female Bolas spider is inactive‚ although she can often be found in fairly exposed places. The male is much smaller than the female. The females provide a remarkable example of aggressive mimicry when they release chemicalssimilar to the sex attractants that are produced by female moths to attract males. They produce three chemicals that are identical to those produced by the moth. Thus‚ the main prey for these spiders is male moths. Stowe‚ Mark K.‚ et al; "Chemical Mimicry: Bolas Spiders Emit Components
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“For You O Democracy” Walt Whitman Imagery‚ Diction‚ and Tone In “For You O Democracy‚” Walt Whitman uses imagery of paradise and words of emotion to evoke a strong message: to struggle for what one believes in therefore create an ideal world‚ a paradise. Whitman on a personal level uses literary devices like imagery and diction to illustrate his struggle‚ motivated by his love for democracy. Throughout the poem‚ Whitman creates an idea of unity‚ a feeling of peace‚ as well as dreams of an ideal
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Project Web Project web is a plan to end all vehicle transportation. This will bring the world to a new age. Spider silk is the key to this project. Its strength is very important. Its stickiness helps catch prey. The production of silk is very important. First‚ strength of silk. Second‚ the stickiness of silk. Last‚ the production of silk. The strength of silk can keep bugs from breaking through. It also prevents them from falling down. The strength of it also prevents snapping randomly. Dragline
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Paragraph 3: 5/5 What are some possible human uses for spider silk? 5/5 How are humans influenced by spider silk when developing products or new inventions? 5/5 Are there other organisms that produce silk besides spiders? If so‚ describe the organisms. A spider’s silk is made up of a chain of amino acids. This means that it is a protein. There are two primary amino acids called glycine and alanine. Spider silk is very strong and is about five times strong than steel and twice as strong as
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Appetite for spiders: Fact? Social Experiment? Origin? You may have heard or read someone say that you swallow eight spiders in your sleep. Did you believe them when you heard this? Did it freak you out? You may find comfort in the fact that this is not true. Let’s go into the mind of a spider for one second. Imagine you’re a small spider crawling inside a house‚ and you see a large creature. It is moving around a bit‚ you hear it snore‚ it’s chest is rising up and down from it’s breath. That’s
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The Amazing Peter Parker Watching movies created from books I have read‚ I have noticed many similarities and also many differences regarding the plot. The most recent example of varying plots that I have evaluate is Spider-Man the comic series written by Stan Lee to Spider-Man the film directed by Sam Raimi. One of the main events that differ between the two is the circumstances surrounding Peter’s Uncle Ben’s murder. The differences in the murders also play a more important role in the development
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statement: Facing West from California’s Shores is a poem about American identity in the world. It aims to promote American patriotism‚ while at the same time setting the nature of human psychology in focus‚ and make us wander about our future. “Walt Whitman revolutionised American poetry”‚ discussing topics considered‚ if not taboo‚ then most inappropriate. It is however not only what he wrote‚ but how he wrote. He is often considered to be the father of the free verse‚ a form which allows the poet
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Whitman and Olds – Controversial Poets of Their Centuries Both Walt Whitman and Sharon Olds are great and controversial poets of their time. Walt Whitman’s poetry mainly takes place in the 1800’s during the American Civil War Era and Sharon Olds’ poems take place in the mid 1900’s. Walt Whitman and Sharon Olds are both known to be free verse writers since their poems don’t rhyme and don’t follow a real traditional stanza. They are also known to be very controversial during their time periods because
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reminiscent of European poetry‚ both in content and form. The poet that began to change all of that was Walt Whitman. His poetry had a drastically different form to poetry that came before his‚ employing free verse instead of traditional rhyme schemes‚ and reflecting American culture. More modern poets may have grown away from Whitman’s themes‚ but many still employ literary devices pioneered by Whitman‚ such as the free verse in Allen Ginsberg’s ’’Howl"‚ or the almost spiritual structure of Ishmael Reed’s
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“Arachnophobia – Fear of Spiders” Michelle Swearingen MOD A June 23‚ 2011 Everest Institute San Antonio‚ TX Arachnophobia is an abnormal and persistent fear of spiders. From the Greek word “arachne” meaning "spider" and “phobos” meaning "fear". There are historical and cultural reasons for arachnophobia. In the Dark Ages spiders were commonly considered to be a source of contamination of food and water. They were believed to be the cause of the Bubonic Plague (though in
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