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    The domestic cat was first classified as Felis catus by Carolus Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae in 1758.[1][3] However‚ because of modern phylogenetics‚ domestic cats are now usually regarded as another subspecies of the wildcat‚ F. silvestris.[1][4][33] This has resulted in mixed usage of the terms‚ as the domestic cat can be called by its subspecies name‚ Felis silvestris catus.[1][4][33] Wildcats have also been referred to as various subspecies of F. catus‚[33] but in 2003

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    Mothers Households vs. Fathers Households Single parent’s households shared their daily struggle in their process of raising their kids. Nowadays situations with single parent household had been notorious because of separations‚ divorces or a natural cause. In the process of taking care of a house‚ mothers and fathers play different roles because of their mentality‚ human characteristics and differences. Being a household involves a lot of hard work that goes from everything a child needs to

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    Cats

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    Cats. The first thing that comes to a person’s mind would be the cute little cuddly furballs that we can cosy up to. Not forgetting How they look at us with their majestic eyes that gleams like emeralds while purring softly and the cuteness overload when their lick their fur to clean themselves. Cats are naturally stereotyped to be domestic pets that one can keep at home and play with. However‚ Not all cats are like that. There is a species of cats known as the jungle cats which are a drastic opposite

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    Masculinity

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    Conceptions of masculinity vary depending on the socio-cultural contexts in which they emerge‚ influenced by social class‚ ethnicity‚ sexuality‚ and poverty (Connell‚ 2005: 833). While womanhood is attributed based on biological reasons‚ manhood is attributed according to social reasons: it is a “self that is imputed to an individual based on information given and given off in interaction” (Schrock & Schwalbe‚ 2009: 280). Accordingly‚ a person’s manhood must be consistently won through the approval

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    are: Edgar Allen Poe’s "The Black Cat"‚ Marghanita Laski’s "The Tower" and lastly‚ "The Hitchhiker" by the ironically named Anthony Horrowitz. All three of these stories share the same genre and that is ‘horror’. Also they are all short stories. Despite sharing the same genre these three stories are all very different and all use various techniques the help give the reader a sense of horror which is of course the goal of the writer in all horror stories. In "The Black Cat" it is evident that the

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    Within “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat‚” the narrators share similarities in their view of an individual and in their actions. Both narrators claim that they are sane as their senses have been evidence to support them and by having the ability to wholly retell the events that had transpired. In “The Tell-Tale Heart‚” the narrator kills an old man‚ however he had no ill will against him‚ stating‚ “I loved the old man” (“The Tell-Tale Heart”). His fury was at the old man’s eye‚ which he deemed

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    Masculinity

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    Masculinity Men use their masculinity in all its complexly nuanced forms to achieve their goals in ways rather different from the ways women achieve theirs. Masculinity is the articulation of dominance and male gender yet gender is nothing but the construction of difference. Society‚ media‚ and the way a person is raised or brought up are factors that affect people’s lives. An example of this is when Susan Brownmiller writes‚ “As I passed through a stormy adolescence to a stormy maturity

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    Household Appliances

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    HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES  Prepared by  Bora Esen  2010  İGEME ­ Export Promotion Center of Turkey HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES‚ PARTS AND COMPONENTS  CLASSIFICATION  Harmonized System Numbers of the Products  Refrigerators (household type): 8418.10‚ 8418.21‚ 8418.29  Washing machines (household type): 8450.11‚ 8450.12‚ 8450.19  Dishwashers (household type): 8422.11  Ovens‚ other cooking and small kitchen appliances‚ etc.: 7321.11‚ 7321.12‚ 7321.13‚  7321.19‚ 8516.50‚ 8516.60‚ 8509.40‚ 8509.80‚ 8516.71‚ 8516

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    The Ties between the Two In the stories “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat” written by Edgar Allan Poe both share a sense of suspicion and murder. In both stories‚ each narrator has flashbacks of the crimes they commit after the wicked deed is done. Also‚ each narrator confesses to their crime once they start to feel the guilt come upon them. Both stories are also alike because of the unnamed narrators. The major way they are alike is that they both deflect responsibilities alike in several

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    Comparing Poe And Poe

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    A common theme both of these cats share is death. Both of these cats caused death or harm to their owners and the people they loved. Pitty Sing sprung on top of Bailey’s shoulder while he was driving and caused them to flip into a gulch. They all survived the accident but caused them to encounter The Misfit which resulted in death for the whole family. Pluto drove his character insane by making his owner feel guilty after he hung him. Pluto haunted his owner in a nightmare he had and caused

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