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The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien invites readers to experience the idea of it through the characters in his book, including Isildur, Gollum, Boromir, and Frodo. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is a fantasy book that talks about the Hobbit. According to Tolkien, “Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today” (1). Frodo is a hobbit, fictional character, and the protagonist of this book. Frodo’s uncle gives him a golden ring to destroy, but…

Wind Cave National Park is an idyllic area which, despite its nomenclature, has as much to offer above ground as below. The park is located ten miles north of Hot Springs in western South Dakota. It was established as the seventh National Park by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903, and was the first cave system to be designated. Wind Cave is the sixth longest cave system in the world, but the world’s densest maze cave. It consists of miles of interlocking and intersecting tunnels arranged in…

The Symbolism of the Conch in Lord of the Flies Something so important like a conch that represents civilization, who knew it would end up representing savagery because of a group of boys imagination. In the Lord of the Flies, William Golding tells the story about a group of english boys who get stranded on a deserted island and chaos falls upon them. Ralph, Piggy, Simon, and Samneric were the only ones who handled the situation with maturity, while the other let violence get to their heads. In…

Meaning large easy to read letters, which fit into to the whole wide fit theme of the ad. You know the one where Howie Long, a very large manly figure is shown wearing Skechers wide fit tennis shoes and his Super Bowl XVIII ring on his right ring finger. Now that we have cleared that up, let us continue. The font and the words themselves act as a frame for the picture. Thus when the picture “in an advertisement is framed, the viewer uses the label as a framework for encoding the picture…

This arm was designed particularly for Cartee’s left arm. Cartee’s has no elbow on her left arm. She has one degree of freedom at her wrist joint and at her finger joint. Her wrist is very small and she has two short conjoined fingers extending off of it that curve towards the right. Her forearm extending from her wrist is curved towards the left. Because of her very limited range of motion, this design relies fundamentally on electronics to be actuated. The prosthetic hand that this arm design…

The Lord of the Flies is a bloody severed head of a sow impaled on a stick. It has brought out all evilness and lying in the boys. Simon comes into contact with the sow and imagines it telling him that the beast exists within the boys. Lord of the Flies is symbolic of the devil. "I’m warning you. 'I’m going to have fun on this island. Understand?''' (Chapter 8). Similar to Lucifer being envious of Christ and wanting control, the Lord of the Flies wants nothing to do with Simon’s innocence. He…

intelligence. I realized that Bilbo had a lot of determination. One example of determination is when Bilbo stole the ring from Gollum. Gollum is a weird creature who is pretty rich. He gets a lot of birthday presents and one of them was an invisible ring. Gollum tried to eat Bilbo just because he took one of his possessions and possibly the most valuable which was the invisibility ring. Bilbo needed a lot of determination because he got left by Gandalf and the dwarves. It took a lot for him to…

Good vs. Evil In Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses the symbols of Jack and Ralph, to portray the theme good vs. evil. Throughout the story Jack is shown as an evil, controlling, heartless, and savage like person. In the text it states, “Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees” (Golding 49). Jacks actions convey him as more animal-like than human. He was running on all fours,…

In the novel ¨Lord of The Flies¨, author William Golding suggests many different meanings with his choice of the words and phrases he uses in the chapter titles of his novel. The word choice of each title depicts what might happen in each section of the story, but it also gives the reader a chance to interpret the significance of the chapter’s meaning. The title of chapter 2 is “Fire on the Mountain”. Out of context, fire is denoted as a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or…

Wrinkled Fingers Have you ever wondered why do humans get wrinkly fingers and toes when submerged in water by a period of time? According to the article “Wet Wrinkled Fingers Evolved for Better Grip” from The New York Times Magazine, wrinkled fingers are for a better grip for wet objects. Also, wrinkled fingers are considered an evolution. At first, it was thought that the wrinkles on the fingers were caused by osmosis (Changizi, 2011). However, recent studies have shown that without nerves, no…