Sea Horse Scientific Name: Hippocampus Kingdom: Animalia Common Name: Sea Horse Seahorses are truly unique‚ and not just because of their unusual equine shape. The
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Nicole Hart HIST 2300- Christopher Trobridge Writing Assignment One October 16‚ 2010 “In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whale ship Essex” In order to understand the ramifications of an event such as the sinking of the Essex one needs too understand the community that produces the crew. Nantucket was an island community much more than the literal sense of word. The islanders of Nantucket saw themselves differently than the rest of the word. They learned the skills of whaling from
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Drowning at Sea After two hours drifting at sea‚ clinging desperately to the cargo hatch‚ I felt the life ebbing from me. I cast my mind back‚ it had been such a nice and beautiful day that had turned out to be so dangerous and life threatening. I could not forget that how I had fought with my mother to allow me to go to the sea with my friends where we were going to have a picnic. I yearned to turn the clock back. If only I had listened to my mom I would not have been in a situation like this
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Sea urchins are members of the phylum Echinodermata‚ which also includes sea stars‚ sea cucumbers‚ brittle stars‚ and crinoids. Like other echinoderms‚ they have five-fold symmetry (called pentamerism) and move by means of hundreds of tiny‚ transparent‚ adhesive "tube feet". The symmetry is not obvious in the living animal‚ but is easily visible in the dried test. Echinodermate means "spiny skin" in Greek. Specifically‚ the term "sea urchin" refers to the "regular echinoids"‚ which are symmetrical
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Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction - 1 - 2. History - 1 - 3. Effects of the Dying Sea - 3 - 4. Remediation - 5 - 5. Conclusion - 6 - References - 7 - List of Figures Figure 1. Location of Aral Sea. (Google Maps‚ 2013) - 1 - Figure 2. Comparison of the Aral Sea Before 1960 and present day. - 4 - Figure 3. Old Fishing Vessels (Francios‚ 2010) - 4 - 1.0 Introduction The Aral Sea is located in central Asia and is situated between the south of Kazakhstan‚ more specifically Aktobe
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Riders to the Sea by J.M. Synge Biography John Millington Synge was born on April 16‚ 1871 to a middle class Protestant family. He was educated at private schools in Dublin and studied piano‚ flute‚ violin‚ music theory and counterpoint at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He was a talented student and attended Trinity College where he studied Irish and Hebrew. During this time Synge encountered the writings of Darwin and developed and interest in the Aran Islands. Reading Darwin coincided with
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cardboard. When Jade is saying how optimistic Aunt Bernie is even in the terrible situation they are living in she says‚ “Man what an optometrist.” The conversations between Min‚ the narrators sister‚ and Jade‚ their cousin‚ shows how uneducated they are and they poverty they live it. This funny exchange also serves to show the readers their lack of intelligence. When Saunders described Sea Oaks‚ the apartments where they live‚ it was very easy to picture and realize exactly how unsafe it was
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Riders to the Sea From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Sara Allgood as Maurya‚ photo taken by Carl Van Vechten‚ 1938 This article is about the play. For the opera‚ see Riders to the Sea (opera). Riders to the Sea is a play written by Irish playwright John Millington Synge. It was first performed on February 25‚ 1904 at the Molesworth Hall‚ Dublin by the Irish National Theater Society. A one-act tragedy‚ the play is set in the Aran Islands‚ and like all of Synge
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it unwieldy‚ I therefore epitomised my translation‚ which was already completed and which I now publish in full. I shall not here argue the two main points dealt with in the work just mentioned; I have nothing either to add to‚ or to withdraw from‚ what I have there written. The points in question are: (1) that the ‘Odyssey’ was written entirely at‚ and drawn entirely from‚ the place now called Trapani on the West Coast of Sicily‚ alike as regards the Phaeacian and the Ithaca scenes; while the voyages
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An international company is planning to set up a factory near your housing area. The proposed factory however‚ is believed to be environmentally hazardous. It will pollute the environment through thermal pollution‚ chemical pollution‚ air pollution‚ and noise pollution. Write a persuasive essay urging people in your neighborhood to protest against the set up of the factory. Based on Macmillan English Dictionary‚ pollution is the process of damaging the air‚ water‚ or land with chemicals or other
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