Toads

Chordata is a phylum of the animal kingdom that includes animals possessing notochord, pharyngeal gill slit and dorsal tubular nerve cord. Although the name Chordata is attributed to William Bateson (1885), it was already prevalent around 1880. Phylum Chordata, though not the largest, is the most diverse phylum in the animal kingdom. Chordates are cosmopolitan and are well represented in marine, freshwater as well as terrestrial habitats from the equator to the high northern and southern…

spear. Moreover, this event of the book it is related in the movie with the character of the pastor, Big Dan, which has also one eye. Furthermore, Ulysses and Delmar anger Big Dan, just like Odysseus anger the Cyclops, and the pastor end up killing the toad they had which was supposedly Pete, their partner from jail (O, Brother Where Art Thou, 0:58-1:02). So, at the end Big Dan ends up killing their friend, in a figurative way, and he was also almost stabbed in the eye just as the Cyclops. At…

fear of spiders is revealed in the second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. In this book/movie, there is a giant basilisk living in the Hogwarts castle. The basilisk is a massive snake that is born from a chicken’s egg hatched beneath a toad. “Spiders flee before the Basilisk, for it is their mortal enemy.” In the Chamber of Secrets, Harry, Ron and Hermione happen across a line of spiders scampering out the window and into the forbidden forest. After Hermione is frozen by the…

ALRIGHT! Enough! [I pop out from the forest, tapping my foot the sound of wind and thunder rasping the land] (Jack: Who are you?) The one who’ll get you to stop behaving like uneducated fools. (Jack: Who are you to do this?) I have been able to survive on this island for two years, able to research and learn about the island from personal experiences, able to heal and patch wounds, able to tell which herbs can heal and harm, and able hunt without torturing the poor animal. [The boys all looked…

Othello In about the year 1604, Shakespeare wrote a tragedy named “The Tragedy of Othello.” This is a story that was based off of Giraldi Cinthio’s “Hecatommithi,” written in 1565. (Shakespeare 2825). In both of these stories, a moor is married to a young woman named Desdemona. Desdemona is later accurse of cheating on the moor (Othello in Shakespeare’s work), and because of this, the moor goes through many different emotions and feelings. The story begins and Othello proclaims his love for…

In Poe's seventy novels, the works involving animal images account for a large proportion, while some of the works are mainly human beings, but in the process of creation, Poe has made animal descriptions, which also make people have some animal characteristics. We can analyze the works of Poe by the following classification. By analyzing the animal images in Allen Poe's works and exploring the causes of these animal images, we can better grasp the connotation of Allen Poe's works and further…

Pressure can cause problems when inflicted upon a human being. One can react differently when having pressure inflicted upon them. This is easily shown in the two stories, “Two Kinds” and “Salvation”. In the texts “Two Kinds” and “Salvation”, both characters are forced under social pressure; however, the way each character deals with that pressure placed on them are very diverse and reveals the true nature of each character. “Salvation” and “Two Kinds” both have a pressure inflicted on the main…

Ron pulled out his wand, determined to turn Scabbers yellow, the door their compartment was pulled open and a girl their age peered in. She had wild, frizzy hair and brown eyes, and her expression was slightly disdainful. "Have you happened to see a toad?" She asked," A boy called Neville has lost one." "Um, no?" Harry answered, slightly confused. The girl looked as though she was simply about to move on, but then she noticed that Ron had his wand out. "You're going to do magic?" A curious…

In 1999, the death of the last Golden Toad in Central America was marked to be the first documented species driven to extinction by climate change. Climate change and global warming has changed the animal’s distribution and behavior. What I mean be this is that there are birds that are migrating…

experienced was not a figment of her imagination. Pan’s Labyrinth: To say nothing of the massive number of mystical creatures is an understatement. Throughout the entirety of the film, Ofelia encounters beasts such as: The Faun, Faeries, the Pale Man, Giant Toad, and the Mandrake root. All of which are classified under fabled creatures due to…