Research Paper On Turtle

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Once upon a time there was a time there was a family of whales and a family of turtles. The whales lived in the sea and the turtles lived in the rivers. One year the mother whale and the mother turtle both decided to give birth at the shores of the Neah Bay. Not knowingly the turtle laid here eggs exactly where the whale gave birth. At the same moment the baby whale came out of his mother’s womb and the turtle hatched from its egg. After hours of labor the mother whale mistake the baby turtle as her child as it was in the middle of the night where she could not see anything and led him to the middle of the sea where the rest of the whale family live. The net morning the mother turtle arrived at the shores to find that here egg had hatched but …show more content…
As the turtle grew so did his appetite. He ate everything he could, tuna, salmon, swordfish, and at one point he was so hungry that he ate his whale friends. Out of horror his whale family escaped to the rivers to avoid being eaten, as the turtle could not fit through the canals. The turtle became depressed and felt so guilty of his actions that he became vegetarian. But one day women fell from the sky and landed on her back with a hand full of roots. After recovering from shock the women requested, “if one of you can find dirt I can plant these roots so the plant can grow.” After a while a muskrat floated to the surface with a small clump of dirt. Now all they needed was a place where they could place the dirt and plant the roots. The turtle reluctantly agreed to the terms as his shell was the only place that was dry. After months of circling around the clump of dirt it became a landmass. Many things happened unknowingly to the turtle, as he could not turn his head backwards. So much time past that the turtle forgot that there were people living on his back and the people living on his back forgot that they lived on it, too. Hundreds of years past until there was any change. The Sky World darkened as it transformed from white and pure clouds to dark and ominous ones. The clouds started raining and thundering causing waves so high they could almost reach the sky, but the turtle did not care. As if it was from karma for saving the women falling from the Sky World, the hole she left was the only place that sunlight could shine to and it was not constantly raining. This is the reason why the space around the earth is dark and there are bright stars which are just flashes of lightning from far far away. The lands that where not on the turtles back were set on fire from the

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