Skunk

“You’re fired!” my head boss shouted at me as I was suddenly shoved out his office door. I stood there flabbergasted for a second, still in shock of the drastic turn my life had just made. I consider ripping the family picture off of the corkboard on his door and tearing it to shreds, just to make a point. He would be furious because every picture of his pink clad teenage daughter is worth as much to him as the real thing. It’s not like he’s ever home with his real family often enough to see…

2015, resulting in a cumulative decline of 65%, according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. Ground based nests are very vulnerable to predators. Many of the “usual suspects” of egg and nestling predators affect bobolink nests (including skunks, raccoons, foxes, and snakes). A surprising bobolink nestling predator is the white-tailed deer. It is not known how many nestlings are eaten by deer each year, but up to 70% of bobolink eggs and nestlings are lost to predation each breeding…

Kingston opens her autobiography with a tale of a nameless aunt. She describes the way in which women who are impregnated out of wedlock are treated in China, in this case, utterly erased from memory. Her father 's sister committed suicide after all of the villagers in her rural Chinese village destroyed their home, taking the baby along with her. Then her name is forgotten, her line is severed, and she is denied the sacred burial rites of the Chinese. Kingston reflects on this harsh treatment…

Paragraph 1: Naming For the Flowering Dogwood, the Latin name is “Cornus florida”. “Cornus” derives from the word “cornu”, which today translates into a “horn”. Cornus refers to the hard wood the tree has. While “florida” stems from the Latin word “flos”, which is understood as “flower” or “flowery”. The common name for Cornus florida is Flowering Dogwood. “Flowering” comes from showy spring flowers the tree displays, while “dogwood” was most likely named after it was believed that early…

To give insight into the reefs that exist around the world, I will explain to you the complexity of the tank that exists in my living room and the process I have had to go in order to get the tank where it is today. The first step in starting a tank is to use the most pure water that is obtainable called reverse osmosis water that is nearly 100% pure. This is normal tap water that is filtered through fiber cartridge filters, activated carbon, reverse osmosis membrane and then is ran through two…

Haida Gwaii is often referred to as the “The Canadian Galapagos” with over 6800 species of flora and fauna and presence of more unique subspecies than any other areas in Canada of equal size (Gaston, Golumbia, Martin & Sharpe, 2008). Haida Gwaii is located 80 km west of the mainland of British Columbia and is the largest and most isolated archipelago located on the west coast of Canada (Stockton, Allombert, Gaston & Martin, 2005). As the archipelago is within close proximity of the Pacific Ocean…

The Freeing of the Parakeets Happiness, it says, is not a state to arrive at but a matter of travelling. How is it for those who only travel for their whole lives without finding any luck and without finding any purpose? The world with its every single organism wants to be happy, but do we really take in consideration those who just travel without finding any peace and stop thinking about ourselves and the things in our life we consider the worst? In Post Office Charles Bukowski elaborately…

the biggest examples in illustrating this theme. Throughout the whole story, Skink constantly stresses the importance of nature and how humans need to protect the environment. He was willing to throw himself into the middle of the street to save a skunk, which ended up costing him the use of a leg. He also showed major disdain towards people who showed no compassion for the environment. For instance, he ruined one person’s car’s gas tank because the person threw a beer can into the road. He also…

When we look around us we do not even think about it, we check both ways before crossing the street, we admire the sunset early in the morning, or we read a book. But, we never think about how we see things, how does what we see get translated into things that we can understand? It starts in the retina, where the receptor cells are. There are two types of receptor cells, rods and cones, both are only sensitive to visible light. Rods are chiefly responsible for night vision and respond to only…

One of the biggest impacts on civilization started in Augsburg, Germany around fifteen hundred and twenty. When a man named August Kotter developed barrel rifling. Armorers to black smiths spared the knowledge as each civilization adapted the technology, modifying, and adapting it as it spread. For generation this technology changed as the knowledge continued to disseminate through the decades. Although riffling has been around since the fifteenth century, it was not commonplace. True rifling…