Exoskeleton

Metamorphosis’s lion wears a skull as its mask. The lion here has created an exoskeleton: something to protect its skin rather than its organs. The skull mask further serves to protect its wearer by being specifically situated into a roaring position, a message to keep back. As previously mentioned, Nachum emphasizes the importance…

Pencil Me In For The Zombie Apocalypse Legends of the risen dead have come from most of the world’s cultures in order to encourage fear or hope-based obedience. However, countries like England, Germany, and America have begun to use such concepts to entertain the masses through books and movies that depict the life one would experience during and after a zombie apocalypse. The zombies typically seen in movies come in three categories; zombies raised specifically to serve a master, zombies…

My group consisted of myself, Kausar Uddin, Josh Samuels and Adam Doogan. After I formulated a rough idea of what film I wanted to make, we all pitched what we thought could have improved it from there, conversing about such things as to what extent of a relationship the lead characters have within the narrative. Early on, pre production, we did not distribute roles to each individual because we wanted everyone to share responsibilities; However, towards the end we agreed on roles based on what…

Men. As clear as day, the default setting, for almost anything; unless it has to do with marketing, then the default is a sexy blonde woman who is half naked, trying to sell cologne on a six-foot poster. If women can sell all of these products, why does the marketing industry think that video games with female leads won’t sell? And, why is it that men are always thought of first in a positive way, and women second to mind in a demeaning way? Sex role stereotyping. Sex role stereotyping is hard…

Scales are the exoskeleton covering of the fishes found in most of the cartilaginous and bony fishes which provide protection to the body. Scales are small, thin, cornified, calcareous or bony plates which fit closely together or overlap. Scales are complex derivatives of the integument and are derived from the mesenchymal cells of the dermis. They vary greatly in size, shape, structure, and extent, ranging from rigid armour plates in fishes such as shrimp fishes and box fishes, to microscopic…

immigrants. By way of imparting the aliens to us, no longer as attractive, noble creatures, by making them half of-human and half of insect, the movie continuously trips us up through making the racist gaze our gaze. It confronts us with our complicity with racism, by making us identify with the attitude of the racist, inviting us to experience the revulsion of the xenophobe – and then pulling the carpet from beneath our feet. it is this tension that produces what should be the most…

Species taxonomy- The Olive Ridley Sea Turtle belongs to the kingdom: Animalia, the Phylum: Chordata, the Class: Reptilia, the Order: Testudines, Family: Cheloniidae, Genus: Lepidochelys, and its species is olivacea. Thus the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle’s scientific name is Lepidochelys olivacea. (NOAA, 2014) In Spanish the Olive Ridley is called Golfina. (Sea turtle Inc., 2016) There is only one other animal in the genus Lepidochelys and it is the Kemp’s Rideys Sea Turtle: Kingdom: Animalia,…

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Porifera Classification information for Poriferans: Poriferans, better known as sponges, consist of 5000 known species, all located primarily in marine and fresh waters (Myers, 2001a). They are multicellular, heterotrophic, invertebrates with an irregular shape and no distinct pattern of symmetry (Myers, 2001a). Overall, they are the simplest of animals; thus, lacking any true tissue and/or germ layers (Myers, 2001a). Furthermore, they are known to be highly sessile,…

Review of The Fly (1986) Seth Brundle, a research scientist, has created a once in a lifetime teleportation machine. He shows how to transport objects and in the beginning is not able to transport anything with skin, for example, the baboon that was horribly turned inside out. Veronica Quaife, a beautiful journalist is very intrigued with his work and inspires him to further his teleportation device. Later, he decides to transport himself through the transmission booth that goes horribly wrong,…

Introduction More than ever before, the human population has been turning to the drug caffeine as a stimulant in our everyday lives. As the fastest growing component of the beverage industry, caffeinated substances such as energy drinks, shots, and other supplements are being consumed in noticeably greater quantities (Kumar et al. 2105). 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine is a chemical compound commonly known as caffeine. In humans, extremely high doses of caffeine can be considered a drug, but the normal…