...Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell I thought this book was amazing, It definitely was one of the best books I've ever read it had some crazy unreal moments like a talking rat but other moments where still very relatable. The book started off telling you about Emmy, she was as perfect as could be. She ate all her vegetables even the broccoli, did all her homework and she never talked back. Emmy and her parents were living a poorish life living above a bookstore that they owned until they find out that a unknown great uncle passed away and inherit all his riches. Then they move into her great uncle's huge mansion so then Emmy has change schools. Even though Emmy is a straight A student no one notices he, Not even the teacher, Emmy has said “It's like I don't even exist”. Emmys parents are now interested in traveling the world, which leaves Emmy alone with a nanny they hired miss Barmy for weeks at a time....
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...them”, a current view of drug users where they are demonized. But, in all walks of life an addiction does not discriminate between rich and poor, young or old. In Lauren Slater’s “Rat Park: The Radical Addiction Experiment”, a “junkie” named Emma is a sixty-three year old woman of high status and honor as she holds a respectable position of being a science dean at a New England college. From her antique fuchsia scarf to her gold cashmere gown, Emma symbolized an individual of the privileged and cultured society, no forms of an impoverished drug abuser. As we attempt to understand the confusion of Emma’s drug abuse, Lauren Slater states, “To ease the pressure, she went under the knife and came up to consciousness with a surgical seam and one brown bottle of OxyContin, the medicinal disks releasing her to a place without pain… Emma Lowry, however, has a different view of the...
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...2015 Naked Mole Rat Naked mole rats are very interesting indeed. They are a result of living underground for long periods of time and they don’t really show the aging process like most other mammals. The live-span of a naked mole rat is crazy long to other mammals up to 30 years [1]. Naked mole rats have a unique way that makes it impossible for cancer to be present in their bodies. The naked mole rat has extremely high super sugar called high-molecular-mass Hyaluronan and mutations in the gene that comes up with it. I chose the naked mole rat because I want the cure to cancer to be found soon. I watched my grandpa suffer from cancer and I don’t think anybody should have to go through it. No one has ever found cancer in naked mole rats; they appear to be resistant to the disease. Single amino acid changes in naked mole rat may reveal new anti-cancer mechanisms in mammals. The naked mole rat lives underground and can live up to 30 years old. They haven’t found any cancer cells in the rodents. This biochemical and physiological characteristics lead to a popular model for cancer research. In this research article there was research done on the rodents in the naked mole rats 66 NMR were detected in them that weren’t detected in 11 other animals. A total of 89 genes were present in the 11 animals that weren’t in the Rodent. [2] Out of these 89 genes 3 are known to be related to cancer. The 11 animals had proteins that were consistent to cancer that the naked mole rat didn’t have. This...
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...Marian Diamond were able to test these questions and it gave us more insight as to how the brain responds to certain situations. Methodology: This study was conducted on a set of 12 rats in each of three conditions for 16 experiments. The first condition was a standard colony cage with a few rats in a typical space with food and water always available. The second was the impoverished rat, which had just one rat in a standard cage with nothing inside besides food and water. And finally there were the rats in the enriched environment. There were six to eight rats in this extra-large cage with many objects for the rats to play with. The rats were allowed to live in these environments for a period of 4 to 10 weeks. The rats were then examined to see if any differences had taken place. To be sure that no bias had taken place the rats were examined at random order with code numbers to make sure the person doing the autopsy didn’t know which rodent they were observing. There were definitely limits, as this study could never possibly be put on humans and it is difficult to relate the rats to the humans. The fact that all rats were eventually handled and treated the same is definitely a reason to believe the legitimacy of this study. Findings: The findings showed the brains of the rats in the...
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...Rodriguez 1 Aida Rodriguez Mr. Jonathan Martinez English 1302 29 October 2012 Life, Death, and Time At first when reading Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum we realize how the lack of time, we sometimes have, is not such a burden in comparison to the narrators. The narrator is faced with the concept of bravely facing his darkest hour where he discovers how it feels to life with fear and uncertainty about his future and watch while time takes him as a prisoner. The interpretation that can be contended is how Poe uses symbolism to grasp attention to the main conflicts in the story itself. The symbolism we can find is the definitions and roles the story items play when adjusting it to life and its main components. The pit symbolizes death which can also be described to some as hell. The pendulum exemplifies time and its essence when challenging our life or prominent death. Last but not least, the rats, display the possibility of life or heaven. This interpretation simply suggests how even though life and death are opposite concepts; they are both affected tremendously by time. The narrator begins by describing exactly where he is at by trying to discover exactly where he is and what his future holds. Edgar Allan Poe describes, "I was sick - sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me. Not only was he facing the idea of death itself, he was...
