...In the poem, “Ye White Antarctic Birds” written by Lisa Jarnot, I think there is a depiction of what New York City is like. New York City is the people who live in it, they are the people who discover but also cause chaos. As someone who has lived in New York for all my life, I have noticed the characterizations of specific people who live there, the differences between the homeless crazy people who live in the streets and the elite social group who live in big skyscrapers. One thing that stood out to me was the context that the author wrote in and how it can easily relate to how the homeless people spoke in NYC. When the author wrote, “Ye white antarctic birds of upper 57th street” (line 1), I think it could easily mean someone who lives...
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...evaluated the world (Caner & Hindson, pg 478). Furthermore, as this term developed, it was believed that a person’s worldview was dictated by their emotions and how they feel. Christianity falls within theism based worldviews. For Christians, the bible provides the framework for how we address our existence, morals, values, and ethics. Therefore, it is understood that Christians exercise daily while using a biblical worldview. Throughout the bible, scripture indicates that God is the creator and spoke the world into existence. The first verse of the first book of the Bible clearly states, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Additionally, Revelation 4:11 clearly identifies the Lord as the creator of all things due to His will. Psalms 100:3 states that “we are His people” because He has made us. God created man after His own image. Genesis1:26 clarifies that man is made in His image and man is to have “dominion over the fish of the oceans and over the birds of the heavens and over livestock of the earth”. Additionally, as God’s creation He made us with the ability to choose and pursue a relationship with Him. Having a biblical worldview, Christians should realize their “self-identity” is the result of our ability to know God personally. Jeremiah 24:7 indicates that God gave us a heart so that we could “return to Him”. Knowing God and having a relationship with Him is a Christian’s purpose on earth. All that a Christian does should be in order...
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...the docile, caged pet that the majority of the English population wishes for Aminata to become. The relationship between the medicine man and his bird demonstrates the subservient nature that is expected from Aminata. A prime example of this symbolism occurs in Aminata’s insight upon her first interaction with the bird: “And it did not use a homelander language. The bird spoke the toubabu’s language” (76). In this line, Aminata is observing that the medicine man has stripped the parrot of its natural vocal inflections and has instead trained it to adopt his language. It is significant because, in the preceding scene, the medicine man had tried to attach the English name of Mary onto the identity of Aminata and had begun to teach her his dialect....
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...“N-no wonder h-he got this dumb bird,” Harry managed between sobbing. “He h-had been l-lonely all this time,” Harry spoke mournfully. “SQUACK! I miss him! Where is Harry?” Rocky repeated again. “BE QUITE! I AM SORRY I STOPPED VISITING PAPA, NOW LEAVE ME ALONE!” Harry exclaimed aggravatedly. The parrot stopped repeating its master's words and opened it cage with its beak. Rocky tried to catch it but it slipped away from his grasp and flew to the television in the corner of the room. Then, it flipped the channel to a soap opera and attempted to imitate the woman on the screen, which came out as dreadful screeching. It then grew quite seeing that Harry was in pain and turned off the television. They both sat where they were for a few minute....
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...I watched Episode 4, The Rainforest - Wild Australia with Ray Mears. And in this episode he spoke about the geography, history, animals, and plants of the rainforest. This rainforest is located in the northern part Queensland, Australia. The Rainforest is considered to be the “wet” tropics due to the The Great Dividing Range holding in all the moisture coming in from Pacific Ocean. With the warm heat and high moisture content in the air, it creates an immense amount of precipitation. Wet Tropics is the oldest rainforest on the planet and has been around since Australia was a subcontinent, more than 150 million years ago. This included all of the southern hemispheres continents, then millions of years later australia moved away. Through that the Rainforest has been able to adapt new species of plants and animals. About 40% of the world's plant and animal species live in this forest. The rainforest from above looks very lush and green, as soon as you go below to the base of the tree’s it begins to get colder and darker. The reason why it begins to get so cold and dark is due to the thick canopy above. The canopy consists of all the vegetation and trees growing, it only allows a third of sunlight to reach the ground. Mears walks through the forest and finds ancient trees...
