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    007 Meets the Hunger Wars It was a cool cool autumn day in District 11. Everything was typical to say. Children were playing in the streets with their friends, parents were chatting with one another as they watched on their kids. Everybody was enjoying themselves, that is except, for James Bond. He was in the local pub, drinking away his pain, because everybody resents an M16 agent that has his license to kill, for some reason. As the bartender came up, to ask him if he wanted another refill of

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    experiment with staphylococci bacteria,a young British bacteriologist Alexander Fleming went on vacation. After coming home from two month vacation he noticed some strange mold in unwashed glass dishes where he did his experiments. He also noticed that near mold was a clear ring where no bacteria were growing but further away bacteria were normal. Something killed that bacteria and he thought that this might be important. Fleming worked hard on his mold. He squeezed some juicy mold which he called penicillin

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    During this time, however, Fleming did meet with Howard Florey, who would later take on a vital role in the development of penicillin. By the mid 1930s, the advent of sulfa-drugs essentially ended all of Fleming's research on penicillin. However, during this time period, Howard Florey

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    Sir Alexander Fleming changed the world of medicine not only in his days but also in the world today. We have the medicines and antibiotics that we have today because of Alexander Fleming. His discovery was much needed in the world and I hate to think where we would be in the medicine world if he hadn’t discovered penicillin. Alexander Fleming was born on August 6, 1881 in Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland. He was born on Lochfield Farm, which was his family’s farm. Alex was the seventh of eight children

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    creator of James Bond put a lot of not only effort into creating the character, but also a lot of his heart and soul. It could be argued that James Bond is an image creation of Ian Fleming. That Fleming created an autobiography through James Bond without actually making an autobiography. Without these elements of Fleming within Bond, it’s quite possible to say Bond and his story lines might not have been as successful as they are. One of these elements seemed to have more of an effect on not just one

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    Penicillin's Discovery

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    briefly outline how Penicillin’s discovery contributed historically, scientifically and in the military, particularly in the Second World War. The history of Penicillin’s discovery can be accredited to fate, luck or just poor hygiene. It was Alexander Fleming who happened across Penicillin in September 1928 at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School (Wood 2010, ¶14).

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    Within James Bond’s universe, sex and violence are often the same thing. James’ gun is used not as an extension of his penis, but as his penis. When in M tells him that he is going to need a new gun because his old one no longer suffices, Fleming describes Bond’s relationship with his old gun using masturbatory terms, describing how Bond “had dismantled the gun and oiled it and packed the bullets carefully into the spring loaded magazine and tried the action once or twice, pumping the cartridges

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    Howard Florey Essay

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    Fleming’s work was later expanded by Howard Florey and Ernst Chain and their team at Oxford University beginning in 1938, about ten years after Fleming’s first findings. They were able to transform penicillin as a curiosity in the lab and antiseptic to the life-saving antibiotic we know it as today. Howard Florey was deemed at an early age by his older sister who was a medical student at the time to be the next “Pasteur” due to his interest in pursuing medical research. Florey then achieved much

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    drug many people use to relieve pain. But many people don’t know where it came from. The discovery of penicillin was actually an accident! Alexander Fleming is credited with the discovery of penicillin but Howard Florey and Ernst Chain did further research. When Alexander Fleming left for vacation in September of 1928 his lab was a complete mess. Fleming returned to his laboratory one month later he examined every petri dish that was covered in mold. One petri dish was full of the staphylococci culture

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    Ian Fleming was born on May 28, 1908 in London, England. He was one of four sons. His older brother was Peter and his two younger brothers were Richard and Michael. His parents were Valentine and Evelyn. Valentine was the son of Robert Fleming, who was the most successful merchant bankers. Ian Fleming grew up in a wealthy and dominant family. Fleming attended Eton College in 1921. He may not have been an expert in academics, but in athletics, he excelled. Eton College was one of England's top schools

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