This week I have decided to do my blog post on the giant squid. The giant squid remains a mystery, and a large one at that, to scients besides being the biggest invertibrate on earth. The largest of these elusive squids found measured 59 feet and weighed nearly a ton!
However, their deep-sea habitat has made them difficult to study, and almost everything scientists know about them is from carcasses that have washed up on beaches or been hauled in by fishermen. Lately, though, the scientists have come in to better luck. In 2004 researchers in Japan took the first images ever of a live giant squid. And in 2006, scientists with Japan's National Science Museum caught and brought to the surface a live 24-foot female giant squid. but even with these small feets the score stands humans 2 and squids with a number so high you would likely need scientific notation to write it.
Giant squid, along with their cousin, the colossal squid, have the largest eyes in the animal kingdom, measuring about 10 inches in diameter about the size of a beach ball. This massive eye allow them to see things in the inhospitible of which they live. Like other squid species, they have eight arms and two longer tentacles that help them bring food to their mouths. Their diet likely consists of fish, shrimp, and other squid, and some suggest they might even attack and eat small whales. they swim with not only their tiny tenticals but also with a propultion system inside their bodys buy first drawing water in and then forcing it back out. marine experts can not yet conclude where the in vertibrates live yet because they have been found in all on the worlds oceans.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
annotation “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”
(4.) Though this group of children, almost all of whom were White, did not live near a large Native American population and probably had had little if any personal interaction with American Indians, they all had internalized an image of what Indians were like. How did they know? Cartoon images, in particular the Disney movie Peter Pan, were cited by the children as their number-one source of information. At the age of three, these children already had a set of stereotypes in place. Though I would not describe three-year-olds as prejudiced, the stereotypes to which they have been exposed become the foundation for the adult prejudices so many of us have.
i chose this paragraph because i think it is important and it is somthing i agree with. i dont think three year olds are predudiced either but the path that they are exposed to at such a young age is one that will enter them into the world with stereo types in their minds like with the native americans there are movies like peter pan, there is an indian in the cupboard, and pocahontas. there are also halloween costumes, sunday i was at the holloween store and came across a costume that was suppsed to be on a native american that consisted of fake animal skins, feathers, and a knife, the woman who was modeling it also had her hair in braids with paint onj her face and looked as if she were dancing around. i think if we exposed young children to what other cultures are really like befor showing the movie then it would really help then avoid these negative images.
i chose this paragraph because i think it is important and it is somthing i agree with. i dont think three year olds are predudiced either but the path that they are exposed to at such a young age is one that will enter them into the world with stereo types in their minds like with the native americans there are movies like peter pan, there is an indian in the cupboard, and pocahontas. there are also halloween costumes, sunday i was at the holloween store and came across a costume that was suppsed to be on a native american that consisted of fake animal skins, feathers, and a knife, the woman who was modeling it also had her hair in braids with paint onj her face and looked as if she were dancing around. i think if we exposed young children to what other cultures are really like befor showing the movie then it would really help then avoid these negative images.
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