In 1971‚ biologist Roger Payne set out on what would be the first of many trips to Argentina. It was on one of these trips that Payne came across a female white whale and moved in close. "She was asleep‚" he recalls‚ "but after a while she opened her eye and looked me over. You would see her eyeball rolling in her head and then she closed her eye again. Basically‚ the whale was just saying‚ Well‚ if you’ve seen one of us‚ you’ve seen them all." Born in 1935 in New York‚ Payne has been studying whales
Premium Whale Beached whale Killer whale
The character of Roger Chillingworth has been presented to audiences as a spiteful and conniving old man through imagery by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne does not stop at just imagery either ‚ he uses his full literary Arsenal in chapter 10 to ensure the audience is aware of Chillingworth’s true and vile nature. At the beginning of the chapter Hawthorne uses a matter of fact tone when describing Chillingworth past. This description of Chillingworth gives the audience a basis of his past personality
Premium Hell Devil God
P.E. Essay: Rafa Nadal Rafael Nadal. He is arguably one of the greatest menʼs tennis players to date. He was born as Rafael Nadal Parera in Manacor‚ Mallorca‚ Spain‚ on March 6th‚ 1986. Nadal began playing tennis at age four with his uncle Toni‚ who is his long-time coach. He used to play with a two-handed forehand and backhand before his uncle made him change at age nine or 10 to a one-handed forehand. Also‚ Rafa plays left-handed but writes right-handed. He played his only‚ and first‚ junior
Premium Rafael Nadal Roger Federer Grand Slam
Piracy in the Caribbean Most of us today think of pirates as something that exists only in movies and literature‚ but 300 years ago this was a very different story. Much unlike what you may see in today’s pop culture piracy was a very fair and democratic system where crew members could elect their own captains and where Africans were considered equal to whites‚ a truly revolutionary concept for its time‚ considering that the use of slaves was a common practice at the time. Piracy in the Caribbean
Premium Piracy Caribbean Sea Caribbean
The Years of the Berlin Wall: From My Eyes August 13‚ 1961. A day of misery‚ ordeal and dashed hopes. I had woken to the sound of an obstreperous shriek and what seemed like a case of mass hysteria. Within minutes I became conscious of the fact I was alone in the bedraggled shack we liked to call home. I wandered around in my solitude. Promptly I advanced to the outside pavement where infinite numbers of people were gathered. To the left of me I noticed my mother. Seated on
Premium The Wall Great Wall of China Berlin Wall
I had the pleasure of visiting Mrs. McCotter’s Autistic classroom. I arrived at 1:00 PM on Tuesday‚ November 27th. Her classroom is at Ealy Elementary in West Bloomfield‚ which has a wonderful special education program. I chose to observe in an autistic classroom because it is something I had never experienced before until now. The classroom was incredibly nice and everyone was so welcoming! The classroom is arranged with a variety of stations. There is the play station‚ the movement station‚ their
Free Play Learning Education
Literary Analysis of “Nevermind” by Nirvana “Nevermind” is the second studio album recorded by the band Nirvana. The album was recorded at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys‚ California and also at Smart Studios in Madison Wisconsin from mid-1990 to mid-1991. It was released on September 24‚ 1991 and is as Rolling Stone would say “One of the greatest albums of all time” (Greene). The album’s name comes from combining the otherwise separate English words never and mind. “Nevermind” was different from
Premium Rock music Kurt Cobain Nirvana
Questions: 1. What details in the first two paragraphs convey a sense of the ordinary‚ behind-the-scenes routines of film critics? What words or phrases suggest the longevity of Ebert’s career as a movie reviewer? The part where it says‚ “Some of them look as though they plan on camping out‚ with their coats‚ blankets‚ lunches‚ and laptops spread out on the seats around them‚” shows that this is the routine of the film critics because they are comfortable in the room together. Also‚ the room
Free Film criticism Film Critic
Values are attributes‚ qualities or a philosophy that is truly meaningful to a person and is regarded as worthwhile. They develop by what decisions we make‚ what we experience in life and what influences us. My personal value that I relish is trust. Trust is very important because with trust‚ you can do anything with confidence. This links me to friends‚ safety‚ success and honesty. The two texts that I have studied are the film The Shawshank Redemption directed by Frank Darabont and the novel
Premium The Shawshank Redemption Frank Darabont Morgan Freeman
Effects of degree of rotation 012687 University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus Abstract The following study does a replication of Cooper and Shepard’s (1973) study on mental rotation using rotated and normal stimulus. The study investigated the effects of degree of rotation of the stimulus on the time taken (RT) for participants to distinguish between inversed stimuli and non-inversed stimuli. In the following study‚ we used 2 normal stimuli and 2 inversed of the normal stimuli‚ and applied
Premium Mental rotation Correlation and dependence Idea