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...topics from the creation of the earth and mankind to the beginning of sin. In fact, the name “Genesis” is Latin for “the beginning”. The book plays a vital part in the controversy between the theory of evolution and the idea of God speaking the Earth and all its inhabitants into existence. Genesis chapters 1-11 are primarily focused on the natural world, human identity, human relationships, and the birth of civilization. Understanding that is important in knowing the origins the world, mankind and how sin slithered its way into the world. Genesis is mainly referred to as the creation story; how God spoke life into the entire universe. In just a mere six days, God created the light, separated sky from water calling the space “sky”, differentiated the water from the land, creating season and time, sprouted vegetation all over the land, filled the waters with fish and sky with birds, created animals to roam the earth, and made man and woman in his own image. But, after being tricked by the serpent, the fall of man began when Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden so they would not be tempted to touch or eat from the tree of life and gain eternal life. The devil disguised himself as the serpent and convinced Eve that if they eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they will be just like God. The main reason why Eve gave into the temptation was not that she was hungry; she gave in because she...
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...are free. What do we want? We want education; we want plenty of work; we want good pay for it, but not any more or less than anyone else… and then you will see the down-trodden race rise up,” (John Adams 1). After segregation was abolished many people had their view on the world, some spoke out through their actions and speeches, but others like Maya Angelou showed their feelings in writing. “Caged bird” was among those pieces, Maya Angelou wrote this particular poem to show the differences that still stood between the black and whites. Angelou represents the theme that “Even after a change, people may continue to hope and strive for even greater things;” she shows this through her use of extended metaphor and by understanding the historical context of...
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...since she was 8, and had lived with 10 families since. The court had ordered her to receive therapy for her aggressive behavior, or else she would have to return to the juvenile correction facility if she attacked anybody again. At first, Janelle was uncooperative and at the end of every session threatened to not return. Her attendance was sporadic, and she showed little interest in her feelings or her artwork. Her behavior was to provoke and antagonize others. However, once she began to work on the mask making, she was very careful in her placement of the gauze strips, and in the next session was eager to get back to work. She was meticulous in decorating her mask, and when she finished, she sought approval from everyone. When she spoke through her mask, she was less inclined to insult or yell as she typically did, and very much enjoyed the compliments of everybody. Long-term residential care is the kind of place for patients for cannot function properly in their daily lives and therefore are unable to remain at home. They may require a higher level of attention, or they may have been removed from their home due to abuse or neglect. Most of these facilities are referred to as schools because they must provide an education to their patients. Some of these children were unable to complete treatment in a psychiatric hospital, where there is usually short-term care. The common thread is the need for treatment and a special education. The art therapists in residential settings...
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...circle. Therefore he could trundle so fast that no one in the country was faster than him. Like most of the good runners in the gear world, Ferdinand began to look forward to going to the gear haven, where people said that there lived all the best runners in the world. The only way he could reach the gear haven was through the endless path in the outskirt of the city. So with great passion, the Ferdinand hit his road. Just as the name endless path implied, there was a long way for Ferdinand to go. Day by day he just kept trundling very fast and couldn’t see where the end was. The lily on the road side spoke to him:“Ferdinand, please stop and take a rest, flowers are blossoming!” But Ferdinand didn’t listen to her, he just kept running, the wind he made bent the lily. The parrot on the sky spoke to him: “Ferdinand, please stop and take a rest, birds are singing!” But Ferdinand didn’t listen to him; he continued his endless journey. The dust he made stained the parrot’s feather. One day, when Ferdinand was trundling through a tough road, he was knocked by gravel; he lost one of his parts and could no longer run so fast. Nervously Ferdinand began to find his lost part. He asked the lily: “Hi lily, could you please tell me where my lost part is?” “Sorry I can’t, but I can show you the blossom of the most beautiful flower.” aid lily. Ferdinand didn’t get his lost part, but he saw the most beautiful blossom. Then he asked the parrot:...
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...| |A Jury of Her Peers | | |by Susan Glaspell | | |When Martha Hale opened the storm-door and got a cut of the north wind, she ran back for her big woolen scarf. As she | | |hurriedly wound that round her head her eye made a scandalized sweep of her kitchen. It was no ordinary thing that | | |called her away--it was probably further from ordinary than anything that had ever happened in Dickson County. But what | | |her eye took in was that her kitchen was in no shape for leaving: her bread all ready for mixing, half the flour sifted | | |and half unsifted. | | |She hated to see things half done; but she had been at that when the team from town stopped to get Mr. Hale, and then | | |the sheriff came running in to say his wife wished Mrs. Hale would come too--adding, with a grin, that he guessed she | | |was getting scary and wanted another woman along. So she had dropped everything right where it was. | | |"Martha!" now came her husband's impatient voice. "Don't keep folks waiting out here in the cold." | | |She again opened the storm-door, and this time joined the three men and the one woman waiting for her in the big...
