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    In 2000, Dai Sijie wrote a semi-autobiographical novel named Balzac & The Little Chinese Seamstress. This novel discusses the political and social reforms of the Chinese Government during the re-education era. The re-education program sought to regulate the country of the distinct classes that it previously had. Educated individuals (especially youths) would get sent to villages where they would be instructed by peasants on how to do manual labor. Any type of advanced knowledge, such as literature

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    Trench Kids After evaluating the image called Battle of Britain, many could conclude that the children were intrigued by what was going on around them while they were in the center of the war, and that each child was innocent yet greatly affected by the aftermath of the war. All in all, this image portrays the struggles the children faced trying to understand what was going on around them, living in a world surrounded by war and violence, and how it affected the people who lived in Britain during

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    The Near-Death Experience The thought of death and my grandfather colliding with each other had troubled and depressed me. All of us were rolling through life just fine. Then, I was stunned that the ball might stop rolling for him. His life took a very sharp turn and all of ours had done so too. My day had been perfectly well until my happiness went to an utter discontinuation. My mother had received the call. His heart was immensely affecting him. My grandfather was in his house

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    the innocence Holden wishes to preserve in Phoebe's school and entices to enter the stage of awareness. Although Holden consistently tries to find a way to mask any further stages of the rite of passage, his ability to stay innocent departs by the shock in his brother Allie’s death. His death causes Holden such traumatic pain he “broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it” to cope with the initial pain” (Salinger 50). Allie’s death begins the stage of Holden’s alienation from

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    able to interact with the learner. One of the differences in interaction, in Slater’s study, is that participants were also able to interact through text message, which was shown to cause less tension in the participant when they had to administer shocks. Even though Milgram’s participants were all real people and Slater used an avatar, both studies showed similar results when participants were able to interact and hear the learner’s responses. For example, in Milgram’s study, participants showed

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    In Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour,” Mrs. Mallard hears news from her sister Josephine that her husband, Brently Mallard, is dead. Mrs. Mallard seems to show a sense of immediate shock; she quickly flees to her room to be alone to take in this news. After embracing and accepting the death of her husband, she is ready and willing to continue living her life. She opens the door of her bedroom and walks down the stairs approaching her late husband’s friend, Richard. Suddenly, the door

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    Distributive shock is caused by conditions producing direct arteriovenous shunting and is characterized by decreased SVR or increased venous capacitance because of the vasomotor dysfunction (Ren, 2017). The pathophysiology in distributive shock is the inadequate tissue perfusion caused by loss of the normal responses of vascular smooth muscle to vasoconstrictive agents coupled with a direct vasodilating effect (Lessnau, 2018). The clinical manifestations of distributive shock include low blood

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    The main concern with HHNC is the client diuresing . This is a concern because of the loss of fluid, which in early stages results in hyponatremia . Later in the disease process, the patient will display elevated serum sodium levels, due to excessive fluid loss. This is a late sign that will be seen in a comatose patient suffering from HHNC . When a patient is constantly losing fluid , as such the case with HHNC, the patient’s serum level are increasingly elevated due to less fluid in the vascular

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    Shock is a collapse of Circulatory function caused by severe injury, blood loss, or disease, and characterized by pallor sweating, weak pulse, and very low blood pressure .There are three basic types of shock. Cardiogenic Shock [includes tension pneumothorax, cardiac tamponede and pulmonary embolism] which is caused by the heart failing to pump as designed. Distributive shock [includes septic shock, neurogenic shock, anaphylactic shock and psychogenic shock] which is caused by poor vessel function

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    “Girl, I watched the interview on Saturday. Marinette, you were completely spontaneous! You and Adrien make such a cute couple, so why didn’t you enlighten your best friend about you guys going out?” Alya asked dramatically while she wiggled her eyebrows suggestively. “Because we aren’t, it’s just for show,” Marinette whispered as she resumed drawing in her sketchbook. “Wait, what!” Alya exclaimed loudly, which brought unwanted attention from their classmates. Marinette shushed her before she

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