Edmontosaur Analysis

“A minority disputes this theory, arguing that other events-such as volcanic eruptions, sea-level changes or a series of impacts-were to blame for the spectacular loss of species that occurred at the transition between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods…”

People tend to get fed up with life most of the time. They somehow always end up running away from their problems, or they end up pushing them away. Since Christopher McCandless was irritated by being around people, he decided to leave Atlanta for a journey to Alaska. McCandless’s journey to Alaska in 1990 was made because of the conflicts he had with others, the conflicts he had with himself, and the conflicts he had with nature once he got to his destination in Alaska.

In the context of this story, the important men are those who had influence in Abina’s life and can also be defined as wealthy, and/or landowning, men who were fluent in English (57). This is evident by looking at the various encounters throughout Abina’s story, for instance James Davis is considered an important man since he was the one who helped Abina formally charge Quamina Eddoo and indirectly etched Abina into history through the paper to the magistrate (13). Quamina is also an important man as his mistreatment and coercion of Abina ultimately thrusts our protagonist on her journey to freedom (83). While Quamina Eddoo is a land owner, he is more notably an important man because of his relationship with the commerce of slaves in the

While the author of the article believes that Brachiosaurus were aquatic animals, the professor disagrees with this statement. The professor points out that in spite of the fact that some species of dinosaur would spend a great deal of time in water, there was no possible that Brachiosaurus were aquatic ones. To strengthen her point, the professor provides sufficient evidence respectively to the points made in the article.

Many authors relate their own lives into the stories that they write as a way to express their feelings. Edwidge Danticat's life in Haiti affected much of her writing and she likes to relate her life into her books. A few ways she did relate her life into the book ‘Untwine’ is by writing about the death that she experienced, using her Haitian descent in the character's life, by making the character love art just as much as she does, and having the characters parents immigrate from Haiti just like her and so many of her family members did.

A good story is always structured with details that are easy to follow while intriguing readers with reality and emotions. Edwidge Danticat’s memoir has proven her ability to use descriptions that allows the text and the readers to connect. Through her writing, she is able to get the reader involved in her situation, so that it is as if they are experiencing it too. Adding on, Danticat cleverly writes each type of description in a way that makes them distinct from each other. This connects the two which adds to her message. Descriptions bring life to her story and stresses the real events that happened to her and her family which displays her message effectively. That being said, without objective and subjective descriptions, any piece

The question of what caused the extinction of megafauna during the Late Pleistocene period is one that archaeologists have struggled to answer for decades, but why should it matter? Discovering with certainty the cause of megafaunal extinction would

Sedimentary rocks interpret dinosaur habitats through encased environmental structures of the past. Through sedimentary rocks, paleoecologists’ can examine the arranged formation of sedimentary structures to specify what type of environment the dinosaurs’ lived in. An example of a specific sedimentary rock structure can be seen through formed weathering and ripple marks by how wind and sand formed distinct patterns in the past layered sediment. These arrangements provide interpretations on the structure of the sediment and the habitat of encased fossils, through modern day comparisons

Firstly, the professor suggests that although edmontosaurs fed only on plants, they do not have to migrate to warmer places. The sunshine lasted for twenty-four hours and the temperature and sunlight created an excellent condition for plants to grow. Even in winter, there are still nutrition left in the dead plants which can provide enough energy for edmontosaurs. It is not possible that edmontosaurs migrate south to survive the winter as the reading passage asserts.

The reading passage proposes three theories which support the idea that a dinosaur which is called edmontosaurus survived in the winter by migrating to the south, the more hospitable region than the extremely cold in the North Slope. However, the professor in the listening respectively contradicts each theory in the reading passage by using strong evidence as support.

Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild. Chapter One, “The Alaska Interior,” (pages 5 – 8). Villard, 1996.

Following the impulses of his romantic notions, Christopher McCandless finds himself ill-equipped in the Alaskan winter of 1992. A far cry from the “good life,” the terrain is “no picnic” with its “big and fast” rivers and “mosquitoes [that] eat [people] alive” (4-5). Within the forest lies the abandoned remains of a Faribanks City Transit System bus, an ominous reminder of what once was when man lived on the land. However, the vehicle eventually came to be recognized as a refuge for hunters during their expeditions. This all changed “in early

First, the reading avers that since in cold winter food could hardly found, the edmontosaur used to migrate to high temperature regions looking for plant food. While the professor demonstrates great disapproval to this analysis by stating that the edmontosaur didn't migrate in search of food. He then explains that about a hundred years ago the weather of North Slop was warm enough that let the vegetation grow in summer. How ever the vegetation might be died in winter but

First, the argument stated in the article readily assumes that dinasours fossils are located in the polar regions and this is the evidence to determine that dinasours were endhoterm. In contrast, the professor provides information that these polar regions were much warmer than today. In addition, she states that when the climate was so cold in these regions, dinasours were migrating or hibernating. That’s why we can not easily assume that dinasours were endhoterms.

This is appropriate, as both of these stories are aimed at being time capsules for a dying way of life as a means of cataloguing history. Just as Ishmael explained the art and trivialities of life as a whaler during the mid-1800’s, Hensley informatively outlines the activities and encounters regularly experienced by an Alaskan within an Indigenous community. These lifestyles met severe limitations, such as designating specific and exclusive roles for community members based on their sex (27&42-43); the importance of a cohesive community to promote surviving the open country (19); a lack of education to enable reading or writing skills (20); and the depravity of the people from basic medical and dental technologies available in other parts of the world, at the time (57). Gradually, it is explained how the rest of the world slowly poured into the territories of Alaska around the edges in the form of incoming trade shipments (65), the advancement of the film industry (62), and the encroachment of capitalist oil drilling (3).