Blue By Joyce Mostetter

Here, Louie Zamperini who never gave up, never quit, and never stopped fighting. Louie, as a young boy was a thief, never really cared to listen to anybody. Laura Hillenbrand put much detail into Unbroken. She’d call him and talk to him about him and everything he had gone through.

Although written decades apart, Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye both explore the trials and tribulations that young black girls must endure as they begin to step into womanhood. While the burdens that the protagonists in each of these texts differ in some key ways, one of the most interesting things that both Woodson and Morrison depicted was a sense of difficulty in coping with these changes, and rather than having any semblance of mastery over their circumstances, these young protagonists would instead project their emotions onto something else as they try to discover what causes their suffering.

Devil in A Blue Dress was originally a novel written by Walter Mosby in 1990 and then made into a film in 1995. To begin this reflection I will start with my summary of the movie, and then comment on the actors and how they compared to the books characters, then discuss how the movie compared to the book, and lastly discuss how the movie fits into the noir/neo-noir film category. The film’s opening credits feature a catchy jazz song and artwork from the era that helps set the setup the movie as to when and where it is taking place

When I was 5 years old I wanted nothing then to be white. I wanted the blonde hair and blue eyes, I wanted nothing to be pretty like the girls on tv. I wanted to look like the girls in the movie that always got the boy at the end they were usually white. I was always angry because my skin was darker then most of my family that my skin was closer to white. My sister who I thought was blessed with her light skin called herself white. I didn 't understand it at first and just thought she just didn 't know any better. It wasn 't until I got old that I realized my sister never identified as black. She too thought that white was a dominant trait, a trait of beauty and a trait that she wished she had. In the book ' The Bluest Eyes

Poliomyelitis has been around longer than one can imagine. According to an article written by Rogers, polio first appeared in Norway and Sweden around 1870s and 1880s. Later on, paralytic polio outbreaks occurred in the United States during 1890s. Decades later, it became a major epidemic because lot of people became infected, many people died and some people developed disabilities (A Paralyzing Fear, 1998). Since the virus was discovered, scientists such as Brodie, Kolmer, Enders, Salk, Sabin, and Koprowski, had been trying to find a cure or a vaccine that could help stop the disease. The fight against polio and the search for a cure happened during one of America’s most important presidents who were infected with poliomyelitis. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who rescued the American people from The Great Depression and War World II, was a victim of this deadly virus.

Paralysis caused by polio is very rare, of the total amount of individuals who contract the virus, “less than 1%” become paralyzed (NYSDOH, 2014).

The CDC, Center for Disease Control, says that polio used to be very common in the United States Before the polio vaccine and that it infected thousands of people each year with this severe illness. This outbreak stopped with the invention of the polio vaccine in 1955. In this essay we will discuss what polio is, how effected our world, and how the vaccine stopped the outbreak.

Polio or poliomyelitis was derived from the Greek words “polio” meaning grey and “myelos” meaning marrow which refers to the grey matter of the spinal cord and ‘itis’ meaning inflammation; therefore poliomyelitis is inflammation of grey matter of the spinal cord (www.wikipedia.com). It is a viral disease caused by the polio virus which belongs to the enterovirus genus; enterovirus because it infects and replicates in the intestinal epithelial and lymphoid (tonsils, Peyer’s patches) cells or tissues, they then enter the central nervous system (CNS) through the blood and infect the motor neurons. The replication in tonsils results in virus seen in pharyngeal secretions (Clinical Microbiology by Mark Gladwin and Bill Trattler). The three serotypes of polio virus are type 1, 2 and 3, all three can cause and produce the same symptom with type 1 the most common form and mostly associated with paralysis. Polio was one of the most feared childhood diseases of the 20th century; it affected mostly children under the age of five. Most children who were infected at this stage were asymptomatic or showed mild flu like symptoms and few paralytic complications were seen among infected children and those who survived the polio attack developed lifelong immunity to the virus. As improvements in sanitation were made over the years, fewer children were exposed to polio virus infection but adolescents and adults became infected through their contact with infected individuals and

In the great 1916 polio endemic in New York City, 9,000 cases of paralysis were reported and nearly all in children less than 5 years of age. The Central Nervous System disease occurs only in less than 1% of those infected. After an initial 1 to 4 days of fever, sore throat and malaise, meningeal signs and symptoms appear, followed by involvement of motor neurons and subsequent paralysis.

