The Extraterrestrial Turtle

The myth “The World on the Turtle's Back” tells the story of how a woman created the Earth by using dirt that she took with her when she fell from Sky-World. The myth shows how the beliefs of the Iroquois are quite different from mine because I believe there is a scientific explanation for how the world was created.

Life is unpredictable and no one could gifted with a foresight. I still remember that day when I boarded the plane, from China to America, up to eighteen hours of travel. When I step on the land of America, my life instantly changed. The exaggerated graffiti on the wall with a twisted smile looks like the one who is saying “Hi.” to me. When I go in to my “home”,mice and cockroaches are all around. The teen who stand near the door says, “Welcome to America.”

significantly impact loggerhead nesting by making many current or potential nesting sites unviable (Ehrhart et al.).

Neil Armstrong was fascinated with aviation from a very young age. He was first introduced to flight when he was taken to an air show as a toddler (Smolowe et al.). He took his first plane ride,

Logger Head Turtles are primarily carnivores for most of their lives, meaning they mainly eat other animals (Marine Bio, 2015). Hatchlings mostly eat sponges, jellyfish, sargassum weed, small gastropods and crustaceans (Marine Bio, 2015). Juveniles, sub-adults and adults feed on conch, clams, horseshoe crabs, as well as other crustaceans (Marine Bio, 2015). As the turtles grow, their jaws get stronger (Harrison, 2005). This helps them to eat much firmer food such as Horseshoe crabs and clams (Harrison, 2005). The loggerhead turtle sexual maturity is reached between 22 to 27 years of age (Environment, 2001). While it is not clear how long a juvenile loggerhead turtle will stay in the open ocean, once it moves to its feeding

Taylor decided to look for the woman that once gave Turtle to her. She got some information of the man who was still working in that same bar where she met the nervous woman. He informed Turtle that she goes sometimes always accompanying a dominant man. Taylor finally talked to the woman and realized that she is actually Turtle’s aunt. She even told Taylor the bad experiences Turtle has suffered at a young age. Secretly, the woman helped Taylor with her adoption, thus, Turtle who real name is April became Taylor’s legal daughter. She returned to Tucson with Lou Ann and Dwayne Ray and got some shocking information about Esperanza and Estevan. They decided to return to her homeland Guatemala with the loved and closed friends. But more

Turtles have been on this earth for more than 200 million years. They evolved before mammals, birds, crocodiles, snakes and even lizards. The earliest turtles had teeth and could not retract their heads, but other than this, modern turtles are very similar to their ancestors. Several species of turtle can live to be over a hundred years old, including the American Box Turtle.

The scientific name for the green turtle is Chelonia Mydas and they are a reptile that can grow up to anywhere from 3ft to 5ft. The green turtles typically weigh anywhere from 150 lbs. to 400 lbs. and have an average life span about 75 to 80 years. The green turtles evolved on land and descended to the sea to live about 150 million years ago, which makes them one of the species that have witnessed the dinosaur’s extinction.

When my brother and me were little we would get baby soft shell turtles from the River and keep them as pets.

After reading “The Earth on a Turtle’s Back”, I learned that different cultures have different beliefs whether they are truths or myths. In this story, a chief’s wife had a dream. It was their belief that dreams foretold the future and they must act upon their dreams to make them come true.

¨Folktales are oral narratives that do not have a singular, identifiable author. Expanded and shaped by the tongues of tellers over time, and passed down from one generation to the next”(Forest). Folktales are comprised of many different forms of myths, such as trickster tales, clan, and creation myth, like in the two short stories The World on the Turtle’s Back by the Iroquois tribe and The Earth on Turtle’s Back by the Onondaga-Northeast Woodlands. Although both of these creation myths are similar, they have subtle differences depending on the tribe that they came from.

I love using nonfiction books as a springboard for research as well as research tools. I especially enjoy using them to teach science concepts. This is a time when I am able to put on my old lab coat and am able to teach my first love, science!

People on the planet Venus have worshipped the Mighty Turtle for thousands of years. The Turtle gave the people of Venus food, shelter, knowledge, and, understanding. One day the people were asking him to give the ability to make their own food. He agreed so he made crops spine from Venus. The only problem with making crops is that they needed heat to grow. He displayed a plan to put a star in the solar system to heat the planet enough to be able to grow the crops. He decided to test his plan on other solar systems first just in case something went wrong.

A long time ago, there was a person named Turtle. Turtle was a good person and a good friend. I knew Turtle for not the LONGEST time because he left by his own choice. Sometimes I think, did Turtle even worry about anything when was thinking of going away for good? Did he have more bad things than good things in his life to do what he did? What I’m talking about is that well, Turtle committed suicide. I’ve never think that someone close to me would ever kill themselves. I mean think about it having a family or friend having so much sadness in their lives that they would take away their own lives. This story isn’t going to be about me sad or showing you how to be. This story is about how I meet Turtle and how I lost Turtle.

When Neil Armstrong was two years old he loved going to the Airport to watch the planes take off and land. He got so excited just watching. When he was five years old he pretended that he was hovering over his bed. He wanted to fly! He loved airplanes and at six years old he had his first airplane ride. He was so smart in school that they moved him from second grade into third grade because he was reading at a fifth grade level. Every airplane book he got his hands on he read. He always liked building model airplanes. When Neil was in high school he worked in the Chemistry lab. In his basement he made a wind tunnel. And on the roof of his garage he built an observatory where he had telescopes to look at the moon and