Salamander

The recreation of this Boston district was so contorted that it was a similar shape of a Salamander; which is where the term “Gerrymander” was created. This sneaky practice involved state legislatures drawing congressional districts in a certain way that will increase the likeliness of a particular political party or interest group winning or…

Red… Gold… Orange… Blue… Catching a glimpse of the blue skied day, the leaves rained down on me, swirled by the promise of winter approaching. A faint hint of kerosene perpetually tainted the air, assuring citizens what would occur from hoarding books. As I perched on the branch watching the mindless citizens lazily stroll by, I began to imagine a different world. The world that my uncle and his people describe in their retellings of all the burned stories. A world that appears to be forever…

Should People Be Able To Own Exotic Animals? Should regular people, besides professionals, have the ability to be able to take care of and own exotic animals? Exotic animals need special care, habitats, and diets, and can be dangerous and expensive to own. Some exotic animals need large, plexiglass cages to house them safely and keep them from becoming anxious and wanting to cause harm to themselves. Exotic animals, such as tigers, require pounds of fresh meat everyday, and someone on a budget…

tadpoles to trout that live in watery habitats. It is the number of different native species or species richness. Many species of animals and plants live in the water like fish that spend all their lives underwater, whereas others like toads and salamanders may use surface waters only during the spring breeding season or as juveniles. Some aquatic creatures live their entire lives in the deep ocean, whereas others like water striders spend their life skipping along the surface of water.…

for carrying a number of diseases such as yellow fever, dengue fever, and West Nile virus. However, the article points out that mosquitos are an important food source to migratory birds in the Artic, an important food source for fish, insects, salamanders, lizards, and frogs in water pools, they consume nutrients in pitcher plants (which makes nitrogen readily available to the plant), and pollinate plants. Thus, the author points out that scientists are unsure about what would truly happen if…

Prenatal development makes up the period of time from conception to birth, and it is split into three separate stages that the unborn baby develops through. Prenatal development starts when a sperm fertilizes an egg. The prenatal stage of development lasts about 38 weeks. The three stages that make up prenatal development are the germinal stage, the embryonic stage, and the fetal stage. The germinal stage makes up the first two weeks of prenatal development, from conception to implantation,…

The word "iceberg" is most likely a Dutch term "ijsberg," which translates to ice mountain; only one-eighth of the mass can be seen above the surface of the water ("Iceberg Facts"). Iceberg also refers to a theory/style of writing in which the vast majority of the story is not read in black in white but inferred and hidden throughout the writing. Ernest Hemingway was famous for the style, and it can be seen throughout, “Now I Lay Me” a short story about a religious man during The Great War who…

In the novel How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster, the five elements of a quest are expressed. Ender Wiggin, the protagonist in the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, embarks on this quest presented by Foster. Ender is a young genius but also a “third” or the third born child of a family that is unaccepted and rejected by society. His task is to defeat the Buggers, the otherworldly presence that threatens to destroy all of mankind, but in perusing this, he faces many…

Researchers perform tests on animals that lived in areas heavily impacted by nuclear radiation to save the other animals that live there. In the Savannah River Site, for example, fish, salamander, hogs, bees, and ants were taken in and studied by Tracey Tuberville and his team. Through the testing, Tuberville and his team proved that the nuclear radiation has remained in the area for well over a few years (“Animals at Nuclear Sites Trapped…

There is nothing greater than helping your grandparents on their large ranch in the middle of Kansas. That was what I was thinking as I hopped on my grandmother Patrice’s horse named Watermelon. My mother told me, my grandparents owned a gigantic ranch, so I instantly wanted to come out and help them and learn how to care for cattle.. They had a bunch of cattle on their farm that they have to care for everyday. My mother decided to have me assist them with caring for their animals. Once I…