Michael Bigg

Beowulf is a narrative poem that it introduces an epic hero who has fought with mysterious creature. The poem was written in England but it describes event that take place in Scandinavia around the 500 among two groups; the Danes of Denmark and the Geets of Sweden. The story was believed that it was written by a monk because has some Christian references. In the 2007 film it shows different perspective of Beowulf than in the story. In the book he was describe more in a way of an animal demand.…

The Truth about Blackfish The documentary Black fish uses many forms of documentary film making in order to imprint its message of the treatment of killer whales at SeaWorld permanently in our minds. The movie uses the whale Tilikum, who was the biggest killer whale in captivity, as an instrument to show us how killer whales are treated in the world of animal training. First portraying how the whales were unethically captured from the wild by the SeaWorld industry, and how the young were…

INTRODUCTION The First Nation people underwent lots of changes during the pre-contact to the fur-trading period and then again in the settlement period. The Prairies region in the western Canada consists of the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The First Nation people who lived there consist of Kwakwaka’wakw, Tsimshian, Haida, Cree, Athapascans, Blackfoot, Metis etc. During the pre-contact period the lifestyles of the First Nations peoples underwent many changes such as adjusting…

The article explains that a sea otter population in Alaska started to decline rapidly because of pollution and attack from the predators and provides three reason of support. On the other hand, the professor states that predation is the most likely cause of the sea otters to decline and refutes each of the authors reason. First, The reading states that, the infections from pollution cause the sea otters to decline in Alaska oceans. However, The professors states that, sea otters are…

The lecturer talks about strange sounds that Russian submarine crews called quackers. She contradicts each theory of the reading, saying that they have certain problems. First, the theory that suggests that the strange noises were calls of ocra whales during a courtship ritual. The lecturer refutes this point by saying that this theory is highly unlikely, because the ocra whales lived near the surface of the ocean and the submarines cannot be able to detect in the deep ocean. So, what is state…

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever,” an infamous marine biologist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau once said. He knew this spell well, enduring many dangerous marine trips in the waters surrounding his home country of France. The French-Marine explorer sailed around the world, learning about the organisms inhabiting it. This would not have been possible without his invention of scuba gear. Students study him in order to get a better understanding of marine biology.…

Imagine this, you are taken away from your family to go live in a bathtub and forced to do tricks for food, for the rest of your life. This is the everyday life of an Orca at SeaWorld. Orcas should not have to live in captivity. For one the tanks are way too small. The small tanks can leave the orca to become angered (US Whales). Therefor, all the emotion can build up can lead most orca to go crazy. Orcas will break their teeth, trying to chew their way out, or orcas will even chew on the bars…

Emperor penguins are the only animal that stay in Antarctica during winter not only can they survive the most awful weather conditions on earth they walk a long distance to return to their birthplace to mate and produce offspring on the open ice. In early June once the females have laid her egg they carefully transfer the egg from on their feet to the father’s feet. The couple have to be very careful because if the egg stay on the ice for too long the chick inside will die. The mother penguins…

In their paper “Trans-Pacific Consumption of Cephalopods by North Pacific Killer Whales (Orcinus orca), “ Hanson and Walker points out that cephalopods, specifically squid, may be a larger part of the diet of many transient killer whales in the North Pacific Ocean that was once thought. They identified three particular ecotypes of whales observed in the North Pacific which include residents and offshores that both feed primarily on other smaller fish, and transients which feed on marine mammals.…

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is considering lifting the ban on whaling. Many people are horrified at the thought that anyone could even contemplate it. Whales suffer from all types of threats like ship strikes, over fishing of krill, habitat loss and chemical and sound pollution. Many problems have arose from climate change like less krill, food-rich areas moving south. However, the most disturbing threat is whaling. Before whaling began in the 11th century, there were than…