really Egyptian society as a whole trying to overcome the social and political challenges facing it‚ and similarly not always succeeding. In order to further discuss this I will draw from two of Mahfouz’s short stories; Half a Day and The Norwegian Rat. I choose these stories specifically as they are the most assessable in trying to understand Mahfouz’s style of using metaphor and allegory to discuss the social and political problems facing Egyptian society during his time. In Mahfouz’s “Half a
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“[a] hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness‚ a desire to kill‚ to torture‚ to smash faces in with a sledge hammer‚ seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current‚ turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing‚ screaming lunatic” (). Most importantly‚ the ritual serves to channel the rage that the populace may have towards the Party’s manipulation over their lives. Another form of propaganda is appeal to fear‚ which refers to a person attempting to create support
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destitute suburbs of St. Giles through rat-infested alleys to small towns and made its way over to the city of London. The earliest occurrence of the disease began in the spring outside the city walls in St. Giles. The death rate was rapidly increasing within the weeks and peaked in September when 7‚165 people died in one week. The plague germs were carried by fleas‚ which lived as parasites on rats. A disease of parasites carried on the body of rats caused the plague. City streets filled
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between various stimuli Aversive conditioning – negative responses to CSs/USs Eg. Baby Albert experiment: loud noise(US)‚ in which baby Albert fears (UR)‚ is paired with white rat (originally US)‚ so baby Albert then learned to be afraid of white fluffy stuff (generalization) white rat become CS; CR is the response to the white rat alone Second Order/Higher Order conditioning – when CS elicits a CR‚ the CS is then used as US to condition a response to a new stimulus Eg. Dog salivates when hearing bell
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adult healthy female rats weighing 190 20g and 10 young (6-7) weeks –old male albino rats from which bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell (MSCs) were isolated. Animal were purchased from the animal house of the faculty of Medicine Mansoura University. The animals were housed in standard stainless steel cages at room temperature 25-28ﾟC‚ humidity of (50-60%) and maintained at 12 hrs alternating day and night cycle. The rats were fed standard pellet diet and water ad libitum. The rats were acclimatized
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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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Trapped I’m standing out the front of the world’s scariest horror house‚ in Universal Studios‚ Hollywood. Where I am about to enter through the entrance when my friend suggests that it’s not a very good idea‚ but I shrug and say what could possibly happen besides being scared half to death. We enter. It’s dark‚ the walls feel close‚ there’s an awful smell to the place‚ as if someone has died inside. I feel nervous because I don’t know what’s coming in the distance‚ and I have what feels
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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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baracoons and he was kept there for over a year! We are beaten every day for doing nothing. I don’t know if this journey is ever going to end‚ my mama sins me songs to help me get to sleep. But I can never hear her over the horrific sounds of women screaming and men dying. When I do manage to sleep‚ my dreams are filled with the horrors I have seen before my eyes and nightmares of the next agonising day. We are stuck on this boat with the only chance of escape being death. We History Homework-Slave
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