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    In the thousand years’ history of science and technology, no wonder that many discoveries and laws in academic result from the ancestors’ careful observation in their daily life or in nature. For many people, they might never pay attention to the phenomenon that when they pull out the plug in the bathroom, water always rotates anticlockwise, but don’t want to figure out the reason at all. However, Professor Shapiro, Department…

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    The story “Axolotl” by Julio Cortázar tells us the tale of a man who slowly transforms into an animal. The relation begins with the man explaining how he met the axolotls by chance one spring day. According to the narrator, the lions and panthers from Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes, i.e., the zoo that belongs to the botanical gardens Jardin des Plantes, were his friends, but since the lions were ugly and sad and the panthers were asleep, he decides to go into the aquarium one particular morning…

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    reader on his or her toes is Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. Life of Pi is a novel about an Indian boy who gets stranded on a lifeboat with a wounded zebra, orangutan, hyena, and a Bengal tiger. Like Patterson’s quote, Martel desires the audience to understand that an individual’s life is a unique…

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    Life of Pi is a meta-fiction that inquires the reader’s faith. Using meta-fiction to his advantage, Matel questions the disparity between reality and imaginary. In his novel, he explores the contrast of mother nature, her gentle aura and her cruel behaviour. Her gentle side is demonstrated through the protagonist’s interpretation of the fauna and flora. Whereas, her cruel side is illustrated by Pi’s vivid encounter with ferocious animals. Hence, in the novel, the author portrays the…

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    the movie Life of Pi. After read the book, I understood that the tiger is Pi himself. Also, Life of Pi lets me think deeply of the the relationship of human and animals in this book. I think animals have many function and are a crucial element because Pi lived in zoo since he is a child. Also, during the adventure, Richard Parker inspired Pi to have courage to survive. At the end, Pi said the story without animals. First of all, Pi lived in the zoo since he was…

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    Tiger Vs. Lion Time and time again,we wonder about random things. An example of this would be the question, who would win a fight between a male lion and a male tiger? Since they have completely different lifestyles, it would be interesting to catch them in the act. Some things that are different about them are their physical characteristics, and where they live. Although, they have a very low chance in meeting in today’s day and age, they did a long time ago. In this paper, I will discuss the…

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    The Bourne Identity is an action movie about a man named Jason Bourne, who has been shot, suffered from amnesia, and later been picked up from a fisher boat. He then needs to find out how and why he got shot, who he is, and most importantly, what he is. The movie was directed by Doug Liman, and produced in 2002. Matt Damon is starring as Jason Bourne, Franka Potente as Marie, and Chris Cooper as Conklin. The Bourne Identity is the first of the Jason Bourne movies, the others being The Bourne…

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    who helped the man who was drowning, the former pilot who landed the plane on a river saving almost 160 lives and Rosa Parks who brought respect and freedom to black people in America. People need to start thinking in this life that the moral value of courage is essential in life as it helps the humans allot. I think that if someone is recognized by courageous he or she is a fantastic and incredible person. Finally, courage is a very broad theme in which allot of people and events can be…

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    Around 93% of the heat trapped by the atmosphere is absorbed by the ocean and because of this areas of water are seeing positive temperatures anomalies sometimes 5 degrees hotter than the average range. Ocean life is extremely sensitive to any temperature changes, coral itself will be affected by as little as a 2 degree celsius deviation from the normal range. This may not seem significant but these changes have been attributed to some of the largest cases of…

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    marine biologist. My logic? I didn’t want to “eat what I worked with” as I studied the ocean. Ten years later and I feel even more enthused about our oceans. For me they are still a wonder; worlds still mostly undiscovered and unknown. Although my life is not necessarily how I pictured it at age seven, there are two things that remain unchanged: I still don’t eat seafood, and I still want to be a woman in STEM. Looking back on a long string of people and influences that led me to where I am…

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