...“Hunting Snake” by Judith Wright is a poem which talks about the ambiguous nature of a snake. Wright uses this idea to convey how powerful and intimidating nature can be. This includes the use of language features, structure of the poem and vocabulary. Firstly, Wright uses a wide range of language features to emphasis the idea of powerful nature. One of features is personification. The snake “quested” through the grass, telling us that it is requesting to pass through the reader. The word “quested” shows that the snake is going on a spiritual mission, much like the pilgrims. This suggests a messenger of God, who is powerful and of great reputation. Another point is the snake’s “fierce intent”. The word “intent” highlights the idea the snake has a mind of its own and makes decisions itself. The personification suggest the power of the snake, even as an animal, the snake intimidates the author. Wright also uses the structure of the poem to reinforce the idea. The use of consistent rhyme scheme which is destroyed at the last stanza when the rhyme scheme changes indicates a sudden shock when put in the perspective of the poet upon realising what a dangerous experience it was only after the meeting with the snake. The fact that it starts to rhyme towards the end shows that the poet is already starting to get her thoughts back in order, illustrating how little of an impact this snake had on the author’s life in the long run. The fact that she could maintain the rhyme scheme to...
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...of the Florida Everglades, birds are chirping, alligators are resting in the water and suddenly a huge snake gets a mouthful of birds and then slowly slithers away. There are about tens of thousands of Burmese pythons living in Florida. These snakes are eating a large amount of birds and other mammals. Burmese Pythons are huge snakes that are making a massive impact on the environment of the Florida Everglades. They are capable of growing to 23 feet and up to 200 pounds. In the article, “Burmese Pythons: Not the Ideal Pet,” Matt Piven states, “Think of a telephone pole, and then imagine a snake as big around the middle as that pole”(page 44). The main reason that the Burmese pythons are invading the Everglades is because many families decided to keep these snakes as a pet without knowing what they were getting into. They were mesmerized with their beautiful patterned skin...
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...Everglades Have you ever wanted to visit the Everglades? I hope you like snakes if you want to visit the Everglades. The everglades are being over populated with Burmese pythons. Just to let you know the Everglades is not the home place for the pythons. In the Everglades, the ecosystem is being filled with these large snakes. Quite a few animals are starting to die out in huge numbers because of the pythons. Burmese pythons are also starting to die because of being hunted. First, Burmese pythons are amazing animals. Yes, they are snakes, but they are beautiful. Their size is about twenty feet long and two hundred pounds. Could you imagine being out somewhere and running into a snake that big? Source 1 states how the python kills animals as the following. For the pythons to kill their prey they first grab it, and when the animal tries to get away it sinks its teeth farther into the prey. Then the python wraps its long and powerful body around the prey and squeezes the animal until it dies. This is what Source 1 states. Burmese pythons are nonvenomous, but they bite so hard it can kill a human. The python has jaws that can let it swallow anything up to five times the size of its head. Some people what the python as a pet, and that’s not a problem. What...
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...also known as the Northern watersnake is the most common water snake in all of North America. These non-venomous snakes can grow anywhere between two and four feet and are typically tan or grey in colour. It is common for them to have dark brown or black stripes leading horizontally down the body. As snakes get older, they are often a solid dark brown or black colour10. This is how juveniles are distinguishable from adults. Due to these distinct colour schemes, the northern water snake is often mistaken for venomous snakes such as the cotton mouth—an aquatic snake with similar markings. As stated in the name, Northern water snakes are found in North America ranging from Southern Ontario all the way into more southern...
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...Analyzing and Deciphering: Homer’s Use of Animal Illustration We share this Earth with millions of animals. Some are vicious, some are gentle. We’ve lived with animals around us all of our lives and most people mould consider themselves very familiar with them. This is one of the reasons why animals make such amazing illustrations. Homer uses animals throughout The Iliad, and with good reason. Certain animals can depict certain emotions and behavior that words alone simply cannot. Homer uses animals in every single book in The Iliad. But throughout the epic, the way Homer uses the animals varies quite a bit. Homer used certain animals in The Iliad more than other animals and purposely so. Animals were used as symbols by the gods, but mostly they were similes. But Homer’s use of animals changes all the way up to the very end. Not only does animal illustration help the reader know and understand the plot better, but it also brings the epic to life. To start things off, Zeus uses an eagle as a good omen for Agamemnon. “And Zeus that instant launched about the field the most portentous of all birds, an eagle, pinning in his talons a tender fawn. He dropped it near the beautiful altar of Zeus where the Akhaians made their offerings to Zeus of Omens: and beholding this, knowing the eagle had comedown from Zeus, they flung themselves again upon the Trojans.” (Book 8 Page 183 Lines 280-287) The effect of Zeus sending over “an eagle, pinning in his talons a tender fawn” shows how much...
