Scarlet Macaw

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 several species inhabiting the temperate Southern Hemisphere as well. The greatest diversity of parrots is found in South America and Australasia. Characteristic features of parrots include a strong curved bill, an upright stance, strong legs, and clawed…

venture out of their trees only to use the bathroom or to swim. They are solitary animals who socialize only by sharing a tree to sleep. Mating for sloths is initialized by a mating scream uttered by the female sloth alerting all of the males in the area that she is ready to mate. The males duke it out by hanging from a tree and swatting at each other until one of them gives up. Females have one baby at a time and gestation is anywhere from 5 months for one species of sloth to 11.5 months…

Anything for Profit In a world full of wrongdoing, Sharon Matola, a citizen of Belize who owns a zoo, fights to protect the well being of Belizean communities from destructive forces. In The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, by Bruce Barcott, the small country of Belize faces environmental devastation due to the greed of companies and the government. In the early 1990s, the Belizean government and Belize Electricity Limited (BEL) proposed to build a controversial dam on the Macal River, to…

Did you know that in 1990 there were only 2,500 hyacinth macaws left in the wild? (Blue Hyacinth Macaw) The hyacinth macaw is a parrot native to the rainforest. Unfortunately, this bird is seriously endangered because of the deforestation of their home. Humans have been known to be the cause of most of the destruction. Previous attempts to shelter them have been slightly effective, but we have devised solutions that can help save the hyacinth macaws numbers by greater amounts. In our paper we…

The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst tells a story of two brothers, Brother and Doodle. Brother is narrating the tale from an adult perspective. Doodle’s life is very difficult, everyone thought he was going to perish; he pulled through because of love with a small twist of wickedness. Furthermore, Brother only wants to help Doodle to correspond with other children because he wants to avoid embarrassment of having a younger brother who cannot walk, this is only a battle with his self worth. As the…

While reading The Scarlet Letter, I was introduced to many characters such as Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Pearl Prynne. Of all the main characters in the story, the person I most empathize with is Pearl. Even though Pearl is a little girl, I can understand, in a way, what she is going through. Throughout the beginning of the story, she has no idea who her father is. While I have known my father for my whole life i have known of people who have never met…

The most important part of any story is the plot, but what is the most important part of the plot? As shown in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the characters are what drives the plot. Characters can drive the plot in a couple of ways that can be shown with The Scarlet Letter; they can be symbols, they can be used to show aspects of the plot in a more visual and less abstract way, and they will physically move the plot forward. Without the characters there is no plot and so by…

Revenge is one of the classic staples in drama, and its role in The Scarlet Letter is perhaps one of the greatest examples. The story is about Hester Prynne, a woman who tries to raise her daughter in a Puritanical society that shuns her for cheating on her husband, later revealed in the story as a man named Roger Chillingworth. As a result of this sinful deed, she is condemned to wear a scarlet letter, the letter “A”, as a reminder of the atrocity she had committed. Her lover is Arthur…

Hawthorne’s Hester Every word and every sentence is carefully selected by Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter. Every part of the work portrays meaning and every part is important. Therefore, to get an unabridged analysis of a character in the book, the reader must look at each action of the character and the character’s image in the book as a whole. Imagery, symbolism, and setting are important factors to take into account of throughout a literary work. Imagery denotes the visual…

The Effects of Symbolism The Scarlet Letter is the magnum opus of Nathaniel Hawthorne and one of the most groundbreaking creations in American literature. As Hawthorne takes a society established to be a role model for all other immigrants like a City upon a Hill, he challenged the religious and political basis that formed our great nation. Simultaneously he discusses the morality, and moreover the immorality of the human race as a whole. The Scarlet Letter as a whole is an allegory of sin and…