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Harper Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American author best known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which deals with the issues of racism that were observed by the author as a child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Despite being Lee's only published book, it led to Lee being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States for her contribution to literature in 2007.[1] Lee has also been the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, but has always declined to make a speech.
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      Can't believe she's still alive.....and she actually got introduced to the president.
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      Harper Lee's birthday and info
  • After completing To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee accompanied Capote to Holcomb, Kansas, to assist him in researching what they thought would be an article on a small town's response to the murder of a farmer and his family. Capote expanded the material into his best-selling book, In Cold Blood (1966).
  • Lee showed her feistiness in her 1966 letter to the editor in response to the attempts of a Richmond, Virginia area school board to ban To Kill a Mockingbird as "immoral literature": “ Recently I have received echoes down this way of the Hanover County School Board's activities, and what I've heard makes me wonder if any of its members can read. Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that “To Kill a Mockingbird” spells out in words of seldom more than two syllables a code of honor and conduct, Christian in its ethic, that is the heritage of all Southerners. To hear that the novel is "immoral" has made me count the years between now and 1984, for I have yet to come across a better example of doublethink. I feel, however, that the problem is one of illiteracy, not Marxism. Therefore I enclose a small contribution to the Beadle Bumble Fund that I hope will be used to enroll the Hanover County School Board in any first grade of its choice.[7]
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  • Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama
  • On November 5, 2007, Lee was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush at a White House Ceremony. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award in the United States and recognizes individuals who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors."[15][16]
  • After completing To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee accompanied Capote to Holcomb, Kansas, to assist him in researching what they thought would be an article on a small town's response to the murder of a farmer and his family. Capote expanded the material into his best-selling book, In Cold Blood (1966).
  • Lee, Harper (1960) To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: J. B. Lippincott.
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      Her real name is Nelle... lol
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  • Having written several long stories, Harper Lee located an agent in November 1956. The following month at the East 50th townhouse of her friends Michael Brown and Joy Williams Brown, she received a gift of a year's wages with a note: "You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas.
  • Transferring to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Lee was known for being a loner and an individualist. She did make a greater attempt at a social life there, joining a sorority for a while.
  • Many details of To Kill a Mockingbird are apparently autobiographical. Like Lee, the tomboy (Scout) is the daughter of a respected small-town Alabama attorney. The plot involves a legal case, the workings of which would have been familiar to Lee, who studied law. Scout's friend Dill was inspired by Lee's childhood friend and neighbor, Truman Capote,[7] while Lee is the model for a character in Capote's first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms.
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      Connection
  • When Lee attended the 1983 Alabama History and Heritage Festival in Eufaula, Alabama, she presented the essay "Romance and High Adventure."
  • In 1944, Lee graduated from Monroe County High School in Monroeville,[2] and enrolled at the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery for one year, and pursued a law degree at the University of Alabama from 1945 to 1949, pledging the Chi Omega sorority.
  • In 1949, a 23-year-old Lee arrived in New York City. She struggled for several years, working as a ticket agent for Eastern Airlines and for the British Overseas Air Corp (BOAC). While in the city, Lee was reunited with old friend Truman Capote, one of the literary rising stars of the time. She also befriended Broadway composer and lyricist Michael Martin Brown and his wife Joy. In 1956, the Browns gave Lee an impressive Christmas present—to support her for a year so that she could write full time. She quit her job and devoted herself to her craft. The Browns also helped her find an agent, Maurice Crain. He, in turn, was able to get the publishing firm interested in her first novel, which was first titled Go Set a Watchman, then Atticus, and later To Kill a Mockingbird. Working with editor Tay Hohoff, Lee finished the manuscript in 1959.
  • Lee, Harper (1961) "Love — In Other Words". Vogue Magazine. Lee, Harper (1961) "Christmas to Me". McCall's Magazine. Lee, Harper (1965) "When Children Discover America". McCall's Magazine.
  • r Lippincott in 1960 — to receive the inaugural ATTY Award for positive depictions of attorneys in the arts from the Spector Gadon & Rosen Foundation. At the urging of Peck's widow Veronique, Lee traveled by train from Monroeville to Los Angeles in 2005 to accept the Los Angeles Public Library Literary Award. She has also attended luncheons for students who have wri
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  • President George W. Bush presents Harper Lee with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House on November 5, 2007 Born April 28, 1926 (1926-04-28) (age 84) Monroeville, Alabama Occupation Novelist Nationality American Subjects Literature Literary movement Southern Gothic
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  • bestseller with more than 30 million copies in print. In 1999, it was voted "Best Novel of the Century" in a poll by the Library Journal. In high school, Lee developed an interest in English literature. After graduatin
  • She eventually becam
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Cholera! pbs :D - 0 views

