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Which organ is primarily responsible for breaking down old or damaged RBCs?

During ventricular ejection, 

Which force drives filtration at the arterial end of a capillary?

Which hormone stimulates erythropoiesis?

Gawain has an image of her on the inside of his shield. 

Identify the context, and significance of the following passage from Beowulf: (4-6 good sentences)  “Think how the Heatho-Bards will be bound to feel, Their lord, Ingeld, and his loyal thanes, When he walks in with that woman to the feast: Danes are at the table, being entertained, Honored guest in glittering regalia, Burnished ring-mail that was their hosts’ birthright, Looted when the Heatho-Bards could no longer wield Their weapons in the shield-clash, when they went down With their beloved comrades and forfeited their lives. Then an old spearman will speak while they are drinking, Having glimpsed some heirloom that brings alive Memories of the massacre

The Dream of the Rood is an example of a ________________, where there is a story inside of a story.  The dreamer begins the narration, but then he gives way to the second speaker, the cross on which Christ was crucified.  

On Christmas Eve, his prayer to God and the Virgin Mary is to “happen upon some house where mass might be heard”

He is Aeneas’ great-grandson and the mythical founder of England.

Identify the context and significance of the following quotation from Beowulf (4-6 good sentences):                  There was a feud one time, begun by your father.                 With his own hands he had killed Heatholaf                 who was a Wulfing; so war was looming  and his people, in fear of it, forced him to leave. . . .                 Finally I healed the feud by paying:                 I shipped a treasure-trove to the Wulfings,                 And Ecgtheow acknowledged me with oaths of allegiance