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858 wordsAlthough Bryophytes and Pterophytes are both plant divisions with a common ancestor, they have little in common. While Bryophytes (mosses) are generally nonvascular and very short in height, Pterophytes (ferns) are vascular plants that usually grow much taller than mosses. While the dominant generation in mosses is the gametophyte, ferns exhibit the sporophyte generation. The details of their alternations of generation vary as well, although both have diploid and haploid stages. Alteration of ge...
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Target Heart Rate Muscular Strength
920 wordsPhysical fitness can most aptly be defined as the body's ability to complete daily activities without becoming too sore, without becoming too fatigued, and without getting out of breath. The concept of physical fitness involves three distinct factors, which are: cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength, and nutrition. It is imperative for one to allot an ample amount of time to each of these factors, as well as following a program specially suited to his or her needs. A major component of physi...
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Attack To Defend Hippos
421 wordsHippos have historically been found throughout all of Africa. Currently most populations have been greatly reduced. The only large population of hippos lives near the Nile river valley of east Africa. The scientific name for hippo is hippopotamus amphibious. Hippos are about four and a half feet tall and eleven feet long. They weigh about three to seven thousand pounds and are the second largest land mammal. A hippos skin is gray- brown. The upper parts are blue- black and the under parts are pi...
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Experiment Held Lake Females River
421 wordsScience has proven that evolution is the key to our adaptation patterns. Over millions of years humans, birds, reptiles, and fish have evolved to survive in their environments. This can be found in the simplest life forms as well as the most complicated life forms. Examples of this can be found in cavefish losing their eyes from none and humans losing large amounts of body hair from living in warmer dwellings. Scientist have shown exactly how fast the evolutionary process can be with an experime...
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Time And Space Basic Beliefs
1,437 words"Human beings are not aware of their assumptions and basic beliefs, much as fish are unaware of the water in which they live. " Discuss This topic sentence implies discussing assumptions and basic beliefs of the human mind, and how they sometimes seem to act independently of our awareness. In order to do that, we must first attempt to define these two concepts. An assumption is a premise taken for granted in a train of thought, one that is included but not evaluated in a conclusion. For example,...
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Act Ii Sc Act I Sc
958 wordsIn Shakespeare's play The Tempest, the cast of characters are squeezed into some archetypal roles. Prospero is our noble hero, Miranda is the beautiful maiden, Antonio is the closest thing we have to a villain. It's our temptation as readers to categorize these characters as roles and not as people, perhaps out of convenience. However, Shakespeare gave his creations the gift of humor, a tool that allows us to see the subtle details of their minds; A glimpse at the inner workings of a character's...
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Social Skills Case Studies
905 wordsThe theory behind dolphin assisted therapy is based on two philosophies. One of these is that the unconditional love and support a dolphin has to offer can benefit children and mentally ill patients in many ways. As with most animals, a dolphin seems to have human-like emotions, so a deep trusting bond can develop between patient and mammal. Some proponents of dolphin assisted therapy claim that the compassion a dolphin displays increases the patient's self-confidence, because the patient is nev...
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The Physics Of Scuba Diving Swimming With Fish
1,089 wordsHave you ever wondered what it would be like to swim with the fish and explore the underwater jungle that covers two-thirds of the earth's surface? I have always been interested in water activities; swimming, diving and skiing, and I felt that scuba was for me. My first dive took place while on a family vacation. I came across a dive shop offering introductory dives, which immediately caught my interest. After much convincing (my parents), with my solemn assurance that I would be careful, I was ...
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Adele Ratignolle Edna Pontellier
1,456 wordsKate Chopin's depiction of "The Awakening" is realistic as she develops Edna Pontellier's character from a socially and morally respectable individual to an individual that turns her back on everything closest to her as she births her new self-being. Edna Pontellier struggles between her subconscious and conscious thoughts as unusual feelings stir unfounded emotions and senses. Some of Chopin's characters lend themselves in Edna's "awakening." Through examination of Leonce Pontellier, Robert Leb...
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Spawning Grounds Moving Water Hydropower
397 wordsRenewable Energy (Hydropower) The first time hydropower was used was in 1880 to generate 16 lamps at a wolverine chair factory in Grand Rapids Michigan. In the United States, hydroelectric plants opened near Appleton, Wisconsin on the Fox River on September 30, 1882. At that time, the only fuel used to make electricity was coal because of its abundance and low cost. People knew about hydroelectric power but the only places you could do that is by a water source. Hydropower became more popular wh...
