As an islanded nation Australia was comparatively free of invasive species that existed in other countries, until post-Colonial times increasing trade between Australia and foreign countries has caused an increase in the species entering the country. Invasive species are a threat to the environmental, social and economic health of Australia. Invasive feral animals such as pigs, goats, rabbits, cattle, buffalos, donkeys, camels and Horses cause degradation to natural habitats by selective or…
Bumbled is a 3D platformer/art game inspired by games such as flower, Mister Mosquito and Nights: Into Dreams. In Bumbled you control Queen Garnet, a queen bee whose loyal subjects have all mysteriously vanished. After years of being pampered and attended upon, she is left to her own devices and forced to leave behind her life of luxury in order to gather nectar from flower and find her loyal subjects. Can Queen Garnet survive beyond the hive? The game’s art style is evocative of water colors…
usually we would head out spending our bright sunny days, being anything but useful. Today, my excited, bouncing, daughter and I set out with nothing more than walking sticks, a backpack with cool, chilled water, and a half-empty, rusted can of mosquito repellant. We explored places we once called The Big Tree (for the reason that it blocked part of our path), the Monkey Vine Swings (we used the vines to swing across the creek), and - intimidatingly, because we had once found a dead, decaying…
Professor Dietz English 112 Collin Habib Inquiry Three Creative Non-Fiction Narrative June 6…
Even know that the officials in the government of the United States, Russia, Britain, Germany, and other European countries that were involved, were in favor of colonizing the lands of Egypt, Japan, China, India, Hawaii, the African continent, and others inferior lands, there were still common people that opposed what was happening. In 1899, at the same time that Kipling published his “White Man’s Burden,” a satire was published by Henry Labouchere in which the truth of the efforts were…
Race has been an issue in the United States since people began to colonize the country. They went as far as to ship Africans in for slave labor. Many colonists believed that the Africans were of a lower social order, or race. However, America is not the only country that prescribes to this idea of race. Each culture has something akin to race. Belgium divided the Rwandan population into races. This idea causes confusion and problems for most cultures. Rwanda experienced genocide because of the…
environment. In this case, peoples are to be restricted on the places to dispose of their garbage it is tiresome to walk in a garbage collection site. This will do away with the bad smell in the town and will also help in reducing the possible outbreak of mosquito-related infections. The best method of for Kenyans to ensure that Mombasa is clean and out of infection is for both national and local government to unite together toward fighting this hazardous infection. The current situation where…
Parasites is an animal or plant that lives in or on a host which is another animal or plant as it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host. Parasites may be characterized as ectoparasites, including ticks, fleas, leeches, and lice which live on the body surface of the host and do not themselves commonly cause disease in the host or endoparasites, which may be either intercellular (inhabiting spaces in the host’s body) or intracellular (inhabiting cells in the…
Today war is considered stupendous, and the only option to some. Many disagree to such opinions. War only ends with one result, death. War can not only tear a family apart, but divide a country as a whole. Many families lose loved ones each year to war. Due to not many speaking out on such topic, authors use their works to screech for them. Many using experiences and storytelling, most use literary devices. Writers use imagery, irony, and structure to protest war.…
In 1990, the safety of digesting genetically modified foods (GMOs) was first brought into consideration at a meeting between the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO); however, up until this day the practice of marketing unlabeled GMOs, which also have not been tested for their potential toxicity, is still existent in America. A GMO is defined as any food, plant, or organism that has had its genes manipulated in order to change some aspect of itself so…