Big Fish

Paulsen, Brian is faced with the challenge of finding good food. Brian, after thinking, realizes that the lake has fish in it that he could catch and eat. He spends hours and hours making a “fish spear”. He was dependent upon himself to provide the fish for him to eat, and when he tested it, it didn’t work. Brian was very disappointed at this. He kept on throwing it at the fish in the water, but the spear seemed to go directly through them and not even phase them. He tried and tried all…

Are penguins at risk? Penguins live in places with a body of water near by so they can get in the water to eat food such as fish. The penguins love to swim in the water. If they did not have the water then the penguins would have troubles living because all the foo they eat lives in the water. So the penguins need this water to survive.The passages “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and “Saving Penguins One Sweater At a Time” have some differences and similarities, such as how oil spills affect…

Soul Surfer: A Survivor She was bitten by a shark, but her Bethany’s big courage motivated her to recover and get back to the surfboard. The novel Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton is about a girl named Bethany whose arm was bitten by a shark making her ability to surf almost “impossible” There are lots of historical events that cover the same theme of courage. Two courageous surfers that rescued a man that was drowning in the turbulent ocean, a pilot that saved 155 lives by landing a plane on…

Description: o Physical characteristics of sea otters possess is the fact that they are small animals with short legs which have thick fur and short circular ears which means that they belong to the family Mustelidae[1]. The sea otters have varying fur colors from dark brown to black [6]. They are also highly social animals who travel in groups called rafts; a single raft could range from 10 sea otters to over 100 sea otters [6].  Scientific Name[1]: Enhydra lutis …

in himself and wants to pass on. As the days continue, Santiago identifies and empathizes with the marlin; he recognizes that he was born to be an angler as the marlin was born to be a fish. The marlin’s persona is significant because the protagonist shares it and can view himself through the character of the fish he aims to capture. Although the marlin fulfills its role as the key persona through…

Blackfish is a documentary directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, released in 2013. Blackfish is a documentary about a killer whale named Tilikum that has killed several individuals and the issues within keeping killer whales in captivity. The documentary is filled with experiences from former trainers that have worked with the aggressive whales in the past and several experts that have worked with orcas all of their lives. This documentary is showing that the killer whale’s aggression in SeaWorld…

Arub Akram Due Date: Thursday 24th Journal 1 I am reading “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” by W.D. Wetherell. The story is about a fourteen-year-old boy, with a love for fishing and a crush on the seventeen-year-old girl next door. His love for Sheila soon comes into conflict with his passion for fishing. In this Journal I will be looking at his choice between his two loves and how it turns out for him. As I go on with the story I see that the narrator has to make a choice…

“So this is what you wanted to look at… fish?” Devyani says as she turns to her father. “Devyani, I think there is a lot more than simple fish staring back at you. I think you might see something through a different lens.” Paul pulls out Devyani’s hand-me-down camera from his backpack. Devyani takes the camera chuckles at her dads persistence…

In 1975 director Steven Spielberg released the soon to be award winning movie Jaws. The adventure and also thriller movie cost eight million to make. Then racked up two hundred sixty million in the box office during its whole release in theatres. The inspiration for this movie, was brought from a real life story. When four people were killed by a great white in a sequence of attacks near the sea, in 1919, it was later caught and killed by two amateur fishermen. The two lead actors in Jaws are…

this again later in the novel when Santiago only accepts the bait fish because he knows the fish were purchased which means they aren’t going to blemish his pride. Furthermore Hemingway shows that Santiago’s pride is so strong that he has placed him in a very undesirable situation, in which he releases a cry for help from the boy. As the novel reaches its climax Santiago begins to grow very weak and tired as the fight with the fish has been going on for three whole days at this point. He once…