Giraffe

Looking back at human existence, it is easy to let your mind wander off in awe of all of the possibilities that evolution entails. In fact, no one was more curious about evolution than Charles Darwin. His theory explaining evolution of diverse living organisms and the links that he found between each one is truly astonishing and has had an impact on other scientific researchers and their studies for years. Anyone who is interested in natural sciences would know how intriguing biological change…

Being a victim of prejudice can make people feel unequal to others like in the story “Everyday Use.” Mama imagines herself on a show like Johnny Carson, and asks herself “Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye?” (Walker 149). Feeling like she is unequal to white people, Mama cannot imagine herself doing this because she feels that they are better than her since she presumably has had unpleasant experiences in her past. When this story was written, racism was common, so it…

Here I stand, a girl who once thought dreams could never become reality, walking across a glass platform, thousands of feet above a rampaging city, hoping that her last breath would not be spent wailing for help. I grew weary, unable to walk straight, gasping, standing amongst hundreds of sapphire cobras dotted with a radiating turquoise, the same as a single glowing cyan door that seemed to be my only hope. The view around me, was what I hoped were walls, and not rushing winds carrying…

Animal shelters are sheltering facilities designated for animals that have been lost, abandoned, or found on the streets. PETA has conducted research that “approximately six to eight million animals are handled by animal shelters each year in the U.S” (1). The animals housed at these facilities are often petrified because of the foreign environment of strange animals, poor living quarters, and small quantities of food. The lack of people adopting from shelters has created an issue of…

This course gave me a broader introduction into the differences between animals and their physiology. Some of the animals discussed include elephants, large fish, and giraffes. These animals were selected due to of their large size which allows them to be studied easily. One of the differences we studied was blood pressure in these animals. For example, blood pressure in an elephant’s leg is higher than the blood pressure…

Introduction The objective of this paper is for me to demonstrate an understanding of my past life experiences through the information that I have learned in this course. I have chosen to focus on multiple meaningful experiences in my life. Some experiences from my past may not appear to be bright and sunny; however my ophthalmologist assured me that all of my rods and cones were in good working order. “Ha-ha” Everything that I have gone through has made me the consciously aware woman that I…

1. Stereotypes about Africa develop mostly from not being informed of the history and culture Africa brings to the world (3). In America, students are not really taught the positive characteristics of Africa. Instead in our history courses, the focus is on the negatives like genocide, AIDS and mainly how poor the country is (3). When in reality Africa is much more than just diseases and poverty. Most of Americans have pity towards Africa because of how Africa is portrayed in the media (3). The…

Uncharted waters, unknown species and places, was what one was in for if a sailor during the Age of Exploration. Imagine leaving home with only the hope of surviving, and coming out on top. This was exactly what the sailors of the fourteenth and fifteenth century were thinking as they left for expeditions with naval leaders such as Columbus and Zheng He. Although Columbus and Zheng He set out working for expansion, the two had different sailing cultures and indigenous interactions which…

The typical American hears the words “Islam” or “Muslim” and then portray terrorist. However, Islam is a religion that teaches peace and love. Just the other day a friend was telling me about how one doctor she knows says “call the police” when someone who looks like a Muslim comes into her clinic. It is things like this that make me sad because I know this “fear” people have of Islam is unnecessary. We should not fear other religions and cultures that we do not understand; we should embrace…

Her torpid brain is an irritated organ, but once she engages in the "gymnastics" of following the paper's pattern her neuroses calm into studious activity. Her diary entries mark her increasing fascination with a heavily patterned wallpaper as she turns her excess energy toward understanding its bizarre forms and speculating on the history of the room itself. Borrowing a scientific method, she uses reason, principles, and laws to trace the absurdities of form surrounding her. Natural imagery…