Abstract
This paper describes seven types of names within four subclasses of edible sea creatures. The classes are fish, shellfish, cephalopods, and cartilaginous. The paper further describes the ongoing work of marine scientists and biologists who have researched and gathered a myriad of sea creature information to put together subclass groups.

From the Paper
"For years, marine scientists and biologists have researched and gathered a myriad of sea creature information to put together subclass groups. In this paper, I have researched seven types of names within four subclasses. The classes are fish, shellfish, cephalopods, and cartilaginous. Within each class shows seven types of edible sea creatures. First, the fish category includes catfish, salmon, halibut, tilapia, sole, herring, and cod. Second, shellfish category includes mussels, oysters, whelk, scallops, shrimp, clams, and crab. Third, cephalopods category include octopus, squid, cuttlefish, nautilus, snails, winkle and slugs."

Tags:fish, sea creature, subclass

Abstract
This paper analyzes seven types of sea creatures within four subclasses. It presents and discusses classes of fish, shellfish, cephalopods and cartilaginous sea creatures. It then looks at each class to determine the seven types of edible sea creatures. The paper describes culinary considerations that are taken into account with each class and subclass of edible sea creature.

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"Under the cartilaginous category are subclasses of Chondrichthyes, Batoidea, and Pristiformes. The Chondrichthyes has two additional subclasses under cartilaginous fishes: Holocephali and Elasmobranchii. They seem to have popped up on Earth over 450 million years ago having no true bone but have tremendous cartilage and a distinctive jaw. The Holocephili are considered chimaeras. The Elasmobranchi are considered sharks and rays. They can be harmless and is used for fishing sport or commercially. The Batoidea are rays have gill slits, which are alongside the fin and attached to the head near the orbit. They are flat and are considered boneless skeleton with a sturdy expandable substance. They have no dorsal fins and have crushing teeth to eat mollusks and anthropods. The Pristiformes has a saw-like snout and the teeth are entrenched. These cartilaginous fish are shark-like with two dorsal fins and a caudal fin. In addition, the saw captures and kills smaller fishes and also dig up covered crabs and bivalves. The female has a covering over its snout, which avoids injury during birth (Jobling, 2004, p. 175-322)."

Tags:fish, shellfish, cephalopods, cartilaginous, culinary

Abstract
This paper discusses and reviews the 1994 film, "Heavenly Creatures," by Peter Jackson. It discusses the plot of the film and discusses the visuals and the images conveyed in the opening sequences and how they contribute greatly to the underlying sense of deviance and the nature of the lesbian relationship at the heart of the film. The paper specifically focuses on the relationship of the two girls in the film.

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"Indeed, the way the two girls move together once they meet suggests a growing obsession that is not entirely explained by reference to shared experiences or to agreement on how wonderful Mario Lanza is. Throughout the film, there is a strong sense of a deeper attraction that cannot be explained except in sexual terms, even if the girls themselves never think in that way and if those around them also do not see the meaning of this attraction. Queer deviance in that sense has to be imposed by later observers, meaning the audience for the film, because that leap in thinking was not taken by the society in which the girls lived. What the film suggests is that this leap would have been made had people known more about the situation at the time."

Tags:lesbian, deviance, obsession, plot

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This paper explains that Virginia Anderson's "Creatures of Empire", which explores the relations between English settlers and Indians in early colonial America, argues about the significant part English animals, especially cattle and pigs, played in advancing colonization. The author points out that Anderson believes that these animals, as tools of settlement, succeeded in complicating relations between natives and colonists because they forced adaptation and change on the native peoples previously content without them. The paper concludes that Anderson wrote that the friction between these two peoples progressively increased, aided in large part by disputes over domesticated animals, which led eventually to the outbreak of violence in the mid 1670s.

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"Informed by pretentious attitudes, settlers assumed that the obvious benefits of husbandry regarding livestock and farming, just like civility and Christianity, would work as a testament to themselves, convincing the Indians quite effortlessly of their superior nature. Wholly champions of Indian adoption of husbandry practices in favor of a Christian life, even when small disputes played out, the English solution typically involved an attempt at compromise with the Indians while continuing efforts to impress upon them husbandry."

Tags:husbandry christian dominion free-ranging, cultural identity

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The paper analyzes the moral debate between Frankenstein and the Creature in Shelley's text. How the novel deals with the problem of evil.

From the Paper
"The relationship between Victor Frankenstein and the Creature begins well before the Creature appears. Frankenstein's obsession with the idea of generating life--more exactly of being the generator of life--begins in his solitary studies when as he believes he finds the cause of generation of life and becomes "myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter". He reserves the content of that knowledge from Walton as it is reserved from the reader but the relevant point is that his discovery is the universe-changing experience that inflects his relationship with the Creature..."

Tags:moral, philosophy

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This paper discusses the common themes in mythology reflecting the fears, emotions and flaws of the human mind as well as the classic struggle against horrible creatures with the power and potential to destroy those who are unfortunate enough to cross paths with the beasts. The paper specifically focuses on the mythological story of "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville. It discusses not only Moby Dick as a horrible creature, but also the obsession that Ahab has with the whale and his view of it as the root of all evil in the world.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Ahab's Obsession Explained
What Moby Dick Represents Symbolically
Moby Dick as Mythological Creature
Conclusion

From the Paper
"More than just a whale, even the most horrible whale that ever existed, Moby Dick symbolizes much more in this story. Again, Ahab has made the whale the symbol of all of the problems he has ever encountered, and feels that by killing the whale, he will gain true emotional freedom. Obviously, it is impossible for a whale to have caused all of these problems for a human being, but in portraying the whale this way, Ahab is also shown as a symbol in himself. In this instance, Ahab can be viewed as all of the hatred and ignorance of man, represented in one physical being. If, as is intended, the story of "Moby Dick" is to be interpreted as mythology, then Ahab can be seen as a symbol for negative human emotions and reactions to the world around them, just as much earlier tales of mythology used various gods and even inanimate objects or forces of nature to represent something else."

