Salt Water: The Joys Of Ocean Water

All of the characters in Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys showed exceptional courage, but Joana was perhaps the bravest of them all. Joana was fleeing from her home country of Lithuania when she joined a group of other refugees from many different countries. She took the role of a nurse in the group, and would care for all wounds or illnesses. Joana put her life on the line multiple times to save others, but perhaps the biggest risk she took was in letting Emilia join her group. Emilia was Polish, and would have gotten every single one of them killed if caught by a German soldier. Joana wanted to help everyone she could, and was willing to put her life on the line to do so.

Although Salt to the Sea is a story about things that have been lost and people enduring extreme hardships, it is also a story about hope, family and love. In the book Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys, almost all of the main characters go through extremely tragic and terrible events. However, these characters also experience family moments and happy times. Despite the fact that in times of war there is hardship, violence and death, love and family shines through the tragedy. It is the two youngest members of the group, Klaus and Emilia, who eventually find a family to love.

The 1954 film Salt of the Earth directed by Herbert J. Biberman, is set in New Mexico and is about the Hispanic miners working for Delaware Zinc, a mining company, and the plot of the movie is about how the miners go on strike till they are treated equally the same as the other non-Hispanic miners. The miners’ strike goes on for months and the company decides to hold out on the workers by scaring the old workers with new miners to take their jobs, and during that time the wives of the miners decided to take it upon themselves to put themselves on the frontlines with the men because the women are also fighting for something else sanitation. News gets out about the strike and many supporters send letters with money

World War Two resulted in a chaotic destruction that overwhelmed Europe. These feelings of dismay are concisely summarized in Ruta Sepetys’ Salt of the Sea.. An impactful quote states, “war had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.” The war in 1945 had drained any and all feelings of hope and spirit out of European people. In it’s wake, the war left a cloud of devastation and despair. Florian and Joana have to overcome this war, their fate, and guilt in order to return to their past selves and survive their journey in a German and Russian warzone.

Salinity and temperature are two common important factors apart of the water quality. Water everywhere is influenced by these two factors, even freshwater though the salinity is generally lower relative to other bodies of water. These two factors have certain ranges of values that generally remain constant. The normal ranges of these values are within the tolerance range of the directly affected living organisms. When one factor - temperature increases and then salinity decrease/increase to a significant level the effects would dramatically affect nearly all those living organisms. People would be affected as well when the salinity concentration increases. Excessive amounts could signify negative relationship between water pollution and health outcomes (Wang, Q., & Yang, Z., 2016). Salinity is not simply table salt, it contains other salts as well; salts are an ionic compound with many different varieties of other chemicals within them (Knowlton, 2001). With climate change and global warming in this generation there is an obligation to first find clarification of salinity and temperature, the significance, impacts, and the possible correlation between salinity and temperature

I examine how rising or falling tide can affect the water level of Corte Madera Salt Marsh in this report. The data is from Wednesday (June 19th) and Thursday (June 20th). My hypothesis is that tide and water level have positive relationship. From the result, I learn that the water level and tide have positive relationship. However, when tide changes its direction, the water level is likely to stay or little change.

The purpose of this experiment was to find the amount and percent of water in a hydrated salt. Hydrated salt contains water molecules chemically bound to it while anhydrous salt is a substance that fire can readily remove the water molecules. Using the gravimetric analysis method, the sample salt was measured, heated, and was measured again after cooled down to room temperature; this procedure allowed the weight of water lost in the salt to be obtained. After two trials, the water in the salt was determined to have an average percent water of -35.04%. The null hypothesis, the heat will not affect the amount of water lost, was rejected ,however, the alternative hypothesis, the heat will allow for there to be water lost, was not supported.

Many historical fiction novels recall well-known tragedies, but there is one novel in particular that tells the story of a covered catastrophe. Salt to the Sea, by Ruta Sepetys focuses on telling the unknown story of “the greatest maritime disaster in history,” the sinking of a German ship, the Wilhelm Gustoff, during World War II. Throughout telling the story, Sepetys portrays the theme of perseverance, as the characters face many challenges, but never give up. Despite the growing popularity of this novel, Sepetys did not gain her reputation from Salt to the Sea. Rather, she became the author she is today from her previously published novels, Between Shades of Grey and Out of the Easy. Septeys was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, but she is part Lithuanian. Growing up in the United States allowed Septeys the ability to attend Hillsdale College, where she received a bachelor’s degree in international finance. Like many others, I learned of Septeys’ work through her other novels. I have read both Between Shades of Grey and Out of the Easy, and thoroughly enjoyed them. Because I enjoyed her other works in a great deal, Salt to the Sea immediately made my “to-read” list. For this project, I knew I wanted to read a novel I would enjoy, and Salt to the Sea was sure to not disappoint.

The Salton Sea, sits just 49 miles away from the destination city of Palm Springs, and is the largest lake in California. Once a popular weekend destination, has now become a decaying, toxic, and smelly mess at a rapid pace. The large but shallow body of water is a looming environmental hazard where troubles will grow in coming years.

Should California start to desalinate Ocean water? California should not start to desalinate ocean water

“Salt, A World History,” is an extensive aspect of world history by Earth’s one edible rock - salt. The book begins at the start of recorded history, and highlights humanity’s dependence on salt, up to roughly present day times. It focuses on the effect salt had on, and its contributions to, humankind. The book details how salt affected, economics, religion, science, and culinary practices all over the world.

1. What is the composition of seawater? The salinity of seawater ranges from 3.3 to 3.7%. When seawater evaporates it leaves behind sodium chloride, better known as table salt. The other components of seawater are acquired through various methods. One of which is weathering. Chemical weathering of rock releases soluble such as salts of sodium, potassium, and sulfur.

Today I learned that more than 70% of the earth is covered by Oceans, which contain 97% of all the water on earth. Then I found out that the Human Body is 65 percent H2O. That’s when I discovered that ocean water is almost 3 percent salt. Aha I remembered tears and perspiration are salty, too. Now I wonder how salty my bodys water is compared to water in the pacific ocean.

“Although ocean water tastes like water with table salt (sodium chloride) dissolved in it, it is a lot more complex than that” (Friese 33). Pure sea water contains a vast amount of dissolved chemicals. It contains everything from sodium chloride to trace amounts of silver and gold. Although the inhabitants of a marine reef aquarium are not going to be effected if the water does not contain gold, they will not live long if all that is added is table salt (Friese 33). Marine salt mixes contain a similar collection of elements that are found in natural seawater.

Ocean water has characteristics similar to freshwater with some apparent differences because of all the salts dissolved in water. The salinity of seawater is usually 35 parts per thousand in most marine areas. The standard salinity of ocean water is 3.5% which means that 35 grams of salt dissolve in a liter of seawater. The salinity of different bodies of water inhibit organisms from thriving in both saltwater