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    Sea Stars

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    Carrillo 1 The Life Cycle of a Sea Star Between birth and death‚ a sea stars life follows a cycle of development‚ adulthood‚ and eventually parenthood. It is the cycle that produces new sea stars and keeps populations balance. Sea stars begin their lives as tiny larvae that look nothing like the adult sea stars. The larvae have different shaped bodies with many projecting arms. “It looks more like a blob of jelly” (Perry 46). Sea star larvae develop in open water and immediately become

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    Perseverance is when someone does something despite of any difficulties or delays‚ while passion is a compelling emotion or feeling one may have. Angela Duckworth‚ former middle school teacher‚ phycologist‚ and now motivational speaker and writer has a belief that putting these two definitions together creates the idea of grit. After extensive studies on children who made it into the National Spelling Bee and struggling cadets in West Point‚ she concluded that they had something different then talent

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    The Hunger Games Who has more perseverance in a literacy book‚ or novel? Remember that perseverance mean that you stay strong no matter how difficult it is‚ you to strive to finish it. Katniss Everdeen demonstrates a lot of perseverance in the hunger games. Katniss had volunteer in the place for her sister Prim when she had been called out to the games. Katniss knew her sister wouldn’t survive out in the forest. So Katniss had to volunteer in prims spot. She had to face death on her

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    Star of the Sea

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    Star of the Sea By: Joseph O’Connor I.B. English A1 The passage from Star of the Sea was written by Joseph O’Connor. It is a piece of narrative prose which takes place on a passenger ship. The passage is written in a third-person subjective narrative mode. The passage is takes place at a point in the storyline as the ship is passing through a violent storm at sea‚ which portrays the forces of nature The passage starts with a sense of an atmosphere‚ “The music of the ship was howling around

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    I feel that my greatest skill is perseverance. When I was 9‚ I left brick and mortar education to pursue one of my greatest passions: figure skating. It was my dream to go the 2018 Winter Olympic Games representing the United States of America. Many years later‚ fractures in both of my knees ended that dream. I thought that I’d be able to return‚ and would have a fantastic comeback story‚ but the knee pain never left. I was never able to return to the sport. Refusing to dwell in the past‚ I reinvented

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    Gods of the Sea

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    The Odyssey Homer (Translated by Samuel Butler) This eBook was designed and published by Planet PDF. For more free eBooks visit our Web site at http://www.planetpdf.com/. To hear about our latest releases subscribe to the Planet PDF Newsletter. The Odyssey Preface to First Edition This translation is intended to supplement a work entitled ‘The Authoress of the Odyssey’‚ which I published in 1897. I could not give the whole ‘Odyssey’ in that book without making it unwieldy‚ I therefore

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    Sea Tutles

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    Marine life flourishes in our plant’s oceans‚ a common factor these bodies of water share are sea turtles. I am going to talk about how these animals have a huge impact in multiple ecosystems‚ which includes their diets‚ breeding habits‚ and life cycle. Also‚ I will be discussing their history and evolution that directly impacts their anatomy‚ as well as‚ migration patterns‚ which leads into their extensive travels with a history that stretches back to prehistoric times. Finally‚ I will be going

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    The Village by the Sea

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    Daiana E. Field 5º1º The village by the sea By Anita Desai Analysis of the novel This story takes place in a small fishing village‚ called Thul‚ which is ¨only fourteen kilometres away from Bombay¨ (Chapter 4)‚ one of the biggest cities on the western coast of India‚ on the Arabian Sea. Although the author does not specify the year in which the story is set‚ we can deduce it takes place in the early twentieth century. We reach to this conclusion through the description of Bombay‚ ¨[…]here

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    Sea Anemones

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    Sea anemones are members of the Phylum Cnidarian. The cnidarians include the anemones‚ jellyfish‚ coral‚ Portuguese man-of-war and hydroids. Their characteristics include a soft body with two tissue layers arranged around a central gut cavity. A ring of tentacles surrounds a central mouth‚ and the tentacles endure stinging cells which contain nematocysts used to capture food and for defense. ("Marine Life Profile: Sea Anemones”) The two basic body forms among the cnidarians are the polyp‚ which looks

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    Sea Lion

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    Inhabitants on the islands of the Galapagos Archipelago‚ the Galapagos Sea Lion is an intriguing marine mammal whose looks may deceive you because despite its amiable countenance it is truly a fierce predator and protector. The Galapagos Sea Lion‚ also known as the Pagos Sea Lion‚ spends a great majority of its day in the water hunting for prey‚ however it does not venture out very far from its territory due to the fact that their main predators tend to be there. Their prey is primarily fish‚ squid

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