European eel Essays

  • Overview Of The Electric Eel

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    Electrophorus Electricus, also know as the Electric Eel, or knife fish, is quite the amazing display of God's awesome power. I picked this topic because I believe them to be one of the most interesting creature because they can generate a mass amount of electricity. This essay is concerning Electric Eels, and what makes them so amazing. How do electric eels generate a voltage and why do they not get shocked in the process? As you can see, the Electric Eel is a very intriguing sea creature, and a clear

  • Ecosystems Of The Tropical Rainforest

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    Many animals throughout the world are individually and uniquely created in its own special way. Just as there is a variety of animals there is a variety of ecosystems and each ecosystem is completely different, but each ecosystem creates environments for all these different animals to live in. If more people started to take a look around and realize that some things they do can affect the animals and ecosystems around, then more animals wouldn't be endangered, because many people would see the

  • Sensory System Essay

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    Introduction to the physiological system to be discussed Sensory systems are essential to a mammal’s survival and for providing important information concerning their internal and external environment (Hill et al., 2011). Sensory systems depend on specialized sensory receptor cells that respond to stimuli, either from the mammals’ internal or external environment (2011). One form of sensory is electroreception, which is the detection of electrical currents or fields in aquatic mammals and mechanoreceptors

  • Heart of Darkness as Social Protest

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    disturbing portrayal of man's surrender to his carnal nature when all external trappings of "civilization" are removed.  This novel excellently portrays the shameful ways in which the Europeans exploited the Africans: physically, socially, economically, and spiritually. Throughout the nineteenth century, Europeans treated their African counterparts savagely.  They were beaten, driven from their homes, and enslaved.  Heart of Darkness is no exception.  In the first section of the novel, Marlow

  • Savagery in Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now

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    Scientists of the nineteenth century speculated that humans were on an evolutionary scale that ran from savage to civilized.  The Europeans were considered to be at the highest point yet achieved by humanity -- the civilized.   Peoples and races not yet encountered by the Europeans were placed  further down the list, and were referred to as savages.  Although the Europeans believed they had reached the height of civilization, remnants remained of their own savagery.  Throughout the novel Heart of

  • Deforestation Resulting from European Shipbuilding

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    Deforestation Resulting from European Shipbuilding Historical texts have documented the countless technologies, ideas, diseases, plants and animals the European ships delivered around the world during the Age of Exploration. However, these texts fail to include one key cargo item: deforestation. European shipbuilding triggered an epidemic of forest depletion that gradually spread to the lands they encountered. Beginning in the early fourteenth century, wood fueled the increased production of

  • Populating the New World

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    Populating the New World Upon the arrival of the first European explorers to the "New World," they encountered what they believed to be primitive savages. These creatures that ran about in the shape of humans showed no aspect of humanity and aroused wonder and curiosity on the part of the Europeans. When the Europeans travelled further into the heart of the land and saw the buildings of the Maya, Inca, Aztec and other ancient Indian nations, they were unable to attribute these massive structures

  • The World Turned Upside Down

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    When the Europeans established colonies in the New World, they sought to convert the Indians way of civilization. Their obsession was to spread Christianity and their culture throughout all of the colonies including the Indian villages. Some Indian people accepted these traditions because they felt as if they had no where else to turn. When the settlers invaded the new land they brought with them many diseases which wiped out many Indian villages and tribes. The Indians also had a hard time

  • Meso America

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    Civilization in the western hemisphere existed long before Christopher Columbus reached the Americas. The customs, language, and religion was different then the Europeans. The Aztecs were the ones who came in contact with the Europeans. Their history lasted from 1300-1521 CE. The Mayan society was from the year 200-900 CE. Hernan Cortes along with the Spanish army of five hundred, and thousands of Indian warriors declared war with the Aztecs. Moctezuma believed that the person coming towards

  • The History of the Coffeehouse

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    was location. Since Turkey was only a quick sail away from the original brewer of coffee, Arabia, traders could get the coffee to the city with minimal effort. The Europeans were completely out of the coffee trading loop until coffee began to make it’s way into the hands of Venetian traders, leading the Italians to be the first Europeans to found coffeehouses. Slowly, coffeehouses came to open in England as well, the first opening in 1652. However, there was still the problem of transporting all that

