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Crotalus Horrid Is A Member Horrid Is A Member Snakes
1,027 wordsThe following is a brief description, as well as know characteristics commonly associated with the Crotalus horrid snake family. The Crotalus horrid is commonly referred to as the timber rattlesnake, or in more indigenous terms, the canebrake or banded rattlesnake. Its genus name is a translation from the Greek word krotalon, which means rattle. The species is a Latin word meaning "standing on end. " (Breen, 1974). Together they illustrate the rattler's stalking posture. The Crotalus horrid is a...
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Female Desert Tortoise U S Department Tortoises
1,147 wordsVulnerable to the harsh desert conditions, the desert tortoise spends almost all of its time waiting out extreme temperatures in its underground burrow. There, this armored, terrestrial turtle conserves its energy and stays relatively cool during summer months, and relatively warm during winter months. This turtle, California's official state reptile, carries a high-domed tan to dark brown carapace (shell), which protects them from most predators. Yet even those shells are unable to shield the d...
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Claudius And Iago Desdemona Infidelity Othello
1,069 words... eople do well, it builds up their ego and moves them slightly away from being pawns of the villain. Success in others runs contrary to the purpose of a villain. By turning every victory into a defeat, by spoiling every triumph, the villain advances his own aim a little farther. Claudius poisons Hamlets wine in case he should win at fencing; Iago turns Cassio's promotion into a weapon against him. In this way, Claudius and Iago are furthering their goal. Villains exploit weakness. They recogn...
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Church Authorities Young Boys
1,918 wordsAlone in his room the priest would mastermind his hunt. He would examine his conscious as he looked in the mirror. He admires his body and hungers for it to be touched by a young boys hand. He is reminded of his vow of celibacy but knows it does not work for him or for most of his peers. Many of them share stories of their affairs with the outside world and the temptations they confront daily. Few, however, speak about crossing the line by submitting to their carnal desires. At the fortress nigh...
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France And Germany Anti War
1,240 words... VICTIMS of terrorists or SLAVES to dictators, then they should wholeheartedly support the War on Terror and not foolishly give aid and comfort to this countrys enemies. The resident U. S. Apologists argue that terrorists will continue to punish the U. S. and Great Britain by hitting famous landmarks and / or soft targets and that the suicide bombers and assassins will continue to reward France and Germany by favoring those countries and not committing attacks in Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris and ...
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The Bottle Nosed Dolphin
1,135 wordsThe Bottle-nosed Dolphin is the most studied and generally the best-known species of dolphin. Bottle-nosed dolphins are classified "Tursiops truncates" in scientific name, and belong to the family Delphinidae, in the suborder Odontoceti, order Cetacea. This animal is a very intelligent individual. Bottle-nosed dolphins are commonly found in zoos or marine parks because of their capability to perform tricks. They can jump through hoops 5 meters high because of their incredibly powerful tail. As w...
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King And Queen Soul Of Wit
1,187 wordsPolonius is an important and respected person. It seems appropriate that he investigates and controls the behavior of his son and daughter. He, as the King's advisor is no longer a private person but a public one: what he or his children do has important public, not just personal implications. However, if his actions and speeches are examined closer, it is evident that he is a limited and vain person who is overly concerned with his appearance and wears different masks to tune up to different pe...
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Eighteenth Century Madame De
736 wordsLes Liaisons Dangereuses is a complex and disturbing portrayal of the noble class in pre-revolutionary France. Set in the late eighteenth century during the latter part of the Ancien Regime, Les Liaisons weaves a web of cold, calculated betrayal of the most immoral kind. The story unfolds in the form of letters written between the principal characters, giving it a unique literary texture. By using this style, de Laclos is able to give the reader a shockingly intimate look at these people as they...
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Deinonychus Dinosaur Larger
454 wordsDeinonychus is a spectacular, but fairly small dinosaur. It measured about three and a half feet tall, and about nine feet long. Its weight is estimated at 150 pounds. By hunting in groups, members of a Deinonychus pack could have brought down dinosaurs much larger than themselves. In fact, the bones of several individuals of Deinonychus have been found with the skeleton of a large plant eating dinosaur, called Tenontosaurus. Deinonychus belongs to a family of dinosaurs called dromaeosaurs. They...
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Carrying Capacity Population Density
965 wordsPOPULATION GROWTH AND REGULATION 1. Populations vary in size over time due to a number of factors some natural, some created. Births, deaths, and environmental conditions are examples of natural factors that can affect a population. Sometimes the allotted space is just not big enough or there are not enough resources to support a larger population, and the species growth levels off resulting in a logistic growth. Logistic model combines two ecological processes: reproduction and competition. Bot...
