Essays Tagged: "stalk"

Consumer Appeal

ller series. The story line is of a young, beautiful white female trying to capture a serial killer/stalker, who killed her husband and continues to stalk her. The show is very detail oriented, in the ...

(4 pages) 194 0 3.1 Mar/1997

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

"Spiders": a mini-report for a high school biology class

led the prosoma or cephalothorax, and the rear portion, called the opisthosoma or abdomen. A narrow stalk called the pedicel connects these two parts.A hard shell called an exoskeleton covers the enti ...

(4 pages) 58 1 4.8 Feb/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Human Biology

e secretion of hormones. The pituitary gland, or master gland, is attached to the hypothalamus by a stalk and is positioned below it in the hypophyseal fossa of the sphenoid bone. A pituitary gland is ... h grey in colour. It can be located under the brain behind the third ventricle and is attached by a stalk to the upper portion of the thalamus. When the amount of light received through the retinas, ( ...

(19 pages) 292 0 4.8 Dec/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Speech on Dreams. - by Laura Aberle.

ou ever wondered how dreams come about...whether the BFG really existed? That this huge giant would stalk around at night catching dreams to trap them into jars and blowing them into your ears to dete ...

(2 pages) 50 0 4.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

The case for cannabis

Cannabis Sativa L. plant, is one of the most useful plants in the world. It is an herb with a woody stalk, reaches heights of 12-20 feet, and produces some of the strongest yet softest fibres of any p ... In 1916, a USDA bulletin was put out claiming that hemp hurds, a previously unused part of the hemp stalk, could produce more than 4 times the amount of paper pulp as a regular tree, which not only us ...

(7 pages) 43 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Cheetah

hout water, gathering much of the water they need from the body fluids of their prey. When cheetahs stalk their prey they use the camouflage protection of bush, scrub and other vegetation.There is a c ...

(3 pages) 35 0 4.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology

The destroying angel mushroom

eard of the destroying angel. The destroying angel mushroom is beautifully white, with long slender stalks and elegant caps. The deadly Amanitas or destroying angel mushroom are noted for the followin ... lowing characteristics: White or cream colored gills with white spore prints, gills attached to the stalk but free from the cap, at the base of the stalk a persistent cup the volva which is a remnant ...

(2 pages) 38 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

'An Information Report On The Moreton Bay Fig' by Sakshi Kaushik

ngs to the Moracease family and its scientific name is Ficus Macrophylla. After fertilization, the stalk turns oval, the colour is reddish brown and the flowers grow around the stalk. The tree needs ...

(1 pages) 17 0 0.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Research Report- Medicinal Plants - Dandelion Plant By: AR

eed. Part of the family Compositae, the dandelion grows up to eighteen inches tall and has a hollow stalk filled with a whitish milk-like substance. The seeds of the dandelion form clocks, which are r ... ertiesThe first medicinal use of the dandelion was recorded in Europe during 1485. The juice in the stalk of this supposed weed has natural antibacterial properties and contains PABA (Para amino benzo ...

(8 pages) 45 0 3.0 May/2005

Subjects: Science Essays

Oedipus' Diary entry at the end of Oedipus REx

ide open for profit, but blind in prophecy! "Must Creon, so long my friend, my most trusted friend, stalk me by stealth, and study to dispossess me, setting this schemer on me!" Where were they when t ...

(4 pages) 27 0 4.5 May/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

Video voyeurism

rld of rapidly growing technology, it has become increasingly easier for "peeping toms" to visually stalk their victims through video voyeurism.In 1999, in the state of Louisiana, Susan Wilson became ... gainst video voyeurism did not exist. In fact, video voyeurism was not even considered a crime. Her stalker was faced with only minor consequences dealing with unauthorized entry into her home. Theref ...

(3 pages) 26 0 0.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Presentation of the Sugar Cane in "A Gathering of Old Men" by Ernest Gaines.

so used at time to beat them for example, when Charlie was being attacked by Beau, Beau picked up a stalk of sugar cane to hit Charlie. When Charlie picked it up a stalk to protect him, Beau unleashed ... him that caused Charlie to retaliate and Charlie was a gentle soul who would never hurt anyone. The stalk of sugar cane was a grime reminder of how in the olden days when white Cajuns felt that they w ...

(2 pages) 31 0 5.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Bird Of Pardice

ry concave, oblong, bluish-gray leaves with a pale or red midrib. The leaves are attached to a long stalk that sometimes reaches up to 2 feet in length. Because of the banana shaped and other plants c ...

(1 pages) 1612 0 0.0 May/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

UTERINE FIBROIDS

wths in the walls of the uterus. Sometimes, a fibroid is attached to the outside of the uterus by a stalk. Fibroids may grow as a single nodule or in clusters. They range in size from as small as a pe ...

(4 pages) 15 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

AUSTRALIAN CULTURE AND IDENTITY

y with the land. "The evening star" described in the song is a form of the 'lotus bloom' whose long stalk is a string held by the spirits of the west, the star represents a guide and sense of wonder a ...

(8 pages) 43 0 5.0 May/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Understanding and Evaluating the Arts

here’s usually a team involved. The team uses a long piece of rope tied to a board, known as a stalk stomper. One stands in the center of the circle and the other walks along the edges of the cir ...

(2 pages) 1086 0 0.0 Feb/2010

Subjects: Art Essays

Legal issues in the Workplace

the employee is subjected to offensive, sexually related conduct that is continuous and pervasive. (Stalk & Hout, 2000)Employers frequently are held liable for acts of harassment committed in the ... r example, an employer may not discriminate against an employee who has a child with a disability. (Stalk & Hout, 2000)ADA prohibits discrimination against a person who is infected with the HIV vi ...

(9 pages) 41 0 0.0 Feb/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers