Shell

Walking on Puka Shells I am walking down the coast of Hanalei Bay, barefoot, and my wetsuit clinging to my body. I am looking for something, but I am not sure of what that is. The sky is grey, something seems off. I look further down the beach and I see something that looks like a body. As I am running closer and closer, the shape begins to take form. The closer I get, the harder it becomes to run. When my eyes have completely focused on the no longer blurred shape — I realize what it is. Or rather...who it is. She is wearing a long ivory dress, no shoes, and a puka shell anklet. Her eyes are open and she won’t move. “MOM!”, I yell. “Mom you’ve got to get up! The tide is coming in!”. She doesn’t move. I start to move to wake her up, but as…

Oshii Mamoru’s Ghost in the Shell explores philosophical issues between the body, soul, and technology. While an aesthetically pleasing product of the science fiction genre, the film remarkably blends technology with religion and spirituality. It follows Kusanagi, a cyborg assassin working for Section 9, who, along with her team, is on a hunt to track down an anonymous hacker known as the Puppet Master. He is able to implant false memories in human bodies and, as a result, Kusanagi struggles…

He instructed each one of us how to hold the shotgun with the muzzle down on the ground. One by one the instructor would put a shell into the chamber. My ears were satisfied with the click of the gun confirming it is in. Only one shotgun was loaded at one time for student safety. Once loaded, he instructed us to get into the firing position one by one. I was then receiving goosebumps as the cold metal stock touched my cheek. As my earplugs and glasses were already in place, he told me when I…

“Crescent Moon Darnel.” Meta looked up from her port, her eyes wandering for the so-called Crescent Moon. She had never seen this name on her list, giving it away that she had just turned four, the age when the scientists first draw blood from the shells. “Here.” a small, almost inaudible voice came from the back of the lava tunnel. A small blonde girl with warm brown eyes emerged from the crowd. She blushed and looked a the floor as Meta examined her. “Hello,” Meta said softly “What’s wrong?”…

on his shell, and he took them through the California current. As they got passed the current, they saw a sunken ship and hermit crabs taking cover. When Dory asks for help, they hushed her, making her remember another memory of her childhood where she was swimming around, trying to look for her parents, Jenny and Charlie, but a group of crabs hushed her. Now back to the present, she starts to yell out her parent’s name, but a squid came out and started chasing after Dory, Marlin, and Nemo.…

The artifact that I have chosen for this assignment is a seashell and the grade level this artifact will be used for will be preschool or kindergarten. The seashell is from the Atlantic Ocean. This shell was found at the Jersey Shore, while fishing on a boat. The history behind the seashell is my uncle who owns a big calming business near the Jersey Shore, found this shell. Every year my uncle goes out on a big calming boat and one year he found three conch shells, two for my sisters and one…

What Different Concentrations Of Acid Do To Shells They predicted that the concentrations of acid will change the shell depending on how much concentrations is used.They did this lab to show how the oceans are acidifying,which is because of global warming it is increasing the temperature which causes more acid in the ocean.This lab explains what will happen if the oceans keep acidifying like they are.The main reason people even have global warming in the first place is because people keep using…

What does different concentrations of acids do to shells? The ocean water is mildly alkaline (pH of 8.2) and contains chemicals that are dangerous/crucial for the survival of it’s inhabitants. For an example, there is CO2 in the air from human activity that then reacts to sea water and creates carbonic acid (H2CO3). The H2CO3 then dissociates into a hydrogen proton and a bicarbonate ion (HCO3-). When carbonate ions combine with a hydrogen ion the concentration of dissolved carbonate…

“Shells” by Cynthia Rylant is a realistic fiction short story about a fourteen-year-old boy who learns to live with his aunt after his parents deaths. In the beginning, Michael’s parents died. His Aunt Esther decided he could live with her. Esther was the only one who offered to take him in. Michael's other relatives didn’t want to deal with a fourteen-year-old- boy. Soon, Michael and Esther start to get in fights. The two were always bumping heads. Esther always talked to her friends how she…

There were two very distinct views of shell shock within British society, when the first shell shocked men returned from the war they were condemned for being too feminine. In the home front, society strongly believed it was every British man’s duty to enlist for the war, it was the manly thing to do. So, when numerous of men returned with a mental illness it was huge a shock to society. Here were these men who did the manly thing and went to war but returned as weak, unstable, emotional, and…