The Blue Bouquet I woke covered with sweat. Hot steam rose from the newly sprayed‚ redbrick pavement. A gray-winged butterfly‚ dazzled‚ circled the yellow light. I jumped from my hammock and crossed the room barefoot‚ careful not to step on some scorpion leaving his hideout for a bit of fresh air. I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night‚ feminine‚ enormous. I returned to the center of the room‚ emptied water from a jar into a pewter
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worse‚ hyperthermia? Similar to the child‚ the protagonist from “The Blue Bouquet” is given numerous opportunities to justify his decisions‚ however his naïve and foolish decision will expose him to great harm and dangerous threats. Paz uses a variety of literary elements such as word choice‚ symbolism and foreshadowing to justify that the transition from innocence to experience is impactful. In Octavio Paz’s story‚ “The Blue Bouquet” the reader should understand that the transition from innocence
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In Langston Hughes’s poem titled “The Weary Blues”‚ the speaker describes an evening spent listening to a blues musician in Lenox Avenue‚ Harlem. With the help of certain poetic and acoustic techniques‚ the poem manages to evoke the same lamenting and woeful tone and mood of blues music. This essay will be a critical appreciation of this poem in which I will discuss it in the context of the Harlem Renaissance as well as examine how the Blues music functions as a means of articulating personal and
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Oceans are polluted to a great degree due to humans using plastic and not being recycled. The article “Trashing the Oceans‚” by Thomas Hayden‚ which was published in U.S. News and World Report‚ states how the oceans are being polluted by the trash going within it. Another article “Managing Marine Plastic Pollution‚”John H. Tibbetts‚ was published in Environmental Health Perspectives‚ demonstrates how the pollution is greatly impacting the ocean. The article “Trashing oceans” utilizes ethos‚ logos
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Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth’s oceans‚ caused by carbon dioxide from the atmosphere‚ Seawater is slightly basic (meaning pH > 7)‚ and the process is a shift towards pH-neutral conditions rather than a transition to acidic conditions (pH < 7). Ocean alkalinity is not changed by the process‚ or may increase over long time periods due to carbonate dissolution. An estimated 30–40% of the carbon dioxide from human activity released into the atmosphere dissolves into
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This research project investigates how the pH of ocean water affects the mass of the shells of sea organisms. People who might benefit from this project are Oceanographers and Fisheries. The resources used included an article from the website Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History‚ called “Ocean Acidification” by Jennifer Bennett‚ an interview with Dr. Andrew Dickson‚ a professor of marine chemistry at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography‚ University of California‚ San Diego‚ and an
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Vaughn‚ par 9). For generations the ocean has been called “The largest museum on earth” (Vaughn‚ par 8). The Earth has been maintained in a natural state of balance‚ but the advancement of human civilization has thrown it off balance (Stewart‚ video). Each year as humans evolve we destroy the Earth along with its natural resources (Rekacewicz‚ par1). Almost everything depends on water and it’s cycle. However‚ the oceans
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Why is the Pacific Ocean unsafe? In 2011‚ Japan suffered a major travesty due to the 9.0 magnitude earthquake‚ and tsunami that followed soon after. However‚ during that earthquake and tsunami‚ a nuclear power plant known as Fukushima Daichii was hit‚ and exposed to the community. Being exposed to a nuclear power plant is extremely harmful because of the symptoms that may occur from it‚ due to radiation. According to the 2013 edition of the Encyclopedia‚ radiation is a‚ “flow of atomic and subatomic
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Plastic in the Ocean More than 200 animal species are dying everyday because they are consuming plastic in the ocean. This paper will discuss the environmental issue of polluted oceans‚ the causes‚ and possible solutions. The current environmental issue is littering in the ocean. Everyday hundreds‚ thousands‚ and even millions of trash is dumped into the ocean. Hundreds of marine species eat large amounts of plastic debris. “Yet the question is why so many species from the tiniest zooplankton to
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welcoming my dispirited morning as any glimpse of faith is hushed by my heavy thoughts‚ which deeply desire to remain firmly rooted in my mascara stained pillow. A reminder of the all the endless nights I overfilled with enough tears to form an unsettling ocean. Nevertheless I remain dehydrated from pure happiness for eons. With my soul in a tangle‚ my hearts in a mess and most unfortunately my mind is scattered all over the place. ‘What if’s encircle me like a moat of regret‚ not for the choices I’ve acted
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