Using The Frogs and The Wasps as a reference, I shall outline the aims of Aristophanes as a playwright, as well as how effectively he achieved it. ... In The Frogs, we can see the usage of slapstick just before the parabasis- Xanthias and Dionysus is being beaten to prove "which one of them is god." An example of sexual innuendo is apparent in the prologos of The Frogs, while Heracles and Dionysus are having conversation together. ... In The Frogs, pun is also used. ... Also, note how Aristophanes creatively uses the orchestra to represent the lake in the Underworld in The Frogs- quite an...

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When Althea one bright morning was down by the pond, doing a little frogging she meets a nervous person called Stan. ... Furthermore he saw how Althea had turned immune to the gunk in the pond, and how she ate the frogs that lived in it. ... It was so she could see the frogs under the water. ... It shows how a little piece of a big community can tear itself off and make its own little society independent from anyone, hence the name of the text "Frog Pond". A frog pond is a little isolated society where everybody has his own niche. ...

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This Essay will discuss the Governance of ancient Greek society, drawing from evidence from Aristophanes' plays Frogs and Wasps. ... Firstly the paper will explore how Aristophanes questions the current social trends of Athens, displaying his fears about the current direction the people were heading, described in The Frogs. ... In the play The Frogs, Dionysus is on a quest to go down into Hades and bring back Euripides. ... Throughout Aristophanes' plays The Frogs and The Wasps he often eludes to his belief of what Athens' political system is becoming and regularly displays curr...

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In the original commercial, one of the first things noticed would be that the character with the frog is the protagonist. ... This happens when she puts the frog back down on the table. ... Then we realize once the frog is sent to the auction house, that it is worth money before she does which is dramatic irony. ... The protagonist becomes so overwhelmed with greed that she ends up dropping the frog. ... In the commercial it happens when she puts the frog back down on the table. ...

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"The Frog Prince" by Sexton and "The Tiger's Bride" by Carter can be seen as similar to the Grimm's "Beauty and the Beast". ... "The Frog Prince" is also a story where the girl first rejects the "beast" in the form of a frog. ... She wants to recapture the golden world while rejecting the ugly frog. "The innocent young girls fear of and repugnance toward the male genitals and the transformation of this disgust into happiness and sanctioned matrimony can hardly be symbolized better than by this transformation of the frog into the prince (Heuscher 234)." ...

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A clean and healthy environment is part and parcel of the wealth and quality of life that we desire for ourselves now and for our children in the future. People demand that the air they breathe, the water they drink, and the food they eat is free of pollution and contaminants; they want to live undisturbed by noise, and they want to enjoy the beauty of the countryside, unspoiled coastlines and mountain areas. They also want a world that is not threatened by climate change. Healthy and balanced natural systems are essential for supporting life on this planet. Society relies on nature to pro...

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Why do you think the frog blood slide had more white blood cells than the human blood? ... If you look at human or frog blood, you will noticed that none of the cells are stuck to each other. ... Frog blood and muscle tissue just has one or more nuclei in it. ... The reason frog blood and muscle tissue has a nucleus is because they have more complicated jobs. Frogs blood need one to tell the cell where in the body it should go. ...

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It reminds me of a story of a frog and boiling water. If a frog is put into a pot of water and slowly increased the temperature the frog would die, conversely if you put a frog right into a pot of boiling water the frog will immediately jump out. ...

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Tiny frogs, salamanders, aquatic plants, and insects find the little pools to be safe, secure places to live and breed. ... Wallace's flying frog is the only frog that can glide. It has skin flaps between each toe that open like small parachutes when the frog jumps. These frogs can glide up to 40 feet. ...

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How plausible is the cloning of humans? Currently, scientists are working on many projects, such as tissue engineering and cloning of animals. They have not yet found a way to make exact copies of humans. The movie Blade Runner talks about genetic engineering of humans, making it a definite scien...

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As early ass 1952, scientists first demonstrated that they can remove the nucleus from frog egg, replace it with an embryonic frog cell, and then allow the egg to develop into a tadpole. ... In 1975 scientists got tadpoles after transferring cell nuclei from adult frogs. ...

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When I was 14 years old I received a letter from the PTPSAP asking me to travel to Australia with them for 6 months, and I was very happy. The PTPSAP is an organization that allows smart students to travel the world to different countries. We got to travel as student ambassadors and represent not on...

