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    Cane Toads in Australia

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    Introduction The cane toad is regarded as one of Australia’s most highly invasive and feral species. Native to central and south America‚ 3000 were released in 1935‚ onto sugar cane plantations. This occurred in hopes of devouring cane beetles that caused a lot of damage to the crops. This is one of Australia’s worst mistakes as these toads could not eat the beetles; they survived on the upper stalks of the cane; out of reach. Cane toads have become an issue by being both highly venomous and eating

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    to the "light winged Drayad of the trees"‚ implying that it is a tree nymph. Dwelling amidst the darkness of the trees in a forest‚ it sings unconstrained. The poem shows the contrast between the poet‚ who is earthbound and the nightingale‚ which is free and possesses seemingly ethereal qualities. The poet uses

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    Childhood Revisited

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    Childhood Revisited Memories are a funny thing. They are the mental and emotional ties that we have to the past. Without photographs or videos‚ memories are all we have to recall significant moments throughout our lives. Whether it is a momentous life achievement‚ or a simple snap shot of being happy or sad‚ memories live within our psyche. They are not tangible objects; they are not even exact or clear. They are fuzzy scenes in our minds that we hold on to because they evoke certain emotions or

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    John Betjeman‚ an English poet‚ broadcaster and writer on architecture was born on 6th April 1906. One is tempted to say of Betjeman that he is an architect masque’ and a poet by accident‚ for architecture has always been his chief preoccupation. He wrote many poems to do with Christianity. His poems were often humorous and this unusual quality was accepted and eventually became popular. One characteristic of Betjeman’s poems was satire. With his use of satire‚ Betjeman communicates his views on

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    Within Poetry of Departures” by Philip Larkin‚ the unknown speaker‚who is conflicted between living a conventional and mundane life or a carefree and nomadic one‚ goes back and forth inside his mind debating whether is it worth leaving the life he currently has to be able to experience complete freedom. We can see this internal struggle through the way in which Larkin uses diction with positive connotations to describe the positive outcomes and scenarios that were to happen if the reader were to

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    notes on larkin and abse

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    Arguably this poem is not simply a misogynistic view on woman however is in fact a satirical poem which mocks modernity through quantifying love as expressed in the use of the line ’gave a ten Guinea-ring’. Larkin was a well known hater of the modern world and to an extent the romanticised idea of ’love’ as seen in ’Self’s the man’ and ’Mr Bleaney’‚ so through the use of the conversationalist tone that the persona of the poem creates the reader is presented with the concept of this poem either expressing

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    Compare Plath and Larkin

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    Compare and contrast the ways in which death is portrayed in Philip Larkin’s poem ‘Days’ and ‘Ambulances’ and Sylvia plath’s ‘Lady Lazarus’ and ‘Death and Co’ The poems i am going to analyse are: • Lady Lazarus • Death and Co • Ambulances • Days It is understatement to say that both Sylvia Plath and Philip Larkin have immense depth and subsidiary meanings to their poems‚ both writers expertly structure their poems and used varied techniques to convey their themes of death and instil their messages

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    Toad and Rat dissection

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    Date: 18th March 2014 Aim/Hypothesis: To compare the anatomy of the cane toad and the rat in order to find the differences of two different animals and how the animal has changed throughout time to suit its living conditions. Materials and Safety/Ethical considerations: List materials used in the dissection Safety and hygiene equipment: Gloves Glasses Newspaper All benches were wiped Method: 1. A rat and a cane toad were dissected to compare their similarities and differences in anatomy

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    Critical Appreciation The poem analysed is "The Zebras" by Roy Campbell. It is a beautiful poem that uses vivid imagery to convey the theme. The theme being the beauty of nature and creation and also the freedom and zest for life that we as humans don’t have due confinement of our lives. In the poem Roy Campbell pays tribute to nature and he emphasizes this by its structure. The poem has no stanzas therefore represents freedom and adds a natural flow of the poem. However he does use some punctuation

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    Poetry of Phillip Larkin

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    The poetry of Philip Larkin possesses a unique characteristic that has drawn the attention of many readers from 1945‚ when his first book was published‚ up until the modern day. His writing contains unique characteristics because he was not raised with the normal life that many writers today have and often write about. One of Larkin’s most prominent characteristic used was the idea of humor. The objective of this paper is to display factual evidence that Larkin was using humor as a way to further

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