Chapter One:
“Most living organisms fossilize after death, so fossils in exemplary condition are easily found all over the world.” This statement does not make much sense because; it says that these fossils are found all over the world which is not the case. If the fossils were found all over the world then we would have the answer to evolution and the beliefs behind it would not exist. Shubin would not have traveled to the artic if this statement was true because fossils are not found in perfect condition all the time. An example is when Shubin was talking about Artic temperature changes “crumbles the surface rocks and fossils” (20). The volcano activity would have ruined the fossils and made them incapable of getting to. Either way the statement
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The shark is a perfect example that teeth came before bones because sharks have cartilage and teeth, therefore teeth came first. The teeth came first because it was the only way a shark would be able to survive, then came the bones to block other predators from hurting the prey. “The first hard hydroxyapatite-containing body parts were teeth.” (76). Shubin is saying that paleontologists were wrong from the beginning and that teeth were the first body part.
Chapter Five:
“Humans and sharks both have four gill arches as embryos, but the germ layers and arches develop into unrelated structures in each organism.” I do agree with the first part of this statement because it is true. The second part does not make much sense. The germ layers and arches do develop into related structure in each organism. I do not have a quote for this one but on page 91 Shubin shows a diagram on how a shark and human embryo form. Though they do not look the same in the beginning they still look the same in the end. Therefore developing into a related structure during the embryonic stages.
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Another inspiring women abolitionist in the 18th century, Jarena Lee, produced The Life and Religious Experiences of Jarena Lee, which is a women’s spiritual autobiography. Lee believed God called her to preach, despite the impropriety of women preachers due to the time period. Lee experienced hostility and prejudice as she traveled and spread the word of the Gospel, but continued to fight for her devotion to faith with the intention of fulfilling her calling from God. In The Life and Religious Experiences of Jarena Lee, Lee formats her text as a sermon and associated her qualifications with her production of a religious service in order to convince her audience of her abilities. Also, Lee associates herself with male ministers because of shared characteristics and experiences.
Living through the war and its enormous political shifts, Eric Blair was a figure whose pessimism was significantly impacted by the postwar period. But what was born of Blair was a more significant person known as George Orwell, who challenged the political views of his time by writing 1984, which stands as one of the most powerful political novels of the Modernist era written to expose the horrors of totalitarianism and impact the political thinking of the 20th Century.
Ooka Shohei named the last chapter of Fires on the Plain “In Praise of Transfiguration.” Through the whole novel, readers witness the protagonist Tamura transform from an innocent soldier to a killer. Readers watch him go from condemning the practice of eating human flesh to eating human flesh for his own survival. At the end, Readers see Tamura’s redemption as he shot Nagamatsu who killed and ate his own comrade Yasuda. What was the difference between two men who both killed and ate human beings? To Tamura, the guilt of eating human flesh distinguished himself from Nagamatsu who cold-bloodily killed Yasuda. As Tamura recalled, “I do not remember whether I shot him at that moment. But I do know that I did not eat his flesh; this I should certainly have remembered.” (224) The fact of him shooting at Nagamatsu had no importance to Tamura. However, his emphasis on not eating
The main anatomical features of this class are as follows: cartilaginous skeleton, ampullae of lorenzini, dermal denticles, and pectoral fins (Natalia Riusech and Diego Arias, Natural History of Vertebrates). A cartilaginous skeleton, the defining feature of Chondrichtyhes, allows the fish to swim more efficiently due to the elastic nature of cartilage. However, all of the Chondrichthians must swim or else they sink due to the lack of a swim bladder (Classes Found in the Phylum Chordata). Some species within the class Chondrichthyes include the Great White Shark, Tiger Shark, Bat Ray, Mobula Ray, Eagle Ray, and the Whale
Augusta Dwyer, a journalist strongly decribes the struggle, and despair that occur in third world countries. He book is based on breaking chains in poverty in a effective and more governmental situated way, that just added democracy to its part. He book decribes four social movements, which are the following; the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil, the Peasant Union of Indonesia (SPI), the Indian Alliance, and Argentina’s National Movement of Factories Recovered by Workers (MNFRT). The title term “broke but unbroken” provides the meaning of what the book structures out to be: identifying the intersections of hopelessness and hope where grassroots social movements concentrate their efforts on diminishing poverty in a more sustainable and effective way than governments or aid institutions. A major theme throughout the book is how the
In their articles, Maltzman and Sigelman, as well as Hill and Hurley, explored the connection between a representative speech giving in Washington as a means of representing their constituency. The advent and permeation of mass media and connectivity to political events into American society raises the question of whether or not representatives can use their media presence to represent their constituency? Social media and news access provide representatives with an outlet to express empathy, demographic identification, and policy platform. Has the ability of a representative to broadcast their symbolic representation and policy through mass media significantly change the representational strategies of modern representatives from the strategies of their predecessors? The opportunity to connect with a constituency through mass media could provide a representative with the privilege of representing from Washington without the need to connect at home to the same degree as their predecessors.