Polio (poliomyelitis) is a viral disease also referred to as infantile paralysis. It is an infectious, potentially fatal disease for which there is no known existing cure. This paper discusses the causes, transmission, symptoms and prevention of polio. Further, it addresses the challenges involved in eradicating Polio and suggests efforts to wipe out this disease.

&nbsp;Body parts often shriveled up and became entirely useless as muscled atrophied. &nbsp; More severe initial symptoms were flu-like, including severe muscle pain, headaches, fever, sore throat, stomachache, and other problems. &nbsp;Parents feared this disease with good reason. &nbsp;Often victims had to spend the rest of their lives in a machine called an iron lung which enabled them to breathe by mechanically compressing their chests. &nbsp;The iron lung was a large metal tube built around a bed on which patients had to lie for the duration of their lives (Smith 63-69). &nbsp;Additionally, stricken people were more susceptible to infections like pneumonia which gradually weakened and sometimes killed them. &nbsp;The epidemic appeared to be growing worse each year &nbsp;and it seemed that a miracle would be needed to stop any further death and paralysis. &nbsp;At the peak of the rampage in 1955, Jonas Salk defeated the giant that was polio (Rosenberg interview).<p>

Polio, full name poliomyelitis, has been a dangerous disease ever since its first appearance in the late 18th century. It has taken many people’s lives throughout the course of history. The virus’s shape is a circular-shaped agent which has spikes sticking out of various areas of this virus. Some interesting facts about this dangerous virus is that in the early and mid 1900s, there were at least 5,000-10,000 deaths per year, and vaccines didn’t come out until the 1950s. Also, today almost every country on Earth has eradicated this disease except for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria, which shows how the vaccines were and are very essential to get rid of the disease for everyone. In addition, this disease was famous for infecting Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The name poliomyelitis is derived from ancient Greek were polio means grey and myelos meaning marrow referring to grey matter of spinal cord. Ancient paintings recovered in Egypt depicits an Egyptian stele though to represent a polio victim from the 18th dynasty which was from 1403 to 1365 BC. The disease had different names in early medical communities such as infantile spinal paralysis, paralysis of the morning, regressive paralysis and myelitis of the anterior horns

In the early 1800’s, there was an outbreak of polio, a potentially life-threatening disease, in the United States affecting most of the population (“What is Polio”). The oliovirus invades the brain and spinal cord that causes that dysfunction within the muscles and can eventually cause paralysis. The virus enters through the mouth and reproduces in the throat and intestines. The virus can be transmitted through person-to-person contact such as coughing or sneezing or by feces. The most common way that children developed polio was through contamination of feces on toys and on hands which would then come in contract with the mouth. The very first polio vaccine contained live and weekend forms of the poliovirus which was harmful still too little children. Later on, Jonas Salk, an American scientist, virologist and medical researcher, developed a safe and effective polio vaccine that killed Polio.

The symptoms of polio begin like those of a common cold or stomach flu; the treatments for polio are simple, but not always effective. Polio is spread through contaminated water and surfaces, and travels the digestive tract before infecting cells inside the intestines (Blaser). Within seven to thirty-five days of exposure to the virus, most people will experience nausea, headaches, a sore throat (Silverstein et al. 4), a mild fever, and fatigue for approximately three days. After recovered one percent of the victims of polio will experience a high fever and severe headaches.Their muscles will become weak, stiff, and painful. They might also lose nerve reflexes to muscles, foreshadowing paralysis (Blaser). There are three different types of polio a person could develop. Spinal polio is the most common, affects the nervous system, and often causes paralysis. Paralysis is caused by cells filled with viruses bursting. The bursting of cells releases more