Round the Bend

Upon inspection the contour of the patients abdomen was rounded, symmetric, color appropriate to genetic background, striae present, 6 to 8 round bruises from subcutaneous injections. No apparent pulsations, masses, lesions, rashes, wounds, ascites, scars, or hernias present. Auscultated bowel sounds in all four quadrants; hyperactive sounds heard in lower right quadrant, hyperactive sounds

hands tremble for a moment. Lexa doesn’t say anything, she just softens, if possible, her touches along Clarke’s hips. “I thought I loved Finn. Maybe I really did for a while, I don’t know. I was lost in a horrible void made of pain and loss. I gained weight, then became almost anorexic in only one year when he told me I was getting fat. I was so instable, one minute I didn’t care about anything and the next I was crying in the middle of a party. And I hated myself so much, I almost couldn’t look

the dark side of the American dream. “Terrible place, isn't it” (Fitzgerald, 26) The tragic life of this individual, although underlooked, paints a picture of the longing and struggle for a better life. Myrtle, a minor antagonist whose dynamic and round persona plays a key role in the development of the idea that in order to achieve happiness, one must change herself. Although Myrtle remains static in her aspirations for wealth, in order to attain it, she must become dynamic in both

Great Britain is widely recognized as a typical country of cultural diversities because of a myriad of migrants coming to this promising land annually. The film “ Bend it like Beckham”, directed by a British-Indian woman, Gurinder Chadha who may have experienced intercultural dilemmas deserves a perfect illustration for such issues. This film, which was first on display in 2002, has obtained great success in representing the differences between the English culture and the Sikh culture. This essay

Virtual Meteorology 101 Name _______________________________ Period ______ Weather and climate are the two major abiotic (nonliving) factors responsible for determining the major geographic ecosystems called biomes. Search the web and give a definition of weather: The state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc. Search the web and give a definition of climate: the composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region, as temperature

through the calm deep, lay themselves upon the sea and they advanced side by side to the shores; 205 Whose breasts standing upright among the waves And whose blood red crests overtop the waves, the other part skims over deep ocean Behind them and bends their immense backs into a coil A roar happens from the salty foam and now they were advancing from the land And their burning eyes filled up with blood and fire 210 They were licking at their

platypus venom do closely resemble a lot of spider venom along with reptiles and even sea anemones. I thought it was weird that platypi only had venom during mating season, what if they need to protect themselves? Well even if they don’t have venom year round they do have spurs. If they ever need to protect themselves then they can still stab their attacker. Their spurs can even come off of their foot and stay inside their predator making it so if they never get it out they’ll have a major

simply possessing poppets, much less a poppet that has been brought to her by Mary Warren who admitted to making the poppet saying “I [Mary Warren] made it in the court” (75). If we are to see the owners of poppets as witches, then we would have to round up every woman and child who is in the possession of such poppets would we not? Or does such vulnerability to the devil’s tricks and the perversion of good come with age; thus making the only known person who has been wrongfully found guilty of this

A Forensic Pathologist studies the cause of death of human remains. To become a forensic pathologist it takes time and hard work. The average time at school is thirteen to eighteen years. The average salary is 100k- 500k. At school they have to study anatomy, but also serology and toxicology. They need a strong stomach to get passed the smell and gross things they deal with. As a forensic pathologist your job is to find out how they died and who they were. They can determine your age, height, sex

he feels about how a true friendship can change the way you view things: “Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in the bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them. For now I liked nothing better than to have Queequeg smoking by me, even in bed, because he seemed to be full of such serene household joy then.” Ishmael’s brotherly love towards Queequeg is so strong, partly because Ishmael has likely never