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Coronary Arteries Beta Blockers
2,398 words... ot a frank heart attack. The condition is stabilized with antiplatelet agents, anticoagulants, nitrates and beta blockers. Diagnostically, an angiogram or (after stabilization) a stress test is often performed to confirm whether or not the presenting symptoms were truly from the heart and if so, whether an angioplasty or bypass operation is needed. RETURN TO TOP -V- Varicose Veins-These are dilated veins in the legs that do not drain the blood out of the legs properly. They occur with aging ...
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Iambic Pentameter Emily Dickinson
2,820 wordsWhat is Poetry? What is poetry? What is a poem? How can you tell the difference between poetry and prose? I usually try to provide a definition, knowing that the definition is little more than a simplified starting point for this elusive and irresistible genre. I developed this one collaboratively with my colleague at TCC, Stan Barger, who team-taught English 112 with me several summers: Poetry is the concentrated, rhythmic, verbal expression of observations, perceptions, and feelings. Poetry lo...
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Coronary Artery Disease Beats Per Minute
2,046 wordsThe Normal Cardiac Cycle During each heartbeat, the two upper chambers (right and left atria) contract, followed by contraction of the two lower pumping chambers (right and left ventricles). This action is coordinated by the hearts electrical system. Normal electrical activation of the heart occurs in an orderly fashion. With each beat, the electrical impulse starts in the sinus (or sino atrial) node (in the right atrium). The impulse spreads through the atria, stimulating the atria to contract....
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Langston Hughes Discovering Authors
689 wordsWhen Langston Hughes Fields 1 When writing, one may take into consideration his or her surroundings such as living environment and for family and friends. One may reflect on experiences from the past and present. All these things together form the writer s style. Because of traveling overseas and living in Harlem, Langston Hughes used illustrative words and different musical rhythms in his poems and stories to show the life of Negroes. Born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902, Langston Hughes life begu...
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Virginia Woolf
6,148 wordsWhile writing and revising Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf was corresponding with E. M. Forster, who was working on A Passage to India. In September of 1921, she records in her diary: A letter from Morgan [Forster] this morning. He seems as critical of the East as of Bloomsbury, 038; sits dressed in a turban watching his Prince dance (Diary 2. 138). His novel came out well before she finished hers; she read it and noted, Morgan is too restrained in his new book perhaps (Diary 2. 304). A note of...
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Edgar Lee Masters Quot Quot
4,784 wordsOn Imagism from Amy Lowell, Tendencies in Modern American Poetry (New York: Macmillan Company, 1917). We are now to deal with the work of the small group of poets known as Imagist's. Later, I shall explain just what are the tenets of the Imagist School, but before beginning on the work of the two poets whose names stand at the head of this chapter, it is proper to state that they only represent a fraction of the Imagist group. Of course, any one who writes poetry from the same point of view migh...
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