Context Whose Reality? Writing Techniques and Language • For each piece select five examples that show an aspect of Leunig’s writing style that you like. • It might be descriptive language‚ sentence structure‚ a metaphor or just the way a sentence sounds. Prompt Practice • Here are five prompts for you to explore in writing. For each prompt draw on the ideas‚ arguments and writing style you have selected in your top ten pieces. You can write in any style you wish.
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as well as their way of living which I observed at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History‚ I conclude that these people were a race of people with a strong spirit for life in general as well as each other. Their social customs included storytelling‚ dancing‚ drum playing‚ crafts‚ celebrations‚ games‚ hunting and survival skills. They based their social structure on the land‚ their families‚ and traditions that were passed on through generations. The Inuit hunted and fished whale‚ seal‚ and walrus
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By Christine Jap 9H Character Analysis of Koro is a very stubborn‚ strict‚ serious chief of the New Zealand coastal village. He dominates in everything that they do. When he believes in something‚ he never changes his mind. He is firm and forceful in everything that he says and does and he rarely appreciates other’s work and effort. He is selfish‚ isn’t sympathetic or sensitive and never considers other people’s feelings. Before he realised that Pai was the true leader‚ he was sexist and discriminated
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Wharton’s "Roman Fever" are two stories that can easily be compared and contrasted to the movie Easy Rider. Easy Rider is the 1960’s "Road Film" tale of a search for freedom in a corrupt and conformist America. "The Crucible" can relate to the world seen in Easy Rider. Unlike "The Crucible" Edith Wharton’s "Roman Fever" would not understand the world represented in Easy Rider. In the movie Easy Rider Jack Nicholoson’s character George Hanson comes in contact with two long-haired social misfits Wyatt
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Common Name- Blue Whale Scientific Name- Balaenoptera musculus Family- Balaenopteridae- derived from the French‚ rorqual meaning whale Related Species- Sei Whale‚ Humback Whale‚ Fin Whale‚ Bryde’s Whale‚ Eden’s Whale‚ Common Minke Whale‚ Antarctic Minke Whale‚ and Omura’s Whale. Family Traits- Members of the Family Balaenopteridae have a narrow elongated flipper‚ feed on crustaceans by gulping water and pushing it out through baleen plates‚ have a dorsal fin and gestation last from 11-12 months
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The Evolution of Whales “Their tongues alone can weigh as much as an elephant and their hearts as much as a car.” The animal called whales what are the largest‚ intelligent and aquatic mammals. However‚ whales were not the aquatic animals at the beginning. After thousands of years of evolution‚ since changes in the terrestrial environment and the demand for food‚ the whales become appearance like a graceful arc from the four limbs. We have to imagine that what happened in the past thousand years
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Atlantic right whale. Fewer than 350 animals. Given such a small gene pool‚ scientists fear for its survival. One possible solution may be to reinvigorate the northern whale’s genes with those of its more successful southern counterpart off South Africa. Recent reports of pregnant North Atlantic right whales killed by ship strikes off the north-eastern seaboard of the US do not augur well for the species. Fewer than 350 animals Western Pacific grey whale. The most endangered of all great whales‚ and a
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OF THE WHALE -Kit Wright TEXTUAL QUESTIONS: 1) What words in the first verse show that the whale is huge? ‘Heaving mountain in the sea’ in the first verse show that the whale is huge. 2) How does the poet give the impression he is talking to the whale? By the impression ‘Whale I heard you’ the poet makes us feel that he is talking to the whale. 3) ‘Crying for your kind’. What is the whale doing? The whale is crying for all the whales that are dead and also for the whales that are
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Riders to the sea SUMMARY: This story begins with a young Irish girl baking and spinning in a fisherman’’s cottage on the west coast of Ireland. Her sister comes in‚ bearing the clothes of man washed up drowned up the coast. They are waiting for their brother Michael to be found--he disappeared over a week earlier‚ and they know he is dead‚ though hope never dies really until one knows for sure. They do‚ and they finally have to tell their mother‚ and that he got a decent burial by the parish priest
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Save the Whales Whaling is the hunting of whales‚ primarily for their large quantities of fat and meat. Its earliest forms date back to 3‚000 B.C. (whale facts). Before industrialization and technological advances in fishing technology‚ a whale’s large size made it a risky and deadly target. Today modern commercial whalers have hunted so many whales that they are responsible for the endangerment and near extinction of many whale species. If we don’t put an effort to stop this now we will surely
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