In Julia Whitty’s essay, “All the Disappearing Islands” , the author’s general argument is that global warming could cause the sea to expand and rise faster than the corals could fortify themselves against it and Tuvalu could eventually be submerged into the sea. She appeals to her audience logically with evidence when he writes,”Corals are the backbone of the atoll-never recover their health, the island will eventually be swept away”. In this passage, the author is suggesting that the warming oceans may trigger may cause a eruption of the methane now frozen beneath the seafloor, leading to global warming escalating at a catastrophic rate giving islands no time to develop. She also uses evidence in paragraph number 20 when he writes “New…
The novel, Enrique’s Journey, by Sonia Nazario is about a 15-year-old Honduran boy named Enrique, that traveled 1704 miles to reunite with his mother again, but with the journey, he would have to leave his girlfriend and family and risk his life to reconnect with the only person that understands him the most.The author of the novel, Sonia Nazario, was encouraged to write the novel, “Enrique’s Journey” to demonstrate to people that the journeys we take, will be worth it in the end. Throughout the whole novel, Enrique's journey will be worth it because, even though he risking his life to go from one place to another, he knows that being a family again is the best thing he can ever have.…
The Penascola Gulf Islands in Florida are pretty much your average definition of paradise. The area is known for the most beautiful white sand beaches and turquoise blue waters. The beach stretches for miles along the Gulf of Mexico, full of people constructing hammocks to lie in the warm sun, standing for hours fishing, and many many others jumping around the waves and surfing or swimming in the calm waters. These islands are essentially a strip of land completely surrounded by water, which means you’ll get a good view wherever you go. With many resorts, restaurants, and coastal areas, these islands have all you need.…
Olives Ocean By Kevin Hankes Report by Raina Hartwig This is a story about two girl named Olive Barstow and Martha Boyle. It all started when Olive died she was only 12 when she was hit by a car on Monroe street while riding her bike. Her mom came to Martha’s house to give her Olives sort of diary paper she told Martha, “She was such a shy girl with not many friends she said she knew you the most”. Martha now had wished she had talked to her more.…
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Rowan Jacobsen’s article in Outside magazine, Obituary: Great Barrier Reef (25 Million BC-2016), is titled the complete death and passing of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Jacobsen says the famous Barrier Reef passed away in 2016 at 25 million years old. He says the Barrier Reef is the largest living structure; stretching 1,400 miles long, 2,900 individual reefs, and 1,050 islands. This grand reef harbors thousands of species. The Barrier Reef is formed by corals, tiny anemone-like animals, that give the reef it’s magnificent colors.…
The aim of this report is to investigate Long Reef and Collaroy Beach’s coastal management.…
“Cloud Cover Caribbean” tells us the story: a Haitian, Antenor, fled his country on a small boat. During this unpredictably dangerous sea adventure, he rescued a Dominican, Diogenes, and a Cuban, Carmelo, who both shared the same dream with Antenor of going to Miami to start a new life. Some conflicts, subtle or obvious, took place while these three men of different countries and cultural backgrounds were struggling together in one little skiff. The moment before they were almost about to sink in the notorious Bermuda Triangle, an American boat happened to pass by, so thank goodness, the three men survived. In no time the captain of the American boat sent them directly to a Puerto Rican to start working.…
When you're reading a story do you ever wonder who and why they wrote it? In the stories ’’Hatchet, Island of the Blue Dolphins,and The father of Chinese Aviation’’ contains people that have survived or have had life changing experiences. In these stories it explains a part of Karana, Brian, and Feng Ru’s life changing experiences that they faced.…
The setting in the story is a boat somewhere in the middle of an "endless" ocean. Ziba, a little girl, rides it with her mother and a group of other people. You can't help but notice the gray and blue colors on the pages, and the sorrow-filled expressions on the faces of the people riding the boat leading you to immediately realize they are not part of a fun-filled and entertaining journey, and you start to wonder if they are refugees of war. Where are they going and what is their story, particularly, the little girl's?…
After the climax, Greg goes home. as he walks up to his apartment building he smiles at the fact that his dad is going to give him a lecture. He sees his dad in a different light now, thanks to Lemon Brown and his treasure.…
Coral reefs are communities to the sea and home to many living creatures and different types of organisms, as well as about one-fourth of the oceans population. Coral reefs are made up of animals called polyps that will remain in one place, acting as the main structure of the reef itself, these animals have a hard almost skeleton like structure. Scientists who study coral reefs have categorized them into three different types of reefs; Barrier reefs, Atolls, and Fringing reefs. Coral reefs are put into these categories based on their size, shaped and close proximity to land. Although corals are grouped together, "An individual coral is known as a polyp, a very small and simple organism consisting mostly of a stomach topped by a tentacle-bearing…
Coral reefs are one of the world’s hidden treasures. In a coral reef, you can find anything from plants to certain types of animals. Some of the coral that you might see can be dangerous and fatal to humans. While some coral reefs are dangerous, others aren’t. There are a lot of things in a coral reef and many topics worth being discussed, but only three topics will be touched on throughout this paper. The first topic is the food web within the coral reefs; the second topic being discussed will be the different types of coral reefs; the third topic to be discussed will be where coral reefs can be found.…
Meera Dolasia’s purpose in writing “Nations come together to create the world's largest Marine Sanctuary.” It's to recount that they are helping animals that can not go back to the wild to live life in their natural habitat but with help from some people .The marine sanctuary was 6000,000 square miles. Obama made the sanctuary from 140,000 to 582,578 square miles. This is only the second…
This narrative briefly describes the short, sorrowful life of Nirupama. The name signifies ‘peerless one’ and was given to her by her parents, who were gratified with a daughter after having had five sons. Being treasured, her father searched long and hard to find a groom he deemed suitable enough for her. He engaged Nirupama to the son of a “grand” Raybahadur who asked for a dowry of 10,000 rupees. Even though he had no way of paying the large sum he found such a chance hard to refuse and he procured a way to borrow the money. However once this fell through the prospective husband, despite the wishes of his parents, still insisted on marrying.…