The Prak Virus: A Short Story

Luke can be described as a man that is undoubtfully determined. After being sentenced to two years, it can be immediately seen he does not fit in with the other

Luke is broken, but is not yet ready to give up, as he escapes one last time. Luke runs away and escapes into an old church, launching into a soliloquy asking God for guidance. God’s answer comes in the form of desertion as the police encircle the church. Luke realizes that he’s a goner no matter what, so he approaches a window and shouts the famous line “what we have here is a failure to communicate.” In return for his final act of defiance he gets a fatal shot in the throat. Remaining defiant to the end is an expected characteristic of Luke’s courageous nature.

In just the course of A New Hope, Luke’s character changes immensely. The critical incident that sparks a change of his

Viruses, Plagues, and History, written by Michael Oldstone, is an insightful and highly educational book that details the history of, that’s right, viruses and plagues. Through typically dry, yet engaging prose, Oldstone recounts what seems like all of it while simultaneously bringing to light the contributions of those brave scientists who asked themselves, “why.” He focuses his attention on some of the most notable viruses such as smallpox, yellow fever, measles, polio, and later he focuses on more contemporary battles against disease.

“Well, good- that’ll be less work for the both of us,” she grinned. Her heart was still beating fast, but at least it wasn’t pounding in her ears any longer.

After Mr. and Mrs. Morrison’s accident you see how the Morrison children start to shape themselves due to the circumstances. Before the death of the Morrison parents Luke was quite distant with his other siblings, he didn’t have many conversations with them, or he wouldn’t hold his youngest sister Bo. However after the accident Luke feels like it’s his responsibility to take care of his younger siblings. He did all he could to keep his siblings together and take care of them, although it was a long bumpy

Smallpox is a highly contagious virus that has no known cure. Variola, is the name of the virus that caused one of the largest epidemics known to man. Smallpox killed nearly 500 million people in the 20th Century alone. Before Smallpox was eradicated it killed nearly 60% of all infected people. Smallpox has been coexisting with humans for thousands of years and has a very long history.

I recently read an article written in The NEWYORKER called The Deadliest Virus by Michael Specter. The article talked about the Avian Flu virus, also known as “bird flu”. In the article, Specter interviewed many people, but the most important person, in my opinion, is a virologist who conducted research on the Avian Flu, Ron Fouchier. This article raised many ethical questions. The questions are as followed: Should research be conducted on this virus? Does Fouchier’s research pose a threat? Does the risk of the work outweigh the benefits of the research?

In the hospital, the doctors x-ray shows that Luke had broken his leg in 2 separate places, which was bad for him. The doctor tells him he is lucky, if one of his breaks had been an inch higher, a metal plate would of had to been surgically implanted. The doctor also tells him his football career is probably over, which made luke upset. After about an hour, Luke is told that he had visitors, and that’s when all his friends show up. They started asking the normal things “how are you feeling?” and “can you walk on it?” and

“You heard me, Shay. What did you tell my sister? She attempted to give herself an

Luke let his thoughts go with the dancing lights on the water's surface. Lost within himself, his mind flitted back and forth, touching base with various notions at random. He needed time to prepare himself for the encounter, to lose the heaviness that drew his thoughts back the night before, spent struggling to breach Tyrena’s defenses. Ultimately, he’d failed and punished would likely follow. As luck would have it, Luke had managed to capture Wes Janson and Wedge Antilles. Janson was of no use to the young prince, however, Antilles… Luke remembered him. Perhaps when he was younger, he’d seen him around father’s social gatherings, before the war had started, before his father slaughtered a majority of Corellia’s noble families.

In that moment, it seemed as if all the worry from his mind had been washed away. He could tell by the way Luke talked about Callisto, with that twinkle in his eyes and the slight smile that never seemed to fade completely, that Callisto hadn’t made a bad decision with this

Luke! Luke! Luke!” My brother was a broken record, the terror in his voice rivaled my own. My arms flailed out, reaching for anything. I knew this would make me sink lower, but that information was lost on me like the correct answer on a test – you knew it, you had just gone over it, but it wasn’t coming to you no matter how hard you thought.

An invisible organism enters your body. It penetrates into your tissues and then takes over the machinery in your own cells to make more copies of itself. This tiny infiltrator works silently, producing thousands of these clones that fill up the cell and cause it to explode. The clones mercilessly continue the process of invading, taking over and destroying cells. The result might be a minor inconvenience to you as the host, or it could result in a slow or rapid death. It depends only on which variant of this unwanted infiltrator overcomes your body’s defenses. There are cures to wipe out some types of these invisible intruders, but others are so difficult to eradicate or so readily adaptable, that the world’s greatest scientists

Hanta virus is a dangerous and often deadly disease that must be guarded against. If proper precautions are not taken, hanta virus could lead to a nationwide outbreak causing many deaths. While there are a few cases of hanta virus reported each year, the consequences of coming down with the disease dictates that the U.S. set up certain safeguards to educate the population on how to protect themselves. Even though research is being done on hanta virus and its related illnesses, there persist many unanswered questions.