...Comparing nature/inspiration in ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and ‘As Kingfishers Catch Fire.’ Superficially, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and ‘As Kingfishers Catch Fire,’ could be seen to be very similar works of poetry. Both Keats and Hopkins draw inspiration from the sight and sounds of the English birds, and from here expand into an explanation of what has been termed ‘the imagination.’ The poetic imagination is not a concept that can be easily defined, but it can be broadly understood as a productive faculty, capable of producing profound knowledge that can then be transcribed most clearly in the form of poetry. Both Keats and Hopkins experience the world through Nature, and, through the awesome power of what they perceive, the two poets are capable of creating their identity through a subjective sense of feeling. ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ (Keats) and ‘As Kingfishers Catch Fire’ (Hopkins) explore the immediate impression of the deep and powerful feelings excited by the objects which they attempt to describe. The poems can be seen as an undisciplined overflowing of the soul, highlighting its claim to approbation on an attempt to imitate the untameable wildness and inaccessible solemnity from which those feelings sprang. Hopkins’ work can be seen as an explanation of what he termed ‘inscape,’ which, coined on the word ‘landscape’ refers to the unifying designs by which the unique interior essences of a thing are held together. Hopkins’s poem shows what he believes to be the harmony of things...
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...Chapter 3 In chapter three, Jack, Simon, and Ralph are having a conversation about everything they need to do. They already know that the fire isnt burning enough smoke to make a signal. Their next plan was to build shelter. Simon had started building two shelters, which were in position, but shaky. No one except Ralph, Jack, and Simon are doing any work. Jack wants to kill a pig because everyone wants meat, and he wont stop talking about it. Ralph is more focused on being rescued and making shelter. Chapter 4 In chapter four, Jack painted his face to be like a warrior. Ralph goes to check on the fire, and finds out it died, and that the watchers are gone. Then Jack comes back with a pig, and is all happy and wants to kill it and cook it. Piggy and Ralph confront him about leaving the fire and letting it die. Everyone is very angry at Jack beacause they could have been rescued, but instead he decided to leave the fire and go catch a pig. Chapter 5 In chapter five, Ralph calls a meeting. He decided on some new rules, including one saying they have to keep the fire going. Jack gets annoyed with him, and all the littluns. The littluns are very scared of this beast thing that they have seen in their nightmares. Then Simon gets irritated with the things Ralph is saying, and they get in a fight. ...
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...Survivors of the Triangle Factory Fire Most people that were on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of the floors Triangle Factory during the fire did not survive. Within eighteen minutes the fire was over and 146 people died. Those who did survive were left to live with the memories and agony of the tragic event. Some of the survivors were even willing to do interviews and tell about about their experiences. Josephine Nicolosi was a blouse maker working on the eighth floor when the fire started. A cutter named Sal had a match on the table and yelled “It’s a fire,” but he usually joked about it so Josephine didn't realize it was real until he threw a bucket of water at it and flames started shooting up. She immediately ran towards the windows with a crowd of other girls but she was too scared to jump. Leo Brown, the mechanist, yelled to the girls “Get on the side, I have a key!” Josephine walked through the door with him along with others trying to escape the flames. When they got out side one of her friends said “Thank God we are not like them, we’re alright.” Her friend walked over to one of...
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...If you were lost in the Canadian Woods with only a hatchet your mother gave to you, what would you do? Would you call for help, start to make a fire and explore, or do nothing? This is what happened to Brian Robeson. Brian was able to survive in the woods because he used survival strategies. To survive in the woods, Brian Robeson used trial and error, became more observant, and used his hatchet his mother gave to him. In order to survive, Brain used trial and error. When the pilot had a heart attack, Brain had to steer the plane so it wouldn't crash into the trees. He steered it up and down to fly the plane. Going up went too violently, going down increased speed, and pulling back gently floated the nose up and the engine settled. A few days after landing, he decided to make a fire. He thought rubbing two sticks together would work, like in the movies, but it failed. At night, porcupine appeared and Brian threw his hatchet at it. The hatchet missed and hit a rock. He noticed it created sparks. He hit rocks with his hatchet rapidly to make his first fire. He hunted for fish for food. He made a bow to catch fish in the river. Brian shot the arrow but it missed. He forgot water refracts, or bends light which he learned from biology class. Brian aimed under the fish to catch them and he succeeded. With trial and error he was also observant....
