Jules Bordet

Cotard’s syndrome, or the “walking dead syndrome”, is a mental disorder in which the sufferer believes they are dead, their bodily organs have been removed, and/or their soul has been removed. This delusion was named after its founder, Jules Cotard, in 1882 after describing it for the first time due to a case report of a 43-year-old woman. However, it has been discovered that there have been cases that were reported in the 1700s. Cotard’s syndrome is affected by the temporal lobe and fusiform…

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a classic for the ages. Its crisp details of the oceanic life and its scenes of action will leave a reader breathless. Through the eyes of Professor Aronnax, we learn about ocean life and why Captain Nemo does what he does. Our main character is Professor Aronnax. Smart and well-known around the world, he travels with his servant, Conseil to teach and lecture about the marine world. Conseil, on the other hand, is quiet, and speaks whenever he…

Disturbance, nuisance, annoyance: words that are often used to describe the catalyst to one of nature’s most sublime undertakings: the conception of a pearl. As implausible as it may seem, the process through which such magnificent phenomenon develops is triggered by a speck of sand that makes its way into an oyster. The oyster responds by coating the intruder in an attempt to mitigate the pain. This coating, however, serves to amplify the pain rather than alleviate it as was…

Finding Nemo essay In the movie Finding Nemo produced by Walt disney studios. The father clown fish is marlin and he begins his journey to find his son, Nemo. One day while they were on a field trip, Nemo swam over the abyss and got kidnapped by a scuba diver. Marlin witnessed his son’s abduction and immediately goes on a quest to find him. The theme could be never give up. One reason that the theme could be never give up because. In the movie there were several times where marlin…

Kristen Schmidt 2/12/17 7th John Venn Author, lecturer, priest, inventor, logician, philosopher, college president, teacher, and mathematician are all titles for one man. That man is John Venn. Venn was born in Hull, England on August 4, 1834. He was born to Henry Venn and Martha Sykes Venn. He died on April 4, 1923 in Cambridge, England. He was 90 years old at the time of his death. Over the course of Venn’s life there were several historic world events that occurred. One is that the US…

Revealing Loki as the obstacle in the movie Thor, directed by Kenneth Branagh, made the hero overcome pride, grow emotionally stable, and reclaim his dominance. Fate and time were similarly revealed by the authors of Around the world in 80 day's Jules Verne, and The od ssey's Holmer.This helped transform the hero by establishing self-control, emotion, and the true meaning of life within the characters. Branagh uses Loki as a perfect Foil and obstacle to Thor, which helps foster Thor's…

Other Cultures in a Few Short Pages In Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in 80 Days, there are many different cultures which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout explore through-out the entirety of the novel. All of these cultures are set in the late 19th century throughout the world. Some of these cultures include the Indian culture, Chinese culture and Native American culture among the many others that the two are exposed to. All of these cultures will be explored in a comparison of the novel to…

Bordetella Pertussis Just like the flu, pertussis is one of the many communicable disease that has recently broke out, causing numerous amounts of deaths and infections of the American people. “ Annually, more than 50 million cases of pertussis, including 600,000 deaths are reported worldwide”(Center for Biotechnology, Anna University). Pertussis is very contagious, the bacterial disease is also known as “whooping cough”. Whooping Cough is a upper respiratory infection…