“Calypso Borealis” and “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” are two very descriptive pieces of writing but are written from two different point of views and angles. Muir writes about his personal emotions through his journeys in nature‚ whereas Wordsworth describes his emotions by comparing them to nature. The two authors have expressed their relationships with nature by vividly describing their emotions and their environment giving the reader the ability to envision the text. “I Wandered Lonely as a
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Re-tell about finding the coffin from Doodles point of view in "The Scarlet Ibis". This is from Doodle’s point of view‚ and it’s similar to the style of writing that Hurst used. My brother could be so nice to me. When he took me out to Old Woman Swamp for the first time‚ I was so amazed at its beauty. He would gather wild flowers for us and then we would make necklaces and crowns out of them. The days that he took me out there‚ he was a good big brother. However‚ there were days when I could
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Life in the North had different geography from life in the South. In the South there were many swamps and plains‚ while there were thick forests and bays in the North. Economy was different in the North than it was in the South as well. Economy in the South was more based on agriculture‚ while economy in the North had a lot of factories. Another way
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page 16‚ “ ‘Muck fires don’t go out. They’re burning all the time.’ ” As you can see‚ the muck fire in Lake Windsor Downs has always been a problem‚ and since there is a problem‚ there has to be a solution. In this case‚ the solution is to create a swamp to try to flood out the fire. “ ‘We said‚ ‘Why don’t you pour water on
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and when that happens it presents a suspenseful tone. He uses details like “the silence of a dead word” (Connell 27) to show the quietness of the jungle. Connell then says that Rainsford was almost sucked in by the “death swamp” (29). You are almost able to picture this “death swamp” (Connell 29) and how
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------------------------------------------------- Sundarbans The Sundarbans (Bengali: সুন্দরবন‚ Shundorbôn) is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world.The Sunderbans is a UNESCO World Heritage Site covering parts of India and Bangladesh. The Sundarbans National Park is a National Park‚ Tiger Reserve‚ and a Biosphere Reserve located in the Sundarbans delta in the Indian state of West Bengal. This region is densely covered by mangrove forests‚ and is one of the
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Both alligators and crocodiles are members of the reptilian order Crocodilian. But the families they belong to‚ Alligatoridae and Crocodylidae. As a group‚ crocodilians are pretty impressive animals: Their lineage goes back 240 million years‚ meaning they’ve outlived the dinosaurs by a good 65 million years. Ideally suited for life in water and on land‚ members of the order can swim up to 20 mph and run up to 11 mph. Crocodiles and alligators are top-notch hunters and will eat just about
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The Devil and Tom Walker A few miles from Boston‚ in Massachusetts‚ there is a deep inlet winding several miles into the interior of the country from Charles Bay‚ and terminating in a thickly wooded swamp‚ or morass. On one side of this inlet is a beautiful dark grove; on the opposite side the land rises abruptly from the water’s edge‚ into a high ridge on which grow a few scattered oaks of great age and immense size. Under one of these gigantic trees‚ according to old stories‚ there was a great
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original Beowulf‚ Grendel’s mother is described as “that swamp-thing from hell‚” (Lawall 1213). Dean Traylor states in her article‚ “Beowulf: The Movie versus the Poem - The Changing Face of Heroism‚” “Unlike the poetic version‚ Grendal ’s mother in the movie (played by Angelia Jolie) is a sultry temptress whose beauty and sex appeal are more powerful and dangerous than her demonic traits‚” (Traylor 2). In changing the appearance of the swamp hag‚ again the fear that the poem placed in the reader is
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Ah Goong He is a free man hired as a railroad worker in Maxine Hong Kinston’s The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains‚ who is the Grandfather of the narrator‚ leaving home several times to work in America. He lived and took “the Chinaman’s chance” to work for the love of his wife and family. Bak Goong He is a Chinese labor in Maxine Hong Kinston’s Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains‚ who is the Great Grandfather of the narrator‚ coming to Hawaii as a tough worker in land. He
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