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    Shark Finning Should Be Banned Shark finning is a cruel act which should be banned worldwide. Sharks are the top apex predator of our planet’s oceans‚ and as an apex predator they control the balance of all marine life by harvesting the sick‚ weak and dying creatures in its environment. Picture a fishing boat out at sea. The fishermen are lowering miles and miles of cable lined with thousands of baited hooks. These cables drift on the ocean currents before being slowly hauled back into the fishing

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    The Knowing Poem

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    only when you die. In “The Knowing” by Connie Fife‚ she describes the common instances that can lead to self-awareness. By incorporating‚ detailed literary devices‚ Fife is able to develop the journey to self-awareness in life. Thus‚ throughout the poem‚ Fife utilizes personification to establish the idea that knowledge is obtained through a strong sense

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    The convergence in external morphology of sharks‚ penguins‚ and porpoises is attributed to selection pressures that are common to these groups Genes that are located on the same chromosome are all of these An incompletely dominant gene controls the color of chickens so that BB produces black‚ Bb produces a slate-gray color called blue‚ and bb produces splashed white. A second gene controls comb shape‚ with the dominant gene R producing a rose comb and r producing a single comb. If a pure-breeding

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    EXPLICATING A POEM [pic]In order to explicate or give a detailed literary analysis of a poem‚ it is useful to ask the following questions. You do not necessarily have to follow this order. 1. What is the literal sense of the poem? • Can it be broken down into sentences? • What is the meaning of each sentence? • How could the poem be paraphrased: restated in prose form? • In what ways is the poem different from a prose paraphrase? 2. What is the diction of

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    Sirokanipe ranran piskan Konkanipe ranran piskan. This Ainu poem is about an owl deity. It roughly translates to “Fall fall‚ silver drops‚ all around fall fall‚ golden drops‚ all around” (Selden). The Ainu worshiped all aspects of nature as gods‚ believing animals were spirits temporarily visiting the earth. The Ainu are an ancient people of nature‚ living in close communities and are now a minority of Japan. The Ainu used to live in Honshu‚ Japan’s main island‚ but have since been limited to

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    Olds Poem

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    Devon Sahid Humanities 101 September 26‚ 2011 October 24‚ 2011 Olds Poem In Sharon Olds The Summer-Camp Bus Pulls Away from the Curb she states “With a pencil and two Hardy Boys and a peanut butter sandwich and grapes he is on his way‚ there is nothing more we can do for him” the narrator is sending her son off with what she thinks he will need not only for summer camp but for life. She sends him away with two Hardy Boys books. This is relevant because the Hardy Boy characters are

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    Dickinson’s poem “510: It was not Death‚ for I stood up‚” explores the uncertainties of Death. The speaker attempts to define or understand her own condition to unwrap the cause of her suffering. The use of extended metaphor is utilized as the speaker uses the term “death” and that her life and state of mind‚ to her‚ resembles nothing other than death itself. The dominant effect would be the feeling of despair as the speaker represents this by saying “As if my life were shaven‚ / and fitted to a

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    death shall all the world subdew‚ Our love shall live‚ and later life renew." By Edmund Spencer The poem by Edmund Spenser is a poem of true love. What this poem is basically trying to describe is that when you love someone or something that love does not have to end. Love is eternal and in this case it will last into what the author believes to be heaven. The central purpose of this poem is to make one realize that our lives are not forever‚ our relationships are not forever‚ but love is. Love

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    towards animals and nature in her poems. The first poem I have chosen to talk about is “The Shark”. This poem is about a bunch of fishermen on a boat‚ who catch a shark and later discover that the shark has eaten a young boy. “The Shark” shows how powerful nature can be by showing how easy it can kill and what an efficient predator it is. The people in this poem are quite angry with the shark once they realise what the shark has done. The people hack into the shark to get the child’s remains once

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    Allegory: Sharks The novel “The Old Man and the Sea” was an allegory for Hemingway’s life‚ meaning the book was symbolic to Ernest’s journey and struggles. In this novel‚ the old man was faced with a dramatic life or death situation when he was getting chased by sharks while catching for the marlin. “The old man’s head was clear and good now and he was full of resolution but he had little hope. It was too good to last‚ he thought. He took one look at the great fish as he watched the shark close in”

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