Blue Rubber Syndrome is a rare condition initially discovered by Gascoyen in 1860. In 1985 William Bennett Bean made the disease more popular for which the disease was termed Bean Syndrome. Later referenced Blue Rubber Bleb Nevus Syndrome‚ this disease causes patients blood vessels to develop improperly in an area of the skin or visceral organs‚ particularly the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The malformed blood vessels form blood clots and appear on the skin as deep blue‚ soft‚ and rubbery blebs
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October Sky and the High Five Principles The movie October Sky takes place in Coalwood West Virginia. It is about a teenage boy named Homer Hickam who doesn’t want to become a miner like his father. Homer wants to get out of the town but the only way is by scholarship. Homer is too tiny for a football scholarship and therefore in this movie is trying to attain his goal of winning the national science fair which comes with many scholarship opportunities. October Sky is a prime example
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making of the blues tradition also had sexual connotations‚ however not as male-dominated. The blues emerged from a black culture and demonstrates the sexualisation and sexuality of this culture. Hamilton (2000‚ 132) opens the article with lyrics to Bessie Smith’s song ‘Empty Bed Blues’‚ a song about sex and the absence of her lover. Towards the end of the 1920s‚ Smith’s song ‘Empty Bed Blues’ was full of sexual innuendos and set the scene for the 1920s and 1930s that released many blues songs with
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In my short analysis of “Cindarella”‚ understanding the basic concepts of the story was not as easy as I had once predicted. The author Elisabeth Panttaja explains in her essay different views and ideas in the sense that Cinderella is successful because of the magical powers created by her dead mother. The author tells that “It is not suprising . . . that modern criticism of (Cinderella) . . . has been so strangely indifferent to the roles that Cinderella’s mother plays in the story.” This to my
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“Sonny’s Blues” “For‚ while the tale of how we suffer‚ and how we are delighted‚ and how we may triumph is never new‚ it always must be heard. There isn’t any other tale to tell‚ it’s the only light we’ve got in all this darkness” (Baldwin 99). Suffering is part of the human condition that James Baldwin points out in “Sonny’s Blues” when two brothers are confronted with the darkness of Harlem life. Sonny uses heroin to get away from his pain but has found a hope of the light through blues music and
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writes about two African-American brothers growing up in Harlem‚ a black ghetto in New York‚ during the 1950’s. During this time black people were forced to live in a world of discrimination‚ poverty and suppression. After reading Baldwin’s Sonny’s Blues‚ I couldn’t stop thinking about how it had affected me even though I had not gone through a similar experience myself. I just kept wondering what Baldwin had meant his story to be about. I would dare say that his main interest laid in showing the complecity
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smoke. Ok‚ now that I’ve got your attention I would like to explain a bit about Tibetan Sky Burials. There are many burial ceremonies around the world but‚ the Tibetan Sky Burial in particular‚ proves to be the most interesting and ultimately the most gruesome of all. The origin of this fascinating burial remains vastly hidden in Tibetan mystery. Since the introduction of Buddhism to the region in the 800s‚ sky burials have become the most common way to dispose of the dead. They’re also among the
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meaning behind it. Romeo Blue is about a 12 year-old girl who moved to America to be safe from the war in Europe. The twist is that Felicity’s parents are spies‚ and they have to go back to Europe and leave her in America. She soon discovers that the man she has been calling Uncle Gideon‚ is not actually her uncle‚ he is her father. She grows to love him and after a full year of not getting anything from her parents‚ Gideon decides to go over seas and find them. Romeo Blue got its title for many reasons
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In chapters 6-9 of Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell‚ we learn how Karana’s younger brother gets them stranded on their island and how were brother dies. All of the villagers get on a boat ship to leave the island for good. As all of the villagers get on the ship‚ Karana worries that her brother Ramo is not of the ship. The captain of the ship is certain that Ramo is on the ship‚ but Karana sees him at the top of the cliff. Since they can not turn the ship around‚ Karana must jump off
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Kai Lin ARTD 250 Extra credit My Blue Lake When looking at Kiki Smith’s My Blue Lake‚ it maybe difficult‚ at first to understand what you are looking at. In fact‚ it might even be difficult to tell what the piece of art is. The picture has the detail and smoothness of a photograph‚ but the abstractness and lack of defining boundaries characteristic of a landscape painting. There appears to be features of a person as well as features of a room‚ but the person has no body and the room seems to narrow
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