Stingray

Narrative in wildlife program - The Crocodile Hunter “I reckon that’s a big one.” I whispered with glee while skipping on a treacherous trail I created with sofa pillows, staring intently at an imaginary crocodile. “Crikey!” I shouted as the imaginary crocodile leapt at me with wide-open jaws. Without any hesitation, I jumped on it and wrestled it as though my life depended on it. After minutes of wild trashing, I emerged victorious, subduing the ferocious crocodile with my bare hands. “That…

I’m Predictably Irrational? Prior to reading this book, I’ve rather smugly thought of myself as quite a rational fellow. Much to my surprise, this book identifies multiple, fascinatingly common situations that are relevant to my daily life to which I believed my responses were rational. Through the lens provided by the author however, my reactions to these situations have been almost unconscious and very much irrational. So the purpose of this paper is to highlight four learning points from the…

Odysseus was one of, if not the most, clever heroes in Greek mythology. Unlike other Greek heroes, such as, Heracles, Perseus, Theseus, Jason and Bellerophon, Odysseus relied on brains more than brawn. While still a mighty warrior, he is able to use his intelligence to accomplish things that many other heroes couldn’t, like inventing the Trojan horse. Naturally, due to Odysseus’s wisdom and intelligence, his patron god is Athena, the goddess of wisdom and battle. Odysseus is most famous for a…

My essay seeks to establish the importance of Noongar boodjar to the Noongar people. It focuses on explaining the significant attachment that Noongar people possess regarding their place names and why it is deeply rooted in them. Noongar people not only outlived European colonization but also flourished as family groups and obtained assert their rights to their boojar. For Noongar people, the southwest of Western Australia is ngulla booja-our country. Noongar Elder Angus Wallam quoted “White…

ORCA WHALES Did you know that people have developed sonar because of studying how orcas detect things using a series of clicking that they send out through their melon, or that orca’s skin grows 290 times faster than skin on your arm (Throp)? You can learn about many more things by studying orca whales. These are only a few things about orcas that have been studied; the appearance of orcas, how they hunt, and their relationship with dolphins. Orcas detect things using clicking noises that they…

George Orwell was born in India because his father was a civil servant. A year after his birth George’s mom had decided to take the children back to England while his father worked in India. George did not see much of his father when he was a kid. He was a feeble child when growing up, constantly dealing with bronchitis and the flu. George was an avid writer, writing his first poem at only the age of four. When he wrote the book, he was envisioning an extremely oppressive future where your whole…

threw up all over the boat. So we had to wait a little longer in the water so that they could clean it up. As we were waiting I screamed because i saw something really big in the water and i didn't know what it was. Everyone looked down and it was a stingray just swimming in the ocean. We then got back on the boat and headed toward margaritaville. When we got to margaritaville we walked up these long stairs and once you got up the stairs there was a big Jimmy Buffet bar and gift shop and stage…

Underdog's Ryan Reynolds is a very good baseball player. Someday he wants to play for the Toronto Blue Jays in the MLB (Major League Baseball). But right now he plays for caledonia high school. “ I’m the catcher #77, and i’m very proud to be where I am and how far i’ve come to play high school baseball,” he exclaimed with Proudness. “I always thought that I was a good baseball player, But people always said that I was the underdog and that just being on the team doesn’t make you a good baseball…

snorkeling, I inspected a school of fish, obviously I did not know what kind of fish they were. All I know is that all the fish were brightly colored. There were all colors of the rainbow under the surface of the water. My cousin even spotted a stingray further out from shore. The week whisked by extremely fast, and before we knew it, we were already on our last morning in Puerto Rico. The last morning was by far the best morning , because there were two whales swimming side by side . One…

Paul Rand and Ivan Chermayeff, two very influential graphic designers, created some of the most notable logos for many corporations. While Chermayeff produced work in the modern art era, Rand played a significant role in shaping visual culture in America after World War II. The work of both Rand and Chermayeff changed the meaning of logo design and influenced the philosophy of future commercial art. Paul Rand, born on August 15, 1914 as Peretz Rosenbaum in Brooklyn, New York, discovered the…