The Nightingale's Song

The reading passage discusses an interesting topic about humpback whales migration using the starts to cover long distances, and provides three main reasons for supporting. However, the lecture casts doubts on the claims exposed by the article. He thinks that the reason whales can migrate long distance has nothing to do with the starts. First, the reading passage relates the high level of intelligent and ability to develop abstract cognitive thoughts in humpback whales with the capability of…

problems in society. The song “Hands up” by Vince Staples is a good example of protest music because this song informs people on police brutality towards innocent African Americans. Listeners can gain insight into the song “Hands up” by Vince Staples by carefully examining and analyzing its occasion, audience, purpose, speaker, and tone The song “Hands Up” By Vince Staples revolved around a time when police brutality toward African Americans started becoming more frequent The song hands up…

Poetry Explication Walt Whitman was an inspirational poet who mainly focuses on the ideas of Transcendentalism and Romanticism. These ideals show in the poem "When I heard the learn'd astronomer". This poem focuses on the importance of appreciating nature and is beneficial to those people who spend most of their time indoors. The poem "When I heard the learned astronomer" is explaining the issues that arise when people only view the world in an intellectual way. Whitman is not saying that…

The Yuan dynasty, reigning from 1260-1368 CE, was characterized by strife among the Chinese people. In the Song dynasty, which lays the foundation for the Yuan, northern China was taken over by the Jurchen/Tartars, a semi-nomadic pastoral group consisting of skilled riders and archers. Huizong, who was the last emperor of the Song dynasty, focused his time on the arts rather than China’s nomadic or foreign relationships. His disinterest caused the take-over to be more plausible. The Yellow River…

By celebrating the beauty of the human body in Song of Myself, Walt Whitman promotes the philosophy of “[taking] off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men”. In section 24, when Whitman says, “I do not press my finger across my mouth //copulation is no more rank to me than death is”, he displays the need to embrace sexuality. Whitman sees the beauty in sex, and refuses to repress his ideals because of society’s opinion (Whitman 1245). In the preface, Whitman conveys…

Blue Whale The blue whale Balaenoptera musculus is a marine mammal belonging to the baleen whales Mysticeti. The blue whale is the largest animal to have ever existed. The blue whale can mature up to 100 feet long and can weigh up to 173 tons. The diet of the blue whale consisits of mostly small crustaceans known as krill but also eat small plants and fish. The blue whale’s body type is long and slender and their body shade varies from greyish blue to a dark navy blue. The whales dorsal can…

the Civil Rights Movement and the apartheid in South Africa. From these tribulations, people gave rise to songs such as We Shall Overcome and Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, to unite, to feel a sense of comfort and hope. The songs We Shall Overcome and Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika have become musical representations of triumph over the injustice within their national origins. Because of this, these songs have contributed to Peirce’s Sign Theory of icon and index, and have been repurposed to garner support…

fireworks, and kill off disease-carrying bugs. But later, the Chinese put the gunpowder into long tubes, which was used to threaten their opponent. Gunpowder was used to explosives, catapults, and mostly used when they were in contact with their enemy. The Song then invented metal gun barrels, and then China and Korea used gunpowder to shoot a bundle of arrows at a time. Centralization and Militarism in East Asia, 1200-1500: From the lands that the Mongols…

Society of Friends)—a Christian movement which professes the priesthood of all believers. He did not follow this religion as an adult. According to his doctrine, “No restrictions whatever should be placed upon an individual’s religious convictions.” In Song of Myself #48, in the first Stanza: “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” shows how he does not discriminate on others’ ideas and religions but rather…

Within the Dynastic Cycle, it was shown that the Tang and Song Dynasties of ancient China did have similar periods of how the Dynasties were founded. To start with, The Tang Dynasty wanted to follow the Confucius Dynasty. They liked the idea of having their politics and way of thought that educated people and work were more important than the family they came from. They also found their Dynasty to by following their codes of relationships their leaders could be like a father figure. They could…