Algal bloom Essays

  • Personal Narrative Essay: Swimming At Norway Lake

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    Swimming at Norway Lake Every summer, my family and I go camping. There is a special place that we always go to, it is Norway Lake Campground. There has never been any incidents where I would say that it is unsafe or boring, until this on summer day. It was the summer of 2008, it was beautiful out. The birds were chirping, children were laughing, and you could feel the sun tingle on your skin. This was soon ruined by a horrid moment on the beach. It was a tradition that everytime we camped at

  • Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning Research Paper

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    Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning Amnesic shellfish poisoning is a rare type of food poisoning. You get it from eating seafood contaminated with a toxin (domoic acid). This toxin is produced by a saltwater form of algae and is often eaten by shellfish, such as clams, oysters, and mussels. Sometimes crabs that feed on these shellfish can also become toxic. You can get sick when you eat contaminated shellfish or crab. Cooking or freezing the shellfish does not kill the toxin. Domoic acid causes stomach

  • Michigan River Case Study

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    Identify the problem: In a vast array of Michigan lakes, a crusty brown algae is spoiling the waters it comes into contact with. (Some lakes include Torch Lake, Elk Lake, and Lake Charlevoix). Pinpoint Causes of the Problem: From an undetermined source, groundwater nutrients nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus are penetrating the lake at abnormal levels. However, a few leads have been suspected. These culprits include invasive mussels, heavy ice cover the last two years, residential and agricultural

  • Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Essay

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    slowly die off. In the end, we all love to suck down some oysters! There is no need to worry about being infected with the toxins. The only way you can protect yourself is to use your common sense, if you have any doubt, do not eat them. It randomly blooms and does not always have an effect on shellfish. There is no way to stop this recurring problem so just stay safe, eat a lot, and have a good

  • Examples Of Irony In Short Story

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    The irony, a technique where the author creates a difference between what appears to be said and what is real. A media example of irony is Monsters Inc. The irony being the monsters are frightened of the children, when in fact, children are terrified of monsters. The three short stories that illustrate irony are, “The Possibility of Evil,” “The Lottery” and “The Skating Party.” The first being, “The Possibility of Evil” which familiarizes the reader on protective and curious traits. Next to being

  • Analyzing Themes In Alice Walker's Poem At Thirty-Nine

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    Poetry Commentary - End of Unit Assessment Losing an important person, for example a father, is not something you get over; it is something that stays with you your entire life. “Poem at Thirty-Nine” written by Alice Walker describes these feelings from the view of a forlorn 39 year old woman, pondering about the loss of her father. She talks about the things she regrets, and the wonderful relationship they had. Through this, she tries to convey the message that remembrance can be positive and negative

  • Permanence In Nature In Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay

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    poem describes a sun rising and setting quickly. In addition, the third and fourth line, Frost says, “Her early leaf’s a flower;/ But only so for an hour” (source). This quote allows for the reader to picture a newborn flower that wilts soon after it blooms. This birth and wilting of the flower symbolizes the world as a whole. Just as his theme implies, the nature of the world is very temporary and moments should not be wasted, because they will be gone

  • Bag Of Bones Stephen King Analysis

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    As Stephen King once said, “Get busy living, or get busy dying.” Stephen King, an american horror author, is considered by the masses to be one of the most influential authors of the late nineteenth and twentieth century. With at least 136 works from novels to novellas written, King has left a lasting impact on everyone all around the world. King combined horror with mystery to give readers a story to remember. Kings books not only appear in almost every library, but are shown through movies ranging

  • Inequality In The Awakening

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    Within the painting “Ophelia” by Sir John Everett Millais, the inherent tranquility of Ophelia in the water accurately parallels Edna’s own feelings towards the motif of the sea, and the detailed elements of nature in the image exhibits the concept of a women’s inherent relationship with nature that is further perceived in “The Awakening.” Consequently, this painting best accompanies Chopin’s message in her novel, which conveys that the significant relationship between women and nature intrinsically

  • Macbeth Act 5 Scene 5 Analysis

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    Shakespeare, in his tragedy, “Macbeth,” illustrates an intriguing narrative in which a man named Macbeth receives equivocations from witches telling him that he will become the king, sending him spiraling down a path of madness and bloodshed. Shakespeare's purpose is to relay the ideas that unchecked ambition leads to a person’s downfall and to elaborate on the vanity of human ambition through the actions of the characters. In act 5, scene 5, he assumes a somber tone through the utilization of alliteration

