Giraffes Essay

around 1360 to 1361, he sent a giraffe, as well as other gifts of great value, to the Sultan of the Hafsid Caliphate, in response to an unknown gift sent by the sultan to Musa. This showed influence because many people had not seen a giraffe before, and so it told the Sultan that there was something in Mali they hadn't seen before. Also, it told the world about Mali; Mali reciprocated gifts, as well as being very wealthy, with items not found elsewhere, such as giraffes. That is how gifts showed…

organization that rescues women and children who were forced into human trafficking. There are three pieces of criteria a person must meet to receive a Giraffe Award. The criteria include: the person must take a significant risk, it must be done out of caring, and the person must go above and beyond. Tami Hochalter meets all three criteria, and is deserving of a Giraffe Award. Tami puts herself into many dangerous situations while working to rescue other’s lives. The trafficking industry is full…

The short story “Naming of Names” by Ray Bradbury is about the protagonist, Harry, who moved to Mars with his family and immediately doesn’t like the change. Resisting change causes more harm than good. When his friends tell him, ”You’re getting thinner Harry”, he responds I’m not. They tell him, “and taller”, he yells, “liar!”. Harry loses some of his social friends due to his bad behavior. Harry adjusts to change very poorly and ends up hurting himself and other people. As soon as Harry…

‘Squelching through the mud’, ‘digging bait’ and Question: 3 The spoonbill is compared to two animals. They are ‘greedy calf’ and ‘giraffe with a spotted back.’ The usefulness of these two comparisons in helping me to understand what the poet sees and hears something is that the spoonbill moves like a greedy cow trying to get to its milk, and the spoonbill looks like a spotted giraffe because of all the dried mud on its back in uneven spots. These are the lines that describe the spoonbill to…

The Amazing Spiderman is directed by Marc Webb. The duration time for this movie is 2 hours 16 minutes. In order to relate the evolution in this movie, we require understanding the definition of evolution. As we know, evolution in Latin is mean to unroll or to discover. Generally, evolution is refers to any change over time and often restricted to biological change. Biological evolution suggesting that species are descent from more ancient forms of life through a structural and physiological…

two objects being joined together. For example, take the sentence “I went on vacation with my parents, Luke Skywalker, and a giraffe.” If the Oxford comma is used, the sentence would be about a vacation of five people, but if it is not used, the sentence reads, “I went on vacation with my parents, Luke Skywalker and a giraffe.” This implies that Luke Skywalker and the giraffe are my parents and the vacation would only include three people. In addition, you could use the sentence “We went to…

but what does it really mean? Is it about the strongest ones with biggest muscles who survive? No, it is about the creatures who adjust to their environment. The strongest creatures are the ones who change their body when their home changes. The giraffes eat leaves that are high up in the trees, because they had to adjust to this environment long time ago, generation after generation their shapes changed and that is why they have long necks now. We humans have changed too. According to the…

2015 the giraffe population was roughly twenty five, however now in 2017 there are sixty giraffes. On page 145, figure 7.5 shows how the larger animals in the Serengeti National Park have had less predation than smaller animals. Impala and topi, smaller animals both weighing about 100 kilograms are higher on the percentage list for predation. Giraffes weigh around 170 kilograms and are found to be lower on the percentage list, instead of one hundred percent for topi and impala, giraffes are at…

my window blinds. Only until I blindly reach for the lamp, spinning the nob to turn it on one too many times. Looking to your left and right, all along the walls have brightly displayed colors scattered throughout the room. Posters and pictures of giraffes and myself. Above the bed holds colorful medals pinned to the wall. Mostly sports related some academic. A big one that stands out among the rest is the framed award from the mayor for being the most outstanding senior in my high school. It…

family has a nursery that can “[catch] the telepathic emanations of the children's mind” and create it (Bradbury). The children play in the nursery often and were beginning to imagine violent things. If the children thought “sun [they got] sun, giraffes - giraffes. Death and death” (Bradbury). The children were coming up with such violent things such as lions and eagles tearing apart creatures. Their father “threatened to turn the whole house off” (Bradbury). This made the children angry and the…