Essays Tagged: "Fishes"
Australia and the Great Barrier Reef
is on the World Heritage List made by UNESCO, because of its size and its many different plants and fishes. The reef lies in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, the world's largest marine park. It has ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
The Great Barrier Reef
is on the World Heritage List made by UNESCO, because of its size and its many different plants and fishes. The reef lies in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, the world's largest marine park. It has ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography
Piranha
have large very sharp teeth, the upper andlower set which fit perfectly together. These remarkable fishes have other characteristicswhich enhance their biting ability. Their lower jaws are sturdy and ... he Guyanas upper Abary River can be very exciting butvery dangerous. The author of Unusual Aquarium Fishes, Alan Mark Fletcher, wasusing special heavy shanked steel fish hooks and twice piranhas bit c ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
"The pink fish" fiction story.
ES ruled all. the lunaberries are peckled orange ugly fish. Now the lunaberries didn't like the pinkfishes, because they were jealous that the pink fish were prettier than them. So the pink fish were ... pink fish were prettier than them. So the pink fish were segragated against and they lived as poor fishes. There was a huge problem however that arose. The pinkfishes were so descriminated against th ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories
A Journey Through Evolution - The locomotion and behavioral changes of fishes, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals. A good starting place for short biology papers.
tly and to the point. For example, you may want to choose the theme of "reproductive strategies" of fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, or you may choose "locomotion", "environmental ada ... environment, they either moved on or died. Through the ages, we went from jawless and cartilaginous fishes all the way to amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and finally to human beings.The earth ex ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Biology notes on Amphibians.
ve in water, as well as on land. Fossil evidence indicates that amphibians evolved from lobe-finned fishes about 370 million years ago. Recent analysis of the DNA of coelacanths and lungfishes indicat ... about 370 million years ago. Recent analysis of the DNA of coelacanths and lungfishes indicates lungfishes are in fact far more closely related to amphibians than are coelacanths.Amphibians first beca ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
A satire written about family reunions.
, you will discover your family tree has more branches than you ever thought possible while Grandpa fishes his dentures out of the punch bowl.In order to fully understand the horror of the family reun ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
A Comparison between Kay Ryan's "Turtle" and G. K. Chesterton's "The Donkey"
s.The Poem The Donkey by G. K. Chesterton starts out portraying extraordinary creatures and things. Fishes that can fly, bushes of thorn that produce delicious figs, all of these are special, and comp ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Poetry Report Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling
s thinking of him. He also talks about the land around him. Mostly he talks about the boats and the fishes in the river. But I think that the most powerful line in this poem is revealed in the first s ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
r and genetic damage. It also describes how other chemicals such as Dieldrin and Aldrin kill birds, fishes, and humans. An example of how DDT (= dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane) can kill humans is ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein-Passions of Romantic Prometheus;When ambition takes over...
rth had been made, mountains, valleys, woods, fields and plains were distributed, as well as stars, fishes, birds and beasts. Yet, another animal was wanted, a nobler one; man was made. This act was d ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Pet Adoption
badly, their hospital bill might cost alot. Pets usually need a special kind of food. For example, fishes can only eat fish food to live.Sometimes a pet needs to be trained. Large animals that live i ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
Collection of Original Poems...
k for youIn the glowBut only findMy wishes.I take my notesOn how to float,But end up livingwith the fishes.How do you go?So old and youngYour wisdom wrapped in silliness.Here I ama tiny manalways read ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Similar Poems and their use of Imagery
, from Prison," one example of the use of imagery would be the fish. In the poem, the speaker says "Fishes that tipple in the deep / know such liberty" (15-16). By him being imprisoned during the Civi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Acting Fishy: Evolutionary Perspectives On Fish Behavior
The fishes are the most numerous and diverse of the vertebrate groups, stemming from a long and branched ... y, 1996). What accounts for the stamina of these living fossils? During their evolutionary history, fishes have given rise to a vast diversity of forms, not merely to survive but also to compete, they ... peculiar fish behaviors is their tendency to travel in schools, or shoals. A shoal is any group of fishes that remains together for social reasons, while a school is a polarized, broken into factions ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
The Effects of Sea lamprey on the Great Lakes.
Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) have been causing extraordinary damage to the fishes in the Great Lakes since the 1940's and humankind have had problems with control efforts ever ... lamprey become firmly established in all of the Great Lakes.They caused extraordinary damage to the fishes in the upper lakes, therefore becoming the number one predator fish species in the Great lake ... "B" a study is shown to prove this theory, but Sea lamprey will attack more so on large cold-water fishes like burbot, salvelinus namaychus, coregoninae, and onchorhynchus species. With the decline o ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography
Fishes' Cry: An Analysis of "The Fish Are All Sick" by Anne Stevenson.
ay. Looking closely at the title of the poem, it seems that the poem is fictional - we usually hear fishes getting sick in fictional literary pieces. In addition to that, the use of the word "all" is ... ition to that, the use of the word "all" is an exaggeration of the dramatic situation of the poem - fishes are all sick. And the fact that it goes on to saying that whales are dying (an irony - whales ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Ernest Hemingway "Old man and the sea" Analysis and symbols
aracter, Santiago, an old fisherman who has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish. Santiago fishes on the Gulf Stream for the first forty days with a young man named Manolin, whose parents for ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway
Old Man And The Sea
fish. In this book Santiago is defeated but not destroyed because he loses the fish but gets up and fishes tomorrow. Another example is that Joe Dimaggio fought injury late in his career but came back ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway
Symbolism Of The Loon In Thoreau's Walden
observes that the Loon seems to be as content underwater as on the surface: "How surprised must the fishes be to see this ungainly visitor from another sphere speeding his way amid their schools! Yet ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American