The Symbolism of Birds in Z.Z. Packer’s “The Ant of the Self” In Western literature‚ birds are often used to symbolize humans. Birds’ anatomy‚ behavior‚ and perceived emotions combine to make the bird a useful symbol of humans‚ their thoughts‚ and their emotions. Z.Z. Packer adds to this list of more commonly used similarities between birds and humans by endowing the birds in her short story‚ “The Ant of the Self”‚ with the gift of speech. By doing so‚ Z.Z. Packer highlights her use of a squawking
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The Secret of the Sewer One of the works favorite novels of all time is Les Miserable written by Victor Hugo. Les Miserable is filled with secrets and mysteries. Every page you turn‚ Victor Hugo throws a plot change at the reader. When Marius falls in the barricade the reader would never expect Jean Valjean to leap out into the smoke clouds to save Marius life. If Marius would have never found out that Jean Valjean saved his life by dragging him through a sewer‚ Cosette would have never know that
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The Use of Nature as a Motif Rebecca stands as a perfect example of modern gothic literature. Gothic fiction can be characterized by vivid settings‚ an atmosphere of mystery‚ terror‚ violence and the supernatural. The book encompasses a murder‚ a terrible fire‚ and features a sinister servant; finally‚ the entire story is pervaded by the unrestful ghost of Rebecca herself. The novel also exemplifies the typical gothic novel by the use of weather and nature as a motif. Nature seems to skillfully
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Lord of the Ants Ed Wilson Was hit in the eye by the dorsal fin of a Pin fish and went partially blind‚ so he turned his interest to animals small enough for him to see entirely and up close‚ something small enough for him to hold between his thumb and pointer finger to inspect. Pheidole Jim Watson- Newly appointed head at Harvard Watson inspired Wilson to apply chemistry to how ants stay so organized Chemical trail ants leave to direct and guide other ants towards food‚ away
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Abby McDermitt The Secret Garden One of the major themes in this novel is the relationship between landscape and a person’s welfare. One of the most important ways that the novel shows this theme is by creating an opposition between India and England. The novel subtly attributes Mary’s childhood sickness to her time in India: "Her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another." India is consistently presented as a place which gives off
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Rufus Bryant National American University Composition I-WI12-EN1150 Final Draft Secrets of the Mind This summary is based on a video series‚ found on YouTube‚ depicting the findings of neurologist‚ Dr. V.S. Ramachandran. Ramachandran is noted for his use of experimental methods that rely relatively little on complex technologies such as neuroimaging. According to Ramachandran‚ "too much of the Victorian sense of adventure [in science] has been lost." In the case of Derek Steen‚ who is suffering
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Essay Nature‚ in its core function‚ is the cause and effect relationship offered to things with "ascertainable objectivity"‚ happening without cause. From this we can easily conclude that the state of the nature of something that something being an object with “thing-hood”‚ as humorously described in class is its beginning purpose and generality. There are a few debatable definitions of nature‚ which at first glance are very similar. On hand‚ we have nature that is described as
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anywhere‚ don’t allow YZ study. 7 years later‚ he lose his gift‚ when YZ 20 years old‚ he just a generally people. This story tells me‚ not only genes determine our behavior and personality‚ and has envir. factors. Firstly‚ I’ll report on the article ‘Nature/Nurture: An Artificial Division’ by Kimberly J. Allen. After that‚ I’ll offer some of my own ideas about whether not only genes determine our behavior and personality. I will argue that the environment influence genes and finally‚ I’ll conclude today’s
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The first rule is there are no bad kids. Sure there are days when there’s one kid who just can’t seem to keep themselves from starting problems with every camper and counselor in sight. But the children in my camp group are five and six. They definitely don’t have their emotions in check. So‚ on a monday morning‚ when a new curly haired camper starts picking fights with all the girls in our group‚ it took all my effort not to write her off as a trouble maker. Now i’m not saying it was easy‚ i’m
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been improving the living standards of human beings. In almost every step‚ people rely on technology. Due to this fact‚ many social scientists discuss the relation between technology and other nonhuman factors. This theory is known as ANT (Actor-Network Theory). ANT is an ongoing project that describes the relation between human and non-human factors. It helps to study the relationship between
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