... Organism Physiology Paper The Sea Lion is the Organism that I want to discuss in this paper today. It has a highly controversial on weather this animal was a land walker only and when it actually acclimated to water, and why. After spending numerous hours researching this organism, it is still unclear to me when and why this animal changed its environment to include water. It is believed by many in the scientific world that the Sea Lion was a land dweller and became a water creature due to not have enough food in its land environment. “It's long been assumed that marine mammals in the pinniped group – seals, sea lions and walrus – evolved from a land-based common ancestor, but until now, no definitive fossil evidence had materialized” (Harmon, 2009). The animal would have had four legs that would have become webbed after its transfer to water. Its adaptation would have allowed it to survive under water for longer periods as well. The creature would have more than likely looked like the picture below if this is an accurate depiction of its ancestry. [pic] Its evolution would have included, being able to walk on land with paws that grip the earth, breathe air always to changing itself allowing it to breathe underwater and swim like a fish. Its paws slowly formed to fin like water movers however it still is able to move about on land. The creature shown above is...
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...“This place has a very eerie feeling to it.”, Says my husband, Brendan, who is a new resident to Reno, Nevada. We are in the heart of downtown Reno, but within the heart of downtown Reno is what feels like a hidden gem inside of the crater hole that is Reno, Idlewild, or what younger me would call it “The lion head park”. If you are not from Reno or don’t know the area very well, like my husband, Idlewild Park would not feel like it was anywhere near downtown. Secluded from the chaos of downtown, and surrounded by tall trees, duck ponds, a rose garden, the California Building, a sensory garden, and a skate park. As a child, in the late 1990’s, this area felt like my very own version of Disneyland. As you pull into the street where the park is located, to the left is a skate park, occupied with your usual adolescent “skaters” going up, down, or through the dips and curves of the cement ramps. A place where 16 year old me would spend late afternoons and weekends with the cool kids. To the right is a fairly large duck pond...
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...located in Giza. The statue has a body of a lion, and a head of a king. “The Sphinx was not assembled piece by piece, but was carved from a single mass of limestone exposed when workers dug a horseshoe-shaped quarry in the Giza plateau (Hadingham, 2010).” For the time period that this statue was erected it is quite impressive standing at roughly 66 feet tall and 240 feet long. Over the course of history the Sphinx has been buried several times in the sand, however now it is uncovered and on display to see. With the Sphinx’s age it has succumb to the elements and has been severely weathered and damaged. The original Sphinx had a nose but was smashed during the 15th century CE by Muslim troops “because their religion forbids images of a god (Putnam, 2011).” The Sphinx also had a braided beard that is thought to be added during restoration work sometime in the Eighteenth Dynasty. It is unlikely the braided beard was part of the original design because the beard was plaited. Those types of beards were depicted with gods and the deceased not kings and the...
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...201540 BIBL105 Oct 21, 2015 As Samuel, one of the last great judges, aged he made his sons, Joel and Abijah, judges. However, his sons did not follow in his steps, they were greedy, took bribes and perverted justice. Known as the “Sea Peoples,” the Philistines migrated across the Mediterranean in massive numbers during the time of the judges, taking the coastal plains during this time and pushing Israel into the hill country. Since the Philistines had a monopoly on the use of iron, they had a military advantage over Israel. The aggressive military behavior by the Philistines caused Israel to long for a king to fight their battles. The elders of Israel came to Samuel and insisted that he a select a king. The people wanted a king to govern them so that they may be like all the nations. Samuel warned them the ways of a king , he will take your sons to be his horsemen, to plow his ground, to reap his harvest and to make equipment. He will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers. He will take a tenth of your grain and your flocks and make you his slaves. “The day when you cry out because of the king whom you yourselves have chose; and the Lord will not answer you on that day” (I Samuel 9.16). But the people would not listen. There was a Benjamite, named Kish, a man of wealth and valor. He had a son Saul who was more handsome than most and a head taller than anyone. And Samuel said to all the people, Do you see him whom the Lord has chosen, that none like him is...
