Pomacea Maculata (Apple Snail) (Any and all relations to the 1997 movie Titanic are purely coincidental and did not happen. The following is a work of fiction that is not related to the film in any way.) Once upon a time in a swampy swamp there was a young Florida Apple Snail named Leopold. One day Leopold was searching for food and discovered a snail named Cal from a swamp a long ways away. He spoke of dark days when things called nematodes entered other snails and weakened them so that other
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Josel Wong Mr. Wear AP Language and Composition 5 November 2009 The Jungle Questions Part I 1. The wedding between Jurgis and Ona is an epitome of the various problems in Packingtown. The way the saloon keeper took advantage of the couple is representative of the dishonesty and thievery from the surrounding society. The crowd stranded outside the wedding symbolizes the helpless and hungry inhabitants of Packingtown. When the newlyweds allowed these people into the wedding they quickly transformed
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AP ENGLISH OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATIONS (Question 3) Sample Question 1: In some works of literature the insanity (or a period of insanity) of a main character plays a central role. Choose a novel or play of literary merit and write an essay in which you discuss the mental illness of a central character and the specific ways in which that character’s illness relates to the larger themes of the work. Avoid plot summary. Sample Question 2: “The struggle to achieve dominance over others frequently
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Composition 1 The human desire to look attractive is universal and because of this‚ cosmetic surgery is now a multi-million dollar industry. Write a letter to the editor of Hong Kong Express about the obsession with physical beauty. Dear Editor: I am writing to express my obsession with physical beauty. The recent case of a famous female celebrity in Hong Kong who receiving multiple cosmetic surgeries voraciously has been brought to public attention: she lost her money‚ lost her face and above
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TITLE Habituation of snail. OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of habituation of snails to a stimulus To develope certain experiment skills‚ such as working safely‚ producing valid results‚ recording results and drawing valid conclusions from results. INTRODUCTION The snails Figure 1: Garden snail Taken from http://abugblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/handsome-snail.html Snails are one of the earliest known types of animals
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short monologue like poem: “Medusa”. How do metaphors‚ symbols and allegories contribute in clarifying the meanings of the poem? Primarily‚ they emphasise Duffy’s feminist ideals‚ Medusa’s emotions and aging difficulties. Medusa‚ the protagonist‚ uses the myth metaphorically in order to create a modern and reliable tone‚ allowing a wider audience and switching the focus from her actions to her feelings. The poem rehabilitates the bad image methodology gave Medusa by making her go from a stoned
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Original Composition Certain Events Change Our Impression of Life People can say that three and a half minutes is insignificant compared to the rest of our lives‚ but I know that three and a half minutes can be an eternity‚ and can change everything about me. Training six days a week‚ every week of the year‚ for the past seven years‚ all of that to come down to this last program‚ this last 3 and a half minutes. Those 3 and a half minutes better last forever. Six minute warm-up‚ then
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All compositions are composed of literary units called paragraphs. The purpose of a paragraph is to carefully explain and develop a given idea or topic that is a part of a paper’s thesis. Each unit is then segmented into a variety of sentences which are used to develop the main idea of the paragraph. Almost always‚ paragraphs need a central sentence called the topic sentence. This sentence tells the reader exactly what subject he or she will expect to find in the rest of the paragraph. The topic
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Formal Analysis Paper: The Raft of the Medusa Around the age of 27 Theodore Gericault painted his masterpiece about the Raft of the Medusa‚ which was in the early nineteenth century or roughly around the year 1818-1819. He was a French painter and this portrait became a major influence on French Romanticism. This idea of romanticism was a school of thought‚ in which it focused more of a remote and exotic point in time and place. Gericault’s influence was by the likes of Michelangelo and
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Composition and Inverse Student Name MATH 222 Week 5 Assignment Instructor Name Date Composition and Inverse This week assignment was to understand and solve for composition and inversion. With the given problems and functions I will demonstrate how to compute a problem using composition. Then finally I will demonstrate how to solve a function using inversion. I will define the following functions to solve the problem. f(x)+2x+5 g(x)=x^2-3 h(x)=7-x
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