the ocean‚ we will find an equally dynamic environment in the depths of our world ’s coral reefs. As a Zoology major‚ I quickly decided to explore this biological component of the ocean environment. In the following paper‚ I will provide a general overview of coral reefs and examine the alarming depletion of coral and their ecological symbionts in a process known as coral bleaching. As mentioned earlier‚ coral reefs are among the most diverse and productive of all communities on Earth. They are
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BATTLE OF CORAL SEA ARTICLE VIDEOS SPEECHES SHOP 6th June 1942: A wrecked Japanese war plane floating in the water after it had been shot down during the Battle of the Coral Sea. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) PRINT CITE This four-day World War II skirmish in May 1942 marked the first air-sea battle in history. The Japanese were seeking to control the Coral Sea with an invasion of Port Moresby in southeast New Guinea‚ but their plans were intercepted by Allied forces. When the Japanese
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1000 October 14‚ 2011 Warming Up to the Truth Being an avid hydrophile‚ I wanted to explore a topic that involved the world of life in the ocean. This allowed me start wondering about coral reefs inside the ocean and caused me to raise the question about how and why some of these become bleached. A number of coral reefs that have been bleached lasted such a long time as luminous organisms filled with color and beauty before suddenly turning white and dull. How does something like that last such a
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The founders of Coral Gables imagined their city to be the embodiment of beauty and community. My hometown‚ Coral Gables‚ has certainly achieved recognition for its level of beauty however‚ I do feel Coral Gables could improve the representation of their community. A major component of a great community is their flag. Moreover‚ A flag represents the unity of a group to whomever falls under it. To many people’s surprise‚ cities have flags however the flag design for most cities tend to be inadequate
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Battle of the Coral Sea Research Paper The Battle of the Coral Sea is a significant four-day World War II skirmish that took place in May 1942 II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. Occurring only five months after the surprise Japanese attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii‚ and a month before the decisive battle at Midway‚ it was one of the first naval battles fought in the Pacific during World War II. It also marks the
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A Piece of Black Coral Imagine a world where we are all equal‚ where we are all the same and where we don’t have a segregation of classes. Jacques Cousteau and Pablo Picasso are friends but will never be equal. In the short story “When Jacques Cousteau gave Pablo Picasso a piece of Black Coral” written by Pasha Malla‚ the author shifts from happy warm greetings to a segregation of social classes using literary elements such as descriptive details‚ old fashioned diction‚ and vivid imagery to show
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Company Background Café De Coral‚ established in 1968‚ operates over 140 self-service fast food restaurants in Hong Kong‚ which is the largest Chinese restaurant chain in Hong Kong. In 1986‚ Café De Coral became an issued company in Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Later Café De Coral expands its business in various city and countries such as Hong Kong‚ Macau‚ Guangdong and other Western countries. The restaurant currently serves about 300‚000 customers per day. Café De Coral takes the advantage of broad
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The oceans today are 30 percent more acidic than they were at the time of the Industrial Revolution. This interferes with the way that corals produce calcium carbonate‚ and it becomes difficult to build reefs. Oil spills are a major issue‚ and in recent accidents; ships hit coral reefs off India and spilt oil‚ causing reef damage. Surface currents are more rapid than the currents of the deep sea‚ limiting the ability of the deeper plumes (oil) to spread widely; oil and chemicals will diffuse as
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Coral Reefs‚ Our Disappearing Beauty Coral reefs are one of nature’s riches ecosystems with a diverse existence of life which is ultimately quite complex. They are a colorful ecosystem that plays an important role in the marine world and the human world as well. They are home to countless plants and animals‚ a source of food‚ medicines and one of the unique wonders of our world. While they might bring the image of life near a tropical paradise‚ there is much more to the coral reef than
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Coral Reef Bleaching Coral reef bleaching‚ which is the whitening of diverse invertebrate taxa. The cause of the whitening is “from the loss of symbiotic zooxanthellae and/or a reduction in photosynthetic pigment concentrations in zooxanthellae residing within the gastrodermal tissues of host animals.” (P.W.Glynn) The reason why coral reef bleaching is such a concern is because the “consequences of bleaching large numbers of reef-building scleractinian corals and hydrocorals.”(P.W.Glynn)
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