Polio

The biography is split into three different parts. The first part narrates the story of Franklin's childhood, education, and the successful career at King's College, London. She was known in the family for being very clever and outspoken. Her parents sent her to St. Paul’s Girls’ School, a private school known for rigorous academics, including physics and chemistry. She displayed exceptional intelligence from early childhood, knowing from the age of 15 that she wanted to be a scientist. Her…

after a serious injury from a bus at 18 years old. Kahlo had several surgeries throughout her life due to Polio. As her career as a painter begin to grow, she started to live all around the world such as, New York, San Francisco, and Paris. Fifty-five of her paintings are self-portraits. She was also known as a bisexual Hispanic painter. Her paintings were mainly oil paintings. Because of her polio, Frida was hospitalized for about nine months due to her spinal problems. Frida Kahlo and Diego…

There is nothing more isolating than being alone in a hospital room with the sound of hoarse coughs, sneezing, and nurses or nuns yelling for help from the next room over. This, unfortunately, was the reality for many, young or old, during the twentieth century in Canada, our home today. It is a large alteration compared to the manner our modern day world functions today, including its people and how science has advanced. One hundred and sixteen years after the start of the twentieth century,…

A Case to Defend the Use of Animals Through history, humans have used animals for food, clothing, and entertainment. Christianity and Judaism’s scripture teaches that God created animals and put them on the earth to serve human beings. However, the teachings of major Asian religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism say that it is wrong for human to harm animals. Therefore, various religions have affected how people around the world view animals and led people to argue that whether the…

One doctor, by the name of Jonas Salk set out to rid the world of polio and other viral diseases. Instead of working with patients, he set out to formulate a cure in the lab. At the cost of thousands of animal experimentations, we have rid the world of one of the worst epidemics in the history of the world, thanks to Jonas Salk. Polio was not the only disease wiped out. Flu vaccinations were created and cures for smallpox came from animal testing.…

Even as modern medicine has significantly produced the current quality of life, work on behalf of the average person could improve it more. This day and age provides modern wonders such as heart transplants, chemotherapy, and arthroscopic surgery. However, due to unfounded claims and improper scientific study, some of the population (namely the affluent and gullible) has started to believe that vaccination causes diseases or disorders, instead of preventing them. It is important to be properly…

that the massaging only made Roosevelt's condition worse, so Eleanor ordered a third physician to look for the proper differential (Osinski 42). After time of searching, the doctor properly diagnosed Franklin with the disease of poliomyelitis, or polio (Freedman 51). At the age of 39, Roosevelt knew that his recovery time was going o be long and more painful than the normal recovery rate (Osinski 42). Poliomyelitis is a paralysis of the body, mostly in the legs, and at the time, there was not a…

membrane protein precursor. The virion RNA is infectious it acts as the genome and viral messenger RNA. The genome transcribe into a polyprotein, then into co-transcribe and post-transcribe by the host and viral proteases (Dao,2010). Polio was another epidemic…

June 23, 1940, a legend would be born? But, more importantly, who knew that, in 1960, an inspiration would be made? That legend and inspiration was an Olympic sprinter by the name of Wilma Glodean Rudolph. When Wilma was an infant when she contracted polio, which led to paralysis in her legs. Even though the odds were never in her favor, Rudolph put herself to the test and went on to win three gold medals in various track events at the 1960 Rome Olympics. Wilma Rudolph inspires me for her…

Never Give Up Have you ever read Henry’s Freedom Box and Wilma Unlimited? There are similarities and differences in how the author approaches the theme “Never Give Up” in the two texts. I hope you can see how the authors’ approaches to the theme is similar, but also very different. The authors of both texts approach the theme “Never give up” similarly. For example, Henry and Wilma ended up happy because they never gave up. The author stated that Henry never gave up so he got out of slavery.…