The Devils Hole Pupfish: The Devils Hole provides pupfish with conditions of continuous temperature(92F-33C) and salinity, unlike the changing environments of many other pupfish. They've been seen as deep as 66 feet, they find food and spawn exclusively on a shallow rock shelf near the surface, they eat the algae and diatoms found there. They are considered an annual species, with their historic population changing between 100-200 in the winter and 300-500 in the late summer. Their population…
It’s the time of year that kids of all ages are heading back to school. At the end of the fall semester, when finals are behind them, your college-age student will be heading back home for a long winter break. Your child may be bringing along some uninvited guests for the holidays - bed bugs. The best pest control companies in San Antonio will tell you that college dormitories are notorious breeding grounds for bed bugs, cockroaches and ants. But bed bugs seem to be the only pests that find…
sleigh to a stop in the middle of the deeply rutted road.I watched as the snow silently drifted into the woods and we were watching the moon. Even though me and my horse are freezing cold in the night. The sled in the night shines with many flashlights to see down the trail my horse and stopes to gain its breath and were next to the woods for then my horse shakes its bells.…
jump on the trampoline, joking with each other about the potential of wild animals like cougars hiding out in the bushes. We had just started jumping for about ten minutes when, suddenly, we heard a rustle in the bushes. We all froze, we had a flashlight, but it barely light up the area on the trampoline, nevermind the bushes which were a few feet away. We shone the light towards the bushes calling…
“Be the change you wish to see in this world.”-Gandhi. Everyone is capable of helping the world, but it’s up to them to decide whether or not they want to make a difference. The people in Kenya decide to make a change in order to protect their animals and environment. Richard Turere comes up with a solution to not only protect the lions in his village but also the livestock. Wangari Maathai creates the Green Belt Movement an organization who plants tree to help improve people's lives. Kenya bans…
As the Earth travels in its nearly circular orbit around the sun, it maintains a constant axial tilt of 23.4 degrees. This tilt causes the proximity of the northern and southern hemispheres of the globe to change during its annual trip around our local star. These changes in proximity and their impact on the amount of solar energy received by the northern and southern hemispheres are what causes the Earth to have seasons. As the incline of Earth’s axis brings the northern hemisphere closer to…
that he is not found guilty...could he be a so called “Shawshank Redemption Case”? Later investigation revealed that there has been at least 51 people who has accused Detective Guevara of wrongly framing them of murders. Myles says he got beat by a flashlight and phone book by Detective Anthony Wojcik while two other detective stood watching and didn’t stop what was taking place. The only person who could have proven that Myles was not at the place of the murder on that day has passed away.…
even before Hitler of “Jew get out of here and got to Palestine”. This took place in Lodz Poland. (253). It seems that when he was kid he thought it was such a neat thing that he was given a flashlight and gas mask. I am not sure that he was truly aware of the reason that he was given the gas mask and the flashlight he was only fourteen at this time (253). The time in the Ghetto that Sam Bankhalter talks about is that of “humiliation from the Germans” (253). Some of the humiliation that was done…
something is wrong, Chris thought after calling the sheriff. *** When the volunteer rescue squad arrived, it took only minutes before the workers along with the supervisor, Hank, was on their way up the mountainside with their equipment and several flashlights with extra…
August was happier when people were kind to him. In the climax of the story, a group of seventh graders bullied August. His friends stood up for him in the end. The passage says,“ ‘Leave him alone, okay?’ said Jack, pushing the hand holding the flashlight away.” (pg. 266). Then, August’s other friends appeared and faced the seventh graders. This evidence proves that August’s friends were being kind to him because they stood up for him when they…