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Organization: OXFAM INTERNATIONAL Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 non-profit organizations operational in 96 countries around the world. The name is derived from ‘Oxford committee for famine relief’ founded in 1942 and the current executive director is Winnie Byanyima. Oxfam international was formed in 1995 by a group of NGO’s with a common aim of reducing poverty and injustice around the world. Oxfam has consistently displayed missionary organizational excellence through its…

especially for young people. The Red Badge of Courage, set during the Civil War, portrays the reality of how a young boy--Henry Fleming--would feel fighting alongside the war. Out of rash choice Henry decides to enlist himself in the army, it isn’t specified how old he is, but it’s quite evident he’s young. The novel does nothing more than set up how Henry’s perspective changes towards life and the meaning of being a man through his experiences in the war. In, The Red Badge of Courage, by…

On June fifteenth I traveled to view the unique Phantasmagoria play performed at 7 Stages located in Little Five Points. The show incorporated a number of folktales, fairytales, plays aka “The Wickedest Tales of All”, and stories with each cast member playing a different role each time. The story that stood out the most to me was by the great Charles Dickens called A Madman’s Manuscript. The story grasped my attention because the cast allowed for the audience to be apart of this story. We were…

VOLUMETRIC EVALUATION OF THE PARANASAL SINUSES WITH THE CAVALIERI METHOD SUMMARY PURPOSE Our aim was to estimate the volumes of paranasal sinuses with Cavalieri principle. MATERIAL AND METHODS The volumes of paranasal sinuses were estimated using the Cavalieri principle with coronal CT scans of 125 (68 male and 57 female) cases and analyzed by gender and age. The right-left comparison was also researched. RESULTS The mean volumes (± S.D.) of unilateral sinuses were 6.0 ± 4.3, 19.1 ± 6.1,…

Blood Transfusions – Principles Questions 1. Different components of WBC’s? How much of blood is plasma? 2. Function of RBC antigens? 3. Which blood type is universal recipient? Universal donor 4. Important facts about Rh factors? 5. Most fatal hemolytic reactions result from? 6. What are the procedures for donor/recipient blood? 7. How long does a type and screen take? What does it determine? 8. Type and crossmatch take how long? What three phases are performed? 9. Type A…

Literary Analysis Death is inevitable. Some people fear it, others hope it comes soon. As for the author Sylvia Plath and the character Huckleberry Finn, their stances differ. The story The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, portrays the main character, Huck, as terrified of death. While Sylvia Plath’s poem “I am Vertical” shows Sylvia as a person who is very intrigued by death. Sylvia Plath comes off as someone who would rather be dead than alive because she thinks it may be more…

He certainly lived up to his reputation considering how depressingly he wrote The Masque of the Red Death. Trent Lorcher, an educational writer gave several examples of how Poe used symbolism in his analysis of Poe’s short story. According to Lorcher, The Red Death represented the inevitability of death, the castle represented man’s attempt, but ultimate failure to prevent deaths, and the clock represented the countdown to death…

HAEMOGLOBIN CONCENTRATION Introduction Red blood cells contain the protein molecule haemoglobin (Hb); it is made up of four polypeptide chains and contains iron. Its function is to carry oxygen from the lungs to the bodies tissue and to carry carbon dioxide from tissue back to the lungs. Anaemia can be caused when there is a lack of iron in the body which leads to a reduction in the number of red blood cells. Iron is used to carry oxygen in the blood so If you have fewer red blood cells than is…

Global Pattern- Malaria Figure 1: global malaria distribution figure 2: global distribution of malaria mosquito Geographic Distribution of Malaria As shown on figure 1, the risk of malaria disease is concentrated between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, such as Sub-Sahara in Africa, north of South America and Southeast of Asia. Malaria is more concentrated here because these areas have similar patterns such breeding of Anopheles mosquito. This is due to…

All species of animals have their own unique feature that helps them live in their own environment. These features can often become a danger to these animals when the thing that makes them unique catches the attention of human beings. This then prompts people to capture, hunt, kill, eat, torture, sell and buy these creatures. The need for humans to exploit every creature they can get their hands on, is an unfortunate habit that the world will not see stopping anytime soon. The results of this is…