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    The Life of a Duchess and Porphyria (A story about the life of two women and how they died.) “Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration”(Swift). Jealousy ruins a lot of relationships, with loved ones, friends, and your significant other. In the stories, My…

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    Shakespeare uses several ways to present emotion in the character relationship in hamlet an example of this is hamlet having more power other the relationship and being more determined. Hamlet declares “no.”which is the technique “one sentence” showing that he making his own decisions, also being forceful. Therefore this affects the relationship between hamlet and Claudius as Claudius may be threatened by hamlet and conflict will happen. However Claudius does not have any knowledge making him…

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    How Did Vampires Change

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    Book I chose for this assignment is called real-life vampires.Its a interesting story about how did vampires change through time and how differently were they respresented in different cultures.Story begins with saying that old vampires were totally different than the ones we know today. They were more ugly, scary, dangerous and real. In present vampires are handsome, more powerful and unreal. Theories how vampires started existing starts in one small village in France. One huge family lost one…

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    has grown since 1991, and currently, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has listed prostate cancer, respiratory cancers, multiple myeloma, type II diabetes mellitus, Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, soft tissue sarcoma, chloracne, porphyria. It took two generations and a lot of heartache among the Vietnam veteran community, but the VA “presumptive list” of diseases that are caused by exposure to Agent Orange now includes everything from non-Hodgkin lymphoma, prostate cancer, and…

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    The Specimen Reception – where I spent most of my day-to-day work – is part of the Lab-Med group that is situated in the Central Pathology lab, and is made up of the biochemistry laboratory, the haematology laboratory – which includes cryobiology and coagulation, the microbiology lab, the histopathology lab – which includes cytopathology, the immunology lab, cancer molecular diagnostics, and transfusion medicine, as well as the Irish mycobacterium reference lab, and the national MRSA reference…

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    King George III was born premature on June 4 1738 and died on January 29, 1820 at 81 years. Throughout his life he suffered from a disease called Porphyria which caused him to have temporary lapses in judgement and episodes of insanity. His parents were Frederick Prince of wales, and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. His wife whom he married was Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, she was the queen of Great Britain and Ireland. King George III and his wife Charlotte had ten sons including George Iv and…

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    underlying cause for her condition. As the resident in charge of her case, I investigated into her medical history and discovered she had episodes of severe abdominal pain and was also photosensitive. Immediately, I thought of Acute Intermittent Porphyria as a possible differential diagnosis. I requested…

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    The thought of love can be overpowering for many. In the article Why Is Love Important, it informs, “Love is a universal feeling, which is felt by every living being on this earth,” (Sharma). The concept of love exists for everyone, but what happens when love becomes obsession? In the dramatic monologues, or forms of poetry where an individual is speaking, My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning, the poems deal with two men who are in love with beautiful women, to which they…

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    of view along with detail Connell and Browning show serious passion can cause people to commit violent acts. Connell and Browning both use Point of view to show that with too much passion some people can do violent acts. The lover of Porphyria just finished strangling her “I am quite sure she felt no pain. As a shut bud that holds a bee. I warily open her lids: again.” The man realizes…

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    the protagonist has. An allusion to the disease porphyria is used to describe the disease the protagonist has when the protagonist recalls that the doctor says “the name of the disease, which had some Ps and Rs ... He’d only seen a case like me once before … looking at my yellow eyes, my pink teeth, my red fingernails, the long, dark hair that was sprouting on my chest and arms” (Atwood, 4). This subtle allusion uses both the common symptoms of porphyria, as well as some of the common letters in…

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