mammals that live in open habitats a few examples are voles‚ shrews‚ mice‚ bats‚ rats‚ birds‚ and insects such as moths are also eaten. These predators are exposed to harmful chemicals/poisons because of the prey that they eat and where their habitats are found. There are some harmful chemicals and or poisons found in the prey‚ such as DDT‚ PCBs‚ organophosphate pesticides‚ and heavy metals. DDT is a synthetic organic compound used as an insecticide. PCBs is a group of organic compounds used
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volcano eruption by saying “When the sky went black that afternoon. To no avail‚ because the sky‚ turned poison‚ Infiltrated the shut windows of your quiet house.” Levi is explaining the horrific events during the eruption by saying “the sky went black” which implies a darkness approaching the people of pompeii. Furthermore‚ Levi adds extra detail about the darkness in the sky by saying “turned poison” which illustrates how the darkness in the sky was harming the citizens of pompeii. Levi’s purpose is
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than as the intellect thinks it should be. While the peasants pray and speak of incarnations‚ his father‚ ’sceptic‚ rationalist’‚ tries ’every curse and blessing‚ powder‚ mixture‚ herb and hybrid’ and a holy man performs a rite. After a day the poison is no longer felt and‚ in a final irony‚ his mother‚ in contrast to the previous feverish activity centred upon her‚ makes a typical motherly comment: My mother only said Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children. The ’Thank
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Emily‚” William Faulkner includes multiple situations to foreshadow the short story’s ending when Homer Barron’s decomposed corpse is discovered. Faulkner makes it very clear to readers as the short story progresses‚ by addressing the smell‚ the poison‚ and Homer’s disappearance that foreshadow to the discovery of his body in Emily’s house. The short story starts out describing Emily and the home her father left to her‚ after his passing. The town’s people refer to this home as smelling very bad
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homeroom teacher‚ Janice Geiger. They agreed that Coffman would bring rat poison to school the following days so that it could be placed in Geiger ’s drink. After that ‚ they would steal Geiger ’s car and drive to the Smoky Mountains. On the morning of January 6‚ Coffman placed a packet of rat poison in her purse and board the school bus. Coffman told another student‚ Christy Hernandez‚ of the plan and show her the poison. Hernandez went and informed her homeroom teacher‚ Sherry Cockrill. Cockrill
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what happens later in the story. When Emily went into the drug store saying "’ I want the best you have. I don’t care what kind’"‚(William Faulkner) and purchased rat poison‚ it immediately informed the reader that somebody is the story was going to die. While reading this story‚ I believed that Emily purchased the rat poison in order to kill herself‚ not Homer Barron. Right at the end of the story‚ when the door to the house gets opened‚ the Negro immediately leaves‚ which indicates that he
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World War 1 began in 1914 and ended in the late months of 1918. This war was often portrayed as one of the first modern war that took place in the 20th century. World War 1 was primarily the struggle for mastery in the continent of Europe. Equipment including rifles‚ artillery‚ and grenades were just a few of the many weapons and pieces of equipment that needed many improvements. Rifles used in the war were difficult to load quickly and some were heavier than others. Artillery was lighter than the
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surprising as the insects grown in the lab had no preconceived notion that the poison/bait was dangerous the ones collected from the apartments would touch the bait with their antennas and quickly back off. The evidence gathered showed that the roaches that had been exposed to the different types of poison before were more weary and seemed to not be attracted to the glucose or sugar that had been contaminated by poison. Very few animals avoid glucose (Silverman 1993). This leads me to believe that
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available poison to kill the rats that invested his house and the polecat that had been eating all of his chickens at night. The youngest says the only way to get even with the two is to kill them during the
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innocent. Doctor Rappaccini’s beautiful garden is filled with plants and flowers‚ but it is just a facade‚ because the truth is that the plants are poison. Hawthorne also shows the evil side of human nature by showing how one person can destroy the life of another. His writing in this story turns the natural feeling of love into something that poisons people. Transcendentalists‚ on the other hand express the importance of creating a connection with nature. Secondly‚ the transcendentalist philosophy
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