Islamic Society of North America

This study compared the changes in gene expression within wing tissue of Little Brown Myostis infected with White Nose Syndrome to bats without White Nose Syndrome. As expected, Pseudogymnoascus destructans caused significant changes in gene expression within the tissue. Inflammatory responses paired with anti-fungal host responses were triggered by the introduction of Pseudogymnoascus destructans. Necessary chemokines (Small secreted proteins that induce a certain response) were produced in…

About the Art This work of art was created in 1856, it depicts two animals of the species Putorius erminea, more commonly called the Stoat, Ermine, or the White Weasel. Though the stoat is not actually considered a weasel, stoats are a larger species related to weasels but they are not weasels. Weasels are apart of the genus Mustela while Stoat’s are of the genus Putorius. The stoats fur color changes in the winter to a bright white color, weasels do not have this evolutionary advantage. This…

Dant Clayton Corporation’s Expansion Brings Quality Jobs to Louisville Job-seekers will get the exciting opportunity to apply to join the team that has built bleachers and grandstands for a variety of the most notable venues in sports, from Yankee Stadium to the Kentucky Horse Park. Job opportunities are one of the benefits that have resulted from the Tuttle Railing System acquisition, which occurred in September. All positions excluding the sales team will move to the 350,000 square feet of…

Before America was the well known, most successful country in the world it was a vast, undiscovered wilderness that contained a people who had their own culture and used their undiscovered lands to learn and live for hundreds and hundreds of years. As soon as people from Europe started to settle in this so called “new world” they did so as if it was their own land, not seeming to care that they were destroying the culture, land, and lives of the people who had lived there for thousands of years…

the article, I felt sorrow for the Nacirema people. They seemed so unhappy with their appearance. The rituals they endured seemed so cruel and barbaric. However, I quickly realized that these rituals are some of the same ones that we have here in America. Miner was merely describing what happens when you go to a dentist or when patients going to get medical care. The medicine men and herbalists are the same as our providers and pharmacists. Miner also speaks of surgeries to enlarge and reduce…

When flags were planted on the shore of North America, it was a sign that those newly arrived people were to claim this nation for themselves. Planting the flag in the ground may be a motivating symbol to the crew that the job of conquering the new land has begun. This symbol to the occupants of the land is that someone is laying down a challenge, or striking a claim. The flags and crosses that were planted mean nothing to the occupants but are directly linked to their nation and religion back…

The Smithsonian writer Guy Gugliotta in his article ‘When did humans come to America?’ explains that the peopling of the Americas, happened sometime in the past 25,000 years where due to a wave of big game hunters crossed into the New World from Siberia at the end of the last ice age, when the Bering Strait was a land bridge that had emerged after glaciers and continental ice sheets froze enough of the world’s water to lower sea level as much as 400 feet below what it is today. Ted Goebel from…

A quinceañera is a celebration held in certain Latin American countries to honor a girl's fifteenth birthday. It signifies the transformation of a girl into a woman. This celebration mostly recognizes the girl celebrating the quinceañera but also recognizes her family and her godparents, who are referred to as padrinos. It is celebrated to honor the coming of age, the importance of family, and importance of the people closest to the girl. It is also celebrated to uphold tradition. By many…

More customs from the “Nacirema” culture have been discovered. Us aliens have hypothesized that the Naciremans are planning on exposing and diminishing our species with the help of smaller beings. While examining different families, we found that parents send their children to gigantic buildings each day; numerous of these types of properties are located throughout the whole culture. We assume that these children are learning about the aliens and they will soon discover our civilization. The…

In one of the rooms they depicted the history of Native Americans beginning when the Spanish Conquistadors landed, through the colonization of America, through the Statehood of New Mexico and to present day. I spent the majority of my time in this room and took several notes on the different Acts passed by Congress that either oppressed the Natives or tried reconciling them from centuries worth…