was on the top of his of his horse‚ itching to get a good look at some fossils. As he continued to travel‚ he heard a sharp crack. He looked down‚ thinking his horse’s leg broke‚ but then stared in awe at the perfectly preserved fossil. This is the legend of how Mr.Walcott discovered the Burgess Shale‚ the cluster of fossils that changed geology forever. The Burgess Shale is found in Yoho Park‚ British columbia. Back when they were formed‚ the area where they were found was called Laurentia‚ between
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Oedipus is the main mythological character in the play by Sophocles known as Oedipus the King. As much irony is created‚ Oedipus gets labeled as the tragic hero who killed his own father and later marries his own mother. By the end‚ he is disgusted of who he has become and begins to seek self punishment which leads to him tearing out his own eyes. The most important thing to look at are the motives for these events and how he got the where he was by the end of the play. Oedipus has a desire
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Poet’s Page Poems Comments Stats Arthur Nortje : Letter from Pretoria Central Prison The bell wakes me at 6 in the pale spring dawn with the familiar rumble of the guts negotiating murky corridors that smell of bodies. My eyes find salutary the insurgent light of distances. Waterdrops rain crystal cold‚ my wet face in ascent from an iron basin greets its rifled shadow in the doorway. They walk us to the workshop. I am eminent‚ the blacksmith of the block: these active hours
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I’m going to introduce "I Am Legend". This movie was released in the USA in 2007. This film was set in New York. New York fell into ruin from a virus which came from a medicine for cancer. However‚ while this medicine saved a lot of lives‚ some people suffered from a symptom like a rabies. From this side affect‚ they found that medicine changed into a virus. This virus caused death. Infected people were called "Dark Seekers" in this story. Their weak point is sunlight but they have great physical
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The Legend of Lewis “Chesty” Puller By: SPC Fournier‚ Shawn Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller was an officer in the United States Marine Corps with a career spanning thirty-seven years from 1918 – 1955. His career included three wars and ten distinct battles. Puller retired from a highly decorated career in the United States Marine Corps on November 1‚ 1955 due to failing health‚ but his legacy as one of the most decorated members of the Marine Corps with five Navy Crosses and one
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Voices of Dramatic Monologues - A Poetry Comparison Nearly all of Rita Dove’s poetry deals with aspects of history. Shakespeare‚ Boccaccio‚ and Dove’s grandparents are topics of her poetry. Dove puts a light on the small truths of life that have more meaning than the actual historical facts. In a time when African-American poetry has been criticized for too much introspection‚ Rita Dove has taken an approach to emotion and the person as human. Dove’s poetry is not about being black‚ but
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English 102 Professor: Jeff Ousborne 04/05/2013 The Power of Irony on “The Death of a Salesman” Authors use irony in literature in order to give double meanings and make it more interesting to the reader. In the play “ The Death of a Salesman” Arthur Miller uses irony as a strong writing technique in order to express the character’s behavior. In “The Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller moments of situational and dramatic irony helps to illustrate the story’s theme in which Willy is a man
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Book Report on "A Dramatic Death" This story starts off with the Dorking Drama Group who are making a play everything is going well until gruesome accidents start happening but the group ignores it until a prop falls down and kills someone. The police do a investigation but conclude that it was a accident so the play goes on‚ but everybody is convinced it was foul play and everyone in the drama group is a suspect. The cast members start investigating the murder by themselves and everybody starts
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Many people believe that it is considered crazy to believe in Bigfoot‚ and even more crazy to look for them. They believe that the creature is nothing more than a legend. A legend started with a video in Bluff Creek california by a man named Roger Patterson‚ who filmed a creature walking upright on 2 legs across a dry creekbed in Bluff Creek‚ California. During my early life‚ I had never believed that a creature such as Bigfoot could possibly exist. Even after seeing this mysterious video‚ I was
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Stories like “The Emperor’s New Clothes” and “The Legend of Narcissus”‚ that dictate against the repercussions of being vain have been circulating for years and appear in almost every religion or culture. In fact‚ folklore‚ fairytales and other fictitious pieces that attempt to preach against having an obsession with one’s image have been passed down generation to generation. One would assume that such didactic material concerning vanity would have dhfjsdfhkd‚ the obsession with self-image has consumed
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