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Dreams and Deception When I was around 7 years old, I had a nightmare I will remember for the rest of my life. It was a dark, stormy night, and it was quiet. I remember laying in my bed unable to go to sleep because I was so scared. I was scared something bad was about to happen. When I was finally able to go to sleep, my nightmare began. I found myself outside running from my house, drenched from the rain, not knowing what I was running from. A second later though, I did because I…

The poor animals are mistreated, by being forced to test products against their will. “Rabbits being incapacitated in stocks with their eyelids held open by clips, sometimes for multiple days, so they cannot blink away the products being tested,” they do not want to be forced to have their eyelids held open and shampoo in their eyes (Do Cosmetic Companies Still Test on Live Animals?). Animals can not talk, so “Discriminating against animals because they do not have…

Raniel Gernale BIOL-130-02 Prof. Pericone Rigor Mortis Rigor mortis is a condition causing the body to stiffen several hours after death (Zhou, 2015). This occurs when both breathing and the heartbeat ceases to continue. Cells of the body will no longer receive their oxygen which in turn stops aerobic respiration. In the muscle, actin and myosin filaments cause the contractions until ATP binds to myosin and detaches the actin and myosin from each other. Aerobic respiration is necessary to…

The cri du chat syndrome is a rare hereditary disease that is characterized by the fact that the affected child, baby, have a cry similar to a cat's meow (cry of a cat = cri du chat). According to the ¨Cri-Du-Chat Syndrome: Clinical Profile and Chromosomal Microarray Analysis¨ article journal by Espirito Santo and partners, the cri du chat syndrome is caused by a specific alteration of genetic material: the loss of a part of the filiform structures in the nucleus of the cell that carry the…

* Warning: May be to grim for some readers. Saturday Deaf The dandelion rays blasted through the window panes, which woke twelve years old Sarah up, in warm delight on a Saturday morning. As her eyelids parted, the glare of rays reflecting from her eyes showed her determination to finally get off her bed, yet her body thought otherwise. She rose, sluggish, as though she was a hunched old man, and walked to the window to embrace nature. Although she still wore her morning face, she was not…

Being able to understand how people feel and seeing their facial expression is an important skill advantageous at certain professions or wanting to help an individual. Unmasking the Face demonstrates how to read emotions based on facial marks made by movement of the face. Dr. Ekman answers common confusions about certain emotions such as the difference between surprise and fear. His two focuses of the book are: describing the experience of the emotion and the basis of the emotion to understand…

breast milk into the inflamed eye to sooth it. Pink eye may be caused by a viral or bacterial invader, but may also surface as a result of irritation triggered by allergies, chemicals, or foreign objects in the eye. The outer membrane and inner eyelids become red and irritated. It is characterized by the uncomfortable swelling, itching, and redness of the eyes, as well as the production…

a) Causes Conjunctivitis is the inflammation of the conjunctiva, which is the outermost layer of the white part of the eye and the inner eyelid (Stevens, 2008). Conjunctivitis can be caused from many sources. These include bacteria, viruses and irritations. Irritations can be caused from allergic reactions to various things such as pollen and grass, irritation can also be caused from foreign objects in your eye such as chemicals (Durning, 2013). Unlike irritation, bacterial and viral…

My eyelids peeled open ever so slightly and never in my life had the view been so profound. Lying in bed, reality looked like a Hollywood movie and everything around me was clear and in sight. Without getting up, my neck snapped to the right. Outside in the distance, I could hear a young boy walking the sidewalks, rock music blasting in his ears, waking me from my slumber. Yet, it was only 4 am and I was fully awake. I go to throw the blanket off my unnaturally warm body and find myself…

skeletal muscle weakness. The muscular weakness may exacerbate during periods of activity while improving after periods of rest, occurring with various severities. Muscles that control the eyes, eyelids, facial expression, swallowing, and talking can also be affected. Symptoms are presented as drooping of the eyelids, called ptosis, blurred or double vision, called diplopia, impaired speech, called dysarthria, shortness of breath, difficulty swallowing, waddling gait, and fatigued arms and legs.…