Nicole Hart HIST 2300- Christopher Trobridge Writing Assignment One October 16‚ 2010 “In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whale ship Essex” In order to understand the ramifications of an event such as the sinking of the Essex one needs too understand the community that produces the crew. Nantucket was an island community much more than the literal sense of word. The islanders of Nantucket saw themselves differently than the rest of the word. They learned the skills of whaling from
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Heart of Darkness Conrad‚ Joseph Published: 1902 Categorie(s): Fiction‚ Literary Source: University of Virginia 1 About Conrad: Joseph Conrad (born Teodor Józef Konrad Korzeniowski‚ 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-born novelist. Some of his works have been labelled romantic: Conrad’s supposed "romanticism" is heavily imbued with irony and a fine sense of man’s capacity for self-deception. Many critics regard Conrad as an important forerunner of Modernist literature. Conrad’s
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Finding out you or a loved one has a heart murmur can be frightening. Anything that causes heart complications is frightening. A heart murmur is an extra or unusual sound heard during your heartbeat. Although heart murmurs are common and need to be taken seriously‚ they are often quite harmless. Heart murmurs are most common in healthy children who can possibly out grow the symptom. With normal tests‚ doctors can find out the cause of a heart murmer and help with the problem. There are many alternate
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HEART DISEASE NOTES Video was made outside of Boston in Framingham. Studies started in 1948. Heart disease is # 1 killer in U.S. It starts squeezing your heart‚ and you feel a sharp point. 1/2 the people in the U.S. die with it‚ and 80% die from it. More men have it and more women die from it. Every minute heart disease kills someone in the U.S. Half the deaths in the U.S. population die by heart disease. Get tightness in the throat. Cholesterol is most deadly. Smoking hardens the arteries. High
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To:Operations Manager From: Lead Surgeon Date: September 13‚ 2012 Subject: Heart Transplant This evening of September 13‚ 2012 at 0900hrs we received word of an available heart. After further review of each matching candidates‚ we have decided that the 12 year young lady named Lisa will be receiving this heart. If Lisa does not receive this heart she has a high chance of not even making it to her 20s. She has suffered many health issues in her short life due to various viral infections
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1 The heart is a muscular organ found in all animals with a circulatory system. The heart pumps blood throughout the blood vessels by contractions. Cardiac means “related to the heart”‚ and comes from the Greek. The vertebrate heart is made up of cardiac muscle‚ it’s an involuntary striated muscle tissue found only in this organ‚ and connective tissue. The male’s heart weighs 9-11 ounces‚ and the female’s heart weighs about 11-12 ounces. A person’s blood pressure has major effects on their heart;
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SURFACE VIEW OF HEART Position‚ Shape and Size of the Heart: The human heart is located between the lungs in the thoracic cavity (i.e. it is not situated on the left side of the chest). The heart is a hollow‚ fibro-muscular organ and is somewhat conical in shape. It is about the size of one’s fist‚ measures about 12 cm in length and 9 cm in breadth. Its weight is about 300 g in an adult. The heart is enclosed in pericardium (a double- layered membranous sac). It protects the heart from mechanical
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those who commit harmful deeds and expect to feel glory instead of feeling guilty. In other words‚ those people will surely be surprised to find that guilt is following closely behind‚ lurking in the dark shadows of their heart. Edgar Allan Poe’s short story‚ The Tell-Tale Heart‚ presents the reader with a main character much like this. In this story‚ there is a troubled man who has been stereotyped as a crazy person in the past. However‚ he insists that he is not; he is simply advanced in his senses
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Dear Editor‚ Although much of modern day technology is focused on materialistic things rather than the issues‚ such as animal rights‚ which are more important. “A Change of heart About Animals”‚ by Jeremy Rifkin‚ is an article where he argues how animals have feelings and should have their own rights. He describes how animals have the ability to learn. What he doesn’t do is describe animals as a lower class‚ but as “Our fellow creatures” so he states in his article. In Rifkin’s article he uses
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In the Heart of the Sea Jason Barker In the novel “In the heart of the Sea” Nathaniel Philbrick introduces the reader to Nantucket Island located in the east coast. He establishes the importance of the whaling industry in relation to the island. Philbrick does an incredible job of telling the story of 20 regular men doing their jobs whaling. They set sail on a renewed ship called the Essex. The Essex took a beating from a storm before it finally met its match an angered sperm whale. The whale rammed
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