Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg‚ Manitoba‚ but raised in Port Coquitlam‚ British Columbia‚ a community near Vancouver on Canada’s west coast. As an active teenager involved in many sports‚ in 1977 Terry was only 18 years old when he was diagnosed with bone cancer and forced to have his right leg amputated six inches above the knee. <br> <br>The night before his operation‚ Terry read an article about an amputee who had competed in the New York Marathon. Indirectly that story‚ along with Terry’s observations
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Let’s go on a “!” Imagine that you are a video reporter piloting a mini-sub that has been put through a miniaturization process making you and the sub only 8 microns long! (Ever see the movie “Inner Space”?) You have been injected into the femoral vein of a healthy female. The alert just came out that a bacterium is invading the lower lobe of the right lung!! You are to pilot your sub to the site of the “invasion” and do a live report on what you see. Trace your path from the right femoral vein
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Hello everyone and welcome. I am Cassie Campbell; I am a video reporter with voyage health. Today we will go on a delightful journey in my mini sub that has been minimized to eight microns long and we will be traveling through the body of a young and healthy lady named Mary. We are going to start at the femoral vein and end up in her lungs. After we have explored her lungs we will then travel through her body to exit out through her nose. Warning!!! Warning!!! There is something going on and
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The Thought Fox By Ted Hughes Imagine可作两种解释。一，think about something and forms a picture or idea of it. 二，同dream‚ you think you’ve seen‚ heard‚ or experienced that thing‚ although you have not. I imagine this midnight moment’s forest : Something else is alive Besides the clock’s loneliness And this blank page where my fingers move. 本段loneliness重复出现了两次，与第一行的midnight形成呼应。相似的还有no star 与darkness。同时fingers move又与loneliness所表现出的寂静形成对比。虽然深夜静谧，但作者的思绪却正活跃，不然也无法在deep
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Lydia French MO1B-Mr. Avants 10/29/12 Animal Within Fox and the grapes is one of the more well known of the Aesop’s Fables. The story illustrates the common tendency of people to speak unfavorably of thing that they are unable to get for themselves‚ although in reality they may like it. There are a few themes that fall under this fable‚ they might include jealousy‚ perseverance‚ failure‚ or even greed‚ but I believe as a reader the main theme of this fable is deceit. “Again and again
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Fantastic Voyage HS130-39R1AU Unit #4 Assignment Kaplan University February 5th‚ 2014 Fantastic Voyage Good afternoon everyone‚ my name is Ash and I will be reporting to about my journey to check out the bacterium in the lower lobe of the right lung. I will be in my mini submarine Kim08. My assistants are going to shrink me down to a very small size that cannot be seen by the human eye and then inject me into the right femoral vein of Alex a female who is in good health. She seems to be having
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Bigmouth Fox Penguin‚ Reindeer and Fox were great friends. One day‚ Penguin and Reindeer found a load of fruit‚ and decided to keep it a secret. On the way‚ they met Fox‚ who seeing them so happy‚ asked them why. They told him they couldn’t say‚ because it was a secret‚ but Fox asked them to trust him‚ so they told him about the fruit. When they arrived at the village‚ Fox forgot about his promise‚ and told everyone. When Penguin and Reindeer returned to the place where they had found the fruit
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Fox: What do you mean? Starting with an interpretation of “The Burnt Fox‚” and going on to an analysis of the poem‚ aim to figure out what exactly might be the relation of poem to dream‚ dream to poem. Refer closely to both‚ quote‚ and analyze what you have quoted‚ in support of your argument. In the year of 1952‚ Ted Hughes was a second year student at Cambridge University. For the first two years of his schooling he studied English in hopes to become a poet. However during his time there
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Terry Fox is an inspiration to all; he set a phenomenal goal for himself to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. Why did he do this? He was only 18 at the time when he was diagnosed with Metastatistic Osteosarcoma which is a cancer that starts around the knees. At first Terry didn’t think it was anything because he was in a horrible crash with a pick-up truck and hurt his leg before‚ he just thought the pain was coming back. Terry wanted to raise money and awareness because he
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Picture this‚ you as a red fox or any ordinary fox is being chased by the mounted huntsmen or woman accompanied by their hounds in the forest. After an hour or so‚ BAM! You have been snared and you will instantly feel the agonizing pain in your legs. You can still fight the pain and try to escape‚ until the hunters come and shoot you with a shotgun that is. Then you will die. Welcome to the fox hunting world people. Fox hunting is an activity that involves tracking
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