Blood Book Reviews Samples For Students

Let me begin with explaining what Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is. In this condition, the upper chamber of the heart experiences irregular impulses, resulting in rapid and chaotic heart beats. The may case shortness of breath and intolerance to exercise. Its serious long-term consequences include; stroke; serious bleeding; cardiac arrest, and even death.
Traditionally treatment used to be started with medications. But, this approach had a limited effect. Since 1990s, hospitals had been performing a procedure, which does not require elaborate surgery or drugs. It focuses on the causes of atrial fibrillation. This procedure is called catheter ablation. In this procedure, a ...

Many have rated the book Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness In The West (1985) as an artwork in American literature and even as Cormac McCarthy continues to publish books it has remained to be his masterpiece.
Blood Meridian is regarded as one of McCarthy’s best writing as it is a multilayered and complex reexamination of the American West mythology. Blood Meridian is defined as a historical novel as it adds in events that are documented chronicling the gang of Glanton who are hunters between the years of 1849-1850 before evolving to a band of ragged villains who murder and ...

Sherwin Bitsui comes from Arizona and is part of the Navajo clan. Currently residing in Tucson, Arizona, he has won several awards and is very much noted for his postmodern style which deals with various questions including the isolation of Indians from mainstream American society. He is also the recipient of several grants which have recognised his style of writing and which have earned him a solid reputation as a poet.
Bitsui has published several poems in a number of publications such as The Iowa Review apart from featuring in anthologies on contemporary American poets. Sherwin Bitsui has published two books, ...

The main idea of the book was to provide an alluring narrative of the outrageous historical events encompassing the assassination of John F. Kennedy in an entertaining and informative way. “Killing Kennedy” is a follow-up of Bill O’reilly’s bestselling book Killing Lincoln. In chronological order, O’reilly and Dugard recall how Kennedy from youthful elite made the journey to become the President of the United States. Kennedy’s biography in the book is infused with the movements of Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin. The story is captivating, and according to the authors the Camelot myth frequently falsified ...

There are two radically different and competing versions of family and community in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. One of these is the semi-feudal status quo of rigid divisions by race, gender, caste and social class and the other a more democratic, integrated and humane community of the future symbolized by Atticus Finch, his children and supporters. Broadly speaking, these two conflicting ideologies are not simply taking place in the small, fictional community of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. They are in conflict throughout the entire country and perhaps the world, and are not confined to one particular ...

The fact that O’Brien makes a contravening statement, by saying that due to his cowardice he went to war, he is illustrating the fact that he does not thirst for glory or feel an innate need to fight for his country. He receives his draft, and the inner perplexity and queasiness at the very idea of war force him to run towards the Canadian border. Still, the culpability about the circumlocution of war and the panic he feels about disappointing his family weigh much more than his own personal beliefs. He joins this whole war experience he abhors, while ...

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“The Hot Zone” written by Richard Preston is a non-fiction English book published by Anchor in 1995. It contains 420 pages and based on Richard Preston article “Crisis in the Hot Zone.” It is a thriller that deals with the source and occurrences relating to viral hemorrhagic fever especially Ebola viruses and Marburg viruses. The filo viruses, Ebola Virus called EBOV, Sudan Virus called SUDV, Marburg Virus called MARV and Ravn Virus called RAVV are the agents of level four of Biosafety. They are enormously hazardous to humans due to being very contagious and with an extraordinary casualty rate. There is ...

The River and the Chimp is an analytical book written by David Quammen about how the HIV originated from chimpanzees in an African forest (Quammen, 2015). The acumen of this book challenges the many unscientific beliefs about the origin of HIV and spread. There is a great need to understand where this scourge originated to beat the diverse stereotypical and unscientific beliefs. By examining the works of David Quammen in the book The River and the Chimp, this research paper shall focus on discussing the origin of HIV. The knowledge of the origin of HIV is of immense importance ...

