As I ease into the yellowish water, sandy running shoes around my neck and small dog wriggling under my arm, I become aware of a faint and unfamiliar sour musky odor. This better be worth it.
I expect it will be. One-time Sonoma County resident Robert Louis Stevenson is said to have developed the setting for Treasure Island on the California coast. For many of my generation and older, that is the tale that launched a thousand ships, pirate vessels all, in dreams of sudden and incalculable wealth. Decades later, any hope of sudden material wealth has slipped away like fog under a midmorning sun. But a greater wealth hinted at in the book remains, even if it is only attainable during the odd vacation week every year – the wealth of enriching experience and wonder.
Which brings me back to the Sonoma coast and Gualala Point Regional Park. The park is a County facility, and offers one of the shrinking number of public beaches where dogs are welcome. Provided they are on six-foot leashes, that is. Such a diminishment of the dog’s world is nothing compared to that of the snowy plover’s. The plover is a six-inch sandpiper, nearly invisible in its shoreline environment, whose very existence is uncertain due to development of California’s coast and trampling of beaches and dunes and cryptic eggs in the sand. A dog’s merry chase may seem harmless – no bird caught, ever – and yet still doom another chance for a tiny bird’s future.
So we were happy to be on the beach with our dogs,
2nd Term Book Report Analysis of ConflictThere are many conflicts throughout the book to help the story move forward. Without the conflicts the story would be boring and uneventful. The main conflict of the book treasure island is the treasure. The pirates drink too much rumm so they are drunk for the whole book, this is a book about about pirates anyway. They are challenged by Flint's former crew members who are apparently pirates. I think that all the conflicts are important because the present challenges to Jim throughout the book. Another conflict of the book is when the squire blabbed that they had the treasure map. This caused their crew to be made up of greedy pirates who want the treasure and will do anything for it. One of these people was silver This
Treasure Island was an interesting book that I made lots of connections to. Treasure Island was a different type of book I have ever read before it had more of a Shakespeare like writing to it. I like that it always had a lot of detail, I made a mental map of the places all the characters were because there was so much detail. The connections I will talk about are some people connections, place connections, and then I will talk about what quote I thought summed up the book.
That article was very informative, and it was interesting to read that Santa Rosa Island is home to some of the oldest sites of civilization on the Pacific Coast. The information that midden can reveal about a population is fascinating because they reveal how people ate and how they lived. The article also illustrated how the indigenous people industrious. For example, the site uncovered evidence of “distinctive stone points and tool-making debris”, also they were able to move the location of the shell mounds more inland to in an effort to better preserve them, so they had to have a method for transporting the large amounts of abalone shells. In addition, the article explained how shells and “radiocarbon” play a key role in revealing that people
The study was carried out in San Clemente Island (SCI; 118° 30’ W, 33° 00’ N), the southernmost of the California Channel Islands, located approximately 109 km west of San Diego, California (Fig. XX). The SCI is under the administration and management of U.S. Navy and is not open to civilians, except by the permission of the naval authorities. The island covers 14,764 ha (147.64 km2) area extending 34 km north-south and ranges in width from 2.5-6.5 km. The diverse topography of the island (a steeply sloping eastern side and gently sloping marine terraces of western side), is the result of tectonic and climatic dynamics (Raab and Yatsko 2009), which produce a greater spatial variability in temperature, wind, rainfall, and fog (Moody 2000). The island experiences an arid Mediterranean-type climate characterised by cool, wet winters and hot, dry summers. It receives an average of 130 mm of rainfall annually (U.S. Dept. of the Navy 2002) with most precipitation (95%) between November and April, the wet season (Yoho et al. 1999). Temperatures are relatively moderate throughout the year with average mean summer and winter temperatures of 18°C and 14°C, respectively. Soil are predominantly clayey and fine loamy with Vertisols morphology (Muhs et al. 2007).
Readers asked and Sophronia listened! Be sure to check out the updated editions of this Christian Steam Pulp series! Unified point of view and softened dialect should make for a superior steam and gear experience! Tea and mechanicals all around!