  • Iago Two Side Character Analysis

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    In William Shakespeare’s Othello, the play is a tragedy constructed by the antagonist Iago; also known as a two-sided character. Throughout Act I, Iago is more of a complex character, who is racist, manipulative, jealous and two-faced. He continuously complains he hates Othello, all because Othello didn’t appoint him as an officer. Iago plans to take Roderigo’s money, and convince Othello that Desdemona had an affair with Cassio. Iago’s two-sided character served the purpose of strengthening the

  • Calypso Essay

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    follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus as they go through an ordinary day. Written by James Joyce, the modernist novel is broken down into eighteen episodes. Joyce wrote to a friend about his project, saying that it was “based on the wanderings of Ulysses. The Odyssey serves me as a ground plan. Only my time is recent and all my hero’s wanders take no more than eighteen hours” (Levitt, 1972, p.133). In this essay I will focus on the fourth episode, Calypso, where Leopold Bloom begins his day and

  • The Dead By James Joyce Essay

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    Ulysses, set June 16th 1904, immortalises James Joyce’s first, illicit sexual union with Nora Barnacle. This romantic gesture, coupled with Molly Bloom’s rapturous last words eliciting her own sexual encounter – ‘yes I said yes I will yes’ (1127) – gives rise to the ‘Joyce of Sex phenomenon’ (Valente 522), ‘the popular, and sometimes scholarly, assumption that Joyce affirms the potential of human sexuality to be fully liberating and gratifying’ (Valente 523). However, Joyce’s emancipatory erotic

  • Raymond Carver Literary Elements

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    The three short stories I am going to compare and contrast are by Raymond Carver; they are Cathedral, Little Things, and Why Don’t You Dance. In these stories Raymond Carver uses several literary elements to bring the works to life. The elements I am going to discuss are setting, tone, theme, plot, and point of view. The first element I am going to discuss is the setting. In each of Carver’s short stories he produces a setting which is consistent to each subjective story. In the story Cathedral

  • Comparison Of Hamlet And Ophelia

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    “Love can be uncertain, but true: The story of Hamlet and Ophelia” Love is a feeling difficult to understand. In fact no one exactly knows what does it mean to be in love. Some argue that being in love is feeling butterflies in the stomach and being constantly thinking about someone special. In my opinion, to love someone means to care for them and show respect at all times. In this play, The Tragedy of Hamlet, love is portrayed between the main character, Hamlet and the dear Ophelia. Even though

  • The Technological Sublime Analysis

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    The Technological Sublime Pynchon’s essay “Is It OK To Be A Luddite?” links to the Technological Sublime. We know the term Sublime primarily from the descriptions of nature used by Romantic authors such as Wordsworth and Coleridge as a reaction to the secularisation and civilisation of the Enlightenment. With the Sublime, Romantics tried to capture the fearful enormity of the landscapes they encountered during their tours through the Lake District and other places in Europe (de Mul). That is, the

  • Greys Anatomy Stereotypes

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    Brian Rotella Midterm Paper All throughout television, media has created a meaning of race and ethnicity that plays an important role in shaping the way we understand cultural identities. Television influences how we think about race in our everyday lives. By watching specifically prime time television, you can see the cultural diversity spread out amongst the characters in the show. The show Greys Anatomy is one of those shows that display many different characters from different backgrounds

  • Wild Apples Thoreau Analysis

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    “Men have become the tools of their tools.” -Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau displayed his disapproval and rejection for the ideas of the industrial revolution through his essays by stating that nature was lost by the usage of technology and the industrial revolution caused humans to lose their self identity; this led Thoreau to believe that people had to go back to nature for purification. During Thoreau’s lifetime, he saw many technological advancements, which he believed to be detrimental

  • Are Hamlet's Actions Justified

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    Are hamlet's actions justified or not justified that is the question? In this essay I'm going to explain if his actions are justified through different documents. My opinion is that his actions were justified and some examples why are because his uncle is the one who killed his father and his mother married his uncle not to long after. In document A the ghost of his father says "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder" what he means is he wants hamlet to revenge his soul (killing the uncle).

  • Where The Wild Things Are Character Analysis

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    Matheus DeSiqueira W. Commons English 1302.C20 4 February 2018 Where the Wild Things Can Go From Here In the film Where the Wild Things Are, eight year old boy Max feels distanced and alone when he is bullied by his sisters old friends and scolded by his mother. After feeling he has had enough of life at home he runs away to the land of the Wild Things. When Max runs away from his home where he reaches a pond with a boat at its edge, max jumps in the boat and starts to sail away the pond eventually