salty water, the sweet scent of ice cream from the ice cream cart going down the boardwalk, hearing music and people chatting, the sand getting stuck in your flip flops and the sight of a beautiful blue ocean with waves crashing on the sands.
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“The Seventh Man” begins during a typhoon. The main character and his family wait out the storm and after thing calm down they emerge from their cellar, but they know the storm is not over. They’re just in the eye of the storm, the middle of the storm. The Seventh Man was tired of being confined so he asked if he could take a walk on the beach. His parents said yes but to watch for signs the storm was about to begin again. We walked down to the beach near his house and was soon joined by his best
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the ocean is safe. Sharks have populated the earth for over four hundred million years and now, people want to remove them from our oceans because they are perceived as a threat [Williamson, 2015]. By pushing the introduction of shark culls, allowing people to freely kill sharks in an appalling manner, the lives of many shark species are threatened. Most people know little to nothing about sharks, despite what is depicted in the media. Sharks are vital when it comes to maintaining the ocean ecosystem
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You are stranded on an island with 250 men, soon you and your fellow castaways are struggling to survive with low amounts of food and water. Within a year you and three other men are the only ones to survive. There is one thought in your head… how much longer can we survive? In the spring of 1527 five ships and 300 men set sail for the new world. Soon the ships crashed on modern day Galveston Island Texas and within one year only four castaways were still alive - one of which was a “37 year old military
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Kitson Jazynka’s purpose in writing “Saving Sea Otters is Just Part of Her Normal Day at Work” is to recount that saving sea otters and Identifying what is making them sick is the key to a healthy ocean. Sea otters have been dying at a higher rate than normal over the past ten years, and bacteria is the cause of the higher death rate. Collecting water and mussels, which offer clues about their environment by filtering water, will help determine what is making the sea otters sick. Because sea otters
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Crystal Coast is an 85-mile stretch of coastline that extending from the Cape Lookout National Seashore to southwestward to the New River, encompassing the entire area along the Bogue Banks, a barrier island that stretches for more than 20 miles. It is a mixture of colorful history, quiet stretches of beaches, quaint small towns, historic homes, picturesque lighthouses and natural scenic beauty. The tourist-oriented coastline is situated in the eastern portions of Carteret County, North Carolina
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In the article, “Ocean Acidification,” the author Hannah Waters illustrates the idea that ocean acidification can be climate change's “evil twin.” Humans don’t see or feel carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because we are not affected by it, the marine life is. When burning coal, oil and gas are released into the air it no longer stays there, but instead the ocean absorbs it. When this happens it causes the water to become more acidic and the ocean’s pH level drops. I would have to agree with the
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Bio 324 12/01/12 Plastics in the ocean Imagine the massive breadth and spread of our great state of Texas. Now imagine every milli-inch of that piled high with trash: bottle caps, cigarettes, cigarette lighters, tampon applicators, plastic nets, discarded flip flops, Frisbees, soda bottles, milk jugs, diapers, six-pack rings, busted tennis rackets, empty pens, shampoo bottles, empty squeeze bottles of jam, you name it. Now take that image, double it, and plunk into the water. That's what
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Overfishing in the Oceans Introduction Recent studies found that overfishing in the ocean is depleting sea life around the world. Overfishing in the oceans is taking the sea life at a rate too high that the fished sea life is having a hard time replenishing itself. Part 1 Overfishing started in the early 1800’s when humans started seeking blubber for oil lamps. When humans started overfishing for blubber it drastically reduced the whole population. The fish population like the Atlantic cod,
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Problems Associated with Plastics in the Ocean – Marney THESE ARE ALL NON PEER REVIEWED SOURCES. Plastic particles in the oceans attract toxins. These enter the food chain; we are at the top of that food chain. (Plastic Oceans, 2010) * This is a really cool statement but I don’t know if we should put it in, up to you. Conveys the message really well though. May it could go on the Welcome page. Reference (Harvard): 1. Plastic Oceans, 2010, 31/05/2013, <http://www.plasticoceans.net/>
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