Old World

"The Necklace," "A Monkey's Paw," and "The Gift of Magi" all have a distinctive technique that leads to a deeper meaning of the story. The technique of "The Necklace" is represented by symbolism of the necklace. In "A Monkey's Paw," the technique that is seen is foreshadowing. In "The Gift of Magi," irony is the technique that is noticed throughout the story. All three short stories deal with the irony of consequence. Each story involved a major decision and in each case the result of the decision

Started out like normal- gathered the MV and Baboon carts. Corrine is on MV today and I am with Philip. There was a little meeting this morning about what was going on. There was nothing out of the ordinary in the conversation. I cleaned Baboon and Mandrill, cleaned the glass, then swept in Mandrill holding after Philip had given the Mandrills their breakfast. They did not want to go out so they were given access to the scale. I swept Baboon side after Philip had given them their breakfast

The Coquerel’s Sifaka (Propithecus verrauxi coquerii) is a species of lemur found exclusively in Madagascar. Their bodies are covered in thick, coarse fur that is white on their torsos and dark reddish brown on their fore- and hindlimbs, with dark faces and white noses. P. coquerii are a diurnal species of folivorous and frugivorous primates that live in either deciduous or evergreen forests, and typically weigh 3.4-3.6 kg. Females are dominant over males, and they typically congregate in one male-one

Started to gather the diets when all of the keepers joined me.  We had our meeting just outside of the commissary. Meeting: Alex is doing fine.  We are approved to allow the new male Cotton-top to stay in the back at Tamarin, but we do not know when he is due to arrive.  I showed my new feeders to the group and we will use them this afternoon for Squirrel monkey BE. Made visual rounds and then began cleaning the exhibits.  Since it is the first of the month Philip has to get the weights of all

In conversation with one of the Macaw trainers at the Animal Kingdom exhibit, I was told to be careful in choosing the caging material type and surrounding environment (even a tree) for these Beautiful Macaws. They are known to be very destructive to trees in their aviaries, and are quite capable of biting into a coconut shell with their powerful beaks, so their cage must be heavy duty, typically Zoo Mesh or 1:1 steel mesh. The macaws in the images here were trained to fly in from more than a mile

I gathered the Monkey Village cart while waiting for Philip. Philip showed me how to gather the diets for the Baboon/Mandrill string. All the buckets and bowls are placed on the second shelf. There are buckets for Baboons, Mandrills, Gibbons, Black and White Lemurs and Red ruff lemurs. He told me that Grady gets a banana slice and a melon slice for Skye for medication purposes and that the gibbons and black and white lemurs get a banana. The red ruffs do not get the banana. After that we left

him, for they had both seen horses before. They would argue over who really ruled the old world. They had naturally come to believe that the Republic and Democracy had torn apart this world in a civil war over control of the capital. Both sides fought for control over the white house now. Hoping that recovering it will show insight into their past thus granting them the ability to bring back the old world under their rule. Trench warfare left both sides in a hundred year stale mate over the

Two Sides of The Same Coin The Struggle of Old World Blues   Two Sides of The Same Coin The Struggle of Old World Blues What is love? What is acceptance? What is it to know who you truly are and be happy with yourself? These are common questions a person thinks to themselves at one point or another in their lifetime. Many people unsure of who they are, unsure how to truly discover themselves, if they would be happy with who they are and if their loved ones or even society will love them the same

from A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings came, people started going to sideshow to see him and the spider-woman later on in the story. It is clear that they do it to get some entertainment from seeing someone different from them and did not care about how horrid the old man’s conditions are. If anything is true, the old man’s arrival lead to the society becoming more immoral and more callous. The arrival of the corpse, on the other hand, from The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World made society

In the genre of post-apocalyptic, hope is rarely the main source of survival for characters. In Emily St. John Mandel’s novel Station Eleven, we see what the impact of hope can do even in a post-apocalyptic world, and how this leads characters to certain decisions. The characters Clark, Kirsten, and Jeevan survive and make decisions which are driven by hope. Having hope influences one’s actions and the decisions they make for themselves. First, after being stranded in the Severn City Airport, Clark