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... My presentation Mr. Locksley Todd , pass student of St Georges College was the first speaker . He spoke on how a biological experiment developed in a business. To him rats stopped being pests when his brawn is important and not his brain , when he provides your food and not vice-versa and when its smell no longer offends . Rats was his main study in 6th form . The observation and dissected rats allowed him to study their lifecycle and habits . Therefore, he gained a deep knowledge of the rats anatomy . It was very easy for him because rats have 30 days to become sexually mature which he informed us wisely. The lab being his second home created an opportunity and thus, created a potential demand. A lot of schools were without supplies , rat tissue sample and other useful instruments Mr Todd thought of providing. The gully behind his school provided unlimited rats which sparked their business idea, with the help of Ministry of Health , they got permission to conduct a market research beyond Kingston. When starting a business the first step is to identify mission critical positions and key personnel, Secondly, create legal framework such as registering the business next , is to create your operation framework by knowing the rats inside out , how to manufacture and produce to get them out to the market, then identify the revenue collection process by creating a budget and how the prices will ranged to make a profit and...
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...This shows that the rats’ cognitive ability was severely affected in response to stressors. Chronically stressed rats lost their elastic rat cunning and instead fell back on familiar routines and rote responses, like compulsively pressing a bar for food pellets they had no intention of eating (Angier). Interestingly, the regions of the rats brain responsible for executive decision-making and goal-directed behavior had shriveled, while brain sectors linked to habit formation seemed to be active. This is not a preferable state for anyone’s mind to be in. Under normal circumstances, rats, and humans alike, are able to complete tasks that are important and they are able to differentiate between what is and isn’t important. The stressed out brain seems to be unable to differentiate between what is important and seems to rely on uncontrollable repetition. Dr. Sapolsky said, “The truth is, we’re lousy at recognizing when our normal coping mechanisms aren’t working. Our response is usually to do it five times more, instead of thinking, maybe it’s time to try something new (Angier).” The good thing is that these changes in the brain seem to be reversible. With only four weeks’ vacation in a stress free setting, the independent variables (Stressed Rats), were able to innovate, and discriminate between...
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...The Thing’s They Carried by Tim O’Brien illustrates the war in Vietnam through the perspective of various characters including Norman Bowker, Mary Anne Bell, and Rat Kiley. The literal and figurative “things” that these characters carry symbolize how they attempted to cope with the hardships of the war in Vietnam. Rat Kiley entered the war as a happy medic who carried comic books, M&M’s, and all of the stuff a normal medic would carry, but as the war went on, he began to carry pain and suffering, and he eventually broke down and shot himself so he could leave the war. Mary Anne Bell, a character from Rat Kiley’s story the Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, was innocent when her boyfriend Mark Fossie brought her to the war, however, the war turned her into a savage, and by the end of Rat...
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...Research Ideas The crime life of SwMt Facts/other info * They are tougher than a reg SwM Advantages * They are feared * Make tons of nuts/acorns by running walnut casinos and through acorn extortion * Keeps the gangs under control exp: chipmunk street gang under control out of fear * Having some of the rat patrol in their Back cheeks Disadvantages * Always the chance of being road kill * Risk of going to the nuthouse * Their wife and kids could be squirrel bait At anytime * Going nuts due to that they are constently Under nutvalance Outline Introduction * General topic: crime life of a SwM * Limited topic: SwM as a Nutpin * Thesis: The SwM known as the Nutpin Body paragraphs * Advantages * Disadvantages Conclusion: Trying to get out of the crime life The Under Tree Crime Life of the Top Squirrel with Mustaches Since the enormous increase in population within the Squirrels with Moustaches (SwM) community, there has come a group of tougher SwMs. These now tougher Squirrels with Moustaches are known as the Grey Moustache family. They have come here from Elm Wood Treeville. They live the life of a crime family and there is one top SwM known as the Nut Pin. His name is Harry “Nuts” Squirrel. There is a constant threat of Harry “Nuts” Squirrel becoming road kill, being sent to the nuthouse, and always being under Nutvalance. In this wild life that the tough Squirrels with Moustaches...
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...Thirteen Hundred Rats by T. Coraghessan Boyle is a short story about a widower, who keeps rats as pets. The main character of the book Gerard Loomis has never had any pet but the tragic event in his life, the death of his wife, urges him to have a pet and he chooses comfort in rats. In this story, it is quite symbolic that after the death of his wife, he chooses rats as his pets because the author develops the metaphor that in a way, evokes the comparison between Gerard’s wife, who has just died, and rats, who have become a sort of her substitutes, because Gerard decided to keep them as his new companions. In this sense, it is particularly interesting that Gerard, who has never had pets, chooses the snake first, which may be another metaphoric reference to his wife, but he ultimately failed to keep snake as a pet and preferred rats....
