The Soul Of The Octopus

Lobsters and orcas are both creatures of the sea, that is an accepted statement, but what isn’t as easy to accept is the tragic lives they lead. ‘Consider the Lobster’ by David Foster Walace bares many similarities to the SeaWorld controversy. Walace in ‘Consider the Lobster’ and people in the fight against SeaWorld both explore the complexity of the animal brain. They both focus on how these animals struggle in captivity and the horrible impacts of it. Similarly to ‘Consider the Lobster’, they discuss the issue of how these animal centered events are for our pure enjoyment and entertainment.

Richard Van Camp shares the story of Torchy and his series of events that takes the reader along to see and feel the tragedies of Torchy with his past and current experiences. In the short story “Mermaid” by Richard Van Camp, the author explores the realm of a true tragedy in this story through the use of the Aristotle style of the elements of tragedy displayed by the means of Torchy’s series of unfortunate events through willing blindness, dramatized actions and pity developed for the character throughout the novel. With a closer look one can identify Peripeteia among many elements of tragedy found within this novel.

I agree with Alan’s understanding of the story that Jellyfish thought they were the ultimatum species but, in fact they only were the beginning of species.

Wallace’s essay published in Gourmet Magazine uses ethos by connecting the lobster’s emotion with the perspective of a humans, which makes his point easily understood towards the reader. When lobsters are cooked they are usually boiled alive and instead of Wallace stating they are boiled alive, he relates the emotions back to human ones. He does this in order to make the issue more relatable to the readers. Wallace shows us these emotions when he says “the animal's claws are pegged or banded to keep them from tearing one another up under the stresses of captivity.” (64) All humans can relate to stressful situations and when Wallace puts the lobster’s stress’ into a human perspective, he is able to get his readers thinking and understanding the situation better. Within these few phrases Wallace explains how the lobsters are stressed from being in captivity and which catches the reader's attention to the inhumanities when lobsters face imprisonment in this large glass tanks. Humans are able to relate because we’ve all learned about Hitler imprisoning Jews in death and labor camps, his actions were completely inhumane. Because Wallace takes an approach to the readers emotions, he is seen as a very knowledgeable on the way he puts the lobsters suffering in a human's perspective. Wallace states in his essay “Theres is. after all. a difference between (1) pain as a purely neurological event, and (2) actual

Within Fictional journey, both readers and writers have common companions who are characters. For readers, stars are a source of inspirations, but creating a popular character is an innovation for the author. After reading, a motivated reader wants to continue the story in real life. In Iran, a leftist organization made personage of a little, blackfish who is seeking the sea, its ideal personality for followers. Because of Samad-made artwork, the group became popular among young teenagers. Still now, after fifty years A little black fish lives inside the memories of the people looking for freedom and human rights. It does not matter that the fish has originated from the prominent Marxist-Leninist author; the free fish is sometimes an immigrant

<b>Introduction</b><br>Think of a world which existed 290 million years ago. As you look out over the terane in front of you, you think that you are on an alien planet. You see volcanoes spewing ash and lava. Beside them is the ocean which is swarming with many different species of echinoderms, bryozoans and brachiopods. As you look down onto the sea floor you are amazed at the countless number of starfish and urchins. Some animals leave you can't even describe and you have no idea even what phylum they belong to. This is a world at its height in diversity of oceanic species. Millions of wonderous species existed at this time in the ocean and most of them will never appear again in earth's history. In the geologic time scale, a million

One hundred and fifty million years ago, large aquatic species of reptile such as the Plesiosaur dominated the ocean, and were pre-eminent predators of the sea. The branch of now extinct Plesiosaurs, or ‘near lizards', evolved into variant closely related species specialised to take different niches in the food chain. Such species of Plesiosaur include the phenotypically similar Plesiosauroid and Pliosauroid. The physiological adaptations of the long necked variant, the Plesiosauroid, as it relates to deep sea diving, will be addressed in depth.

