ZACHERY LANGDON

The World Calling on Dawn
Come, O my dawn!
And dawn on me!
Come, O my morn!
And gaze on me!
-Traditional cant, Papua New Guinea


This poem, I thought, was incredible. I had got up early and went outside before the sun came up and watched it rise. Seeing the sunrise, feeling the sun hit me made me think that everything was just going to be okay.
The beginning of this chapter starts out with Osha and a few other people riding in a Prahu (traditional Indonesian wooden boat) on the… Continue

Chapter four starts out with the flood of 1993 in Iowa. I have family that lived in Iowa at that time and it got pretty bad, not bad enough to make them leave their homes, but it was still bad. The rain caused the creek down the street to over flow on the gravel road almost destroying it. Back in Iowa the water was still rising causing the overflow of the Coralville Dam. Which in return the water washed away anything in its path, ear… Continue

In May, of 1837, Charles Darwin published his work of his five years trip in a book titled The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs.
Darwin was interested in biology since he was a small child. Darwin spent most of his childhood collecting and identifying beetles and bird’s eggs, from the… Continue

In the beginning there were three fundamental ways to classify organisms: animal, mineral, and vegetable. People who classify organisms are called taxonomists. The basic way to classify organisms is: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genies, and Species. When I was back in middle school I was told a code on how to remember all the forms of classification. The code was: Kings Play Chess On Fuzzy Green steps. The first letter of each word is… Continue

In chapter one of The Enchanted Braid, Osha Gray Davidson discusses his personal feelings and background information of the Coral Reef. One of the main topics Davidson surrounded this quote: “We are terrestrial beings and our study of life largely ends at the waters edge.” The oceans take up roughly 71% of the Earths ecosystem, so we should know more about the ocean, due to the fact that it takes up more than half the Earth's surface. On a more personal note, when I was in Alaska I visite… Continue