Scratching Essays

  • Why I Love Cats

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    Reason I love Cats . The first day I brought Mimi home , I regretted it immediately. She was a kitten then and was crying all the time . It was my first cat and I did not know what to do . I kept thinking that there must be something wrong with her . I wanted to bring her back to the pet shop but I decided to just wait and see what happen . Finally Mimi got used to her surroundings and she became my best friend . Caring for a cat means much more than simply making sure they have plenty of

  • Memphis, Tennessee and Music

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    life. When Thomas heard this song he thought it would be a good idea to write a response to the song. Rufus Thomas’s “Bear Cat” starts off stating, “ You know what you said about me, don’t you woman?” and continues on to talk about a cat that keeps scratching at his door. The song reads, “Well, you ain’t nothing but a bear cat, been scratchin’ at my door.” Thomas is clearly responding to the original song “Hound Dog.” Thomas basically says the same thing ‘Big’ Mama said about her ex-lover. However, “Bear

  • Visual Analysis Of Cat Apult

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    THE CAT-APULT(COPY) The Cat-apult was created for those who have cats that could never get moving. It can shoot up to 3 meters in distance. You place the food in the storer, turn the crank, push the arm down with your hand and voila, the Cat-apult is loaded. To fire, remove your hand from the arm. The Cat-apult can also be used with younger siblings by putting a toy or food item (below 3kgs) on the arm and firing like that. Works 85% of the time. Materials: -lots of masking tape -motor -2 5cm

  • Disk Jockeys

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    Disk Jockeys In today’s modern world the DJ has become a musician; the turntable, his instrument. It took fifteen years for this amazing resolution. DJ's have actually been around for years; mixing and scratching however, it did not come along until the late 70's or early 80's (“Disc Jockey 1”). A lot of people were doing this. But the main front line man was and still is Granmasterflash. Granmasterflash, one of hip-hop's founding fathers and the creator of the Quick Mix. He was the first person

  • Exploring the Paradox of Violent Eroticism in Kama Sutra

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    Violent Sex is “Bright and Shiny” Wendy Doniger and Sudir Kakar call the sexually violent Kama Sutra ‘bright and shiny,’ but when people hear the words ‘bright and shiny’ sexual violence is not usually paired together with those terms. This idea of ‘bright and shiny’ contrasts the idea of intercourse being ‘dark and heavy.’ Sexual violence can be relatively cheerful though it lacks emotional eroticism. Emotional eroticism is not so constrained and is more focused around the idea of love. The violence

  • Literary Techniques In Li-Young Lee

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    admiration, of wanting his father to read him another bedtime story; to one of which, is screaming at his father for wanting to keep him as a child. This sort of relationship was able to be composed by the use of imagery between the father ageing and the scratching of his ear; to the use of the poems structure layout and point of view all played massive roles in the understanding and perception of this literary art work. Thus, the relationship between the father and son is one of compassion and affection;

  • The Pros And Cons Of Cat Declawing

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    A heated debate, that has cat owners divided, is if you should declaw your cat.Declawing has been around for a long time, but now scientific evidence is coming out about how declawing is actually quite harmful to your cat.Getting a cat declawed can cause not only behavioral problems but can have an adverse effect on a cat’s lifestyle, along with causing long term and short term pain. Regrettably, many people don’t even know what goes on during a declawing.According to the ASPCA “Declawing of cats

  • Argumentative Essay About Cats Rights

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    Having recently completed 5 years of cat ownership, here's a summary of what I've been taught about cats' rights. Cats have the right to eat. And not just regularly. Cats like to eat pretty much whenever they get the chance. Although they're perfectly capable of going out to catch a mouse or a lizard if they want to feed themselves, they mostly exercise the right to be fed by you. They tend to prefer expensive food that you can't afford and they like to be fed at the same time every day OR whenever

  • Onychectomy Pros And Cons

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    declawing as a way to prevent zoonotic diseases transmitted from animal to human. Their recommendation is to practice good grooming habits by keeping the nails trimmed short. As you can see, there are many different ways a pet owner can deal with the scratching behavior that doesn’t include the Onychectomy surgery. Representative Suzanne Bonamici, if you are concerned about there not being a precedent for banning declawing you will be happy. Declawing has since been made illegal in 8 California cities:

