Tortoise

Throughout my life sports (especially American football) have played a huge role in molding me into the person I am today. I excel at them due to my competitive nature and desire to work with other to attain a common goal. After high school I decided to continue my athlete career by playing Division 1 football at the University of Tulsa. I was a “Preferred Walk-On” which means I did not receive any scholarship money for playing, but I was held to the same standards as everyone else. Over the…

Salamis. In 458 BC, he returned to Sicily for the last time, visiting Gela, the city where he died in either 456 or 455 BC. Valerius Maximus wrote that he was killed outside the city by a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistaken his bald head for a rock which was hard enough for shattering the shell of the tortoise. Pliny the Younger said that Aeschylus had been staying outdoors to prevent a prophecy that said he would be killed by a falling object, but no one can say this is true or not,…

One of the main places in Ecuador I would like to visit is the Cotopaxi. It’s one of the world’s tallest volcanos. It’s also one of Ecuador’s active volcanos, located in the Andes Mountains. I would also like to visit the Galapagos Islands. The islands located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Ecuador and close proximity to the equator. They are a chain of volcanic islands consisting of 18 main islands and three smaller islands. I would like to visit these places because they’re known…

Anthropomorphism in Children’s Literature: From Wily Wolves to Erudite Pigs Animals have dominated stories that people pass from one generation to another, especially those that are intended for children literature. They are, however, to the biologists’ dismay, being treated anthropomorphically which implies giving human emotions to animals. Biologists contend that giving the animals human traits misguides the children as they learn to associate humans traits with animals that cannot have them.…

Brian Doyle’s short essay “Joyas Voladoras” gave his audience more to think about than the physical characteristics of an organ that circulates blood through the body. Though Doyle started off with facts of the hearts of some animals, he quickly changed the topic to the differences and similarities of living things. By providing facts and statistics about the heart and showcasing how organisms need to be surrounded by others, Doyle’s descriptions of the hearts of hummingbirds, blue whales, and…

this change and the events that helped shaped such change and explore it through their work. We will look at 3 examples of poems that approach the new era of modernity in different ways, ranging from the modern and graphic subject of D.H. Lawrence’s Tortoise Shout, to the melancholic tone representing many people’s attitudes at the time brought out in In the Pink by Siegfried Sassoon, and also the experimentation with a unique and prose-like style present in John Masefield’s The Everlasting…

Transmutation was the term they used for Evolution at the time. In the finches and tortoises Darwin noticed that each had a slightly different variation in either their shell or beak depending on which island they were on. For example, the beaks of the finches changed sizes according to their island so that they were more adapted to the…

Hi Ken! Hope you have had a nice Sunday. I am here with Rocco sleeping on my feet, and the temperature is about 17ºC, it's cloudy and with some isolated drizzles. Wow! That is really a very large ant nest, I like the creativity from those expert, to fill with liquid cement a nest to know its size was a great idea. Do you remember what kind of ants were and where do they lived, Ken? I don't know a lot about ant kinds that exist. I was remembering of ants called 'marabunta', also known as army…

Tortoise or the Stone: Challenging Hardships It is integral to human nature to understand that hardship is coexisting with every aspect of life, whether it be simplistic, medial, or difficult there is a capacity for challenge. Oftentimes within novelization characters fall into deep woven plot lines wherein they are challenged profusely to conquer their inner most fears and adversaries. A prime example of this assertion is within Abraham Verghese’s novel Cutting For Stone, alongside Jessica…

My final project consisted of a letter to my abusive father. In the letter I talk about the way he has made me feel my whole life. The genera I guess that mine had was sadness and loneliness. The feeling of being trapped is such a huge problem in my relationship with my dad and he fact that he is extremely manipulative,controlling and strongly opinionated. In my letter to him the main concepts talk about the sadness I kept inside for many years and the strong urge to keep everything “Normal”…