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    the narrator states, “Till the current ends and dips his wing/in the orange suns rays/and dares to claim the sky.” Towards the beginning, the poet compares a bird to one who is able to break the norms and barriers faced. Similarly, facing these racial barriers is a big theme in Hansberry’s play and is symbolized by Angelou's use of the bird in her poem. In Act II, the theme of racial barriers is highlighted when the Youngers are trying to

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    short story “The Black Cat” he takes that appearance of cemetery and gives it a new meaning, not just a resting place but a place to get rid of a body. Poe’s narrator has just killed his wife after she tried to stop him from killing the pet cat. After the narrator has killed her, he finds himself in a panic to get rid of the body so he “displaced the bricks at this point, insert the corpse, and wall the whole up as before, so that no eye could detect anything suspicious”(Black Cat 4). The narrator

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    A person’s journey can have symbols that come through everyone’s life. Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. In “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty, Eudora describes symbols by using people that come through Phoenix’s path while she’s in her journey to Natchez. Eudora uses a nickel, marble cake, big dead trees, mistletoe, and a white hunter to symbolize Phoenix’s difficulties and obstacles that she had to go through in order to get to her destination. In the short story, Phoenix

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    Symbolism in A Warn Path

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    needed to walk a long way in order to get to your destination . The goal is to get medicine for her sick grandson, who swallowed lye. Phoenix Jackson is a symbol herself she represents a mythical bird. The bird symbolizes rebirth and rising from the flames. This is just the beginning of Eudora Welty’s list of symbols. The title signifies that she has gone through that path many times before. The story focuses on her

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    Homeless birds- poorer than homeless people Homeless birds refer to the birds that lose their habitats and become homeless. What cause it? When rainforests are felled, woodlots become parking lots, it is what human has done to nature that make those poor birds homeless. With the process of industrialization, industry need space and fuel. Therefore, many forests are cut down to space for industry building and become the fuel to be burned. The greenhouses gases produced by those industries severely

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    To kill a mocking bird is about growing up. The main character is about a girl named Scout Finch who was about to turn six when the book began and eight when it ended. The book was about what she learnt about people and about life over the course of three years. The book took place between 1933-1935 in Maycomb, a small sleepy town of Alabama in the Deep South. Scout’s father Atticus is a lawyer, but they don’t have much money because his clients were poor due to the effect of The Great Depression

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    Will sewage treatment plants have effect on water birds’ persistence and distribution? Longji Deng, 100189430, Group 8 Introduction: Anthropogenic climate warming has elevated the global temperature, and it has risen faster during the last 40 years. There is no doubt that the temperature change has affected the biological process of birds such as wintering, migration and breeding. (K Meller 2016) Also the increasing temperature can cause a poleward geographical distribution.( Rachael H, et al,

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    Magnificent creatures of the land and sea, penguins have been around for a long time. Penguins have adapted well over the course of many years, for swimming and hunting purposes. Everyone knows that penguins are weird birds that can’t fly and have to waddle on land, but what most people don’t know about are the harms that penguins have been exposed to and the fact that many penguins are endangered, if not vulnerable to endangerment. Penguins are incredibly different from other animals and are

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    Quote 6: “He felt his consciousness slipping, his mind losing adhesion, until all he knew was a single thought: He cannot break me.” (296) What I Think: After yet more humiliation and abuse from the Bird, Louie loses all but a single thought: “He cannot break me.” I think it is incredible how, after so much exhaustion and agony Louie only thinks about how he will not succumb to it all. What This Says About the Book: This quote obviously gave “Unbroken” its name, especially the final sentence of

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    The Grease Sparknotes

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    Sandy Olsson who falls in love with a local boy names Danny Zuko who is part of the T-Birds greaser gang. Sandy and Danny try to date at the Frosty Palace but it’s interrupted by the T-Birds and Pink Ladies. Kenickie (Danny’s best friend) set up a race between the T-Birds and The Scorpions. Leo is the leader of the Scorpions, he races Danny and Danny wins the race giving him the name of the Scorpions and T-Birds cars as well as keeping the loser’s car. In the end, Sandy has become the bad girl and

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