The Chelonia mydas most commonly known as the green sea turtle is 4ft turtle who spends majority of their life under the sea. Weighing in on average at 350 pounds at adult their symmetry is radial. Protecting their body is a hard shell that is like an oval-heart shape. Their shell and body both consist of brown and olive tones with a yellow underbelly. The babies shells consist of darker brown shades and white underbelly.
In the book, “Crabs Dig Holes According to Size of Their Shells” by James McPherson He talks about his ‘shell” which is his room, and crabs which is himself. The story is mostly about him being alone and him seeming like he is sad about something in life, which brings me to my thought of what his message is. My thought of his message is McPherson’s message is that at one point in life you are going to hit a low in life then develop a shell you want to hide in. My first quote is “Something was denying me peace because I was denying it from range and meaning” To paraphrase the quote the keywords are deny,peace and something. In the quote the word deny means that he is denying his own peace by something in life.
“Consider the Lobster,” by David Foster Wallace, published in the August 2004 edition of Gourmet Magazine explores the morality of the consumption of lobsters through the analysis of the Maine Lobster Festival. Foster Wallace guides his readers through his exploration of the festival and general circumstances of lobster eating before evoking a sense of obligation to the creature’s well being. His gentle slide into the ‘big picture’ through his causal argument wades readers into the depths of his thoughts through the power of storytelling until they are left with no choice but to engage with their own perception of the act with skepticism. Ultimately, the passage commands readers to reexamine their own consumption of lobsters regardless of
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Poet Mark Doty shares this sentiment in his piece “A Green Crab’s Shell” which explores the theme of death through an abandoned carapace of a small sea creature. Doty employs evocative imagery, colorful detail, and fragmented structure in his poem to portray death as an opportunity to be reflective on one’s life. In investigating the small shell, Doty shows the beauty of what one leaves behind, far after their death, no matter how insignificant or short their life might have seemed.
This amazing creature is the largest turtle to ever be found. A12 feet long sea turtle and it still wasn’t the biggest creature in the sea (Britannica). Archelon meant “ruling turtle” in Greek, which this animal is known for ruling the seas during this time (Gale Research).
Loggerhead sea turtles face many dangers including artificial lights, which contribute to their endangerment. The most prevalent way loggerhead sea turtles are being threatened is by human interaction. Humans turn on lights by the beach at night sometimes in turtle nesting season, and this can influence female turtles to avoid the beach, where they need to lay their eggs. (“Please turn your lights off, the turtles are nesting: ensuring that federal, state, and local laws help guide endangered marine turtle hatchlings in Florida to the right source of light”). However, there are some actions humans can take to help prevent endangerment of sea turtle hatchlings.
Discovery A team of researchers in Madagascar has discovered the fossil of what may be the largest frog to have ever lived. The beach-ball-size amphibian, which grew to be 16 inches (40.6 centimeters) long and weighed about (4.5kilograms) its name is Beelzebufo. ’ Paleontologist David Krause of Stony Brook University in New York made the discovery and is working together with other scientists to determine how. Habitat/ Relation Beelzebufo is related to other frogs and to understand how and why they are on the island of Madagascar.
Webstir, I read and found it not very good. Kind of disjointed and very pre-school. How do you find this one.
The Voyage The Seahorse, Lord Melville and Boadicea transports were shipwrecked on the south coast of Ireland; almost two hundred years ago, on January 30th 1816.There were probably at least 28 transports of troops on the seas, bound for Cork on that fateful night. The Lord Melville and the Seahorse sailed from Ramsgate together with the William Pitt while the transports Boadicea and Fox sailed from Dover. The Lord Melville was wrecked near the Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork, together with the Boadicea, while the Seahorse was wrecked about 80 miles up the coast in Tramore Bay, County Waterford. The Fox limped into Waterford Harbour on the following day. Ramsgate would have made a bustling scene as the troops
A weird, weird concept has been brought to screen by acclaimed Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos in the form of a rather unconventional 'love story', if one can call it that. The film's ruthlessly Dystopian society forces single people to check themselves into 'The Hotel' and find love within 45 days... or else they'd be transformed into animals. The mood is a perfect blend of dark and funny, but leaves a pretty heavy impact on the soul. The idea is sci-fi. The visual?
Horseshoe crabs are marine living fossils, probably traced back to 485 million years ago. There are two horseshoe crab species found in Hong Kong. Horseshoe crabs are an ancient marine chelicerates, identified as the Class Merostomata and Order Xiphosura. The animals are identified by the having appendages around their middle of the mouth and their swimming legs at their end of their body.
A., Ksepka, D. T., Jaramillo, C. A., & Bloch, J. I. (2012). New pelomedusoid turtles from the late Palaeocene Cerrejón Formation of Colombia and their implications for phylogeny and body size evolution. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 10(2), 313-331. Cenozoic Era. (2016).
Stories are often told not only just for entertainment, but also for lessons learned. Sometimes the lessons to be learned are often unclear. While other stories have a clear image of the lesson. However, when reading or hearing the story, these lessons are rather just heard than actually listened to. In this story, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge, there are three messages that illustrate lessons to be learned.
Spiders are the most important predators of insects. Spiders have been used to control insects in apple orchards in Israel and rice fields in China. Even though spiders are important to controlling insects in certain areas they can be found almost everywhere all over the world. Not only are spiders important to farmers for controlling insects they are important to the Akan people. The most important being a spider named Anansi who is a West African god who holds all the knowledge of the folktales and stories.
Name: CRAB Symbolic Meaning: None Palmistry Meaning: Peace and Harmony. Also a happy and settled family life. Locational Variance:
