Fancy rat

During the 19th century, a holy man had a sick daughter and he had a dream that said she would be healed if she danced with a dress with a jingle for each day of the year. There are different versions of the origin of the jingle dress, but most agree that the jingle dress appeared through a dream connection. The Jingle Dress dance was dead for 20 years then it made a comeback in Powwows. Powwows are competitions for family traditions which continues their culture and legacy. These competitions…

way of enunciating the complexity of nation, not only in the heterogeneity of subject matter but also in opting for an associative or suggestive style which makes the heterogeneity comprehensive. The Business of Fancy Dancing (2002) The 2002 FallsApart Production, The Business of Fancy Dancing, by Sherman Alexie tells the story of Seymour Polatkin, a young writer struggling with his identity in a world what it means to be a Native American man is highly contested. We first encounter one of…

characteristics as well. In The Inheritor, the animals exhibit very predictable behaviours, true to their primal instincts, while in Side Bet, the rat almost seems to develop a persona of its own, well beyond what one would expect from a rat. The rat’s vicious personality is unearthed immediately upon introduction, when the author states, “It was a wise and resourceful ship rat and had all the cunning and ferocity of its race.” (Jenkins, par-7), and then further intensifies when the story reads,…

trapped in their own lighthouse by an army of man-eating rats. Throughout the story, "Three Skeleton Key" the author uses literary techniques such as setting, characterization, and suspense to create the…

Entry #3: Freud For this entry, I wanted to focus on one particular movement that has grown from the Barstool Sports universe. This movement revolves around a phrase that has been embraced by the bloggers and stoolies alike: “Saturdays are for the Boys”. This phrase was coined after a tweet from one of the bloggers for Barstool. The blogger heard this yelled by an old man in a crowded bar. He tweeted it and thought nothing of it. The next morning, the movement had begun. After several months,…

Hawaii. A ravishing bizarre tropical paradise with sceneries you would die to look at. If you love to be in a tropical paradise, Hawaii is the place to go to. Sadly, Hawaii has lost plenty of its native animals and plants over the years.This problem occurred when invasive species came to Hawaii around the 1780’s. Invasive species is a term they call animals, plants, and other organisms that do not belong in this specific area. They did a lot of harm to the native plants and animals that lots…

I strive to enhance the quality of human life. The human race is plagued with disease, disorders and societal plights that treatment with traditional medicine would cease to assuage the recurrent issues. For example, diabetes is currently one of the top health challenges in the United States. The influx of diabetic patients will not decrease with insulin treatment alone, one must alter their injurious diet. Physicians are expected to treat patients based on symptoms. The analysis is then capped…

with alkyl, allyl, and benzyl halides on 17b-hydroxy-3-methoxy-11-oxo-estra-1,3,5(10),8(9)-tetraene (10). The novel compounds (10 and 12–17) were appraised for their preliminary post-coital contraceptive (anti-implantation) activity in Sprague–Dawley rats. The tested compounds were managed orally and exhibited noteworthy anti-implantation activity. Compound 13 is the furthermost strong compound in the sequence which exhibited 100% contraceptive efficacy at 1.25 mg/kg. 6. Emerson Luiz Botelho…

Sink or swim 50 years back most everyone heard the story of how humans had evolved over time. It was claimed that our ancestors, apes, had been separated between jungle and desert. Comparing physical traits of both apes and humans, there is a dramatic difference. Apes on four legs, covered in layers of fur… Then there are the humans, standing tall upon two legs, having no fur. The original theory is that when our ancestors parted in two opposite environments they had simply adapted different…

documentary film Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, Errol Morris directs the fascination of a man’s action that profoundly emanates his relationship with the world around him. The four men: Dave Hoover, a Wild Animal Tamer; Ray Mendez, the Hairless Mole-Rat Specialist; George Mendonca, a Topiary Gardener; and Rodney Brooks, a Robotic Scientist, each obsessed to create unconventional worlds of their aspirations. The film has a disrupted narrative format, interweaving interviews with the men and…