resonate throughout the narratives. Freedom and its restrictions are recurring motifs throughout the collection as they amplify the meaning of each story. Fire, symbolizing both freedom and restrictions, serves as a metaphor for Guy’s ambition, struggles, and ultimate fate in A Wall of Fire Rising. Water, fire’s archetypal opposition, appears in Children of the Sea as another symbol of freedom and restrictions demonstrated in the collection. Therefore, Danticat symbolizes freedom and its restrictions…
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various settings throughout the journey he is going through. The author uses different settings in the story to symbolize each of these settings, including the beach to symbolize safety, the bay to symbolize curiosity, the tunnel to symbolize danger, and the sea to symbolize peace. To begin with, the main character, who is a young English boy, is walking on the shore of the beach on his vacation. The beach symbolizes safety and protection, so as he is walking against the shore, the author explained that the beach was a “safe beach…
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Have you ever wanted to keep something so much that you genetically modified yourself? Neither have I, but the Sea Otter has. Besides having a very convenient arm pouch, the sea otter has a plethora of other special and unique features, which we will dive into later. *Sea otter sounds here* The sea otter, or Enhydra Lutris, is the smallest of marine mammals, weighing between 31 to 73 pounds for a female, and 49 to 99 pounds for a male. Their weight doesn’t come from copious amounts of blubber or…
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brackish water with one or more rivers/streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.They are mixtures of freshwater washed down from the hills and sea water coming in from the oceans. It comes from the Latin word “aestuarium” meaning tidal inlet of the sea and which in itself is from the term “aestus”, meaning tide. Estuaries are important to us for reasons like providing us with benefits, services and resources. Also it provides us a place for recreational activities, an area…
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has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our people.” The British thought the Americans were rebellion against their lawful rulers. Under the attack of British troops, they burned and destroyed several American towns along the way. He also destroyed the lives of people as well. The Lexington and Concord battle proved this when 8 militiamen were killed. Even, the town meeting were destroyed by british as well. “plundered our seas, ravaged our coast”…
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Underneath is a layer of soft down feathers and under that a thick layer of fat. This keeps the penguins so warm they will actually fluff their feather to released trapped heat in order to cool down. In addition to their fine attire, penguins are well known for their swimming abilities. Using their flippers for propulsion and their feet as a rudder, penguins can swim in excess of 12 mph. Through the use of air sacs to protect their lungs, penguins can stay under water for 15 to 20 minutes and dive as deep…
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accepted schema. Rich shifts the role of the hero and the strategy for success in her second schema. In the second schema the hero goes on a journey where she discovers her true identity, both female and male. The hero prepares for the journey into the sea by reading the book of myths, collecting a camera and knife, and putting on a diving suit. The diver is alone, unlike Jacques Cousteau, who had a team to accompany him on his dives. She brings a camera because she will find things on her dive that she…
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know the fear and Rainsford does not believe her till he is being hunted himself on the island. Battling the sea tires rainsford until he gets over the sharp rocky shore “a jungle came down to the very edge of the cliffs” and “all he knew is that he is safe from his worst enemy, the sea.” The sea is not his worst enemy all though it could have been, “giant rocks with razor edges” lay under water. While being hunted Rainsford, realizes that “the…
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maiden lived with “no other thought/ Than to love and be loved” (6-8) by him. This exaggeration, or hyperbole, contributes to the man’s obsessive behavior. Furthermore, the speaker exaggerates “neither the angels in Heaven above/Nor the demons down under the sea/Can ever dissever my soul from the soul/Of the beautiful Annabel Lee” (37-39) to prove that their bond is unbreakable. Similarly, in “The Raven,” Poe utilizes simile to compare the tapping sound of the raven with the knocking of a man: “Wile I…
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The green sea turtle is in the class of ‘Reptilia’, meaning they are reptiles, with cold blood. This is the same between the green sea turtle and the tortoise. Only when the green sea turtle breaks away from other reptiles is in the family classification. (source) This is when the green sea turtle goes into the sea turtle category, this is called the ‘Cheloniidae’ all bar one sea turtle fall into this (source) one of two families the sea turtles in this family all have shells…
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