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...Experience Logs 2 Entry 1: “Madonna and Child” Studio of Raphel Sanzio Italian (1483-1520) This piece caught my eye when I was visiting the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art at Saint Gregory’s College on April 2. It was a piece done by Rhapel Sanzio, who was a child prodigy, and was a contemporary and equal of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Raphel was commissioned by the Pope Julius II to decorate the papal apartments in the Vatican. This piece is a copy of the “Connestable Madonna”, which was also painted by Raphel, and is in the Hermitage Collection in St. Petersburg. This copy is done with tempera and oil on wood panel, and depicts Madonna holding the holy child reading what is believed to be the Word. They are outside, and the background shows a tree, lake, and other natural landscapes. Entry 2: “Oklahoma Landscape” Connie Seabourn Ragan 1951- This is also a piece I saw when visiting the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art at Saint Gregory’s, painted by Connie Ragan, a local Cherokee artist. This piece stood out to me because of use of watercolor and the very entergetic, almost frenzied landscape the Ragan depicts. It very much breaks the traditional genre of early American landscape paintings. The very intense colors of the painting is balanced out between warm and cool parts of the painting. Overall it is very balanced with the elongated and shortened froms, and smooth and rough textures, and it is all punctuated by the small central black birds. Being from Oklahoma my whole...
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...cages. He gives a series of vivid imageries in nearly every line and this makes it easy for us the readers to picture the scene. The poem opens with a simple depressing and straight forward description of the apes “yawning” and adoring their fleas. By using long voweled words such as ‘yawn’ and ‘adore’ the poet manages to create a slow rhythm that creates two powerful images which suggest that the apes have nothing urgent to do, and so feel sleepy and tired due to the heat of the “sun”. I think that this line shows the monotonous and lazy behaviour of everyday life in the zoo. In the next cage the parrots are shrieking as they walk on heat. The poet compares the noisy and colourful birds to cheap prostitutes trying to attract clients. The lion and the tiger having been deprived of their habitat cannot do anything and are bored stiff. In the second stanza we have the metaphor of the boa-constrictor, which is coiled and motionless as if it were in this position for ages and has turned into a living fossil. In the second verse of the second stanza there is the repetition of the word “cage.”The poet uses repetition to emphasize on the monotonous appearance of the cage, which holds very little activity as all animals are confined and immobile. Stanzas one and two show that the entrapped animals cannot do much more than lazy about. In the wild they are active noble and dangerous but now they cannot express their instinct. I Instead they are obliged to lie about in a kind of stupor...
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...The Four Musicians of Bremen In the story a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster, all past their prime years in life and usefulness on their respective farms, were soon to be discarded or mistreated by their masters. One by one they leave their homes and set out together. They decide to go to Bremen, known for its freedom, to live without owners and become musicians there. On the way to Bremen, they see a lighted cottage; they look inside and see four robbers enjoying their ill-gotten gains. Standing on each others backs, they decide to perform for the men in hope of gaining food. Their 'music' has an unanticipated effect; the men run for their lives, not knowing what the strange sound is. The animals take possession of the house, eat a good meal, and settle in for the evening. Later that night, the robbers return and send one of their members in to investigate. It is dark and he sees the eyes of the Cat shining in the darkness. He reaches over to light his candle, thinking he sees the coals of the fire. Things happen in quick succession; the Cat swipes his face with her claws, the Donkey picks up his hooves and kicks him, the Dog bites him on the leg, and the Rooster crows and chases him out the door, screaming. He tells his companions that he was beset by a horrible witch who scratched him with her long fingers (the Cat), a man with a knife (the Dog), a monster who had hit him with a club (the Donkey), and worst of all, the devil who screamed from the rooftop (the Rooster)...
