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Squids and Octopi may be two of the most fascinating and unique creatures to live on the planet. With each animal having close to over two hundred different species, two that distinguish themselves from all the other species are the giant octopus and the giant squid. A misconception often made is that these two animals are the same and just have different names. While they both belong to the same class of Cephalopoda, they are in fact two completely different species both belonging to a…

Bern Notice: The Rise of Sanders It was a well-timed coincidence that I was able to take my exchange semester to the United States in the midst of the strangest presidential election in years. But while the world is talking about the soundbites of Donald Trump, you’d be hard-pressed to find a student on campus that has not taken notice of the rise of Bernie Sanders. When most old white men are associated with maintaining the status quo, you might be forgiven if your passing glance at American…

Anatomy and Structure Most training centres will have a chart on the wall with an illustration of a dog’s anatomy as well as skeletal structure. You’ll need to memorise the terms because your instructor will refer to these constantly. But you’ll also gain an appreciation for differences in structure between dogs and how this makes for variation, for example, in the drop of the coat. Planning your grooming How you plan your grooming is critical to workplace safety and your productivity.…

All the President’s Men, an investigative, nonfiction book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, details the investigation into the Watergate scandal of the 1970s caused by President Richard Nixon and his team. By detailing the investigation of a burglary, recounting the discovery of a high-profile scandal, and revealing the importance of both anonymous and credited sources, Woodward and Bernstein analyze the factors that were necessary in exposing President Nixon’s part in the Watergate scandal.…

Naguib Mahfouz’s Zuqāq al-Midaq and Arab Culture Naguib Mahfouz was born on December 11, 1911 in the district of Al-Jamaliyya in Old Cairo and lived with his father, mother, four brothers and two sisters. When he was twelve, his family moved to Al-Abasiyya, a new Cairo suburb. Although Mahfouz had left his earlier district, it remained in his memory to the extent that many of his novels e.g., Midaq Alley and the Trilogy were set in Al-Jamaliyya, the district of his birth. Mahfouz’s life in…

James Bond films are, and always have been, more similar than innovative. Even in the 1960s they were portrayed as superheroes who wore street clothes instead of colorful tights and mantles He ran, jumped from building to building, drove over broken bridges, jumped from a helicopter and fell in the garbage truck without even getting a scratch on to his body, popular in action cinema at that moment and amped them up with more beautiful locations, bigger explosions, with loud and thundering music.…

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, published in 1899, has been and continues to be received as a literary classic, taught in thousands of schools every year as a critique on European imperialism. There are however individuals that do not share this degree of admiration for the work, some of whom, such as Chinua Achebe, well learned and well respected. Achebe asserts that the book is “offensive and deplorable” (Achebe 7) and cites a plethora of textual evidence supporting claims that the text is…

Geometry and Eratosthenes In Professor Russ physical science class, there’s a plethora of subjects you, as a student, are bound to cover. This semester we had discuss over twenty different fields of science; the first being Geometry and Eratosthenes computing circumference of earth. We started the final semester off with two worksheets. The first was the “Angles of a Triangle”, we had to cut out the three angles of the triangle and piece them together in a shape. The three angles form a…

died when I was only seven years old; yet your traditions, beliefs, and ways of life are still holding true with our family. Not only do we still have our annual Easter Egg hunt every year, we still hang all of our Christmas stockings together on one mantle, we have started growing our own gardens, several of us are raising chickens, and three of your five grandchildren are teachers (with one on the way to becoming one). You were so much fun to be around when I was a little girl and you made…

Spousal war and high class ambitions This blessed house is a story which demonstrates an Indian couple’s conflicting interpretations on Christianity and its symbols. Within the contents of the story, religious objects in relation to Christianity continue to emerge in direct opposition to the interests of Sanjeev, the male counterpart and husband of the story. Though he has no interest in these objects, it appears that his wife, Twinkle, takes a sort of novel interest in them while Sanjeev…