While some differences between the print version and the film version of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson are noticeable, the similarities are striking. The film left out many details from the book, I guess to make the atmosphere more suspenseful.
There are animals in this area that are endangered like the Piping Plover. This species of bird is found along the shoreline and due to the loss of habitat, they are on their way to being extinct. Help boost the species population, there is a designated part of the beach that volunteers are keeping maintained for the benefits of the Piping Plover. The Piping Plover (Figure 7) is having great lengths taken for them to
The foaming tide licked at the black sand, producing whispers in the early morning air. A seabird threw his voice out in greeting as the sun crested the open water. It flew low over the beach, looking for small crustaceans to devour. Finally the bird settled for the snails that could be found clinging to the underside of driftwood. She landed atop a large driftwood log and began to pick off the tiny invertebrates. Suddenly the seabird launched herself into the sky with a flurry of feathers and indignent squaks.
The area of my observation for this assignment is located off the Lakeshore running path. It is near the edge of Lake Mendota and it is close to Dejope Dining Hall. I observed this area on November 29th at around 3:05 p.m. The wildlife environment that I observed consisted of an assortment of dead plants and leaves on the ground. Near the edge of the water stands a slanted tree that is almost touching the water. The path towards the water’s edge is now accessible to walk towards due to the lack of shrubs now present. In close proximity to where I stood, there is a small patch of land and a prutting log in the lake where ducks and seagulls gathered to rest on. A few feet away from the edge of the land where a female and a male duck swam towards the log.
Treasure Planet takes place in a more futuristic time place. There are many characters that are not humans, more alien or animal-like people, there’s cyborgs, and spaceships. The story takes place mainly through Jim Hawkins perspective, a young, rebellious boy with family problems. After getting told by a space blob to, “Beware of the Cyborgs,” he is given (well…he took) a spherical object from the blob’s treasure chest. This spherical object turns out to be the map to Treasure Planet, which is a place where all explorers want to be to find treasure. Jim and Dr. Livesey find a crew and venture out to find Treasure Planet. However, many problems occur on the way.
Most of the people who decide to spend their vacation in an exotic place usually do that to relax and refill their energy supply and, undoubtedly, Bali is a great choice for that. A large number of travelers who visited this beautiful island can confirm that Bali isn’t referred to as Paradise Island without a reason.
So the heron cam by later that day when the animals were done playing around. Now it was time for the heron to fish. He walked into the water, pulled one of his legs up and he was ready. A very nice little minnow swam by and the heron didn’t even bother to look at it because it wasn’t good enough for him. Then almost right after an awesome stickleback swam by and this time the heron glanced at it but didn’t even try to catch it. Many other fish swam by and still the heron didn’t even care. Then finally, the best looking big perch swam by and the heron surprisingly didn’t care one bit. “You missed an amazing one there Mr.Heron.” Said one of the animals along the
published in 1886 and written by the same author, Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island is a
Crucial to Little Women and Treasure Island is Amy March’s and Jim Hawkins’ journey abroad which also shows the characters trajectory from innocence to maturity. Certainly, both novels belong to the sub-genre of bildungsroman which is by definition, a story that depicts a journey from childhood to maturity. In spite of their different goals and outcomes, it is possible to trace some sort of parallelism between both journeys as they were indirectly intended to shape their characters in line with the social norms of that time.
Robert Kiely and I hold similar views on Treasure Island. Throughout the novel, there is this fictional element that Robert Louis Stevenson integrates within the novel. He tries to release the reader from reality and let them enter the fictional world of Jim Hawkins, and he does so by “getting rid first of geographical place and time present and all the demands that go with them” (Kiely). By doing so, I believe that Stevenson effectively creates an atmosphere about the novel that allows the reader to realize that this is an enjoyable fiction adventure novel; thus, allowing the reader to fully understand and immerse in the characters. Some people may argue about the purpose of Jim