The story that I have chosen relates to having a fish for a pet. The importance of having any pet is knowing how to take care of them and feeding them when they need to be fed. It may be difficult to look after an animal all day but they should be treated as any living thing. It takes heart to care for someone‚ its goes the same for taking caring care of a pet and making sure they are okay. Owning a pet should be a privilege because these animals depend on you and that is like a gift to own. Every
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“The Fish” In the poem “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop one of the main themes is power. This is shown through simile‚ personification‚ and repetition. The author purpose is to show the reader that power can be restricted and that power maybe the sturdiest at their main years‚ but over time power will dwindle with time. The theme of power is shown through the use of simile‚ “Here and there his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper‚ and its pattern of darker brown was like wallpaper”.
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The job of the old man was to catch fish‚ where the job for the boy is to go on learning on what life stands for. The man struggled to do the one thing he set out for‚ to catch the marlin. Although he struggled for many days‚ he finally accomplished his goal. The young boy struggles with learning new things and how to be grown. The fish represents the man’s life. He struggled to get hold of the fish as the man does with life. Although he finally got the fish‚ it just shows that at one point the
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‘The Odyssey’ and ‘Big Fish’ In what ways has Homer’s Odyssey influenced your chosen epic? Homer’s Odyssey is full of themes and ideas‚ many that have influenced the modern world today. The ideas have been portrayed in various books‚ movies or epics. The epic i chose is ‘Big Fish’. It is a movie directed by Tim burton and it features a lot of themes and ideas that were in the odyssey‚ and i believe it was highly influenced by it. There are many similarities between Odysseus and Edward’s wives. They both have great love
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problematic‚ in that there is not one universal meaning. It is a debate among the critics and scholars of language and literature what‚ and who‚ gives a poem meaning. Stanley Fish claims that meaning comes from the interpretive community. A prominent literary theorist‚ he compared the act of interpretation to following a recipe. Fish claims that readers are instructed to look at texts in ways that will produce what they expect to see. This analysis does not support the suggestion that the individual reader
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All children are unique and develop at their own rate but they tend to follow a similar pattern. There are a number of areas of development like‚ Physical‚ communication‚ Social‚ emotional‚ behavioural‚ Intellectual and moral development. Development is very rapid in the early years of a child’s life and tends to slow down the older they get. Moral development is usually adapted from the setting a child lives and would usually deem something wrong and right‚ based on what their parents believe is
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“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king‚ and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.” This quote is spoken by Hamlet in act 4 scene 3. This quote explains the circle of life of what Hamlet believes. He claims that people are eaten when they die by worms and the worms are eaten by fish which are fished away and eaten by people. Showing how one organism’s life is used to preserve another. Hamlet uses this quote to show how even a high and mighty king will one day be fed to worms
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The days flew by one-by-one‚ and winter was slowly coming. They had plentiful food supplies to last them for six-to-eight weeks and a creek nearby for water. The cornmeal wasn’t cutting it for their stomachs‚ so Will decided to learn how to spear fish. Spearing was a difficult and patient job for Will‚ but he managed to catch
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Hong Kong Institute of Education Literature in English III: Poetry Final Paper on The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop Kum Yuen Man‚ Gladys (SID: 11047405) BA (Language Studies – English major) Elizabeth Bishop was born in Massachusetts in 1911 and had a harsh childhood. She lost her parents when she was very young and had to move from place to place to live with her grandparents. However‚ Bishop seldom includes explicit accounts of her personal life in her works. Instead‚ she focuses on her
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PRESERVING FISH SPECIMENS Specimens from any field collection should be deposited in a reference collection in an institutional for the long-term maintenance and access for the future. The animals should therefore be preserved in the best possible condition and where possible‚ ensure that the natural colour is retained‚ their external appendages (e.g. fins) are erected and stomach contents intact. Care should be taken to ensure that specimens are undamaged. Features important in the taxonomic
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