Envelope

a bit square these days, if you know what I mean.” Bert replies with “I sure do, pal.” Then he walks into the backroom of the post office and grabs an envelope. He passes it to me and says “Give this to Tom and John, they will know what it is for.” Tom and John are outside the post office drinking coffee and talking. I give them the envelope, John opens it. I then ask “What is it?” He replies “passports, three of them.” “Looks like we are heading to Dubai guys.” says Tom. “We?” I say “For…

Every day at school goes by great except for when the clock strikes 1:00 p.m. This means it is time for yet another day in English class, which I absolutely dread due to the simple fact of not being good at it. I honestly do not know how this could get any worse. Ever since I had to take English in school, I absolutely despised it. Never did I come into English with a preconceived idea of how I would feel about it, however, from the very first day I knew I was not a fan. I remember being great…

It had been years since I had gone through the photographs in my basement and I pulled a random envelope from the very bottom of my family’s photography box. A feeling surprise overcame me when I discovered an envelope with photographs from the summer of 2006. In one of the photos, there was a picture of a young girl, who can’t be older than eight, sitting in my unsinkable orange boat. She’s smiling with…

FPV is in the family Parvoviridae, which contains 26 species of virus that infect a broad host range, covering species from invertebrates to humans. Parvoviruses are small single stranded DNA viruses enveloped by a T=1 non-enveloped capsid protein. Replication of these viruses can only occur when the host cell is in S-phase of its mitotic cycle (15). FPV has a very small linear genome that is only 5 kilobases in length (4). The virus’s genome has specific sequences, similar to a TATA boxes, that…

private high school. Walking towards the mailbox outside, my phone kept buzzing. As I opened it, I immediately noticed three envelopes, two big and one small. Although I already knew what a small envelope meant, I still opened it hoping I was waitlisted. Sadly, Gonzaga College High School, my first pick, rejected me. Consumed by anger and sadness, I forgot of the two other envelopes. Since sixth grade, I wanted to attend Gonzaga for its prestige for…

The Way We Were When I was a kid, I used to pretend I was an agent, on a top-secret quest to stop the mal-intentioned leader of a powerful nation from detonating a bomb or winning a war, completing the final step in a somehow lethal trade agreement. In my imagination, there was no evil too big overcome, no plot too complex to be thwarted, no genius too clever to be out-smarted. And I was always the one to stop him, to figure everything out at the last minute and save the world. As an…

It was well after five thirty on Friday and I was just about to leave when the phone rang. Frowning, I reached over and lifted up the phone. “Hello. Julie Garrett here, can I help you?” “Security here, ma’am, there is a Miss Stone and Mister Ellis here to see you. From Loretto, says they need your signature on some inspection documents.” I let out an exasperated sigh. I thought I had finished all the documents related to Loretto yesterday. They were turning out to be an irritating client but…

gain entry into a cell. It is usually done through the agonistic stimulation of a host-receptor. Usually with viruses that have an envelope surrounding the virion, it is observed that those viruses gain entry into the cell via endocytosis. This is the case with Ebola. The virus attacks the host by attaching to host receptors using the glycoproteins studded in the envelope and is endocytosed into macrophagosomes. In order to fully penetrate the cytosol, the viral membrane must then fuse with the…

I suddenly wake up to multiple knocks on my door. I abruptly rush downstairs to get the door. However, when I open the door all I see is an envelope lying on the floor with my name on it. I quickly shut the door and open the envelope, inside was a ticket with my name on it and a note with instructions. The instructions were to hold the ticket and close my eyes and imagine a place in time in which I would like to visit. Immediately I closed my eyes and imagined. BAM!! Just like that I was on a…

In elementary and middle school receiving my report card was something I dread the most. On top of that, I also dreaded getting the yellow envelope signed by my parents stating that they have received and gone through it. Seventh grade was the year that I have received my first “F”. For that reason, I did not want to hand my parent my report card. It was a Friday, I was in my homeroom and everyone there was eager to get their report card and then leave. On the other hand, I was sitting at my…