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Hillside Sowashco K Man Of War Portuguese
569 wordsThe Portuguese man-of-warMan-of-War Man-of-War The Portuguese man-of-war if a member of the Kingdom Animalia, phylum Cnidaria (1), class Hydrozoa, order Siphonophra, the genus Physalia, and the species Physalia (2). The man-of-war is not an actual jellyfish, but a Siphonophor. Also the man-of-war is not a single organism. It is made up of many different organisms that work together. These organisms are called polyps. The Portuguese man-of-war is usually found in the Northern Atlantic gulf stream...
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King And The Duke Huckleberry Finn
1,263 wordsCriticisms of Mark Twain: Past and Present Mark Twain is regarded as one of the most prominent American authors. Twain was born Samuel L. Clemons several years prior to the Civil War in a small town of Hannibal, Missouri. Much of his boyhood was spent frolicking in the muddy brown waters of the Mississippi. After his fathers death early in his life, Twain was hired for his dream job as a Steamboat Captain on the Mississippi River. This chance was cut short by the start of the Civil War. Twain sp...
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Bald Eagle Endangered Species
662 wordsThe bald eagle is truly an all-American bird it is the only eagle unique to North America. It ranges over most of the continent, from the northern reaches of Alaska and Canada down to northern Mexico. The bald eagle, our national symbol, is listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act in 43 of the lower 48 states and listed as threatened in Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin. (There are about 40, 000 bald eagles in Alaska and none in Hawaii. ) However, bald eagles ha...
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Sharks And Rays Electric Fields Signal
257 wordsNearly forty years ago, I observed sharks and rays respond to weak electric fields. The biological significance of this finding became evident when shortly thereafter I discovered the common bio electric fields in the vicinity of aquatic animals. The electric sense became an established fact when I proved that sharks and rays cue in on the electric fields of prey, even during the dark or when the prey is hiding in the sand. Field strengths as low as 1 - 2 nV/cm suffice to alert them as to the pr...
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Childhood Sexual Abuse Child Sexual Abuse
1,837 wordsIn a world of violence and greed, parents are on the frontlines of a morality battle for the sake of their children. If they are not battling teen drug and alcohol abuse, these protectors of progeny constantly monitor for depression, sexual behavior, bad influences, and everything under the sun that could be in harms way of their offspring. There are many predators in the game of life that seek to manipulate and deceive these innocent juveniles for personal gains and selfish reasons. At a time w...
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Con Artists Elderly Person
1,078 wordsScam artists have always preyed on the gullible, but in recent years, much of the focus of these thieves has been on the elderly. It is quite a well known fact that the elderly possess the greatest percentage of disposable income with the least amount of debt. Old people with money. Scam artists prey upon these people with unrelenting deception. It is not a problem that will just go away. The problem must be analyzed and only then can we learn what to do. First we must analyze the different red ...
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Birds Of Prey Life And Death
893 wordsMarvell's Mistress Andrew Marvell is considered a cavalier poet. He writes seduction poems that represent characteristics of cavalier poets through use of clever, witty, and developed lyrics. Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is a seduction poem that contains these elements along with the use of rhyme, meter, imagery, and tone Marvell creates a seduction poem that argues the desire for sexual gratification with a distinct aggressive tone. To begin with the speaker in the poem is trying to convince h...
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King Hundred Years
1,546 wordsCoromantien was a part of Africa, which in the seventeenth century was one of the chief resorts of the slave traders. Its king was a man of more than a hundred years old. Thirteen of his sons died in battle, and he had left for a successor one grandchild, called Oroonoko. He was sent into the field to be trained to war as soon as he could bear a bow. At the age of seventeen he became one of the bravest and most expert of captains. The old General, a father-like figure, who had trained Oroonoko i...
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Digestive Enzymes Nerve Fibers
979 wordsPolyplacophora &# 038; Cephalopoda Polyplacophora The phylum Polyplacophora, meaning many plates, contains chitons, marine mollusks with oval bodies bearing eight dorsal plates. Chitons live only in marine habitats and are commonly found in rocky areas of the intertidal zone along the coasts of almost every sea. They are stationary and cling to their rocky surfaces. Chitons are supported by eight calcareous plates called valves. Depending on the species, these plates may be small or large, cover...
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Unlike Other Rays Member Of The Ray Family Fins
639 wordsStingrays Rays and their close relatives skates are common in Australian waters; there are at least 50 species that are found all around the Australian coastline. Rays are broad flat fish with a thin tail and have many characteristics of sharks, as they are related to them. For example they have no scales, swim bladder or bones; their skeleton is made up of cartilage. Unlike sharks they have blunt teeth, which allows them to crush the shells of shellfish. Stingrays usually live on the seabed whe...
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