T. D. Jakes

C. As a major festival and holiday period, Tê ́t centres on the first day of…

At first glance, many observations can be made from the clothing one wears. The fit, the style, and the color all contribute to what identity one presents to the world. In “Clothes” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, different garments represent the different cultures Sumita inhabits. Her saris, colorful and flowing, hold deep significance in her homeland and are worn during monumental and ceremonial moments. On the other hand, the tight and mundane American clothes demonstrate a more casual and…

T cells also have effect on Natalizumab in patients with multiple sclerosis. Natalizumab is a monoclonal antibody that reduces the formation of acute lesions in the central nervous system. Bornsen et. al revealed the influence that natalizumab has on circulating CD4+ T cells in multiple sclerosis. The recurrence of multiple sclerosis happens when there are abnormalities in activated macrophages, CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in the central nervous system. Very-late antigen formed on surfaces of most…

inflammatory cells (Eisenstein and Williams 2009). Researching team Eisenstein and Williams divided Foxp3 expressing Tregs into two groups; ‘natural’ Treg (nTreg) cells and ‘induced’ Treg (iTreg) cells. nTreg cells are another term for CD4+ regulatory T cells and are characterized by their development in the thymus and exportation to maintain self-tolerance. This means that they are able to recognize self-peptides with low enough affinity not to be killed in the thymus during development. These…

Grains were first introduced to the human diet about 10,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. In the second century AD, Aretaeus of Cappadocia described “koiliakos” a disease of the abdomen caused by nutrition. It wasn’t until 1888 in London that S.J. Gee fully described what we know as celiac disease today. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder marked by inflammation of the small intestine that affects genetically predisposed individuals across the world. The genetic predisposition occurs on HLA…

Creativity has been with the human race since the beginning of time, from designing complex infrastructures, to developing the first rocket to ever reach outer space.Creativity has lead to many of the most influential practices and ideas, and has inspired countless of other individual to think creatively. Although creativity may still be present today, it continues to fight a battle of extinction where creativity is bound to lose. While some scholars believe that creativity flourishes in society…

Portfolio reviewers Over the course or English 1100 I have been assigned four papers. The First paper was a Narrative Paper of an incident that changed my life. The second was an informative paper written as a newspaper article on one of ECU’s many clubs. The third article was an Analysis paper that focused on a short story out of the “T.C. Boyle Stories” book. The final paper I wrote was an exploratory paper on a subject from one of my last three papers. After writing these papers I have…

There are responsibilities and there are consequences of actions just as in the short story analyzed in this essay. Greasy Lake, a short story written by T. Coraghessan Boyle illustrates the state of being good and then becoming bad. The story depicts the decisions of average teenagers abandoning their morals to explore the unclean way of life. This story portrays the life of three nineteen-year-old teenagers…

“The Speech of Polly Baker” by Benjamin Franklin is a leading example of how American writers challenged notions of social injustice and attempted to bring social change. Franklin writes this fictional story about a woman being convicted for giving birth to an illegitimate child and criticizes the laws that punish them. Polly Baker has been convicted of this same crime four times previously but each time, argues that she is not the only one responsible for this transgression. Women are…

The initial conclusion one can draw from the critique of modern culture by both Kafka and Eliot in their portrayals of modern man is that it is them placed in these settings and their literature is simply an outlet for said critique. The modernist sentiments expressed in their works were, in part, universally held opinions amongst literary contemporaries of theirs and as such were not only a veritable representation of them coming to grips with the reality of the world around them, but also of…