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... 22-42 The Cock and the Pearl The Frog and the Ox The Wolf and the Lamb Androcles The Dog and the Shadow The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts The Lion's Share The Hart and the Hunter The Wolf and the Crane The Serpent and the File The Man and the Serpent The Man and the Wood The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse The Dog and the Wolf The Fox and the Crow The Belly and the Members The Sick Lion The Hart in the Ox-Stall The Ass and the Lapdog The Fox and the Grapes The Lion and the Mouse The Horse, Hunter, and Stag The Swallow and the Other Birds The Peacock and Juno The Frogs Desiring a King The Fox and the Lion The Mountains in Labour The Lion and the Statue The Hares and the Frogs The Ant and the Grasshopper The Wolf and the Kid The Tree and the Reed The Woodman and the Serpent The Fox and the Cat The Bald Man and the Fly The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing The Fox and the Stork The Dog in the Manger The Fox and the Mask The Man and the Wooden God The Jay and the Peacock The Fisher 43-63 64-84 The Shepherd's Boy ...
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...by eating the blubber and leaving the meat the male bear is helping keep his body in balance with the surrounding environment. The bear would usually stay in a den or bury it self in the snow to avoid the suns ultra violent rays. Usually the pregnant female polar bear stays in the den.Food Chain-The polar bear finds its way on the top of its food chain. No predator on earth approaches the bear in size. The polar bear towers over everything else in his food chain. The only thing that could stop him is a human with a gun.Super Amazing Facts-The polar bear is well adapted to its special live style. The hairs of its thick coat are hollow, giving extra insulation against the bitter arctic cold. It also has an extra layer of insulating fat under its skin and the hairs on the polar bear are color less, when the sun hits them they look white. Polar bears are twice...
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...The sun came up over the African plain, hot and brilliant, just as it had done since the beginning of time. Today, the first rays of the morning sun fell on an astonishing sight. Across the vast Pride Lands, animals moved in great herds, heading for a single destination. Elephants plodded steadily. Antelope leaped through the grass. Giraffes loped. Cheetahs raced. Ants marched in a single line, while huge flocks of flamingoes winged across the sky. They were all journeying to Pride Rock to celebrate the birth of King Mufasa’s son. Above the gathering, on the top of Pride Rock, Rafiki, the wise, old mystic, approached King Mufasa and Queen Sarabi. He cracked open a gourd, dipped his finger in the liquid, and made a special mark on the infant’s forehead. Then he carried the cub to the edge of the rock and held it high. A loud cheer rose from the plain. Elephants trumpeted. Monkeys screeched. Zebras, rhinos, and a host of other animals stamped their hooves. Then a hush fell over the gathering. Together, the animals of Mufasa’s kingdom knelt before Simba, their new prince. Yet one family member did not attend the ceremony. Mufasa’s brother, Scar, had spent the entire morning toying with a mouse. He was just about to eat it when Zazu, the king’s majordomo, appeared. Startled, Scar turned, and the mouse scampered away. “Now look, Zazu, you’ve made me lose my lunch!” Scar complained. “You’ll lose more than that when the king gets through with you!” But Scar wasn’t...
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...Egypt developed very early and among the most notable areas is their early development in architecture. This is mostly attributed to… this paper will focus on critically analyzing two ancient works of Egyptian architecture; the Egyptian pyramids and the great temple of Ammon, Karnak. Design The ancient Egyptian pyramids are pyramid-shaped structures that were built as tombs for Pharoahs. The ancient Egyptians believed that the Pharaohs were chosen by God to serve as mediators between humans and gods, hence they were treated with a lot of respect. After their death, they were buried in pyramid together with their possessions that would be useful to them in their afterlife. The shape was also influenced by the belief that they were “launch pads” for the soul of the dead Pharaoh to the sky to live with the imperishable stars. Others believed the pyramids were a stairway for the souls of the Pharaoh to climb to the sky. There are no existing records of the building plans used to build the pyramids, and as a result most of the design schemes that people have come up with over the years are speculative. Different theories have been put forward as to why they were built in the shape of a pyramid.the most common is that this shape reflects the rays of the sun. In his book The Keys to the Temple, David Furlong (1997, pp ) believed that the ancient Egyptians worked on the plan of the pyramids in the form of a triangle, basing their calculations on the basic properties of a triangle...
