Human swimming

Religion has been a major component in our society for hundreds of years and has helped the human race endure many dilemmas that may have been difficult to go through, but religion has also been the stop to the ‘progressive thinking’ of many and even separated some families. Religion can affect a person’s way of thinking and even their way of life because it can… In Lawrence and Lee’s Inherit the Wind we see many situations in which the manner of thinking of the citizens in the town of Hillsboro…

Anything for Profit In a world full of wrongdoing, Sharon Matola, a citizen of Belize who owns a zoo, fights to protect the well being of Belizean communities from destructive forces. In The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, by Bruce Barcott, the small country of Belize faces environmental devastation due to the greed of companies and the government. In the early 1990s, the Belizean government and Belize Electricity Limited (BEL) proposed to build a controversial dam on the Macal River, to…

Coming into college, I had incredibly high hopes for how I thought things were going to pan out during my college career. Socially, I thought I was going to make this huge group of amazing friends who would never leave my side, and they would be the truest friends that I could ever imagine meeting. While I do see some of my friendships going that way, some of the friends that I met at the beginning of the year turned out to be the kind of friends that I wasn’t interested in keeping. I also…

on success. I’m on a lucrative road where progress burns all bridges previously crossed. I’m swimming against a tide of racism and evil. I’m in a constant battle with racism that manifests its bigotry with a smile. I live in an era where the pen replaces the noose. I live in an era where assumptions…

fins, and one dorsal fin (Zubi, 2004). The pectoral fins turn the Seahorse and aid in steering, while the dorsal fin moves it forward. The coronet of the Seahorse is its most distinctive feature, helping in identification as the thumbprint does for humans (Zubi, 2004). Seahorses are similar to chameleons in that each eye can move independently of the other. The ability of independent eye movement is common to all Syngnathids (Zubi, 2004). The tail of the Seahorse is prehensile, similar to that…

Human beings in the past hunted and gathered for subsistence. This culture, also known as the “foraging culture” included strategies like hunting, trapping, fishing, and gathering, in order to obtain supplies. These behaviours placed demands on the body that are similar to vigorous exercises and were practiced by all humans, until 12,000 to 11,000 years ago, “when agriculture and animal domestication emerged in southwest Asia and in Mesoamerica”. Innovations such as agriculture and animal…

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is a famous phrase from the Declaration of Independence. As time progresses, the meaning of “happiness” changes. Sometimes, this phrase can be taken too far. A major theme in The Postmortal is greed. The single concept of a selfish desire to have anything you want, drives the entire story. In a futuristic setting, citizens of the United States explore the idea of a cure for aging. The author, Drew Magary, constantly forces the reader to ask the magic…

Every morning many Americans wake up, take a shower, brush their teeth, and continue their day with a steaming hot cup of coffee. There is no doubt we are dependent upon water, it is essential for everyday life. A few decades ago, water was only used to support life. Now with our advanced technology, we are able to use water for entertainment, generating power, producing crops, and virtually anything we wish to do with it. However, being able to do all this comes at a price. Water shortage has…

In efforts to answer the enigma of how modern humans have evolved to become the way they are today, countless theories of human evolution have been proposed. Although there is no concrete means of knowing everything about early human development, the suggested theories make both accurate and inaccurate points based off the evidence attainable at this time. Among these proposed theories is the “aquatic ape theory”, which suggests that humans underwent an aquatic stage where they lived…

As we get older we assume that we get a say on how we want to live our own life. If that’s the case, then why are few rich and successful, whereas the majority are suffering and are impoverished? In a sense we are all human beings therefore we should all be treated in an equal manner and be given equal opportunities in life. Reality however is a killer for we find that society, which was initially used as a survival technique by earliest ancestors, has more of a say in our lives then we do…