Swan

The Swan River has been considered one of the most important landscape features of Perth City. It has brought suburbs, hills and its people together allowing Perth to develop and expand; historically, the Swan River is known to have been used as a food source, transport route, a sewer, a rubbish dump and a place for recreation. Rivers are an integral part of our landscape as they are a major source of food, recreation and transport. In 2004, the Swan River was awarded the status of Western…

In two totalitarian societies, Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, politics and the arts were prevalent. In both countries, a strict one-ruler government was formed in the 20th century. However, through these dictatorships, citizens in each country were able to connect to the history of dance. Dancing helped to entertain and also advanced political propaganda. While dance was famous in Russia under Lenin and Stalin, dance in Germany was not as revered as Russian ballet, especially during the time of…

During the 1920s, both William Butler Yeats and H.D (Hilda Doolittle) wrote poems about women in Greek mythology, each choosing a notable figure who contributed to the fall of Troy. In “Leda and the Swan,” Yeats explains a famous Greek myth, where Leda is raped by Zeus in the form of a massive swan. This copulation led to the conception of Helen, who history deems as the beauty who launched a thousand ships in the Trojan War. In his sonnet, Yeats observes how the consequences…

Saved by a Swan “Shhh,” members of the Son’s of Liberty whispered as they approached, or moved closer to, the large ships filled with the 342 chests of tea. The Sons’ of Liberty, an organization started to protest the Stamp Act or a law that placed taxes on printed material, were dressed in black clothing with a Donald Trump mask. With his corn-colored hair, orange popsicle skin, and his puffer fish lips, Donald J. Trump was able to startle anyone. The Patriots, or colonists who supported the…

The Death of a Swan From start to finish, the movie Black swan is a roller coaster of emotions, mental illness and intense topics. The main character, Nina Sayers, is a beautiful ballerina who is preparing for the role of Queen swan in her ballet company, a role in which she must play both the good White Swan and the evil black swan. Once she is able to achieve this role, her director, Thomas, tells her she must become the role; she has to “loose herself to become the black swan since she has…

actions; however, people of power often think their actions have no consequences. The poem “Leda and the Swan” written by William Butler Yeats is comparable to current media reports in today’s society; men of power being accused of sexual misconduct against women. Many famous men repeatedly abuse their power and the consequences often fall upon women and society, relating to the events in “Leda and the Swan”. Acceptable behaviour in society today is very different than what was believed in…

Henri Cole’s poem “Swans” speaks about the passing of a father and the impact it has on his children, through his use of imagery of the scene to reflect the internal thoughts of his characters, symbolism as manifestations of their traits, and similes to describe their emotions. From the onset, Cole’s word choice of “must have looked,” (1) implies that everything is not how it seems, thus the calm nature of “ordinary/ tourists feeding . . . swans,” (1-2) is the opposite of the speaker’s feelings…

Model descriptions SWAN model The SWAN model [12,18] is based on the spectral action balance equation rather than the spectral energy balance equation. The evolution of the action density N is governed by Komen et al. [13]: ∂N/∂t+∇_x ⃗ ∙[((c_g ) ⃗+U ⃗ )N]+(∂c_θ N)/∂θ+(∂c_σ N)/∂σ=S_tot/σ where, N(σ.θ) is the action density spectrum, x is space, t is time,θ is wave direction, σ is relative frequency, S_tot is the source term total, and c_g represents the propagation velocity. The first term in the…

Swan Lake is a popular ballet in which a girl is cursed and turned into a white swan. To return back to a normal state, the girl must find her prince. The white swan found her prince, but a mirror image of the girl, the black swan, tricked the prince. The white swan, having saw this trickery, knows she will never be freed of the curse because of this sabotage and kills herself. This story is included within the movie, Black Swan, not only as a production within, but also as a full encompassing…

Adolescent girls notice how things are gendered and how women are treated differently than men. These gendered differences between women and men can influence young girls’ minds and make them think that men are more superior to women. Twilight, a book saga written by Stephenie Meyer, can directly influence the thoughts of young girls and how they feel about their own sex. Widely known and loved by many, this series has some underlining meanings whether the author intended them or not. Foss…