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978 1978Mr. WhitbyEnglish 106 November 2017Picture Perfect PenguinsWhen I read this writing prompt, I wondered how Rosemarie Keough almost died taking a penguin’s picture. Perhaps she was standing on the edge of a cliff and either fell off (and was somehow rescued) or almost fell off. Perhaps the penguin attacked her and tried to kill her, although I don’t believe that that is a normal behavior for penguins. Perhaps the time required to take the photo resulted in her getting caught in a snowstorm, which are very bad in Antarctica as I understand it. These are all possible reasons for this statement, although I don’t know which one is accurate. To tell this story I will select my favorite: the attacking penguin.Rosemarie
Ethel Waters overcame a very tough childhood to become one of the most well known African American entertainers of her time. Her story, The Eye on the Sparrow, goes into great detail about her life and how she evolved from taking care of addicts to becoming the star of her own show. Ethel was born by her mother being raped at a young age. Her father, John Waters, was a pianist who played no role in Ethel’s life. She was raised in poverty and it was rare for her to live in the same place for over a year. Ethel never fit in with the rest of the crowd; she was a big girl, about five nine when she was a teenager, and was exposed to mature things early in her life. This is what helped shape Ethel to be the strong, independent woman she is.
Every individual cares about how they appear to others; their shape and in this informal, narrative essay titled Chicken-Hips, Canadian journalist and producer Catherine Pigott tells her story on her trip to Gambia and her body appearance. In this compelling essay the thesis is implicit and the implied thesis is about how women are judged differently on their appearance in different parts of the world, as various cultures and individuals have a different perception on what ideal beauty is. In this essay Pigott writes about her trip to Africa specifically Gambia and how upon arriving there she was judged to be too slim for a woman. She goes to write about how differently she would be judged back home by mentioning “in my county we deny ourselves
These penguins lived after the Castastrophic event “Cretaceuous” that demolished the dinosaurs and many other species. Based on the DNA analyses and avaiable evidence of modern birds, we think the modern bird- lineages, including penguins, some how managed to survive through the Cretaceuous. Also it’s not shocking these fossils were found in New Zeland. The South Pacific and Southern oceans were free of predatory mammals, had abundant food, and had space for Penguins to breed. But the Southern Pacific is not the only area where Penguins inhabit. Many of modern penguins “Aptrenodytes” are located in the Antarctic. Recenelty it was discovered that there was a over looked feature on the surface of the fossil penguins flipper bone. These grooves were easily missed because the look was similar to tendons and muscles in the same area. It was discovered that these grooves were blood vessels that make up a counter current heat exchanger called “humeral arterial plexus” which allows penguins to limit the heat loss through the flippers. Also it helped Penguins maintain their core body temperature in cold water allowing them to survive long journeys in the cold waters. Although Penguins have luckily been able develop these traits to survive the dramatic shifts in climate, the world population can not mistake their success as resilience towards global warming.
• In the gym, the gym teacher announced that they were going to start a new unit. The new unit was volleyball.
Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp is an essay written by Joy Williams, about the overwhelming complacency that todays culture shows towards nature.Williams argues in a very satirical way, that todays culture has all but completely lost touch with what nature really is, and that unless we as a nation change our morals regarding the role that nature plays in human existence, we may very well be witnessing the dawn of our own destruction.
Among the numerous different species of birds in the world one particular type stands out from them all. The emperor penguin reigns as one of the most interesting and unknown birds in scientists’ minds. The way that they conform and blend into the Antarctic environment, even during the harshest condition, underlines the uniqueness of these spectacular creatures. Scientists have been captivated by the amazing reproductive lives of the Emperor penguins, who live and behave in a way unlike any other animal in the world.
Williams, T. D., Wilson, R. P, Boersma P.D, Stokes, D. L. Davies, J. and Busby, J. (1995) The Penguins: Spheniscidae. Oxford: Oxford UP. Print.
Usually we perceive penguins as being surrounded by icebergs and snow but Fiordland crested penguins have chosen to ignore this penguin stereotype in favour of a more temperate climate. Luckily for visiting penguin enthusiasts this means Fiordland can be spotted without hav...
Emperor penguins are a very unique species. They have carried evolution far back into history and into the the harshest climates on earth. They have managed to survive and adapt as we try to find as much knowledge as we can about them. Penguins are truly an unique species that have evolved throughout the ages, and Emperor Penguins are the epitome of evolution.
When Amir finds out that Baba has been concealing that Hassan is his brother and he becomes angry and disappointed. Amir says “It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.” on page 1. He says this because he knows how they effect life and people and since in the first chapter he is looking back on life, then Baba's secret is related into this quote as well. This qoute shows how Amir feels about his fathers secret. Amir describes the secret as clawing and that shows his distaste and hatred. Later Amir refers back to when his father taught him that theft was the most vile crime any man can commit and realises that his father had stole Amir's right to know he had a brother as well as Hassan's identity.
Topic: Emperor Penguins Organization: Topically Specific purpose: To teach my audience about an overlooked species. I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: Can you imagine living in a state of pure cold? Where the temperature is constantly sub-zero? How about an entire colony living in such conditions?
Among the countless books written throughout history, the small gems of good books exist written by famous and unrecognized authors. An enjoyable book requires the answer of a majority of questions that many enjoyed books answer. What is the conflict? What are the characters like? Do the characters create a connection with the reader? Can the author make the reader feel like he/she is inside the story? What is the central message the author is trying to get through? These questions and many more are the final deciding factors readers and critics answer to see if the book is indeed a gem of a novel. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs answers the questions and justify it by the evidence from the book. The book was an enjoyable book for myself and I would most definitely recommend to others
The Tale of Peter Rabbit was a fictional story for children written by Beatrix Potter. The main character of the story was Peter Rabbit, who had three sisters by the names of Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail. The four bunnies lived with their mother, Mrs. Rabbit, underneath a huge tree in the woods. All the characters displayed the element of anthropomorphic because they are dressed in human clothing and display human characteristics such as walking straight up on their hind legs. The three sisters were wearing a pink to reddish cloak, Peter Rabbit a blue jacket with brown shoes, and the mother a blue chambermaid dress. While Peter Rabbit’s sisters were obedient little bunnies who gathered blackberries, Peter Rabbit was a naughty, disobedient and mischievous young rabbit who gave into temptation rather than to listen to direction.
“The origin of the word “penguin” has been the subject of debate for a long period of time. Researchers and historians’ theories range from reference to the amount of fat (penguigo in Spanish and pinguis in Latin) penguins possess to the claim that the word was derived from two Welsh words meaning ‘white head’.” (Sparks and Soper, 1987) Penguins are comical and funny birds. Blue/black on the upper half of their body and white on the lower half, they look as though they are all dressed up for a formal dinner or show but have no place to go! Penguins are flightless birds, which have adapted to living in the cooler waters of the Southern Hemisphere. They generally live on islands and remote continental regions that are free of land predators. Their inability to fly has been detrimental to their survival on land. Some species of penguins spend as much as 75% of their lives in the ocean, yet they all breed on land or sea ice attached to land. The seventeen species found today are thought to have evolved from flying birds more than forty million years ago. To date, the discovery of all penguin fossil fragments has been limited to the Southern Hemisphere. “Records show that prehistoric penguins were found within the range of present-day penguins.” (Sparks and Soper, 1987)