- Cole and Birdie speak Elemeno, a language named after their favorite letters in the alphabet, "with no verb tenses, no pronouns, just words floating outside time and space, without owner or direction" (p. 6). What purpose does this language serve? How does Elemeno reflect the sisters' positions in their family and in the world? Why does Elemeno continue to be so important to Birdie throughout the novel?
The language that the sisters share determines their connection with each other. Considering that they share a special bond as sisters, both Cole and Birdie could understand each other that seem to ...

In Knockout, Suzanne Somers interviews a number of doctors who have very specific ideas on cancer treatment and prevention – namely, that radiation, chemotherapy, and mammography do not work, and can actually cause more harm than good. They then proceed to offer their own alternatives, usually from their own field of medicine, which they claim are much better solutions for preventing and treating cancer. Somers then goes on to detail her own experiences working with doctors in the face of a misdiagnosis of cancer, and how that led her to seek alternative treatments and preventative measures. Upon reading this book, I ...

Cold blood is one of the best classical non-fiction books and was written by Truman Capote in the year 1966.This author is one of the best in screen writing. Many of his short stories, plays and nonfiction have for years been recognized like novella breakfast at Tiffany’s. In that era the American justice and legal system was heavily biased and only few writers were ready to criticize these acts. In this book, Capote goes into details about the murder of Hubert clutter who was a farmer from Holcomb and also how his two of the four children and wife ...

Introduction

Edward Conlon is the author of this award winning book. “Blue Blood” covers his years in NYPD, the law enforcement background in his family, his work of conducting the street level narcotics enforcement in Housing Bureau, and a number of anecdotes concerning policing history. He is in fact a stereotype who has doggedly endured in the popular culture. Portly, flush-faced and very possibly crooked, Conlon continues cropping up everywhere from The Simpsons to The Departed. Even while real life in New York streets is policed by the boys in blue of all the colors, their fictitious counterparts inflexibly retain their ruddy ...

The book, Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America by Sarah J. Purcell, is a masterpiece both in terms of its organization and content. This book brings out the real picture of the suffering and violent experiences that American revolutionaries had to go through in order to be independent. As the title of this book indicates, freedom from the colonialist did not come on silver Plata. The participant of the revolutionary war had to shed blood while some of them lost their lives that North America can become an independent nation. One might begin to wonder what ...

Explain the main changes that occurred after WWII

World War II produced major changes in the way the main economic and military powers related. The United States had seized the opportunity to build its network of international allies, and President Truman made efforts to increase the spread of capitalism and defeat to communism and another socialist movement. The post-war era brought a lot of success to American corporate companies, a factor that increased government resources in the ensuing boom of the 1950’s. Same way, military expenditure increased by double digits between 1947 to 1960, and part of the money was used to offer military support to ...

Abstract

This book review examines the book Criminals in the Bible by Professor Mark Jones. It examines the bases and features of criminal justice and the criminalizing process across different timelines and eras. The review examines the constitutional elements of different criminal justice systems and generations and how it relates to specific aspects of society.
The book review assesses and evaluates some of the elements of society including chapter analysis and how serious crimes occur. The main discovery of this book review is that crime and criminalizing is done within the context and framework of dominant constitutional processes and generally ...

1. Why does Quail want to go to Mars?
The unknown world of another planet attracted him very much. Douglass was obsessed with the idea of trudging among its valleys again because he had already visited the planet as a secret Interplan agent.
2. Why does Quali’s wife always try to discourage his interest in Mars?
Douglas himself stated that it was a wife’s job to bring him down to Earth. In fact, Kirsten knew about his previous trip to Mars.
3. How does REKAL, INC. provide trips to Mars?
They incorporate extra-factual memory implant and provide ...

Robert Sapolsky, one of the famous professors of neurology and biology and at Stanford University wrote the book “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers,” to compare and contrast the stress responses in humans and animals. The book draws attention to experimental science to understand the concept of stress. Sapolsky’s research on animal behavior for several years in the forests of Africa forms the foundation of the book. The book gives an account of the impact of stress in humans and the strategies that enable to cope with the stress. The different chapters in the book explain the effect ...