In the writing “Consider the Lobster” by author David Foster Wallace, Foster explores, while also informing, readers about the specific animal

At first Kaia did not want to work with the Navy, she had her own project to do; to break the communication barrier between dolphins and humans. Kaia was upset with the Navy Lieutenant for taking her project away, but as the days rolled on working with this man, she suddenly realized how much fun (and dangerous) it truly was and, more shockingly, how she had developed feelings for him.

Now, instead of adventure, all (marine) biologists have gone all over the world to save what used to be the most beautiful part of the ocean to parts of the ocean where animal species need to return to its’ natural number because of garbage, toxins, and other wastes in the ocean. The thought of being surrounded by darkness at the bottom of the sea might give people an ambiguous feeling, but not for biologists who truly think of the ocean as something so ethereal. Today, the possibility to explore any part of the ocean, has infinite chances that are all almost inevitable of

Going alone with your post, managing to live in the world that animals live is critical to promote intra-action and erase the fine line between animals and humans. Giving her a chance to experience the concepts of time and space that octopus has, namely how they feel, Montgomery’s unforgettable diving experience transformed her. Similar examples can be found in the Virunga and Treadwell’s stories: both the rangers and Treadwell’s lived in the same environment as faced same threats as chimps and bears did. However, what I am wondering is her ignorance of unethical confinement of octopus after her diving experience. I believe she had realized that living in the aquarium is not what octopus truly desires for. Could her diving experience only be

It was dark outside. Clouds loomed over the skies as I walked into the enormous colorful building. Blazing rays of LED lights shone through the entrance’s translucent windows. Brightness and gleams engulfed my vision like a wildfire. My eyes blink, trying to focus where I was walking. As I paced myself through the crowded corridors of the large hallway trying to find my group of friends, I could see murals of sea animals everywhere and signs directing where each exhibit was. Animated and overjoyed, I pranced to the first exhibit where the baby sand sharks were. They were extraordinary, swimming around their tank but sadly not able to leave their confined space. Their tank only allowed them to swim continuously in circles. Although animals in captivity tend to live longer than animals in the wild, it is depressing to mull over how they were stripped of their freedom. There was nowhere to escape when housed in such small enclosures.

Give them a chance and they will joyfully bring you with open arms. Truth be told, with four sets of them. Consolidate octopuses to advance them and find their most inquisitive, colorful and strange structures!

“There’s No Place Like Home: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Modern Biogeographical Legacy” was presented by Lynne R. Parenti, Ph.D, on April 17,2015. Dr. Parenti presented in University of Hawaii at Manoa’s BioMed building in Room B-103 at 3:30 to 4:30 pm. Dr. Lynne Parenti is a curator of museum fishes at the National Museum of Natural History in the Smithsonian Institution. I chose to attend this presentation because the field of biogeography seemed interesting as well as the history of biogeography.

Dr. Otto Gunther Octavius, known as Doctor Octopus, is a supervillain that has been in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #3 which was released July, 1963 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Otto Octavius was raised in an oppressive household, with an overprotective mother, and a harsh, abusive father. His mother encouraged the young Otto, already a good student, to push himself in school, in the hopes that he would have a better life than his factory worker father. Otto was awarded a scholarship for university, shortly before his father died in a workplace accident. Becoming obsessed with schoolwork after his father's death, Otto applied himself even harder to his studies in science. He graduated and got work with an engineering firm, soon becoming a respected nuclear physicist and research consultant, as well as working as an inventor and lecturer. He soon developed a remarkable invention- a chest harness that connected the wearer to four mechanical arms. This invention earned him a new nickname: Doctor Octopus. Around this time, he became involved with a fellow researcher, Mary Alice Anders, to whom he eventually proposed marriage. However, the happy couple was broken up by Otto's mother, who disapproved of the young bride. Otto broke off the engagement at his mother's behest, but she died soon after in the middle of an argument with her son. Having lost all of his social