Penguins
When Jasmine Jean said “Our wings serve as flippers that carry us across the ocean; not in the sky! Why, us penguins have so much fun time in the water, we don't even want to fly,” she highlighted a specific characteristic that defined the word penguin. Penguins are seabirds which cannot fly on the air; they live in the Southern oceans. Another definition for penguins is non-domestic small animal that has feathers, beak, and modified wings. In “ The Adelie Penguin,” Ainley (2002) states that “the word penguin, which is from the Spanish penguigo, means fat, referring to the large quantity of fat found on auks, northern hemisphere counterparts to the penguin. Also, the word pinguis, which is from the Latin, means fat.” The discovery of the first penguins were in 1520 according to the history of Magellan’s circumnavigation. Actually, the studies show that there are 18 species of penguins in the world.
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Penguins’ feathers usually are black, grey, blue in the upper parts and white underneath and The colors of the crests and the head or bill change; the feathers helps penguins to swim because the feathers gets tied and do not let the water going in. Reilly (1918) states “the fact that penguins in the Antarctic, they have a problem of losing heat, but have to lose heat by fluffing up their feathers.” the feathers of the penguins also keep them safe of their predator, some species can camouflage with the sand in the ocean. The second reason of why penguins are birds appreciably the feathers has the answer to question why. But not only is the feathers a physical characteristic of birds in penguins, penguins does not have teeth but they have beak which use as the other birds use it for eating, feeding their babies and other activities as any other birds do. The diet is eating fish or squid because of their beak and
The Awakening and “Mad Men” both utilize birds as symbols of freedom to contrast with the constrainment of Edna and Betty’s lives. The birds are initially caged, similar to how Edna and Betty were first kept under control as housewifes by their husbands, but when the doors to the bird cage were opened, the birds were able to fly free. When Edna and Betty had an opportunity for independence, they were unable to move on the ground. Birds in both the Awakening and “Mad Men” symbolize the freedom and independence Edna Pontellier and Betty Draper yearn for, yet are unable to attain which highlights the immobilization of women in society.
In Dashiell Hammet’s The Maltese Falcon, the "black bird" serves as a crucial link connecting Sam Spade and Brigid O’ Shaughnessy. The black bird functions as the structural bond of Spade and Brigid’s relationship because it represents their greed and desire for wealth. Hammet points out that the Brigid’s greed for the bird causes her to utilize detective Spade as a tool: "Help me, Mr. Spade. Help me because I need help so badly, and because if you don’t where will I find anyone who can, no matter how willing?" (Hammet 35). This quotation illustrates Brigid’s submissiveness and dependency on Mr. Spade to help her. But later she becomes the dominant figure when she utilizes her monetary wealth to her advantage: “She opened handbag with nervous fingers and put two hundred-dollar bills on Spade’s desk” (Hammett 9). Spade admits his greed when he says, he only “believed [Brigid’s] two hundred dollars” (Hammett 33) and not her story. The narrator illustrates how Spade views money as an adequate payment for his time. Spade and Brigid represent both the real black bird and the fake black bird because of their faulty façade, which cover up their true personalities.
Imagine someone looking to their right, and being met with the sight of a beautiful meadow, flowers swaying from the soft breeze of the clear blue sky, the sun shining brightly in the distance. Said someone widens their eyes, and concentrates hard on their surroundings, to the point where it feels like they’re one with nature. Now suddenly, the scene changes, as the person is now, this time around, turning to their left, and seeing a dark, gloomy, night sky, dead plants and birds littered across the dirty path ahead. Would they feel any different? Similar to this figurative situation, the short story “The Birds”, by Daphne du Maurier perfectly captures how the use of imagery affects human emotions. Her descriptive language regarding the weather,
The novel Aleutian Sparrow, tells the unknown story of Vera, an Aleut who is forced to leave the Aleutian Islands after the Japanese navy’s attack seven months after Pearl Harbor. After the Japanese attack the village evacuated to the forests of Southeast Alaska. Through the first months after being relocated the Aleut’s try to adjust to life in the internment camp, but struggle without their pre-existing culture resources and their native land. Throughout the progression in the novel Vera and some of her other friends and family find jobs in Ketcyikan, a neighboring town that is approximately eight miles away, however, still struggle to live happily. The remaining of the novel documents, the Aleut’s on-going struggles with poverty, discrimination,
Today we will be taking about the Duck Billed Platypus, we will be seeing that makes them different. The first thing we will start out with is their appearance. The Platypus has brown waterproof fur and a flat tail like a beaver they also have a bill and webbed feet like a duck. They next thing I will talk about a Platypus diet. A Platypus mainly eat insects and larvae, shellfish, and worms but because Platypus have no teeth they use gravel they scoop up to break up there food. Platypus are also Carnivore meaning they only eat meat or flesh. Next we will talk about the Platypus defenses. When swimming the Platypus have folds of skin covering their eyes and ears to prevent water from entering, and the nostrils close with a watertight
Life-altering decisions are often difficult to make and the long term consequences are rarely seen. For Sylvia, she had to make a difficult choice early in life. This particular choice could make her family richer but at the cost of a beautiful white heron seen by only a select few. In the end, Sylvia must decide between her personal happiness or to preserve the nature around her instead.
