Resistance to Apartheid Essay

What do these have in common? The movements to end these situations were catalyzed by civil disobedience. Historically, peaceful resistance increased awareness, exposed inequality, and challenged the status quo. Whether the ultimate result was holding officials more accountable, upending existing policies, or ensuring civil liberties, the benefits of peaceful resistance undoubtedly outweigh the consequences. According to Adlai Stevenson, an important fighter for progressive…

Murine typhus is a re-emerging rickettsial disease with a wide-prevalence, most typically in temperate to tropical seaboard regions. The disease manifests as a febrile illness with an acute onset and mild to severe morbidity, including severe encephalitis and fatalities. Its classic form is associated with a rat flea and rat cycle, although other ectoparasites and animal species are involved in the circulation of the etiologic agent, Rickettsia typhi. The disease was first described in 1913 in…

TERMINOLOGY CLINICAL CLARIFICATION • Systemic illness due to microbial infection that can lead to acute organ dysfunction or failure and associated with host immune response to infection CLASSIFICATION • There is a disease continuum with increasing severity if not treated or not responsive to treatment o Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) - Documented or suspected infection with systemic manifestations of infection - Clinical response to a nonspecific insult of either infectious or…

Athletes foot or tinea pedis is a fungal infection affecting the skin between the toes ,because of the warm,dark,and moist environment that our toes provide its easy for the fungus to grow and will mostly always be found between the toes. Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Trichophyton rubrum are the two most commonly found fungus’ in athletes foot and they are parasitic meaning they need to feed off another organism to survive,in this case the organism would be the old and dead skin cells the…

I did know that heart valves could get effected however I did not know the full details of the infection. The ability of ordinary bacteria to enter the blood stream and find its way into the heart where it attaches to imperfections in the heart and then begins to multiply. The bacteria can come from something as simple as bacteria in our mouth that is transferred into the blood stream from chewing or flossing. Intravenous drug users can get the disease from injecting bacteria directly into the…

Within this article, the author starts a story about Winston Churchill and his fight against pneumonia. The author talks about the story about penicillin saving the PM’s life, and how the father of penicillin himself, Alexander Fleming, disproved that story. The author then goes on to talk about the predecessor of penicillin: Sulfa(sulfonamide) drugs. The discovery of sulfa drugs led to a huge revolution in America, talking about how sulfa drugs saved so many American soldier and citizen lives…

Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society. According to dictionary.com, nonviolent resistance is the “refusal to obey a law considered unjust” (dictionary.com). Throughout history, this type of resistance has been used in a positive manner to help maintain a free society. Ranging from walking for salt to taking bus seats, these protests resulted in positive changes for the many and proved to those still facing oppression that violence is never the answer. Mohandas Gandhi is…

fluoroquinolones or a combination of cefazolin with tobramycin or gentamycin are 85 used in infection with multiple types of organisms [1]. 4 Due to the side effects of synthetic 86 antimicrobial agents and the emerging increase in 87 bacterial resistance to current antibiotic and other antimicrobial agents, many studies 88 have recently focused on characterization of novel potential antimicrobial…

Sprague Dawley rats (male, 9 weeks, 180-200 g) were obtained from the Vital River Co., Ltd (Beijing, China) and maintained at controlled temperature (22±2°C) and humidity (50±10%) with a 12h light/ dark cycle. All efforts were made to minimize the pain of animals. The experimental protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine (No.: Kj-dw-18-20150821-01). 2.3 Chronic Restraint Stress After seven days of acclimatization, rats were divided into five groups…

Jane should also realize that there are risks when misuse of antibiotics due to allergic reaction, bacteria can become more resistance, secondary infection can occur or kill off the other good bacteria. Antibiotic is ineffective when a person stop taking full course of medication early if a person is feeling better. This can allow a bacterium to become resistant to antibiotics…