In Whirligig by Paul Fleischman‚ Brent travels to the four corners of the United States of America and builds whirligigs on his mission of repentance. Each Whirligig has a unique appearance and meets the needs of it’s (observer?) in a different way. The first whirligig was put in a state park near Puget Sound. Being Brent’s first whirligig ‚ he had a little trouble creating it. Originally‚ it was supposed to be an angel playing a full sized orchestral harp‚ but he accidentally broke off it’s wing
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extradiegetic narrator with the man’s interior monologue in order to convey multiple perspectives to the reader. “He’d left the cart in the bracken beyond the dunes and they’d taken blankets with them and sat wrapped in them in the wind-shade of a great driftwood log.” Here‚ McCarthy constructs the lexis of the third person narrator using what some critics have called a limited linguistic palette. The polysyndeton creates a steady rhythm‚ which parallels the rhythm of the journey the man and boy are on‚ which
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offer them help (2-3). Neil S. Price elaborates on Dorset art and its spiritual meaning in his book The Archaeology of Shamanism by explaining that artefacts made with artistic intentions consisted of carvings in mediums including soapstone‚ ivory‚ driftwood‚ antlers‚ and bones and that these included amulets and other objects which the Dorset people believed had magical properties and used for purposes such as hunting and rituals. Price specifies that many carvings portrayed humans and animals of the
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Anyone who has ever read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" will not soon forget. The storyline creates fantasy with verbal irony‚ dramatic irony‚ and irony of situation. The story is brilliantly written and full of suspense; with the superior use of character and the technique in the narrative flows together to produce irony with the intention to provoke surprise. This story is told with emotional realism‚ but irony in situation ending secures it vividly into the reader’s mind. Verbal irony is
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Oil spills and the impacts on the ecosystem Discuss the short and long term effects of your chosen impacts on a specific ecosystem. Your response needs to include: -a definition of the impact - How the impact arises (Causes) - the effects on the living AND non living components (think about all the spheres) - Methods to reduce the impacts An oil spill is a release of oil into a body of water‚ often stored in a tanker‚ offshore drilling rig or an underwater pipeline. An oil spill often
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discover something about her mom. Lily eventually ends up at the Boatwright house and discovers that’s where the picture came from. When Lily sees the statue of the black Mary in the Boatwright house she describes it as “black as could be‚ twisted like driftwood from being out in the weather‚ her face a map of all the storms and journeys she’d been through. Her right arm was raised as if she was pointing the way‚ except her fingers were closed in a fist. It gave her a serious look‚ like she
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Throughout the story‚ we are able to see the different worlds Ambrose Bierce lived in compared to the one that we know. This is the first part of the story that I noticed‚ because in today’s world‚ no man would ever be hung‚ let alone executed for tampering with a bridge. Peyton Farquhar grew up as a rich southerner. He had everything that a man wanted at his point in time: a wife‚ children‚ land and slaves. However‚ he had always thought that something was missing. Because of the fact he was not
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Huck Finn Character Analysis The fictional literary character that I have chosen to analyze is Huckleberry Finn (Huck for short) from the book “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Huck is a thirteen year old boy who comes from a poor background and has been raised up to this point‚ by his uneducated‚ uncivilized‚ drunkard father. The story takes place in Illinois during pre civil war times. Widow Douglas and Miss Watson have taken him in and are attempting to civilize him. In this
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Ryker Tapson Ms. Barnett Honors American Lit. 1/6/11 Period 3 RN #1‚ An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge‚” the main character Peyton Farquhar is condemned for death‚ standing with noose around his neck waiting to be dropped off a bridge to a brutal death by a group of Union soldiers that had obviously captured him. The story flashes back to the events prior to his execution‚ as well as moving forward from his execution to his seemingly real escape
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The long summer ch. 3 The virgin continent: 15‚000 - 11‚000 BC Thesis: “Fifteen thousand years ago‚ Siberia and Alaska were joined by a wind-swept plain‚ featureless but for a few shallow river valleys. (p. 36) I. Central Beringia linked Siberia to North America A. It was formed 100‚000 years ago after the last glacial period. B. Humans were following migrating animals which eventually led them into North America. C. First Americans probably arrived 15‚000 years ago and came from Northeast
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