What is the biggest animal ever to exist on Earth? By considerable measure‚ the largest known animal on Earth is the blue whale. Mature bluewhales can measure anywhere from 75 feet (23 m) to 100 feet (30.5 m) from head to tail‚ and can weigh as much as 150 tons (136 metric tons). That’s as long as an 8- to 10-story building and as heavy as about 112 adult male giraffes! These days‚ most adult blue whales are only 75 to 80 feet long; whalers hunted down most of the super giants. Female blue whales
Premium Mammal Sound Kilogram
THE SOUND AND THE FURY William Faulkner’s background influenced him to write the unconventional novel The Sound and the Fury. One important influence on the story is that Faulkner grew up in the South. The Economist magazine states that the main source of his inspiration was the passionate history of the American South‚ centered for him in the town of Oxford‚ Mississippi‚ where he lived most of his life. Similarly‚ Faulkner turns Oxford and its environs‚ "my own little postage stamp of native
Premium Suicide
HSB4M ISU Generation Z Shelby Long They populate your neighborhoods‚ their thumbs spastically typing out two-way conversations‚ their friendships are quantifiable by Facebook‚ and they have never known a world without the Internet‚ cell phones and iPods. This mysterious social phenomenon is known as ‘Generation Z.’ Why is this generation so mysterious and different from other generations? What impact does this group of people have on society and why is it truly a social phenomenon? These are questions
Premium Generation Y
Ford every stream Follow every rainbow Till you find your dream A dream that will need All the love you can give Every day of your life For as long as you live Climb every mountain Ford every stream Follow every rainbow Till you find your dream A dream that will need All the love you can give Every day of your life For as long as you live Climb every mountain Ford every stream Follow every rainbow Till you find your dream From the following song we can generally said
Premium The Sound of Music
English 1010 10/29/09 The Sound of Silence “It was a cold that had seeped into her bones in France and now seemed never to leave her.”(198) War always has outcomes that cannot be predicted‚ some that linger on much like Maisie’s relentless coldness. The Great War leaves several characters with wounds that never seem to heal. While there are numerous lasting wounds caused by war‚ the emotional‚ physical‚ and mental wounds are the most severe. The Great War infected its victims emotionally
Premium Suffering Artillery Pain
Discuss Your Goals For the Next Four Years and Comment on Your Post-College Plans "Next stop‚ 66th Street and Lincoln Center‚ " bellowed the cracked voice of the conductor over the loudspeaker. Those words rang in my ear like the notes of a familiar melody. Stepping off the number three train‚ I was immediately immersed in the scents‚ sounds and faces of my past. All the wonderful memories of those four years came rushing back into my mind as if they had just occurred. I was finally returning
Premium High school
The coming of sound was an innovation to cinema that forever changed the way films were produced‚ viewed and performed. Sound plays many roles in the way a film is narrated and perceived by the audience. Sound‚ as defined in the Oxford Dictionary of Film Studies‚ ‘is central to the way in which a film establishes setting‚ shapes character‚ signposts its narrative‚ directs the audience’s and instils general emotional states’ (2012: 385). Sunrise: a song of two humans by F.W. Munrau was released in
Premium Sound Music Film
move forward into this new generation‚ people are becoming more dependent on technology. Reading habits have changed and the systems for education are much more reliant on new forms of technology. This is reasoning to many as to why this generation is the dumbest. However‚ this is an illogical ideology because although this new generation is more technology dependent‚ these forms of technology can be used to the advantage of many students and are why this new generation is not the dumbest‚ but the
Premium Generation Y Learning Education
PGTP “Rayko Tsonchev “ 2012/2013 Discuss some of the arguments for and against keeping animals in zoos Gabriela Ivanova Cacheva Zооs аrguе thаt thеy sаvе еndаngеrеd spеciеs аnd еducаtе thе public‚ but аnimаl rights аctivists bеliеvе thе cоsts оutwеigh thе bеnеfits‚ аnd the viоlatiоn оf thе right оf thе individuаl аnimаls is unjustifiаblе. Rоаdsidе zооs‚ pеtting zооs‚ аnd smаllеr аnimаl еxhibitоrs tеnd tо kееp thе аnimаls in smаllеr pеns оr cаgеs. Sоmеtimеs
Premium Trigraph Zoo Animal welfare
STRATEGIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Facebook Inc. Report Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg‚ Dustin Moskovitz‚ Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes as a college networking website while they were University Students. On 4th October 2012 Mark Zuckerberg (CEO-Chairman) announced that Facebook have reached 1 Billion users worldwide‚ which makes it the largest social network on the planet. On May 2012 Facebook was listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange raising $16 billion. Giuseppe
Premium Facebook