Pertussis is a highly contagious bacterial disease that causes uncontrollable‚ violent coughing. The coughing can make it hard to breathe. A deep "whooping" sound is often heard when the patient tries to take a breath Cause. Pertussis‚ or whooping cough‚ is an upper respiratory infection caused by the Bordetella pertussis or Bordetella parapertussis bacteria. It is a serious disease that can cause permanent disability in infants‚ and even death. When an infected person sneezes or coughs‚ tiny
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The history of American Literature starts well before this land was even called America. It has been a great evolution to come from tribal symbols and drawings to today’s Stephen King and Danielle Steele. Literature has gone through many phases and was impacted by great events and ideas in American history. The earliest form of literature in what would one day be known as America were far from what modern day people would consider "Literature". The Natives who inhabited this land first had unwritten
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2009. Wrotham‚ Jenna. “Turn Off the Phone (and the Tension).” New York Times August 25‚ 2012. “Social Networking.” The new Book of Knowledge. Grolier Online‚ 2012. Web. 10 Dec. 2012. Tebbel‚ John. “United States of America: Media.” Encyclopedia Americana. Grolier Online 2012. Web. 10 Dec. 2012.
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Outsourced – movie analysis‚ 3C Focus: Oral exam / taxonomy training 1) Give a short summary of the movie (what is going on?) Give facts 2) Analyze central aspects of the movie (for example you can include characters‚ setting‚ use of metaphors / symbols‚ use of contrast for example the difference between US and Indian culture. Analyze facts – ask “why” questions and include examples / quotes which can support your findings 3) Relate to issues we have worked on in class (this is where you take your
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Washington D.C. is a city with a rich and intricate history‚ but not every aspect of that history is given the attention it needs‚ such as the D.C. music scene. D.C. has a strangely diverse field of music scenes such as folk‚ gogo‚ hardcore and house‚ each with a rich backstory about how they came to influence the D.C. area‚ and even the United States as a whole. One of the best examples of this is the story of Woody Guthrie and Alan Lomax. In the early 40s‚ Alan Lomax went to see Woody Guthrie
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East Germany in Wolfgang Becker film «Goodbye Lenin!»: Does the movie paint a positive or negative picture of life in communist East Germany? East Germany‚ its demise relayed through the mass media of recent history‚ has in popular consciousness been posited as negative‚ a corrupt bulwark of the last dying days of Communism in Eastern Europe‚ barren and silent. The other Germany to its West‚ it’s citizens free‚ was striding confidently ahead into the millennium. Recent cinema has sought to examine
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Gupta India Epidemic Diseases… I. Introduction: Over the year’s scientist have found ways to get rid of Epidemic Disease. Epidemic Disease is disease that wiped out a lot of people at one time. Some examples of Epidemic Disease are Small Pox‚ Influenza‚ and Black Death. Han China and Gupta India are one of the many places that were infected with these Epidemic Diseases. II. Similarities: They are many similarities between Han China and Gupta India. For one both the Han China and
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However‚ Europeans also taught Natives how to ride horses along with using weapons (guns) for hunting. But‚ along with these good impacts is also a negative impact. The negative impact is the spread of diseases Europeans brought to the Natives (small pox). Lastly is the fighting over lands. Europeans always wanted more land than the Natives because they thought they had more rights and money. “What impact did Native Americans have on Europeans?” One of the main impact Natives Americans have on European
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Christopher Columbus’ Letter of Discovery rose‚ very quickly‚ to the top of European publishing in 1493. His letter spread the news of his voyage‚ in which Columbus claims to have discovered and captured multiple islands in the Indian Ocean in Asia. Obviously‚ Columbus was way off in his topography and actually landed in what we know now as Haiti/the Dominican Republic and Cuba. While exaggerating size and wealth‚ he also claimed‚ wrongly‚ that China was nearby. In the letter‚ Columbus is essentially
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to him‚ non- consensual interventions can be important for the purpose of infectious disease control. For example‚ non-consensual vaccinations will immune every person from diseases and stop the spread of the fatal disease such as polio or chicken pox. He offers a very convincing argument of promoting herd immunity. He then also goes on to talk about the non –consensual interventions for the purpose of criminal rehabilitation. Even though his arguments were very strong‚ I disagree with the argument
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