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Ebola Rough Draft Ebola is one of the world’s most deadly diseases. So far Ebola has killed more than 30,215 people in the world and the number is going up by at least 15 people per day (“Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”). The Ebola virus has completely taken over Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Other countries such as Kayas, Spain, Lagos, Dallas Texas, New York City, Port Harcourt, and Dakar have the Ebola outbreak as well. Ebola is also known as the Hemorrhagic Fever (“Centers…

use of social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook in 21st century has become ubiquitous. In recent years, the number of users of Facebook has increased exponentially. AscomScore, a company specialized in media measurements and headquartered in Reston, VA reported, the unique visitors of Facebook site in US was about 2 million in November 2004. Exactly one decade later, the number has grown approximately 50 times to 102 million (comScore 1). By September 2015 the unique visitors of Facebook…

The generation that we live in now has an unrealistic view of women. Women think that they have to be between a size zero and a two to be considered beautiful. Remember when Marilyn Monroe was considered to be one the most beautiful women? Now we compare ourselves to the models walking down the runway! No one should feel pressured to be that size, yet we do. This can cause serious health issues, serious self-esteem problems, and serious effects on young women. That is why there should be a…

There are the advantages and disadvantages of distance learning. The ability to supply the personal interaction will be the disadvantages of distance learning. There are millions of students in distance learning programmed, of course there are ‘some students’ who crave the supply of the personal interaction, especially the one who not really independent. Based on my personal opinion I’m disagreeing with this statement; distance learning will be able to supply the personal interaction. There…

to make a point that you can be a size 14 model and still be beautiful no matter what size you are. More importantly, it may prevent future death of thin fashion models like in 2006, Luisel Ramos “who had fasted for several days,” and Ana Carolina Reston “who died from an infection related to anorexia” even though Alexandra Shulman had brought the subject of “jutting bones and no breasts or hips” to which it was ignored (Cochrane 80). However, if we discourage size-zero models we would…

begin to put a dent in such a health crisis. One can only hope that any use of the military will be well thought out and part of a unified plan. Unlike “Joe McCormick, the C.D.C. official who had clashed with the Army over the management of the Ebola Reston outbreak”(228). Ultimately the country would rebound but the fact that an epidemic can even take place is a sign the country is not truly…

First encountered in African monkeys by biomedical scientists in 1967, the Ebola virus, part of the negative-stranded RNA viruses, known as filoviridae, according to the journal of infectious diseases, is the only known virus family in which scientists have profound ignorance . Specifically speaking, scientists are not aware of the tactics active in the nature of the virus’ agents, their pathogenesis, and virology . However, during the 2014 epidemic—which killed more than 9,600 people and caused…

Spillover is not just a regular book about diseases. In this book, the author, David Quammen, dialogues about a multitude of zoonotic diseases, which are pathogens that can be transmitted from an animal into a human. There are eleven diseases that the author primarily discusses: Hendra, Ebola, Malaria, SARS, Q-fever, Psittacosis, Lyme disease, Herpes B, Nipah and HIV/AIDS. All of these are viruses, with the exceptions of Q-fever, Psittacosis and Lyme disease, which are bacterium. All zoonotic…

The purpose of the text was solely to inform about the true story about humanity 's first contact with the Ebola/Marburg virus and its various strains that appeared. Testing and secure research was done in Reston, Virginia where monkeys had begun to be infected with a deadly unknown virus, which was later to be discovered as an Ebola strain exclusive to monkeys. A secret investigation was put into place to prevent the spread to humans and how to cure the…

In this book there's a girl named Eliza who has to move with her mother when her mother's new boyfriend, Burl, gets going with his band. We first see her complaining about the issue to the janitor of the apartment that they lived at, Mr. Amos. He tells her to think of this as an adventure and the chance for a new beginning, and she tells of she always wanted to be in the "cool kid" group. So that's exactly what she tries to do for most of the book. The town they have to move to is a small…