Scavenger

Knowing what one believes and values is a crucial part of life if one will be fighting and potentially sacrificing everything for that cause. Being able to determine when to get personally invested in a fight, and for what reason, is an essential life skill that everyone should know how to do. Authors and directors have expressed this theme in many works of literature and film throughout time. One novel specifically, Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo, follows the life of a young soldier, Joe,…

“I hate reading.” How often do we hear people utter this sentence? In this day and age, with education more widely available, especially in the United States, one would think that the love of reading would grow rather than diminish. Why, then, do people, including those who have already graduated from high school and thus should have been exposed to a variety of texts, loathe books so much? Not textbooks—as it is understandable that someone might recoil at the sort of dry material one can find…

This swift transition helps portray how this can be seen in society. Take for example if someone hands you a birth certificate that has written the individual to be male. Without much thought, the average human brain registers the word male and immediately assumes that the individual posses attribute of male quality. What most people fail to do is to evaluate the separation between sex and gender. This failure to recognize the difference between gender and sex starts at the fetal ultrasound…

An ecosystem is complex set of relationships among the living resources, habitats, and residents of an area. It is a biological community that incorporates human, animals, plants, soil, water, rocks, and microorganisms living together in a environment. Ecosystem includes both biotic and abiotic factors. Biotic factors include all of the living things such as plants, animals, bacteria, fungi and humans living in an area. The interactions between them such as competition, predation, mutualism and…

Due to the fact that prior to 9/11 Oskar and his father would play the scavenger hunt-type game, when Oskar find the key amongst his father’s belongings he takes it as a final message from his father. He sees this key as a way to avenge his father’s death and free himself from the guilt weighing him down from this tragic day…

of her failure, so maybe she was a little touchy still. "But that's...not enough anymore." His bunch had proven that much, and while there were few who could stand up to them, they were far from the only threat out there. What was she to do, play scavenger, pick through the corpses after the powerful groups had moved on? Never! "You've proven, more than proven your group's strength." Hands balled into fists at her side as she mustered her confidence. "I respect strength, and if I have to join…

Links between the human immune system, pathogens, antibiotic resistance and mutations are discussed in this report. It is stated that the antibiotic resistance and overuse of vaccine has contributed to the increased incidence of emerging diseases and resistance to their controls and treatments. The human immune system is the protection of the body against potentially damaging foreign bodies and other disease. Pathogens are organisms, including a bacterium, a virus or a fungus and these causes…

I. Question: Do polyphenols prevent dementia? II. Introduction: As the elderly population continues to grow, dementia is becoming more prevalent around the world today.1-3 According to Alzheimer’s Disease International, the number of dementia cases is expected to increase from 47 million in 2015 to 135 million by 2050.1 Currently, there is no cure or effective therapies available for dementia. However, vast scientific literature provides significant evidence that addressing modifiable risk…

Traditionally, the organization of the Indian social classes relies on the caste system, a system introduced some 3,000 years ago by Aryan invaders in India. This system divided the existing Indian society into a hierarchy according to professions and trades. Additionally, individuals inherit their parents' caste at birth (Ninian, 189). Parents pass down their caste and property to future generations, and marriages usually occur within castes. Due to supposed divine origins of the caste system,…

Adelburgers (“Adelbu”) Brief Description: Ultra elite wing of the RGA led by Walther Schäffer; has origins in the short lived RGA Gruppe “Ragnarök 14,” made up of members with a known service record within the Civil Guard. Organization: Instead of following its predecessor’s formation of 14 six man crews, Adelbu crews work in groups of ten eight man crews, much like most the RGA. These groups are organized within one cohesive organizational entity that answers personally to Walther Schäffer…