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...I will write about a snake. The snake I will writing about is the California King snake. How it evolves in its environment. What are its physical attributes? What is a snake? A Snake is any of numerous limbless scaled reptiles (suborder Serpentes syn. Ophidia) with a long tapering body and with salivary glands often modified to produce venom which is injected through grooved or tubular fangs. Found across the Western and Southwestern United States, the California king snake (Lampropeltis getula californiae) is one of 80 recognized subspecies of the king snake. The subspecies has a number of different color morphs. California kings are popular and harmless pets. Hybrids with other king snake subspecies and closely related snakes such as the corn snake (Elaphe guttata) are available. Description At a maximum length of 48 inches and 5 inches in girth California kings are smaller than other king snake species. The head is small and barely wider than the body and the scales are shiny and smooth. The typical coloration is white bands over a black or dark brown background, but there are unbanded races with a single vertical line running from head to tail and others with lateral stripes. Desert king snakes tend to be brown with yellower stripes while coastal animals have the highest contrast black and white bands. The pet trade has albino varieties, but albino snakes are rarely found in the wild. Range While common in California, California king snakes are also found as far...
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...variety of exotic pets to choose from, have you ever considered a making a snake your choice? The two most popular snakes to buy are red-tail boa constrictors and ball pythons. These snakes are similar, but there are underlying differences that make the choice to buy one or another very important. Ball pythons and red-tail boa constrictors have many things in common with each other besides the obvious point that they are both snakes, both suffocate their prey, and both are reptilians. These snakes are both known for being very docile creatures. When handled on a regular basis, these two species of snakes are not known to be aggressive. When you think about it, no one would want to stay in a cage all day every day. A regular basis does not have to mean daily. A regular basis is just about constancy. If you are going to let your snake out of its cage twice a week, you need to make sure you stick to this regimen. Another way that ball pythons and red-tail boas are alike is their habitats. These snakes are good about regulating their own body temperature, but they need a little assistance from their owner/caretaker. The tank that you place them in, as their home, needs to have a cool side and a heated side. This can easily be done with the purchase of temperature measuring strips and a heated lamp. Placing the heat lamp and one strip on one side and just the second strip on the other side of the cage, the snake has the ability to slither to either side to regulate its own body temperature...
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...20 facts about baby animals 1. Some animal babies are tiny versions of adults. 2. Baby animals start life in different ways. 3. Some hatch out of eggs and some are born live. 4. Birds, amphibians, fish, and many reptiles do this inside an egg. 5. A baby bird enters the world by hatching out of a hard – shelled egg laid by its mother. 6. Many birds incubate their eggs by sitting on them to keep them warm until they hatch. 7. Emperor and king penguins, which live in Antarctica, warm their eggs by resting them on top of their feet. 8. Many snakes begin life in eggs too, but snake eggs are tough and leathery rather than hard and brittle. 9. A snake called the Indian rock python lays between 50 and 100 eggs at a time. 10. Since snakes are cold blooded, the mother rock python has to twitch her muscles to create heat. 11. During the two months it takes for the eggs to hatch, the mother python stays in one place and dose not even eat. 12. Frogs lay their eggs in jelly – like clumps along the edge of a pond. 13. Mother frogs do not take care of their eggs. 14. When a baby, or tadpole, hatches, it doesn’t look anything like an adult frog. 15. It has a tail, it has no legs or eyes, and it is completely helpless. 16. The tadpole grows legs, its tail begins to shrink, and it looks more and more like its parents. 17. Some baby animals do not hatch from eggs. 18. Mammals differ from other kinds of animals in other ways...
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...blanket that sat on the ground, wrinkling it up as he went. Little did we know we were about to be called upon by the Lord above to do a little bit of something new today. It was time for our weekly picnic that we always had with each other and my dolls. Just as we were finishing up our creamy peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches we heard a loud shrill, “HELP! GET IT AWAY FROM ME!” I looked immediately over to Fuzzy and we sprinted across the tree-lined trail to my grandmother’s home. We came upon her standing on a green plastic lawn chair with a large wooden shovel in her hand. “Grandma, what is wrong?” I shouted from afar. “It’s a snake! There is a snake in the flower bed!” she panted out frantically. Being the rebel I was, I strolled over there rolling my eyes at my grandmother’s silly sense of panic and began searching for the snake. If only I could go back in time and do what any regular kid would do when they sense panic in an authority figure. I would have sprinted the other direction in a heartbeat. I ran to the distress call of my grandmother only to find her weeping in the corner of the yard. “Heavenlee, listen to me, call the police,” she said with a quivering voice. This made me shudder just a little bit. My grandmother was a strapping almost six foot tall, broad shouldered, rugged to the bone woman. I had always looked up to her for her very presence was menacing. She was the embodiment of the word tough. So, to see her whimpering, then revert to a fetal position...