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...“I picked up a kid, and he promptly bit me, but I leaned out the window and dropped him as gently as I could, being in a hurry like that” (93). This quote shows Ponyboy saving the kids from the church by dropping them out of a window to safety. In this quote Ponyboy showed heroism because if Ponyboy did not save the kids they may have not survived the fire. Ponyboy risked his life for the kids, and doing so saved the kids’ lives. In The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy showed heroism by saving kids from the burning church. Heroism and gallantry in The Outsiders looked a lot like this, where the “heroes” were like real life ones. The heroes in the book helped others and showed acts of bravery and strength. Ponyboy showed bravery when he went into the burning church and showed strength when he got the kids out of the church. This is how Ponyboy showed heroism in The Outsiders by S.E....
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...A massive fire swept through Chicago long ago, known as the “Great Chicago Fire”. Despite the event occurring almost 153 years ago, the cause is unknown. The “Great Chicago Fire” started on the eighth of October 1871 as mentioned by greatchicagofire.org. The fire raged on, destroying 17,000 buildings. The fire proved seriously deadly by claiming more than 300 lives before it finally went out on October 10th. Mrs O’ Leary’s cow, Daisy, kicked over a lantern, sparking the fire. The barn was the first to catch fire, but her cottage survived. To provide more evidence, there was testimony held against her in court. First, the barn was the first to catch fire, according to many sources, around nine o’ clock when the fire started. She and her family owned the barn. If she and her family owned the barn, they were the only ones that had access to the barn. She ran a business out of the barn. She and the rest of her family were poor immigrants. The fire was spotted as soon as it started in the barn. Although she was the only one in the barn, there was a drayman named Daniel Sullivan. There could not have been anyone else in the barn....
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...Combustion Process Fire can destroy your house and all of your possessions in less than an hour, and it can reduce an entire forest to a pile of ash and charred wood. It's also a terrifying weapon, with nearly unlimited destructive power. Fire kills more people every year than any other force of nature. The dangerous thing about the chemical reactions in fire is the fact that they are self-perpetuating. The heat of the flame itself keeps the fuel at the ignition temperature, so it continues to burn as long as there is fuel and oxygen around it. The flame heats any surrounding fuel so it releases gases as well. When the flame ignites the gases, the fire spreads. So it is important that we understand the process of how it works to better protect ourselves from the dangers of fire. People used to considered fire as one of the major elements in the universe, alongside water, earth and air. But fire is really something completely different. Earth, water and air are all forms of matter; they are made up of millions and millions of atoms collected together. Fire isn't matter at all. It's a visible side effect of matter changing form. It’s one part of a chemical reaction. Typically, fire comes from a chemical reaction between oxygen in the atmosphere and some sort of fuel (wood or gasoline, for example). Of course, wood and gasoline don't spontaneously catch on fire just because they're surrounded by oxygen. For the combustion reaction to happen, you have to heat the...
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...The Importance Of Fire Safety At Home Fires can be devastating. They can tear apart families and destroy homes. The worst thing about fires at home and within business is that most of them are entirely preventable. Over 72% of the recorded fatalities from fires occur in the home. Every day, people start fires by falling asleep with cigarettes in their hands, leaving candles burning in unattended rooms and by leaving discarded items in front of open fireplaces. The fires that are started are careless and completely avoidable. Also, we can't forget fireworks. It can seem like a good idea to celebrate a happy occasion with fireworks or by setting off a glowing lantern. If you do decide to release any of these items, consider the following: Can you insure that you will not be endangering anyone around you? Do you have enough room to set it out, unobstructed into the night? Accidents are all too common where these items are concerned and you wouldn’t want to be responsible for any devastating consequences. Perhaps consider going to a staged event or an area away from the home to enjoy fireworks or glowing lanterns. Also in recent days, there have been stories of debilitating fires, that have destroyed homes and taken lives all across our region, even in the Oxon Hill area. During October 2010, there was a fire in the Rosecroft Mews Apartment Complex, on the 2400 block of Corning Avenue in Fort Washington, MD, which is very close to the Oxon Hill/Fort Washington border...
