Toads

her teacher before tomorrow’s prom. The only person she knew who could help was Toad, the biggest geek in the entire high school. Thus, Princess, the most popular girl in high school, needed the assistance of a geek for a school paper. She had to go to the school prom with him since she’d promised, however, Princess realized this geek was truly special after all. Princess asked Toad to help her with her essay, but Toad had a few requirements: Princess needed to promise to sit next to him at…

miss the toad that might be hiding among the blades of grass. Does it matter if this single toad dies at the blades of the mower? “The Death of the Toad” tells the tale of this final day in the life of this toad. The toad is clipped and eventually dies from the blow but that only creates the questions of what is meaningless and what is meaningful. Does this amphibian’s life matter or does death have the final say? Also, why is the toad in a manmade garden in the first place? Toads never…

photo on top. The creature is the cane toad (Rhinella marina), which I first got to know from a documentary from National Geographic, Killer Cane Toad. Much has been forgotten from the documentary, hence I looked up the internet to refresh my memory on the issue again. Here is what I found. Cane toad was first introduced into Australia in 1935 by Reginald Mungomery to tackle the issue of canegrubs damaging the cane roots which affects crop yield. The cane toad was introduced to act a predator to…

The children's book, Frog and Toad Together, might not have challenging language or plot lines, but it does have life lessons that can apply to real life situations for anyone from children to adults. In the book, Frog and Toad show the importance of being organized and having a plan. The first chapter, A List, shows us that life can become far easier when we have a plan for the future, but be careful not to be too organized. In the second chapter, The Garden, we learn that persistence is key.…

Machine vs. Toad In 1970, Joni Mitchell sang, “[t]hey paved paradise to put up a parking lot.” This same idea of industry versus nature can be seen in “The Death of a Toad,” written by Richard Wilbur. Both works convey the message of mankind having no appreciation for the delicate world surrounding them. They share the common theme of man's construction of an empire merely being the destruction of the earth which harbors them. In writing this poem, Wilbur speaks for those who cannot: the earth…

bodies with a tubercle at the end of both of their hind feet. Because the tubercle looks like a spade, this is where the word “spade” in their name comes from. These toads are said to smell like peanut butter, and those who handle them that have allergies with peanuts may have an allergic reaction. What is different about them from other toads are that they have much smoother skin and have vertically elliptical eyes, almost like a cat’s eyes. They are fossorial, meaning they spend most of their…

community of frogs, there was also one toad who lived there to, no one liked the toad and no one treated her fairly because she had warts all over her body, the frogs would always tease and make fun of her for being the only toad in the marsh. The toad had grown up in this marsh so she never met another one of her kind and she had always wanted to, she wanted to move and go find other toads to live with but the marsh was surrounded by a large dry plains field, so the toad never left and was…

source of variation in toad locomotor performance; with the longest jump distance of the toads as the dependent variables and the various scaling variables as the independent variables. Then the p value will be evaluated in order to determine whether the correlation between the variables are significant and we can falsify the null hypothesis and accept the alternative hypothesis that there is a relationship between the body structure and jumping performances of the toads. Toad Gender Mass (g)…

listening lecture are discussing methods to eliminate cane toads from their new environments in Australia. The writer asserts that there have been successful method in getting rid of the cane toads from the sugar cane fields of Australia. However, the lecturer disagrees with the writer's opinion by claiming that the three methods were not successful at all. First, the author claims that humans physically capturing and killing the cane toads has been effective. Refuting this claim, the professor…

president of alien hunting, he knew the time has come. Frank being a highly trained alien hunting president for Area 51 for around 22 years, he has never experienced this before, but he prepares for the long journey. The others or known as The Blue Toad aliens they have been known as, since around Area 51 first established. They come from Pluto, and are rather tall individuals standing around 7 feet, and are highly intelligent for manufacturing aircrafts, and Exedra. the others prepared…