Long Island

Growing up on Long Island I believe, is a gift. There's no other place like it, the beaches, the farms and the city it has it all. To many Long Island is just a name or a place on the map, but to me this lovable fish-shaped island is home. In a small town called North Babylon, I grew up, made my closest friends and memories I'll have with me forever. I established the person I am today because of that town and the environment I grew up in. I've been in the same house all my life and I couldn't…

parents had taken all five of us kids overseas. My aunt and uncle, who had been planning this trip for weeks, met us at the airport, thereafter we headed to Long Island. An hour and a half later we arrived at Paul and Shauna. They welcomed us so warmly, moving out of their house to provide enough room for us and showed us around long island. They treated us as if we were family, despite the fact that we had never met them before. Looking back, what stood out was how hospitable Paul and Shauna…

Captain Van Toch, discovers a new species, he decided to train them to walk on their hind legs, and communicate. He also teaches them to dive for pearls. He receives money from the Dutch conglomerate to ship this new species, the Newts, to similar islands where pearl harvests have been impossible or unproductive. Eventually, it is determined that the Newts are valuable for the expansion and development of economic activities near the coasts and under the seas and develop a global marketplace for…

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness,” ~ Aldo Leopold Spending the first fifteen years of my life back and forth between New York City and Long Island, I got to live in both, a cement jungle and a green paradise. There were differences between my suburban home and city one, but not as vast as the differences I found during/on my annual trips to my parents’ homeland, India. My family and I would drink water straight from the tap without a single worry back in the States…

1. Introduction. Ernst Mayr identifies the ‘One Long Argument’ in The Origin of Species (“Origin’) as a compound theory of two independent activities: modification over time and diversification in geographical space (Mayr 86). This paper will focus on the second element of Darwin’s compound theory, species diversification in geographical space as argued by Jerry Coyne in Why Evolution is True. My thesis is twofold: First, Coyne incorporates Darwin’s geographical space theory into four…

the island of Tristan da Cunha, so the only way to get there is by boat, across some of the roughest waters on the planet. Boats from South Africa only travel to the island eight or nine times per year. The nearest airport is a seven day trip by boat to Ascension Island, so if you are visiting Tristan da Cunha, be prepared to stay there for awhile. The closest civilization to Tristan da Cunha is located 1,243 miles away, on the island of Saint Helena, which is also an extremely remote island.…

Due to the fact that Italy didn’t have anywhere to keep the mentally ill, in 1922, the island was transformed into a mental asylum. The highly disturbed could be kept isolated from the mainland. The hospital was large and had a very impressive bell tower. Right when the asylum opened patients immediately began reporting sightings of the ghosts of the plague victims. Patients would be kept up at night because they were able to hear the tortured cries of the suffering spirits. These complaints…

provide background information of on the specific algae. Current research also analyzes the ecology of the algae, along with how the algae affects Hawaii's economy. Additional research explains the dietary shift by green sea turtles in the Hawaiian Island region and how that is significant to the gorilla ogo. Lastly, experiments and observations have given the most efficient efforts taken to remove the invasive algae. Thus, Gracilaria…

east of Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba and the Caribbean north, the Bahamas contains 700 islands and coral reefs. Opposite to the southeast coast of Florida, on the north side of Cuba. Islands from the northwest to the southeast extension 1220 kilometers long, 96 kilometers wide, consisting of more than 700 islands and more than 2000 coral reefs, is 13878 square kilometers with a total area of, of which more than 20 islands have human habitation. A subtropical climate, the annual average temperature…

how the Polynesians travelled across the entire pacific. The early Polynesians were intelligent explorers who settled in remote islands in the pacific. The Polynesians are descendants of the Lapita people who lived on the Solomon Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. The Lapita people settled in Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu. Most of the Polynesian islands are small and soon would have become overcrowded. This forced people to look for new places to live. In addition, the…