English, 10.12.2020 03:50, michaela134
Paraphrasing Practice
Not that it’s easy to build awareness. Forget the pink marketing blitz; just try to find a ribbon for lung cancer. There’s even a dispute over the appropriate color, according to Andrea Ferris, president of the Longevity Foundation, who says it’s blue. Others say it’s clear or pearl.
“In every other disease, the first question people ask is, ‘How can I help?’ But with lung cancer, there’s no empathy. It’s always, ‘Did you smoke?’ After a while, it’s just easier not to say anything,” Ferris said.
In O’Brien’s case, doctors pinpointed a rare genetic mutation, called ALK. The mutation, or change in the genes, is created when two normal genes fuse together to form a new, cancer-causing one.
The University of Chicago is one of the nation’s major treatment centers because it is testing a drug designed to help patients by blocking ALK. This drug helped contain O’Brien’s cancer for a while, but now it has come roaring back, invading her lungs and brain. Two months ago, a scan revealed a liver studded with tumors.
She is now in another early stage clinical trial. She has started a blog to chronicle her lung cancer journey.
“I try not to get too mad when people ask if I smoked,” she said. “Instead, I try to turn it into an opportunity to talk about it … to educate. I guess that’s the teacher in me.”
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English, 21.06.2019 17:00, zitterkoph
Ineed advice. i have a lot of friends at school but recently my best friend for some reason didn’t like our friend group. she wanted to switch to a new table during lunch. she said she found a new table where we would be welcomed if i wanted to come. i agreed because i knew i would continue to talk to them outside of lunch. after a month or two, my best friend got mad at our new lunch table group. so she left for a day or two, but i stayed because i actually kinda liked it there, even if it was kinda crazy. then she came back to the table. eventually i started to miss my old friends at my old lunch table. so i went over there for one lunch. then after lunch i sat at my new lunch spot before the bell rang. they all called me a traitor. so now i sit with my old lunch group, which is fine because i missed them, but i also miss my new, now old, lunch table. what should i do? p. s. sorry if you loose your last brain cells trying to understand this.
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English, 22.06.2019 03:30, priscillaoliver4487
"first of all, how could they mistake a man for a sasquatch? " which best explains the purpose of this question (from review 2)? a) to illustrate how much the book uses humor b) to show how unbelievable parts of the story are c) to convince the reader that the novel is poorly written d) to highlight the differences between the characters in the novel
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