Caribbean Blue Scorpion Case Study

In the story, “The House of the Scorpion”, written by Nancy Farmer, the main character is named Matt. The story takes place in the future around Mexico in a city named Opium. The main problem in the book is Matt is a clone and people do not like clones because clones act weird because they have an injection when they are first made that corrupts their body and makes them do things that humans don’t normally do. But Matt is different, he didn’t get the injection but people still think he is like the other clones, disgusting and brain-dead. The problem is solved when everyone is at a party for an old man named El Patron. He died and is having a party thrown in memory of him and El Patron left a note that told everyone to drink a certain wine but the wine was poisoned. Everyone died except for Matt, his “mother” Celia, his friend Maria, and a few others. Everyone is dead so the few that survived decide to start a new life where no one knows who they really are.

The House of the Scorpion is an adolescent novel that follows the life of Matteo Alacran, a genetic clone of the infamous and wealthy opium dealer El Patron. The novel is set in an undetermined future time when an entire swath of land between Mexico (called Aztlan in the novel) and the United States has been turned over to drug dealers who mass-produce opium. Their "country" is aptly named Opium, nicknamed Dreamland, and is reigned over by El Patron. El Patron started poor but slowly established power and wealth through his drug trade, rising in the ranks of the cartel. In a deal when he promised to patrol the borders between the two countries with his own crew of border men (called the Farm Patrol), he was gifted the conflict-ridden portion

Waking up in the early hours of the morning for school sometimes seems like the hardest thing to do, mostly it’s because most of us are not getting enough sleep and getting enough sleep is a biological necessity. Sleep is just as important as the air you breath. Teenagers need on average nine and ¼ hours of sleep per night in order for high performance and brain development but the average amount of sleep for teens is 7 hours or less a night.

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Rattlesnakes are predators that live in a wide array of habitats , hunting small animals such as birds and rodents. Rattlesnakes have a rattler on the end of their tail to warn other predators that it is dangerous. A rattlesnake’s venom is very lethal to small children and those with weak immune systems. Although today we have many effective ways of treating snake bites, in the 1800s it was very difficult to treat a bite from a rattlesnake. They had a few ways of trying to remove the poison from the wound.

It has broad variety of anti-tumor activity and forms the backbone of combination chemotherapy regimes presently

The Dasyatis americana or Southern Stingray has a disk or diamond shaped body more at an angle. They have sharp spines on their face. Its usual weight is 97 kg. The stingrays symmetry is bilateral. The main size is 200 cm. The colorings or markings are a dark grey in younger stingrays. Green and brown are the colors of the adults.

They can get set to strike, strike and back to its strike position in less than .15 seconds. The venom per bite can be as little as seventy milligrams and as high as 236 milligrams. They hide in wait, when they hear humans coming, to strike; this increases their risk of being stepped on, but they are much more dangerous to strike.

Owning a king cobra was quite the experience. As a young person, I have always had a fear of snakes, but as a child I was always around them. Hailing from India and Southeast Asia, king cobras are one of the deadliest snakes in the world. Venomous, they can kill a man in thirty minutes or less. These snakes can grow to be quite large, growing up to be 18 feet long at its largest. King Cobras sometimes will strike unprovoked. This is yet another reason why they should not be kept as pets. All snakes are cold-blooded. This means that they can’t warm themselves up from the inside of their bodies. They need an external source of warmth. Normally, this external source is the sun. However, having owned one as a pet, the external source of warmth

This drug was discovered when Leo Sternbach was told to create a drug that was safer than the drugs used at that time. The drugs that were not very safe were barbiturates and meprobamate. Leo Sternbach created 40 different drugs but they did not have an effect on animals. Then after a while he decided to make one of the drugs better. Then he put it on a shelf and then it was forgotten about for a while.

The behavior of cobras can vary depending on the different types of species. A cobra mainly eats birds, small mammals, lizards, eggs, carrion (decaying flesh of dead animals), and other snakes. A cobra possesses a types of venom that is consisted of zootoxins that can blind or kill a prey or threat. Another fact is that cobras are active mainly during the day depending on where they live. Snakes in general need warm weather conditions to be able to live, but if the temperature is too warm, they become sluggish due to the fact that they are cold blooded animals. When a snake has found its prey, the cobra will then eat the animal, head first. Depending on the size of the meal, a cobra might not need

Americans have access to and benefit from one of the most technologically advanced pharmaceutical systems in the world. However, this system is also very strict and tedious. The system this paper will evaluate is the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), more specifically, the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). Although, having access to this system can be frustrating to those that are in the pharmaceutical development industry or those that have illnesses and need the best drugs available in order to cope with their symptoms.

When I was a kid, I always wondered why it took so long for an ill person to become well again. I always thought that if the ill person went to the doctor they would be back to normal the next day, but that’s not the case. For some people it took several days, weeks, months, and even years to conquer an illness but as a child I never could understand that. I don’t know how many times I’ve asked my mom or dad how come the doctors don’t get together and make a “miracle” drug that could heal anything and everything. It wasn’t until the age of 15 when my grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer that I understood why it took so long for others to heal and the process that they had to endure in order to be healthy again. Shortly after my grandmother’s diagnosis, I started looking into what it would take to get a drug that would cure cancer through the approval process on the shelf to save some many others just like my grandmother. But I kept running into a dead end. Everything seemed to keep pointing towards chemotherapy and radiation. Although I wanted something to heal my grandmother fast, chemotherapy and radiation was the only solution if I had wish to see her watch me graduate high school. I went to almost every appointment with her to watch how it helped strengthen but also watch as it drained her energy. A month of chemotherapy and a few weeks of radiation and my

United States. Its use as a medicine has existed for thousands of years in many

In a life time, people may have a lot of things that are special in their life such as memories, gifts. So do I, I have a lot of things that could be considered as special things, but the most special thing that I had is the scorpion that my ex-girlfriend had drawn to me.