Rachel Carson wrote The Sea Around Us in 1951‚ which ended up in her winning a National Book award for a Non-fiction book and a John Burroughs award the following year. In this book she covers a wide range of topics involving our oceans in three parts. The first part‚ titled Mother Sea‚ Rachel Carson describes the history of how the seas formed‚ life on the surface and near the floor of the ocean‚ how the sea changes with the seasons‚ how islands are formed‚ and how seas come and go. Part two‚ titled
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The Hawksbill sea turtles are considered one of the most beautiful turtles in the ocean today. Poaching and other threats have led to a decline of the turtle population. Theses beautiful creatures are close to extinction and if there is nothing done to protect them‚ then these turtles will be gone forever. They are considered to be smaller sea turtles compared to other sea turtles. Hawksbill turtles are named for their narrow head and sharp bird-like beak. A hawksbill sea turtle is easily recognizable
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a story we don’t realize all the different approaches a writer may use to make his or her story more interesting or complex. These approaches are considered critical approaches and they allow us to dig deeper into a story and discover a whole new meaning. Author‚ Salman Rushdie‚ uses several critical approaches in his novel “Haroun and The Sea of Stories.” Upon reading this story we can find there are several of these approaches to consider. However‚ what really stands out throughout this story is
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The Old Man and the Sea I chose The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway for my summer reading book. The Old Man and the Sea takes place in a small fishing village near Havana‚ Cuba in the late 1940s. The most important characters in The Old Man and the Sea are Santiago—the old man—Manolin‚ and the marlin. Santiago is the protagonist of the story. He is an old‚ Cuban fisherman. He is very knowledgeable of his skills and takes pride in them‚ despite his physical restrictions. He has
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John Masefield’s poem "Sea Fever" is a work of art that brings beauty to the English language through its use of rhythm‚ imagery and many complex figures of speech. The meter in "Sea Fever" follows the movement of the tall ship in rough water through its use of iambs and hard hitting spondees. Although written primarily in iambic meter‚ the meter in "Sea Fever" varies throughout the poem. The imagery in "Sea Fever" suggests an adventurous ocean that appeals to all five senses. Along with an adventurous
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Poseidon: God of the Sea The Olympian God Poseidon‚ or Neptune in Roman culture‚ is known by mortals as the King of the Seas and the Earth-Shaker. He controls the oceans and the land man walks upon. With the wave of one hand he could create massive earthquakes‚ horrific tsunamis‚ and storms that would destroy entire cities. When he rode across the seas in his chariot the seas calmed before him. As the second most powerful God of Olympus‚ Poseidon was held in high regard by gods and mortals alike
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eggs for food. Adult turtles are sometimes captured for food and their body parts are used for various commercial products (like traditional medicines). Turtles can also be killed and injured in collisions with boats. In particular‚ garbage dumped at sea or from land may be mistaken for food and swallowed by the turtles‚ causing severe injuries and death. Similarly‚ turtles become trapped in fishing nets and drown. Protection The main thing you can do to help the turtles is to keep our beaches
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What is Sea-floor spreading? Seafloor spreading is a process of plate tectonics in which new oceanic crust is created as large lumps of the Earth ’s crust split apart from each other and magma shafts up to fill the gap. Who discovered sea-floor spreading? The man who discovered sea floor spreading was Harry Hess. Harry Hess was a geologist. Part of his mission had been to study the deepest parts of the ocean floor. In 1946 he had discovered that hundreds of flat-topped mountains‚ perhaps sunken
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of isolation and madness in the opening pages of the ‘wide Sargasso sea’?’ In the opening of the ‘wide Sargasso sea’‚ Jean Rhys automatically gives the reader a nascent impression of isolation and madness. This quote‚ ‘too young for him they thought’‚ foreshadows the isolation of the family from the society‚ it clearly shows that Antoinette’s family are segregated. The quote ‘one calm evening he shot his dog‚ swam out to sea and was gone forever’‚ tells us the extent of madness and insanity of
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Would the Sea Turtles be Missed? “Six of the seven sea turtle species are listed as vulnerable‚ endangered‚ or greatly endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of threatened species (Roach).” These suffering sea turtle species are the following: Reen‚ Hawksbill‚ Kemp’s Ridley‚ Leatherback‚ Loggerhead‚ and Olive Ridley. All of these turtles are found in the waters off the coasts of the United States of America. The only species of sea turtle that is not in
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