Deep vein

straightaways awakened a raging fire deep in the pit of my stomach that would seem only intensify with as I grew older. Every since I was a young boy I was fascinated with motorcycles. I would love to see them as they would pass by mom’s car on the freeway, or whenever we would go to the store in our little black Mazda and I would see a group of motorcycles parked at the front door. The colors, commonly known as candy paint colors glistened in the sunlight their rich and deep shades of ruby…

What is vibrio Vulnificus? Vibrio Vulnificus is a bacterium from the genus Vibrio. Across most countries Vibrio Vulnificus is a rare cause of illness and is not notifiable in Queensland. From hospital data, in the financial year of 2010/2011 there were 16 hospitalisations reported as being associated with Vibrio Vulnificus. It is naturally found in warm (warmer than 180C) sea and estuarine waters throughout the world and is therefore common in many tropical or subtropical regions. Vibrio…

older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.” (Miller 56) It is understood that Mr. Hughes is referring to his ancestors.(Miller 56) He is linking himself to his family through important historical, religious, and cultural sites in the world. The rivers that were stated in the poem are The Nile River, The Mississippi River, and the Euphrates River, which all predates to human beings has made his soul grow “deep like the river.” (Miller 56) He speaks…

people grow, besides if I wait one year I will have the same opportunity, but it will be here instead.” Naya could hardly contain her happiness to hear him say this. She could feel her heart racing in her chest, the blood pulsing fast through her veins. As he took her in his arms tightly she let her lungs fill up with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It felt as though there was never a hole in her chest. As she looked at him she thought only of how she wanted to be with the man behind…

hit my skin, burning with excruciating pain. I pulled my hand out the way, noticing how pale it had become. I could already feel the thirst for blood developing inside, and my heartbeat was all I could focus on. The steady pumping of blood around my veins, so... I sat upright before I could finish the thought. I ran my tongue along the top of my teeth, feeling the new canines already developing. The point pierced my tongue, and a drop of blood dripped out, tasting an unsettling nice. The new…

The Power of Mother Nature According to the experts at the World Health Organization, “Global cancer rates could increase by 50% to 15 million by the year 2020” (para 1). For anyone who is familiar with cancer, it is the uncontrollable mutated cell growth that can either be malignant (bad) or benign (no effect), but also know how hard cancer is to treat. Since cancer rates are predicted to increase dramatically within the next ten years, how on earth are oncologists and scientists going to…

The passage, “A Pair of Tickets” is an excerpt from the book, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan. Tan’s book is a narrative that derives from Tan’s life growing up as a Chinese-American. Jing-Mei “June” Woo is a thirty-six year old woman who has always considered herself to be “American” as she was born and raised in San Francisco, California. June finally travels to her motherland as a result of her recently deceased mother’s desire to reconcile with her long lost daughters. Throughout her journey…

Kalanikūpule. I cleared my throat, took a deep breath in, and told Kalanikūpule this; “Today your fate lays in my hands. For the Gods have sent me here to kill you and unite all the Hawaiian Islands. You have dishonored are family name, you are a disgrace to our culture and therefor; I am no longer going to spare the lives of your family and your people. I am going to make sure everyone on this island that has the same blood as you running through their veins…

(Boezaart et al., 2010). By far the most common neurovascular structure affected by TOS is the brachial plexus, with 95-98% cases caused by its compression (Boezaart et al., 2010). Other structures affected include the subclavian artery and the subclavian vein (Boezaart et al., 2010). Compression of any of these structures many occur at three separate points in the thoracic outlet: the interscalene…

Personal Affects As readers, we often step into the shoes of characters or see through the eyes of the author, but then there are compositions where the author engages the reader emotionally with a realistic scene that allows the reader to identify within themselves. The poems, Stop All the Clocks by W.H. Auden and Death of a Young Son by Drowning by Margaret Atwood, share the same realistic theme of losing someone in death. Auden and Atwood have different styles of descriptive writing, but…