Renowned Jamaican scientist Dr. Manley West Dr West was a scientist. He taught pharmaco-logy at the University of the West Indies‚ Mona. Significantly‚ with Dr Albert Lockhart‚ he developed Canasol‚ a drug for the treatment of the eye disease‚ glaucoma‚ from cannabis‚ or ganja. Born in Portland‚ West attended the Titchfield High School. He graduated from the University of London‚ England‚ in 1967 with a Doctor of Philosophy in pharmacology. His career at the UWI began as assistant lecturer
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Our house was directly across the street from the clinic entrance of John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore . We lived downstairs & rented the upstairs rooms to out-patients at the Clinic. One summer evening as I was fixing supper‚ there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful looking man. ’Why‚ he’s hardly taller than my eight-year-old‚’ I thought as I stared at the stooped‚ shriveled body. But the appalling thing was his face‚ lopsided from swelling‚ red & raw. Yet
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“You’ll only find happy endings in books. Some books.” In the novel‚ Burned‚ by Ellen Hopkins portrays a story of a young girl going through a rough life with no way of escaping from her past. Pattyn‚ the protagonist‚ grows up in a busy household with 7 other sisters‚ a mom‚ and an abusive father at the age of 17‚ her household was never quite peaceful due to her father who abuses the mother and herself both verbally and physically‚ till Pattyn finally stand up herself. She dreamed on meeting the
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Gerald Posner’s Killing the Dream begins with a detailed description of Martin Luther King Jr.’s final days and the detailed movements of his killer. The author arranges his book into three pivotal sections: The Assassination‚ The Assassin‚ and the Search for the Truth. He begins the book with a detailed account of the events that caused King to even be in Memphis‚ the chaos surrounding the Memphis Sanitation Strike. The Memphis Sanitation strike began on February 12‚ 1968‚ because of poor treatment
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A couple years ago at my homeschool‚ I once read a book titled Identical that was written by the author‚ Ellen Hopkins. The story involved a girl and her sister in their teen years with names I cannot remember. The girls were twins‚ basically identical‚ but they were very opposite of each other on the inside. The story takes a crazy turn towards the ending when revealing that the girls were in a terrible car accident‚ causing one of them to lose their life‚ and the other one to be hospitalized. After
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Jude Josue 02/06/2013 Professor Dubson English 111 Beauty is something that is universally acknowledged. In most societies around the world‚ beauty is what indicates the level of success and attention that a person could achieve. The latter is the reason that most people would sacrifice many things in a heartbeat in order to become what society believes is beautiful. Beauty‚ like everything‚ is a double-edged sword. It could either help someone live an easier life or it could make one’s life
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Society and Beauty The media constantly bombards society with unrealistic body types encouraging people‚ especially women‚ to try to look like celebrities. Nowadays‚ people tend to spend money to change their image by having plastic surgery‚ taking weight loss pills‚ and doing exercise. Instead of beauty being in the eye of the beholder‚ it is more like beauty is in the eye of society. Of course‚ when viewers look at television‚ the media sets the cameras up so that people can look like they are
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because a good marketing is able to communicate right message of the product to the consumers and give them reasons to purchase it and subsequently generate call-to-action by informing the target market how or where to get the product (Kotler‚ 2003). Beauty Products (Singapore) Ltd has noted that the market size is growing however the sales of skincare brands owned by the company is in reversing way. Based on the case study‚ the products are having issues in terms of segmentation‚ targeting and positioning
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Dear Katie Hopkins‚ On review of your article ‘’I won’t let my children play with friends that I deem beneath them... that’s what caring mothers do’: Apprentice star admits she targets playmates who are a good influence’ I was shocked to see that you judge children! Not only are you judging children who are too young to even acknowledge their actions but you go as far as to even judge them on the names they have. Children are given names by their parents and therefore have no control of it‚ you
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Understanding and appreciating public art is an important aspect of our lives. As I was walking near Crocker Art Museum a piece of art by Gerald Walburg caught my attention. After I took some pictures and conducted a deeper research on the piece and on the author it appealed to me even more. I analysed the piece of art to realize that Sakai sculpture by Gerald Walburg contributes to the public space‚ reveals author’s and people’s values‚ and for this period in time makes the look
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