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    “I’m Nobody! Who are You?” is a poem written by Emily Dickinson. The poem conveys the main idea of being alone‚ isolated from the society – or being “nobody”. This is partly influenced by the social gender status of Dickinson’s time – 19th century featured the inequality of sexes‚ where females were expected to stay at home and serve their husbands‚ thus disconnected from the society. As a result Dickinson had adapted and perhaps taken pleasure into being an outsider‚ whilst she found it boring to

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    The Amazon Rainforest

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    covers 2.1 million square miles of land. The longitude and latitude of the Amazon rainforest is longitude = 71 degrees‚ 45’ and 55”W and latitude = 15 degrees 31’ and 05”S. Biotic Components Animals -- boa constrictor -- toucan -- poison dart frog Plants -- ferns -- algae -- rattan palms Abiotic Components The Amazon Rainforest has a rainy and dry season. The annual rainfall is 2104mm and the temperature range is 73 F to 86 F. (abiotic factors - Amazon rainforest‚ n.d.) The poor quality

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    How much has veterinary medicine actually changed from the 18th century to the 21st century? Many people would reply to this question by stating just like most ‘modern’ things‚ veterinary medicine has taken its current form by going through many transformations (1). Before the 18th century‚ some forms of medicine and medical practices were based solely on herbalism and superstitions. There was no significant change in medicine especially veterinary medicine until the 18th century‚ because most individuals

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    Review: Heart Rate

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    Print Form E X E R C I S E 6 Frog Cardiovascular Physiology O B J E C T I V E S 1. To list the properties of cardiac muscle as automaticity and rhythmicity‚ and to define each. 2. To explain the statement‚ “Cardiac muscle has an intrinsic ability to beat.” 3. To compare the relative length of the refractory period of cardiac muscle with that of skeletal muscle‚ and to explain why it is not possible to tetanize cardiac muscle. 4. To define extrasystole‚ and to explain

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    person. Paraphrase parts of the Poem  I’m irrelevant. Who are you? Are you irrelevant too? Then that makes two of us. Don’t tell anyone. They tell everybody. How sad it is to actually be relevant. How popular they are. Like the sounds of a frog. To talk about someone. The whole year round. To a certain extent. Connotation of some of the words – changing literal meaning to implied or associated values The poem is constituted of loose iambic trimester and iambic tetrameter. They follow

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    examples of the co-existence of destruction and beauty in nature. First‚ she describes her visit to an island where she witnesses many frogs in a pond. The frog seems like a normal one with wide‚ dull eyes. However‚ right in front of her eyes‚ she watches as the frog “slowly crumpled and began to sag. (Dillard).”And she goes on to describe the process of the frog dying in more detail. Here‚ Dillard emphasizes the process of creation and death in nature. Creation can be equated with beauty‚ whereas

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    Food chain

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    Anything which we eat to live is called food. Food contains energy. The food (or energy) can be transferred from one organism to the other through food chains. The starting point of a food chain is a category of organisms called producers. Producers are‚ in fact‚ plants. So‚ we can say that all the food chains begin with a green plant (or grass) which is the original source of all food. Let us take an example to understand the meaning of food chain. Suppose there is a field having a lot of green

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    EXERCISE LAB TIME/DATE _______________________ Frog Cardiovascular Physiology Special Electrical Properties of Cardiac Muscle: Automaticity and Rhythmicity 1. Define the following terms. automaticity: Ability to depolarize spontaneously in the absence of external stimulation. rhythmicity: Depolarization/repolarization events occur in a regular and continuous manner. 2. Discuss the anatomical differences between frog and human hearts. The frog heart has a single ventricle and two atria. Dorsally

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    RESPIRATORY SYSTEM Respiratory System Organs and Its Functions Introduction to the respiratory system organs: The respiratory system is the system of the human body by which it produces energy needed for life processes. This energy is produced by the breaking down of glucose molecules in all living cells of the human body. Introduction to the respiratory system organs: In simple terms‚ Oxygen taken in to the body through air breathed in is transported to all parts of the body‚ and it

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    Sciatic Nerve Lab Report

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    Introduction A nerve is an enclosed bundle of axons found in the peripheral nervous system (Easton 13). It is the pathway for electrochemical nerve impulses‚ which pass along axons of the peripheral organs. A neuron is a cell in the nervous system which plays many critical tasks like receiving sensory signals from the external and internal environments. Moreover‚ neurons join together these sensory responses to produce and transmit motor responses as a result of changes in membrane permeability

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