and destroy their influence. In “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ Poe shows the falsely accused life of the narrator. The author helps support this main plot line through the using the use of imagery through the symbolism of the Pit‚ the rats‚ and the General. First‚ Poe uses imagery through the Pit symbolizing the narrator’s Hell. In the story‚ Poe writes‚ “To the victims of its tyranny‚ there was a choice of death with its direst physical agonies or death with its most hideous moral
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Plague was a disease that originated in Turkey in 1347. It was caused by the fleas that lived on rats. The fleas have a bad bacteria in their stomach‚ but the bateria can make it to a point in which the flea gets sick and bites a rat; the bad bacteria is then passed onto the rat and gets into the bloodstream. All of the fleas who bite the infected rat will then absorb the plague and pass it on to other rats or humans. "The other thing that made the pneumonic form of the
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Effects of Neurotransmission on Human Behaviour A neurotransmitter is a chemical message that carries signals from one neuron (pre-synaptic) to another reaction neuron (post-synaptic) within the human body. Most of the time a neurotransmitter is released from the axon terminal after an action potential has reached the synapse. The neurotransmitter then crosses the synaptic gap to reach the receptor of the other cell. The process repeats itself‚ which then causes a. Neurotransmitters play a very
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and thriller to make the audience grimis in terror through taboo experimentation and scattered scenes until the final conclusion at the end of the film. Laugier opens the film with a young girl screaming as she runs through an abandoned street‚ beaten and bloody. He continues to switch scenes to the screaming girl‚ Lucie‚ 15 years later‚ as a woman who suffers hallucinations of a woman who tortures and abuses her. She is visited by this hallucination after she massacres a family whom she believes
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Physiology : Eating • Digestive system – stores and uses energy – Absorption & Fasting – See diagrams • Describe how brain & rest of body controls eating (100%) or role of Hypothalamus Metabolism – Absorption & Fasting When we eat we must obtain adequate amounts of carbohydrates‚ fats‚ amino acids‚ vitamins and minerals to construct and maintain our organs‚ to obtain energy for muscular movement and for keeping our bodies warm. Most of the molecules we eat get ‘burned’ to provide the
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designed to clarify whether dichlorovos an organophosphorus (OP) compound causes detectable adverse effects on rat testes. Dichlorovos was administered to rats orally at dose level of 20 mg/kg/body wt./day for 45 days. Sex organ weight analysis‚ fertility‚ biochemical‚ enzymatical and hormonal parameters were the criteria used to evaluate the toxicity of the dichlorovos in treated rats. Study shows significant decline in the weight of testes‚ epididymis‚ seminal vesicle‚ ventral prostate and reduction
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hormone(s) in the hypophysectimized rat‚ what would be some expected symptoms? You correctly answered: d. decreased basal metabolic rate 3. An injection of thyroxine to an otherwise normal rat will cause which of the following? You correctly answered: b. hyperthyroidism 4. Why didn’t any of the rats develop a goiter after thyroxine injection? You correctly answered: a. In all cases‚ TSH levels were not elevated by the thyroxine injection. 5. Why did the normal rat develop a palpable goiter with
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Surname Centre Number Candidate Signature Other Names Candidate Number Leave blank General Certificate of Education June 2004 Advanced Level Examination BIOLOGY/HUMAN BIOLOGY (SPECIFICATION A) Unit 5 Inheritance‚ Evolution and Ecosystems Tuesday 22 June 2004 Morning Session No additional materials are required. You may use a calculator. BYA5 For Examiner’s Use Number 1 2 Mark Number Mark Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes Instructions • Use blue or black ink or ball-point pen. • Fill in the boxes
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symbolism of the rats‚ the weather of Oran and the town itself and the death of Jacques Othon. The theme of the preservation of human life and fighting against death is conveyed through the symbolism of the characters of Dr. Rieux‚ Rambert and Tarrou. Without these symbols‚ the themes would lose a lot of their meaning. Suffering and agonizing pain abound throughout this novel. A plague spreads across the town of Oran. The plague‚ very similar to the Bubonic Plague is first seen in the rats that inhabit
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developments. The Black Death is known by many names such as “the blue sickness‚” la pest‚ “the great mortality or it’s scientific name Yersinia pestis (Benedictow‚ 2013). The Yersinia pestis is an anaerobic bacteria in‚ which‚ humans can be infected by rat‚ flea or both. It has three main known forms: pneumonic‚ septicemic‚ and bubonic plagues. All three of these forms of Yersinia pestis are considered to be extremely deadly and dangerous.
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