Arsenic

threatening the existence of many species of birds. Warfarin was the first poison used to kill rats effectively and safely. It caused internal bleeding in the rats that would lead to death by blood loss. This poison was better than the chemicals like arsenic, and zinc phosphide because it didn’t reveal that the rat was dying to the other rats. An even better poison that Stolzenburg described was brodifacoum, a poison that killed rats silently in their sleep, also by internal blood loss. This…

Adapting to changes is apart of one’s life but for these two characters adapting to change is the toughest obstacle in their life. If someone is able to adapt to different changes in life, they can simply feel like a loner. According to the online source Dictionary, a loner is a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others. Two characters in literature, Emily and Krebs, both ca not adapt to change and are also loners. In a Rose for Emily, by William…

it still remains a useful element. Chemical Properties Germanium is the thirty-second element in the periodic table represented with the symbol Ge. It is located in the fourth period under group fourteen. Along with other elements like Silicon and Arsenic, Germanium is a metalloid. As a metalloid, Germanium shares characteristics of both metals and non-metals. This is what makes Germanium a semi-conductor. Meaning, that under certain circumstances it can carry an electrical charge. In its…

Every character or characters in a story has a role in the end result. No matter how big or how small the role, everything a writer includes has some meaning behind it. In “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “Spunk” by Zora Neale Hurston, there are common “vital characters” shared between the two stories. These characters are the people of the town. In “A Rose for Emily” and “Spunk”, the people of the town pay vital roles in the lives and actions of the protagonist. The townspeople play…

Should smoking be outlawed? The use of cigarettes and other tobacco products has been on the rise in the past few decades as a result of advertisement and more common usage over the years. Because cigarettes and tobacco products have been around for quite some time there has been speculation as to whether they are truly beneficial, or really harmful. Given the evidence provided from Scientists, cigarettes and other tobacco products are actually proven to have negative effects on a person’s…

blood test can reveal infection. Antibiotics are the primary treatment for a syphilis infection. The development of penicillin in the 1940’s was a major breakthrough in the treatment of syphilis. Before penicillin was common, mercury and even arsenic were used to combat the disease. One injection of penicillin is usually enough to cure primary or even secondary syphilis. Doxycycline and erythromycin are effective substitutions for those patients with penicillin allergy. Sometimes…

Tony Wagner famously says, “Isolation is the enemy of improvement.” It is such an idea that William Faulkner portrays in his short story “A Rose for Emily,” published in 1930. Faulkner, born on September 25, 1897, is often seen using long lists of description and is well known for his poetry and novels set in the American South. During his time, Faulkner earned many awards such as The 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, the 1955 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, and the National Book Award (Biography).…

“The US Container Recycling Institute estimates that 67 million plastic water bottles are discarded every day. That is enough plastic water bottles to wrap around the planet 149 times each year,” Jockers researched. Plastic water bottles are hazardous to the environment and that is final. Water is water; persuaded people believe that bottled water is healthier and cleaner than regular tap water, yet that may not always be the case. The nutritional value between tap water and bottled water has no…

Often, chemical fertilizers like lead, mercury and arsenic containing organic compounds are used in the crops. They contaminate the soil by changing their physical and chemical properties. As a result of such kind of pollution in the soil, the growth of crops and plants decreases. In commercial agriculture…

Imagism was a literary movement that began in the early 20th century. This movement has its roots in the artistic world where its main aim was to avoid the old conventions and find new ways of creativity. Poets such as Ezra Pound, H.D. and William Carlos Williams tried to create a way of expressing the imagism in painting through words in poetry. This movement as contemporary art repudiates ‘beauty’ standards, and the Romanticism of the 19th-century while it admires the quotidian, the perceptual…