Arnold-Chiari malformation is a constellation of congenital anomalies related to the hindbrain and base of the brain. It consists of cerebellar tonsils herniation through the foramen magnum into the cervical spinal canal. Chiari malformation is a rare entity and its etiology is not clearly known but said to be genetic. We report a case of Arnold Chiari Malformation type 1 with holocord syrinx. Chiari malformation is a rare disease with prevalence rates of 0.1-0.5% with a female predominance.[1]
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Arnold Spirit “Junior” is the protagonist of our story. Funny‚ smart‚ emotional‚ poor‚ brave‚ persevering‚ all of these are traits that describe Junior. Born at the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit‚ Washington‚ Junior was expected to die during the surgery‚ but miraculously lived. However his brain suffered major brain damage during the surgery‚ which gave him 10 more teeth than usual‚ and seizures. His head was much larger than the usual‚ and his feet were that of a clown; and as you may
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What does the language and structure of the opening sequence of ‘On Chesil Beach’‚ reveal about the two protagonists characters. The initial information that we learn from Ian McEwan in the opening paragraph‚ about the two protagonist characters in ‘On Chesil beach’ is that they are newlyweds on their wedding night‚ and that they are extremely inexperienced of anything remotely sexual and are both fairly ignorant of the subject. The phrase‚ ‘They lived in a time when a conversation about sexual
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Arnold Schoenberg was born September 13‚1874 in Vienna. He used the spelling Schonberg until he moved to the United States in 1934. He began violin lessons when he was eight and almost immediately started composing. He had no formal training until he was in his late teens‚ when Zemlinsky became his teacher and friend. Arnold later befriended and married Zemlinsky’s sister in 1910. This Austrian and later American composer fell into the expressionist movement in German poetry and art. He was known
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in the ocean or beach. Specifically‚ terrigenous sediments which "originate on the contientes or islands from erosion‚ or volcanic eruptions‚ and blown dust." (Oceanography pg.143) pertain to be "the most abundant"(Oceanography pg.134) in the beach where the sand is all the way the shelf.
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My claim asserts that Arnold has experienced overwhelming positive changes. Junior’s journey had lots of ups and downs that made him realize a lot of things about life because of the conflicts he faced. Junior has become more mature throughout the story. At first‚ Junior feared white people and disliked them because of the way they treat the Indians differently. For an example‚ on page 2 says “ I had to have all ten extra teeth pulled out in one day..our white dentist think that Indians only felt
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What is a Metaphor ? A Metaphor is an “expression of an understanding of one concept in terms of another concept‚ where there is some similarity or correlation between the two” according to the LinguaLinks Library. Metaphors are used by anyone trying to convey an idea in an indirect manner. We use them daily without realizing it. Metaphors put a twist in daily language in that they are a unique way of describing a concept. There are common metaphors that we use everyday and
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Literature Review on Metaphors From the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics The definition of metaphor Traditionally‚ metaphor is a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another by saying that one is the other‚ as in “He is a tiger”. It is a property of words‚ and is used for some artistic and rhetorical purpose. However‚ this view has been challenged recently by cognitive linguists (Liu & Wen‚ 2012: 249). Cognitive linguists and philosophers have shown that metaphors are not just a
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parents. Interview them‚ using the questions and elements you have chosen. For your writing‚ you will need a metaphor. The metaphor in our book was the loom- the author used it to weave together all the elements of her mother’s life into a single fabric. You could use a car‚ a cake‚ a computer- anything which has components. The components come together to create one thing. Choose a metaphor which has meaning to you- your writing will be much more powerful this way. Finally‚ put your chosen cultural
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1253–1269 Metaphor and translation: some implications of a cognitive approach ¨ Christina Schaffner* School of Languages and European Studies‚ Aston University‚ Aston Triangle‚ Birmingham B4 7ET‚ UK Received 5 June 2003; received in revised form 12 September 2003; accepted 8 October 2003 Abstract Metaphor has been widely discussed within the discipline of Translation Studies‚ predominantly with respect to translatability and transfer methods. It has been argued that metaphors can become a
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