Hibernation

What is fear? Some of you may think fear is just being scared of a spider, which in some cases it may be. Listen to me, fear is so much more than that. Fear is to be afraid of something which is likely to be dangerous, painful, or threatening. Although fear seems like a simple and straight forward emotion, it is actually more complicated than that. Fear is anger. You are angry because you are afraid of failing in school, so you do not try. Imagine yourself walking to class everyday seeing all…

influence, the protagonist never arrives at an individual identity. Nevertheless, he recognizes the importance of his individual contribution to society and decides it is time to come out. “Perhaps that’s my greatest social crime, I’ve overstayed my hibernation, since there’s a possibility that even an invisible man has a socially responsible role to play (Ellison 581).” Multiculturalism has shifted the power to define from culture to the individual. In doing so there is no escaping the…

The organism that I have chosen lives on my property, it is the Leopard slug, the scientific name for this organism is Linus Maximus. Before writing this essay I must admit I had a lot of apathy towards this pest that lived in my yard. As I systematically exam this creature I found it remarkable; it demonstrated its exceptional ability to adapt. As an illustration the Leopard slug occupies nearly world-wide distribution through human activities. The organism that I have chosen lives on my…

Let it Blow Respiratory Case Study Elijah Stevens is 74 year old male with a history of COPD. He is admitted to the hospital for an exacerbation of his COPD. He continues to smoke cigarettes (reports one pack a day). His current medications include theophylline, albuterol inhaler, beclomethasone dipropionate inhaler and a chewable aspirin 81 mg once a day. His lung sounds are diminished bilaterally. Pulse oximetry reading is 90%. He is receiving oxygen at 2 liters per nasal cannula. He…

In the United States, food is over-used because of how our society is today. Many Americans will eat as much as a bear. A bear may devour huge amounts of fish or some sort of seeds or berries which may cause hibernation. People do not need to store food or go hunt for food. In the ancient times people everywhere all across the world were hunting and gathering so that they could support their families. Jennifer B. Marks concluded that we store because that is what our ancestors did years ago.…

climate in the area (Whitney, 2002). The taiga identifies the biome of the need leaf forest and remains characterized by cold weather leading to limited food supplies in the winter (Marietta, n.d.). Food shortages influence the development of a hibernation tendency among the majority of animals in the taiga during the winter season. Taiga refers to forest in Russian and is identified as the largest biome in the world (Whitney, 2012). Taiga is considered expansive as it stretches from Eurasia to…

animals are incapable of abstract thought, they are imprisoned in an eternal present, have no sense of extended future, and hence cannot be said to have an interest in continued existence.” (par. 5). He could have argued this statement by using hibernation as an example, saying that animals could have a sense of extended future because they prepare for winter. However, he instead referred to a story with a lack of detail and then made immediate and irrational assumptions. Steiner had a habit of…

The Rosetta spacecraft is unmanned and is controlled from the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany and at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Madrid, Spain. Rosetta is operated from the ground and commands are sent to the craft to adjust its path towards the comet. Theses commands can take up to 50 minutes to reach Rosetta from Earth. Rosetta’s Science Ground Segment are responsible for the collection and distribution of the scientific data that Rosetta sends…

Among the downfalls of the occupation include little to no social life and the potential of public embarrassment. Dawn noted more than once that her social life essentially goes into hibernation during football season, when she is busy covering sports twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week. Such demanding occupations require trade-offs and for Dawn, she experiences them in a very real way whenever her friends or family wants to…

enters a manhole, which some people who were questioning the briefcase he possessed closed shut. The narrator was from there on excluded from the world and left in complete darkness with only his thriving thoughts. As the narrator states, “The hibernation is over. I must shake off the old skin and come up for breath. There’s a stench in the air, which, from this distance underground, might be the smell either of death or of spring-I hope of spring. But don’t let me trick you, there is a death in…