welfare instead of the animals’ which have the same rights to live. In the second stanza‚ the matter of complaint is a cormorant representing sea birds affected by pollution. By the metaphor “the cormorant in his funeral silk”‚ the voice communicates that oil is the cormorant’s funeral veil which causes the death of these animals. The word ‘iridescence is an optical phenomenon of surfaces in which hue changes in correspondence with the angle from which a surface is viewed.’ This word conveys that
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Plague is a sad word that triggers calamity and heaps of dead. Now that I have returned to my old town I can see real consequences of the Red Death. Such ghoulish image was able to decimate the whole population of Prince Prospero’s former kingdom. Although the vermin started before‚ the castle was secured in order to safeguard the Prince and his entourage from the bleak illness. After several months‚ he threw a fancy mascarade ball for which all the rooms of his house were decorated. There were seven
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In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s‚ “The Handsomest drowned man in the world” is a short story scene on a seaside in a very low populated village. Before finding out that the unusual size man wasn’t a whale while the kids of the village were horse playing around him from an unknown descent with very fond appearances named Esteban that was given to him by the woman villagers. While deciding on how they were going to send off Esteban the men of the village starts to become jealous of the dead man stealing
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In addition‚ I figured that after a little time had passed. I’ll go ahead and conjure Katelyn up from the other side so they can see her again. I’m a witch. I can do these things. After the funeral‚ Tucker and Owen returned home to Alabama‚ but I have a feeling that I’ll be seeing them up here again real soon. A week later I had returned to school‚ and it was like walking into a brand new atmosphere. Dirty looks were replaced by smiles
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The story ends with the village residents giving the dead man a funeral. Once his body is thrown off the bridge; there is a sense of change in the village to build a better village in order to attract more people like the dead man to the village. Through this story we can see a clear theme of admiration. All the
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Cornel west on the Keith Lamont Scott again an officer gets away with killing another black man Scott’s killing by the police on September made massive protest in Charlette and nationwide Scott’s family says he was reading book while in the process of wait for his son to come out of school when officers the dashboard camera video interaction which was released after the protests the video shows Scott exiting his car and taking steps backwards with his arms on his sides the police fire four shots
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Dolphins have been kept in captivity for since the 1870s. The keeping of dolphins has long been a controversial issue. The main argument for keeping dolphins in captivity relates to the positive conservation message that seeing a living dolphin can create. Those who argue against dolphins in captivity highlight the inadequacy of dolphinariums to cater for the needs of these highly intelligent creatures. Today‚ North American dolphinariums are successfully breeding these cetaceans and are not dependent
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slowing like a dying clock. All hopes of Proteus rising from the sea have sunk; he is entombed in the waste we dump. Triton’s notes struggle to be free‚ his famous horns are choked‚ his eyes are dazed‚ and Neptune lies helpless as beached as a whale‚ while insatiate man moves in for the kill. Poetry and piety have begun to fail‚ As Nature’s mighty heart is lying still. O see the widening in the sky‚ God is labouring to utter his last cry. Wordsworth: the English nature-poet William Wordsworth
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“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” is a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez about a mysterious corpse that washes up on the shore of a small village. A macabre premise‚ but nothing ever gives the sense that the story is “about” death- case in point‚ when the corpse first washes up the children are play with it until the adults take it to give a proper burial. Written in 1968‚ the work exemplifies many themes and characteristics of American contemporary writing. “Esteban”‚ the body‚ was described
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struggle to be free…horns are choked‚ his eyes are dazed’ The idea of man being able to cause such suffering to the gods themselves emphasises all the more the idea of them causing massive destruction to nature. ‘Neptune lies helpless as a beach whale‚ while insatiate man moves in for the kill’; the adjective ‘insatiate’ depicts man as being merciless and cruel. The following lines may be interpreted from the point of view of poets‚ who often sit and write
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