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lonely, and empty. Within this vast ocean, Pi finds what is considered to be a “botanically impossible” island. This island has trees that grow directly out of the vegetation, highly acidic carnivorous algae, an extraordinarily large population of meerkats, and many other odd features. Such an island should not be considered physically possible, and no one appears to have seen it or heard of it before, with the exception of Pi. Therefore, it could possibly be used to represent the spiritual…

Studies on how altruistic vigilance influence the dispersion of a population The motivations of movement through space for herbivores are different from carnivores, for example. As an outcome, the reasons behind an animal spread are numerous. Several biological factors that influence the movement include the preference towards a resource, the presence of home range or the escape from preying. There is an extensive amount of work in mathematical biology about the effects of distinct behaviours…

The King of Disney Disney is renowned for their spectacular animated movies. Most, if not all, of their movies are considered as classics and are timeless. For the past 80 years, there has been an ongoing debate about which Disney movie is greatest. It seems as if every individual has their own opinion and belief about which movie is the best and why. Overall, it seems to come down to two movies, Beauty and the Beast and the Lion King. “NAAA ZABENYA BABA SITHI UHM!” This short phrase can…

Life of Pi is about a sixteen year old boy named Piscine Molitor Patel who goes by Pi from India who was in a family of zookeepers and searches for faith by following several religions. On their way to move to Canada on a cargo ship with his family and his family’s zoo animals the ship sinks and all the survivors are Pi, a hyena, an orangutan named Orange Juice, a zebra, and a tiger. As the days pass, little by little the animals die and/or eat each other until the only survivors are Pi and the…

side will always be inside him. Pi does his best to conceal this side of him. But after that survival he knows it's there. This side of him forces Pi to kill a man and eat him. It also causes Pi to kill and eat fish, the blind Frenchman, and the meerkats all of which are against his religion. All of the things he did or all things he has to live with. As much as he wish it didn't happen, it still happened. It shows the brutal side of humanity that can come out in times of…

The most important thing that stuck to me is that life revolves around a circular path. In Lion King, they go about the food chain, how big animals have power over the smaller animals. What made this interesting for me is how Timon and the other meerkats, which are just about 14 to 20 inches in length, joined forces underground to fight an even larger enemy. It goes to show the power of teamwork over individual strength and…

Jacob Vandyke Padden English 10 05 September 2017 Human Tragedy in the Life of Pi Life of Pi was an extraordinary well written book about a young man, whose family owned a zoo. Their boat was caught up into a storm which caused their boat to sink. He was the only survivor from the boat, besides the animals that climbed into the life raft with him. Now he has to find his way home in a raft with dangerous animals. At the end of the book, when Pi is speaking to the investigators, he tells a…

and Richard Parker land. The island was very weird and strange; the trees were grown out without any soil. Pi and Richard Parker spent some time there, sleeping in the boats and looking through the island in daytime. Sooner Pi discovers a colony of meerkats who reside in the trees and freshwater ponds. One day Pi discovers human teeth in a fruit and finds that the island eats people. Pi and Richard Parker moves back to the shore where Richard Parker runs, while the villagers take Pi to the…

There are many examples of symbiotic relationships in Disney’s The Lion King. A symbiotic relationship is the interaction between two species living closely together. Mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism are the three main categories of symbiotic relationships. These relationships are important in maintaining a stable ecosystem because they are similar to cause and effect. Both parties in the symbiotic relationship play a key role, and one of them missing from the equation would mean…

A Story Without Animals In the book Life of Pi there are two different stories as to what happened after the sinking of the Tsimtsum, one with animals and one without animals. The author leaves it up to the reader to decide which story is true and which story is not. When looking at the facts in the story it should be obvious to the reader that the story without animals is the true story and that the story with animals was made up as a way for Pi to cope with the horrific events of the…