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...The Under Tree Crime Life of the Top Squirrel Harry “Nuts” Chrissy Taylor ITT Technical Institute Research Ideas The crime life of SwM Facts/other info * They are tougher than a regular SwM Advantages * They are feared * Make tons of nuts/acorns by running walnut casinos and through acorn extortion * Keeps the gangs under control exp: chipmunk street gang under control out of fear * Having some of the rat patrol in their Back cheeks Disadvantages * Always the chance of being road kill * Risk of going to the nuthouse * Their wife and kids could be squirrel bait At anytime * Going nuts due to that they are constantly Under nutvalance Outline Introduction * General topic: crime life of a SwM * Limited topic: SwM as a Nutpin * Thesis: The SwM known as the Nutpin Body paragraphs * Advantages * Disadvantages Conclusion: Trying to get out of the crime life The Under Tree Crime Life of the Top Squirrel…Harry “Nuts” Since the enormous increase in population within the Squirrels with Moustaches (SwM) community, there has come a group of tougher SwMs. These now tougher Squirrels with Moustaches are known as the Grey Moustache family. They have come here from Elm Wood Treeville. They live the life of a crime family and there is one top SwM known as the Nut Pin is also known as “The Boss”. His name is Harry “Nuts” Squirrel. There is a constant threat of Harry “Nuts” becoming road kill, being sent...
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...memories, and even emotions about the war, and their life in general. While carrying all of these things, they were expected to fight a war, a war that some of them did not care about, or even understand. J.R.R Tolkien’s quote: “The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them” sums up many of the themes found in this novel. Daily life itself carries many hurts (i.e. death of loved ones, loss of jobs, illness, etc.) and mischances (i.e. missing cues for directions in life etc.) that are intensified during a war. Early in the novel we are confronted with Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and his love for Martha, a girl from back home who isn’t even his girlfriend, yet he carries her letters with him and re-reads them every chance he gets. This proves costly when Ted Lavender, was killed during a patrol, and Lt. Cross blames himself. He feels the pain of the loss and the embarrassment of keeping his mind on Martha (his love interest) and not on his job which resulted in this death. “Lieutenant Cross kept to himself. He pictured Martha’s smooth young face, thinking he loved her more than anything, more than his men, and now Ted Lavender was dead because he loved her so much and could not stop thinking about her.”(O’Brien p.7). Jimmy Cross would agree with Tolkien because he was not focused on the task at hand and he missed cues which lead his men into an ambush, this would not be the only time. Bob “Rat” Kiley is a guy everyone knows, he is funny, he tells...
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...and different attributes of addiction is explained in chapter 7 of the book, Opening Skinner’s Box, the author, Lauren Slater talks about Bruce Alexander’s seduction experiment in which he proved the connection of environment with addiction. In chapter 9 the book The power of habit, why we do what we do in life and business, Charles Duhigg tells the story of Angie Bachmann a mother of three school girls and a wife that his husband goes returns home at 6 PM the earliest, who had nothing interesting in her life and during a sequence of events she gets addicted to gambling and lost $900 thousand dollars in her lifetime. Since Angie Bachmann previously ran out of money, Despite the fact that she was aware of her addiction and she did not fight through the withdrawal, which is possible according to Alexander's withdrawal study, and even though she didn’t try hard to change her habits, based on Duhigg's Golden Rule of habit change ( Which is by keeping the same cue and reward you can change almost any routine); By changing her environment, the casinos set up a tempting environment based on Olds and Milner's theory when they knew Bachmann was lonely and lacked excitement in her life, therefore she is accountable for her mistake but since she had declared bankruptcy, she shouldn’t be held...
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...ethical issue being raised. Concerned people think rights of animals should be considered and also their consent must be counted i.e. don’t experiment on them. Many critics worry about losing humanity due to this universal issue, they have a theory that working with animals that suffer continuously can deaden emotions of many researcher and so say that this could be a step away from being comfortable with human suffering, they believe an individual could be ‘mentally’ affected when working consistently with lab animals. Also, pain would cause animal to be under stress so this can mess up experimental results. And It is the belief of many people that unnecessary lab animals for apparent educational purposes results in no respect of animal life and their rights as well as discouraging potential science students to select different fields of studies. Main reason of opposing animal research is of course the...
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...Ecosystem of the Mojave Desert Bio/101 March 5, 2012 Ecosystem of the Mojave Desert The Mojave Desert is 54,000 square miles of its own special brand of diversity; it is one desert - rather than a series of separate entities. By becoming aware of the combined identity, appreciation and better understanding of the issues that affect the Mojave Desert can occur on a holistic level. Generally, at the edges of the Mojave are areas where dominant plant and animal species change from one to another and both, to various degrees may be possibly found on the fringes of the other. The Mojave Desert ecosystem evolves from plants and animals which are resources within each other. Adaption to the rough temperatures and little water, these ecosystems finds many ways to survive. This ecosystem plays host to a wide variety of plants and animals living in an environment that humans may think are harsh conditions. Many animals get their energy by eating plants, but desert plants give up the fruit of their production very reluctantly. Sharp spines, such as a cactus, discourage plant-eaters. The Mule deer avoids these obstacles by eating seeds, although safe to eat, they can be hard to find. Many are small and look like grains of sand. The plant's solar energy flows through the ecosystem as Mule deer, and other herbivores like jackrabbits, fall prey to carnivores like great horned owls, coyotes, bobcats, or snakes (Townsend, Harper & Begon, 2000). Survival in the desert cannot occur...
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