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    Poliovirus is from the subgroup enterovirus and the family Picornaviradae. It is a virus that causes poliomyelitis‚ which is better known as polio. Poliovirus is usually contracted by the fecal-oral route‚ but sometimes infects by the oral-oral route. Once ingested‚ it is thought that poliovirus first infects the epithelial cells in the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract and then spreads to the submucosal lymphoid tissue. This is when the first mild symptoms of poliomyelitis occur. These symptoms

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    In American Indian Stories‚ University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London edition‚ the author‚ Zitkala-Sa‚ tries to tell stories that depicted life growing up on a reservation. Her stories showed how Native Americans reacted to the white man’s ways of running the land and changing the life of Indians. "Zitkala-Sa was one of the early Indian writers to record tribal legends and tales from oral tradition" (back cover) is a great way to show that the author’s stories were based upon actual events

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    Polio is known as the “crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease. It is caused by the poliovirus. The virus spreads from person to person and can invade an infected person’s brain and spinal cord‚ causing paralysis (can’t move parts of the body)”as said by the CDC. Jonas Salk encountered polio in everyday life and he started to create the vaccine. Now in the 21st century Polio is very rare and there is zero known cases in the US. Jonas Salk explored the many strings of the virus and used

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    Dr. Jonas Salk Polio Vaccine Dr. Jonas Salk Polio Vaccine Polio in the 1950’s has American parents in fear and anxiety due to thousands of children were become infected with a crippling disease Poliomyelitis (polio). Polio is a disease caused by infections of the poliovirus‚ which can affect nerves and can leads to a partial or full paralysis. It is an inflammation of the spinal cord’s gray matter and can sometimes extend into the brainstem. Now thanks to Dr. Salk most children in the U.S

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    Roosevelt’s Struggle with Polio Many people believe that all who get polio become paralyzed‚ but only about twenty-five percent of people diagnosed with polio become paralyzed. Polio affects motor nerves‚ making muscles weak‚ and sometimes causing paralysis (UXL). Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of the people that become paralyzed (Bardhan-Quallen 33). There are many different symptoms of polio; these symptoms can range from mild to very serious. Only about one percent of polio patients experience

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    The Power of the Native American Story Norah AlJunaidi Stephanie Fegan AP Lang and Composition 20 December 2013 The Power of the Native American Story The story is the most powerful tool in Native American culture passed down through generations. Stories connect them to the past‚ the present and their surroundings. However the world is always changing‚ and because of this‚ some Native Americans have lost their connection to their culture. In Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

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    Rise of an American short story 1819 is the probationary date of an American novel birth. That was a day when Washington Irving published his outstanding series of novels and essays under the title ‘The book of sketches’. This collection was of great significance for American culture. Its publication meant not only the appearance of new genre‚ but also a worldwide recognition of American literature as independent and original phenomenon. The feeling of astonishment dominated within the emotional

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    Story telling was the heart of Native American culture. The way natives executed everyday tasks and their way of thinking came from what they heard as children from stories that were passed through multiple generations. When White Settlers started tearing tribe by tribe apart and claiming Native American land as their own‚ a dwindling effect on the rich Native’s culture became noticeable. The sense of unity they once knew so well was becoming an unknown aspect which ultimately left each individual

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    Sleepy Hollow” (pages 16- 47) Washington Irving 1. Since the American Revolution is still fresh in the minds of those in Sleepy Hollow he tells the reader how who the Headless Horseman is said to be a ghost of a Hessian trooper who’s head was shot away by a cannonball. 2. In the beginning Irving links two important parts of the story to history the first in the Headless Horseman who was a Hessian trooper and served in the American Revolution which is the base of the supernatural feeling in Sleepy

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    Creation Story Even though both stories are about the creation of Earth and life‚ they each have their own unique twist on how the world came to be and how in both stories the brothers represent good and evil. In the Native American version the natives believe that a pregnant woman that lived up in heaven was craving a drink from the roots of the great tree. Tampering with or hurting the trees roots was bad and if you hurt it then bad thing would happen to you. The woman’s husband is a

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