Snail

had decided to allow students to keep them as house pets when the class was done with them. The student just needed permission from his or her parents. I longed to have a crayfish. Prior to the third grade, the closest I had ever had to a pet was a snail that I had watched for my neighbors while they were on vacation for a few weeks. I had begged my parents for a pet, but they always had a reason to say no. This opportunity to have a crayfish was a true miracle. It would cost nothing get it, we…

hint. A surprise. A thread or threads that leads to an answer. The movie makes you realize the beauty of everyday life in affection. The very basic, simple thing makes life meaningful but how we so often miss the little details... favorite spoons, snails, silkworms, ostriches, and soy beans, and farms, and enthusiasm, and failure, and optimism, and companionship... In the end, Georgi Lulchev and his ostriches are enough to speaks for wealth of life without whispering director's perspectives and…

with us?” I wasn’t sure, so I just shrugged. Well, like every young kid, I didn’t want to be alone when it was getting dark out. “I think I’ll go down Glade,” I told my mom. We got on a lift, and usually it takes forever to get to the top, like a fat snail going up a hill. I almost looked forward to that time so I wouldn’t have to immediately face my inevitable doom. Lucklessly, I never got the luxury of that time, because the ride felt like it took ten seconds…

Is The Book Actually Dying? As technology moves forward, we see more contents being digitized, such as newspapers, magazines, snail mail letters, music and most of all, books! There is a large number of e-books being published and sold online. Thus, the sales of e-books have risen to a point that it has surpassed the sales of tactile books. Although I disapprove of the digital hijacking of tactile books, but I have to agree that technology has to move forward and along with that, the way people…

My first year was plagued with homesickness. I was nine, in a foreign country with one person I knew, my sister. My older sister: outgoing, brilliant, everyone’s favorite. She dropped me the first day. I was shy, withdrawn, and alienated. I had never been away from home for more than a few days, let alone three weeks. What made my experience so difficult was not just the homesickness but the extreme physical demands I faced. Camp Ak-O-Mak (Ontario, Canada) is not a traditional camp. It was the…

In the book, The Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, Ralph and Piggy find each other on the beach and discover a shell. Ralph prys the snail out of the shell and attempts to blow into it, but Piggy had to teach him how to. After blowing into the conch all the other boys from the plane crash find Ralph and Piggy on the beach. The conch sets off a chain of events including the boys separating into two groups due to the hunger of power and also the loss of humanity on the island. The…

Tom Cooper was the strongest and tallest lumberjack ever. He was born in Canada in 1940. When Tom was born,he was born with more than 15 pounds. The people from his community were really surprised to see such a big baby like Tom. The people from his community wanted him to leave as soon as he was born,but his mom said no because he was just a baby. So his community accepted him to stay but said that as soon as he was 16,he needed to leave the community because he is causing fear and trouble. At…

Vegetable Spirit: The “vegetable spirit” was a concept introduced by Isaac Newton who was an active physicist in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. To Newton, the vegetable spirit was a vital alchemical principle that explained cohesion and surpassed the realm of vulgar mechanics. He thought the Light of Genesis could be explained by the vegetable spirit and its fermental virtues because it was the vital ether in the world and God’s agent on Earth. Newton’s vegetable spirit represents the…

Adeline Louisa Vargas is the apple of my eye and one of the greatest things to ever happen to me; although, her arrival here was anything but pleasant and easy going. From the excruciating back labor that started at home, to the scare she gave before being freed from my womb, it was more frightening than a horror movie. The whole process took more than a day but each second felt like a lifetime. Thankfully, I had the mountain-like support of my husband the nursing team to get me through. The…

Microorganisms like bacteria and fungi help the process of decomposition happen (The Science of Composting). There are also macro-organisms, such as centipedes, worms, snails, and even spiders (The Science of Composting). Oxygen is needed for microbes to try to decompose waste efficiently; it wont stink as bad in the end if the area is kept well aerated (Chapter 1, The Decomposition Process). If oxygen levels are lower…