Bat

Revelations of Bats Bats are animals of mystery. There is more to bats that meets the human eyes. Bats are amazing creatures that have a couple of contrasts with humans. In the short story “My Life as a Bat,” by Margaret Atwood, Atwood uses phrases to highlight the differentiation between bats and humans. One phrase appears when Atwood “reincarnates” as a bat. Atwood says, “When they kill, they kill without mercy, but without hate” (19). This quote exemplifies a major difference that bats…

watches the World Series game of baseball and then that is when the inspiration struck. Boston shortstop Tim Casey and Philadelphia pitcher Daniel Michael Casey, were the two main inspiration players to create Casey at the Bat (Baseball Almanac). From the poem “Casey at the Bat”, Ernest Thayer demonstrates the theme of how a downfall or failure can happen to any human being no matter if they are normal or the supernatural. The poem is told in a baseball perspective in the 1880’s. It is known…

My life as a bat, Carry by Lily Hogan and Animal Farm by George Orwell. Although humans and animals may interact in a sometimes abusive way at the end of the day both species are the same. Often times humans act out in an abusive way against animals because they are unaccustomed or unaware their presence. When humans do become aware of the presence of the animal they act out in volatile ways because they believe that the animal will hurt them. For example, when people see bats they often…

jealousy and deception can lead to death figuratively and literally, as it did in the Nigerian folktale Why the Bat flies by Night. The themes of deception and jealously are strongly portrayed by Emiong the bat. In friendship we all share commonalities such as hobbies, movies, books etc. You never really expect your friend to be jealous of you. In this folktale the bush rat Oyot and the bat Emiong are good friends. Emiong makes a really good soup and Oyot wants to know the secret of how he…

identity is important because without it how would we think upon each other by looks? I feel that if we didn't have identity we would be dull and plain and uninteresting. Even if gender isn't a big impact on a person's life some may argue. Right off the bat gender depends on how you act like you have to act a certain way according to your gender. Say you a male in society's P.O.V you have to get a job and bring home money and be successful but some men don't do that and in society's view it's…

No Bats in the Belfry: The Origin of White-Nose Syndrome in Little Brown Bats Kelsey Prickett BIO 108 Caroline Solomon February 4, 2016 In 2006, a disease called White-nose syndrome (WNS) was discovered. This disease was developed by a Pseudogymnoascus destructans fungus (Dechaine & Johnson, 2014). The P.destructans is a cold-growing fungus (Hayman et al., 2016). This type of a disease is a significant threat to bats in the United States. White-nose syndrome had been spreading…

Ever since 2014, Easton has been improving and improving this Little League baseball bat called the Easton Mako. Kids that play the sport of baseball wonder how this bat hits way farther than different bats, like wood bats. The question is, how do these bats do that? A Mako is a powerful high tech bat that is still used in travel ball leagues to this day. Kids in the Little League World Series, that happens every year, use these Makos (usually the newest version).…

playing the game of baseball is a bat. There are so many bats out there; small barrels, big barrels, even a few of everything on the bat is a barrel, but a few of my favorite bats and the more probably used bats throughout baseball is the Demarini vs. Marucci. These two bats are very well used and that's because they are the best bats put together. Let's start with Demarini. Demarini has been in this great game of baseball for over 60 years and still makes bats to this day. Demarini, at one…

In the photo, a baseball is being hit by a bat in a game. This photo was taken at a Gonzaga baseball game on campus (I used a profession photo because they are way better and a second photo is used to show the moment of contact which is what I am talking about). In terms of the physics in the photo. The focus of this paper will be on the energy transfer from the bat to the ball, which causes the ball to reverse directions, increase velocity, and create a launch angle to potentially be a…

reach that goal the characteristics that are assumed to play a factor in the development of the disease must be researched. In the case of white nose syndrome researchers believe that environmental characteristics and sex can predict survivorship in bats with white nose syndrome. Since, it is known that white nose syndrome takes place during hibernation researchers began with a mock setup of the hibernation practices of the little brown myotis. This study would investigate various variables that…