Minnow

water temperature on a minnows lifespan? Purpose The purpose of this report is to see the effects of the change in water temperature to a minnow fishes behavior and how long it lives. Background When the temperature of water increases, the amount of dissolved oxygen and other gases will decrease, making it harder for aquatic life to survive. This means, colder waters can hold more dissolved oxygen than warmer waters. But fish thrive in different temperatures. While some start to reproduce in the colder waters other start to in warmer waters. Warmer waters make the fish body “soft”, making them more susceptible to injuries and leads to more bacteria growth. Many bait fish can only thrive and live in much cooler temperatures,…

Eurasian Minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus) is a 14cm long “Demersal; potamodromous fish that can live up to 11 years. “Originally, minnows were spread because fishermen used them as live bait for catching species like brown trout (Salmo trutta), Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus), perch (Perca fluviatilis) and pike (Exos lucius) (Huitfeldt-Kaas 1918). This practice is considered to be the main reason for most introductions throughout the 1900s. However, minnows have also been accidentally introduced in…

In the book, "Ella Minnow Pea" by Mark Dunn language was an enormous part of the culture in Nollopton. It is what the island was founded upon, it is how they diversified themselves. By the High Council taking letters away from the alphabet, they began destroying and corrupting the culture in Nollopton. Without language, the people began to go mad. Their decision making began to change entirely. Their daily routines were halted as they had to check themselves to ensure that they were not using…

information. The thing that annoyed me about the novel was how she left a lot of unanswered questions at the ending of the novel. She made it an open ending leaving it up to the reader to interpret what would happen to Minnow…

The book being analyzed for this essay is “Ella Minnow Pea” by Mark Dunn. The characteristics of a totalitarian government are shown in the novel “Ella Minnow Pea”. In this book there is a city by the name of Nollop. “Nollop: a 63-square mile autonomous island nation 21 miles southeast of Charleston, South Carolina. Established as a quasi communal society by dispossessed southern americans in the 1840s,”- Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn. So the first point is to establish what a totalitarian…

Ella Minnow Pea is the kind of book rewarded for its impressive vocabulary and clever use of the English language. There is a reason for this. The book is written entirely through the exchange of letters between characters, so there is no dialogue or personal thoughts that the reader is given to understand the characters. Due to this, the character development shown throughout the book is seen by the word choice of the letters alone. Since Nollop is an island that treasures language to a high…

The novel Ella Minnow Pea is clearly a fictional tale, but it is necessary that we take a look at what Mark Dunn meant by the messages in his book. After some complex thought, you should be able to tell this is satire, and there are a ton of forms of satire throughout this book that we should learn from and reexamine our ways of thinking. The first thing Dunn mocks is human’s acceptance of coincidence as “everything happens for a reason”. Now, I personally believe some big things happen for a…

According to the Washington Post, about forty-two percent of protests are actually successful. Throughout the whole book of Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn, many civilians decided to rebel against the council, thinking they would make a change for the better. The most prominent way people rebelled was by breaking the law, which we saw in Ella Minnow Pea, many people purposefully went against the law, some secretly while others were overt. Although some believe that acts of rebellion can prompt…

“Ellaments” of Satire: an analysis of Ella Minnow Pea “Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship,” Bruce Colville once stated about censorship. In the novel Ella Minnow Pea written by Mark Dunn uses letters, notes, and mail by citizens throughout the small island of Nollop, a tiny strip of land off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop is named after one Nevin Nollop, creator of the famous pangram “The quick brown fox…

A community without freedom of speech is like trying to drive a car without tires. This means that without the ability to express oneself freely, success and communication in a society becomes quite challenging, similar to trying to smoothly operate a car without its essential component of tires. The novel Ella Minnow Pea, written by Mark Dunn, is a clear example of this concept since the society’s speech in the story becomes restrictive, ultimately impacting the community. This is seen through…