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always said that Feia didn’t have any sense, and she agreed. If she had been sensible, she would have been asleep. The sun was yet to rise over a cold autumn morning but she had already left a warm bed behind. She had decided that she’d rather be a slug, a dead fish or anything that meant she wasn’t like her classmates; nothing like them at…

Allegiance Insurance Agency How to Safeguard the House You Are House Sitting In the United States, it’s estimated that burglaries of homes account for nearly 74% of all burglary instances per the Federal Bureau of Investigations. If you are a house sitter, then you don’t want to be a sitting duck if an intruder attempts to enter the home you are in while sitting. The following are some ways you can safeguard the home you are house sitting. Safety Tip #1. Secure every door and window in the home.…

Rainforests are beautiful ecosystems where trees, plants, insects, and other wildlife thrive. There are rainforests all over the world; even some in the United States. The rainforest holds many wonders humans have yet to discover. The largest and oldest ecosystems on Earth are rainforests. There can be as many as 500 tons of living things per acre. Over 50% of the world’s animal and plant species are found in the rainforest. Four layers make up the rainforest; the first of the four is the…

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a genetic disorder that is the most common cause of inherited mental retardation. Although often compared to autism, FXS is a comprehensive disorder, characterized by numerous physical and behavioral symptoms. FXS is a caused by trinucleotide repeats on the X chromosome, which prevents the production of the protein FMRP, that is necessary for normal brain functioning. It is important for parents, educators, and the general population to better understand this syndrome…

Upon initial reading, “The Victims” by Sharon Olds seems to be a poem that paints the picture of a life of abuse; starting from the dawning of the exploitation and arching over into the life of the abused following the maltreatment. In the work, it is made to be believed that the clear victims of the poem are the speaker and their family—which is a rightful and obvious assumption—but there is another victim that is not as prevalent as that of the speaker and their family: the speaker’s father.…

certain speed depending on how much layer the vest has. The person wearing the vest may block the bullet but may still suffer injury due to the bullet pushing you back. When the bullet hits the vest it disperses the round energy making the bullet slug to minimise blunt force trauma. A Bulletproof vest is made up of a lot of layers of tightly woven material to help protect the wearer. How body armor works: While wearing the vest, when getting hit with a bullet, will feel like the…

floor where all the classes cynically open their doors and suck you in. Forty minutes you sit, seated on the hard, coloured chairs behind trash filled desks, engaged in activities which aid in the improvement of your intellectual wellness. The time slugs by, as your pen is introduced to paper and your thoughts begin to walk; across the pages or out in the hall was. The period ends wing the beep of the so called “bell”, just like prisoners, we march along to our next class with our warden,…

The Asian Giant hornet habitat is native to tropical and temperate Eastern Asia. Adult Asian hornet do digest solid protein, but they chew it into a paste to feed it to their larvae. Some of the distinctive features of this insect are that its wide black and orange body and large mandibles. The hornets skin type is like a shell. This bug could harm someone really bad. It is also in the wasp family. Here are some facts that you didn’t know. The insect could really kill someone if they were stung…

of the nursery rhymes are typically based on gender stereotypes. The nursery rhyme “What are little boys made of” portrays both genders in different ways and how their feminine and masculinity is perform. For instance, boys are being portrayed as “slugs and snails” showing that boys will always be boys and they will never know when to grow up. While girls are seen as “sugar and spice” that depicts them to be sweet and keen. There seem to be more of a positive, uplifting meaning behind the young…

As I pulled into the park on a Friday evening, the sun glistened off of the metal handlebars lining the top of the skateboard area. Parents pulled into the parking lot with barely enough time to shift into park when their children eagerly thrust the door open and sprint towards the wooden entrance. The ground teetered as I walked in with young children not even reaching my waist rush in to claim their rightful throne on the swings. One child peeks their head from the top of the slide, exclaiming…