Hibernation

What are animal rights? It’s the right believed to animals to live free from medical research, hunting and any type of violence. Throughout the world animals are abused and exploited for our own pleasure. They are persecuted for hunting, leaving them dead or wounded. Animal research and experimentation are often being practiced in today’s society, and animals are being tortured and heartlessly killed. Animals are wrongly forced into mistreatment, animal rights should annihilate the problems with…

After eight and a half long months of morning sickness, more like all day sickness, hefty weight gain, numerous doctor appointments, eating like a sumo wrestler, and back pain that kept me up throughout the night, I thought that I could finally rest these last two weeks. Boy did I think wrong! Sleeping peacefully September 27 in my new cherry oak bed with the ceiling fan wide open, I suddenly jolted up feeling an excruciating pain radiate all in my stomach and back. I knew then that it was time…

Eliot’s The Waste Land is often a confusing and difficult poem to understand. However, in terms of its style and content, it is clear that the poem speaks about the decay of the periods culture. The Waste Land is a eulogy to the decaying society of modern Europe post-World War One. Eliot’s use of fragmentation made him infamous in the literary world; and it is through this use of fragmentation that we the learned find it very daunting to appreciate. The poem consists of five sections, all of…

Autumn is a time traditionally associated with the beauty of nature, the changing of the leaves, the crisp air. However, Mary Shelley’s autumn, as depicted in the last paragraph on page 131, is a time of transition, a time between the joys of summer and the utter desolation of winter. In her best-known novel, Frankenstein, Shelley utilizes the change of the seasons to illustrate the monster’s position in between nature and civilization. Civilization is defined as human cultural, social, and…

Global warming and climate change: Threats and impacts Global warming and climate change are “the talk of the town” in this century, with its unhealthy effects already being brought to lime light by its annihilate power of damaging the society by floods in one part of the country and droughts on another. Before embarking impacts of global warming and climate change, we should know what green house effect mean. GREEN HOUSE EFFECT Green House effect is the phenomenon in which the earth's…

all their work and to just let the Taliban win.Even though Malala was told to quit she continued in for her right to education.As it says in chapter 18 page two-hundred-and-twentyfour “Maybe we should just stop our campaigung(jani) and go into hibernation for a time,” said my father. “How can we do that I replied. “You were the one who said if we believe in something than our lives, then our voices will only multiply even if we are dead.We can’t disown our campaign!”Malala never even thought…

Since I was a young child my parents had always instilled in me the value of education and the fact that I have to be gratuitous for all the gifts that have been given to me. While I had always respected their wishes, I had never really understood their motif behind their actions because of the lack of education and knowledge that I had been presented. The three main rules that my parents had wanted me to follow was do not waste what is given to you, absorb as much knowledge as possible, and…

Christmas, this is almost always one the most important times for you and your family members to bond. Personally, I haven’t had a lot of those moments mostly due to the fact that almost all of my family lives in Chicago. I haven’t had many of those picture perfect family Christmas but I have had a few memorable ones with a crazy group of Chicagoans I call my family. It was three years ago, that I had my first Christmas with my family. I still didn’t know most of the people they…

two pieces of stone and then roll with the prey in their mouth to secure bits of meat. American alligators are also known to modify their environment by creating burrows. These are created using both snout and tail and are used for shelter and hibernation during freezing temperatures. If the water they live in dries out, alligators will swim or walk to other bodies of water, sometimes even taking shelter in swimming pools. Abandoned burrows are used by other animals for…

The famed psychologist Sigmund Freud believed that human beings have an innate lean toward and interest in death, known as the Thanatos drive (Kli). At some point in the life of every individual, the reality of ever-approaching death drives them to scrutinize their decaying bodies. In his poem, In Media Res, Michael McFee relies upon thoughtful imagery, biblical and literary allusion, and unexpected connotative language to examine the eerie experiences of a middle-aged man as he struggles to…