Salamander

transitioning from living in water to walking on land. The pentadactyl limb has been passed down in a modified form to many different animals. An example of these animals that are shown to have the pentadactyl limb includes amphibians such as a frog and a salamander and mammals such as a horse and a human. In humans and other primates, the distal area of their fingers and toes are protected by nails. In other vertebrates, such as a horse, hooves serve as the nails. The shape of the last bone of…

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 about cattle.. They had a bunch of cattle on their farm that they have to care for everyday, so I decided to assist them with caring for their animals. Once I climbed back up on my horse,…

The Makings of a Cautionary Tale As part of the genre of speculative fiction, both Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood are set in an alternate time period in which a part of society has been changed. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury describes a society that burns books as a part of its movement away from individual thought. On the other hand, The Handmaid’s Tale shows a society in which many women have become infertile, creating a dilemma that becomes political…

Wicca is a tradition that takes place in Europe before Christianity and can be linked back to worshiped of Hunter God, and a Fertility Goddess of the Paleolithic people. The religion can be traced back to 30,000 years and predate Christianly by 28,000 years. A sculpture was found of a Goddess or Great mother, and her consort stating that this religion was a matriarchal and free of male domination. The goddess is one of the earliest deity from the Stone Ages in Europe. Wicca is a spiritual belief…

The Horn of Africa, Eritrea, is home to around 6 million people and is the worlds’ most oppressive state. Isaias Afwerki has been in power for around two decades and since taking up power in 1993 has forbidden any elections from taking place. Political theorist, Robert Dahl, considers the following four aspects vital for the making of a free and fair election: 1. the ability to vote without fear of reprisal; 2. coercion is prohibited and not practiced; 3. all voters are counted as equal; 4.…

8.1 Cooking definition: • Cooking is an art of application of heat to prepare food. • The objective of cooking is to bring chemical and physical change in food to make it a complete dish. • Cooking makes the food easier to digest, makes the food eatable, improves foods flavor, makes eye appealing, creates an appetite, kills harmful bacteria etc. 8.2 Methods of cooking: Moist / Wet Media: 1- Boiling: • In this cooking method, food items are totally submerged in hot water and cooked at 100…

Cloning Benefits and Moral Concerns “Cloning describes a number of different processes that can be used to produce genetically identical copies of a biological entity” (United States Natl. Human Genome Research Inst.). Scientists have cloned many biological things even animals in the pursuit of discovering benefits. Along the way, there have been those that have raised concerns about morality and ethics in cloning. Although cloning has many benefits, it’s still surrounded by moral concerns.…

that it’ll peacefully walk over to the path. Instead, it rose onto his hind legs which caused me to slip off of my leather saddle. When I fell to the ground, I landed extremely hard on some rocks. As I was falling I almost landed on a dark blue salamander that was on a unique rock. Thankfully, it scurried away just before I touched the ground. It wasn’t the greatest pain I endured in my life, yet it left me with tears in my blue eyes. Some grass and chunks of dried dirt flew in my mouth and it…

As a rule, the gill area is greater in fast-moving crabs (Portunids) than in sluggish bottom dwellers; decreases progressively from wholly aquatic, to intertidal, to land species; and is greater in young crabs than in older crabs. Often the gills are enclosed in protective chambers, and ventilation is provided by specialized appendages that create the respiratory current. As in cephalopod mollusks, oxygen utilization is relatively high—up to 70 percent of the oxygen is extracted from the water…

Fahrenheit 451 Research Essay “The mechanical hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live” (Bradbury, 21). Author Ray Bradbury masterfully uses poetic devices to help him convey the meaning of his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451. The novel contains interesting plots and characters that contrast the norm and defy all logic. This recurring presence of paradoxes can be exemplified thoroughly though the novel’s futuristic society and the ones that lie within it. Bradbury’s brilliant…