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Which contains the endothelium?

During the cold pressor test, which centers of the medulla are turned ON?

If a subject experiences a sudden drop in BP, which centers of the medulla are turned on?

We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties.   Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while        We wear the mask.   We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise,        We wear the mask!

Late submissions of essays will receive point deductions of 10 points per day (a letter grade per day) and after two days will not be accepted and will earn a zero on the assignment.

Identify the title of the quote: “That was why Chicken Little was missing for three days and didn’t get to the embalmer’s until the fourth day, by which time he was unrecognizable to almost everybody who once knew him, and even his mother wasn’t deep down sure, except that it just had to be him since nobody could find him. When she saw his clothes lying on the table in the basement of the mortuary, her mouth snapped shut, and when she saw his body her mouth flew wide open again and it was seven hours before she was able to close it and make the first sound.”

Identify the title: I have ridden in your cart, driver, waved my nude arms at villages going by, learning the last bright routes, survivor where your flames still bite my thigh and my ribs crack where your wheels wind. A woman like that is not ashamed to die. I have been her kind.

Identify the following author: This poet was one of the writers who chose to live in Europe after World War I when so many were disillusioned with the destruction of the war and the seeming party atmosphere of the twenties. His verses are often recognizable because of the unusual spacing and capitalization of his lines that do not follow the conventions of poetry stanzas.  The unusual spacing adds to the insight in the poetry and shows the spoken reading of the poems.

Identify the title for the following items: The Sixties Songbook, a proposed log cabin, Paducah Community College, a Civil War battle park, a drive-in theater.

Title where the following passage can be found: “As Reverend Deal moved into his sermon, the hands of the women unfolded like pairs of raven’s wings and flew high above their hats in the air. They did not hear all of what he said; they heard the one word, or phrase, or inflection that was for them the connection between the event and themselves. For some it was the term “Sweet Jesus.” And they saw the Lamb’s eye and the truly innocent victim: themselves. They acknowledged the innocent child hiding in the corner of their hearts, holding a sugar-and-butter sandwich. That one. The one who lodged deep in their fat, thin, old, young skin, and was the one the world had hurt. . . . Then they left their pews. For with some emotions one has to stand. They spoke, for they were full and needed to say. They swayed, for the rivulets of grief or of ecstasy must be rocked. And when they thought of all that life and death locked into that little closed coffin they danced and screamed, not to protest God’s will but to acknowledge it and confirm once more their conviction that the only way to avoid the Hand of God is to get in it.”