In 1886, author Sarah Orne Jewett wrote a short story “A White Heron.” The premise of the story revolves around a young girl, Sylvia, who is uprooted from her home in the city and taken by her grandmother, Mrs. Tilley, to live out in the middle of a forested, country culture. Sylvia, a nine year old girl, is quiet and shy but goes about business of caring for the family cow where life was so different from the “crowded, manufacturing town”(p.1598) she came from. For the first time in her short life Sylvia understood what it truly felt like to be alive. It is important to understand Sylvia’s character to truly understand the significance of the tree and Sylvia climbing to the top. Personal growth and maturity is an expectation of living but getting the opportunity to experience it in the country, on a farm, is paramount to the changes Sylvia experiences.
Thanks to evolution, Penguins have evolved into a group of aquatic, fightless birds, that are highly adapted to life in the ocean. This not only makes them one of the divergent and strange species of birds, but also has allowed them to become such a sucessful species. Penguins are mostly located in the Southern hemisphere ranging anywhere from the Galapogos to the Antartic. Throughout their lives, Penguins spend around half their time in the ocean doing things such as catching food and the other half on land raising their young. Their distinct tuxedo-like apperience called countershading camoflages their bodies, protecting them from predators above and below. Through out the “stepping stones”, the penguins grew to have a dense bone containing
In this excerpt from “A White Heron,” Sarah Orne Jewett tells of a young girl, Sylvia, climbing a tree as high as she can and staring out over the world from on top. Through her use of birdlike imagery, a varying narrative pace, and unique point of view, Jewett presents Sylvia as a young heroine conquering a small piece of the world.
In Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds he uses the unreal intelligence of the birds to have the humans in the film be treated like animals. Having nature fight back for its place in the food chain. This all starts with the birds attacking Melanie in the boat in the beginning of the movie. In the scene the camera is in a high angle when the bird attacks, then the camera cuts to a close up of the drop of blood falling from her head. The way that the shot is framed with a close up of the drop of blood on her hand helps foreshadow the doom that is getting ready to come upon her and the rest of the town. This only being the first occurrence they find it not necessary to investigate any more, but is not until later during the school house scene that the
Simply saying penguins are endangered is not suffice. There are many kinds of penguins, each having its own status of vulnerability and danger. Just like all other living things, penguins have a Scientific Classification. Theirs is as follows. The class they are in is the Aves. This class includes all birds. The Order they are in is called the Sphenisciformes, followed by the only Family under it, the Spheniscide. Both of these include all penguins, living and extinct. Moving down, the only point with variation is that of the species. Most scientists agree that there are seventeen species of penguins, with a select few recognizing eighteen instead. (del Hoyo, 1992). See Chart A
Throughout the novel, The Awakening, Kate Chopin uses images of birds to symbolize Edna Pontellier’s quest to be free from society’s oppressions. Through analyzing the symbolization and foreshadowing behind the images, the rise and fall of Edna’s path to liberation creates a more powerful message about what freedom really means.
Peregrine falcons are found in every single part of the world except Antarctica. They were
Throughout the novel The Awakening, author Kate Chopin uses the symbol of a bird in order to depict Edna’s desire for freedom and independence. In the selected passage, the symbolization of the caged bird, as well as the foreshadowing of the bird’s downfall, represents Edna’s struggle for freedom against society’s expectations and prejudices. This passage also uses flashbacks through Edna’s memory and imagination in order to encourage her journey toward individuality. Chopin uses figurative language, narrative structure, and foreshadowing in order to highlight the symbolism of the bird and to emphasize Edna’s desire for freedom from the oppression of society.
There are four different species of Puffin that are found inhabiting the colder conditions of the northern Atlantic which are the Atlantic Puffin, the Tufted Puffin, the Horned Puffin, and the Rhinoceros Auklet that despite its name and differing appearance remains one of the four Puffin species in existence today. Puffins are small sized birds that have thick black and white plumage that helps to keep them warm in the cold conditions of the northernmost, Northern Hemisphere. They have black necks, backs and wings with white underparts and whitish feathers on the sides of the face. Their feet and legs are adull yeallow colour during the colder winter months, changing to a bright orange during the breeding seasons. Puffins have broad, flattened