I. Graves’ disease is an immune system disorder that causes an overproduction of thyroid hormones called hyperthyroidism. Although there are many diseases that cause hyperthyroidism‚ Graves’ disease is the number one cause. It is named after Robert Graves‚ an Irish physician‚ described this form of hyperthyroidism about 150 years ago. Graves’ disease is caused by a process in the body’s immune system‚ that normally protects the body from bacteria and viruses. The immune system destroys the bacteria
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Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disorder in which antibodies produced by your immune system stimulate your thyroid to overproduce hormones. To attain a better idea of Graves’ disease‚ attention has to be given to how the thyroid works.The thyroid is a butterfly shaped gland under the laryngeal prominence or adam’s apple‚ that is responsible for secreting thyroid hormones thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) that increase the body’s metabolic rate. The thyroid is regulated by the hypothalamus
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1. Our digestive system provides the body a means to transfer nutrition from the external environment into the cellular level in order to sustain life. Salivary glands‚ controlled by the autonomic nervous system‚ are located in the oral cavity. Its main role is to secrete saliva in the oral cavity. There are three pairs of salivary glands. Parotoid savary gland lies under the skin on each side of the mandible. These glands secrete amylase‚ an enzyme that breaks down starches. The parotoid duct implies
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In the film Grave of the Fireflies‚ the director tugs at people’s heartstrings and forces them to look at World War II in a different light – too often‚ we forgot that the civilian casualty numbers are real‚ live people‚ and we tend to just look at them as a figure. In addition‚ a good part of this film takes place after the war has ended‚ which is a period that goes vastly un-talked about. People like to think that after the war officially ended‚ it was a time of joy for everyone‚ but sadly this
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can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end‚ and so it cannot fail.” John Green‚ Looking for Alaska. This is when Miles realizes and decides how he can accurately explain his friends and how he learns to understand Alaska’s behavior especially. In a way‚ he is somehow describing
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sometimes as long as you find yourself in the end‚ coming back stronger than before. Everyone forgets who they are every once in awhile and has to search for the person he or she is by going on a mental path. To remember is a strong impact on who you are as a person‚ for example memories are the sentimental things that creates the person you are. When you forget these memories‚ in effect you forget who you are just as if a scar disappears you slowly forget the injury and this is why you cherish all memories
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Released in 1988‚ Grave of the Fireflies is the story of Seita and his younger sister Setsuko‚ who lost their mother and father through different events of World War II. As a result they are forced to try to survive‚ any way they can‚ though their efforts are finally lost when Setsuko dies of malnutrition‚ and Seita dies not long after. It’s based on a semi-autobiographic book by the same name‚ whose author lost his sister due to malnutrition in 1945 during the war. The main value shown throughout
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best way to understand this statement is by imagining a woman reading a romance book. The women reading this book is obviously looking for more romance in her life so she reads these type of book topic for tips. In the same case‚ a reader looking for a story about character development towards the better‚ would read literature such as “Doubt”‚ “Richard Cory”‚ and “The Grave” to better themselves. The character development in these stories are applied to students who are having trouble of understanding
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Who are you when no one’s looking essay 2/17/18 Who are you when no one’s looking was a book about character. The book list five endangered qualities that are vital for a strong person with good character: Courage‚ discipline‚ vision‚ endurance‚ tender love‚ tough love‚ sacrificial love‚ and radical love. Courage. Courage can be shown in many different ways. But courage is mainly stepping up to the plate and looking in the face or your emotional‚ spiritual‚ and physical fears. Courage in this
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decisions are taken. Drawing upon writings about the realities of managerial work and the nature of the management advice industry‚ why might we question this conventional view? Jackall’s (1988) text ‘Looking up and looking around’ looks beyond the façade and exposes the realities that make up the inner-workings of the managerial position. The notion of ‘looking up and looking around’‚ as explained by Jackall (1988) to be a manager’s inability to make “gut decisions” and the need to add people to his/her
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