White-nose Syndrome in Bats White-nose syndrome‚ (Geomyces destructions)‚ is a fungus that attacks the bats’ exposed skin and flight membranes‚ causing them to suffocate or starve. [Discover Magazine] Being an animal lover and one who has saved many trapped bats from my house‚ I was saddened when hearing about this awful fungus and wanted to know more. The fungus has been found to thrive in the cold hibernacula for bats in the winter. A study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a definitive success; it garnered seven seasons‚ a loyal fan base‚ and is praised by critics for it’s unique and unconventional take on feminism‚ as well as its use of vampires in the modern world. It is was a good decision‚ then‚ to transform the original movie‚ despite its relatively small fan base‚ into the hit series known and loved today. But Buffy wasn’t the first vampire story to jump mediums. The beloved soap opera of the late 1960s‚ Dark shadows‚ was turned into
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer first came out as a movie in 1992. The movie is about Buffy Summers‚ a teen girl with the typical “Queen Bee” stereotype. At her Los Angeles high school Buffy is in her senior year she is blonde‚ beautiful‚ dense‚ and a bit of a mean girl. Her favorite thing to do is shop at the mall with her equally dense friends and spends time with her sexiest boyfriend Jeffery. One day‚ Buffy’s life is forever changed when she finds out she comes from an ancient line of women known as
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Bats to Brushes “You’re not ready.” The words that my father spoke one too many times‚ the words that I wish I would had listened to that one time. The one time that I begged him to let me try out for a softball team two age groups higher than me; the one time that I thought I proved him wrong by making the team. The one time I pulled my miscues‚ causing my sports career to come to a quick halt. Although my keenness for softball dominated my life; I consider withdrawing from playing my favorite
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Women versus Men on the Diamond “Anything you can do I can do better…” was a famous quote by Annie Get Your Gun that’s been used for many years‚ and has become relevant in the debate of softball versus baseball. The game of baseball was invented during the summer of 1839. Softball was later created in 1887 when a group of men joined together in Chicago ’s Farragut Baseball Club to listen to the Harvard-Yale football game. Although these two sports seem identical they both have their own significant
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The Benefits of Choosing A Wooden Baseball Bat Baseball has been around since 1846 and wooden bats have always been the tool of the trade. There is much debate as to whether players should use wooden bats versus aluminum. Traditional wooden bats can make players feel connected to the historical game. As well‚ there are a few benefits to using wooden bats opposed to aluminum. Here’s a list of 5 baseball wood bat benefits: Hits Will Be More Precise Wooden bats are made differently than aluminum‚ and as
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Handout 2: Theories of underdevelopment Background to -Marxist theories of underdevelopment 1) Countries are not independent; economically related through trade 2) Colonialism introduced capitalist system; 3) Therefore‚ all the less developed countries are integrated into the world capitalist system. 4) Developed world is responsible for the underdevelopment of third world 5) It is the integration with the world capitalist economy that makes these countries poor. 6) Marxist theory can
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the context of this question‚ we can ask if it makes any sense at all to approach the teaching of language to blind children in the same way as language teaching is generally approached. As Thomas Nagel argues in his lecture ‘What is it Like to be a Bat?’ (1974)‚ we can clearly understand that people who perceive the world through different primary senses can have “experiences fully comparable in richness of detail to our own”‚ but these experiences “may be denied to us by the limits of our nature
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What Is it Like to Be a Bat? In his paper on What Is it Like to Be a Bat? Thomas Negal argues against reductional explanations of mind by appealing to the subjective perspective of phenomena by exploring the question of what would it be like to be a bat. This paper will attempt to explain Negal’s analysis and discuss how quantum theory may show how our perception and reality may both be subjective. In his paper‚ Nagel argues that the analogies and theories frequently employed by scientists to explain
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Three things I did in the past few weeks that were aligned with what I value include: A. Helping others with homework’s even when I am in a rush. B. Have making the best decisions for the Department I work. C. Have staying close to my family in economic crisis. A. I was honest to let my little brother know that I was in a rush‚ but I was willing to help. I took the time to make the difference and help someone in need. The action I took goes back to my values. I didn’t let my knowledge got in the
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