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    my collage that I want to describe are firstly, the gull and white sail. I used these pictures to help describe the personification line, “Light chooses white sails, the bellies of gulls” (line 1). As one can see,

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    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

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    seabirds populations are crashing as a result of climate change can be a prediction of what is to come. It’s a pretty pessimistic prediction, based on how these seabirds are doing. A clear example of this is Red Billed gulls- the New Zealand native seagull. The numbers of Red Billed gulls has steeply declined by more than half- from 19000 birds to 9000

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    In the narrative poem “Death Over Water,” by Elizabeth Rhett Woods, the speaker demonstrates the comparison between ice-dancing and the eagle and the gull by employing an extended metaphor, which means using metaphor throughout a poem in order to illustrate the correspondences. There are some similarities between ice-dancing terms and the terms in the poem, identical movements, and the alike dominance of stronger partner over the weaker one. The speaker attempts to make the reader consider about

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    The lack of individuality of the people is important to note because the image of a single gull discussed in line 8 is of central importance of the poem. “The wetter ground like glass reflects a standing gull” (lines 7-8). The use of the gull brings out the actions of the people standing along the shoreline and how “unnatural” this action is. Sea gulls are usually found in groups and it is odd that this gull in particular is standing alone and appears as a reflection on the water. The people staring

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    Novels can be developed through the point of view of events and characters. I Am Mordred develops a limited event for third person point of view in the Prologue and Epilogue, while Books One through Four develop a less limited point of view for characters. In the Prologue and Epilogue of the novel the use of third person objective point of view limits the reader's knowledge of characters and events due to no thoughts or feelings. In the Prologue, King Arthur was instructed by Merlin, the

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    My scarlet letter, G, represents gull (term used for a gullible person). This burden represents how easily persuaded someone can be; not knowing how this careless behavior would leave them as victims of insidious tricks. I’ve come to receive this trait through the exposure of environmental factors during my childhood. In my earlier years, I wouldn’t assume that anyone would deliberately attempt to lie to me. Since I’ve never experienced moderate bullying and had a vass imagination, there didn’t seem

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    The Arctic Tern The Arctic tern is a seabird that belongs to the tern family, Sternidae. The species spends the northern summers in the colder regions of Eurasia and North America. It migrates to the southern hemisphere during the northern winter. The Arctic tern breeds between May and July in the Arctic and subarctic regions of Asia, North America and Europe, as far south as Massachusetts. The Arctic tern has the K reproductive strategy because it only lays two eggs a year, each with a high probability

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    collects food, fuel and all the necessities and leaves for his house with his family. He starts working on the doors, windows and the chimney preparing for the next attack. When he looks out to the sea, he realizes that the tide has turned again and the gulls have started rising. He barricades the door and goes inside the kitchen. The attack starts again and the story ends with Nat smoking his last cigarette, throwing the empty pack in the chimney fire and watching it

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    6th graders at Gull Lake watched the Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. The 6th graders at Gull Lake have been collecting similarities and differences from the novel and movie. Can the Westing Game be handled ? The Westing Game also has many clues and mysteries that have grabbed attention to the teachers and students at Gull Lake. The Westing Game contains many similarities and differences worth exploring. The novel is about 16 heirs trying to figure out who killed Sam Westing. With clues each

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