Poliovirus is from the subgroup enterovirus and the family Picornaviradae. It is a virus that causes poliomyelitis‚ which is better known as polio. Poliovirus is usually contracted by the fecal-oral route‚ but sometimes infects by the oral-oral route. Once ingested‚ it is thought that poliovirus first infects the epithelial cells in the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract and then spreads to the submucosal lymphoid tissue. This is when the first mild symptoms of poliomyelitis occur. These symptoms
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Rinku Patel Essay# 3‚ Final Draft English 93-25 March 14th‚ 2013 My American Story America is the full of immigrants’ people. When they are come here they bring their food‚ culture‚ clothing styles‚ and so on. When they are in their countries they all have different views of how America look like‚ how is the people over there. Also‚ they are come here with lots of acceptation from this country. On my first day in America when I got out from the airport people were speaking English and I didn’t
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In American Indian Stories‚ University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London edition‚ the author‚ Zitkala-Sa‚ tries to tell stories that depicted life growing up on a reservation. Her stories showed how Native Americans reacted to the white man’s ways of running the land and changing the life of Indians. "Zitkala-Sa was one of the early Indian writers to record tribal legends and tales from oral tradition" (back cover) is a great way to show that the author’s stories were based upon actual events
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Polio is known as the “crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease. It is caused by the poliovirus. The virus spreads from person to person and can invade an infected person’s brain and spinal cord‚ causing paralysis (can’t move parts of the body)”as said by the CDC. Jonas Salk encountered polio in everyday life and he started to create the vaccine. Now in the 21st century Polio is very rare and there is zero known cases in the US. Jonas Salk explored the many strings of the virus and used
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The book Jonas Salk : Conquering Polio tells about Jonas Salk’s life‚ childhood‚ education‚ and the time he spent working on a vaccine for Polio. I chose this book because I did not know much about this subject and I am also interested in history. From a very young age Jonas Salk was pushed by his parents to do the very best that he can do in school. Jonas listened to his parents and pushed him self hard in school. His hard work combined with his intelligence allowed Jonas Salk to skip multiple
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Dr. Jonas Salk Polio Vaccine Dr. Jonas Salk Polio Vaccine Polio in the 1950’s has American parents in fear and anxiety due to thousands of children were become infected with a crippling disease Poliomyelitis (polio). Polio is a disease caused by infections of the poliovirus‚ which can affect nerves and can leads to a partial or full paralysis. It is an inflammation of the spinal cord’s gray matter and can sometimes extend into the brainstem. Now thanks to Dr. Salk most children in the U.S
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Roosevelt’s Struggle with Polio Many people believe that all who get polio become paralyzed‚ but only about twenty-five percent of people diagnosed with polio become paralyzed. Polio affects motor nerves‚ making muscles weak‚ and sometimes causing paralysis (UXL). Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of the people that become paralyzed (Bardhan-Quallen 33). There are many different symptoms of polio; these symptoms can range from mild to very serious. Only about one percent of polio patients experience
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Story telling was the heart of Native American culture. The way natives executed everyday tasks and their way of thinking came from what they heard as children from stories that were passed through multiple generations. When White Settlers started tearing tribe by tribe apart and claiming Native American land as their own‚ a dwindling effect on the rich Native’s culture became noticeable. The sense of unity they once knew so well was becoming an unknown aspect which ultimately left each individual
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The Power of the Native American Story Norah AlJunaidi Stephanie Fegan AP Lang and Composition 20 December 2013 The Power of the Native American Story The story is the most powerful tool in Native American culture passed down through generations. Stories connect them to the past‚ the present and their surroundings. However the world is always changing‚ and because of this‚ some Native Americans have lost their connection to their culture. In Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
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Rise of an American short story 1819 is the probationary date of an American novel birth. That was a day when Washington Irving published his outstanding series of novels and essays under the title ‘The book of sketches’. This collection was of great significance for American culture. Its publication meant not only the appearance of new genre‚ but also a worldwide recognition of American literature as independent and original phenomenon. The feeling of astonishment dominated within the emotional
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