The Reptile Room

I had a lot of fun this summer, my family and I did a lot of things. On of the more exciting things we did was go to South Dakota. In this essay I will be telling you all about it. We started our trip on June 3. It was about 7:30 in the morning when we had to start packing our bags into the car. Well it was more like a bus. We had rented a huge Ford SUV/truck for the trip, since the were seven of us going on the trip. So me my two step sisters, my mom, my step-dad, and my grandma got into the

TITLE : The Inheritance Of Loss AUTHOR : Kiran Desai PUBLISHER : Penguin Books India YEAR OF PUBLICATION : 2006 Kiran Desai is an Indian author. She was born in India in 1971. At the age of fourteen she moved to England. Her novel ‘ The Inheritance Of Loss’ won the Man booker Prize for the year 2006 and the National Book Critics Circle fiction award. Desai is the youngest female to win the Booker prize. She is a part of Indan Diaspora. As a south Asian diapora writer she gives voice to people who

The first cells found were prokaryotic, after that life on earth evolved rapidly. The first organisms may have come from the ocean. It started with eukaryotic cells, multicellular animals, marine vertebrates, reptiles, mammals and then humans. Gould in his paper argues that while all of this is true, we have put so much attention to the life that grew more complex that we ignored that some species adapted to life on just as successfully by becoming simpler. The

seventy-two of those great animals; and ate part of one of them and left the seventy-one to rot", is Twain's description of man's hunting habits. Man wishes to take life for no reason except for joy and his own pleasure. On the other hand, "The grateful reptile immediately crushed one of them and swallowed it, then lay back satisfied", is the description of an anaconda, who only takes what it needs to survive, and nothing more. The author believes the anaconda example illustrates that the "man was descended

Exotic Animals-Tame or Wild Have you ever wanted an animal other than a dog or a cat? Like maybe a tiger or monkey. What if I told you that many people do have unusual and exotic pets. Although it is cool, have you ever wondered how you would take care of that animal? Many of those people get exotic animals as pets before they even know what kind of food or shelter they need. Keeping exotic animals as pet is legal but can be very dangerous. Many states allow people to keep exotic animals in

a war and the foods there.She has always inspired me to go there and visit and see the huge pyramids and take lots of pictures.One memory of learning about Egypt is sitting in my first grade classroom and Rahma standing there in front of the class room trying to speak her best english.She even wrote in arabic to show and demonstrate how they write words. One of the reason i want to go there is to go see all the amazing cultures and how they celebrate stuff.Plus the food she would bring some food

The tropical rainforest is home to a great variety of plants, trees, flowers, animals, birds, insects, and reptiles. Due to the great variety, there are groups that are interested in the tropical rainforest like rubber tapers, farmers, cattle ranchers, and loggers. the issue is that there are so many different things that each group want to do with the Amazon rainforest and no one knows who should have the rainforest. The rubber tappers have lived in the Amazon rainforest for many generations and

produce milk, which can be made into butter, cheese, and yogurt. Their wool is crafted into rope, belts, and bags. Yak dung (poop) is dried into patties and put on a stove to burn. Yak dung does not smell and can reach high temperatures, keeping a room warm for a long time. Would you burn yak dung to stay warm during the

Ambrose Bierce The Man and the Snake Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842– after December 26, 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and his satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary. The sardonic view of human nature that informed his work – along with his vehemence as a critic, with his motto "nothing matters" – earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce." Despite

coaster of emotions, while informing about how the pig lips are produced and packaged. Edge has inspired me to share my experience eating an exotic food. As my parents and I entered a lively, seafood restaurant, on a late Friday night, I studied the room like a textbook. The paintings of fish and steering wheels on the walls made the restaurant resemble a pirate ship. The odor of fried food and grease filled my nose, while the sound of chaos filled my ears. The sweltering, humid air felt like a rain