Rattlesnake

Describe in a paragraph the trip Muir took exploring the ice cone, what did he find? Include a quote. Muir went out exploring nature at any opportunity he could find. During one of his many expeditions, Muir encountered an avalanche in his efforts to find out the source of the thunderous noise. He initially mistook the noise to be coming of from falling boulders. His encounter with the avalanche leads him to categorize the avalanches in two and he further states where exactly the annual…

The gopher tortoise is a large dark-brown to grayish-black terrestrial turtle with elephantine hind feet, shovel-like forefeet. The adult shell ranges in size of 5.9 to 14.6 inches long. It has a gular projection beneath the head on its yellowish, hinge less plastron or undershell. In comparison to females, males are generally smaller; with a larger gland under the chin, a longer gular projection, and more concave plastron. The gopher tortoise is seen as an important species in the…

This summer was definitely one to remember. I may not have had the most exciting or eventful summer, but I cannot complain. I was constantly doing something with work, friends, and football. When I looked back on this summer, I mostly remember working and working. It is not that I worked a ton, but that I did not do much else. I would be lying if I said I did not have fun working, it helps that I work with two of my friends, Riley Calhoon and Colton Best. We all work on Colton’s family’s ranch.…

The Historic Iron King The Prescott area offers a diverse network of trails. Some of these trails can have treacherous hazards like large trees, sharp rocks and steep cliffs such as Smith Ravine trail number 297, Salida Gulch Trail number 95, and the Constellation Trail System. Whereas, some of them are flat maintained pathways of gravel like the historic Iron King Trail. The Iron King Trail was forged on the weathered foundations of the railroad tracks for the Prescott & Eastern Railroad which…

at the scene quickly enough to prevent and de-escalate a school shooting. Thwart says Harrods' teachers must protect their students. The school is 30 miles from the nearest police station. "The only thing you'll get if you scream out here is a rattlesnake or a coyote looking your way," he says” (Scholastic). Some school districts in more rural areas are scared that if a threat enters the building, they have too much time to harm the student and facility before police are on the scene. The fear…

Although they are sometimes used interchangeably, the terms morals and ethics have different meanings. Ethics are codes for right or wrong coming from an external source such as society while morals are an individual’s personal principles on what is considered right or wrong. It is possible for someone to be following strict ethics but have no morals while a person with very high moral integrity may violate what is considered ethically right. In the three stories, there are moral and ethical…

he could easily run away from school and the Widow. Although Huck starts to act as if he is getting mature he goes back to his immature way when he plays another trick on Jim on Jackson’s Island. But, this trick ends up getting Jim bitten by a rattlesnake and severely injures…

abandoned cabin. (Unknown to Huck, the corpse in the cabin is his father.) This teaches him to use what’s around him. In chapter 10, Huck finds some snake-skin, except Jim told him that carrying snake-skin is bad luck. Then, Huck got Jim bitten by the rattlesnake because of the snake-skin, this shows that one-act shouldn’t go too far. He even regretted his choice, “I made up my mind I wouldn’t take a-holt of snake-skin with my hands, now that I see what had come of it.” (Twain 36). This line…

Throughout the book Huck plans out many ingenious pranks on the characters, but some of his pranks have consequences like when Huck went to a cavern to get tobacco and found a rattlesnake. He “killed him and curled him up under the front of Jim’s blanket, ever so natural, thinking there’d be some fun when Jim found him there.” (50) Huck soon forgot about the snake and its mate bit Jim. Huck also played a prank on Jim when they lost…

In the TPMP, there are specific areas such as the Rattlesnake Mountain Sill, located in the western part, that has the best exposed sill with medium to fine grained syenodiorite rock in the northern and southern regions of the mountain (Carman, 1994). The textures in these rocks go from a glassy devitrified…