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...story of when she killed a snake in her backyard, which really represents her personality and why I love her. I. Introduction a. Hi everyone! I hope you are all having a great time and enjoying the party because it took me a great time to plan it. b. But yeah, I know you’re all probably bored to death after having to stand still and listen to all of these speeches and are probably thinking right now “oh no, here comes the twenty-year-old granddaughter whose going to ramble on for hours”. c. So, instead of standing here and listing all the reasons why I love my grandma and why I wish her all the best for her birthday, I’m going to tell a story. II. Encountering the Snake d. It was summer of 2012 and I was hanging out with my ex at in my grandma’s pool when all of a sudden we see this 3 feet long snake approaching he edge right where we were. You would expect that my ex was going to solve the problem, right? Well, the first thing he did was freak out life I did. e. We easily spent around 5 minutes trying to remember all those facts you here about how to react when encountering a snake, those that you never really pay attention to because you don’t really think its ever going to happen, and then another 5 minutes trying to figure the shortest way to get inside the house. f. Finally, we decided that the best solution was to simply run as fast as we could. We barged into the house yelling about the snake and my uncle, who was sitting...
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...important and they should be respected. For example, many important people throughout history were considered different, such as Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Harriet Tubman, Peter Tchaikovsky, and Abraham Lincoln. They did great things, but some people thought they were weird, because they had strong feelings about something. I can relate to these people, because I’ve been in that situation before, many times. It all started in elementary school when I realized that I wasn’t like everyone else. My mom says that I have a tendency of obsessing on certain subjects. Unfortunately, these subjects don’t interest other kids my age and they really don’t interest my teachers. In fact, my kindergarten teacher said she would scream if I mentioned snakes or lizards one more time, while she was teaching the days of the week. I would get in trouble for not paying attention, and the teasing began. In third grade, my teacher informed me that I have Asperger’s Syndrome, and I said, “So what? Do you know that Godzilla’s suit weighs 188 lbs.?: Later, I asked my mom, “What is Asperger’s Syndrome? Am I gonna die?” She said that it’s like having blinders on, and that I can only see one thing at a time, and that it’s hard to focus on other things. Like, I would tell anyone and everyone that would listen about Godzilla, because my big obsession was, and still is, Godzilla — not a real popular subject with the middle school crowd, and so the teasing continues. I might be different, because I...
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...My spirit animal is a snake. Snakes are known to be cunning, resourceful, quick witted, and use brains over muscle. Snakes also have an amazing sense of smell. Trust me, I can smell cologne from the other side of the world. Snakes are portrayed as evil and or mischievous. To add more, snakes shed their skin, thus meaning rebirth. Rebirth as in before I was a snake, I was a feisty demon rat child. Growing up, we were all troublesome and malicious. But me especially. I am not entirely sure why I was a no-good-demon-brat, but I do have a few pointers. My oldest sister, Samantha, wasn’t the best influence on me. When I was little some memories are still vague, but I do know that she did some pretty, well, kooky stunts. The act I remember most...
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...The Snakes That Are Destroying the Everglades If you had a pet Burmese python that grew too large, would you release it into the wild when you could not take care of it any more? First, you need to know what a Burmese python really is. The Burmese python is a snake originally from Burma (now Myanmar) which can grow up to lengths of almost 25 feet, weigh over 200 pounds, and can eat an alligator, or even a full grown human, whole. They are an invasive species in the Everglades. The presence of the Burmese python is changing the Everglades by Invading the ecosystem, impacting the environment, and bringing tourism. First, Burmese pythons are invading the ecosystem. Most of the Burmese pythons living in the Everglades are there because of bad decisions made by idiotic people. Some people at one point decided to get a Burmese python, ignored the fact that it would one day get too large, and when that day came, released the python into the Everglades (Source 1 paragraph 3). Basically, that means that people allowed a species to invade a complex and fragile ecosystem. Also, these snakes are destroying the natives animal populations by eating more than the environment can handle. This basically means that the Burmese python could very well replace other species of animals by eating them away. So far, the damage to the...
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...Let’s learn about two really cool stories. One is La Bamba the second one is Medusa’s Head. La Bamba is about a boy and a disc. He drops the disc in front of everybody. In Medusa’s Head There is a boy named Persues has to go on a mission to find Medusa and cut off her head. I the first story La bamba is all about a boy who wants to do the talent show and lip sync to this song called La Bamba. The author who wrote this is Ritchie Valens. What happened was The boy heard there was a talent show going on and thought more people would want to hang with him because nobody really likes him. This story was really calm until the talent show happens.This is like Medusa’s head in a way. In the second story Medusa’s Head There is a boy named Persues...
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...VU 21477 TASK 1 1. What kind of text is this? A guide. 2. What is the of the text? First aid for Australian snake bite. 3. What is the purpose of this text? To provide the steps on what to do after got beaten by a snake. 4. Who would need to read this text? Anyone that got beaten by snake and someone want to provide first aid to them. 5. How many steps are these in these instructions? 10 step. 6. List four features that guide the reader through the text. Step-by step instruction Clear English Easy to understand 7. List all the verbs that are at the start of the instruction sentences. Distributed, movement, survivability 8. In which step do the instructions say when first aid should start? When should first aid start? Step 4- Start aid should start immediately. 9. List four things you...
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