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    Did you ever want to be paleontologist‚ now you can. Fossils are the oldest rocks on earth. They can be anything that was over 4‚000 years ago. Fossils are what tell us what come before humans a million years ago. Do you ever stop and think there might be a T. Rex under your house. Well fossils preserved remains of organisms. Fossils can be over 4‚000 or a million years old. Usual the preserves are of animals. Fossils arranged from the size of a mouse to a ten story building. This is how all those

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    seventeen species of hedgehog in fivegenera‚ found through parts of Europe‚ Asia‚ Africa and New Zealand (by introduction). There are no hedgehogs native to Australia‚ and no living species native to the Americas. Hedgehogs share distant ancestry with shrews (family Soricidae)‚ with gymnures possibly being the intermediate link‚ and have changed little over the last 15 million years. Like many of the first mammals they have adapted to a nocturnal‚ insectivorous way of life. Hedgehogs’ spiny protection

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    EN238 2/10/14 Tone in “My Last Duchess” “My Last Duchess‚” by Robert Browning is renowned for being an ideal model of a dramatic monologue. He employs the primary elements of a dramatic monologue to produce a poem that compels his readers to interpret the poem from a psychological perspective‚ and thus form opinions or conclusions about the poem’s subjects. Furthermore‚ Browning utilizes the speaker’s tone in unison with a dramatic monologue’s primary features in order to enhance the portrayal

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    Write About The Ways Browning Tells The Story- My Last Duchess Immediately Browning titles the story with a hint that suggests the story will describe ownership of one of many Duchess’. It also suggests through the name ’Duchess’ that it is coming from a royal background rather than simply saying ’woman’ or ’wife’. The story is about a Duke who decides to remove his wife from his life out of paranoia and jealousy‚ by murdering her. Browning is the writer and the listener‚ the Duke is the speaker

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    Imprinting describes a process in which newborn animals rapidly develop a strong attachment to a particular individual‚ often the mother. It is associated particularly with precocious bird species (species that mature early) such as chickens‚ ducks‚ and geese‚ in which the young hatch fairly well-developed. Imprinting is advantageous because once offspring imprint on their mother‚ they will try to remain close to her and follow her around‚ behaviors that are beneficial in terms of the offspring’s

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    Researchers have examined the different metaphors people use on a day-to-day basis that give animals a bad connotation: don’t be a chicken; scaredy cat; cow; bitch; shrew. Words such as these give animals a bad image and distort the human’s perception of those animals (Jepson‚ 2008). Chickens and cats aren’t cowardly‚ and female dogs are not a negative creatures. The treatment of animals is influenced by how they are

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    Petruchio’s words‚ Katherine shows that she is not intimidated by any man‚ and nor does she have any interest in foolish banter. Katherine also uses her language to resist the patriarchy when she continues to verbally attack Petruchio. Katherine fires back in reponse to Petruchio’s sexist comments with retorts such as “Asses are made to bear‚ and so are you” (2.1.199). Here‚ Katherine is directly calling Petruchio a beast of burden that has little to no intellect. In this time period‚ women were

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    predisposition towards humans becomes a part of its genetics‚ unlike taming where only one specific animal in question has gone through “conditioned behavior modification.”

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    Invasive species means an organism that is not naive to a habitat and may have negative effects on the environment. The creeping water primroses are yellow in all seasons except winter. The yellow flower is very distinctive of creeping water primrose. Flowers vary in size from 1 inch to 2 inches in diameter. It is a perennial aquatic plant whose long stems creeping over mud or shallow water. It came from South America to the U.K. It is introduces as ornamental and water garden plant. It is first

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    behind a curtain that only he is allowed to draw back‚ meaning that now she only smiles for him. The Duke then resumes an earlier conversation regarding wedding arrangements‚ and in passing points out another work of art‚ a bronze statue of Neptune taming a sea-horse. In an interview‚ Browning said‚ "I meant that the commands were that she should be put to death . . . Or he might have had her shut up in a convent." [3] "Imaginatively‚ she is of the highest importance‚ practically she is completely

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