  • Creative Writing: A Hero's Voyage

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    January 9th, and I remain awake. Ever since I discovered my skin caked with red speckles two mornings ago, I realized the awful truth. I have scabies. I sit up in my cold, damp bunk and my mind jumps to my legs, which are pringling immensely. I sit scratching my legs and biting my itching arms for minutes on end, until my fingers ache and I stand up. I put my shoes on, thinking some fresh air will help focus my thoughts on other matters. I have to squint my eyes as I walk towards the stairs that lead

  • Disease Report on Scabies

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    Disease Report on Scabies The causal agent of the scabies is sarcoptes scabiei var.hominis. The human itch mite is in the class arachnidan family Sarcoptidae, subclass Acari. The mites burrow under the epidermis of the skin, and never go below the stratum corneum. Other races of scabies may cause infestations in other animals of which humans may contact with a temporary itching due to dermatitis; but they do not multiply in the human host. (http://www.cdc.gov/scabies/) The history of scabies was

  • Psychological Disorders In The Black Swan

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    dancer has a history of severe scratching which lead to these lesions. The constant skin picking and scratching is likely an automatic response to high levels of anxiety and is a temporary fix to release emotional distress (Vanier). The lesions on her back appear throughout the movie and signal her growing anxiety. However, the unconscious nature of it does not become apparent until Nina awakens with mittens on her hands that her mother put on since the scratching had become so intense while she

  • Principle Of Personal Hygiene

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    1.1 Principles of hygiene and good grooming habits. US 14659, SO1/AC 1-2, US 243193, SO2/AC1-5, SO3/AC1-4 Personal hygiene The most basic principle of personal hygiene is to keep the body clean in order to prevent illnesses. Personal hygiene entails keeping the body and hair clean by taking a bath or shower regularly. Personal hygiene includes hand, nose and oral hygiene. It is essential to practice hygienic hand washing habits. This helps prevent the spread or germs or illness. • Oral

  • Autism Spectrum Case Study

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    the category of common disruptive and self injurious behaviors, according to Ji, Capone and Kaufmann (2011), are irritability, impulsivity, having temper tantrums and yelling at inappropriate times. Physically aggressive behaviors, such as biting, scratching, kicking and hitting, are often times, more dangerous than some of the other behaviors exhibited. Physically aggressive behaviors are seen as more dangerous than other type of aggressive behaviors because they can harm someone, and in some instances

  • Essay On Cat Declawing

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    For many cat owners, their cat’s impulse to scratch can become a disastrous problem. Cat owners believe that the only logical solution is to have the cat declawed. It’s natural for cats to scratch and use their our claws to live their daily lives. Cats use their claws to play, climb, and in many situations as a form of self-defense. So the question that presents itself, is it really necessary for cat owners to have cats declawed. The only problem with declawing cats is that it is unnecessary and

  • Disease Report on Scabies

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    Disease Report on Scabies Scabies is a very unpleasant skin disease to acquire. This disease is also known as the human itch mite. In the medical field, it is known as Sarcoptes scabiei var hominis. Scabies have been around for centuries. Scabies was first documented in a letter written by Dr. Giovan Cosimo Bonomo on July, 18, 1687, to Francesco Redi2. This letter provided the first accurate presentation of the mite, with detailed drawings of its appearance. In this letter, Dr. Bonomo stated that

  • Why The Possums Are Killing Our Environment

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    ame and describe your conservation issue. Why is it a issue? The issue is the possums are killing our environment by scratching bark of trees and killing endangered animals that are native to new zealand, such as our kiwi, and a lot of trees have been getting wrecked such as our totara,rimu, and the kowhai tree and plenty more habitats of native birds such as Kea , tui, kaka. This is a issue because if we don't solve this and kill the possums we will have native birds that will be extinct and

  • Jazz And Hip-Hop

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    rapping isn't a required for hip hop music; the class may likewise incorporate different components of hip bounce culture, including DJing, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental

  • Hip Hop: The History And History Of Hip-Hop

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    music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, break dancing, and graffiti writing. (Wikipedia.org) The culture, music, and lifestyle known as hip-hop began in the Bronx in New York City in the years 1970’s. At house parties and community centers DJs mixed songs from different records together

  • Comparing Heart Of Darkness And Metamorphosis

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    Heart of darkness and Metamorphosis Both the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and the short story Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka signify and are about scratching beneath the surface. Scratching beneath the surface means to go beyond of what’s obvious and to look further in to search for a deeper meaning; and in this case, for these two stories and their purposes which conveys the authors message. Although these books were written by different authors and published several years apart, they