and telephoned my neighbour‚ Encik Ramasamy‚ at once. He knew how to deal with the venomous creature. Not long after‚ he came with 2 pieces of wood and a cage. He asked me where the snake was. I told him it was in the dining room. We walked slowly and quietly into the dining room. I told Encik Ramasamy that the snake was about 1 meter long. In the dining room‚ we saw the snake’s tail under a table where my mother put her cooking utensils. Encik Ramasamy told me not to come too close for the sake
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Her husband is out with sheep‚ leaving her alone with her four young children. She has to face many changes and difficulties in life all by herself. The story is told from the perspective of the woman and is mainly about the process of beating a snake and her recall of the hard past. Though the story is very short‚ it covers several themes. They are respectively equality‚ responsibility‚ love‚ life‚ and bravery. Equality: women can be as brave and perseverant as men The theme of equality is
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against it? In the poem The Black Snake‚ the speaker uses vivid images to explain what happened and to express his or her feelings about the situation. In the beginning of the poem a black snake darts onto a busy road and is then hit by a truck. Later a motorist finds the dead snake and buries it in the woods. After burying the snake the motorist continues on his or her drive and reflects on what has transpired. In the first couple of lines "When the black snake flashed onto the morning road‚ and
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stunning. The writer’s diction shows a man who finds the world around him amazing and wishes to understand it in a better fashion. When he describes his first encounters with a snake at his home‚ he uses several terms of endearment such as "fellow creature" (p. 614) and "Cousin"(abbey‚ 615). Abbey maintains the act of killing the snake is comparing it to "murder" (abbey‚ 614) and an affront to morality. The writer describes the birds’ song and his compares it to the flute. His word choice reveals a great
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Venom affects the human body in various ways‚ depending on the type of snake and type of venom that the snake produces. The three types of venom (hemotoxic‚ cytotoxic‚ and neurotoxic) impact the human body differently (Hess). Hemotoxic lowers blood pressure and encourages blood clotting. It may also go for the heart muscle if its goal is immediate
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their isolated wooden house in the bush‚ alone. One day‚ one of the children saw a snake while playing around the house. He shouted and called out to his mother. Both mother and the eldest son‚ Tommy‚ tried to hit the snake. The dog too tried to catch it. However‚ it was not successful. The snake disappeared into the cracks in the floor. While the children were waiting outside‚ the drover’s wife tried to lure the snake out with milk. Later on‚ thunderstorm and darkness approached and she took the children
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Boa constrictors (large snake) have Temperature-sensitive organs located between the eyes and nostrils of boas and pit vipers allow the snakes to sense the body heat of their prey. There is one located on each side of the snakes’ head‚ so the animals can perceive depth and attack with deadly accuracy even in complete darkness. Snakes in general also have another sense that is similar in a way to ours. Snakes have a forked tongue that is used to sniff its surroundings. Snakes use their tongues to collect
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the length of a school bus! It weighs about 550 lbs or 249 kg. Which is the weight of a piano. The heaviest and one of the biggest snakes extent snake species in South America. The Green Anaconda’s classification would be a reptile‚ but higher up a anaconda. The green anaconda’s physical traits‚ environment‚ and other interesting facts distinguish the from other snakes. A Green Anaconda is kinda sluggish due to their size. They live up to 30 years (captivity) but normally 10 years. The Green Anaconda
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Descriptive language - “four ragged‚ dried-up-looking children” -- > shows their living situation Conflict/ complication The snake Technique Example Explain Exclamation mark “Snake! Mother‚ here’s a snake!” Creates urgency danger Action verbs “snatches her baby” “holds it on her left hip” “reaches for a stick” Same as above Shows a natural reaction to the appearance of a snake as if she has dealt with it before The in-between Her single life and talks about how it came to where she was. (e.g. how
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Romulus Whitaker was only four years old when he caught his first snake in the country estate that he shared with his mother and sister in northern New York State. It was the beginning of a fascination with reptiles and a journey to conserve nature. Although born in the United States in 1943‚ Rom Whitaker grew up in India where he nurtured his passion for reptiles exploring the wild as a student in a boarding school up in the mountains in south India. Dr. Whitaker is one of India’s leading herpetologists
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