Literature review of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1885) – is an outstanding novel by Mark Twain. Once Ernest Hemingway stated: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since" (Esther, “What Have Writers Said About Huckleberry Finn?”). Hemingway was referring to the broadest aspect of the impact of the Twain`s novel: its democracy and humanity, its versatility, and a new language for literature, simple and as close to the spoken language. All these characteristics became common for American literature of ...

Summary

The events of the narrative take place in the unnamed kingdom where the fatal epidemic called “the Red Death” spreads and kills most of its population. The illness proves to be most fatal and once the victim falls ill no cure will neither heal nor even cease the pain and bleeding caused by the “pestilence”. The overall duration of the disease is no more than half of an hour.
Prince Prospero along with loyal companions from among his knights, in order to elude the contagion, resolves to retire to one of his secluded and fortified abbeys which is ...

4 MAT Book Review: Understanding Dying, Death, and Bereavement

Summary

Leming and Dickinson's book, Understanding Dying, Death, and Bereavement (2011) is one of the books that have best addressed the topic of death. Unlike many books that have endeavored to address the topic, this book gives the topic an interdisciplinary approach. Notably, the book employs the biological, the psychological, and the social, religious, artistic and philosophical approaches to explain this phenomenon that has remained mysterious for quite a long time – perhaps centuries. According to the book, death is not only medical but also social. Death has grown to be a common topic ...

This paper will analyze the several themes, emergency and record-breaking decisions in medical practice in the various story articles as edited by Lee Gutkind, including the critical analysis of the stories in relation to the current medical practices and psychology. All the twenty-two up close medical stories explore death, palliative care and dying.

In palliative care, the key objective is relieving suffering of these patients and the most suitable way is by means of effective pain relieving methods (Kastenbaum, 155). It is for this reason that I support the idea of s peaceful death, no awkward painful and occur ...

One word can describe Lee Gutkind book at the end of life, simply excellent. Whoever reads the book would undoubtedly find it inspiring, and indispensable. This ranks the book as one of the leading figures in the nonfiction movement.

This paper will analyze the several themes and emergency and record-breaking decisions in medical practice in the various story articles as edited by Lee Gutkind, including the critical analysis of the stories In relation to the current medical practices and psychology. All the twenty-two up close medical stories explore death, palliative care and dying and subsequently expose the inner operations ...

Blacks live in complete poverty in Maycomb and have hardly any rights at all, but most of the whites are also poor, and the whole county is basically backward and marginalized, especially because of the Great Depression. Most of the whites do not even have money to pay the legal bills that they owe Atticus, but in compensation they do have a sense of racial superiority over the blacks, who are even poorer and more degraded than they are. That someone like Atticus even exists there is highly surprising, although he has no real chance of changing system as it ...

Dante Alighieri in his illustrious book “The Inferno” has classified sins at nine different levels in the form of circles. Dante has mentioned nine circles of hell as; first circle as Limbo, second circle as Lust, third circle as Gluttony, fourth circle as Avarice, fifth circle as Anger, sixth circle as Heresy, seventh circle as Violence, eighth circle as Fraud and ninth circle as Treachery. Dante has also mentioned about the provisions of punishments for these crimes according to their gravity.
Dante describe the journey of people in hell and elaborated that how people who have done sins ...

Introduction

The book Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore is a true account of the happenings in the Gilmore family. The author is a brother to Gary Gilmore who was sentenced to death after refusing all attempts to block his execution. He instead demanded that he be put to death for the crimes that he had committed earlier on. He was therefore executed by a firing squad in 1977. After Gary’s death, Mikal was faced by some irresistible emotion of loss and dissociation from his family past. However, after some time he found it necessary to explore the dark events that ...