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The topic of cloning has much confusion and controversy behind it. Some people have heard of the sheep named Dolly, she was the first organism to be successfully cloned. Also pigs have been cloned, to be used for transplants. Cloning has many goals and purposes to achieve. People are hoping to bring...

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Upon meeting these characters, he puts himself in the role of the frog that becomes a prince, but towards the end of the novel, he realizes that they are the opposite of what he thought they were. ... Finally, "The novel ends with Pip and Estella reunited at the gate of the ruined Satis House.""29 As the story starts Pip is a frog who lives a happy life along with his sister and Joe, but towards the middle and end of the novel he aims to be a gentleman for Estella, who at the same time turns snobbish to his loved ones. ...

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Upon meeting these characters, he puts himself in the role of the frog that becomes a prince, but towards the end of the novel, he realizes that they are the opposite of what he thought they were. ... Finally, "The novel ends with Pip and Estella reunited at the gate of the ruined Satis House.""29 As the story starts Pip is a frog who lives a happy life along with his sister and Joe, but towards the middle and end of the novel he aims to be a gentleman for Estella, who at the same time turns snobbish to his loved ones. ...

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In 1952, a significant event occurred, Robert Briggs and Thomas King cloned northern leopard frog using nuclear transfer. ... In 1962, John Gurdon claimed to have cloned frogs from adult cells. ... "Dennis Smith pointed out that there were some undifferentiated sex cells in the intestines of South African frogs, so the tadpoles Gurdon cloned may very well be cloned from those undifferentiated cells."" ...

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There were no major advances in cloning until November of 1951, when a team of scientists in Philadelphia working at the lab of Robert Briggs cloned a frog embryo. ... They took the nucleus out of a frog embryo cell and used it to replace the nucleus of an unfertilized frog egg cell, completing the "fantastical experiment" of nearly 50 years before. ...

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Upon meeting these characters, he puts himself in the role of the frog that becomes a prince, but towards the end of the novel, he realizes that they are the opposite of what he thought they were. ... Finally, "The novel ends with Pip and Estella reunited at the gate of the ruined Satis House.""29 As the story starts Pip is a frog who lives a happy life along with his sister and Joe, but towards the middle and end of the novel he aims to be a gentleman for Estella, who at the same time turns snobbish to his loved ones. ...

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Upon meeting these characters, he puts himself in the role of the frog that becomes a prince, but towards the end of the novel, he realizes that they are the opposite of what he thought they were. ... Finally, "The novel ends with Pip and Estella reunited at the gate of the ruined Satis House.""29 As the story starts Pip is a frog who lives a happy life along with his sister and Joe, but towards the middle and end of the novel he aims to be a gentleman for Estella, who at the same time turns snobbish to his loved ones. ...

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Upon meeting these characters, he puts himself in the role of the frog that becomes a prince, but towards the end of the novel, he realizes that they are the opposite of what he thought they were. ... Finally, "The novel ends with Pip and Estella reunited at the gate of the ruined Satis House.""29 As the story starts Pip is a frog who lives a happy life along with his sister and Joe, but towards the middle and end of the novel he aims to be a gentleman for Estella, who at the same time turns snobbish to his loved ones. ...

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In the book Jurassic Park (later turned into a movie) author Michael Crichton describes a formula to bring dinosaurs back to life after 65 million years of extinction. There are 6 steps to this Jurassic Park Theory. The first step is to find a piece of amber with a blood sucking insect from the dino...

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This paper is not meant to be a history lesson in cloning or to explain all the scientific terms that are related to cloning. Instead the purpose of this paper is to give a brief history of cloning and to discuss what cloning means in the world we live in today and what effect it could have on our l...

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Many scientists over many years have attempted to clone some organism, whether it be frogs, sheep, or mice. ... They used the method of nuclear transplantation to clone a frog and the result was several tadpoles ("Early" 1). ...

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During her stay at the Villa Diodati, Mary Shelley dreamed of a "hideous phantasm of a man stretched out... on the working of some powerful engine... [it shows] signs of life, and stir[s] with an uneasy, half-vital motion" (Buzwell 2, Shelley 19). This was the beginning idea of her world-famous novel, Frankenstein. In the nineteenth century, for a young woman to choose the hideous science fiction idea of using dead body parts to create a living being was unheard of (Franklin 2). Society would view her as "abnormal;" however, Shelley's persona differently because of the intelligence implem...

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We called for another taxi and had the driver take us to Senor Frogs, one of the most popular clubs in all of Cancun. When we arrived at Senor Frogs there were people in front of the club floating around in a kiddy pool. ...

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