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...Vietnam. Gary appreciates the peace around him and notices the beauty in the small things, unlike Bud who is more interested in throwing stones for fun. It’s not because Bud is evil, but simply because Gary has been changed by what he’s experienced in Vietnam. He carries a heavy burden around because of the war, but he doesn’t want to talk about it and when Bud asks him. He simply says to him that he wouldn’t want to know. It also seems like it’s hard for him to admit that he killed people in Vietnam when Bud asks, though I think that he has already indirectly told Bud that he did. When Bud had hit that bird with the stone Gary became quite upset about it, and when he realized that the bird was beyond help he killed it and I think what he said to Bud after this is quite significant: "That's it," Gary said, not ashamed of his crying - just crying now while he spoke to me. "That's all it is. That's all there is...
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...In Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" the crow was repeating himself, the man in the poem was getting annoyed at the crow for only giving him one answer. The crow keeps saying one word over and over again. "Nevermore." That's the only answer the crow ever replied with. The man kept asking the crow different questions. "What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, giant, and ominous bird of yore meant in croaking." "Nevermore." The man tried to ask the crow why he was so dark and soulless, but all the crow replied with his usual response. Then the man thought why is he still here. The gentleman in the poem was thinking about when the crow was going to fly away. "On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." "Nevermore." The gentleman...
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...There are many animals in the world that are used to convey positive values. Mockingbirds are a species of birds that are emphasized for their positive values in To Kill A Mockingbird. Mockingbirds are symbolized as an example of peace and innocence in the story. “Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy”(90). There are multiple characters in the story that have committed no crime but are still questioned for their actions. Two of these characters would include Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. Boo Radley would be a good example of a mockingbird as he has shown peace and innocence throughout the story. Miss Maudie explains to Scout in the exposition of Chapter 5 that “ Arthur Radley just stays in the house, that’s all” (44). Therefore, Boo Radley must have stayed in the house to isolate himself from friends and family. Consequently, if he wasn’t in contact with anyone, it would be unlikely that he would be capable of destroying peace. Miss...
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...Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” Rev. Peters sermon on that day my father died... I’m Matt Summers, my dad is a hunter and my mom cooks. Dad didn’t hunt bears, birds and deer. Instead, he hunts monsters, monsters we usually think every night. He was the best dad ever; even he often comes in the house and dines together with us. He once invited me on his trip to Ohio. We drove to Ohio with some guns at the back of the car… and asked dad “why do you often visit us?” dad replied “evil spreads quickly… my job is to protect people even if I do not know them… I knocked on their doors and flashing fake FBI ID's and it usually works but, you should convince them that you can protect them.’’ We stopped at the old bone cemetery and there I met Cal Irving whom is a hunter too. “We caught him... He was playing hard to get” Cal said. “Good, he must tell us everything that he knows about that thing we saw yesterday on Kansas.” Dad replied. “I won’t tell you everything.” the man said… “Like I said, he was playing hard to get.” Cal inserted, and pointing a gun into the man’s head... “STOP!” dad said, and spoke some Latin words and it choked the man and spitting some black smoke...he was trying to exorcise the man but the man keeps on laughing with evil tone on it... Dad continued the exorcism until the man spoke some words and dad stopped the exorcism. “It was a changeling...” the man said. “I know that thing...” Cal shouted with...
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...Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” Rev. Peters sermon on that day my father died... I’m Matt Summers, my dad is a hunter and my mom cooks. Dad didn’t hunt bears, birds and deer. Instead, he hunts monsters, monsters we usually think every night. He was the best dad ever; even he often comes in the house and dines together with us. He once invited me on his trip to Ohio. We drove to Ohio with some guns at the back of the car… and asked dad “why do you often visit us?” dad replied “evil spreads quickly… my job is to protect people even if I do not know them… I knocked on their doors and flashing fake FBI ID's and it usually works but, you should convince them that you can protect them.’’ We stopped at the old bone cemetery and there I met Cal Irving whom is a hunter too. “We caught him... He was playing hard to get” Cal said. “Good, he must tell us everything that he knows about that thing we saw yesterday on Kansas.” Dad replied. “I won’t tell you everything.” the man said… “Like I said, he was playing hard to get.” Cal inserted, and pointing a gun into the man’s head... “STOP!” dad said, and spoke some Latin words and it choked the man and spitting some black smoke...he was trying to exorcise the man but the man keeps on laughing with evil tone on it... Dad continued the exorcism until the man spoke some words and dad stopped the exorcism. “It was a changeling...” the man said. “I know that thing...” Cal shouted with fear....
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