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and land animals have different characteristics due to their environment. If an aquatic animal were to transition to land it would need to get accustomed to a number of things. The most important one is that they need lungs instead of gills and a skeleton that can support their body weight. Aquatic animals…

Imants tillers did his painting Monaro when he moved to cooma from Sydney in the Monaro district in 1996. The painting is an extension of the ‘diaspora’ series which began in 1992, which refers to movement or moving of people from a similar background culture common reason being war or colonisation of a society. After moving from a city to a peaceful town he began to think the significance of landscape layered images and texts. He was fascinated by the dry, treeless slopes of Monaro. And…

adults and elders versus their younger counterparts. Upon further examination of markings on the skeletons of those who were subjected to physiological stressors, research also revealed that individuals already in poor health experienced increased risk of death by the bubonic plague. These physiological stressors often included short stature or porotic hyperostosis that left stress markings on the skeleton. Given its high death rate, it is generally assumed that the plague killed arbitrarily,…

whale himself." Ishmael set out to sea mainly to gain knowledge of this "undeliverable and nameless" leviathan. At sea, Ishmael does not manage to gain this substance that was the purpose of his voyage. Upon examining the skeleton of a dead whale, Ishmael states that "the skeleton of the whale is by no means the mould of its invested form", "how vain and foolish ... for timid untravelled man to try to comprehend aright this wondrous whale."(Melville 1277). Ishmael believes that "only on the…

engaged in the short story as well as entertained by what they are reading. The suspense and mystery in the short story play a key role in the development of the story. Montresor, now describing their surroundings, mentions “long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs” (537). This not only reveals to the reader the setting in which Montresor and Fortunato are in, but it builds up the suspense of the short story. The reader can…

Art History Final Paper Often times in art work we will see the artist use symbolism and representation instead of just coming out and saying or putting exactly what they mean. Symbolism means an artistic movement o style using symbolic images to express ideas. Symbolism is a very popular choice and you will see many pieces of work with it. Representation is just like symbolism and portrays as another object and is also very popular in artwork. An example of symbolism and representation is in…

Respiration (Growth vs Maintenance Respiration) Plant respiration is the metabolic link between gross primary productivity and net primary productivity. It is also a large component of a plant's carbon budget; perhaps typically 50-70% of carbon assimilated in gross primary productivity is released back to the atmosphere as CO2 during subsequent plant respiration (Amthor and Baldocchi, 2001). Growth is the conversion of temporary pools of substrates such as carbohydrates and amides into new…

and rehydrate. While resting, it is all but impossible not to be amazed at where I was, where I came from and how much further I had to go, embracing the pounding of my heart and desperate breaths ever humbling me to the scale of this place. From Skeleton Point, there is a relatively flat section named the Mormon Flats that leads to one of the steepest sections named the Red and Whites. The trail is at a grade of nearly 30 percent, meaning it essentially has to be built as a cobblestone path to…

scattered with lush green grasses and trees, large flowing rivers and lakes, and a community of animals to inhabit the lands are now barren with dead vegetation, the riverbeds and lakes have dried up, and the large herds still remain in the form of skeletons. Mufasa, the late king, preached of a balance and support of the “circle of life” which was portrayed itself through his thriving kingdom. Scare, the current king, has taken over and brought the hyenas (who at this point in the story are…

A joint is where the two relevant parts of skeletons in the body are fitted together. It is usually movable body part in which adjacent bones are joined by ligaments and other fibrous tissues. Cartilage in synovial joints serves as a support for soft tissue and provides the articular surface for joint…