Essays on Minot

After reading the poem by Susan Minot “My Husband’s back” I began to think about love relations and their role in our life. How do they affect us? How much do they influence our lives? The author tries to show her feeling in this short poem, but everything is clear without any other words. The author is ready to travel everywhere to be behind the back of her husband. There is only one person in her life – her husband and it is may be not real love but love dependence. But from that poem it becomes clear that ...

Organization:

The human body is home to a variety of organisms ranging from the minute bacteria to eukaryotic mites. Demodex folliculorum is a small arthropod that lives in human hair follicles and sebaceous glands. D. folliculorum and the closely related D. brevis live in a commensal relationship on humans and are harmless in the normal course of events. Demodex was first discovered by Henle in 1841 and described by Simon Akbulatova in 1842. The existence of the mite in cadavers was established by Stcherbatchoff in 1903 and later by Gmeiner in 1908. Riechers and Kopf in 1969 showed that maximum ...

Essay on vitamin B12

Vitamin B12 is a nutrient playing an important role in the manufacturing of blood cells and maintaining a healthy nervous system. The nutrient is involved in many processes like methyl transfer, nucleic acid metabolism, and acid myelin synthesis and repair. It is found in products like meat, eggs, shellfish, milk, and cheese (Johnson, 2012).

The discovery of vitamin B12 occurred in several phases for about 100 years. Pernicious anemia, as it is called today, was first described by Thomas Addison in the mid-19th century (Whitby, 1955). Several years later, researchers Minot and Murphy demonstrated liver or liver extracts to be the ...