THE HUMAN HEART The human heart is by far one of the most vital organs of the body. It has a mass that ranges from 250 grams to 350 grams. Its contraction and expansion results in 2000 gallons of blood being pumped through the body’s blood vessels per day. It’s located in the middle of the chest protected by the ribcage. Its building blocks are a unique type of muscle known as the myocardium‚ and it’s enclosed by a double-walled membranous sac known as the pericardium. The double-walled membrane
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Contents Aim: 2 Hypothesis: 2 Risk assessment: 2 Variables: 2 Method: 3 Results Table 4 Analysis 4 Graph 5 Evaluation 6 Improvements 6 The effect of exercise on the heart rate and breathing rate Introduction Aim: Finding out how exercise affects the heart rate and breathing rate. Hypothesis: Exercise exists in different forms and has many benefits; it improves the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood‚ development of bones‚ strengthens muscles and the lungs capacity plus
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20 The Heart PowerPoint® Lecture Presentations prepared by Jason LaPres Lone Star College—North Harris © 2012 Pearson Education‚ Inc. An Introduction to the Cardiovascular System • Learning Outcomes • 20-1 Describe the anatomy of the heart‚ including vascular supply and pericardium structure‚ and trace the flow of blood through the heart‚ identifying the major blood vessels‚ chambers‚ and heart valves. • 20-2 Explain the events of an action potential in cardiac muscle‚ indicate the
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THEMES IN HEART OF DARKNESS 1. GOOD VS EVIL Much of Heart of Darkness is concerned with Marlow’s struggle to maintain his sense of morality as power conspiracies rage all around him and the mysterious figure of Kurtz piques his curiosity. Marlow’s desire to do good grows increasingly futile as he is plunged into a world where no absolute goodness exists and the best he can do is choose between a selection of nightmares. Eventually‚ we see that the characters become unable to distinguish between
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The Visions of Light Vs Darkness When Joseph Conrad composed Heart of Darkness he created a literary masterpiece which embodied the essence of light contrasting with darkness. Throughout the novel Conrad constantly utilizes the images of light and dark and uses them to mold a vision‚ which the reader is then able to use to decipher the literal and metaphorical meanings of the novel. As Conrad said‚ " my task which I am trying to achieve is‚ by the power of the written word to make you hear‚ to
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Heart of Darkness is a novel of indescribable horrors and actions that lie outside the human mind. It describes a mans (Marlow) voyage on a west African river to find an a man named Kurtz. The actual journey truly is towards the "heart of darkness"‚ where it takes Marlow by evidence of European indignity towards the natives. He wants to see this land for himself‚ he does not quite believe in himself of what is really there. This story hints at horrors that Marlow is incapable of describing‚ which
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AJMR Asian Journal of Multi di mensional Research Vol.1 Issue 5‚ October 2012‚ ISSN 2278-4853 HEART OF DARKNESS: JOSEPH CONRAD’S ANTI-IMPERIALISTIC PERSPECTIVE THROUGH RACISM‚ PESSIMISM AND IMPRESSIONISM LAKMINIRADEESHANIKABASNAYAKE* *Lecturer in English‚ Department of English Language Teaching‚ Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka‚ Belihuloya‚ Sri Lanka. ABSTRACT Imperialism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is one of the chief focal aspects of critical controversy and debate in the fields of literary
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The Real Heart Of Darkness Heart of Darkness is not only the title of Joseph Conrad’s novella‚ it is also a main theme. This is portrayed through different images of darkness‚ black and evil throughout his story. The setting is often used with images of darkness; even as Marlow tells his tale‚ it is night. This darkness’ is inside many concepts of the novella such as Africa‚ women‚ black people‚ maps‚ the ivory trade corporation and Kurtz. Through these images on his journey‚ Marlow has a realization
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Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness projects the image of Africa as "the other world‚" the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization‚ a place where man ’s vaunted intelligence and refinement are finally mocked by triumphant beastiality. --Chinua Achebe In this quote Chinua Achebe is making his case against Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. He is saying that the novel shows Africa and its people as animals and the complete opposite of the white man in Europe. However this is truly not
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