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...Emmy Dockery was always a well respected FBI analyst, until her twin sister died in a house fire. She visited the scene of the fire, and had a weird feeling in her stomach that something wasn’t right. She was set on the idea that it wasn’t an accident and that somebody had killed her sister. Nobody would believe her theory and just thought that she was doing this as some sort of coping mechanism to deal with her situation. Little did any of them know that she had been suspecting one of the worst serial killers they’ve ever seen. To begin the story, Emmy was very on edge all the time and would never sleep because she would be looking for evidence throughout the night. She didn’t tell a lot of people about what she believed had happened, but the people who did know wouldn’t take her side. This caused her to be a total wreck and she had to take a leave of absence from her job at the bureau. She finally decides to get some help from her former fiance and asks him to go to her boss with her and ask for approval to make her theory into a case....
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...hide your true intentions. 2 Besiege Wei to Rescue Zhao. Attack their Achilles heel. 3 Kill with a Borrowed Knife. Attack using the strength of another person. 4 Relax and Wait for the Adversary to Tire Himself Out. Await leisurely the exhausted enemy. Exercise patience and wear them down 5 Loot a Burning House. Hit them when they are down. 6 Make a Feint to the East While Attacking in the West. Fake to the right; attack to the left. 7 Create Something Out of Nothing. Turn something that is not substantial into reality. 8 Secretly Utilize the Chen Cang Passage (CNC). Pretend to Advance Down One Path While Taking Another Hidden Path (LB). Pretend to care about an issue and later give it up to get what you really want. 9 Watch the Fire Burning from Across the River. Allow them to fight your other enemy while you rest and observe. Later, defeat the exhausted survivor. 10 Conceal a Dagger in a Smile. Befriend them to get their guard down, then attack their weakest point. 11 Sacrifice a Plum Tree to Save a Peach Tree (RM). Let the Plum Tree Wither in Place of the Peach Tree (TF). Trade up! Take a small loss for a large gain. 12 Take Away a Goat in Passing. Take advantage of every small opportunity. 13 Beat the Grass to Startle the Snake. Stir things up before beginning to negotiate for your true interests. 14 Raise a Corpse from the Dead (LB). Borrow a Corpse to Return the Soul (TF). Revive a dead proposal by presenting it again or in a new way. 15 Lure the Tiger out...
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...once a man who was ship-wrecked and stranded on an island. Every day he prayed asking God to send someone to rescue him, but to his disappointment, no one ever came. Months passed and this man learned how to survive on the island. During this time, he accumulated things from the island and stored them in a hut that he constructed. One day after hunting for food and returning back to his hut, much to his dismay he saw that his hut was on fire along with everything else he owned! All of his possessions were going up in smoke! The only thing he had left were the clothes on his back. Initially he was in shock, and then he was consumed with anger and rage! In his fury he threw a fist into the air and began cursing God and yelling, “God, how could you let this happen to me? I’ve been praying everyday for months about being rescued and no one has come, and now everything that I have is on fire! How could you do to this to me! Why did you let this happen?” Later the man was on his hands and knees weeping heavily when he happened to look up and catch sight of a ship coming in his direction. The man was rescued and as they were heading back to civilization the man asked the captain, “How were you able to find me?” The captain responded, “We were voyaging across the ocean when we noticed on the horizon a column of smoke going up. We decided to go check it out and when we did, that’s when we found you!” THINGS ARE NOT ALWAYS AS THEY APPEAR There was once a man who was ship-wrecked...
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...The leaders of the country limited the rights of people severely. In the book, Clarisse’s uncle was incarcerated for being a pedestrian (Bradbury 7). Correspondingly, the government has the same features as a dictatorship because the citizens have no say in anything and they are not allowed to do simple tasks. In a dictatorship, the leader usually demands laws that prohibit citizen’s rights. The government in Fahrenheit 451 cares only for themselves, not the people they rule over. The government saw, “how advantageous it was to have people reading only about passionate lips and the fist in the stomach, circled the situation with your fire-eaters” (Bradbury 85). The citizens acted as if they were robots controlled by the government and they all do the same things. The government had become so controlling that they took someone who had books in their house, and put them in an insane asylum for trying to defy the government (Bradbury 31). Another odd characteristic that the government displays to keep their power is only choosing people that look the same and have the same moral values. Guy notices this change on page 30 of Fahrenheit 451 because everybody has the same look, and, “proclivities” (Bradbury 30). As the government controls the people’s rights, jobs, and values, the people stray farther from the thought of power and closer to the though of...
