by French in August 1914. The French had fired tear gas grenades against the Germans. However the German army was the first to give serious study to the development of chemical weapons and use it on a large scale. They were in fact the first to use poison gas. During the afternoon of April 22nd the German bombarded the French using the infamous Mustard Gas. This being the first time French and Algerian troops had seen it they assumed it was just being used to mask an advance by German infantry and
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• Infection: Tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is commonly caused by a strain of bacterium called Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. It is neither gram-positive nor gram-negative‚ but instead has a waxy coating on the outside of the cell that enables acid-fast techniques to be used when staining the bug. The bacterium was first discovered by Robert Koch and earned him a Nobel Prize in Medicine. Mycobacterium prevents the acidification of the phagolysosome‚ thus disabling the antigen from being presented
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species of dried puffer fish “which contains a powerful poison known to man” –Tetrodotoxin. According to the Harvard article the drug /poison is rubbed in to the victims skin. Within hours he begins to feel nauseated and has difficulty breathing and the body slowly becomes paralyzed; with lips turning blue and purple due to lack of oxygen. The metabolism lowering to such an ungodly level its almost indistinguishable from death. The puffer fish poison was only the beginning of
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Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum The smooth endoplasmic reticulum functions as a packaging system‚ and unlike its counter part‚ the rough endoplasmic reticulum‚ it does not have ribosomes attached to it. The endoplasmic reticulum works closely with the Golgi apparatus‚ ribosomes‚ RNA‚ mRNA‚ and tRNA. It creates a network of membranes found through the whole cell. The endoplasmic reticulum may also look different from cell to cell‚ depending on the cell’s function. Smooth endoplasmic reticulums are
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In The Laboratory‚ the courtesan chooses poison as her murder weapon. Poison is often the weapon of choice for female killers. It requires little or no physical strength to administer‚ and can be done secretly. It also leaves little evidence thus making it difficult to detect the culprit. We believe the act of murder is because of another woman that her lover is with and she feels physically inferior to her rival. We know this because she starts saying ‘What a drop! She’s not little‚ no minion like
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Analysis of the Film Adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” Many movies have been adapted from books. Several of these movies do not follow the books precisely. Although the movie Romeo and Juliet directed by Baz Luhrmann has the same basic elements as Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ there are several differences that exist amongst them. The characters of Romeo and Juliet were the same in both the movie and the book. Romeo‚ the son of Montague‚ is one of the two main characters. He falls desperately
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sprayed gas and poison all over the innocent woodland creatures. Carson gives background info (paragraph 1) on how the problem of blackbirds came to be‚ and elaborates on just how simple it would have been to avoid the bird holocaust of 1959. She uses quotation marks when speaking of “eradicating” and “control[ing])” the population of the birds. This shows that she is outraged at the phrasing of others arguments that advocate for bird genocide. She goes on to say that the poison was meant to “control
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will make Romeo happy. This is clearly Friar Lawrence being tendentious because he married two people from feuding families which he knew was a bad idea. Friar Lawrence also gave Juliet a poison that makes her appear dead for 48 hours instead of letting her marry county paris. When the Friar gives Juliet the poison he tells her how to use it and when “Hold‚ daughter! I do spy a kind of hope… I’ll give thee remedy”(4.1.68-76). Friar Lawrence makes this plan to get Romeo to see Juliet again even if it
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Romeo and Juliet‚ the dramatic love story everyone knows. Many times the play by William Shakespeare is compared to the movie produced by Baz Luhrman. Most always when movies are compared to the books‚ the books are better‚ but not quite in this case. Yes‚ the play is very good as well as the movie‚ but the play has its great parts‚ and its not so great parts as well. Just like the movie‚ it also has its good parts also many things that are the same in both the movie and play‚ but of course they
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shown to comprise 20% of the total convenience store beverage market‚ with “Red Bull” and “V” accounting for over 97% of sales in this multimillion-dollar industry.1 Increasingly‚ toxicity from caffeine overdose is being reported to hospitals and poisons centres. The main active constituents of energy drinks include varying amounts of caffeine‚ guarana extract‚ taurine and ginseng. Additional amino acids‚ vitamins and carbohydrates usually complete the list of purportedly beneficial ingredients
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