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Hayao Miyazaki was born on January 5, 1941, in Akebono-Cho in Bunkyo, Tokyo. Miyazaki’s family included his three brothers, his mother, and his father. Miyazaki went to elementary school in Utsunomiya until the third grade. Miyazaki and his family then moved to Suginami-Ku where he completed fourth and fifth grade. Miyazaki went to Omiya Junior High and that’s when he realized that he wanted to become a manga artist. Miyazaki then went on to attend Toyotama High School where his interest in…

are not swallowing, the elongated folds of the mucosa and submucosa work to close the lumen. There are two sphincters located within the esophagus. The sphincters maintain a circular shape, and act as a door shutting channels when appropriate (Circus, 2015). I will be focusing on the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) and its relation to gastroesophageal reflux disorder (GERD). The LES is composed of smooth muscle. The LES functions as a valve, relaxing when we swallow food or drinks so…

Jay Gatsby was its author, the American Francis Scott Fitzgerald, radiant, beautiful and very fragile prince, a Twilight Age of Jazz, announced the collapse because its excess power. Fitzgerald was the chronicler of the 20s, but also their fallen angel, with full awareness of the character who attends his own collapse and you can tell. But first, long before Charles Scribner rejected his first novel, with its working title The romantic egomaniac, he had been the handsome young Lieutenant Jay…

The Chicago Seven 1968 was a year full of violence, the turmoil in Chicago alone divided our country. The Chicago police attacked 6,000 anti war marchers, national leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated, and New York City students had taken over several buildings at Columbia University, by the time of the Democratic National Convention there was a lot of political tension.(“Democratic National Convention….”) The Chicago Seven were the accused leaders of the…

Bodybuilding over the past 150 years has skyrocketed in popularity. It gained most of its crowd in the 1970’s or the “Iron Age”. How did bodybuilding start? How has it evolved over the years? Although bodybuilding is relatively new, weight lifting has been around for thousands of years. In the 6ht century B.C. an Olympic wrestler named Milo built his strength by carrying a calf on his back up a mountain every day until it became a bull. He found out that an important part of building strength is…

ELEMENTS OF HUMOR Humor is easy to recognize but hard to define. Most humor has brutal honesty at its core. Much humor is grounded in a particular context, often defined by a particular culture, though some is ageless and timeless, focusing on general human foibles and frailties. Below are the main elements that make situations and writing humorous. See if you can identify one way Vonnegut uses each technique in Slaughterhouse-Five, as well as how each element works in contemporary TV or…

Life-or-death situations and the decisions that go with them can sometime have worse consequences than the situation itself. Bull riders and people that walk over the grand canyon on a tightrope know that what they are doing is a life threatening decision. The Cost of Survival the author talks about how there is two different groups of people, detached and responsible. People that did not put their life at risk and something bad happened it would be different because they can not help that they…

Movie Review of Panama Invasion The panama invasion has raised controversial debate around the world. However, no matter justified or not, the war has caused thousands of dead, injuries of the innocent and destroy of the city. More sadly, the trauma of the war remains a long time, longer than everyone expected even after the city is rebuilt. There are many oral history recorded through the documentary. And people may have their own bias, due to their personal experiences and identity. Like one…

Long ago there was a kid name Tinkles. Tinkles was a little kid that was seven and he love to scare people and pull pranks. One day he was at home by himself and really bored and wanted to do something when he heard his mom’s car pull up and he thought maybe he could scared his mom so then he hide behind the door. When his mom came in he scream and scared her really bad that she fell on the floor and then he laughed at her and she started laughing with him. When they stop laughing she told him…

However, this all began with the first authors that wrote gothic stories and novels. The novel The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern uses this theme as its main support. The characters in this story have the ability to use magic, however they have the ability to “pass off manipulations as tricks and illusions” (Morgenstern 15). These impossible actions that…