Eyelid

placing it on my tongue, then taking a sip of the water and swallowing it. I continued to take a singular pill every minute before I finally started to feel drowsy. Looking at my reflection for the last time, I sat down on the bathroom floor. My eyelids were getting heavier by the second and I could see lights in the corner of my eyes. "This is it." I said to myself. I blinked once more, before closing my eyes, and never opening them…

occurrence when she became stressed, she observed. Along with the insufferable racket of her mother, the colorful city lights, and the blaring of car horns and alarms, Emi became more and more fatigued. More than she already was, in fact, causing her eyelids to begin to give in to gravity. “So, girls, did you enjoy it at all?” her mother, Gwin, asked, without sounding as if it mattered if they had liked it in the slightest. The traffic had become much lighter: a sure sign that home was…

Introduction Myasthenia gravis is a neuromuscular autoimmune disorder that affects the skeletal muscles in the body. This disorder is mainly characterized by periods of weakness in the body. The Latin meaning for myasthenia gravis is grave muscle weakness (Lewis 2007). In the United States the prevalence rate is 14 per 100,000 (Lewis 2007) myasthenia gravis can affect any age, but normally it affects people over the age of 50 (Lewis 2007) The mortality rate from myasthenia gravis…

Jean-Dominique Bauby, who was the author and wrote his own biography of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly on March 6, 1997, was full of life and worked as the editor for the French Elle Magazine had a Massive Stroke in his early forties while enjoying life with his two beautiful children. Jean Massive stroke took over his brainstem and he was in a coma for 20 days. Jean was a person who was very outgoing and active, sadly, his massive stroke turned into a locked-in syndrome and was paralyzed…

Physically attractive individuals are often viewed more favourably than unattractive people on dimensions that are weakly related or unrelated to physical looks, glamorized such as intelligence, sociability, and morality (Smith, McIntosh and Bazzini, 1999). The fact that Hollywood culture is predominantly white, Caucasian and that it has such power over people, shows how it is considered to be the mainstream standard of beauty. Celebrities like Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Ritchie, both nothing…

My Cultural Background : South Korea Hello! Annyeonghaseo! My name’s ChanHee Jeong. I was born in Seoul South Korea on August 5th, 2000. If I was more descriptive, I was born in a humongous city called Gangnam. Yeah like the song Gangnam Style. On my dad’s side, my great grandmother found Christianity. Almost every family member in my dad’s side are Christians. And on my mom’s side, Christianity has been in the family for awhile. In Korea, people speak Hanguel, which is the Korean language.…

The pregnancy is dated from the first day of a mothers last period. So in the first few weeks of the pregnancy, the mothers body will prepare for ovulation as it normally would. Meaning the mother isn 't actually pregnant in these first few weeks. After roughly two weeks after the start of the mothers last period, she will ovulate. Three weeks from the last period the fertilised egg will move through the fallopian tube and towards the womb. The egg, which to begin with is a singular cell, will…

Since humans and certain animals share a large portion of similar DNA, scientists do experiments on animals to see how it will affect the animals to relate the possible side effects on humans. One of the best known tests done on animals is for cosmetic purposes. There is a process to complete the testing on animals, there are matters of personal opinion, and there are reasons for why storytelling is important to the testing on animals. According to a website that lists both the pros and cons of…

cosmetics like moisturizers are tested, the animals don’t just get their skin rubbed with moisturizer. Let’s talk about the eye irritation test. This test is usually done on rabbits. They can’t move because their heads are locked in tiny cages. Their eyelids are slightly cut to prevent them from blinking, and then chemicals keep pouring into their eyes. These rabbits suffer through this test for one week. It is for one week. Can you believe it? They bleed, and their eyes are damaged. They…

Lizards belong in a large class of animals called Reptilia, which contains over 8225 species. Reptiles are animals that are ectothermic (cold-blooded) vertebrates that breathe air. Most reptiles are oviparous (egg-laying) animals with the exception of some ovoviviparous (live-bearing) constrictor snakes and vipers, as well as a few lizard species. They are also theropods, vertebrate animals that have four limbs or are descended from animals with four limbs. Deciphering the lizard classification…