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    Furthermore in the book of Handmaid’s Tale in chapter 27 it states these quote A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere as long as it stays inside the maze. Margaret Atwood uses this quote to question the true meaning of freedom. For example A rat in a maze believes, that he’s free because he is allowed to run in whatever direction he chooses, and this is all the rat has ever known, But he is not free, this rat is still trapped inside a maze and still under the complete control of humans, and this symbolized how the society of Gilead, the people that are living in Gilead can roam free within it’s walls, but are constantly being watched by the eyes, and but they all know that escaping would be impossible but the future believes that this is…

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    Analyzing Remy's Rat

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    Remy despite being a rat embodies superior qualities, he is clean, refuses to walk on all fours to avoid soiling food with dirty front paws. Remy’s rat colony comes across as a belonging to a working-class status. Rats live in close quarters near humans but in abject condition under roof and sewers. Rats are dirty and uncouth. They feed on garbage and leftovers and stolen food. They had to be steamed clean and purified before entering the restaurant to prepare food. The subtext embedded…

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    The kangaroo rat can only survive in places hot and dry like a desert for example. The kangaroo rat can survive in the desert without ever drinking water. That's just some of the amazing facts that you will find in this paper The kangaroo rat is a rodent not a mammal people often get confused by its name they think it's in the kangaroo family. The kangaroo rat can jump up to nine feet, higher than any olympic high jumpers can jump that high. The kangaroo rat is in the animal kingdom and chordate…

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    Rat Experiment Lab Report

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    III. Experiment Results The in-class experiment took place using three different rats, and having all test subjects being exposed to four different situations. The first rat was used as the control subject, setting its outcomes from the experiments as the normal responses for a healthy individual rat. The first experiment was conducted to determine the normal metabolic rate for each rat. The control rat had a metabolic rate of 1465ml O2/kg/hr. This number will be compared to following numbers…

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    METHOD – 320 -6 = 314 WORDS Rats and Diets 36 Male Wistar rats were randomly divided into 4 groups of 9 rats with each group fed a different diet. Groups consisted of Corn starch (C), corn starch + naringin (N) (CN), high-carbohydrate high-fat diet (H) and H + N (HN) (Alam, Kauter, & Brown 2013). Rats on H and HN diet were fed a high-carbohydrate high-fat diet consisting of 25% fructose in drinking water and a mixture of beef tallow, condensed milk, powdered rat feed and salt for 16 weeks (Alam,…

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    testing on sleep/wake rats that measures in a streptozotocin-induced rat model of Sporadic Alzheimer’s disease. I will be focusing on object recognition testing in mice where they have the ability to perceive certain objects by its physical features such as color, shape, size, texture to determine how your short-term memory works when one or two different objects are placed for a certain period of time. The term “object recognition” means exactly as it states, it is how the memory reacts to…

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    beginning in Part One, it begins to depict how the rats started to captivate the lives of the people living in Oran. As the days go on, the number of dead rats increase. In The Plague by Adam Camus, suspense is shown through how naive the people of Oran were when they first saw the rats and the rising death counts of them and their impact. In the beginning of Part One, there are many interactions with the people and the rats. On of the first ones was when Dr. Rieux found a dead rat in the…

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    The effects of handling and sex differences in rats on anxiety was tested using an elevated plus maze. This experiment was conducted to determine the impact of handling and sex on the level of anxiety in 60 day old rats. 24 rats were separated into groups based on sex and whether or not they were handled. The effects of handling on anxiety was determined by placing the rats in an elevated plus maze for 5 minutes and observing how they explored. This study showed that handling had an impact on…

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    'Dripping rat blood' closes Roman Forum ticket office Experts say there are 6 million rats in the Eternal City. One of the four ticket offices allowing access to the Roman Forum was closed on Monday when rat's blood started falling on to the counter from the ceiling. The blood was noticed by an employee at the new ticket office, located in the square in front of the Colosseum early Monday morning, and health authorities were called to deal with the problem. “A rodent had died in the ceiling…

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    After thirteen weeks of recording the pink-eyed Sprague Dawley rats walking across an elevated horizontal ladder, a circular ladder and a treadmill, I now spend most days carefully examining the videos to evaluate the quality of their walking ability. The video begins, as it always does, at an angle below the ladder. The rat appears in the frame, roaming around, to acclimatize with the environment and probably search for its missing cage mate. Rats are social animals and enjoy being in groups.…

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