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Nevertheless, in the poem ‘Nesting time’, Stewart interprets a personal experience in first person of the appearance of a bird that lands upon his daughter and forgets the thought of the harsh world. Stewart’s descriptive language repeatedly explains the poem as if seen in his viewpoint, beginning with an interjection, ‘oh’ communicating of his incredulity of an ‘absurd’ bird. Symbolizing the bird with strong coloured imagery its ‘mossy green, sunlit’, described to be bright and joyful, with sweetness shown with the type of bird, ‘honey-eater’, Douglas Stewart takes the time to describe its admiration juxtaposed to the dangerous world surrounding it. While visualizing the birds actions, ‘pick-pick-pick’ of alliteration and repetition of its

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They saw a bird as caged, fragile, and beautiful, who like a woman needs to protect her nest, but the bird must be nurtured, because on her own she was incapable, and vulnerable. (The British Library, 2014).

Because of the supposed similarities between humans and birds, birds are a useful tool for authors wishing to symbolize human emotions or thoughts. Mynott offers that birds are often “distinguished partly by the different human emotions they seem to be revealing” (Mynott 282). He references several examples of the use of human-specific traits in the description of birds, such as “kind,” “stern,” and “astonished” (282). It is not such a huge leap from the attribution of such human characteristics, to “anthropomorphic misdescription” (282). The birds in The Ant of the Self are said to be looking “as though they [had] placed bets” on who would lose Spurgeon’s and his father’s confrontation. While Spurgeon is taking a stand against his father by ordering him out of the car and onto the shoulder of the road, the birds’ curious glances are exposing Spurgeon’s own thoughts. The birds, a symbol for Spurgeon, wonder whether he or his father will “go down in flames” (Packer 95). The caged birds, which are so capable of human expressions, are expressing Spurgeon’s thoughts. ZZ Packer endows the birds with a look of human quizzicality, having them glance from the nervous Spurgeon to his angered father. Spurgeon wonders whether he or his father will win, and the birds, as his symbol, express this.

Birds are shown throughout our culture as symbols. Simply by their appearance, they can spark feelings of love, freedom, or wonder in the hearts of people. Birds are creatures that have attributes similar to the beings on earth that are so fascinated with them. Humans are full of constant bewilderment and curiosity, so it is no epiphany that they are entranced by such graceful creatures of the sky. People tend to use birds as symbolism, given the stark similarities between the creatures in the sky and humans. Each can fly with the desire to soar above in the sky and see all that is hidden down below. Both humans and birds can sing songs of revelation to their neighboring friends. Additionally, birds and humans can find themselves being restrained by something. Although such a comparison seems bizarre, Anthony Doerr captured the essence of birds and its connections entirely in his novel, All the Light We Cannot See. Almost every character that is spoken of has an aspect of freedom and flight deep in their story. Doerr’s novel follows the life of two teenagers as they travel through life during the disaster of World War Two. Many characters in the novel exhibit actions and situations in which a bird might find itself in. Werner finds himself fighting restraints, as a bird would to its cage. Marie-Laure is a young birds stretching her wings for the first time. The surrounding friends and characters also face the issues of the war, similar to which a bird struggles with the

Kristen Schilts “Just one Of the Guys?” is a book that looks at transgender men in the workplace. Specifically, she focuses her study on inequality and how people are treated. It is well-known that many jobs treat men and women differently, but it is important to see if that continues when a person becomes transgender. In this case, she is looking at women born at birth that transition into men. She focuses her research in two different states; California and Texas. This is done because both states represent different beliefs. (California is more liberal, and Texas is more conservative). The research method Schilts used during this study was in depth interviews and observational data. This is important because it granted her access to their

The relationship between the eagle and the gull to "a pair of ice dancers" represents a battle between life and death. Both the eagle and the gull are trying to survive against each other. When the gull “swerves across / the open water” (5) and the eagle "is always behind it" (8), this shows a synchronization between the two animals as they are trying to battle between who lives and who dies. This also shows the equal desires of both animals as the eagle is trying to catch the gull, however the gull is also trying to escape. As ice dancers, both these animals play the role of partners as the eagle is the "male of the pair" (10) and controlling where and how the gull moves.

In chapter 8 of Handbook of Emotions, The Evolutionary Psychology of the Emotions and Their Relationship to Internal Regulatory Variables, Tooby & Cosmides (2008) thoroughly discuss the theories of how emotions came to be. The overall conclusion is that emotions did not inadvertently occur, but instead were specifically designed and evolved to solve distinct issues that would affect the probability of fitness. Emotions evolved to utilize physical responses based on environmental cues in order to promote the individual’s overall success.

The bird represented Mrs. Wright. She loved to sing and was a beautiful women who loved to dress up, but her liveliness was destroyed after twenty years. Because Mr. Wright had killed the bird, or in other words Mrs. Wright’s enthusiasm for life and song, Mrs. Wright could not take it any longer and decided to take matters into her own

Chapter7: The New Age and Related Novel Unsupported Therapies (NUSTs) in Mental Health Science poses the discussion on the pseudoscience of the New Age therapies as these method of therapy was popular among pseudoscientist back then as well as still being practice among people in the mental health field. As the term New Age therapies can be defines as an unconventional and mystical practices, the term “novel unsupported therapy” also shows the same definition as it provided insufficient evidence to support their claim or theory in the treatments based on the American Psychological Associations (APA) standards. Interestingly, the chapter emphasize on influence of the New Age therapies in the past decades as the “belief system” was eventually

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At the bird’s appearance and apparent vocal articulation, he is at first impressed, then saddened. He compares this evening visitor as only another friend which will soon depart, just as “other friends have flown before” (58). But the raven again echoes quite aptly his one-word vocabulary, thus leading the man on to think more deeply about the possibilities that exist at this juncture. Somewhere deep inside him, he has realized that it doesn’t matter what question he poses, the bird will respond the same.

The 1962 film The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is a symbolic film that reverses the roles of humans and birds. The film begins with a scene that sparks the relationship between the two main characters, Melanie Daniels and Mitch Brenner play a game of cat and mouse as Melanie pretend to work at a pet store and not knowing that Mitch is aware of her true identity. Mitch comes into the pet store seeking a pair of lovebirds as a gift for his sister, which is directly foreshadowing the fact that Mitch and Melanie are soon to spark a romantic relationship.

This textbook is mainly about Europeans and their interaction with the world around them. How they “discovered”, comprehended, and navigated their world around them. There’s even an entire chapter dedicated to their conquests of other peoples. However, I will be navigating through the first two chapters of this text of how they viewed the world around them and how traded and interacted with the people on their side of the world. This was a time of excitement for a lot of Europeans, but definitely a hard time for all the people they murdered along the way of their voyages for knowledge.

The print I chose is the Black-Bellied Darter because it reminds me of friends who are always together. Since I was a kid I have always had a best friend and this print teaches me how birds have friends too. When I was new to my old school I didn’t have my best friend so I felt alone but as time went on I learned to make new friends. My friends and family mean a lot to me and to birds they mean everything. The way I see it is that both of them are hunting together, similar to the way I spend time with my friends with activities my friends and I enjoy. These two birds seem like they have been sitting on the branch for hours, waiting for their meal. These birds are different than us on a friendship level because we have a choice of who are friends