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Poems emphasise and characterize important morals, figures, items which, Robert Kroetsch reveals this through two of his honourably poems. “Stone Hammer Poem” and “Elegy for the Wong Toy” both developed by Robert Kroetsch exhibit the valued meaning of an important figure and object to reveal the arguments of the author. This is done by emphasizing the survival of humanity through the needs of the object, the importance of literary devices, and by revolving around the life and past experiences of…

No Action Should Be Taken Against Hunting; Allowing for Wildlife Conservation The year is 1912, in Jackson Hole Wyoming, the past three winters have been harsh on the land. A movement to help increase the elk herd was started two years previously. According to Steve Morriss, 2012 the writer of National Elk Refuge: 1912 – 2012, “Congress appropriated $45,000 and decreed the creation of a National Elk Refuge. The Government incorporated 1,000 acres of public land and 1,760 acres of purchased land…

The Struggle to Find Real Friends in a World of Counterfeits I learned from a very young age that making friends was not going to be easy for me. My parents, originating from the modest, genuine Canadian countryside raised me in Miami, the superficial capital of the world. My definition of friendship did not align with most Miamian’s definitions, to say the least. By six years old I had realized the importance of making friends based on their personalities, while every other six year old had…

Tom Cantu is a 15 year-old Hispanic young man who attends a community center for youth. Lately he has not been able to sleep or concentrate on his schoolwork. He tells the social worker that he needs to talk to her. Tom explains that he has been having some strange feelings. After much hesitation, he tells the Social Worker that he has been feeling attraction towards one of his track team teammates. He then mentions that he has been using marijuana and skipping school. He admits to wondering if…

During the time that Dante wrote The Divine Comedy, the Catholic Church was very corrupt led by popes that were more interested in making monetary gains rather than being spiritual leaders. One purpose of The Divine Comedy was to express disgust with the Church of the time and to suggest what the reformed Church should look like. One way Dante demonstrates that he intended to present a picture of the ideal Church is by making his final guide Saint Bernard, a “critic of the institutional church…

Basic moral principles state ideas such as “what goes around comes around” and that good deeds are rewarded, while bad deeds are punished. No matter how much we wish to believe it, this is not very often the case. Life is unfair. In the book Of Mice and Men, a realistic fiction play-novelette by John Steinbeck, injustice is defined as a clearly developed theme. The poem “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns that the book is named after is about how even “the best laid schemes of mice and men often go…

The book I am going to be discussing is “Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Spectacular Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry” by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff. Originally, BlackBerry was named RIM, which stands for Research in Motion and was founded by Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin in in 1984. They both created a device where uses could type words that flashed on Television screens and they named it “Budgie”. Usually, the start of a new technological device or website, I…

The Partition of India was the process of dividing the sub-continent along sectarian lines, which took place in 1947 as India gained its independence from British Empire. The northern part predominantly Muslim, became nation of Pakistan and the southern predominantly Hindu became the Republic of India, the partition however devastated both India and Pakistan as the process claimed many lives in riots, rapes, murders and looting. The two countries began their independence with ruined economics…

The authors insinuates a message that the landscape of the prairies are without excitement and beauty. He describes how the prairies are never ending due to nothing being in the way of your eyesight; as well, he states how the water runs through sloughs, due to the earth being so flat in the prairies. Prairies 1. a) Urban…

Kaylee Johnson Mr. Davis Honors English 10-5 3 February 2024 The Road: A guide to postapocalyptic parenting In the desolate post-apocalyptic novel The Road, author Cormac McCarthy presents unnamed protagonists the man and the boy as they navigate the “barren, silent, godless”(4) landscape of scorched America in an attempt to survive in a dilapidated world where “nights [are] dark beyond darkness” (1). As the man and the boy journey upon the godforsaken road, it becomes evident that “the boy [is]…