Bestiary

Civil War Medical Technology Civil war medical technology was not very good during the awful war of 1861-1865. With small shanty medical kits that were not adequate for the job that surgeons had ahead of them tools in the medical kit helped transmit diseases that were lethal. Weapons were being engineered to become more lethal and or more painful [also built to explode so it was harder for medical surgeons to save the soldier]. Transportation was also dominant problem that hurt both the…

He is a Cheshire cat, a gang of grins. His new face all jaw, all smile and bite. Look at your brother-he is Borges’s bestiary. He is a zoo of imaginary beings. (105-111) In this poem Diaz explores her brother’s addiction to drugs and how she is walking a fine line between telling her brother the truth about his appearance and behavior while still avoiding the inevitable…

The golden mean, the celebrated concept inaugurated by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics¸ posits, roughly speaking, that any individual trait or emotion when held in excess or deficiency is a vice, but, when possessed in moderation, ought to be considered a virtue. Is there ever an appropriate time to act upon the emotion of anger? Anger can certainly act as a powerful motivation for human accomplishment and heroism, willing an individual to perform feats he otherwise, in a rational or calmer…

The next major argument in the world of critical analysis rests in the amount of literary references used in Donne’s work. Some critics pronounce that Donne believed in new ideas and cultivated them, using literary references as models for his own poetry. Some regard that Donne was not only learned, but used science and mythology to make a specific point in his poetry, appealing to a wider range of critical thinkers. Others disagree with both statements, saying that Donne’s success was merely…

Living Life as a Gladiator What would life be like to live as a gladiator? Some gladiators loved the thrill of fighting. Gladiators were worshiped and hailed by the spectators. Many gladiators hated fighting to the death in arenas and coliseums. Most gladiators were enslaved and forced into this lifestyle. What is a gladiator? According to American Heritage Dictionary (1985) “A gladiator is a person trained to entertain the public by engaging in mortal combat in the ancient Roman arenas” (Page…

The Separation between the Fantastic and the Real in the Stories of Julio Cortázar Throughout the following research paper, we will develop the literary analysis of the stories "The night face up” “After lunch” “The Axolotl” and “Cefalea” by Julio Cortazar. I chose this author because we can enjoy his literature in which reality is transformed into fantasy, which catches us and forces us to interpret it. The author chosen belongs to the "boom" of Latin American literature. That is why his…

For other uses, see Parrot (disambiguation). Scarlet Macaws. One is eating using a foot to hold a walnut, while the shell is broken with its beak.Parrots are birds of the roughly 350 species in 85 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most warm and tropical regions. Also known as psittacines (pronounced /?s?t?sa?nz/),[1][2] they are usually grouped into two families: the Psittacidae (true parrots) and the Cacatuidae (cockatoos). Parrots have a pan-tropical distribution with…