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    The Perfect Island Traveling two thousand two hundred miles seemed like a stretch to many, but not to me. One brisk morning I jumped off the catamaran and ventured onto the most mesmerizing place I had ever encountered in my fifteen years of life. It was spring, two thousand and fourteen when I came to know Catalina Island, California. Everything seemed like it was in slow motion coming ashore. It isn’t enough for me to say I just saw Catalina Island, I felt everything that it had to offer. As

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    Finding Nemo Analysis

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    starts out with Nemo swimming away from the class to catch up with Pearl and Sheldon. Nemo makes his way to the cliff of the reef with his friends to be astounded by the depths of the ocean. Curiosity filled his mind wondering what would be out there, the camera is panned out during this moment to show how vast the ocean is with the fish just about visible in the shot. The color palette was set to have the shallow reef with bright vivid colors but the drop off in the reef had darker colors to completely

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    Chemical testing result summary: At Tingalpa creek a number of chemical tests were performed in order to collect data about the health of the waterway. Water temprature,oxygen concentration, PH level, Nitrates/nitrites, phosphorus, salinity and E.coli were tested. The water temperature at Tingalpa creek was 23.4 C. It is difficult to determine a normal water temperature as there are many factors that change it. Water temperature is a key factor controlling the rate of biological processes, such

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    Excessive Overfishing

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    that water. Being the most important matter on the planet, it should be protected. Over the past years, oceans are increasingly dying out across the world. The main reason this is happening is due to us, the human race. Life inside the ocean is being drastically harmed by our tendencies to litter, pollute, contaminate and even fish. Fish are extremely important to the sea, and without them our oceans would be dying out even faster. Fish breathe in the oxygen in the water, and let out carbon dioxide allowing

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    Goldie: A Short Story

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    Once upon a time in the sea there was a beautiful place called finlandia with very nice people and the king and queen were always so giving and nice and thoughtful. They all had beautiful house but all unique in a certain way. The school wasn't very far the fish didn't have to swim that far to get to school and back home. There was a certain little fish who stuck out over all and his name was Goldie. Goldie was very special he had scale that were so bright everyone could see them. They were so

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    You find yourself sitting on a beach. You know that the lake you see in front of you is Lake Michigan. You are sitting a little ahead of where the dune grass meets the area of open sand between the forest on the long hill that stretches as far as you can see down the beach behind you, and the lake itself. You got here a while ago, and have been sitting here, waiting for the moment that has just now arrived. The sun is low in the sky, setting the clouds ablaze with a haze of red and orange, with

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    from the sky, retiring for the day as the kindest yellows run, painting everything in their wake. I stand knee deep in the water, the waves lapping around me telling me to come deeper, urging me to come into the waves. Looking at the never ending ocean, I know that I will remember this beach, and cherish the memories

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    planet, for she was to represent all the water in the world. There have been many different descriptions of her. Some said that she was a rich dark to represent all the secrets that the ocean kept. Others say that she was ice-cold, showing the form of ice. Although one thing was for certain: her eyes. They were the ocean. All shades of blue that when angry churned and slashed, but when calm they were as still as

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    The Beach The man awoke in a daze on a moon drenched beach. He was struck with the smell of rotting flesh, and the sight of dismembered arms, torsos and skulls all about him. The remains were not necessarily human. They were far too alien for the man to identify. In full view of this sight he did not notice the tentacled leviathan lumbering dreadfully in the middle of the sea. The creature, in its horrific glory, greeted the man with a wave of one its revolting feelers. Alone on the beach in the

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    The southeast of America is where I was raised and where I chose to raise my six children, and still continue to live. I never tire of the beautiful pines, the live oaks, the endless creeks and streams, and the breathtaking beaches of the Gulf Coast. While scouting was not available to me as a young man, all five of my sons are Eagle Scouts and are lovers of nature and the outdoors. We have our own flotilla of canoes and kayaks that we use for family trips, scouts trips, and with anyone we can persuade

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