In Canada the weather and seasons are always changing and Winter is always the harshest. Especially during the months of January, February and December. We always need to bundle up and make sure to prepare for the winter weather, like getting out those winter jackets and making sure we have winter tires for the snow. A huge concern that all Canadians need to be aware of is its severe ice storms. This hazardous storm has the effect of burying everything with a glaze of ice, so heavy that it can…
known of anabolic steroids in sports was not in a human, but in a horse. “In 1941, at age eighteen, the trotter Holloway had lost much of his speed and stamina. At age nineteen, after a training program that included implementation of testosterone pellets, he set a new trotting record.” (Adams 16). Humans began taking steroids in the early 1950’s when the Russian weightlifting team won 7 medals in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki. The U.S. accused the Russians of using performance enhancing…
very impressing for readers. According to New Georgia Encyclopedia, Alice Malsenior Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton. During her childhood, She has precocious spirit that vanished when her brother blinded her right eye with a BB pellet when she was 8 years old, bullied by her classmates, and misunderstood by her family. She became a reclusive shy girl. Six years later, a doctor removed the scar, then she turn out became high school prom…
Introduction The percentage of men over 40 using testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) tripled from 2001 to 2011¹. Newer, gel based forms of treatment have aided the ease of application and encouraged prescription rates. Along with this trend comes an increase in the data surrounding TRT. This influx adds to the large scale, randomized studies conducted on the use of TRT in hypogonadal men. TRT is widely accepted to provide relief from retarded spermatogenesis, low sex function, depression,…
Photosynthesis is a plant’s mechanism of converting sunlight and CO2 into energy in the form of organic material (Hohmann-Marriott and Blankenship 2011). Plant respiration is the process of using energy and oxygen to produce CO2 (Gonzalez-Meler et al. 2004). Almost all plants reproduce and respire, therefore it is important to know what factors could affect the rate of photosynthesis and respiration to better understand how plants function. Some research has shown that elevated CO2…
Virtual Rat that was trained to press the lever for food. Their computer was a standard Dell desktop, with a mouse keyboard and a monitor. In the program, Sniffy lived in a skinner box comprising of a white light, speaker, a lever, a tray for food pellets, which were all set on one wall, the base of the cage, which administers electrical shocks and three otherwise blank walls. The program also had a window that displays the operant associations that Sniffy had learned foo, action strength and…
Since the beginning of the 20th century plastic has become the most common material. Plastics play an important role in almost every aspect of human life. It is found in virtually everything these days; plastic is used to manufacture different products like furniture, beverage containers, toys, and food packages. What makes a lot of manufactured materials these days depends on plastic, because of its durability, lightweight, flexibility and it low cost. Also it can be easily molded into a…
ectoparasites in all stages of life. Lice bites cause intense itching in areas where they feed resulting in pink papules or pus boils. Large infestations can lead to crusty looking rashes with numerous black spots. The black spots are blood filled fecal pellets. Lice are known to transmit epidemic typhus, caused by Rickettsia prowazekii. They also can cause epidemic relapsing fever, caused by Borrelia recurrentis. Lice are easy to recognize. The symptoms are experiencing persistent itching and…
The mystery surrounding that fateful day, Novemeber 10, 1975, when the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank 550 feet to the bottom of Lake Superior without a distress signal still baffles those who call the Upper Peninsula of Michigan their home. The Fitzgerald had been a popular ship for boat watchers and mariners alike. Fully loaded freighters coming into the Marquette, Michigan harbor still bring crowds of people to watch. It is an everyday occurrence in port cities during the shipping months of…
Guns have been a way of life in this country for hundreds of years. They have been used from hunting, to self-protection, and to protection of the citizen rights of this country. With the recent mass shootings that has been seen in the United States, there has been an increased push for gun control laws. The thought is, if the country places a ban guns, there will be less shootings, resulting in needless deaths of our citizens. Is there a correlation between guns and the number of homicides?…