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Impossibility within the Fantasy realm in Alphabet of Thorn and the Year of Our War As Farah Mendelsohn stated, “the most obvious construction of fantasy in literature and art is the presence of the impossible and the unexplainable.” In my perspective, both McKillip and Swainston brilliantly expand our perception of the impossible by introducing us to different elements of fantasy such as time travel in Alphabet of Thorn and an alternate reality known as the Shift in The Year of Our War. The fantasy

The crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) is named for the brightly colored spikes that coat the legs. A. planci can grow up to 16 inches across and can have between 12 and 19 legs. The spikes coating A. planci hold poison that can cause temporary paralysis at the sting site and can also cause nausea in humans. A. planci can also regrow arms. At the end of each of the arms is an eyespot that can detect light and darkness, but can not detect color and shape (Fisher 2011). A. planci preys

leaves. The experiment commenced 01 October 2016 and ended 29 October 2016 due to senescence. We performed this experiment with five trees. On each tree we had three treatments: no thorns, normal amount of thorns, and a doubled amount of thorns. The branches were color coded with flagging tape according to the thorn density. Yellow was for super thorny branches, blue stripes indicated the control branches, and blue dots marked the thornless branches. We randomly designated which branches should

petals pinned to the earth. Trapped by their own thorns. Alice falls to the ground. The ground is hard. Alice thinks back to when it felt soft, and when her eyes were bright. The glistening. She finds it again. She crawls to it. Wire. Alice takes it in her hands. Slowly, wrapping it around her head, over her lips tight. She won’t cry anymore. She doesn’t like how the flowers look at her when she cries. Alice stands. Keep wading through the field. The thorns are constant, but she doesn’t notice them anymore

threats in its lifetime. The reef has survived through millions of disastrous events through the years. The Crown of Thorns Starfish (COTS) is a major threat to the coral reefs which helps destroy the Great Barrier Reef. This threat may be no bigger than a dinner plate, but it is one of the biggest threats to the Great Barrier Reef. Kate Osborne and researchers discovered that Crown of Thorns Starfish were responsible for 36.7% of coral damage, 33.8% caused by storms, 6.5% by disease, 5.6% created by bleaching

as the crown-of-thorns sea star, is a marine invertebrate and one of the largest species of sea stars known in the world. It is endemic to the coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific region, finding habitat within the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Over the past several decades, Acanthaster planci has gained a global infamous reputation for its devastating outbreaks affecting the Great Barrier Reef. However, when looking further into the behaviours, predation, and diet of the crown-of-thorns it is understood

meaning of “the first appearance of light in the sky,” and is most likely used to give a soft feeling when reading. In this case, the word dawn is put with fingertips of rose. Fingertips of a rose are referred to as thorns; in context dawn, which is a “soft” word, is put with thorns which are the total opposite. The rose has a natural beauty to it; when it is put

to relate an experience of a person that had a vision of heaven and indirectly implies it is himself. Then he seems to think better of going into detail about this vision and transitions into why he must be humble and how the Lord had given him a thorn in the flesh to keep him humble. “Of such a one will I glory yet of myself I will glory not, but in my infirmities” of this verse Gill states “he [Paul] might lawfully glory of such a person so highly exalted and favoured, yet since this was his

sun, the moon, and the truth.” The truth is often buried but it always seems to find a way to resurface. In Cinda Williams Chima’s novel The Enchanter Heir the main character, Jonah Kinlock, is a survivor of a massacre on an underguild commune in Thorn Hill, Brazil; the underguilds being sorcerers, seers, enchanters, and warriors. In the “peaceful” commune some of the children were subjected to experiments in which their weir stones were modified. This gave them special abilities, such as Jonah’s

improved conditions in their workplace, and better rights for workers in the industry. Similarly, The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, a novel also written in the first person, demonstrates the importance of women’s fight to gain gender equality. Set in the 1900s, the novel shows women's struggles in a patriarchal society and their pursuit of individual ideas. Thus, “Live Nude Girls Unite!” and The Thorn Birds both address issues of feminism