  • Latin America: A Legacy of Oppression

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    Latin America: A Legacy of Oppression When the Europeans first arrived in Latin America, they didn’t realize the immensity of their actions. As history has proven, the Europeans have imposed many things on the Latin American territory have had a long, devastating effect on the indigenous people. In the centuries after 1492, Europeans would control much of South America and impose a foreign culture upon the already established civilizations that existed before their arrival. These imposed ideas left

  • The Theme Of Tracks By Louise Erdrich's Tracks

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    in their struggle to preserve their identity and survive. The Europeans quest to drain people of their land, culture, language and spiritual practices provides the basis to the question of identity seen among characters presented throughout the novel. However, it is primarily through Nanapush’s attempt to maintain the Chipewyan identity through his role as both an elder and trickster, his interplay with Christianity and the Europeans, as well as his art of storytelling that he, his family and their

  • Summary Of Pramoedya Anata Toer's This Earth Of Mankind

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    and cannot disobey any European person. Stoler shows the legal rights of Nyai’s in society as someone that “could be dismissed without reason, notice or severance pay. They might be exchanged among Europeans and passed on” (Stoler 49). There is this representation of a Nyai as a slave and an object, however, Toer presents Nyai Onstosoroh as a character trying to break out of the stereotypical Nyai. Nyai also shows resistance towards the Dutch. Nyai learns that the Europeans have a loop for Nyai’s

  • Burmese Days Analysis

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    natives. Each character has different reasons and methods for wanting control. The locals accepted European dominance because the Europeans had strategies to legitimize their dominance. The local Burmese people viewed the Europeans in different ways. Elizabeth, Mr. and Mrs. Lakersteen, Dr. Veraswami, U Po Kyin, and Ma Hla May all have specialized reasons for maintaining

  • Origins Of Distrust Between Th

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    Arabs”(Field 28). Because of the Ottoman rule in the Middle East, the Europeans began to persuade the Arab leaders to revolt by promising them their independence. But what was meant, was independence from Turkish rule with the aid, supervision and/or protection from Britain and France. In simple terms, the Europeans powers would be the new occupiers of the Middle East. The deception came in the form of two documents; one important to the Europeans powers, and the other to the Jews. The Sykes-Picot Agreement

  • Native American vs. European Way of Life

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    Native Americans and European Compare/Contrast Essay Europeans lived a much more modern way of life than the primitive lifestyle of Native Americans. Europeans referred to themselves as “civilized” and regarded Native Americans as “savage,” “heathen,” or “barbarian.” Their interaction provoked by multiple differences led to misunderstanding and sometimes conflict. These two cultures, having been isolated from one another, exhibited an extensive variation in their ideals. Europeans and Native Americans

  • Comparing Grover's Growing Up White In America and McBride's Work, What Color Is Jesus?

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    attitude of the exploring Europeans. The Europeans, when inhabiting North America, “just moved in and said they had God on their side and the Indians weren’t much anyway but a few of them could work for them sometimes if they behaved themselves, and the rest were lined up for disposal” (377). The Europeans believed themselves superior to the Indians; any and all action – fair and unfair alike – taken against the Indians was justifiable because it helped the Europeans. Grover argues that this irresponsible

  • Smasher's Rivalry

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    option is for someone to continue living as opposed to them to die as a criminal. The novel is remarkably unique in which providing the point of view of both the Europeans and the Aboriginals as the conflict between them develops and culminates as a result of their opposing cultures. As this rivalry progresses, William Thornhill and other European settlers are 'trapped' within this conflict, and each are given the opportunity to choose how to escape their entrapment. In the novel, many chose

  • A Journey Into Self Discovery

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    Marlow possesses the beginning of his journey as he traveled into the Heart of Darkness. A devotion to his job and his European counterparts. Admiration to one of the best Ivory sells man in the Congo and respect for himself. Conrad shows us that these beliefs that Marlow once thought were true are slowly changing as he spends his days in the jungle. Watching as the Europeans treated the natives with no consideration or respect put much hatred inside Marlow’s heart for the pilgrims(92).Marlow’s

  • The Meaning of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

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    witnessing humans transforming from civilized to savage. Perhaps the Heart of Darkness refers to the colonialism and imperialism that the Europeans were practicing at the turn of the 20th century. In the setting that Joseph Conrad gives the characters in the Heart of Darkness, Africa was still greatly unexplored by Europeans. It was thought by many Europeans to be a dark place of savages and strange beasts. As the author Gary Adelman writes in his book Heart of Darkness Search for the Unconscious