Comparing The Black Rat And The Photograph

Futility of war and inner conflict is utilized in this anthology cover. A picture of a soldier kissing his daughter to say goodbye expresses inner conflict to the viewer through the use of the soldier coveting either to stay with the family or go to war. The futility of war is also portrayed as the soldier does not have a choice between the two decisions and so must leave behind their loved ones and go to war. Owens poem “The Send Off” expresses this conspicuously when it says that they “lined the train with faces grimly gay” indicating to the viewer that they weren’t ebullient of going to war which is the further emphasised by the technique oxymoron for “grimly gay”. In conclusion, the picture of the soldier kissing his daughter which symbolises the soldier saying

Literature encapsulates the human experience, reflecting facets of our culture, traditions, and beliefs. Literature functions as a tool to develop and explore empathetic links with other individuals and can provide insight into experiences removed from our own reality. Peter Fischl’s poem ‘Little Polish Boy’ is one such text in which we can attain a unique understanding of the horrors catalysed by war. An expression of Fischl’s own Holocaust experience, this poem is set in WWII, and addressed as a letter to an innocent child of the war from a photograph Fischl found years after the war ended. We can also learn of the loss and grief children face in times of war through the picture book ‘a Soldier, a Dog and a Boy’ by Libby Hathorn. The story follows a young boy orphaned by the Battle of Somme and he’s only left to survive with his dog before an Australian soldier comes to his rescue. These texts allow us to reach a better understanding of the different effects conflict has on children.

In “September, 1918”, Amy Lowell shows her readers an interesting and illuminating poem. That war can be an ugly time and the people that experience it often seems to live in a “broken world” (19). To fight an evil, sometimes war is needed, nonetheless it is still costly to the people living through the war. Some in a literal sense, like soldiers fighting in a war, while some in a physical sense by the world that they now see and live in. I find the poem truly interesting though, in how the author shows that even in war we can still hold onto hope for more promising days. Lowell portrays a melancholy mood throughout her poem that makes her readers thinking about war but also the hope of it being over.

The black rat is most likely one of the first invasive species to ever be inadvertently distributed by humans. The species originated in tropical Asia, but is believed to have reached Europe by the first century A.D. before spreading across the world, hitching rides en masse on European ships. Since then, the black rat has thrived in just about every region of the world, and has adapted exceptionally well to rural, urban, and suburban environments alike. Unfortunately, its success as a species, in combination with the success of numerous other species of rats, is believed to have come at the expense of dramatic population declines and even extinction of countless bird, reptile, and other small vertebrate species the world over.

The novel “Fugitive Pieces” by Anne Michaels is written in a powerful way to show the feelings of people who have gone through experience of their beloved ones’ painful deaths. There are two protagonists, Jakob and Ben who lead the broken life, as a result of the tragedy that not even the future generations will ever forget. They’re both left with damaged souls from the war; although they belong in two different generations, they still have an essential intersection point —of endless sorrow and pain. It’s not a story about a person from the post-war generation or a poet that had suffered from World War II but a memoir depicting tragic lives that had been deformed by having to face horrid life-threatening experiences and losing family

We assume that addiction is like a relationship, and if you are addicted, you need to feed the craving of that addiction. An addict’s relationship with drugs is an unhealthy bond that we have formed. However, is that bond formed by the drug itself? Most people would assume that the drug does indeed cause a person to crave it. These assumptions could have come from tests done in the early twentieth century on rats. These tests put a lone rat in a cage along with two water feeders; one was fine, but the other was laced with drugs, typically cocaine or heroin. The tests would see how the rat reacted to the contents of the separate feeders. The test would usually end when the rats would continually come back to the drugged water until they overdose. This is where we conclude that the drugs bring back their victims. When looking at other examples where drugs have been tested, the result is different, Instead, it is the environment that you are in that directly affects your relationship to a drug.

The leporillus apicalis or more commonly known as the lesser stick nest rat, is a rodent from

The rattus rattus, more known as the black rats, are well known rodent species with long tails which are considered invasive to the United States. The black rats first originated from Tropical Asia, were then introduced to East Asia, then were spread to Europe, and finally were introduced to the United States as they were coming along with European travelers. A regular black rat adult is usually around 12.75 to 18.25cm (5.9-7.19 in) long, 15 to 22cm (5.8-9.7 in) tall, and weighs around 70 to 23 grams. The rat has a thin coat of black fur, and it somewhat smaller than the brown rat.

Inside this soldier’s kit were thirty-seven poems written during the war. One of the poems, titled “When you see millions of the mouthless dead” instills the reader with the powerful realization of impending death. This poem, at face value, can be taken as a basic "How To" guide for mourning the loss of lives during war times. However, with further

Rats, are they friends or foes? This paper will unlock the mystery to rats and what's beneath their furry little faces'. We will determine if they're our rivals, our allies, or possibly both. Many believe them to be mean and vicious. Others believe they're sweet and make incredible pets. Can they both be true?

The goal of the experiment is to determine whether sniffy the rat will associate a flash of light with the tone which is presented with a conditioned stimulus of a tone. It is predicted that sniffy will eventually learn to associate to light with the tone and this will elicit a conditioned response in terms of the shock presented in stage one. There were four stages in the experiment each consisted of five trials over the course of five minutes, the first stage was shown with the first stimulus of a medium tone followed by a second stimulus of a shock on high. The second stage had a first stimulus of a medium light followed by a medium tone. The third stage included only a medium tone and the fourth stage was presented with a medium light.

Of all the mental duties revealed about the rat during this book, the one that most interested me was direct reciprocity. This was the most intriguing information, because while generalized reciprocity would seem to be a higher functioning thought process, in reality direct reciprocity is far more complex. The animals must learn and understand reciprocal altruism. Not only are the animals required to learn that there is a causal relationship between cooperatively working together and receiving more rewards, there is an entire chain of events that must take place. In order to perform direct reciprocity a rat must be able to tell apart other rats, and keep a mental list. This list consists of all of the specific rats that have helped it in

The hypothesize that females are protected from developing neurodevelopmental disorders. That is because of their sex hormones, estrogen provides a great neuroprotection, done by suppressing the neuro-excitotoxicity induced by glutamate. Research article by Etidal Al-Suwailem, Sex differences in the glutamate signaling pathway in juvenile rats goes into the discussion and understanding of how sex gender is represented in autism. The authors conducted research in this area to understand why the female is at lower risk than a male when it comes to the development of neurodevelopmental disorders. With the attempt to understand the differences in glutamate signaling as an etiological mechanism in autism.

Carol Ann Duffy’s 1985 poem, “War Photographer” captures the devastating experiences and effects of war. The poem results from Duffy's friendship with Don McCullin and Philip Jones Griffiths, two highly-respected stills photographers who specialised in documenting war. Her poem conveys the critical importance of taking action against War rather than dismissing it. The suffering and devastation caused by war is brought to light through the photographer whose images convey trauma and intense human suffering.

How is the theme of war portrayed through imagery in the poems Lament by Gillian Clarke and War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy?