The Infinite Sea Book Report

The reading that I chose for this assignment is from Chapter Six in the required book for class “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”. The chapter title is “The Sea Around Us” where the primary concentration of the chapter was the consequences that humans have on the planet with the focus on ocean acidification. This happens from the carbon dioxide we pump into the air and it slowly seeps back down into the oceans and slowly increases the PH level thus causing the ocean to be more acidic. In about one hundred years do you believe that, oysters, mussels, and coral reefs survive?

The film The Sea Inside shares the heart warming real life story of a man named Ramon Sampedro. At the young age of twenty-six he suffered an accident while diving into shallow waters of the ocean that left him a quadriplegic. Now at the age of fifty-four, Ramon must depend on his family to survive. His older brother Jose, Jose’s wife, Manuela and their son Javi do their best to take care of Ramon and make him feel loved. Although Ramon is extremely grateful to his family and friends for their help all these years, he has come to see his life as aggravating and unsatisfying. He wishes to die with the little dignity he has left in his life. However, Ramon’s family is dead set against the thought of assisted suicide and the

The start of The Ocean at the End of the Lane began with an older man about the age of forty he returned home to his homeland in Sussex, England for a funeral. He then decided that he would revise the location of the house he once lived in. He then remembers that there was a young girl, about the same age as his sister, named Lettie Hempstock. He also remembers the fact that Lettie would always tell him about the pond behind the house being an ocean and not a pond. With Lettie on his mind and him being in town for the funeral he decided that he would go and visit where Lettie grew up. She was a young girl at the time so she lived with her mother and her grandmother. As this man approaches the house, Lettie is no longer there but a family

In the consuming darkness her body began to float upwards. Her mouth was open, letting in small discreet amounts of air, trying to buy as much time as she could before she ran out. Her fragile body was suspended in an awkward posture with her torso jutted forward and her limbs moving like a clockwork doll. Amongst the relentless whipping of the undulating waves she could hear her sister’s scream. She felt herself rise upwards as she continued to flail. She had to survive. She had to somehow reach the surface of the water and survive. She didn’t want to die. Not now. She was running out of air, no longer able to fight the urge to breathe. She looked up to see the sunlight, but she saw none. Then it dawned on her. She wouldn’t make it. She let

In the Heart of the Sea is the name of this magnificent book where in the first chapter, Nathaniel Philbrick tries to show us a place where the principal job is being part of the whaling industry. This chapter is the beginning of history, the beginning of tragedy, the one that occurred in the whaleship, Essex.

After settling the close debate as to where the American’s wished to build their canal and purchasing the area under the 1903 Hay-Herran treaty, the U.S. needed only permission to unearth the ground.  Colombia wasn’t too fond of the idea and thus rejected all of America’s efforts.  Negotiations with the country went quite poorly as well. Arthur Beaupré was chose to communicate with Colombia but negotiations continued to go poorly as, “he was frequently blunt, even dictatorial, in his

The sea: most people have been to it, but very few ever take the time to ponder the meaning of the sea- what it represents and why it is so enticing. In her novel, The Awakening, Kate Chopin utilizes the symbol of the sea to convey her message to the readers: she uses this symbolism to reveal information about the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, as well as to further the cause of a critical (and, at the time of publishing, avant garde) social movement.

1) Haiti’s political climate in the time of the first story, “Children of the Sea”, were corrupt regimes. Considering Haitian family members are being forced to bear each other 's children, or become an object on the street to showcase the dehumanization methods used by the macoutes. The population is forced into a false hope of the return of the country’s president, only to be shot or arrested on sight. Protest and free speech is not allowed against a political opposition, which is only sought to rule for one 's own gain. Even when you are not in Haiti, and may be in another country such as the Dominican Republic, Haitians still face oppression in the story “Nineteen-Thirty-Seven” at the site of a massacre. It forces people like Danticat

In the novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne, the author develops a charming protagonist named professor Arronax. He and his faithful servant Conseil were originally aboard the Abraham Lincoln in search of a cetacean that had been destroying boats worldwide. They were on the boat a few months when the finally found this “cetacean” then it hit the Abraham Lincoln sending Conseil, Professor Aronnax, and his friend Ned Land overboard. They were soon rescued by a submarine. The submarine turned out to be the cetacean that had been destroying ships. They soon met Captain Nemo, a man who wanted to cut himself off from society so he built a submarine that

“Rosette was born the same day that Gambo disappeared. That is how it was. Rosette helped me through the worry that they would take him alive and with the emptiness he left in my heart. I was absorbed in my daughter. That Gambo was running through the jungle pursued by Cambray 's dogs occupied only a part of my thoughts” (Allende, 134) Those words are said by Zarité, the main character of the book Island Beneath the Sea by the Chilean Isabel Allende, translated and published in the United States on 2009. It starts on the Island of Saint-Domingue (actual Haiti) from 1770 to 1793 and the second part, take place on Louisiana, USA, from 1793 to 1810. About the main character, Allende said: "Of all the characters I created, that of Zarité for me that I have more the feeling that existed". While Island beneath the Sea, I have been clarifying, predicting and finally, evaluating.

The article that I read is called “Einstein of the Sea” written by Balcombe, Jonathan in Scientific American. I choose this topic because I think fish are amazing creatures that have different ways of interacting with the environment and with their own species. This article is about the unique cognitive and physical changes to certain fish that help them to survive. There was a video that showed how a certain fish proved this statement. A professor at the University of California, Giacomo Bernardi, recorded a video, while diving, of a wrasse using its’ tool of shooting pressurized water to open a clam. This article shows the forms of tools of fish and what scientists think of them. Fish like the archerfish and wrasse have shown signs of advanced learning and cognitive ability. The archerfish for example can shoot precise water jets at bugs above the surface by seeing their trajectory direction, speed, and sometimes even mass.

Marcus Garvey once stated, “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots. ” We often read about past traditions and ancient ways of life, but we seldom take the time to learn about how those cultures actually worked and what thought processes and skills went into them. We put such information aside, prioritizing the shining future, not realizing the valuable lessons we lose daily by overlooking the past. The book An Ocean in Mind by Will Kyselka documents the first two voyages of the Hokulea, an almost exact replica of ancient Polynesian boats that would voyage from the islands of Tahiti all the way to the Hawaiian Islands.

A lesson that I learn from the novel 20000 Leagues Under the Sea is humans can never defy nature. In the story, Captain Nemo tries to live apart from the society. He does not want to be _____________________ (a) by the law that limits his freedom and way of thinking.

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?

In the book Star of the Sea, written by author Joseph O’Connor, he states “They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One was born Irish, the other British. But neither was the greatest difference between them. One was born rich and the other poor.” O’Connor summarises the idea of social class that has been a recurring idea since the dawn of time. Social classes is basically the division of society that is based on social and economic status. The people who were at the top of the social classes were thought to be the prestigious and most worthy people and the further you go down the chain the more common people you began to see. Many people demonstrate the social class system in literature. Shakespeare, especially, offers a challenge to what everyone thought they knew of the social class system.