Worm

George R.R Martin, an American novelist, once said, “Love is madness and lust is poison.” Yet, the loss of the same love can oftentimes leave people in a state of anguish. In the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, the protagonist is trapped in melancholia after the loss of his wife Lenore. The author uses two gothic conventions; decay and emotion to manifest the main character’s madness driven by grief. The gothic convention of decay demonstrated how sorrow prompted the protagonists’ madness…

“The Raven” is a poem expressed in the form of a story that the author, Edgar Allen Poe, uses an amazing combination of symbolism, imagery, and wordplay to display the love and supernatural aspect that correlates to the deaf of the man’s love, Lenore. These elements help support the theme. The theme of “The Raven” is the sadness and grief that is brought along when a love one is lost eternalized and can never be fixed. The symbols are in the form of objects and figures. The imagery in the poem…

investigations by planning the experiments the worm was going to do, and we carried out investigations by investigating and writing down what happened. One cross-cutting concept that was in the lab was patterns because 3 out of 4 experiments ended in the worm picking the same thing 3 times. The first hypothesis is that if worms are placed in an area with light and darkness then the worm will move toward the light. The results of the experiment was that the worm went toward the light once, and to…

with mango worms, and I was disgusted. I could not look away as the vet squeezed the dog’s skin, making the worms pop out. I could think of only one word to describe what was left in the dog’s skin as the worms left: orifices. I never thought that I could hate a word, but it turns out I was wrong. I absolutely hate the word “orifices.” I hate the word because it reminds me of the holes in the dog’s skin. In some places the dog had no hair left, just pink, swollen areas where the worms were…

observe under the microscope. After adding mutagens to them, scientists can get all kinds of freak worms after few days. “Bag of worms” are one of them. It can not lay eggs so its body occupied with dozens of eggs. When eggs hatched inside the worm, larvae eat the mother worm and them come out. Ambros, a scientists who just finished doctor degree at MIT, first studies the mutant gene of “bag of worm” and located the gene at chromosome 2 and named it line-4. He soon discover that this sequence…

importantly, a disease is a condition that impairs the body from functioning properly. Both diseases are commonly found in third world countries, due to poor water quality, sanitation, air quality, and lack of health professionals. Ebola and the Guinea Worm (Drancunculiasis) are two diseases that have made their way into the news recently. The two diseases are relatively similar, but also differ in a few different ways. There is supporting biomedical research being done to eradicate both of…

Coffee, Snacks, Worms In Karleen Bradford`s “Coffee, Snacks, Worms” foreshadowing, theme, and symbolism are the three most significant elements of fiction that intensify the effectiveness of the short story. Firstly, foreshadowing add tension to the story which makes the reader want to read more to see how it develops. Foreshadowing first introduced in the beginning of the story with the italic font but the conclusion made a huge impact “There, in front of her, stood a dishevelled,…

be cause by witches, ancestors, or curses. These faiths could explain why there was a bad harvest or crop failures, unpleasant illness or unanticipated death, or even the dying of sacred animals. In the article, A Salvage Ethnography of the Guinea Worm by Amy Moran-Thomas whom reported her main thesis as a viewpoint about a “hard-fought health campaign against a centuries old pathogen, and the conflicting priorities and values, and laden paradoxes of humanitarianism at play as medicine…

Dracunculiasis, also known as guinea worm disease is one of the leading risk for infection in Africa and Asia (CDC, 2002). In this case study, it discusses the eradication efforts to eliminate the disease in parts of Asia and sub-Saraharan Africa. The cause of guinea worm is from drinking unsanitary water from a well or pond that is polluted with copepods that carry guinea worm larvae (CDC, 2002). The eradication of the guinea worm disease started in the 1980 with a campaign started by the US…

people have such strong beliefs that it causes people to not be able to agree or come to conclusions. The majority of people back then did not understand evolution. Howard was insulting another townsperson and said, “You and your whole family was worms”, (Lawrence ad Lee 4). Most of the people just argue about who was right instead of learning about evolution and each other’s beliefs. Since teaching evolution in the classroom was illegal, they would wrongly state facts creating misunderstandings…