Lysander and the Whiskey
Once upon a time, in a thick enchanting evergreen forest, lived a young man. He was tall but scrawny and his skin was a deep chestnut from spending his life with nature. His hair was assumed brown, but it was soaked in so much filth that it could be a red or even a blonde color. It was summertime and the lad was relaxing on a hammock he built with willow tree branches.
His mouth spread open slowly and his chest rose as he breathed in a deep, lazy yawn. He stretched his thin arms high above him, and smiled as he felt his muscles tense. He fisted his hands and rubbed them over his eyes to help unglue his lids stuck shut. His eyes received handfuls of dirt and the boy blinked wildly to cleanse them out.
“Lysander!” the voice boomed, waking the lad from his peaceful trance, and sending him tumbling off his hammock. “A chariot comes near! Get goin’, ya rascal!” Lysander was dragged up off the ground by his ear. He looked up to see another scraggly boy, with flaming red hair. Lysander hurried to follow the red-haired boy, keeping sight of his freckle splattered back as he rushed to lead the way through the brush. They ran for the main road that passed through their forest.
Sure enough, there was a fancy chariot pulling up alongside them. Lysander and his friend jumped in front of it and shouted, “Yield!” The chariot slowed and an old man peered his shriveled-up face out the side.
“Gentleman, this is private property,” Lysander heaved his chest high as though he were a proud aristocrat, “The land belongs to my master, Sir Humphrenfrank. I am not to let you through.”
“Oh, crock. I been round these parts an’ I never heard of any Humphrenfrankster. I’d be damned if I was wrong in saying you’re a prankster.”
“Be warned, you oughtn’t show disrespect on land that ain’t yours, sir,” The red-haired boy answered.
“Aw, come off it boys. I gotta get my way through so cut it out with the ploys.”
“In honesty sir, I suppose I can do you a favor. I can let you through if you would pay some small tolls, eight shillings of gold, sir.”
“Eight shillings! I’m not that meek! Boys make an honest five at the blacksmith’s for a week!”
In the United States there was a vicious enemy everyone feared. In the 1950s the United States was under attack by the ruthless Poliomyelitis virus. Americans lived in constant fear of their children contracting this horrible virus that left many children paralyzed. During the outbreaks in the 1950s foundations were created to fund research and create awareness to help find a way to eradicate the virus. Americans become focused on doing anything in their power to fight this virus off. Jonas Salk’s Exploration of Medicine and research led to the creation of the Polio vaccine that united the country, prevented further outbreaks, and introduced a new form of treatment which has limited the fatality of polio infections today.
Broadsea approaches Odysseus and offers him a lovely sword in repentance for his rash words earlier. Later,after being given a nice bath and some clothes odyssey asks demodokus to sing about the great man odyssey in the Trojan horse. He begins to cry like a woman , were not sure why he asked for demodokus to sing this song ,since it makes him cry. Broadsea sees Odysseus weeping and begs for
“No, you rip those boys right off him. You can’t always defend yourself. You’ll have to be willing to fight for things you love.”
Ralph shook his head rapidly, standing up, and grabbing a hold of the mirrors frame. “No, Piggy, I didn’t! Honest!”
The man was a human tree, his height, towering high above Papa’s six feet two inches. The long trunk of his massive body bulged with muscles, and his skin, of the deepest ebony, was partially scattered upon his face and neck, as if by fire. Deep life lines were cut in his face and his hair was splotched with grey, but his eyes were clear and penetrating. (34-35)
In the beginning of this story, one expects for the characters to follow the concepts that they represent. This story displays one man's journey to leave his home and comfort zone in order to fully explore his curiosity. He goes off into a forest and undergoes a life changing experience there. He encounters three different things that set him on the path to the journey of knowledge. This forest was symbolic of an assessment of strength, bravery, and survival. It took determination to survive in the forest and the young person entering into it would not emerge the same. Conversely, this story is more representative than realistic and the peril is of the character. This story is more of a vision or conscious daydream th...
"I d-d-don't know! W-w-why don't you go check it out, or are you too scared to?" I mocked her.
The polio virus which causes poliomyelitis in humans is an enterovirus which belongs to the picornavirus (small, RNA) family. Polio virus is rapid, acid-resistant, stable, highly tissue specific and consists of a single-stranded, positive RNA. Polio virus is able to reside in the throat or intestinal tract of humans. Poliomyelitis is a highly contagious infectious disease which has three strains, poliovirus 1 (PV1), PV2 and PV3. Polio virus, although rare in developed countries, can be found in many under-developed countries due to the uncommonness of vaccinations there. Polio is known as a disease of development. The oldest known record of polio is in an Egyptian stone engraving of a young priest from 1350 B.C. with a withered leg, characteristic of a polio survivor. Loeffler and Frosch were the first individuals to see polio in 1898. The largest US epidemic was in 1916 in New York City.
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Many viruses have come under fire lately as more and more parents are choosing to not inoculate their children against many debilitating diseases. Polio vaccination has raised my interest because there is lots of new research and programs coming out to eradicate polio for good. I believe in the polio vaccination, and all the good it has done to help prevent a debilitating disease. There are many arguments out there that seem very likable, especially for parents that are trying the all-natural route, and trying to lessen the pain their child must go through every time they go to a doctor. Wild polio is no longer a problem, the last time it was diagnosed was back in 1999, and the main problem that we are seeing today is polio coming from the vaccination that is supposed to make us immune.
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Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was the product of a highly studied germ. The discoveries about the polio virus were communicated to the public as they occurred and the public was interested in funding more research into the virus. When the Salk vaccine went to trial across America in 1954, the public was many times more knowledgeable about disease than they could have been before the discovery of the germ theory. The workings of the vaccine were made known to all, through media articles about scientists typing the three strains of polio to the loud arguments made between Salk and Albert Sabin about whether the mechanisms of a killed or live-attenuated vaccine would be more beneficial. When Salk gave his on-air discussion of his vaccine to the entire United States, he gave information directly to those who would be- or would offer their children to be- vaccinated (Kluger 274), therefore increasing their understanding of the vaccine and creating widespread acceptance of
A disease that can cause someone to become crippled and unable to move. As well lead to becoming a harmful and fatal virus to young children under the age of five. The significance of this paper is to inform people of what this disease can do to a person, and what it has done over time. Thanks to World Health Organization and the College of Physicians. For their websites that have provided me with information. Also, for Peg Kehret and Martha Sherwood-Pike for their writings. And to Karla Iverson’s information about the past. Polio, or poliomyelitis, is an uncommon but yet, deadly disease in the United States. It made a huge impact on the United States history, as well as in the world’s too. To know about the past polio has created. We need to discuss what it
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