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HaitiCholera Period 7

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  • outbreak of the deadly disease, cholera, has claimed the lives of
  • 0 Haitians with more than 18,000 cases reported in recent weeks.
  • Cholera victims await treatment in Haiti, where the disease has broken out due to a lack of sanitation and clean water following a de
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  • disease
  • sease has broken out due to a lack of sanitation and clean water following a de
  • While cholera is a disease not common in Haiti, researchers have traced this outbreak to a strain of bacteria identical to one found in South Asia.
  • eports of cholera cases in the Dominican Republic and Florida
  • of cholera include diarrhea, high fever, vomiting and dehydration
  • Symptoms
  • poor living conditions
  • its population of 10 million.
  • The government has launched a country-wide radio and television campaign encouraging Haitians to wash their hands and avoid contaminated water sources.
  • Contaminated water is a main culprit in transmitting cholera.
  • top priority in halting this crisis.
  • riots in two northern cities, Cap-Haitien and Port-de-Paix
  • Protestors are furious with a U.N. delegation from Nepal who they believe introduced this specific strand of cholera to the region.
  • Haiti is being closely monitored, as further crises could send a wave of refugees to the Florida coast.
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Morphine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • It was discovered in 1804 by Friedrich Sertürner, first distributed by same in 1817, and first commercially sold by Merck in 1827, which at the time was a single small chemists' shop. It was more widely used after the invention of the hypodermic needle in 1857. It took its name from the Greek God of dreams Morpheus
  • Morphine is the most abundant alkaloid found in opium, the dried sap (latex) derived from shallowly slicing the unripe seedpods of the opium, or common or edible, poppy, Papaver somniferum. Morphine was the first active principle purified from a plant source and is one of at least 50 alkaloids of several different types present in opium, Poppy Straw Concentrate, and other poppy derivatives.
  • 8 to 17 per cent of the dry weight of opium
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  • Lower concentrations may be found in a handful of other species in the poppy family, as well as in some species of hops and mulberry trees. Morphine is produced most predominantly early in the life cycle of the plant. Past the optimum point for extraction, various processes in the plant produce codeine, thebaine, and in some cases low quantities of hydromorphone, dihydromorphine, dihydrocodeine, tetrahydrothebaine, and hydrocodone.
  • Morphine has a high potential for addiction; tolerance and psychological dependence develop rapidly, although physical addiction may take several months to develop.
  • Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 in Paderborn, Germany, by Friedrich Sertürner.[2]
  • Later it was found that morphine was more addictive than either alcohol or opium, and its extensive use during the American Civil War allegedly resulted in over 400,000[4] sufferers from the "soldier's disease" of morphine addiction.[
  • Diacetylmorphine (better known as heroin) was synthesized from morphine in 1874 and brought to market by Bayer in 1898. Heroin is approximately 1.5 to 2 times more potent than morphine on a milligram-for-milligram basis.
  • An ampoule of morphine with integral needle for immediate use. From WWII.
  • Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is common among intravenous drug users.
  • A large overdose can cause asphyxia and death by respiratory depression if the person does not receive medical attention immediately.[31] Treatments include administration of activated charcoal, intravenous fluids, laxatives and naloxone. The latter completely reverses morphine's effects, but precipitates immediate onset of withdrawal in opiate-addicted subjects. Multiple doses may be needed.[31]
  • 200 mg
  • sleepiness, and feelings of pleasure. They can be released in response to pain, strenuous exercise, orgasm, or excitement.
  • phenanthrene opioid receptor agonist
  • Chronic Opioid Analgesic Therapy (COAT)
  • Morphine is a benzylisoquinoline alkaloid with two additional ring closures.
  • C17H19NO3H2O
  • "body high",
  • Morphine is known on the street and elsewhere as M, Number 13 (13th letter of alphabet, cf. Number 8 for heroin, Number 3 for codeine or cocaine)
  • , glad stuff, happy stuff, happy powder, white nurse, Red Cross, first line, unkie, mojo, God's Own Medicine, Vitamin M, Emma. Emmy, Lady M, white lady, cube, cube juice, mo, morf, morph, morpho, Miss Emma, mofo, hard stuff, dry grog, white hop (more accurately used for pantopon-type drugs), white merchandise, uncle, Uncle Morphy, big M, Murphy, morphy, coby, cobics, gold dust, monkey dust, love dust (cf. "initiative" for cocaine; more commonly used for MDA or MDMA), needle candy (cf. nose candy for cocaine; heroin, Dilaudid, Numorphan and the like are also known as such) and others.
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    Morphine Addiction
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Haitian Spicy Beef Stew - 0 views

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  • Haitian Spicy Beef Stew
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    Recipe directions
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Bouillon (Haitian Soup) - 0 views

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    Recipe for Bouillon (Haitian Soup)
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    My food topic - Arthur
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Haitian Art Factory | Haitian Art History - 0 views

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      Began in 1804
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What Is Haitian Art Like? | eHow.com - 0 views

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      Haitian Art. Depicts lots of joy. Dates back to pre-comlumbian era
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Cholera Symptoms, Causes, Treatment - What are cholera symptoms and signs on MedicineNet - 0 views

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HaitiCholera Period 7

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  • Approximately one in 20 (5%) infected persons will have severe disease characterized by profuse watery diarrhea, vomiting, and leg cramps.
  • What is the treatment for cholera?
  • Patients can be treated with oral rehydration solution, a prepackaged mixture of sugar and salts to be mixed with water and drunk in large amounts. This solution is used throughout the world to treat diarrhea. Severe cases also require intravenous fluid replacement. With prompt rehydration, fewer than 1% of cholera patients die.
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With cheap food imports, Haiti can't feed itself - World news - Americas - msnbc.com - 0 views

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  • It may also have shaken up the way the developing world gets food.
  • "A combination of food aid, but also cheap imports have ... resulted in a lack of investment in Haitian farming, and that has to be reversed,
  • Haiti's government is asking for $722 million for agriculture, part of an overall request of $11.5 billion.
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A brief history of Haitian food - by Janet Farricelli - Helium - 0 views

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  • A brief history of Haitian food
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    History of haitian food
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Haiti relief: Finding the best ways to help - 0 views

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  • An easy way to help is to make a quick donation using your cell phone. You can also donate $10 to Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti by texting "Haiti" to 90999. More than $3 million has been donated so far. The donation itself is added to your next phone bill. Similarly, you can donate $5 with your phone by texting "YELE" to 501501. Money goes to Yele Haiti, a charity founded in 2005 by recording artist Wyclef Jean, Goodwill Ambassador to Haiti .
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      cool .
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