house so the little piggies ran out the back to Guzmi’s brick house. The wolf had huffed, puffed, kicked, punch but he couldn’t manage to knock the house down. Twenty minutes went by and not a sound from the wolf, it was so quiet you could hear the ants walking. “ BANG” The wolf knocked down the brick house door and ate each pig in front of the…
The Spotted Wing Drosophila fly (SWD) is a quickly spreading across the United States of America. As SWD numbers get larger the number of fruit crops gets smaller. Aijun Zhang, a chemist working with the Agriculture Research Service, Invasive Insect Biocontrol, and the Behavior Laboratory in Beltsville Maryland, has found a solution to the SWD problem, Methyl benzoate. Methyl benzoate is emitted by snapdragons and petunias, to attract bees. SWD, unlike bees, is repelled from Methyl benzoate,…
In the summer of 1793, Yellow Fever was a plague that took thousands of souls of people that lived in Philadelphia. The Yellow fever got to Philly by foreign ships with mosquito that have bread in the cargo areas. People got yellow fever by an infected mosquito. The mosquito got infected by biting people that were already infected. The people that treated the infection were doctors from Philadelphia and French doctors. Both the French and American doctors tried to help all the yellow fever…
Management practices have been extensively researched to evaluate which techniques might be more beneficial to horned lizards. The oldest and most commonly used management technique is prescribed burning (Scifres & Hamilton, 1993). This allows for an area to “restart” its plant succession. Fire is important in these semi-arid to arid environments where these animals are found because historically they contain bare ground, early succession plant life, and old growth in a mosaic of habitat…
In my society of 2036 the most problematic issue being technology, that slowly degrading traditional value, and communicating with others. The use of technology in my society became a major important to live itself; this great invention of us humans is rewriting how the human world was in the past. Technology in my society of New York 2036 has a great deal of diversity of technology for all kinds of use in the world. Some of the technology that we of 2036 have invented is the flying car, nanny…
The Fire Once upon a time my mom told me that me that when I was only 1 year old I was in a fire this is how it happened, my mom was laying on the golden brown blanket in the hotel and iI was next to her then she got a phone call from my dad,he was wondering what she wanted for lunch and dinner at the store so they made a grocery list than my mom smelt smoke it smelt bitter and rotten it was gross, and told my dad to call her back she grabbed me and walked to the door and the smoke smell got…
When Ismene tries to convince Antigone to abandon her plans to bury Polyneices, she says “You ought to realize we are only women/ not meant in nature to fight against men/ and that we are ruled, by those who are stronger” (Ant. 66-73). Antigone knows her position in Thebes as a woman with little power, but the fact that she chooses to ignore it ties in with her extreme mentality. Antigone’s attitude toward burying her brother reveals a prideful and stubborn personality along…
Why is It Important to Preserve Endangered Species? Individual Research Project Global Perpectives Over time the amount of endangered species on the planet has increased. An endangered species is a species that exists in very small numbers and is at risk of extinction. Animals are affected when humans damage and pollute the environment – their homes can be destroyed and Why do animals become endangered? There are many reasons why animals become endangered. There are both natural causes and…
decreases in water, or food by natural causes. Climate changes, radiation, food supply, diseases, parasites, and competition between the species can affect the bioindicator. (Markert, 2003) There are so many things a bioindicator such as fish, lichens, ants, or any creature that gives us an idea of its habitats health, that it has to go through in order for its species to…
“The sun is always going to be there but fossil fuels are not” - Jason [Find Last Name In Papers From MUN]. I am Dr. Michaela Hodges-Fulton and I am the director of the Environmental Protection Agency. I have a Bachelor of Science from Brown College, a Masters from Williams College, and a PhD from Yale University. Since I was a small child I have been drawn to the life in the ocean. The marine biome covers more than ¾ of the planet we call home. It provides more than ½ of the world’s oxygen and…