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Every human beings life commence the moment they are born into this world with only one know fact for certain: humans are only given one chance at life. Human beings only have one life. For this very reason, the famous quote of Dr. Seuss, "Be who you are and say what you mean because those who mind don 't matter and those who matter don 't mind," come to mind. There are numerous contributions, such as families, friends, dreams, and haters, which allow them to live their life to the utmost.…

Through the connection between night and darkness, Eden is drawn into the conversation about darkness in Paradise Lost. Eden has day and night, which is consistent with the three creation stories. Many of the negative events foreshadowing the Fall occur in darkness or during the night. Satan plots to trick Adam and Eve into sinning in the darkness. In Book 2, during the important discussion in Hell as to whether the fall angels will attempt to fight God, despite having lost the first battle…

The Wind in the Willows (Chapter 1: The River Bank) By Kenneth Grahame Review by: Angelica B. Villamil In the first Chapter of this novel the setting is during spring time where the Mole is having his annual spring cleaning in his little home. Suddenly, he hears something that calls him to go up above. As he saw the outside world, hearing the birds chirping and feel the sunshine, he realized how much time he was spending underground especially during the times when the weather was good. Looking…

Maximum contractile force production dependant on muscle and sarcomere length in isolated sartorius muscle of Rhinella marina Abstract: An isolated Sartorius muscle of Rhinella marina was repeatability stimulated with electrical impulses to induce isometric contraction. Contractile forces evoked were measured with a force transducer and the relationship between force and muscle length was investigated through the modulation of sample lengths from 80%-140% of the sample resting length. The data…

Cinderella, and The Lion King.” I can’t say how many times I read those books over and over. I went on to read more and more of those books, but this time they had some chapters. Books such as “Where The Wild Things Are, Charlotte’s Web, and Frog and Toad Are Friends.” There are probably many more not listed but these are just to name a few.…

I woke up and looked around. Where...am I.... I wondered. I looked down, and saw claws on my hands. Wait...aren’t I...a human? I thought. I looked behind me, and I saw a fox tail, and when I reached up, I felt velvety fox ears. I jumped up in horror. “What the heck happened to me?!” I yelled. Suddenly, my new, sensitive ears picked up footsteps outside the door. I took a real look around at my surroundings. I was in a damp room, little more than a hole in the rock, with a wooden bed and a toilet…

“I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and convulsive motion agitated its limbs […] His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful” (Shelley 287). In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein gives life to a creature he had spliced together from the remains of bodies in the local cemetery. And just as Victor Frankenstein spliced together his monster, scientists around the globe are splicing together DNA sequences from multiple…

What type of effect will the removal of the O’Shaughnessy Dam in the Hetch Hetchy Valley of Yosemite National Park have on the environment? The Raker Bill, which eventually became known as the “Raker Act”, authorized the city of San Francisco the right to build a dam in the Hetch Hetchy Valley as a reservoir. It took about ten years to build the O’Shaughnessy Dam and it was completed in 1923. According to the Hetch Hetchy Restoration Study, the dam supplies water for 2.4 million people and…

Front Page: The Rocky Mountain National park in is Colorado. The elevation differences are vast and vary between 8,000 to 14,259 feet. The park is open year round. One of the most popular activities in the park is to observe the vast number of species. The park was created in 1915 and its area is 415 square miles. Carbon Cycle: The carbon cycle is the processes by which carbon is transferred throughout an ecosystem. In a typical carbon cycle, carbon is released in the form of carbon dioxide…

Lake of the Ozarks, MO This year, me and my family went to the amazing Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri. We went for six days and even though it doesn't seem like that long, we got a lot of things in. We got to swim, go boating, go out to eat, and go shopping. This will have been the sixth time we have gone with my aunt and uncle and one year, our grandparents even came with us! Lake of the Ozarks is my favorite place to go. First of all, and most importantly, we went boating. My aunt and uncle on…