The book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is written by Jules Verne. This book like other books of Jules Verne‚ is a science fiction book which mentions invention that a head of their times. In this book the main character‚ Pierre Aronnax‚ narrates the story. In the time of this story‚ 19th century‚ there was an unknown object in the ocean that disturbed the ships and caused some of them sink. Mr. Aronnax companied with other peoples‚ were sent to identify this object. By an accident‚ Mr. Aronnax
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Autobiography: The Sea My family took a vacation the summer before sixth grade. We were in Maui‚ Hawaii to be exact‚ it was paradise. We walked to the beach from my family’s cabin everyday. As I looked around‚ the white sand felt scalding and the water was warm. The shore was filled with coral rocks‚ crashing waves and laughing children playing with the warm‚ wet sand. The water rose and fell‚ each time dissolving a sand castle into mud and making a child scream and run playfully from the water
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J.Reeves has successfully used the dog metaphor to elicit the behaviors of the sea at many occasions. The poet compares the different behaviors of the dog at different moods with the sea. The first stanza shows the begining of the violence due to the hungry nature of the dog which metaphoricaly depicts the sea waves turning out to be heavy and rough. The second stanza shows the waves quickening and becoming more rough due to the enviromental change‚ thereby the dog is so hungry and angry that it
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Leagues Under the Sea Main Characters: Professor Pierre Aronnax-Assistant Professor in Museum of Natural History in Paris; narrator of his adventures on the Nautilus; frenchman Counseil- Monsieur Aronnax"’"s 30 year old servant‚ ’"’ a true‚ devoted Flemish boy’"’ who accompanied Arronax in all his travels Ned Land- Canadian harpooner about 40 years old who joined Aronnax and Counseil on the ’"’Abraham Lincoln’"’ in search of the mysterious marine monster threatening the seas Captain
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Heldt Mr. Bender English 10000 8 May 2012 The Sea After reading The Old Man and the Sea‚ written by Ernest Hemingway‚ I found the most interesting part of the book to be the sea itself. One can almost consider the sea another character‚ due to the vital role it plays in the short novella. The sea provides a glimpse at Santiago’s knowledge and experience that he has acquired throughout the course of his life. As well as the sea is used as a metaphor to the literary community‚ if one
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Beware of the Deep Dark life under the sea floor by Kat Falls‚ is about how a boy named Ty who is 18 years old who is really quiet and never really spoke to anyone living under seas for all he life. He has been living a life where nothing seemed real to him. He called his life a “mystery”. Ty and his family moved down onto the sea when ty was a little boy. They lived on the seafloor for most of their lives. His family joined an underwater community in hopes of living in the new frontier of the ocean
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The narrator in "Stones" by William Bell and the musical artists in the article‚ "Voices Rising" by Shane Breaker and the time line are influenced by their appreciation for the past in the ways they affect the lives of others. The narrator in "Stones" shows his appreciation for history through working tirelessly in his family`s antique shop to recreate the stories behind all the items. The musical artists in the article and time line demonstrate their appreciation for their past through incorporating
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Sticks and Stones By Trezza Azzopardi Every day millions of teens wake up afraid to go to school or afraid to walk outside there own door. Bullying is a huge problem in our modern society and it affects millions of students in a though way. The main theme in this short story is bullying. The short story is questioning what the consequences of bullying are and what the consequences of bullying can have‚ to a persons adult life. As a child Lewis was a victim of two bullies‚ the most of his childhood
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The greatest discover of Ancient Egypt was the Rosetta stone. Carved on March 27‚ 196 B.C.‚ the stone was incorporated into a wall before a conflict in 205 B.C. On July 19‚ 1799‚ during the Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign‚ in a town called el-Rashid‚ a French soldier found it while rebuilding of a fort in Egypt. (History) While knocking down a wall‚ the soldiers noticed a block of basalt (stone) measuring 3ft 9 in height‚ 2ft 4½ in width and 11 inch in thickness. It had two written languages
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THE SEA by James Reeves The main idea of The Sea by James Reeves is that the sea is similar to a dog in so many ways. They both share similar characteristics and behaviour. In fact‚ one can look at this poem as one long metaphor‚ mainly focusing on the similarity between the sea and the dog. The very first line of the first stanza spells out the metaphor quite clearly: “The sea is a hungry dog”. Moreover‚ the rest of the poem reinforces this idea by frequently referring to a dog’s
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