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A prion is shorthand for a proteinaceous infectious particle with the ability to transform its shape and propagate from cell-to-cell [9]. Similar to prions, infectious -synuclein proteins can turn healthy -synuclein proteins (via a toxic template) into misfolded -synuclein…

Pressure on Women in the 1950s Can Lead to Depression In the Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath the nineteen-year-old college student, Esther, wins guest editorship at a fashion magazine called Ladies’ Day. Although she seems to be living her dreams in New York, her plans unexpectedly change. Plath uses the magazine, relationships with men, friends, marriage, and her mother to illustrate that social pressure on women in the 1950s could lead to depression. Plath shows how Esther’s job at Ladies’ Day, the…

With the advent of cell phones and instant messaging, one could have had concerns with how young children and teens began using a lot of shorthand abbreviations and slang in their messages. Parents and educators alike could see that this not only could make children and teens lazy, but could also affect their literacy skills in the future, writing papers and long essays. Not only has this cyber language become a part of social media, but some has even become a part of the English language,…

The ending of World War 1 was supposed to be the beginning of peace. The allied forces proved to be victorious over the Central powers. This brought with it the 1919 Paris peace conference that was held in Versailles, France. This was done after the Armistice of November 11, 1918. The peace conference was mostly influenced by the Big Four. The Big Four consisted of three important leaders that were heavily involved in the war. These leaders were American President, Woodrow Wilson, the British…

Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving Day, traditionally the opening of the Christmas shopping period. Black Friday is an unofficial holiday, but many workers no longer have that day off as part of the Thanksgiving holiday, for the increased number of shoppers seen over the years. Merchants often decorate for the Christmas and holiday season beforehand skipping over Halloween and Thanksgiving. All the stores not just department stores promising great deals, super-fantastic sales, and lower…

not reversible among genders, making it not only offensive but also sexist. It is necessary that society recognizes that diagnosing a woman with “ daddy issues” is necessarily an over simplification. While “ daddy issues” has become common as a shorthand for a set of behaviors exhibited by some women, it is never acknowledged that not all women with this diagnosis exhibits these behaviors. Whether a woman’s daddy issues are the result of her relationship with her father figure or whether she was…

Today’s marketers seem infatuated, perhaps even a little obsessed with, Millennials. And, when you read studies, like the one done by Accenture that reports Millennials spend roughly $600 billion annually, you understand why companies like Coca Cola and Uber make marketing to this demographic their primary focus. However, in their mad dash to woo one demographic, marketers frequently ignore another: Baby boomers. And this is a mistake – a big one. In fact, according to Baby Boomer Magazine,…

The writer shows evidence of both and argument and no favor for either side but, for the things he likes about texting she states, "Teenagers have, for example, created an entirely new language — one that uses abbreviations and symbols instead of words, does not require punctuation, and uses short, incomplete phrases throughout the entire conversation. It’s a way of speaking that is a language in and of itsel." Aslo she says, " They recognize the difference between texting friends and writing…

takers don’t follow it. The one example that shows signs of war is when the Takers are eliminating their competition for the food supply so that they are the only ones that have access to it. This alone shows that the Takers are fighting to solve a shorthand problem for their food supply and that they care not that they’re running their competition into the ground to the brink of extinction. The Takers are more willing to kill off diversity than share a food source with anything…

other words, I learned that the term theory can mean and represent different meanings depending on what field the term theory is being used, for example it can be a scientific field vs a psychological field where psychologists use the term as a shorthand for the set of ideas and beliefs that forms a child’s conceptual framework for explaining phenomena and mechanisms. I also…