Grey matter

a very embarrassing story, and embarrassing stories always make the best ones after they are all said and done. It all started the day after my birthday with my brother Quentin, my mother, and my grandmother. I was rocking my brand new orange and grey Nike Shox that I was gifted for my birthday and nothing was going to bring me down. The plan for my birthday celebration was for a family trip to the Saint Louis Zoo, and I was as excited as any late night talk show host when they found out Donald…

even say that as long as it is beneficial to oneself that it is a good deed. This idea is obviously not true because of the concept of morality but to survive at the beginning of humanity this was what people had to think. In The Picture of Dorian Grey the main character Dorian, for example, was born with the ability to commit evil, but because of his circumstances, the crimes he commits are untethered by the sense that most people have that that he is doing is wrong and should be avoided.…

(West Virginia Medical Student, Vol 1, 1875) This more virulent form of the disease is, in part, distinguished by the black membrane form across the throat as opposed to the 'normal' grey one. Usually infecting children, this black type had a higher mortality rate than the grey type. Often it was tainted milk from an infected cow that was the culprit. The Parry Sound North Star (Feb 2, 1893) reprinted an extract from Scientific American gives a remedy: At first indication of diphtheria…

Environmental quality is necessary for quality of human life. Humans dramatically rebuild their environments; still, their lives, filled with artifacts, are lived in a natural ecology where resources—soil, air, water, photosynthesis, climate—are matters of life and death. Culture and nature have entwined destinies, similar to (and related to) the way minds are inseparable from bodies. So ethics needs to be applied to the environment (Rolston…

Being a single mom has had its challenges, but it also reaps great rewards. Some of my happiest and scariest moments in my life involved my children. I’m not sure which one of my children have given me most grey hairs, but they keep giving them to me daily. In the following story, I know I received a few more. One Saturday morning my two boys asked if we could go fishing. Usually are fishing trips are at the beach, but my oldest asked, “Can we just go to the little pond?” Of course we had…

Although plates 1.3.20 and 1.3.22 by Paul Cézanne have the same subject matter, the composition of the paintings has turned out completely different. One similarity is the way they are painted. Cézanne was described as the “founding father of modern art” (Jones, 2014) and these plates are clear examples of this. In 1.3.20 he used short brushstrokes to build up the scene. It has been described as a “rich mosaic of coloured strands” (Keller, 1980, p246). This compares to the cool toned…

are able to form crystalline structures, typically hexagonal in shape. In Rydberg matter, as these planar structures are called, the electrons with a high principal quantum number become delocalized and form an electron medium, grey in the image above, around the core ions of the Rydberg atoms. Rydberg matter can last from a few seconds to the age of the universe. As the principal quantum number increases, the matter gets more stable. If the electrons that make up the medium have a principal…

which results in impulsiveness and not exactly concerned with the consequences of their actions. Two MRI's also revealed decreased gray matter volume in the OFC. (Raine and Yang, 2006). Raine, a British psychologist, decided to take a volumetric MRI of the higher scoring group on the PCL-R. He had an issue trying to find the difference between what was the grey matter and what was the prefrontal cortex (Blair,…

Alcohol in our society is a very common drug. Some consume it socially and in moderation, and others misuse this drug. Consuming it in moderation can be beneficial while misusing it can be harmful. Studies show that 10% of men and 3-5% of female suffer from alcoholism and 5-10% percent of people suffer from drinking problems that are diagnosed. Studies have also shown, females and young adults have increased there consumption of alcohol. Being helpless by alcohol weakening the memory,…

Thomas Jefferson transcribed in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal”, that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevant - for every man is endowed with the same certain unalienable rights. This phrase independently formed the premise for modern society, its significance remaining highly present in a contemporary environment. Kate Grenville’s The Secret River adopts this foundation of society as a foregrounded theme, addressing the synchronous concern of social…