Essays on Luc

COPD is a medical condition that is characterized by alteration in lung parenchyma, bronchitis, emphysema and narrowing of the respiratory passages. It occurs as a consequence to chronic inflammation reaction involving the respiratory tract. The mucous secretion and fibrosis associated with chronic inflammation, can cause blockage and narrowing of the airway. Bronchitis refers to inflammation of the inner lining of the lung, while, emphysema is a clinical condition that occurs following the long term destruction of lung parenchyma. Bronchitis and emphysema are both characteristic features of COPD. Destruction of lung parenchyma causes loss of alveolar attachment and decreases the ...

Shot as a film within a film, La Chinoise that can also be referred to as “The Chinese,” involves five youths in the late 1960s in France who had come together to constitute a rebel Marxist group where they decide to stay together in a loft. The film comprises of five main characters: Véronique, a philosophy student, and the main leader of the sect, Guillaume who depicts himself as a theatrical actor, Yvonne, a young woman brought up in a farm in France, Henri a member of the group and Serge Kirilov a Russian pessimist. The revolutionary group ...

This paper would be dedicated to the assessment of the Breathless (1960) by Jean-Luc Godard. This movie depicts the story of wandering criminal and his girlfriend. This movie would be analyzed from the perspective of the contemporary socio-historic trends. The framework of this film was used by Godard for representation of the set of the urgent themes, as they were perceived by the director, and which have stayed relevant for the further generations. The core ideas of existentialism were represented in this movie – for instance, evident absurdity of life and importance of individual rules in context of generally-accepted social ...

Market Structure

In simple terms, market structure refers to the classification of the various types of markets, based on their unique features on how they allocate prices of a given product in the market. The aspect is primarily classified into two, which include perfect and imperfect market.

Oligopoly

Refers to a type of market structure where there are few sellers in a given economy with many buyers for the commodity. With oligopoly, the sellers have an influence on the commodity price in the market and can significantly affect competition. An example of a company to indicate the above case is the mobile ...

Introduction

Heart valve surgery is used for the repairing or replacement of valves of the heart that are diseased. The patients receive general anesthesia in this type of surgery whereby the surgeon makes a large surgical incision in the breastbone. The incision is meant to enable the surgeon to reach the aorta and the heart (Kato Paragraph 2). The relevance of stroke to the procedure of open-chest valve surgery is that it is one of the risks associated with cardiac surgery. Other risks include death, failure of the kidneys, cardiac arrest, irregular beats of the heart, and post-pericardiotomy syndrome (Kato ...

Introduction

Natural resources for decades have always provided many nations with the affluent source of wealth that helps in building their economy. As such, many of the countries that majorly depend on the natural resources such as copper, oil, gold and uranium often embark on intensive mining practices to ensure their natural reserves are productive and can offer sustainability to their economies. Due to their dependency on these resources, the countries often have structures and laws that govern how they handle the resources in every stage to ensure maximization. It is important to highlight that the resources are most often ...

ABSTRACT

Smoking has become a habit that many people in the word adapt to. However, the problem is crucial to the lives of these people since there are health implications with regards to tobacco smoking. People smoke as a leisure activity or as fun for them in the long run. The paper will be looking to analyses on a research that was conducted on smokers and non-smokers in the United States. The analysis is based on data that was previously collected for use. The paper will be looking at the economic and health effects of the smokers based on the ...

There can be no denial that the cinematic form of art provides enormous scope for the creative artists to exude their skills and leave an impression on the minds of the avid audience. Now, it needs to be reckoned that the narration of a film is one of the key elements that helps engage the audience and communicate the idea or story of the film. However, the narrative process of the film too provides ample scope of exudation of aesthetic sense and creative style of the filmmaker. A scrutiny of a couple of films in relation to the narrative ...

In cinematography, the development of film made it possible to capture objects in movement. Contemporary technologies allow editing objects, actions and background in real time with one press of a button. In the late eighteen century, however, filmmakers did not have modern tools to create special effects and were forced to resort to cunning techniques. One of that technique is an editing. First and foremost, we should define the editing technique. What is editing in a film industry? Editing is a redaction of shots of a film. It can be a replacement, sequence change or cutting. These cuts are ...

Posttranslational Mechanisms Regulate the Mammalian Circadian Clock

The issue of interest in these three research topics is the Circadian Clock. The first article, ‘Posttranslational Mechanisms Regulate the Mammalian Circadian Clock’ examines the posttranslational regulation of this clock in the liver of a mouse. The study published in this article used the mPER1 and the mPER2 proteins, the BMAL1 and the CLOCK proteins to show their significance in the stabilization of phosphorylated mPER2 proteins by the mCRYs. This article shows the Circadian rhythms to be greatly influenced by the biological clocks in the mammalian bodies. The timing system in mammals for example, is shown to be organized in a ...