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...James Anderson Professor Holman Philosophy 100 First Paper: Question One Saint Thomas Aquinas was a 13th Century Catholic Monk and Philosopher who was influenced by earlier philosophers such as Aristotle and Averroes. One of Aquinas’ most famed publications was his Five Ways in which he argues for the existence of God and his nature. One of the five arguments he writes about is called the “First Cause” argument. It establishes that the universe is a casual series of events that are all traced back to a first cause. Aquinas’ logical argument for the existence of the traditional monotheistic God and that He is the first cause of the universe convinces me because of the unbreakable logic of the argument and the consistency with modern day knowledge of the beginning of the universe. Aquinas’ “first cause” argument is one of the many cosmological arguments that try to answer the question about the origins of the universe. The first premise of the argument is that some things or events are caused. Followed by the second premise, which says that some things cause themselves or some things are caused by something other than themselves. We know the third premise is, nothing can cause itself. So the conclusion of the first 3 premises is that if something is caused, then it is caused by something other than itself. Therefore, if something is caused by something other than itself, then a causal series or a series of cause and effect is established. Thus, we know cause precedes its...
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...Global Warming and Energy Zrica Griffin HUM/111 February 12, 2012 Brian Deering Global warming is an increase in the worlds or earth temperature. Some say it is caused by the Green house effect, CO2, mankind, industrial, factories, gas, emission, sun, and etc. Others believe there is no cure for Global Warming due to the fact that the glaciers, Attic and the North Pole ice banks was placed on the earth by God to keep the earth cool. Now that the ice is melting the earth’s temperature is getting warmer or hotter eventually the ice is going to melt and the earth is going to catch on fire and burn. Some scientist and politicians believe in the green house effect, rather than to believing what the Bible says about how the world (or earth) is going to be destroyed. The Bible tells us the elements are going to catch on fire and we are calling this global warming. When the signs of time, wars, and rumors are in effect as this paper is being written. Who can go against the infinite intelligent that create the world in the first place to prevent global warming, when God created or made the world. Scientist, politicians, and all involved can do all they can to try to prevent global warming when no one have the resources to go against what the infinite intelligent has said in his written word. Read 2nd Peter the 3rd chapter. This paper may or may not reserve criticism due to the nature of these finding in the written word. What has been predicted in the written word no one can...
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...3.2.3. Collocation As one of seven categories of meaning, Leech (1974: 20) defines collocative meaning as “the associations a word acquires on account of the meaning of words which tend to occur in its environment”. Leech exemplifies ‘pretty’ and ‘handsome’ and the collocates of each. These words share the common grounds of ‘good looking’, but they are differentiated by the range of nouns with which they are likely to co-occur. ‘Pretty’ collocates with ‘girl’, ‘boy’, woman’, ‘flower’, while ‘handsome’ collocates with ‘boy’, ‘man’, ‘vessel’, etc. Baker (1992: 47) states that “collocations are often semantically arbitrary co-occurrence restrictions which do not follow logically from the propositional meaning of the word”. She says that the propositional (denotative) meaning of a word does not always determine the collocational patterning. For example, English speakers typically ‘pay a visit’ but less typically ‘make a visit’ and they do not ‘perform a visit’. Another example of collocation in English is ‘rancid’ and ‘addled’. Though the two words have the same denotative meaning, they have different collocational patterning. ‘Addled’ collocates with ‘eggs’, while ‘rancid’ collocates with ‘butter’ (ibid: 47). As the previous examples show collocation is not merely a matter of association of ideas, but as Bollinger, quoted in Emery (1991: 59) says: “a collocation may involve normal senses of all the words in a string but without the easy possibility of substituting some other word...
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