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‘In Memory of C. Tallish and R. Turner’ In this essay, I will discuss the effects of W. H. Addend’s poem ‘In Memory of W. B. Yeats’ upon the tone, and the foreshadowing of the plotline of Ian Means’s novel Atonement. The poem and the novel are both elegiac- it is the contribution of the…

Are plants able to live in an environment without the seemingly essential nutrients of soil? Seeing as how certain plants can grow only in certain soils, it seems unlikely that any seeds would mature to a full healthy adult. Assembled three cups with the proper soil (none, gravel, and topsoil) Placed seeds in the cups…

Hunting Snake by Judith Wright Sun-warmed in this late season’s grace under the autumn’s gentlest sky we walked, and froze half-through a pace. The great black snake went reeling by. Head down, tongue flickering on the trail he quested through the parting grass, sun glazed his curves of diamond scale and we lost breath to…

The purpose of conducting chromatography on spinach leaves was to identify the pigments that are present in the chloroplasts of these leaves. During chromatography, a solvent was used to move and separate the various pigments up the cellulose paper. This movement occurred due to capillary action, which is caused by the adhesion between the solvent…

The mountain gorilla was first discovered by German Captain Robert von Beringe and his African soldiers in 1902 roaming the Virunga Volcanoes in Rwanda. The gorilla was identified as a new class and named after its founder: Gorilla beringei (von Beringe, 200). From 1960 and about two decades after, American zoologists studied Gorilla beringei. Dian…

The Great Man Theory This term paper explains the leadership style of “The Great Man Theory”, by Thomas Carlyle, a historian of nineteenth century. The idea of the theory is leader and leadership. The basic idea of the theory is that leaders are born and not made. Thomas Carlyle, a historian in nineteenth century presented…

Quest for Life Quest for life is the process of self-realization, when a person establishes individual goals and carries out the necessary procedures to achieve these goals. Depending on the goal and the path, a person chooses for their realization determines if the person’s life will be successful or unsuccessful. It is sad when a…

Female genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision, is a cultural tradition practiced globally with the intention of preserving the purity of young girls and faithfulness of married women. It is especially prevalent in Africa, specifically in countries such as Kenya, Nigeria, Mali, Upper Volta, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Mozambique, and Sudan. This ritual is carried…

Peroxidases are a common enzyme that are found in plant structures and were found to have multiple functions. A lot about this enzyme remains unknown to scientists. They differ in concentrations, location and function depending on the type of plant being used. In this experiment four different procedures; tissue print, dot blot, gel electrophoresis and…

Walt Disney and his brother Roy, made it a firm policy that their animated films were designed to appeal to a mass market. In order not to offend any group, Disney did his best to keep religion and God out of his enterprises. 1 Those who have inherited the Disney legacy are tying to live…