In the poem‚ “(love song‚ with two goldfish)” by Grace Chua‚ the author describes the evolution of a young romance between two goldfish with its consequential rise and fall using imagery and metaphors. From the title we can automatically understand what the poem will be about and the parenthesis give an image of the shape of the fishbowl‚ creating a setting. The title is not capitalized because it is not just a statement‚ but is in fact part of a story that is constantly evolving and has many aspects
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saying the way we act affects our relationships and causes some to be made and some to be changed or even lost. This theme is present in the stories “What‚ of This Goldfish‚ Would You Wish?”‚ “The Wife’s Story”‚ and “My So-Called Enemy” as they all have to do with the way relationships affect us. In the short story “What‚ of This Goldfish‚ Would You Wish?” by Etgar Keret the main character Sergei acts consistently with his three wishes. Each time he uses a wish he uses it to help someone else. In
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I want to have a goldfish for a pet. I’ll feed her. I’ll take her to the vet just for a checkup. I think a goldfish will be a great pet. I hope I want a lizard to be my pet. I will take him to the vet for nine hours and days. It will be great too. I want to have a guinea pig for a pet. I’ll feed her‚ also take her to the vet. I think so. I think a cat will be a great pet for me. I will take him to the vet. I think a god will not make noises and it will be a great pet for me to play together
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these excerpts”American flag stands for tolerance‚Texas V Johnson majority rule and What of the goldfish do you wish? All three have examples of acceptance that lay a very big role in the story‚each story has very different characters.A character in each has been accepted in some form ‚people who are different from one another that have accepted each other. In the excerpt What of the goldfish do you wish? Sergei is a lonely old man that lives on the outskirts of town. He has one friend
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The nature of the relationships throughout the poem seems to change from a seemingly equal sense of love from both goldfish‚ to a more one-sided relationship in the last stanza of the poem. In the first stanza the male character is said to be a “drifter”‚ this foreshadows the later stages of the poem as he slowly becomes ambitionless. He is bounded by his own infatuations so much so that he fails to realize what is happening in the present; this is signified in the second stanza where the idea of
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The Affect of Water Temperature on Goldfish Breathing Rate Carlos Vega Vanessa Santamaria Rasa Hodges 9/12/2013 Introduction The main objective of our lab was to see how temperature affects the breathing patterns of an Ectothermic animal. Ectothermic is the same thing as cold-blooded. It means that the animal‚ in this case a goldfish (Carassius Aauratus)‚ does not produce its own heat internally so the animals temperature depends on the temperature of its surroundings. So
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Grimm of The Three Wishes and What of This Goldfish‚ Would You Wish share the similar idea of being granted three wishes‚ they have very different ways of presenting this idea. I found that reading through the lines and paying attention to the sequence of the stories is how I differentiated between the two. In this essay‚ the prime differences and similarities will be addressed. First‚ the main difference between The Three Wishes and What of This Goldfish‚ Would You Wish is that the stories are of
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In the “What‚ of this Goldfish‚ would you wish?”‚ one of the protagonists named Yoni‚ is a cynical person who wants to get money from everyone. In the story‚ Yonatan is a mercenary who has a “genius idea” and will try to benefit economically as much as he can from people’s emotions. Instead of helping people‚ he uses their rawness and melancholy stories to benefit from it. The narrator in the story‚ stated that out of this idea instead of helping people‚ “Even better‚ maybe he’d cash out…” (Keret
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Professor Field History 422 September 3‚ 2013 “Goldfish and Autumn Leaves by Janet Fish” Janet Fish is an important Realist painter born in Boston‚ MA‚ and raised on the island of Bermuda. Her early passions were for sculpture and printmaking‚ interests fostered by an apprenticeship with artist Byllee Lang during her youth‚ and the artistic endeavors of her family. She formally studied these subjects at Smith College‚ and went on to obtain her MFA from Yale University in 1963. While
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The Respiratory Rate of Goldfish Affected in Lower Water Temperature Introduction: Temperature is a key influence that can change the respiratory rate of an ectothermic animal: Carassius auratus (commonly known as a goldfish). The respiration of a goldfish will change depending on certain factors. First‚ goldfish are exothermic‚ as are all fish. Their body temperature is determined largely by the temperature of the surrounding water. They absorb energy from the water (and to a far lesser extent
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