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A Favorite Place I Like To Spend Time
657 wordsA Favorite Place I Like to Spend Time Sometimes, when I feel tired and exhausted, I need a place for relaxation. Although there are many places, where one can feel relaxed, such as reading in a library with a cup of coffee, or sitting in a comfortable chair, covered with a cozy warm rug, holding a cup of fresh hot tea with scents of flowers, herbs, and jasmine and looking through the window, where sticky raindrops are falling down slowly on the window, or little white snowflakes dancing in a whi...
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Nature And Love In John Donne The Bait
861 wordsNature and Love in John Donne's "The Bait" Reading the poem The Bait we can call John Donne the poet metaphysician. His brilliant use of metaphors and word expressions strikes by its masterly use of words. Donne combines original lyrical pathos with complexity and picturesqueness of expressions. He unites high intellectuality with pointed belles-lettres of artistic narration, making nature as the centre of his depiction of love. He describes love as beautiful land with picturesque scenarios: Com...
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United States Citizens U S Citizens
2,124 wordsThere have been several regions of United States that have gone through cultural changes throughout time. The indigenous people on the East coast went through a cultural change when the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock. The people that lived in the North went through a cultural change when the French entered by the St. Lawrence River bringing their Roman Catholicism religion. The people that were living in what is now Alaska went through cultural change when the Russians entered the area with th...
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Risk Taking Computer Game
391 wordsThe Challenges Quest &# 9; The world today can be a dangerous place, causing people to be precautions. To be a risk taker in today? s society involves courage and a willingness to be vulnerable. In the poem" Swimming alone, " author Patricia Keeney uses diction and imagery to convey that venturing into risky situations requires one to be brave and yet desperate. &# 9; The swim is presented to the reader as an enormous challenge that only the brave and desperate would face, such as a pl...
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Breath Of Air Top Of The Water Dolphins
565 wordsDolphins are playful and cleverness make them fascinating to watch. Dolphins are not fish they are mammals that live in the sea. They have to come to the top of the water every half minute, so they can breathe. But dolphins can stay under the water for six or seven minutes, if he holds his breathe. The dolphin breathes in his head because he has a blowhole in his head that allows him to breathe. Dolphins have a lot of teeth to help them eat. Each dolphin has almost one hundred teeth in his mouth...
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Dolphins Readis Book
581 wordsBook Report Anne McCaffery created a great book series, The Dragon Riders of Pern, and the one I? m reviewing is, The Dolphins of Pern, she made me think that I was on another planet trying to become a Dolphineer. This 340 page, Sci-fi/Fantasy book has everything, adventure, danger, surgery and dragons. This book starts on the planet Pern, a land where Earth? s descendants started to colonize. Pern is a planet with dragons and dolphins and many other strange things. The protagonist is a young bo...
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Final Act Doesn T
875 wordsThe Awakening by, Kate Chopin Edna Pontillier Wants to Swim Edna Pontillier is a woman playing the role of the wealthy New Orleans housewife. She has a generous husband, children, financial stability, and a great deal of friends. What she also has, unfortunately, is a kind of generic happiness that is the result of such a conventional society. Edna begins to change, and like a small chip of ice breaking away from a huge iceberg, she heads out into the ocean alone. It seems that it s almost not p...
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Chopin The Awakening Edna Pontellier
1,398 wordsEdna's Struggle for Power in Chopin's The Awakening Kate Chopin's The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother living in the upper crust of New Orleans in the 1890 s. It depicts her journey as her standing shifts from one of entrapment to one of empowerment. As the story begins, Edna is blessed with wealth and the pleasure of an affluent lifestyle. She is a woman of leisure, excepting only in social obligations. This endowment, however, is hindered greatly by her gen...
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Mental And Emotional Physical Mental
838 wordsMany different symbols were utilized in Kate Chopin's The Awakening to illustrate the underlying themes and internal conflict of the characters. One constant and re-emerging symbol is the sea. The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, clo...
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Began To Swim Bottlenose Dolphins Ocean
450 wordsThe Magnificent Encounter Humans have had a long history of encounters with animals. There are many occurences of humans coming into contact with animals. Dolphins are wild creatures. At the same time, how can they be the gentlest creatures? They come swimming right up to people and they do not even hesitate or back away. They somehow trust people. Their almost perfectly shaped bodies glide through the water like the wind gliding across the endless ocean. I was walking along the sandy white beac...
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