Alligator

The Karankawa were speculated to be descendants of the “Carib” indians who according to Wikipedia, arrived by sea from the Caribbean basin in the seventeenth century. They were observed to be taller than any of the other indians in the region, and resembled the Caribs. The Karankawa Indians lived in the Coastal Plains region, along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Their territory extended from the west end of present day Galveston down to Corpus Christi. We know that there were several tribes or…

Even the smallest most intricate details can affect the bigger picture, and it can even make it that much better. Dillard compared the process of writing a sentence with wrestling an alligator. Her experience tells the reader there was once a wrestler who fought an alligator with all his might and ended up dead under the water with the animal. That is how the reader should be with the sentence. We should try to understand it and then let it come to us. The way Dillard says we…

she loves me and leaves while im here at this very moment telling myself ”I will not write about my mother”, about how her death should not be publicized for “scoring and marking” and how I should write about myself . then the words “see you later alligator” come into my head and send me on a nostalgic journey full of memories in the form of still images that includes me and this woman who has no face , just…

Nature Makes a Difference at Oakmont Florida’s natural beauty takes many forms, depending where that beauty is located. It’s a big state! But some of its most striking landscapes aren’t found near its beaches. And yes, we know how gorgeous those are. We at ICI Homes live here too. Go west — and inland — by a couple hours from Florida’s northeast Atlantic Coast beaches. Here, you’ll find the city of Gainesville smack dab in the midst of northern Central Florida and Alachua County. This is…

sickened to see the animals had bled to death. Different animals that are used to make fur-Beavers, Chinchillas, Dogs and Cats, Foxes, Minks, Rabbits, Raccoons and Bears. How leather is made-Leather can be made from cows, pigs, goats, and sheep. Alligators, ostriches, and kangaroos are skinned up in china to make fur and meat. Most leather comes from developing countries such as India and…

Jim Bowie Jim Bowie died a texas hero when fought a lot a battles to help us get texas independence But he died at the alamo his legacy knife is still here but know really knows where When Jim Bowie was a kid he rode alligators for fun. Jim bowie’s dad fought in the American Revolution. They lived in losian but soon became the first settlers on the frontier so him and his brothers and sister quickly learned survival skills of the wilderness. Jim bowie had fine manners and was never…

animals, plants and environment but, not for it’s scenery. It was the first national park created to save its environment. Ernest F. Coe convinced the government to make the Everglades a national park. The ruff sawgrass usually doesn’t hurt the alligators. There are low areas channel water that comes from Lake okeechobee. Theses shallow areas cover most of the Everglades, ,making it hard from boats to drive through. There are 1,000 species of plants in the Everglades and sawgrass is one of them…

Disappointment flooded through me when I realized that 2 hours of driving through traffic was all for nothing. The air around us was thick and muggy as we set up camp. My family wanted a weekend away from the hot city temperatures of Houston to go to the slightly cooler, breezy forest only to be met with a cruel surprise. The flies were thick, and mosquitoes swarmed all around. My younger brother pressured us into starting a campfire, but the thought of flame and smoke was sickening. I longed…

Dinosaurs In The Jurassic Time Period By: David Wallace This project is going to be based on some of the dinosaurs in the Jurassic Time Period and it will give information about that dinosaur as well. Vertebrates taking to the air like the pterosaurs and the first birds. This was the Jurassic Period, 199.6 to 145.5 million years ago, a 54-million-year chunk of the Mesozoic Era. Air, land, or sea, dinosaurs came in all shapes and sizes in many different places around the world. The first…

Art work neatly lines the being colored walls of a standard sized room in the University of Arizona’s Museum of Art. Hanging next to an oil painting of a vibrant rainbow gracing the sky of what could easily be downtown Tucson, is a piece of art work the elegantly displays the stark black wing of a plane gliding over a town or city that’s been brought to life with small dots of color. That piece of artwork is American Artist Yvonne Jacquette’s “Night Wing View 1”, a 15-color screenprint published…