Chris Crutcher, author of the short story “Fourth and Too Long”, demonstrates how important it is for players and coaches to have a mutual respect for each other on and off of the field. Over the course of the story, the main character, Benny struggles to find respect for himself as well as the coaches of his high school football team. Identically, the coaches lack respect for him as well. Benny woods is being penalized from playing football due to the length of his hair and his decision not to cut it. In the 1960’s long hair was said to have represented being a member of the hippie community. “It sends a message that the rest of the team can do any damn thing they want. First it’s the hair, then...who knows what”(160) is what Coach Greene
College, a gateway for expanding the horizons within our youth has many conflicting ideas due to it's cost, suggesting that it may not even be worth it. Yet thinking about having this privilege of exposing our minds to anything and everything we desire while providing ourselves with far more opportunity in the future makes every late night double shift, staying up until 3 am, living off ramen noodles well worth it.
It is important to be tolerant of people that are different from you because we can learn from each other and grow ourselves.
The earliest known fossil shark teeth are those of Leonodus (left) dating back some 400 million years. Their overall crown shape vaguely resembles that of fossilized Xenacanthus (right) teeth, possibly indicating that these early sharks were related. Their roots, however, are quite different, suggesting that Leonodus and Xenacanthus may have evolved similar crowns as an adaptation to feeding on similar prey rather than due to shared ancestry.
Before I begin to formulate my monument, I would like to focus on its significance. Monuments are meant to be reminders of something or someone significant. I want this monument to speak directly to the individual on a deeper level. The monument I envision is a mirror with the words “This is the image of a hero” engraved, but can only be seen when standing in front of it. Around this monument will be a wall with a tile pattern, where heroic males and females from all over the world are represented in each tile. Heroes such as Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistanis woman who was shot by a Taliban gunman because of her activist movement towards female education, is an example of an everyday person who became a heroine. The reason why everyone should be represented is because America is a melting pot, full of rich diversity. So, are heroes and heroines, coming from different ethnicities and backgrounds.
“We used to judge a man by the shake of his hand.” a quote by Gretchen Wilson. Dating back a few years to the 1990’s, shop-class programs and trade schools weren’t sought out as a first choice, and was often looked down upon. People in these programs were viewed as having “no other options.” People may feel that going to a trade school means there was no other option for the student; however, it can be argued that a trade school member can make close to the same amount as a university graduate, not come out of school with much debt, and be equally as happy.
English 102 have opened a new point of view in my mind. I discovered how to do research in a different language and realized that my brain was covered with dust, this is the first time after 5 years that I’m a former student and trying to get a second degree. Before I registered this class, I looked up a website called “Grade your Teacher” and the comments about the instructor were positive, so I decided to take it. At the beginning of this class (back to September 23rd) and after receiving a 0.0 as a grade for my first essay, I knew this was going to be hard, and I had no idea about how I was going to pass this research course.
He realized that snake embryos had bumps where there should be legs. Which mean they probably evolved from a creature with legs. He noticed that whale embryos had teeth, but adult whales did not have teeth. The most shocking of his embryotic studies involved human embryos. He noted that the human embryos as slits around the neck, the same in fish. The difference is that in fish the develop into gills, and in human the become the bones of the inner ear. This showed that humans must be descended from fish. This led him to the conclusion that all species were somehow connected. He theorized that beginning with a common ancestor, species had changed dramatically over generations. Some species may add new body features, or lose them. He called this descent with
...o happen. But with the help of fossil evidence we are able to identify common ancestors and evolutionary pathways between species. We also identify oxygen as a major key contribution for life to evolve. Also, through scientific research it has been established that arthropods and chordates have shared genes, leading to the path of vertebrates and human life.