Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

There are 30,000 people in the United States that currently have ALS. That's more than 5,600 people a day. Morrie Schwartz was a college professor who was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrigs Disease). Mitch Albom who was Morrie’s favorite had a special bond with Morrie like no student and professor has had before. Mitch promised Morrie when he graduated he would spend time with Morrie but after he did graduated he didn't see Morrie for sixteen years. The way that Mitch Albom showed love to Morrie…

Mitch Albom has created a heartfelt and moving memoir with Tuesdays with Morrie. The overall feel of the story is captivating. From the very first page, the readers are drawn in and urged by the words to read further and further. Before they know it they have finished reading and have tears streaming down their cheeks. Once the initial tears go away, then sets in the deep personal reflection. Tuesdays with Morrie is more than just a story about a man and his professor, it’s a story about life.…

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is a non-fiction book representing as Mitch Albom and Morrie Schwartz final thesis together as “student and professor”. Their “final thesis’ talks about the different and important aspects in life and advice from the wise, passionate, ALS diagnosed, dying man, Morrie. He talks with Mitch every tuesday about certain topics that are involved in every human beings life. Tuesdays with Morrie illustrates the themes love, friendship/family, and death, through the…

Tuesdays With Morrie is an enticing story about changes of mind. In the novel, a dying, wise man named Morrie Schwartz, takes on the author and central character Mitch, and guides him towards a brighter tomorrow. Mitch Albom, the author of the book, is a somewhat narcissistic man who has to face the impending death of Morrie by ALS, sometimes known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a fatal neurological disease that attacks the nerve cells responsible for controlling muscle actions in the arms and…

In the book Speak and Tuesdays with Morrie the characters both have different background of where they come from and how they were brought up. The characters name in Speak is Melinda Sordino, she is emotional and can only show her feelings with her body language by biting her hands and lips. Which shows why she is emotional and depressed. Morrie Schwartz from Tuesdays with Morrie was a school teacher that developed a terminal disease called ALS at the age of 80. Morrie was a Professor of…

The question is what is Lou Gehrigs Disease? The answer is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as ALS and the most common name Lou Gehrigs disease. ALS was founded in 1869 by a French neurologist Sean Martin Charcot. Amyotrophic means there is no muscle nourishment. Lateral meaning the area in the spinal cord where the nerve cells that instruct and manage are. Sclerosis is a condition in which a tissue has become hard. This is a neurodegenerative disease that is progressive and…

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a disease also known as Gehrig’s Disease, that is a fatal neurological disease that affects the nerve cells rapidly. The nerve cells (neurons) are in charge of controlling voluntary muscles such as arms, legs, and face. This disease links to motor neuron diseases which is based off the death of motor neurons. Motor neurons are nerve cells that are to be located in the brain, brainstem, and spinal cord that are the…

The motor neuron diseases (MNDs) are a group of progressive neurological disorders that destroy motor neurons, the cells that control essential voluntary muscle activity such as speaking, walking, breathing, and swallowing. Normally, messages from nerve cells in the brain (called upper motor neurons) are transmitted to nerve cells in the brain stem and spinal cord (called lower motor neurons) and from them to particular muscles. Upper motor neurons direct the lower motor neurons to produce…

in a house with people who persistently disregarded the rules and my well-being. They turned my simple apartment into a party house for the entire school to destroy against my will. Then in my junior year, I tore my ACL, my medial meniscus and my lateral meniscus, pulling me out…

POP! Your ACL just snaps in half. The pain is unbearable. It feels like your knee is just hanging because nothing is holding the back part of your knee together. You are scared to get the MRI results back because it is a huge setback. “You’ve torn your ACL.” Those are words an athlete never wants to hear. What is Your ACL? You may be wondering what your ACL is and what it does? Your ACL is the Anterior Cruciate Ligament. It is one of the four ligaments that stabilizes your knee so there is no…