Spider silk

way; so you don’t know what’s going on. It makes you feel edgy, as well as making you have chills going through your body. Chapter 9 creates tension by going up and down in emotions. The tension rises in chapter 9 when Arthur goes outside. He and spider stood on the grass, ‘We saw no one. No shadow fell across the grass.’ (quote book). ‘’We saw no one’ is a short sentence that makes you feel like something’s going to happen; Foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is when you give hints that something is…

Stepping into the dark gloomy hallway, I examined the situation. The walls had blood splattered on them. The floor now home to several young corpses. Luckily none moved when I poked them with my umbrella, giving me the signal it was clear. After I gave my friends a thumbs up, they hurried into the hallway. Lights flickered on and off quickly. "What's with the lights?" Samie pondered, trying to stay quiet. But before I could answer Samie, I heard a loud thud as if something or someone fell.…

Over the course of history, spiders have been the subject of stories and legends pertaining to various civilizations. These tales were prevalent in the societies of Ancient Greece, Medieval Europe, and Native American tribes. Ancient stories associated with spiders continue to endure among the people of West Africa and the Caribbean, for they are often recounted and acknowledged today. The term arachnid is derived from the Greek myth of Arachne and Athena. Confident in her capacity to weave…

But in Charlotte’s Web, White creates a spider character that’s hard not to like. By the end of the book, most readers have fallen in love with this Charlotte character. Charlotte becomes friends with Wilbur forming a loving bond. When the characters learn that Wilbur is destined to die once winter…

Ever since I was little I’ve had a fear of house centipedes. My mom once told me a story where she woke up and there was a centipede on the ceiling above her I am still horrified of house centipedes to this day. The reasons why they scare the crap out of me are because they move fast, they look very gross, and they hide in unsuspecting corners of the house. Whenever I try to catch them they run very fast and are sometimes hard to catch, for example I went to catch one late at night and when I…

The pair of scorpion appendages that appear to be adapted for grasping prey are their chela (claws). The claws have a movable finger and an immovable finger. The movable finger is what clamps down and grasps onto prey. The first pair of legs appear to be extremely long, yet thin, much smaller than the claws that they have. They appear to be the smallest appendages that the scorpion has. The function that they may serve is to help stabilize the scorpion as it is walking around. They might also…

Silk, an important textile that changes the world through its trade in ancient times. Because of the attraction of its profits, it inspired people to journey through unknown lands, which played an important role in the diffusion of culture, religion, technology, and societies among civilizations. Historically, China guarded its secrets of processing silk (sericulture) that was controlled by Chinese authorities. But around 550 AD the secrets of China methods for domesticating wild silk were…

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Taking a Look Into the Past, Understanding it Now American author Elizabeth Wayland Barber, who is an expert on textiles, wrote the book Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times in 1994, which takes the reader into the world as it was many years ago. In doing so, it enlightens one on how and why the women created textiles and eventually advanced and created other things. Today people know the clothes worn were made and the blankets used were created, but do…

environments were quite similar, some insects were present in greater quantities in one environment as a result of the varying factors favoring the survival of the insect populations. The arthropods were divided into the following ten morphospecies; Spiders, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Leipidoptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Homoptera, Diptera, Phasmia, and Mantodea. Unidentifiable arthropods were classified into a separate category consisting of all unknown arthropod…