put them under the door so we can both get on but I’m going to need a part of your dress.” Okay, Jack,” said Rose, and she tore off a piece of her dress and gave it to Jack. He took the dress and started to tie the life jackets together. He put them underneath the door and secured them to the handles of the door. He said, “Rose, the door should be stable. I need you to hang on to the door while I get on.” “Okay,” said Rose.” Rose grabbed the handles on both sides of the door and Jack got on. Jack started to push the door with the oar. He saw a dead man and took his life jacket. He put the life jacket on and started to push the door away from the wreckage to try to get to a boat. “Rose,” he exclaimed! “I see two boats; they are coming back!” He started to yell trying to call the boats over. Someone in the boat shouted “Survivors, on that door!” Rose had fainted, so Jack rigorously shook her to try and wake her, but it was no use. He took...
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...K-pop (an abbreviation of Korean pop;[1] Korean: 가요 kayo)[1] is a musical genre originating in South Korea that is characterized by a wide variety of audiovisual elements. Although it comprises all genres of "popular music" within South Korea, the term is more often used in a narrower sense to describe a modern form of South Korean pop music covering mostly dance-pop, pop ballad, electronic, rock, hip-hop, R&B, etc.[2] In 1992, modern K-pop was ushered in with the formation of Seo Taiji & Boys, whose successful experimentation with different music styles had sparked a paradigm shift in the music industry of South Korea.[3] As a result, the integration of foreign musical elements has now become a common practice in the K-pop industry.[4] By tapping into social networking services and the video sharing platform YouTube, the K-pop industry's ability to secure a sizeable overseas audience has facilitated a noticeable rise in the global proliferation of the genre.[5] Since the mid-2000s, the K-pop music market has experienced double digit growth rates. In the first half of 2012, it grossed nearly US$3.4 billion,[6] and was recognized by Time magazine as "South Korea's Greatest Export".[7] First gaining popularity in East Asia back in the late 1990s, K-pop entered the Japanese music market towards the turn of the 21st century. In the late 2000s, it grew from a musical genre into a subculture among teenagers and young adults of East and Southeast Asia.[8] Currently, the spread of...
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...SAVONIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Savonia Business Marketing Plan in Spain of Black Light Discipline Heikki Karvonen Zhao Yunke Gogunskaya Valeriiya Xie Yuanyuan International Business Administration May 2011 CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 5 2 TITLE 6 2.2 Subtitle 6 2.2.1 Subtitle 6 3 DISCUSSION 6 3.2 Subtitle 6 3.2.1 Subtitle 6 4 CONCLUSION 7 4.2 Subtitle 7 4.2.1 Subtitle 7 REFERENCES OR BIBLIOGRAPHY (examples) 8 5 APPENDIX 1 Title of Appendix 1 9 6 APPENDIX 2 Title of Appendix 2 10 INTRODUCTION With the development of globalization, our company decides to expand our target market to Spain. To make sure we have enough background knowledge about Spain, our company has done some marketing research, such as questionnaire, telephone interview and face-to-face interview before we dealing with the detailed marketing plan. In this marketing plan, we will present the result of our marketing research, and the analysis of marketing mix. The SWOT analysis is also an essential part of this plan. The insights of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats offer our company a good foundation before implementing the marketing plan. Below is some background information of Black Light Discipline band: Black Light Discipline is a Finnish band founded in 2005 on the idea to make captivating, synth-based grooves with a mix of metal and electro genres...
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...Abstract This essay employs a visual analysis to compare and contrast Andy Warhol’s ‘Blue Marilyn’ with Roy Lichtenstein’s ‘In the Car’ in association to the postmodernist theme of Consumer Culture and more explicitly, the introduction of Pop Art, born from post-war consumerist societies. The argument refers to eight scholarly research sources, three of which are scholarly journal articles. POSTMODERNITY AND CONSUMERISM: WIT, INVENTION AND THE AFTERMATH OF WAR Research Statement: Using a visual analysis, compare and contrast Andy Warhol’s Blue Marilyn with Roy Lichtenstein’s In the Car in association to the postmodernist theme of Consumer culture and more explicitly the introduction of Pop Art; born through post-war materialisation. The Postmodernist Cannon of the latter twentieth and twenty-first Century Art is a crucial anthology, signifying radical and innovative movements that differentiated from Modernist art practices. It signifies a period of time whereby practitioners sought to contradict the rebellious experimentational aspects of Modernist art through re-visioning and revitalising media to fit the metamorphosing culture. Incorporated within the Cannon were several movements that were heavily influenced by the rise of Consumer cultures, dictated by the post-war explosion of advertisement in the 1950’s, compelling practitioners to manipulate and transform their style in either awe of the perpetually adapting society or in rebellion towards the mass produced...
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...November 30th 2012, 21:08 I remember all the times where you and I would merge into one another. We would move in and out and through so freely and unconditionally. I was you, and you were me. That's what we were, we were eachother, just one power with the ability to control two. You see, that's what you did to me, you controlled me and you still control my thoughts and capture them just like you used to. There is no love lost between you and I, but that's about all that remains. We could have been one, but together we are dead, apart, we are able to fly freely just like we never could when I had you and you had me. I think of all we were and dream of all we could have been. People always say that some things you never get over. All this time, I wondered, how could something be so powerful? So powerful that it is never overcome? But now I know, only now do I know how it feels to be trapped by a power stronger than you could ever be. Addiction happens sooner than you can say it, but it's not just an addiction, it is a never ending desire for fulfilment, a fulfilment that can only be achieved if you take one too many pills, put too much pressure on the blade, an addiction eats away at you. It leaves you with nothing but everything you once had left in tatters beneath you. Maybe I'd never fully understand it, but maybe I didn't want to. My understanding is enough and it will always be enough for me. I don't know why the thought of you being with anyone or even happy...
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