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ducts. Control Rats Figure 16 represents EGF expression (brown staining) within a control rat. Relatively low levels of EGF expression can be seen mostly within the cortex of the kidney. EGF expression can be seen within the cytoplasm of the cells (A), whilst no…

According to Lauren Slater, “Rat Park: The Radical Addiction, scientists, Old and Milner were stating that an addiction is a “physiological inevitability”(6) which causes them to conduct experiments in finding the pleasure center. Another scientist who was very fond of finding the cause of addictions was Bruce Alexander. In order to find out, he and other colleagues constructed two environments for the lab rats to live in: an isolated cage and a co-ed colony called “Rat Park”. Each of the…

Jewish Lab Rats Throughout history there have been multiple genocides. However, one of the most memorable and most discussed genocides has to be the one committed by Germany. This genocide was called the Holocaust and it targeted anyone who was not of Hitler’s “perfect race” consisting of blonde hair white skin and blue eyes. One group of people were targeted the worst of all. These people were Jewish. Many people of Jewish descent feel uneasy discussing the holocaust because some have…

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once but that never lasted. In the legends “Cat and Rat Chinese Zodiac” and “How Mice and Cat’s became enemies” the mouse does something that gets the cat mad. In the first legend Cat and Rat are in the race to see who can be in the Chinese Zodiac, But there can only be 12 animals. On the way they take a ride on Ox so they don’t have to swim in the water. Well half way through Rat says there is fish in the water so Cat gets up and looks but Rat is so selfish he pushes Cat in the water and wins…

of Paris in 1951, some may know him as Blek Le Rat. He studied fine art and architecture at Beaux-Arts in Paris, then graduated in 1982. Before he graduated, Xavier Prou visited New York City and was fascinated with the city’s street art. He was one of the first people ever to do graffiti art in Paris. He is also known as "Father of stencil graffiti". One of his first stencils paintings were of rats all along the walls of Paris. He called these rats "the only free animal in the city" (Reiss,…

Rating Performance Qualifications Should be Electronic Only The Coast Guard needs to revise the way non-resident training for advancement is administered. Moving to an electronic only version of the Enlisted Rating Advancement Training System (ERATS) would provide a more efficient way for Rating Performance Qualifications (RPQs) to be completed, administered, and tracked. The current system is cumbersome and allows too much room for misinformation to make it out to the field. A benefit of…

psychological response towards stimuli. It encompasses organism’s observable physical movements and internal psychological process, summing up to how an organism responds with the environment. Sniffy experiment seeks to demonstrate how the virtual rat responds to tone and shock variation. It is possible to measure organism behavior using one or more parameters, including duration, intensity, and frequency. While experimentation is a better tool for learning, it is typically the understanding of…

Question 1: View Stuart McMillen's Rat Park comic at this link. Relate Dr. Bruce Alexander's psychological research on addiction to Fromm's discussion in chapter 2 as it pertains to human separation and ways people attempt to transcend separation in our capitalist socioeconomic system. While reading Mr. McMillen’s Rat Park comic, the first hypothesis Dr. Alexander forms are whether solidarity makes becoming an addict, easier. According to Fromm, separateness or in this case to be solitary, is…

documentary film Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, Errol Morris directs the fascination of a man’s action that profoundly emanates his relationship with the world around him. The four men: Dave Hoover, a Wild Animal Tamer; Ray Mendez, the Hairless Mole-Rat Specialist; George Mendonca, a Topiary Gardener; and Rodney Brooks, a Robotic Scientist, each obsessed to create unconventional worlds of their aspirations. The film has a disrupted narrative format, interweaving interviews with the men and…