The sand shark is very important to my tribe‚ and I shall tell you why. Once‚ a very long time ago‚ a group of hunters were looking for animals for food and supplies. The eldest‚ and wisest‚ said “We must continue hunting! Do not lose hope!” Suddenly a squirrel scampered across a cedar branch. The youngest was quick‚ he raised his bow‚ arrow drawn‚ and shot. The squirrel was too quick‚ the arrow missed. Several days later‚ hunger spread throughout the village. The three hunters had failed to collect
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“Moby Dick or‚ The Whale” by Herman Melville follows the story of Ishmael‚ a sailor who finds himself seeking more in life so he decides to join the crew of a whaling ship that travels many oceans around the 1830’s or 1840’s. Ishmael travels from Manhattan Island to New Bedford. There he stays at the spouter Inn but there is a shortage of beds so he must share with a mysterious tattooed harpooner named Queequeg. It turns out Queequeg isn’t a bad guy‚ so they grow close and soon became great friends
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Marlet Garcia Bingham‚Kelly. Shark Girl. Cambridge: Candlewick Press‚ 2007. Jane Arrowood is a fifteen year old girl whose arm was amputated when she was bitten by a shark. Jane is really stubborn and she doesn’t let herself try new things. She was still finding out how to be courageous and brave after what she had been trough. Justin is a kid who is around eight or nine or ten years old who lost his leg below the knee. He was a brave kid because he never was arguing about his disability. He was
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Niels Steno a Danish anatomist was asked to dissect a giant shark that was off the coast in Italy. When dissecting‚ Niels was stunned with the resemblance of a shark’s tooth and tongue stones. Tongue stones are triangular pieces of rock. Niels was motivated to learn more and see if he could prove the tongue stones were shark teeth. Niels declared that the tooth was‚ in fact‚ the tongue stone but still needed to find a way to prove how the shark tooth turned to stone and got lodged in rock. The question
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Not So Ordinary “I try to give ’em a reason‚ you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason” (Lee 268). There are a lot of different reasons why people act and do things in certain ways‚ but people will never understand the reasons for the actions of others unless they get to know them. The book To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the movie Finding Nemo‚ and the article‚ “The ‘Somali Pirates’ Who are Not What They Seem‚” all relate to a theme. That theme is get to know someone before you decide what
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was about. I then decided that I wanted to take on a more challenging film‚ one that I had never heard of‚ and one that I would really have to study to understand its full meaning. After looking into a few of the listed movies‚ I ended up choosing Whale Rider‚ a drama filmed in New Zealand in 2002. After watching the movie two times‚ I feel that I now understand some of the more drastic cultural and gender based problems that are occurring today. The film’s plot follows the story of Paikea Apirana
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“Killer” Whales Over thirty years and three deaths have occurred at the marine park SeaWorld‚ Keltie Byrne‚ Dawn Brancheau‚ and Daniel P. Dukes. The media blew up about the aggressive behaviors of the whales; killing innocent trainers. SeaWorld San Antonio alone is responsible for fourteen deaths of Orcas in the past thirty years. Where is the media’s articles for the deaths of Winnie‚ Kahana and Kortar? Three orcas of the fourteen that have died in the care of SeaWorld’s facility. There are two
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proved that you can produce a horrific and suspenseful thriller that has some base on reality. From very early on in the film we are left with no doubt about how gruesome and frightening the movie will be‚ shown by an awesome entrance of the initial shark attack. ‘What lies beneath’‚ another accomplished thriller begins completely in the opposite manner. It begins with a rather mellow entrance‚ but the viewer is brought to attention as the film builds up to a thriller full of adrenaline. Some people
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great white shark. During the beginning of the movie‚ two innocent people get killed and the police chief‚ Brody‚ suspects it is a shark that has attacked them. Jaws became a major must see for years to come. Jaws uses many different film techniques to keep the audience suspenseful‚ make the overall movie better. At the beginning of the film the music that plays in the back ground is soft and quiet. This makes the audience feel suspicious that something is going to happen‚ as the shark swiftly moves
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King Shark V. Howard the Duck Howard the Duck is a magical duck that fights crime and King Shark is a magic shark who causes crimes. They are both very similar but also very different. Howard the Duck is a superhero and fights crime‚ but he is an animal with human intelligence just like King Shark. Howard the Duck differs from King Shark because King Shark is evil and commits crimes‚ making them almost complete and total opposites. Another way Howard the Duck and King Shark differ from each other
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