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    The most common side effect of colon cancer chemotherapeutic (CPT-11) is patients having severe diarrhea, caused by symbiotic bacterial β-glucuronidases. Which causes the drug to reactivate inside the gut. The enzymes were targeted without destroying bacteria that’s needed for human health. However, the purpose of these inhibitors is a way to prevent damage to mammalian cells that’s present in the intestines. If β-glucuronidase which causes the diarrhea isn’t inhibited the patients will have a…

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    because this assists or inspires the person to keep going. It is like “Kipling and I” has “If-” inside. Throughout this writing we will be looking at: what Jesus Colon is using from the poem “If-” to respond to, how they look similar, and in what way does this improve Colon through tough times. In the memoir “Kipling and I” Jesus Colon responds to what was said in the poem “If-.” The poem “If-” said “Yours is the Earth and everything that’s…

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    Writings” by Jesús Colón was very intriguing. Not only for the interesting stories of his life that he shared with the world, but because of unique writing style. Colón was engaging, open, and created room to raise questions and to think greatly. I personally enjoy this type of writing because it is real and honest. I thoroughly enjoy when the author can make you feel as though you are having a personal conversation with him without any complicated metaphors or even humor. The fact that Colón…

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    important word in “ Little Things are Big” by Jesus Colon because it describes the whole theme of the story.Colon is late at night catching the train and sees a white woman with a big suitcase in one hand and the other she is holding her baby, with two children following behind her. Jesus feels like he needs to help this woman but is hesitant to do so because he’s a different race than her. Jesus in the end doesn’t help the woman and feels guilty. Colon faces this problem where he’s unsure…

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    Not many people know this but in 2015 my dad was diagnosed with colon cancer. It came as a surprise because he has always been a really active, healthy person, but cancer is a disease that doesn’t discriminate. Cancer runs in my family, but cancer survivors does not. This made it difficult for me to have optimism of my dad ever being healthy again. I thought there is no cure, so there is no way to get better. Through the rest of 2015 and the next year, my dad was in and out of the hospital,…

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    Courtesy is the most important word in “Little Things are Big”, by Jesus Colon because it reflects his identity. The story is about a man of color who is on the subway. A caucasian lady walks on the subway with many items with her including kids. The man was trying to decide on whether to help her or not to help her. In the end he just walked past her as if he did not care to help her with everything she had to carry because he felt she would be prejudiced against him. When the colored man did…

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    inside his pockets. His head seemed heavy for him since I watched the difficulty it had to look up at my mother, my sister and I. When his neck finally remains up, the contention pour out of his mouth: “ W-we don't know what happened… We're sorry… its Colon Cancer this time”. The confrontational speech of the doctors discussing my mother's condition, I didn't think about nothing else nevertheless to take care of her. This encountering consumed my sophomore and junior year caring after her.…

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    Week THREE Discussion: The Balance Sheet for the Colon Cancer Alliance The Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) 117 exists to “enhance the relevance, understandability, comparability of financial statements issued by nonprofit organizations”, making nonprofit financial statements as readable and usable for stakeholders as those of for-profit businesses (Financial Accounting Standards Board as cited in McLaughlin, 2009). It also offers a concise presentation of the accounts as…

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    The video, Doing the Right Thing group Bible study by Charles Colson, Brit Hume, reminded me how morally and spiritually bankrupt our society has become. Greed and corruption run rampant among our business, schools, government, homes, and sadly, even our schools. Pride and greed tend to work together in the lives of many people, leading to divorce, neglect, addictions, theft, and many other immoral actions. Chuck Colson gave an excellent explanation of self-righteousness when he stated,…

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    (Cancer.Net, 2014). Colon cancer is a type of Gastrointestinal cancer found in the lower part of the digestive system: large intestine.…

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