Passage from Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut Weary was as new to war as Billy. He was a re- 1 placement‚ too. As a part of a gun crew‚ he had helped 2 to fire one shot in anger---from a 57-millimeter antitank 3 gun. The gun made a ripping sound like the opening 4 of the zipper on the fly of God Almighty. The gun 5 lapped up snow and vegetation with blowtorch 6 thirty feet long. The flame left a black arrow on the 7 ground‚ showing Germans exactly where the gun 8 was hidden
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The Urea test was used to test both Unknown Gram-positive and Unknown Gram-negative bacteria. One colony of bacteria was used from the Unknown 13A plate and Unknown 13B plate in order to inoculate the Urea Slant. After the slant was inoculated‚ the cultures were placed in an incubator at 35ºC for Gram-positive bacteria‚ and 37ºC for Gram-negative bacteria for a total of 48 hours. If the Urea test were positive‚ the color of the slant would have changed to a hot pink color‚ which indicated the bacteria’s
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is to distinguish and indentify an unknown bacterium. There are several tests that can help one eliminate and narrow down the options. The most useful test‚ and the very first one done‚ is a gram stain. This test will tell whether the bacterium is gram-positive or gram-negative. After the type of gram stain is identified‚ the tester has a wide array of differentiating tests at their disposal. Based on the results from these tests‚ and the numerous others that are available‚ one can accurately
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General Billy Mitchell Mary Olesky Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University‚ History of Aviation Brigadier General Billy Mitchell‚ though at the end of his official military career he was reduced in rank to Colonel‚ was one of the greatest leaders in American military air power. Despite his court-martial and the various punishments that came with it‚ he was still seen over ten years later to be the visionary and great leader that he had been for his entire career and the years after until his death
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smear my bacteria on a liquid medium. I then proceeded to incubate the medium for 24-48 hours. 1. GRAM STAIN The next step I took in finding my unknown bacteria was to gram stain it. This is used to differentiate the bacteria. The different staining reagents are: crystal violet‚ grams iodine‚ acetone-alcohol‚ and grams safranin. Under the microscope it was a pink color‚ which means Gram Negative. Also‚ the shape was a rod. 2. KLIGER’S IRON
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astounding and makes you question the human race as a whole. The book follows a the lifespan Billy Pilgrim of Ilium‚ New York. He grew up to be an optometrist‚served his country at war‚ got married‚ had children and aged to an old man. But his life was not ordinary at all. The books focuses on his experiences serving in World War Two‚ and his unintentional and unexpected time travel through his own life. Billy Pilgrim’s war experiences are told in an unusual way in comparison to the other books and
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Question 1 of 12 2.0 Points All of the following are considered microbes except A.viruses B.bacteria C.protozoa Correct D.worms Answer Key: D Question 2 of 12 2.0 Points Microbiologists investigate problems by designing and carrying out experiments. What is true about the scientific method? A.a hypothesis is the definitive explanation to account for the observation and therefore does not need to be tested B.a prediction is the factor that can change
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firebombings and the complete devastation that occurred in Dresden‚ Germany. The main character in Slaughterhouse-Five‚ Billy Pilgrim‚ has all of these things in common with the author of the book‚ Kurt Vonnegut‚ except for the fact that he wasn’t born in Indianapolis‚ Indiana‚ even though he was born in the same year. There was a character in the story named Vonnegut that fought alongside Billy in the war‚ but the story wasn’t actually about his life‚ it was about Billy’s in general. Including real life
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taps. Women had to travel 3 km to the Suru River to get water. The Gram Sabha got together to discuss the problem. Many people came up with short-term and long-term suggestions for dealing with the problem at hand‚ e.g.‚ piping water from the Suru and making an overhead tank‚ deepening the hand pumps and cleaning the wells‚ conserving and recharging water through watershed development. After the discussion in the Gram Sabha‚ the Gram Panchayat discussed the suggestions and decided that the money it
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Poetic Analysis of Song Lyrics I chose “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” by lyricists and lead singer of the Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan as my song for the poetic analysis essay. I seemed to identify with the song the first time I heard it on the radio. The lyrics describe how many teens felt growing up in the 1990’s‚ myself included‚ hating everything around us and facing adulthood with hopes that some contentment in life will come. “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” is one of those songs that
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