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...Camels Camels are herbivores; they eat desert vegetation, such as grasses, herbs, and leaves. How do camels adapt to their environment? Camels have many adaptations that allow them to live successfully in desert conditions. Deserts are hot and dry. Winds blow sand all around, so a camel has long eyelashes. It has nostrils that can open and close. Why do camels have long eyelashes? The long eyelashes keep sand out of the camel's eyes. Thick eyebrows shield the eyes from the desert sun. Why does a camel have nostrils which can close? A camels nostrils can close so it doesn't get sand up its nose. Other Adaptations: 1. A camel can go a week or more without water, and they can last for several months without food. They can drink up to 32 gallons (46 litres) of water at one drinking session! 2. Camels store fat in the hump, not water. The fat can be metabolised for energy. 3. Unlike most mammals, a healthy camel's body temperature fluctuates (changes) throughout the day from 34°C to 41.7°C (93°F-107°F.) This allows the camel to conserve water by not sweating as the environmental temperature rises. 4. Camels feet are wide so they can walk on sand more easily. Their huge feet help them to walk on sand without sinking into it. 5. Camels have thick lips so they can eat the prickly desert plants with out feeling pain. 6. The colour of their bodies helps them to blend into their environment. 7. Camel's ears are covered with hair, even on the inside. The hair helps keep...
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...A Tale of Three Lions Haggard, Henry Rider Published: 1887 Type(s): Short Fiction, Adventure Source: http://www.gutenberg.org 1 About Haggard: Henry Rider Haggard was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, to Sir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet. He was the eighth of ten children. He was initially sent to Garsington Rectory in Oxfordshire to study under the Reverend H.J. Graham but, unlike his older brothers who graduated from various Public Schools, he ended up attending Ipswich Grammar School. This was because his father, who regarded him as somebody who was not going to amount to much, could no longer afford to maintain his expensive private education. After failing his army entrance exam he was sent to a private ‘crammer’ in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the British Foreign Office, which in the end he never sat. Instead Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, Sir Henry Bulwer. It was in this role that Haggard was present in Pretoria for the official announcement of the British annexation of the Boer Republic of the Transvaal. In fact, Haggard raised the Union Flag and was forced to read out much of the proclamation following the loss of voice of the official originally entrusted with the duty. As a young man, Haggard fell deeply in love with Lilith Jackson, whom he intended to marry once he obtained paid employment in South Africa...
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...His emerald eyes looked straight into Alan’s. It’s always Miles Cross road, because it follows the ley line. Something black, be it horse, scooter, or rolling deckchair, will pass by first. Leave that one. Close behind, but not necessarily right there will be something brown. The white, white horse, is what I’ll be riding. I’ll be dressed up, and you need to pull me down. He had lain his head on Alan’s shoulder then, curled up in his arms. I’m going to turn into things. Some sort of snake, a lion. A burning brand of iron. I don’t know what order it might be. It sounds scary, but any harm you take will go away once I’m safe. I’ve seen it. Hold me tight, don’t let go until I am the burning brand. Then, find the nearest water and throw me in. Protect me then, and I’ll be...
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...Christian Worldview of Leadership Introduction The Christian worldview of leadership is distinctly different from most secular views on the subject. In the secular, leadership tends to be viewed primarily in terms of a company’s bottom line and how well the leader can urge employees to produce more and better work. That view is profit-centered rather than person-centered, and it does not give much attention to employees’ human needs and qualities nor on how developing excellent work relationships can promote productivity. In the Christian worldview, however, people are key, and their human needs are important. The leader in the Christian worldview understands how meeting employees’ needs promotes the kind of productivity desired and how developing strong work relationships can do more for the company’s success than micromanaging or other forms of harassment can achieve. This paper will discuss the characteristics of a leader and the keys of leadership, group behavior, and conflict management and resolution from the Christian perspective. Leadership Today’s business leaders often have difficult tasks to achieve in turning around failing companies and galvanizing an overworked workforce fearful of losing their jobs, but their tasks do not outweigh those of the great Biblical leaders, such as Moses, who led the Israelites out of bondage, or David, who had to slay the giant before becoming a leader. The characteristics of a leader in the Biblical context still differs...
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