4. Myth: If my heart rate is normal, my blood pressure is fine. Sometimes your heart rate and your blood pressure go hand in hand. For example, when you exercise, or get angry or scared, they both go up. But they're not always linked. If your heart rate is normal, your blood pressure may not be.
In A Nutshell. Harriet Beecher Stowe âs inspiration for Uncle Tomâs Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which made aiding or assisting runaway slaves a crime in free states. Uncle Tomâs Cabin, which was first published in 1852, is thus a deliberate and carefully written anti-slavery argument. Sure, itâs a novel, but donât forget that itâs also a sermon intended to convince a Christian audience that slavery is an evil institution and must be destroyed.
The Book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, written by Mark Twain in 1876, takes place in a little town called St. Petersburg, Missouri, on the Mississippi River sometime in the 1840's. The town is imaginary, but it's believed the novel is based upon the author's own life in Hannibal, Missouri.