Poison

“Poison” by Roald Dahl is a short story about a man named Timber who arrives at his bungalow to find his partner, Harry, laying in his bed and acting frantic. Harry then reveals that a krait, a poisonous snake, has been laying on his stomach for hours. Timber calls an Indian doctor, who is addressed as Ganderbai throughout the story, and asks for help. Ganderbai willingly comes to the bungalow and does everything that he can possibly do to help Harry. At the end of the story, Ganderbai and…

new era of human conflict. The days of honorable combat were replaced with weapons of mass casualties such as machine guns and explosives of catastrophic proportions. But these tools of death paled in comparison to the horrors of chemical warfare. Poison gases removed the enemy, replacing him with a faceless horror that more resembled the superstitions and ghosts of the Dark Ages than the newest scientific advantages of the 20th century. From the personal accounts surrounding the first gas…

In the beginning of the two texts “A Poison Tree” by William Blake and “The Interlopers” by Saki, the main characters chose to ignore their anger rather than deal with it in a healthy manner. In “The Interlopers” the two main characters Ulrich and Georg have an enemy like relationship because of a long family feud due to Georg’s family poaching on Ulrich’s land. These two have never had an actual conversation about the feud and how to resolve it “the feud might, perhaps, have died down or been…

Poison King by Adrienne Mayor The book, Poison King by Adrienne Mayor, portrays a life that is characterized with manifestation and anticipation. It asserts Alexander the Great together with Darius of Persia as Mithradates predecessors who acquired a rich wealthy Black Sea kingdom when he was a teenager at 14years after his mother killed his father. He escaped into exile but came back in triumph to be a king of top notch intellect and stern objectives. He is seen as a savior by his supporters…

Linnea Saukko, author of “How to Poison the Earth,” made a big impact on the way people thought of the environment with her essay. Saukko got a degree in geology and worked for the Environmental Protection Agency to try to help the present issues. Her goal is to inform people about the harmful things happening to the earth. However, she takes a different approach than most would. She exaggerates her point with the use of satire and irony. By looking at this essay through the different methods…

but it all has to do with the idea of retribution. Revenge, the conventional name, is typically an idea that accosts itself when an individual offends another, leading to ill feelings. In the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” and the poem, “A Poison Tree,” by Edgar Allan Poe and William Blake, both protagonists host feelings of revenge, but only see one side of it; however, the reader can see the explicit side effects of it. The major external conflicts between Montresor and Fortunato and…

Poison Dart frogs A popular poison found in nature is Poison Dart Frogs. These frogs live in rainforest habitats in Central and South America and some in the Hawaiian Islands. The name Poison Dart Frog is a name of a group of frogs in the family dendrobatidae. The frogs are mostly bright colored and are diurnal, which means they come out during the day and sleep at night. As usual, Poison Dart Frogs have a delivery system. The article, Poison Dart Frogs, by Vera L. Figueiredo says “The toxins…

Sugar: Is it Food or Poison? Refined sugar is ubiquitous in our culture. Simply visiting a local supermarket, one is convinced that the most common ingredient found in our food today is refined sugar. Omitting the obvious sources like candy and soda pop (which usually occupy 2-3 isles), sugar is hidden in almost all processed foods in the forms of evaporated cane juice, high fructose corn syrup, and molasses. But how unhealthy is sugar? Is it only its high caloric content that induces obesity…

What is a small blue frog that is poisonous? The blue poison dart frog of course. Blue poison dart frogs are very interesting animals. They are interesting because they are the most poisonous type of frogs. The animal I chose is the blue poison dart frog also known as the Azureus. The phylum it belongs to is Chordata. Characteristics of the Chordata phylum are: most have vertebrates in other words animals with a backbone, they live in water for part of their life, they have no…

Was does it mean to be real? It wasn’t until I finished the final draft of Poison Lip Gloss that it struck me how often I write about this topic. I struggled quite a bit with my “reality” when I was younger, and even sometimes now. I can touch a blade of grass and know that it exists to me, but do I exist to it? Well, if I can bend the blade down to the earth then I have affected it. My presence, my touch, has changed that leaf and though it has sprung back up the same as before, it will never…