Dead Armadillos Essay

Images can have a powerful effect on the way a person perceives a story. It can be the line that connects two dots together and adds a visual emotion to just a plain text. Matt Ottley’s multimodal text, Requiem for a Beast, uses illustrations, music, text and changes in point of view to highlight the major themes that develop throughout the text. Themes such as reconciliation and the Stolen Generation are explored and the hardships that the Aboriginal people endured are present as well. The Stolen Generation is interpreted as a time when Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their homes and then taken under custody of the Australian Government.

More than a million different kinds of animals inhabit the earth. The exact number is not known, for new kinds are continually being discovered. They live in the seas, from the surfaces down to the black depths where no ray of sunlight penetrates. Animals can be domesticated or left in the wild where they truly belong. However, as time passed by, nowadays, animals are endlessly being exploited and fought for around the globe. Different opinions from different countries and races have divided to defend to defend their views and make a stand. This issue about the animals’ welfare should be taken more seriously until we find the right answers.

    Due to the domestication of cats and dogs their populations have skyrocketed. This is due in part to the lack of pet owners acting in a responsible manner. These responsibilities include the spaying and neutering of  pets. These numbers of

With the following second stanza the tone of the poem becomes more depressing. By saying that “there is no life higher than the grasstops or the hearts of sheep”, she creates boundaries to the vastness of life, limiting and comparing its essence to that of a plant’s and an animal’s, leaving the humans out of the poem. The depressive mood degrades the tone and atmosphere to an extent of filling it with death and fatality. If Sylvia pays “the roots of the heather too close attention”, they will “whiten her bones among them”. The combination of the words “bones” and “white” in one sentence might suggest that the roots will bring her death; since the skin of a corpse turns white due to the lack of blood, and bones are the leftovers of a dead hence both are associated with mortality. As opposed to the first stanza, the second stanza takes her to a completely different place. Grasstops, sheep, the roots of heather- all surround her, whereas in the first stanza she is completely alone in a huge desolate space. The change in her surroundings suggests her movement across the moorland, but at the same time it points out the maintenance of her demoralized emotional state and the lack of a positive change about it.

Adaptive radiation of different organisms have occurred throughout geological time through the filling of ecological niches. Organisms different from one another are capable of radiating greatly, as they evolve traits that allow them to thrive better in their environment. The Anolis lizards of the Caribbean islands are a great example of a single genus to have radiated not once, but multiple times through very similar mechanisms. Different populations of the Anolis phenotypically vary in their morphological traits to facilitate adaptation to particular niches. These phenotypic variations have evolved in convergence in more than one occasion, as recently discovered fossil specimens show similar patterns in morphology to modern Anolis.

The armadillo is the only remaining member of the Cingulata order of the animal kingdom (www.factzoo.com). All species of armadillo are characterized by the number of bands they have (Brittanica, 563). Armadillo in Spanish means “little armored one” which hints at their armored bands. An armadillo’s armor is made of dermal bone plates which are covered with overlapping epidermal scales called scutes (www.factzoo.com).The armadillo’s armor works well against predators, not cars. They are known as the “Hillbilly Speed Bump” for their tendency to get run over by cars. They have bony rings or plates that protect their tails. The plates are separated by movable bands. Only one species of armadillo can actually roll up into a ball to defend itself. Armadillos have strong short legs, suited for digging. With their strong legs, they also have strong claws

What is the problem? The problem with an “Armadillo Roadkill” quote is that the writer does not properly introduce the quote to the reader. The reader is not prepared for it.

Throughout the poem, the author creates different tones using different types of figurative language and diction. The poet starts off the poem with the metaphor, “Although she feeds me

Armadillos became a popular food to eat during Cookouts and barbecues. People became interested in keeping Armadillos as pets and used their shells as decorations. People called Armadillos hoover hogs because of the pork like flavor. Armadillos carried a disease called Hansen’s disease or leprosy. The disease is spread in the air and the bacteria goes from person to person if they don’t get treated quickly.

To put this on equal terms, think one day you and your family are taking a leisurely stroll down the park. While walking down the spark another person randomly tries to kill you. But, no one but your mom is wounded with a poisoned wound without an antidote. Frighten you would not be able to know or think straight with the sight of someone dear to you dying right in front of your eyes. Now if you would please take that picture and put it in terms of an animal being hunted by another species far more advanced, without a way to protect themselves. Is it really morally right to kill another living thing for sport? Especially when the animal involved is on the endangered species list, to be fair, it is on the endangered species list for a reason because it is on the verge of becoming extinct. So let me ask you again why should anybody think it's more to hunt and kill animals that are endangered or simply in our backyards. it is morally wrong to continue trophy hunting as a Leisure activity when endangered animals are

In the poem “A Blessing,” James Wright analyzes the relationship between human beings and nature through the descriptive explanation of an encounter between his friend and himself and two Indian horses. He shows that although we are able to relate and interact with the animals we don't have the ability to join them or as Wright puts it: “break into blossom” (26-27). Wright uses imagery and personification to describe the nature he witnesses as he escapes from the stress of human life. The ponies in this poem are personified by comparing them to human beings, mainly through the description of their emotions. This personification lessens the gap between the author and the horses and separates him from civilization represented by the highways

She uses allegory to show how truth gets lost in order to fill one’s desire. The author reinforced the unreliability and needlessness of the poem “True Stories” due to the reshaping of the truth. People will make the stories depending on how they want to see it, “It’s not what I set out with or what I carry … sailing with” (288). The author uses this quote as an allegory meaning that the stories of the narrator are not based on what he or she heard. Rather, it is based on what the narrator is “sailing with” or the matter that suits the narrator. Additionally, the control people have on animals is another problem Atwood illustrated in her poem. She does not directly tell the readers about the oppression of animals, but she shows the reader the problem within the society through an allegory. In the beginning of the poem “Dreams of the Animals”, the free animals dream of anything, until they were caged, “animals dream of evil ... petshop window on St. Catherine” (203). The author presents that animals dream too, not just humans. Their dreams had exceptions, which is the animals that were not free, because humans control them. The people caged animals for their own desires, or even sold them for money. The caged animals are an allegory to the oppression and control of humans to animals that of which they cannot break free. The allegory moral principle is that the imagination

Since its first appearance in the 1886 collection A White Heron and Other Stories, the short story A White Heron has become the most favorite and often anthologized of Sarah Orne Jewett. Like most of this regionalist writer's works, A White Heron was inspired by the people and landscapes in rural New England, where, as a little girl, she often accompanied her doctor father on his visiting patients. The story is about a nine-year-old girl who falls in love with a bird hunter but does not tell him the white heron's place because her love of nature is much greater. In this story, the author presents a conflict between femininity and masculinity by juxtaposing Sylvia, who has a peaceful life in country, to a hunter from town, which implies her

In the poems “Traveling Through the Dark” and “Woodchucks” man must make a decision about nature in the most inconvenient ways. In “Traveling Through the Dark” the narrator is faced with, literally, a life or death situation, whereas in “Woodchucks” the narrator is faced under the Darwinian belief about killing. Both poems reveal the interpersonal relationship between man and animal as well as the moral dilemma that man faces with nature. However, through the use of narration, vivid imagery, and personification, the poets show one speaker’s sympathetic attitude towards the animals while the other speaker has an adversarial attitude toward them.

William Blake used animals as basic building blocks for poems such as “The Lamb” and “The Tyger.” By using these carefully selected animals to depict good and evil, the reader truly understands Blake’s words. All readers can relate to animals such as an innocent lamb and a