Hawksbill turtle

In Erdrich’s Tracks, the novel tells a story of a Chippewa tribe that is forced to adapt to colonizers in the post-colonization state of America. Through the eyes of two distinct narrators, Nanapush and Pauline, the reader gets an inside view of the perspective of a Native-American tribe in post-colonial America. At the very beginning of the novel, Nanapush describes Native Americans dying from the spotted fever (or yellow fever) due to the colonizers bringing disease as they intermingle with…

The Tale of the Magic Drumstick Once there was a Chippewa Elder named Francis and he loved music. Music was everything to him. He even made traditional Native American musical instruments. The sound of a drumstick hitting against a hand drum would remind him of his own heart beating. Not to mention how music brings people together. So one night while Francis was sleeping. The creator sent Francis a dream of choke cherry bushes swaying in the wind and elks running through the forest. In the…

The Impact of the Wiindigoo in The Round House Louise Erdrich was born in 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, and identifies as Turtle Mountain Chippewa. Due to Erdrich’s Native American background, she has written many novels centered around Native American themes. Erdrich’s novel, The Round House, is told from Joe, a thirteen-year-old boy’s, point of view, showing how he copes with the event of his mother’s rape. Joe is outraged that the authorities are not doing more to help find the man…

Hawksbills, a beautiful species of sea turtles, are critically endangered. The Hawksbill is critically endangered almost entirely because of negative human impacts. Their species are worth protecting. They are hunted and killed for their shells and eggs, even with their international protective laws. There needs to be more effort into the protection of Hawksbills, who species are slowly dying out. Hawksbills sea turtles are critically endangered, due to negative human impacts. The Hawksbills…

The Hawksbill Turtle The hawksbill turtle are found in the atlantic, pacific, indian oceans, or any tropical waters. They are normally found near reefs rich with sponges. The Hawksbill turtle feeds on sponges and they are also omnivorous and will also eat mollusks, marine algae, crustaceans, sea urchins, fish, and jellyfish. Without them, sponges have the ability to overgrow corals and suffocate the reefs. Hawksbill are important inhabitants of coral reefs. It’s estimated that one turtle one…

Description This is the Yellow Tube Sponge, also known as the Aplysina aerophoba. The animal’s name is very self explanatory. This animal, who is commonly mistaken for a plant, has a rough outer, tube-like shell. It is yellow, hence the name. Also, it is hollowed out, with one tube coming out from the top, and it is capable of growing to 3 feet tall. The Aplysina aerophoba in its natural habitat. Habitat The Yellow Tube Sponge lives underwater, near the northern zone of the Atlantic ocean.…

Sea turtles are among the most extraordinary, charismatic and fascinating creatures, and are some of the world’s greatest nomads, sometimes navigating thousands of miles between feeding and nesting grounds. They are long-lived animals, having a complex life history, low reproductive capacity due to high juvenile mortality rates, and they travel long distances and thus encounter many fishing operations, making them vulnerable to overexploitation and fishing mortality (Spotila, 2004). Five…

Jeopardy JEOPARDY is danger of loss, harm, or failure. Many people my age or younger cannot relate to this word because they have not be faced with loss, harm, or failure. As for myself, I can say I have been in danger. When I was five years old my life was in JEOPARDY. A friend of the family had a gun pointed at my head. I did not know what to say or do at that point. It is hard to recover from the damage of JEOPARDY. In time due I was able to move on. Is JEOPARDY harmful? Can everyone recover…

Saving Sea Turtles By: Priya Lokhnauth Turtles have been around for 220 million years. But now they are starting to become extinct. If we don’t fix this, then future generations will not be able to see this amazing sea creature. Rescue Teams help turtles and save turtles but some people kill and eat turtles. Rescue Teams are determined to save sea turtles. Volunteers are now blooming to make more teams. Rescue teams are also searching for turtles that can’t…

are endangered. More than half of the life on Dry Tortugas consists of marine life. The American Crocodile, West Indian Manatee, Caribbean Monk Seal, Finback Whale, Humpback Whale, Right Whale and the famous, Loggerhead, Hawksbill, Green Sea, Kemp's Ridley, and Leatherback Sea turtles are all endangered species. Beneath the Dry Tortugas islands, lies some of North America's healthiest and most magnificent coral reefs. Some of the corals under Dry Tortugas are under the Endangered Marine Life…