Sea cucumber

What are Sea cucumbers? Like Starfish and sea urchins, Sea cucumbers are echinoderms. These marine animals are shaped like soft cucumbers hence the name. The common Sea cucumber habitat is the ocean floor. They are sometimes found in shallow water but most of them are found partially buried by the ocean floor. The sea cucumber habitat helps it blend with the coral reefs and enable it to successfully feed on algae Plankton and decaying organic matter. There are approximately 1,700 known species of sea cucumbers and most of them are found in the Asia Pacific region. Most are harvested for human consumption especially in Chinese cuisine called Hoisam and they are also believed to have health and medicinal benefits. Where does the sea cucumber…

Sea Cucumbers, or Holouridea, have a mostly simple life cycle. Most warm water species breed by spawning or releasing sperm and eggs into the water. Once the eggs have hatched the larvae will reach grow into their first larval stage within 3 days. Most sea cucumber live to be between 5 to 10 years old. The breeding peaks for sea cucumbers are from March to may and November to December (James, JRank, Mulcrone). Sea cucumbers breed in many different ways but most species have a single gonad and…

There was a city named Iceville, and it had a population of 109, which most of the population was cats. The evil granny gang was out at Las Vegas. Which that left Torro, an archaeologist, Bobby, a weapon salesman, a pizza lover, and a pickle lover. Their names are not in the story for security reasons. Then, Torro stumbled upon something amazing. A triple cheese burger. He also discovered an ancient tablet. He was like ¨ Woah! This looks amazing! ¨ Torro was…

Lucy McCormick, of ‘GET IN THE BACK OF THE VAN’ (GITBOTV), influenced my practice through her solo workshop and subsequent conversations because I found her style and attitude towards creative work particularly stimulating and we share an enthusiasm for pushing theatrical boundaries. Her approach demonstrates that, “the question of boundaries and extremes is always in the room” (McCormick, 2014). In our workshop on ‘The Importance of Being Ernest’ Lucy got one of my classmates, Laura, to chew…

Pickles I come from a broken home. I grew up with no father, a drug addict mother, and 2 little brothers. My mother used to take money that she would receive from the government and instead of buying food for her kids, would turn around and buy drugs. This would cause us to go without food for days. I used to search every cabinet in the house just so I could try to make my little bothers something to eat. I would go without food so they could eat. I love my little brothers, and I would do…

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Dangers of Plastic Can Rings Over 100,000 marine creatures die per year due to improper disposal of plastic six-pack rings. (Plastic Statistics 2012) Great numbers of these plastic rings are littered each day, serving as a dangerous threat to the Earth. They are provoking pollution, as well as killing off dozens of species. Actions need to be taken to prevent this. 800 billion pounds of trash fill the oceans. (Harrison 2015)A large contributor to this amount of this garbage is soda can rings.…

Adrift in a Moral Sea Life often throws people some difficult challenges where there ends up being more than one right course of action. Everyone has their own different morals that they have acquired through out their life and this helps them decide which ethical perspective that they believe in. One instance, of where you can look at multiple ethical perspectives to solve a problem comes from the essay “Lifeboat Ethics” by Garrett Harden, which is about being shipwrecked in the middle of the…

consciousness(99)” . The island throws obstacles at these children and they have no other choice then to change from the innocent juveniles into ruthless savages. This displays an example of how the island is changing jack, he feels as if he needs to lose the qualities that the outside society has helped him develop,u and become this savage. Being confined on an Island makes him emphasize which traits is best fit for his search of a way of this island. Prospero’s influence over the narrative,…

particles into the ocean. Most of the sources of the marine pollution are land base activities. Marine pollution has numerous effects on marine animals, plants and human. Therefore, it is important to understand the cause and effect of the ocean pollution, and what people can do to solve this problem. The source of marine pollution is plentiful, about eighty percent of them come from land-based activities. Some enter the ocean directly, some pollute ocean indirectly. The first pollutant that…