Sea Turtles Essay

In the article “Swimming Through Garbage” written by Lewis Pugh which was published in the New York Times in 2014 we learn of Pugh’s journey in swimming through the seven seas, Pugh’s is an advocate for the preservation of our oceans around the world. Pugh’s purpose of this article is to describe and persuade readers about larger issue at hand while informing readers to the health concerns of the oceans around the world. What he finds later is that he seriously underestimated the true severity…

"Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and they were cheerful and undefeated." Santiago, the man described in the quotations prior, is a decrepit man abiding off the coast of Cuba, a bewitching island with a variety of animal life. One can say he was born into the life of a fisherman. Since he was young, he admired the ocean and the life it holds within. Throughout his numerous years living as a fisherman, he developed an extraordinary relationship…

Throughout the novel Piscine shares his thoughts and feelings, allowing the reader to grasp how he feels at all times. After Pi realizes Richard Parker is on board his lifeboat, an overwhelming number of thoughts and feelings were produced. After first discovering the tiger is on board, he quickly devises several plots in an attempt to kill Richard Parker. Yet soon changes his mind, realizing that he desperately needs a companion. The movie alters this part of the book, leaving out this key…

"He was speckled with barnacles,/ fine rosettes of lime,/ and infested/ with tiny white sea-lice,/ and underneath two or three/ rags of green weed hung down." When Bishop begins to create what the fish looks like in the reader's mind, the only idea is that the fish is extremely old, now for the first lines the reader thinks that the fish…

was made possible by his martyrdom for those affected by HIV, and those who merely didn’t understand it. His ability to rise above the rest of us and distinguish himself from others is reminiscent of many pieces of literature. In The Old Man and the Sea, written by Ernest Hemingway, Santiago’s ascendance to heroship is shown…

we do. These people are usually entitled the label “heroes.” Heros are usually strong, and have some sort of superpower to get them to where they are now. Yet no one ever really thinks about the average Joe as being a “hero.” In the Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway develops Santiago as an archetypal hero in order to reveal that average people can be inspirational and just as important as heroes in their lives. Hemingway reveals this by giving Santiago the character traits of being humble and self…

The Big Two-Hearted River by Ernest Hemingway is a brilliant story about a man (Nick) on a fishing trip (Hemingway). This story is full of vibrant landscapes as well as other mental images (Svoboda 34). The author of the story Ernest Hemingway is one of America’s greatest literary figures. He was also a Veteran of World War I and it is that experience that shaped the underlying message in this story (Adair 585). From the burnt town and surrounding landscape of Seney to the ominous swamp at the…

The Monster Fish One day my dad and I woke up and hit the road. We woke up at five thirty in the morning. We drove for about forty five minutes with nothing but corn fields and houses. When we started on the the road we stopped by the gas station and got us some donuts and the hit the water. We got on the water and then suddenly I realized that we forgot water and we were going to be on the water all day long. At this point in time my dad and I made our first cast. We were fishing with a drop…

Texas, so hot and humid. But under all that rancid heat, is something to assemble amazing memories in and to enjoy. Going to Texas, we saw a lot of beautiful things, some I’ve never seen before. I saw a lot of colorful lizards and frogs, very tall palm trees, and the dark blue ocean! When we first arrived in Texas, I got to see my grandparents and cousins over Thanksgiving. We faced divine meals and large amounts of desert, too! We also got to go fishing on a lake since my grandparents house…

Up in the North woods, where the wolves howl and the bucks run wild, there lives a man who devotes his life to living off the land. This man, Jerry Saum, a crude and renegade type character, has lived in Saum, Minnesota for his whole life. Saum, MN lies 45 miles directly North of Bemidji, and two miles East of the Red Lake Indian Reservation. I have known Jerry Saum for five years, due to my deer hunting shack that sits four miles South of Saum. In my early years deer hunting up North, Jerry…