The oestrous cycle of Canis lupus familiaris differs considerably from that of other species. The domestic bitch is a monoestrous‚ typically non-seasonal‚ polytocous‚ spontaneous ovulator.( Concannon ‚ 2010) Which means the oestrous cycle is characterized by a follicular phase with spontaneous ovulation‚ followed by a luteal phase of about 75 days and a non-seasonal anoestrus of 2–10 months (Schaefers-Okkens AC‚ 2005) Pseudocyesis (PSC)‚ pseudopregnancy‚ false pregnancy or nervous lactation is
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In Sandra Cisneros’ book‚ “The House on Mango Street‚” Cisneros writes that‚ “the boys and girls live in different worlds” (Cisneros 8). There are only so many ways one could translate this sentence‚ and one of the meanings that can be deduced is that boys and girls are treated differently. This idea holds true today‚ but the gap between what people think boys can do and what people think girls can do has become smaller over the past years. But still‚ there are some prejudices left‚ things like
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The title of the book comes from a poem by the 18th century Scottish poet Robert Burns. It is about a mouse which carefully builds a winter nest in a wheat field‚ only for it to be destroyed by a ploughman. It is written in Scots dialect. The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft a-gley‚ An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain‚ For promised joy! (The best laid schemes of mice and men Often go wrong And leave us nothing but grief and pain‚ Instead of promised joy!) The mouse had dreamed
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I chose not to choose life; I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin? Mark ’Rent Boy’ Renton is a young Scot that suffers from heroin addiction and is on a downward spiral of drugs and crime. He repeatedly wants to quit and tries to do so‚ but always seems to succumb to just one more hit in order to cope with his life. With his friends‚ he is trapped in a seedy urban underworld in spite of the efforts of his family to get him clean
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Throughout Homer’s The Odyssey‚ the characters often use the ancient Greek ideal of xenia for their own benefit. This exemplar of hospitality is a cornerstone of ancient Greek religion and culture. The rites of suppliants are even protected by their most powerful god‚ Zeus. However‚ people would often try to leverage their host with this social obligation. Even Odysseus is guilty of this underhanded tactic. For example‚ he unsuccessfully tries to convince Polyphemus to leave him and his crew alone
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Freedom!? Discursive Essay Freedom‚ what does it really mean?‚ what would it mean for Scotland to gain independence from English rule?. What would happen to the UK if Scotland became “free”? Scotland has always been a country that has wanted to become “free” but has never managed to achieve complete “freedom”. How would Scotland gain independence; through protesting and voting‚ through a violent revolution or through the UK falling apart. When you think about Scotland gaining independence
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Elizabeth ’s Background Elizabeth I was born September 7‚ 1533 at Greenwich Palace. She was the second daughter of King Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn. Elizabeth ’s had an older half-sister Mary and a younger half-brother‚ Edward. Elizabeth had a remarkable intelligence from a very young age. She
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a new cereal‚ barley‚ which could grow anywhere. Around 700 bc‚ another group of people called the Celts began to arrive. Many of them were tall‚ had fair hair and blue eyes. The Celtic tribes called the Picts penetrated into the north‚ At first Scots settled in Ireland‚ later they came back to the larger island and settled in the North beside the Picts. Celtic tribes called the Britons settled in the south east portion of the British Isles. The Celtic tribes were ruled by Druids or warrior chiefs
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them. He married Eleanor only for the Aquitaine and didn’t give his brothers any land as soon as he became king. Henry didn’t stop there as he created great accomplishments in the 1150s by claiming Northumberland and Cumbria from the Scots and even persuaded the Scots king Malcolm to accompany him on an expedition against Toulouse (History Today). He did treat his sons better that the movie’s portrayal as he gave them lands to control‚ for example‚ Geoffrey was given Brittany to rule over as a duke
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where many thought that British troops were lions led by donkeys‚ examples of this are the 1969 film Oh! What a Lovely War and was reinforced by the Eighties television series Blackadder which describe him as an inarticulate‚ upper-class‚ charmless Scot‚ who owed his position largely to toadying to the Royal family via his lady-in-waiting
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