Marina's Short Story: Sea Biomes

In A Place Where the Sea Remembers, Sandra Benitez invites us into a mesmerizing world filled with love, anger, tragedy and hope. This rich and bewitching story is a bittersweet portrait of the people in Santiago, a Mexican village by the sea. Each character faces a conflict that affects the course of his or her life. The characters in this conflict are Remedios, la curandera of the small town who listens to people’s stories and gives them advice, Marta, a 16 year old teenage girl, who was raped and became pregnant. Chayo is Marta’s big sister and Calendario is Chayo’s husband. Justo Flores, his conflict is person vs. self. One of the most important conflicts in this story is person vs. person, then person vs. supernatural followed by

After Robert proposes a swim, everyone is ready to follow him, but he lingers at the rear of the crowd with the two lovers. The Pontelliers and Ratignolles walk ahead, and Mrs. Pontellier wonders why Robert sometimes chooses not to spend every waking minute with her. She misses him whenever he's not there. The walk to the beach provides a lot of sensory stimulation: people are singing; the sea, earth, and flowers each gives off a pungent smell; and the seascape appears calm and mystical. Mrs. Pontellier, who has been trying to learn how to swim the entire summer, suddenly and miraculously begins to swim through the ocean, much to the surprise of her companions. Feeling strong and exuberant, she swims out alone and suddenly panics. When she

On a quiet day, long ago, a young girl sat in the field where her father worked. Bianca’s hair was long, dark, and coarse complementing her caramel skin. She sat, eyes closed, taking in the warm June day. The corn, the air and the soft songs that the workers sang in the fields made Bianca smile. “Bianca! cariño! It is time to go Bianca! Andale! ” yells her father from across the fields. She rises to her feet, brushes the red, clay dust off of her shawl, and begins to walk home. She walks hand in hand with her father as the sunset in Veracruz, Mexico sets. As they approach their humble home, the smell of enchiladas and frijoles wash over them. The savory aroma entrances Bianca and her father and as if it were planned a faint “Mmmmmmmm” slips between both of their lips under their breath.

From the rumbling murmurs of the sea lies a mystery sailors and explorers have tried to find and exploit to the world (P), a thought-to-be-myth rooted deep into history that may or may not inhabit the gentle sea waves: mermaids. According to Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, a mermaid is “in folklore, [a] sea-dwelling creature commonly represented as having the head and body of a woman and a fishtail instead of legs” (Mermaid). Stories of these beings began way back thousands of years ago, claims of sightings all over the world from ocean sailors to locals bound to the coast. Along with the growth of these stories are the theories that make us question what these beauties really were, from either a stout sea manatee to a big change in evolution. The question whether

Sophie thinks about the snorkeling trip she took, and the data she got that could save the coral reefs. She was scared to present the idea to the room of scientists until Sam came up to her. He gave her confidence to walk up to the podium and present her research, which the scientists

“Um. Are you so sure about this?,” I asked Kate, my softball teammate. My voice was crackling like a fire pit. ”Of course! It’s so fun! I love the wave pool!” she replied. I turned around and looked at Jenna, another one of my teammates. “Don’t worry. You don’t have to go if you don’t want to,” she said. Her voice calm. Like the water, I didn’t want to go in. Before I could reply, Kate dragged me in. Oh boy! This wave pool is going to be wild! I thought to myself. Around 5 minutes later, I chilled out. I was talking with Libby and Ashley. They are two more of my teammates. Suddenly, I heard a siren. Jenna saw I looked puzzled and she told me,”That siren means the waves are coming.” I am a nervous wreck!, I thought.

The sun was shining that morning, there was a cool breeze in the air. The day started off at Joanns parents house. The finishing touches of her make up were being applied, her niece, a culinary student at Johnson and Whales, was cooking a pot of soup in the kitchen. The lovely smell of poatao and asparagus filled the air.

A symbiotic sigh that represents peace between her primal creation and the spiritual universe, she maneuvers with ease. If you can (chew on a handful of mind granola with me for a moment, or channel your preferred inner-hippy metaphor) suspend your soul in a vast sea of liquid: what would this boundlessness, submersion do to your inner-core? Or, if that is a bit too outer-spacey for you, who are you in the moment your body leaves the poolside edge, and your glisading through the inner-fold of soft, water, literally no longer active in your current environment? My suspected answer is "yourself" In that moment, with the weight of the sea upon you: you are no one other than YOU. Often lore has taken liberties with the mermaid persona, attributing her characters to a vain or selfish, but this holds no weight. In fact, "mermaid spirits" are so attuned to their creation, they struggle to find meaning on land, or to find purpose in a world that ardently strives to dissolve them into

Life under the deep blue sea is a life filled with adventure, bliss, and freedom. Living in the vast blue ocean must be so wonderful having the opportunity to swim with a vast multitude of aquatic life. Hans Christian Andersen and Disney both describe a life lived under the deep blue sea in their own rendition of “The Little Mermaid.” Both stories explore the life of a young mermaid maiden who wishes to have love, although each story love is being sought after for a different reason, outside of her own little sea world and in the world of the humans. Humans interest this little mermaid not only because of the difference in how they look, but also by their anatomy and body movements, and the fun they have on the surface. However, the main ideas

The water lapped against the side of the lifeboat and salt spray stung Pierce’s face. He wiped a ragged sleeve across his face and irritated eyes and squinted toward the horizon. In every direction the ocean stretched, blinding with sun-glare. I should have just sunk with the ship, he thought. Or just roll out of the boat now. Will starving to death be any better?

Beneath the deep blue ocean was an enormous kingdom. There lived a little mermaid named, Ariel, she had green, glossy fins, hair red as roses, eyes blue like the sky, and when she sings all you can think of is happiness. Ariel is one of a kind she is fearless, adventurous, and passionate in discovering treasures from the lands above. She loves watching the humans sail their ships, exploring the sunken ships, and collecting human treasures within. With her are her best friends, Flounder who is curious as Ariel and Sebastian who looks after them. She would go far and wide into the vast oceans in search of new treasures.

The Little Mermaid was very fond of the world above the sea where humans live and where there are many trees of green and flowers with scents. Most nights she and her sisters would go to the surface of the water and watch the ships sail by, or go towards the land and see the towns with lights and forests of green trees. However, the Little Mermaid loved going to the surface alone and search

One day when he pulled in the net he saw something sparkling. At first he thought it was a doll. But he looked closer, he saw that it was a little mermaid, only two or three feet long.

Australia is one of the main coal producing countries in the world, ranking the first in coal export and the fourth in the coal production in 2012 (International Energy Agency 2012). On global scale, coal accounted for a third of primary energy needs and 41.1% of electricity generation in 2014, when its production reached 8022.5 Mt (World Coal Association 2015).

It was a brilliant day, not a cloud in sight. She had been chosen to go on an expedition with her other colleagues to explore the atlantic ocean and different species located in this ocean. The day was a beauty, but she had never really been much of a swimmer. Ever since she had been young she had never really liked the water, loved to study and explore it but was not one to swim in it. She always had the feeling that she was invading the home of sea creatures whenever her cousins or siblings would force her to jump in. 20 people were aboard the mother boat called Belle, but of the 20 only 8 were willing to swim. A smaller boat was lowered down so it would be easier for the swimmers to climb into when they tired.