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    The Elephants were playing against the ants in a soccer game. It was a close match‚ but when the ants’ star player dribbled the ball towards the goal‚ an elephant defender ran towards him‚ stepped on him and killed him. “What did you do that for!!” asked the referee. “I didn’t mean to kill him‚” said the elephant. “I was only trying to trip him up.” An ant and an elephant shared a night of passion but in the morning the ant woke up to find the elephant

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    could feel something hard in my mouth. I spit the pop out as well as the hard object; there was a dead cockroach in my pop! I was immediately disgusted and embarrassed that I almost swallowed a dead cockroach. Everyone including friends and teachers saw this gross insect in my drink‚ and the principle of my school told me to immediately file a complaint letter to you. I still have the cockroach and the can inside a plastic bag and pictures of it when it happened for if I decide to press charges

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    children dying from a disease suspected of being carried by cockroaches. Susan Tyler‚ an entomologist‚ creates a killer cockroach to go in and kill off the infected ones. The killer cockroach is supposed to only live for 6 months. This works and everyone praises Susan for saving the world. However‚ a few manage to survive and they breed and evolve into a giant kind of man-cockroach creature. They begin to setup a colony and kill humans. The creatures in the movie look very realistic‚ right along

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    Pandan as Cockroach Repellent Pandanus‚ Insect repellent By Makulit1   Feb 7‚ 2013   1364 Words   635 Views Title: Production of pest repellent using Pandan leaves (Pandanus amaryllifolius) extract against Home Cockroach Research proposal Researchers: Bombita‚ Mark Jairus Horigome‚ Jojie Florague‚ Joana Liza Realista‚ Joy Adviser: Olive B. Blanco Julia Ortiz Luis National High School Sagaba Sto. Domingo Nueva Ecija 2012-2013 INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Any home can have cockroaches.

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    climax of the film. “One of the most powerful scenes in this powerful film-the famous “cockroach line”- casts a perplexingly ambiguous light upon the whole action. In the stable-prison the night before the execution‚ Corporal Paris cries‚ “Tomorrow‚ when I’m dead‚ that cockroach will be closer to my wife than I’ll ne‚” and Private Ferolles smashes the cockroach with his fist saying: “Now you’re one up on the cockroach.” By a brutal act of destruction‚ an illusion of power is achieved. Later on‚ the lives

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    The cockroach Archy in the “Lesson of the Moth” has a certain opinion on the purpose of life. He believes in the poem that the purpose of life is to have some happiness‚ to live a long life‚ and to use your common sense. Through the poem Archy has a conversation with a moth and they tell each other about what they believe the purpose of life is. This showed that Archy’s prospective on life is very different from the moths. In the poem the lesson of the moth Archy the cockroach believes that one

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    Where I Come From – Elizabeth Brewster Summary Elizabeth Brewster’s Where I Come From talks about the place where she spent some of her life and contrasts it with the place to which she belonged. We are all shaped by the places where we have lived – not just the places we come from but also the places where we have lived. The first stanza describes the city where everything in shining and new and impersonal. There are very distinct smells in the city and none of them very nice. Even the tulip does

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    Throughout the novella‚ Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka‚ a very common motif‚ change‚ is present throughout the entire story. This is not only present within the sudden change of Gregor into a cockroach‚ but within his behavior and within the behavior of those around him. As the book progresses‚ we see how Gregor’s condition changes him and everyone around him. As the book progresses‚ Gregor’s family changes tremedously. There are two major changes that occur throughout the story. At the beginning

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    story sad‚ and strange with a happy ending. For Gregor Samsa‚ reality does not change‚ even when it seems it must. Kafka’s choice of a cockroach was said to be random and unintentional; however‚ the fact that the author selected the lowest and most hated of insects‚ portrayed as dirty‚ disease-ridden‚ and gruesome‚ is very symbolic. By turning Gregor into a cockroach rather than another creature‚ Kafka sets up a situation in where it is impossible for Gregor’s family to accept him and even more importantly

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    The Beauty of Life The poem the lesson of the moth written by Don Marquis tells of the life of two insects that live in an office. One of the insects is a moth‚ and the other‚ Archy‚ is a cockroach. Archy is a very intelligent cockroach that knows how to type and has the wisdom of a philosopher. The insects are very human-like in the way that they discuss life and the way they convey themselves. The moth has an exceedingly different point of view than Archy. The moth believes “it is better

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