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    The image that it shows is a gold painted number five over a fire truck. As many other imagist poems it appeals to the senses of hearing (line 10 “to gong clangs” and line 11“siren howls”) and sight (line 3 “I saw the figure 5”). The language that William Carlos Williams used in this poem is of common use, there are no longer complex words that need to be looked up in a dictionary. W.C. Williams was a near friend of Charles Demuth…

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    brutality suffered by the aborigines with the use rhetorical questions, anaphora, and juxtaposition. Stan Grant at the start of his speech uses rhetorical question “Who are we? What sort of country do we want to be?” and alliteration “We heard a howl. We heard a howl of humiliation” to state his arguments that make the audience reflect back on their actions and make them familiarize with the suffering the aboriginals…

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    Modern Wolf

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    Communication within the wolf pack is an extremely essential adaptation. Howling can be used to contact other members of the pack and to seek assistance in hunting. All wolves howl in the same key but the pitch may vary. In fact, wolves in a pack will howl in different pitches to give the illusion that there are more wolves in the group. In addition to pack-wide adaptations, the wolf also has a symbiotic relationship with the raven. This means that the wolf and the…

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    for the first time. Later in the book, Chapter 9 states, “My blood ran cold in my veins.” This is said by Watson after he and Sir Henry hear the hound of the Baskervilles howl for the second time. Watson eventually overcomes his fear of the vicious hound by shooting it in the end of the story. The text states, “With a last howl of agony and a vicious snap in the air, it rolled upon its back, four feet pawing furiously, and then fell limp upon its side. The giant hound was dead.” After killing…

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    evidential that fish do have a sense of need to escape; much like humans do. Braithwaite and her colleagues discovered that fish have the same nociceptors as us humans. When a human drinks hot water, it burns its tongue. When a fish gets hooked, it howls…

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    Ignorance Of The Forest

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    Riya In the early days of the Earth there were many rifts between the Khasta and Cherokee tribes. Anger flew with the wind spirit and it was left on these two tribes. As the sun fell below the treetops, a young girl from the tribe of the Cherokee was sent out to fetch berries. Her name was Riya. Ignorance of the forest trapped her in deep pit at the far end of a trail. Very few people treaded through the area. Her cries sang out in the valley below. Warriors from the Khasta tribe heard her…

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    Mary Rowlandson Narrative

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    The narrator in A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Mary Rowlandson, instigates herself as the prime Christian woman, when in reality is far from. If the narrative is examined with the knowledge that the word selection and scriptures were added and tweaked by the panel of pastors that approved this writing, then the instances of unchristian like behavior from Rowlandson can be dismissed. However, based on the knowledge that this is a narrative and the panel…

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    Arthur Miller, the setting of the play is Salem Massachusetts in 1692.Reverend Parris is a very ambitious man that only cares about himself.The most important thing to him is his reputation.According to the text “We cannot leap to witchcraft. They will howl me out of Salem for such corruption in my house."This proves that Reverend Parris only cares about his reputation and job” He uses his daughter to accuse people whose property he covets.Reverend Parris wants to be a very respected man around…

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    What are the wolves in this story? What is their impact in this town in the forest? The wolves are not just animals, but also not just humans. While the answers of werewolves seem fitting, my interpretation is that they are just humans who became engrossed in breaking the taboos of civilization by being succumbed by their id. The term wolf is just an excuse by the locals to excuse the wild side of humanity as being just animals, as they cannot comprehend humans acting so savage. My evidence of…

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    blows sunk into silence, than I was answered by a voice from within the tomb! – by a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child, and then quickly swelling into one long, loud, and continuous scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman—a howl—a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of hell, conjointly from the throats of the damned in their agony and of the demons the exult in the damnation!” Edgar Allen Poe allows this sentence to…

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