The Rodent-Esque: A Short Story

Rat infestations have swarmed throughout the world, looking for food, and spreading diseases, so of course people attempt to get rid of them. First off, they spread disease. It states in Source 1, “Around 60% of the rodents carry Weil's disease...” This quote states that the majority of all rodents, have Weil’s disease. That means that if you see a rat, it is probably infected with disease. This is incredibly dangerous for people walking the street, or someone without a home. That person who does not have a home, could get a disease very easily. The rats can carry disease and they can spread that disease, it even states in Source 4, “It was this rat which ushered in the Black Plague.” In this piece, they are speaking of Black Rats. These rats were probably one of the unlucky 60%, or it was a carrier something that was on them.

In every child’s tale or movie rats are usually portrayed as antagonists or vile creatures. Up until my sophomore year I would have had to agree. However, they also are the reason that I do not judge anything before I’ve looked

The Plague The black rat originated in Asia in the Mongolian Empire. They were wild borrowing animals who hosted the microorganism Yersinia pestis, which was natural disease in the wild borrowing animal’s population. Humans and these animals did not cross paths until the development of roads crossing through the domain of the rats. Following the onset of the leprosy scare throughout Europe, another deadlier infection was about to change their perspective on life and the world. The Church held the most power over the monarchs and peasant people life, alike, during the leprosy endemic, but at the start of a new infection they would lose their power vary rapidly as it came to be. Just as the Church lost it power and influence different churches emerged from the plague as did other lasting societal impacts. The plague ravaged through Europe and destroyed their current way of life and inflicting societal changes that are still present today.

As Coretta Scott King once said, “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” The short story “Mojave Rats” by Kristin Valdez Quade explores the relationship between Monica, who offers no compassion to the people around her, her daughters Cordelia and Beatrice, and her second husband Elliot. They moved from Los Angeles to Shady Lanes RV park in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Monica feels superior and out of place and lives convinced that Elliott will soon finish his geological expedition so that they can climb into academia and live a flawless and carefree life as a happy family. They live isolated from the rest of their community and Monica does not have any allies to help her through her

In, “Dog Lab”, Claire McCarthy is a student as Harvard Medical School. She is strong willed with a drive to become the best doctor. Upon hearing about a “dog lab”, she became interested in what the lab had to offer. During class one day the professor introduced the lab, in which students were required to perform an operation on a living dog. This shocked McCarthy in the sense it would require her to go against her morals. This would teach her a Signiant life lesson of having to do something against you believe in for the betterment of something. McCarthy explains “The lab took all day. We cut through the dog’s skin to find an artery and vein, into which we placed catheters. We injected different drugs and chemicals and watched what happened

A Right to Her Genes by Susannah Gal Department of Biological Sciences State University of New York at Binghamton and Jessie W. Klein Science Department Middlesex Community College “But, doctor, what should I do?” Michelle was sitting in her OB-GYN’s office, having just confronted him with the dilemma she was facing.

The woman who changed science as we know it was never even supposed to even happen except the reason they got the information from her was because she never even knew what was going on when they were trying to figure what disease she had, the doctors took her cells and found something astonishing… they were immortal however the thing they didn’t know about this cell is how to feed it. After a while they gave it the right nutrition and now it’s in many places in the world today,

In “Word of Mouse” by James Patterson, the characters intelligent and confident qualities contribute to the speaker's message is that “Knowledge is power and power is confidence”. For example,“The rats are gigantic. It doesn’t matter. Like I said, I have this pretty incredible thing I can do. KIBBLE!, I scream. The rat looks at me. I recognize that look.It’s fear, in a flash,they’re gone”(25).This shows how Intelligent Isaiah is by scaring the rats away by screaming, “Kibble”, and that’s what made him feel more confident to survive on his own in the real world. Another example is when he was attacked by a cat named Lucifer, he found a sprinkler system and made the cat afraid of Isaiah, making him feel more intelligent. Thus, after they ran

I'm going to talk about the social injustice which had taken place on most of the characters in the novel Of Mice and Men. In the plot of "Of Mice and Men", all of the ranch workers got very little amount of money although they worked for long hours. They had only one free

Attendant Ratched is a level character, which implies she experiences no progressions at all through the book. She starts as a plotting, manipulative specialists of the Combine and remains so at the novel's decision. Her delineation looks like the antagonists of comic books and one-reel film serials in that she

It is 7:11 on Friday night, the first of March 1996, in room 112 of Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine. Married couple, Chris and Veronica Meserve of Steep Falls, Maine are welcoming their second daughter into the world, Shawna Irene Meserve. She will grow to be a physically and developmentally healthy being because of, among many factors such as her genetics, the circumstances and significant relationships surrounding her birth. Starting at the beginning of Shawna’s parents’ relationship, these circumstances and significant relationships surrounding this infant’s birth will be highlighted and analyzed to determine how they may have affected her very early development.

The books I read through the semester where: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Prachet, and The Journeyer by Gary Jennings.

Method Subjects A virtual rat, Sniffy, was used for this experiment. Sniffy the Virtual Rat, Pro Version 3.0 allows for the demonstration of Pavlovian and operant conditioning of a virtual rat. Tom Alloway, Greg Wilson, and Jeff Graham, authors of Sniffy the Virtual Rat designed this program to be an affordable alternative for students to gain “access to the main phenomena of classical and operant conditioning that courses on the psychology of learning typically discuss” (Jakubow, 2007). The program allows for simulations for Pavlovian conditioning such as acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, stimulus-intensity effects, compound conditioning, blocking, overshadowing, overexpectation, inhibition, sensory preconditioning,

The leporillus apicalis or more commonly known as the lesser stick nest rat, is a rodent from

Once upon a time there lived a lanky little rat named Rudy. Rudy’s fur was very dull and felt like needles. She lived in a tiny village where all the animals knew each other. Every afternoon she would meet with her friends at the riverbank to tell stories of their morning. One day Rudy scurried to the riverbank excited to share with her friends a cheesecake she had baked just for them, but when she arrived at the meeting spot, no one was there. Worried and confused, Rudy hurried in to town to look for her friends there. Just as she reached the main road, her body froze as she watched the most beautiful creature strolling through town. Rudy looked around and noticed she was not the only animal in the village mesmerized by this beautiful