Scratching post 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Memory and Individual Identity in Post World War II German Literature

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    about such events will reflect the affected individuals and societies. Some of the effects of World War II on the average German person can be seen through an analysis of the different memories and experiences of the war represented in a selection of post World War II German literature including Gregor von Rezzori’s Memoirs of an Anti-Semite and Heinrich Böll’s And Where Were You, Adam?. The short story “Troth” from Gregor von Rezzori’s Memoirs of an Anti-Semite is a great example of the Anti-Semitism

  • Mildred Pierce and His Girl Friday:Portrait of Working Women in the Pre- and Post-World War Period

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    Mildred Pierce and His Girl Friday: Portrait of Working Women in the Pre- and Post-World War Period His Girl Friday and Mildred Pierce are two films from the 1940's that deal with the position of women within the workforce in the time prior to America's involvement in the war, and after the tide turned in the Allies' favor respectively. This has a great deal to do with the ways in which these women--Hildy and Mildred--are portrayed. The two films are of drastically different genres and plots

  • Online Teen Forum Review

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    to receive a limited amount of traffic. A search using the forum’s search feature revealed that since the beginning of the year there have been 33 posts. While some of these posts were written by adults, I also a detected several that appeared to have been written by teens. The forum does not require members to post their age; however, in older posts I noted that several teens mentioned their age. Posters are only able to be identified by as much information as they are willing to share, so it

  • Post-Traumatic Stress In Relation To Holden Caulfield

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    Post-Traumatic Stress In Relation To Holden Caulfield Introduction Throughout life, an individual may endure emotionally and physically straining moments causing the person to become downhearted, and or irate. These feelings are normal, but may however become a problem when these feelings prohibit someone from living a ‘normal’ life. An estimated 5.2 million American adults ages 18 to 54, or approximately 3.6 percent of people in this age group in a given year, have PTSD (Narrow, Rae, Regier). This

  • Post-Modernism

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    integrated into how American society thinks. America seems to be trying to learn more about the ingredients of her melting pot. These efforts can be best understood by examining post-modernism. Post-modernism is especially important to breaking down stereotypes such as those that exist surrounding the black family. To understand post-modernism we must first understand modernism. Modernism is the philosophy that began with the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was an era when science and art flourished. European

  • Online Music Distribution In A Post-Napster World

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    1) What trends in networking in the 1990’s and early 2000’s drove the popularity of Napster? What other technologies contributed to Napster’s success? Before the 1990’s, if people want to listen to music, they just visit a music store and pick up a CD and then put it into a stereo equipment. However, the development of MP3 file format gradually changed the way people listen to music. This format lets everyone download music easily and it can be converted to CD as well. But, there is still a problem:

  • Resolver el Caso 3M

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    con una organización que tenía mucho tiempo de no lanzar productos innovadores o marcar diferencia en mercados como en la anterioridad. McNerney tenía que encontrar y diseñar estrategias que buscaran la innovación que alguna vez obtuvo con el famoso “Post-it” pero también dándole la importancia al capital económico que 3M poseía y necesitaría para invertir en innovación. Una de las primeras estrategias ocurrió en sus primeros años como CEO de 3M, la cual fue recortar el 6.6% de la fuerza laboral que

  • The Economic Effect on Japan during Post World War II

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    The Economic Effect on Japan during Post World War II Japan’s economy was greatly affected by the atomic bombs dropped on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan’s economic recovery as a result of this incident transformed Japan’s economic growth which has become known as the “Economic Miracle.” The bombs caused Japan to reconstruct many more facilities in which the economy moved forward. The Economic Planning Agency, which used to be known as the Economic Stabilization Board, helped Japan to become one

  • The Extinction Event and Life in the Post-Apocalyptic Greenhouse

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    The Extinction Event and Life in the Post-Apocalyptic Greenhouse The biggest mass extinction of the past 600 million years (My), the end-Permian event (251 My ago), witnessed the loss of as much as 95% of all species on Earth. Key questions for biologists concern what combination of environmental changes could possibly have had such a devastating effect, the scale and pattern of species loss, and the nature of the recovery. New studies on dating the event, contemporary volcanic activity, and

  • Post Colonial Interpretations of Shakespeare’s The Tempest

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    Post Colonial Interpretations of Shakespeare’s The Tempest “…do we really expect, amidst this ruin and undoing of our life, that any is yet left a free and uncorrupted judge of great things and things which reads to eternity; and that we are not downright bribed by our desire to better ourselves?” – Longinus Since the seventeenth century many interpretations and criticisms of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest have been recorded. Yet, since the play is widely symbolical and allegorical Shakespeare’s

  • Public Schools Vs. Post-Cold War Military Spending

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    Public Schools vs. Post-Cold War Military Spending Even though the Cold War era is a distant memory, encased in glass forever like some museum piece, our government is still spending as if the Soviet Union was in its prime. If the arms race is a forgotten memory, then why is the military still spending 86% of what it was spending during the Cold War. It’s not that us Americans do not want a solid military, we just believe that our military is wasting billions of dollars at the expense of our children’s

  • Post-colonialist Perceptions of Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet

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    Post-colonialist Perceptions of Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet The Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti viewed the goal of sculpting as the manipulation of a marble block until the figure within is set free. Just as a carving artist seeks to release its piece from rock, a literary artist desires his art form to be carved from an obscure idea into clear apprehension. The most beautiful of these art pieces are placed in a museum of their own right, the literary canon. A great part of literature’s

  • Classical and Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema

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    Classical and Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema INTRODUCTION During the course of this essay it is my intention to discuss the differences between Classical Hollywood and post-Classical Hollywood. Although these terms refer to theoretical movements of which they are not definitive it is my goal to show that they are applicable in a broad way to a cinema tradition that dominated Hollywood production between 1916 and 1960 and which also pervaded Western Mainstream Cinema (Classical Hollywood

  • Importance Of Observation On Social Media

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    use social media to communicate with friends or family and post their thoughts and feelings for others to see. Recently, the controversy among many that I am friends with has been mainly about this year’s election. When the time came for selecting candidates to run for the presidency, it was clear that both parties had already found their candidates who would be the ones going against each other for the presidency,

  • Food For Thought: Anaachronism

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    We close the chapter with a chilling excerpt from Neil Strauss’s article in The Wall Street Journal. Food for thought! If you happen to be reading this article online, you’ll notice that right above it, there is a button labeled “like.” Please stop reading and click on “like” right now. Thank you. I feel much better. It’s good to be liked. There’s a growing cultural obsession with being blogged, digged, tweeted and liked. Now add Google’s +1 to the mix and it’s just like being in high school all

  • Post wAR DEFINING moMENTS ESSAY mEDICARE

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    Post War Defining Moments Essay -Medicare At the beginning of the 20th century healthcare was a necessity in Canada, but it was not easy to afford. When Medicare was introduced, Canadians were thrilled to know that their tax dollars were going to benefit them in the future. The introduction of Medicare made it easier for Canadians to afford healthcare. Medicare helped define Canada as an equal country, with equal rights, services and respect for every Canadian citizen. Medicare helped less wealthy

  • Being An International Student In A Post 9/11 World

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    Being An International Student in a Post 9/11 World "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free," just not your students. "I knew what was going to happen after 9/11. It was understood," said Tariq Halela, a 21-year-old student at Boston University. What he understood was simple: for an international student, living in the United States would never be the same. Halela, an Indian born Kuwaiti native, has been studying stateside for over two years. He is an accounting