Tags:whale, captain, Ahab, legend

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The paper shows that one type of image that American poetess Emily Dickinson uses again and again is that of the insect or other tiny creature, with different insects being used as metaphors for love and sexual relations. The paper explains that the insect or other tiny creatures, such as the worm, seem to represent nature for Dickinson and particularly procreation and regeneration, perhaps because of a perceived role by insects in spreading seeds of plants and trees. Focusing on her poem "In Winter in My Room", a work which also reflects Dickinson's self-discovery and use of her immediate surroundings and experiences, the paper shows that Dickinson uses these images in different ways in her poetry.

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"Much of the myth of Emily Dickinson centers on the fact that she lived most of her life in one house, and the concept of home is central in her work and is also embodied with her ideas of love; love for family, love for nature, and love for life. Dickinson's image of home is turned into an image of herself--her home is her world, and she has a perception of the architecture of the home that is akin to her perception of the architecture of the body. The home and the elements that make up the home, including its garrets, chambers, rooms, corridors, doorways, and windows, project the form of the poet's mind and bring the reader closer to Dickinson's evolving sense of "place," as person and poet. Other images objectify her inner life, including all of her major concerns--self, family, love, loneliness, madness, renunciation, nature, God, death, immortality, eternity, and poetry itself. Here again, the "home" is invaded by, and even improved by, the role of the insect, representing the regenerative element in nature."

Tags:Freudian, stanza, snake

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The following paper will compare and contrast Dickens' Estella in Great Expectations and Mary Shelley's Monster in Frankenstein and argue that both were creatures created by other humans for the sole desire of satisfying the needs of those other beings. While one could maintain that Victor Frankenstein's conduct is more grotesque than Miss Havisham's in the sense that he does not have the excuse of mental illness to fall back on, there is little question that both individuals have put themselves before their creations in a way that has crippled the ability of Estella and the monster to have normal lives. The end result, of course, is high tragedy.

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A Comparison/Contrast of Dickens' Estella in Great Expectations and Mary Shelley's Monster in Frankenstein: Making Monsters out of Humans (or Parts of Humans, as the case may be) The following paper will compare and contrast Dickens' Estella in Great Expectations and Mary Shelley's Monster in Frankenstein and argue that both were creatures created by other humans for the sole desire of satisfying the needs of those other beings. While one could maintain that Victor Frankenstein's conduct is more grotesque than Miss Havisham's in the sense that he does not have the excuse of mental illness to fall back on, there is little question that both individuals have put themselves

Tags:frankenstein, estella, humans

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This paper compares several of James Stephens' poems in which animals or mythological creatures are used as the subjects or main characters. The paper discusses the reasons Stephens used animals and their imagery in his poems, suggesting that Stephens used animals in order to comment upon the state of contemporary human life in an indirect fashion.

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"James Stephens was an Irish novelist and poet. His poems such as "The Ancient Elf," "The Cage," and "Little Things" make use of common everyday creatures, such as rabbits and mice, and also small, familiar mythical figures of Irish legends to comment upon the state of contemporary human life in an indirect fashion. Like elves and rabbits, when viewed with the perspective of a God's eye (or simply the poet's distanced eye) human beings appear similarly contradictory, trapped, or frustrated in their frantic searches for meaning as these physically smaller or fictional beings. Stephens writes with a tone of wit, even whimsy, but beneath the surface of lightness exists a darker view of the dog-eat-dog nature of the mortal world."

Tags:James, Stephens, poetry, Irish, characterization

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This paper provides insight into the origins and biology of creatures of the phylum Cnidarian, which consists of several groups that are divided into six categories - Anthozoa (corals), Scyphozoa (jellyfish), Cubozoa (box jellies), Hydrozoa (medusae, siphonophores, hydroids, fire corals), Scyphozoa (true jellyfish), Staurozoa (stalked jellyfish), and Polypodiozoa (a single specie: Polypodium hydriforme Ussow, 1885 - a parasite). The paper discusses the evolution, modern forms, and probable future of this phylum, explaining that although cnidarians are an extremely diverse group and would not seem to be related, all of these species are armed with stinging cells called nematocysts.
The paper concludes on a cautionary note, stating that Cnidarians have no defense against human invasion and occupation of their territories, and are a key organism of reef biology, whose death often precedes the extinction of the entire ecosystem.

Outline:
Sting of Cnidarians
Evolution of Cnidarians
Development of Modern Cnidarians
Plasticity in Cnidarians
Future of Cnidarians
Works Cited

From the Paper
"It was once thought that cnidarians did not possess a mesoderm, which in bilaterals develops into muscle tissue. However, recent research demonstrates that cnidarians do have a thin mesoderm. It is believed that stem cells in the mesodermal layer are the primary agents in the high level of plasticity shown in cnidarians (Seiple and Schmid 585). Mesodermal differentiation supports the hypothesis that cnidarians and bilaterians share a common troploblast ancestor. This ancestor is thought to be the urtriploblast, which is a small, jelly-fish like organism (Seiple and Schmid 597). The discovery of a mesodermal layer in cnidarians further supports this hypothesis."

Tags:anemones, sea, ocean, life, marine, reef, evolution, venomous, organism