Freckle

The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine defines malignant melanoma as “a type of cancer arising from the melanocyte cells of the skin.” The number of people diagnosed with skin cancer keeps rising every year. According to the Journal of School Health skin cancer is increasing by approximately 3.5% per year. Skin cancer has become the most common cancer, according to the World of Health. Skin health is often overlooked and more concentrated on society’s ideals of perfect tan skin rather than the health

three-quarters steps it took to reach the milky white counter with its 9,867 black specks. That was exactly sixty-nine times as many as the visible freckles John had while he was in his uniform. I’ve had orgasmic dreams about the number of sprinkles of melanin scattered across his fair skin that his uniform kept from my sight. I’d started to count the thirty-nine freckles on the back of his

only with weather-stained, red brick, making it appear a little stranger, a little older, a little sadder than the proud house. Inside that house lived a girl of young age. She was tall compared to the average child her year in school. Lanky with freckles and hair that was charcoal. The aged, sagging house doesn't even remember her. Everyday of the hazy summer, the raven child would run in the front of the tired house. The same goes for the adolescent girl in the red, strong brick that stood tall

For example, the mother compares her son’s innocence to the youthfulness of having freckles by writing: “Freckles like specks of nutmeg on his cheeks” (16). Olds compares the boy’s chest to the fragile wood used in building model boats by writing: “the balsa keel of a /model boat” (7-8). The author makes this comparison to give readers the message

since they each carried a copy of the CTX gene that got passed on to their child. There are traits that are common genetic traits in humans. For instance, brown eyes are considered dominant, while all other eyes are recessive. Freckles are dominant, while the absence of freckles is considered recessive. Albinism is a recessive trait, and skin, hair, and eye pigment is a dominant. There are many different common genetic traits in humans; I could never name them all. Alleles are in different blood groups

In each writing, fiction or nonfiction, there are always characters who keep the story moving along through conflict and dialog. One challenge an author has to accomplish while allowing the story to flow is creating these characters in two different ways; direct and indirect characterization. Throughout the fictional novel, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly, the author, Stephanie Oakes, did an exuberant job of creating full bodied, round characters using direct characterization. She was able to do this

Loss of Innocence in Rite of Passage by Sharon Olds A rite of passage is defined as a ceremony marking a significant transition or an important event or achievement, both regarded as having great meaning in lives of individuals. In Sharon Olds' moving poem "Rite of Passage", these definitions are illustrated in the lives of a mother and her seven-year-old son. The seriousness and significance of these events are represented in the author's tone, which undergoes many of its own changes as the

Hello, I’m Ruby Dream Storm and this is Devil Red Moon. He rules a kingdom and he’s also the leader of the DemonBlood army. Yep, a Star Wolf married to a DemonBlood, or is he a DemonBlood? Let's start at the beginning. When I was a newborn. My father Spot took me away from my mother Tia. I was only a newborn so I didn't know much at that time. When I was three years old. I read a book about every single first kind of spicies. I read something at the very end of the page. Their were lists of

points. Target groups 1. Statistics show that 15 and 34, people using sunbeds is increasing: melanoma is disproportionately high in this age group. My campaign would, therefore, target this critical age group. 2. People with fair skin, moles or freckles, red or blonde hair are at increased risk, as are those with a personal or family history of skin cancer. Any competent campaign would focus on these particular groups. 3. Common misconceptions need to be removed. Many think using sunscreen prevents

Genetics is the study of genes, heredity, and genetic variation in living organisms. Genes are regions of DNA that code for the production of specific proteins. Genes are inherited from parents through sexual reproduction, also known as meiosis. Parents have two copies of each gene, also known as alleles. These alleles can be dissimilar in the amount of protein they code for (“What are Dominant and Recessive?,” n.d.). During meiosis, chromosomes can cross over and exchange genetic material within