It is based on a book about how a 16 year old boy gets stuck with a bengal tiger because of a shipwreck. At first he gets stuck with a hyena‚ zebra‚ orangutan and the bengal tiger. The hyena kills the zebra and orangutan and then the tiger eats the hyena. Leaving only Pi and the tiger left in the boat. Pi struggles with the tiger in which he faces challenges to take over the boat. During the time in the boat Pi and the tiger suffer
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Life of Pi - Questions for Consideration: Chapters 37-49 1. Give three examples in 37-39 of how the ship is personified? What is the effect of this personification? a) The ship sank. It made a sound like a monstrous metallic burp. The effect of this personification is to show how large the ship was and helps to describe the scene of a massive object sinking. b) All around me was the vomit of a dyspeptic ship. The personification here shows that when the ship sank many of the contents
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China’s Ministry of Commerce‚ together with five other ministries‚ issued this warning in June: "Companies making disposable chopsticks will face local government restrictions aimed at decreasing the use of the throwaway utensil.... Production‚ circulation and recycling of disposable chopsticks should be more strictly supervised." (Disposable/ (throwaway) chopsticks are wooden utensils used to eat oriental/ Chinese food. The Chinese Government wants to reduce production and use of disposable chop
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What are the major groups of primates? I thought that this question was very interesting because primates are the closest living relatives to humans. Primates are fascinating because they resemble a primitive or basal version of ourselves and at the same time are also quite different from us as well. There is a large number of primate species both in the African and Asian continents as well as in the Americas. Those species that are found in Africa and Asia are collectively called old world
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Understanding Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was an American author and poet whose forte was writing mystery and horror stories. Many know of Edgar Allan Poe as the “Father of the Detective Story‚” which nickname he earned for his mysterious detective fiction tales such as “The Murders in the Rue Morgue().” Before switching genres from dark romanticism to detective tales‚ Edgar Allan Poe published “Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque‚” which was a tale of fear and horror. Edgar Allan Poe’s style
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Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist‚ Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel‚ an Indian boy from Pondicherry‚ explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. The novel was rejected by at least five London publishing houses[1] before being accepted by Knopf Canada‚ which published it in September 2001. The UK edition
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his entire life grows up in peace- his father runs a zoo‚ and he follows Islam‚ Christianity‚ and Hinduism simultaneously. When his family moves to Canada‚ the ship sink and he is forced to board a lifeboat with a hyena‚ a tiger‚ a zebra‚ and a orangutan. Left with only emergency rations‚ Pi is able to survive 227 days on the ocean. Narrated by Pi himself‚ this true story‚ as Yann Martel puts it‚ will make one believe in god. Part One starts out with Pi‚ or Piscine Molitor Patel narrating from
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intelligence (Carroll). Camper claimed that Asians had an facial angle of 90 degrees‚ Europeans had 80 degrees‚ African Americans had 70 degrees‚ and Orangutans had 58 degrees (Carroll). This measurement supported a hierarchic view of mankind. It was also very racist because it assumed that African Americans had an intelligence level low enough to resemble an Orangutan. Pseudoscience is a method that should be eliminated completely. Rushton‚ Galton‚ and Camper are only three examples out of many racial
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is extremely worrying to many government and environmental leaders because there are only about five thousand Eastern Gorillas left in the wild. Furthermore‚ of all of the great ape species- the Eastern Gorilla‚ Western Gorilla‚ Bornean Orangutan‚ Sumatran Orangutan‚ Chimpanzee‚ and Bonobo- only the Chimpanzee and Bonobo are not considered critically endangered; however‚ they are listed as endangered. Conservation efforts have
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from http://www.ehow.com/info_8779344_lemurs-physical-adaptations.html Jurmain‚ R.‚ Kilgore‚ L.‚ Trevathan‚ W.‚ & Ciochon‚ R Macdonald‚ D.‚ ed. (2006) The encyclopedia of mammals. New York: Facts on File. Orangutan anatomy page. Retrieved April 23‚ 2012‚ from http://www.red-ape.co.uk/orangutan Prince-Hughes‚ D Schowalter-Hay‚ E. (2011) Structural adaptations of mammals. Retrieved April 29‚ 2012‚ from http://www.ehow.com/info_8541444_structural-adaptations-mammals.html
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