eyes. To me Yertle the Turtle is about a tyrant’s reign over a happy and peaceful area. This book as published in 1958‚ thirteen years after World War Ⅱ. I think the tyrant in the story was symbolic and Yertle was actually Hitler. In stanzas one and nine Yertle commands for turtle the stack up on top of each other in order the make his throne taller. The turtles he is sitting on could represent all of the countries that he concurred overtime. Or‚ in a more dark manner‚ the turtles could be the bodies
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THE SEA by James Reeves The main idea of The Sea by James Reeves is that the sea is similar to a dog in so many ways. They both share similar characteristics and behaviour. In fact‚ one can look at this poem as one long metaphor‚ mainly focusing on the similarity between the sea and the dog. The very first line of the first stanza spells out the metaphor quite clearly: “The sea is a hungry dog”. Moreover‚ the rest of the poem reinforces this idea by frequently referring to a dog’s
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Turtle Stones By Edgar A. Brown Concretions‚ some of which are called turtle stones‚ have been geological curiosities around the world for centuries. According to Wikipedia‚ a concretion is a hard‚ compact mass of matter formed within layers of sedimentary rock such as sandstone‚ shale‚ siltstone‚ and limestone. Concretions form as minerals within rock beds and precipitate in cracks and cavities‚ or as sediment builds up in layers around a core like a pebble or a shell. The Finger Lakes shale holds
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Did you know turtles can breathe through their butts? Now‚ I know this may sound weird‚ but it is true. Turtles are a species that have adapted to their environments in a way that allows them to breathe in three different ways‚ one of which is through their butts. This whole butt breathing adaptation is part of the aquatic turtles’ evolution. Apart from breathing through their butts there are two other ways turtles can breathe. The first way is the one most used among all creatures: through their
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Ridley Scott’s Alien provides us with one of the most basic and primal super-objectives: the preservation life. Our protagonist‚ Ellen Ripley‚ faces impossible odds as a seemingly invincible alien predator wreaks havoc on the crew of the Nostromo‚ taking them out one by one until she is the last man (or in this case‚ woman) standing. In most every horror‚ or as Blake Snyder would call it‚ “Monster in the House” film‚ the super-objective is to preserve life. Some‚ however‚ are more successful than
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Summary A land turtle navigates through a dry patch of ground toward a slanted highway embankment full of oat beards and foxtails. Resolute and unswerving‚ the turtle fights its way up the slope to the highway and begins to cross the hot pavement. A speeding car swerves onto the shoulder to avoid the turtle. Moments later‚ a truck purposefully clips the shell of the turtle‚ sending it spinning to the side of the highway‚ landing on its back. Eventually‚ the turtle rights itself‚ crawls down the
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Before this Earth existed‚ there was only water. It stretched as far as one could see‚ and in that water there were birds and animals swimming around. Far above‚ in the clouds‚ there was a Skyland. In that Skyland there was a great and beautiful tree. It had four white roots which stretched to each of the sacred directions‚ and from its branches all kinds of fruits and flowers grew. There was an ancient chief in theSkyland. His young wife was expecting a child‚ and one night she dreamed that she
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shell has been revealed as the grandfather of all turtles. Scientists have given it the moniker Pappochelys‚ meaning ’grandfather turtle‚’ in honor of its newly found position at the forefront of the turtles’ evolutionary lineage. What the shell? Grandfather turtle was actually shell-less Pappochelys‚ the lizard-like reptile found in a quarry in southern Germany‚ is now the oldest turtle fossil to date. Pappochelys is so old‚ the former turtle fossil who held the title‚ Odontochelys (http://www
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that be a human or even a little turtle. Power is achieved by performing certain actions carefully and thoroughly. If these actions are completed with any hesitation‚ everything can come crashing down in the blink of an eye. In Dr. Seuss’s story Yertle the Turtle‚ Yertle was king of the pond who decided he was not satisfied with his small rock as a throne. By commanding the fellow turtles around him‚ he created a higher chair for himself‚ until one little turtle changed the fate for them all. Transgressions
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Loggerhead turtles have many significant adaptations to their current and past environments. Turtles of the family Cheloniidae have various morphological adaptations for aquatic life. Early turtles lost the capacity for aquatic propulsion by body and tail undulations when they developed a shortened‚ more rigid body form during the Triassic‚ as an adaptation for armored resistance to attack by predators. However‚ terrestrial body form with a carapace and walking-type limbs precluded aquatic locomotion
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