Leprosy

God approved and cultivated Mosses’ marriage. Unfortunately, there tends to be a “Miriam”. A “Miriam”, is an individual who does not condone the relationship, and someone who vocalizes their disproval. Miriam, the sister to Moses, was struck with leprosy because she resented Moses’ marriage. To her, having dark skin was the epitome of uncleanliness, and to her dismay she became the symbol of uncleanliness. Interracial marriage is not a sin, it is not racial treason, and it should not be frowned…

According to R.A Aitken, “An asymmetric synthesis may be defined as a synthesis in which an achiral unit is an ensemble of substrate molecules is converted to a chiral unit such that the possible stereoisomers are formed in unequal amounts.” It relates to any synthetic process that incorporates one or more new elements of chirality during a functional group transformation. Asymmetric synthesis involves the formation of chiral molecules. An object is said to be chiral, if it cannot be…

The destruction of the Jewish temple and the subsequent destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans around 70 C.E. is a significant part of the saga of the Jewish people. The destruction of this famous cultural city and its renowned temple had extreme and far fetching consequences for not only the inhabitants of the city but to all Jewish culture. When examining the causation of this destruction historians turn to one of the most important primary sources of the event the historian Flavius Josephus.…

The Book Thief was written by Markus Zusak in 2006. It took him three years to write this book because he wanted to make it historically accurate. Since the book was first published, it has become a best-selling novel. The Book Thief was initially released in Australia, Zusak’s native country, for adult readers, but when it was marketed in the United States, it was aimed at young adults (8). This inevitably led to its rising popularity. The author, Markus Zusak, was born in Sydney,…

Becoming a nurse is a challenging task. However male nurses face other obstacles which make pursuing a nursing degree even more challenging. Men in nursing are often classified as “Murses” meaning male nurses and sometimes distinctively mentioned as the “male nurse” instead of a nurse. The idea that nurses are supposed to be women has established a significant gender gap and subsequently has extended the expected shortage of nurses that are expected by 2020. Several research findings support…

Clash in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” contains some elements of the Romantic period. The poem deals with ideas about nature, supernatural world, and man’s inner self. On the other hand, R.C. Waterson says that Coleridge’s poem belongs to “no age, but to all the men of all ages” (147). In general, most critics do agree with R.C. Waterson since the poem deals mainly with man and his conflicts. The whole poem is about a seaman and his human experiences at sea.…

Midterm exam Christopher Columbus is definitely one of the most important figures of the world history. Not only for the fact that in 1467 he travelled to Iceland when he was sixteen years old, but also for the fact that he discovered America in 1492 at the same time as he was searching for a new trade route to the Indies. Columbus was now making the first connections between the Europeans and the Americans. Leading then to the famous “Colombians exchange” which was extensive transfer of animals…

The Structure of the Passage The Book of Exodus contains some of the most important people, as well as events. In the Book of Exodus, Moses was a prominent character that was discussed seemingly throughout the text. The Book of Exodus is a segment within the Pentateuch, which contains the first five books of the Old Testament. There are three obvious themes that are emphasized in Exodus, which are deliverance, the covenant, and the Promised Land. The first portion of the Book, which is…

Medicinal cannabis; an informative essay Marijuana is made up of dried flowers, leaves and stems of the hemp plant and is also known under the name Cannabis Sativa. Medicinal marijuana has been used as a medicine for thousands of centuries. One of the earliest references that can be found dates back to 2900 BC from The Chinese Emperor Fu Hsi “whom the Chinese credit with bringing civilization to China”(Deitch, 2003) made reference to the Chinese word for cannabis being Ma, stating that it was…

unhappy host of Mycobacterium abscessus. M. abscessus is considered a gram positive bacterium that stains acid fast. It is aerobic in nature and rod-shaped (Miller-Keane, 2003). While it is of the same genus Mycobacterium that causes leprosy and tuberculosis, it is considered a non-tuberculosis mycobacterium (Jarand et al.,…