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    Project

    PROJECT ABSTRACT Project Name your name Project completion date INTRODUCTION Example: Today there are more than 100 animal species on the Endangered Species List in the United states alone. Each year more are added. Due to rescue and repopulation efforts, some animals are removed from the list. During our unit on animal habitat

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    Christian Allegory Inrime of the Ancient Mariner

    "The Rime of an Ancient Mariner" is a lyrical ballad that seems to be more like a miniscule adventurous story. However, not only it is a ballad depicting the adventure of an old mariner who is cursed for the entirety of his life because he kills an albatross; even deeper than that, it is also a religious allegory that conveys a plethora of themes pertaining to Christianity. On one hand, if a person were to read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" simply as a tale at sea, the poem stands to be remarkable

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    Ancient Mariner

    caught in a dangerous, foggy ice field. An albatross shows up to steer them through the fog and provide good winds, but then the Mariner decides to shoot it. Oops.Pretty soon the sailors lose their wind, and it gets really hot. They run out of water, and everyone blames the Mariner. The ship seems to be haunted by a bad spirit, and weird stuff starts appearing, like slimy creatures that walk on the ocean. The Mariner's crewmates decide to hang the dead albatross around his neck to remind him of his error

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    Equator In The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

    In the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the significance of the line on the equator is a defining point in which the climax takes place, and where interpretations of the text provides an understanding of the Mariner’s troubles. The line is a literal representation of the hero’s journey when he is passing back out again from his home to the South Pole. Without the line, one cannot see the dichotomy between the supernatural worlds, and the natural world, and the hero’s

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    Summary of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    strange, icy patch of ocean. The towering "rime" was bewildering and also desolate until an Albatross appeared out of the mist. No sooner than the sailors fed it did the ice break and they were able to steer through. As long as the Albatross flew alongside the ship and the sailors treated it kindly, a good wind carried them and a mist followed. One day, however, the Ancient Mariner shot and killed the Albatross on impulse. Suddenly the wind and mist ceased, and the ship came to a standstill. The other

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    The Purple Line

    Dave Harvey Case Brief #2 The Purple Line & The Hay’s Spring Amphipod Issue The client is interested in purchasing a lot near the new proposed metro purple line that runs to Montgomery County, MD however; there has been word that an endangered species is currently living in the Rock Creek Park, which will be affected by this new metro line. The main issue is that you can’t do any work or construction that can harm the endangered species that has been officially listed. This issue can cause

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    Mariner Dialectical Journal

    What strange tale I have read about a mariner and his gruesome journey! What power I have witness and what pain I have felt! I am still quite confused about this tale even though I have read the ‘ending’. For one where is the mariner’s family? I mean does his mother,father or even friends miss him? Is there anyone still looking for him? Someone must miss him! He’s been gone so long has his family forgotten about him? I feel as if the mariner’s sin has eaten him whole, and he, to us has become nothing

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    The Ancient Mariner

    story of the time when a storm hit his ship while he and his crew as out at sea, which was followed by snow and mist. Suddenly, an Albatross comes and the storm goes away, and the sailors on the Mariner’s ship worships it “as if it had been a Christian soul” (14). Yet, for no apparent reason, and although it has saved them from the storm, the Mariner shoots down the Albatross with his crossbow and kills it. Because of this, the storm once again shows up, letting everyone blame the Mariner for their despair

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    The Ancient Mariner

    continues to teach us of forgiveness. With physical suffering, the power of nature shows us forgiveness many ways. In the story, the mariner betrays nature: "I shot the Albatross!" This action against nature is rather extreme, for he takes lightly to this thought of death. The Albatross, as a representative of nature, means nothing to the Mariner. These thoughts are quickly changed, though, as Nature begins to start the penance leading towards forgiveness - "Water

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    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein Critical Reading Portfolio Section I: Significance of Title The title is significant because Frankenstein is the man who had created something beautiful that no one else has ever done before. One may think that the title Frankenstein sounds like something destructive. In this, Frankenstein symbolizes God and a parent to the monster because he saw himself as creating life from scratch and creating something that has never been done by anyone else. He sees himself as a parent because

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