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    Most people view Medieval medicine as useless or ineffectual, but it was very useful, although the epidemic was a tragedy of it made us thrive for new medicine. Medicine could go from Anise,Licorice to stomping on a plucked dead, burning owl to treat someone in this time and nobody knows if any of it really helped. Diseases such as the “bloody flux”, “ holy fire”,gonorrhea,influenza,plague was going around at this time. Seeing this it opened their eyes and they saw they needed better ways to…

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    The Lorax By Dr Seuss

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    learn why the area was in such terrible shape. The Once-ler lived on top of what was once his store and on special nights in August he would tell about the Lorax. It cost fifteen pence, a nail and the shell of a great, great, great grandfather snail. Using a Whisper-ma Phone the Once-ler would share information about what happened to the Lorax. In a very strange and unusual voice the Once-ler spoke of the time many, many years ago when the grass was green, the pond was clear and the…

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    Beauty is something everyone has, but adding beauty to something already beautiful spoils the bunch; that is a message Madame Crommelynck wants us to know. Madame Crommelynck is the unexpected mentor for Jason and someone who has embraced the literary world, but instead of Jason Madame Crommelynck will be swapping students with Rilke; who is the late mentor of The Young Poet. The Young Poet is a beginner to the literary world, and since he’s just a beginner he currently has a lot of problems…

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    potential. The shells that the waves wash up were getting caught in between the large rocks making shell pools full of shells instead of water. There had to be more than one hundred shells caught in each pile including rare cone shells that small snails used to use and really big shells that do not wash up on shore as often as others. There were shells of all kinds, big, small, red, brown, yellow, green, and many others. She felt like this was one of the best things she had ever…

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    Stonefish Research Paper

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    1.Introduction Venom is an general expression indicating to different forms of toxins secreted naturally by living organisms: microbes, plants, or animals.; these animals have developed their behaviors as defense mechanisms or to help them hunt for food by using their venom , or they can be produced synthetically .Toxin acts through two mechanisms either by effecting nervous system or by damaging tissues or organs (Franz et al., 1997). Animal venoms are complicated natural sources of…

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    A decision that changes a course The guiding quote on this essay was uttered by Robert Frost, “The Roads Diverged in a Wood, and I Took the one Less Travelled by, and that has made all the Difference.” This quote really triggers my mind and resurfaces some past memories about the decision I had made. As a poet, Frost wanted to show how a unique and isolated decision can help transform our lives. From my point of view, this quote acts a summary of my teenage life depicting a hard and a…

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    Outline: 1. Introduction: Marine biology plays an important role in the ecosystem. It accommodates different animals and plant species, which acts as source of food for human beings. These water bodies have different zones of habitat, which supports the life of different species. 2. Coastal habitat: a. Intertidal zones. b. Sandy & rocky shores. c. Mangroves. d. Coral reefs. 3. Ocean habitat: a. The Epipelagic zone. b. The Mesopelagic zone. c. The Bathypelagic zone. d. The Abyssal pelagic zone…

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    One thing being, she does not have children. Elisa cares for her chrysanthemums as though they are her children. She protects the flowers from all harm. Elisa checks the flowers to make sure that no insects such as aphids, snails, and cutworms are destroying them. Text states that, “Her terrier fingers [destroy] such pests before they [can] get started” (417). Although Elisa cares for the flowers as though they are her children. She also uses them to help with her insecurities…

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    “Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.” (Chief Seattle) Throughout ancient times, birds have been integrated part of the California’s native indians. There are myths that illustrate the middle world humans live and their ineraction with the worlds above and below. Theory has it that the spirits journey to the land of the dead on an island out to the sea. The sky people in particular, which rule the light…

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    which still afflicts 10 percent of Egypt’s population today, seems to have been rampant in ancient times. One study found remains of the eggs that cause this disease in fifteen of twenty-three examined mummies. The cause is a parasite, carried by snails living in the still waters of canals and in the Nile’s riverbanks, that burrows through the feet of waders, enters their veins, and then swims to the body’s bladder and rectum to deposit eggs. The worms finally migrate to the urinary tract,…

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