Essays Tagged: "rats"

Gang Violence

ager lives and destroy their chances for a good education and happy life. Gangs are now a haven for rats.Teenagers are joining gangs every day. They join gangs for many reasons. A former gang member k ...

(4 pages) 277 1 4.6 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Short essay of Richard Wright's Native Son and his views toward Capitalism vs. Communism

book shows this right from the start . Bigger and his family had to sleep in the same room, and big rats were running around the house . This shows the Thomas family represented the lower class, a tra ... gged it in his teeth, hanging on.' This showed how broke they were by showing that there were giant rats living with them and how it had no fear of them .Richard Wright did not just not just want to s ...

(2 pages) 104 0 2.8 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Rodents Are Taking Over the World--an essay with proof suporting the theory.

being herbivores; but rodents eat almost any food. According to a special on the Discovery channel, rats consume a third of their weight every 24 hours, and will even "eat soap to meet their quota." T ... and will even "eat soap to meet their quota." The World Health Organization recently reported that rats consume 21% of the world's food supply. Rats are also responsible for over a trillion dollars i ...

(4 pages) 69 0 4.1 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Tribulations of Sharecrop farmers in the 1930's

ions, tenant farmers might have had an upgrade to be able to live in a downtown city apartment with rats and a leaky roof. According to a United States census, the housing in the seven southeastern st ...

(3 pages) 48 0 5.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The Bubonic Plague (this essay is about the bubonic plague outreak in the history of the world. it gives important facts and interesting information.)

not enough people left in the towns or villages to bury them.The Plague was spread by flea infested rats. It was not the rat that passed or had the disease it was the fleas. The humans would end up wi ... rat that passed or had the disease it was the fleas. The humans would end up with this disease when rats entered their houses and the and the fleas jumped off and then later jumped onto humans. Once t ...

(2 pages) 103 1 4.6 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Kid in closet

t slapping punishments like all the other kids got. They were kids locked away in basements for the rats to eat, getting sold on the street to dirty men, things to the degree only the grotesque mind c ...

(4 pages) 61 0 3.9 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

"Patients have the right to say no." Discuss this statement in relation to the adoption of the role of learned helplessness in some individuals experiencing illness.

suggested by M. Seligman an animal psychologist, in 1975. During a series of experiments involving rats and dogs, he discovered that the animals which had some control over their environment (in bein ...

(9 pages) 346 1 3.6 May/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Rosenthal and Jacobsen, Experimentor Expectancy in a Classroom by: how much of an outcome teachers' expectancies culd have on a group of children

it was either bred forintelligence or for dullness. The children were put in charge of teaching the rats how to learnmazes. Rosenthal's results showed that the rats that were believed by the students ... zes much quicker. What the children did not know, i.e., whatRosenthal had kept hidden, was that the rats were chosen at random. There were no rats thatwere especially bright or dull. Another case of t ...

(4 pages) 72 1 4.0 Apr/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Disease:Bubonic Plauge and Small Pox and Aids

o Europe, stayed there and spread more from 1347-1351. Most believe that the epidemic originated in rats in Asia. Infected rats were drawn to the food supplies of armies in China. Fleas traveled from ...

(3 pages) 84 0 2.7 Aug/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Fluoridation

Smith, E. M.Lantz, and H. V. Smith discovered that when given drinking water supplied with fluorine,rats would develop tooth defects. Further testing by H. T. Dean and E. Elove of theUnited States Pub ... rst major health threat, is fluoride's link to cancer. The most recent studydone was conducted with rats. 180 male rats were given fluoridated water. Out of those180, 80 were given fluoridated water w ...

(6 pages) 88 0 4.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Plagues

both groups).' (H p2) The point is, someone was to blame even when the obvious reasons, flea ridden rats, were laying dead on the streets. As time progressed to the twentieth century, there have been ...

(5 pages) 40 0 5.0 Mar/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Plagues

both groups).' (H p2) The point is, someone was to blame even when the obvious reasons, flea ridden rats, were laying dead on the streets. As time progressed to the twentieth century, there have been ...

(5 pages) 37 0 5.0 Mar/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Animal Rights is the title of this persuasive paper. It includes thesis, topics and clincher,and its about the three main reasons why animal research should not be allowed. 800 words.

t count, it was determined that 8815 animals were being used for research at MSU, 8503 of them were rats, mice, hamsters, and gerbils. The strugle against animal research has been one of the most deba ... y of animal research is that the drug Milrinone, which raises cardiac output, increased survival in rats with artificially induced heart failure; humans with severe chronic heart failure taking this d ...

(2 pages) 364 1 3.8 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Describe and Evaluate Using Psychological Research the Contribution of Behaviourist Approaches to an Understanding of Human Behaviour.

studied in ways that are considered ethical which causes a lot of the research done to be based on rats and other laboratory animals. Behaviourists such as Skinner, Pavlov and Watson have all influen ... eriences, they took a young boy, Albert, and conditioned him to the point where he became afraid of rats, they did this by making a loud unpleasant noise whenever the rat was around, they went on to d ...

(5 pages) 113 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

The bubonic plague.

The bubonic plague was transmitted by fleas. The fleas jumped from rats to infest the clothes and packs of trader traveling west. As an effect the plague the plague sp ...

(4 pages) 53 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Several aspects to the plague that reveal its severity are the cause of the plague, its social and religious effects, and its influence over the population.

347, a Genoese fleet brought the sickness into the harbor in North Sicily.1.Sickness brought by the rats and fleas aboard the ship.2.The infested ship rat, called the black ship rat, was carried in th ... "sickness clinging to their very bones" (Gottfried xiii). The sickness they had was brought by the rats and fleas aboard the ship. The harbor tried to control the sickness by attempting to quarantine ...

(7 pages) 138 0 4.7 Jul/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Black Death's effect on Europe.

Bubonic Plague, commonly known as Black Death is a disease carried by rats and transmitted by fleas. People infected would either suffer from great swelling, or die quick ...

(2 pages) 75 0 3.7 Jul/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

WWI Had Many Underlying Causes.

big, strong military is militarism. Trench warfare is when troops would crouch in trenches that had rats in them. They would shoot with the new machine guns at the opposing side. The machine guns that ...

(3 pages) 100 1 2.9 Sep/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

"Bubonic Plague".

in China's Gobi Desert, and it killed about 35 million Asian People. When sailors traveled to Asia, rats returned with them to Europe. Fleas living on the blood of infected rats then transferred the d ... These types of scientists don't rule out the possibility that the Bubonic Plague was spread through rats, but they believe it may have been caused by ancestors of the modern plague bacillus.Bacillus i ...

(2 pages) 47 1 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

A problem/solution essay on Animal Testing, and why it is wrong.

o differ in external appearance and intelligence, we are animals. Humans see themselves superior to rats, mice, monkeys and other lab animals. According to evolution, we grew from all these animals. Y ... hat they are experiencing. With Milrinore, a drug that raises cardiac output, increased survival of rats with artificially induced heart failure. But with humans taking this drug who had severe chroni ...

(4 pages) 266 0 4.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing