of the bubonic plague. He references Stephen Porter on the role of rats and the fleas they carry. Europe winter climate would have made it hard for fleas to reproduce. The cold weather would have slowed if not stopped to spread of the disease. According to the text there is no evidence of the winter months stopping the spread of the disease. The rats themselves are vulnerable to the plague‚ there is a lack of evidence that dead rats were piling up like the humans. There are two well documented fifteenth-century
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before they are supposed to leave‚ Mole says that he’ll do whatever Rat wants‚ but asks‚ “Shall we run away to-morrow morning‚ quite early-very early- and go back to our deal old hole on the river?” (pg. 647). Here‚ he mentions home for the first time‚ and seems to miss it. However‚ Rat declines‚ which suggests that Mole has not learned all he needs to and is not ready to return. The journey with Toad comes to a quick end‚ and Mole and Rat go back to the river. However‚ Mole does something out of character
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of revolt and terror as a rat emerges from the river. In a moment of panic‚ the poet attempts to escape‚ only to find another on the far bank‚ which encouraged a deeper impact. The second rat provoked the author to question his response to and fear for these animals. He then ‘incredibly’ decides to courageously maintain his ground and face the rodent. Despite Heaney providing the reader with a vibrant image of the animal to reinforce his contempt‚ he almost battles the rat until he ‘stared him out’
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Title: That immediate past experiences of being presented with either images of animals or faces influence what the subject perceives in the ambiguous figure in that if presented with animals‚ the subject would see a rat‚ and subjects shown the faces will see a man’s face. Abstract: The primary purpose of this activity was to investigate immediate past experiences and how they play a part in visual perception. The basic method involved participants being divided into three pairs to be tested
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Her most outstanding award would be the Canadian Governor General’s Award for poetry in 1966. Her work has been an inspiration to many and she will be recognized for many years to come. The three poems that I am going to discuss are: The Landlady‚ Rat Song and Song of the Worms. All three of these poems use strong imagery to show Margaret Atwood’s view of the way that women are treated. She uses several tones in her poems‚ the tone that she generally uses for these three poems are frustration and
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little boy called Albert. JB Watson taught Albert to have fear of the rats. Albert had a white fluffy rabbit. One day a white rat came pass Albert‚ but Albert did not seem to be frightened. JB Watson stood behind Albert’s back with metals. Every time the rat went pass JB banged the metals and Albert was startled‚ JB did this couple of times until Albert was scared of the rat‚ however Albert was not only scared of the white rat‚ it was also scared of his white fluffy rabbit as them to animals has
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Rat writes a letter to the sister of his friend‚ Curt‚ to inform her of the death of her brother. In this letter‚ Rat goes into detail about the fun times he had with Curt‚ claiming that “he made the war seem almost fun‚ always raising hell and lighting up villes” (O’Brien‚ 1990‚ p. 68). This clearly displays that Rat was not overly concerned with his responsibilities and was just looking to have a good time
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Trash Trash by Andy Mulligan‚ an important event in the book is when the police go to the dumpsite looking for the bag. This event is important because it make Raphael‚ Gardo and Rat curious‚ it also makes the police angry because they can’t find the bag. The last reason is that it’s a catalyst to other events in the story. The story is about three boys in a third world country who earn a living by picking through rubbish. One day they find a bag‚ the contents of it put them into a terrifying
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What is the Flynn Effect‚ and how does it relate to the nature vs nurture intelligence debate? The Flynn Effect was named after James Flynn discovered the effect. It describes how every decade IQ points go up by 3 points and how the average IQ has risen one deviation all over the world since World War II (Niesser 1977). This relates in the nature vs. nurture intelligence debate because people are trying to figure out why humans seem to be getting smarter and whether it’s because we are a product
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immediate past experience‚ and‚ therefore‚ by the establishment of a perceptual set. It is based on an experiment conducted by Bugelski and Alampay (1961). It was hypothesized that interpretation of an ambiguous stimuli that can be perceived as either a rat or a human face will be influenced by the context under which they view the figure and their past experience with other figures. That is they will be influenced by their perceptual set. The results from this study supported the hypothesis with
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