Race to the Sea

slayer of foul beings and supernatural creatures. He speaks of stories of cutting down sea monsters during a swimming race. "A monster seized me, drew me / Swiftly toward the bottom, swimming with its claws…

alone bearers of the dimming light unto a pristine horizon beyond the radars of this careless race…. Weep not for flesh and blood alone; weep for the hills and mountains; weep for the seas and forests; weep for the Sun, comets and the stars. Weep not for the heavens alone, but our common humanity. Weep not for humanity alone, but for our age-long heritage. Oh, let the race of ‘New Clear Weep Horns’ race to a close; and emissaries of lofty ideals begin unveiling an eternal ring so bright that can…

Everyone wants something in their life. A new phone, new clothes, jewelry, toys, and other luxuries. But did you realize the price tag does not show the full price? “Saving The Worlds”, and “The Race to Save the Elephants” by Mary Kate Frank believes that because of our negligence and cupidity, animals and environments are the ones actually paying for your decisions. People are incessantly ruining their lives by obliterating their habitats, overfishing, poaching, producing pollution, and other…

Affecting Sea Animals “But while there are infinite reasons to love and respect the ocean, it can sometimes feel like the human race is doing everything in its power to harm it.” ~Landess Kearns (qtd. in “11 Quotes About The Ocean That Remind Us To Protect It”) The Ocean has turned into a giant garbage can full of trash, plastic, and waste. It affects seabirds, sea turtles, and even whales by hurting or even killing them. One animal species that is directly affected by this change is sea…

son to keep going and climbing the splintered, wooden, and worn staircase of life. “Life for me ain 't been no crystal stair” (Hughes). As seen in this line of poetry, Hughes uses his own racial dialect to express the relationship between the black race and trials; however, the poem contains a universal theme because everyone has a mother. The poem alludes to Christian principles, which Hughes’s grandmother taught him. The mother represents Hughes’s grandmother in regard to the advice to the son…

that there are new people in town. These people are of a new race called “the first men” or the “alphas”. The first men aren’t exactly what you would call the average person considering they are half human half fish. They have been living under the sea for hundereds of years until finally, they decide to march straight out of the sea into modern day Coney Island. Lyric Walker faces the next year of her life going to school with the new race. Michael Buckley is the author of Undertow.…

While each empire, Roman and Byzantine, were each located along the Mediterranean Sea, they shared multiple similarities and differences that shaped their empires and made them different from one another. Both the Roman and Byzantine Empires had an effective law code, however it changed from the 12 Tables to the Codes of Justinian. Another change that occurred was that the emperors of the Byzantine empire believed that they were part of God’s empire while the Roman empire didn’t really tie…

used by the characters is in English. Margarita during the course of the play is competing in a swimming tournament along the pacific ocean, swimming between San Pedro to Catalina Island. All the events during this play revolve around this infamous race, and Margarita in particular, which identifies her as the star of the show. “The little Cuban swimmer from Long Beach, California, nineteen-year-old Margarita Suarez. The unknown a bundle of tenacity, battling her way through the choppy, murky…

Yet the Egyptians also use the term Ekwesh which can possibly be related to Achaean. They are also referred to as having come from Argos due to the relation of the Hero-race. “As Danaos, the name-hero of the race, was King of Rhodes and Argos, these sea-Danaoi may have been Rhodian Argives” (Morritt, 2010, p 23) . Argos was a place of maritime occupation, its harbors facilitated cultural interaction which has been the catalyst to change in language and civilizations…

Arctic has lost so much ice that now people want to race yachts through it.” This article relates to the 5 themes of geography because it uses and is involved in location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and regions. The article has an overall discussion about how the sea ice covering the top of the world reached the lowest maximum extent yet observed in winter, when ice is at its peak. This means that in the last four years, Arctic sea ice has seen a new low both for its seasonal…