...Death flies in with the Bird It is believed that superstitions began with Neanderthal man, because they were the first people to bury their dead. It is said that they believed in an afterlife because they buried the dead with food, weapons and other items to be use in the afterlife. Superstitions surrounding death have always lurked in my mind as far back as childhood. My Grandmother was the family member that filled my mind with the fears that still haunt me to this day. She would tell me things like if a bird fly into your house it had to fly out the same way that came in; if not then someone within the family would die. We had this happen once when I was about 9 years old. We didn’t have air conditioners back then and we would leave the windows and doors open with a big box fan in the windows and on the floors in front of the open doors to cool the house. We were having a birthday party for my baby brother, Tony, when a bird flew in through the front door. My grandmother screamed out for everyone to close all the windows and door except the front door; leaving the bird with only one way out. The bird flew towards me, and I ran to the back door thinking that the bird was after me. When I went out the back door, the bird did too. My grandmother was very upset and she told me the reason why it was not good that bird flew out the back door. I didn’t really believe her, but within two week my mother received a phone call informing her of the death of my uncle. Right away my...
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...Fly Away Home The Protagonist Amy Alden She is the main protagonist of the story. She is involved in a car accident with her mother, which results in her mother’s death. Due to her mother’s death, she now lives with her father who is an inventor. She finds it difficult to adjust with her father’s traits. She is considered as an imprint mother of a group of baby geese. Thomas Alden He is the second protagonist of the story. After the death of Amy’s mother, he is the one taking care of her. He is also an inventor and an artist. He invented all kinds of objects including the ultralight glider they used in the story. He proposed the plan to guide the bird’s migration route to the bird sanctuary. He is the wingman of her daughter, guiding her to the route going to it. Susan Barnes She is the third protagonist of the story. She is considered as an encourager and step-mother of Amy. She is very protective about her and her safety. She thinks that Thomas’ proposal to help Amy lead the flock of geese to their sanctuary is absurd. She is also considered their eyes on both the ground and sky. She tells them where to go and what is ahead of them David Alden He is Thomas’ brother and assistant. He is the fourth protagonist of the story. He assists him in making his inventions. After helping him finish make his glider. He helps Susan in plotting the routes in Thomas’ and Amy’s travel. Antagonist Glen Seifert He is the main and the only antagonist in the story. Thomas came...
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...throughout the story, including Ruth’s bike, flying birds, and clear water. These symbols were important in Ruth’s life. Ruth rides an old blue and white battery-powered bike to maintain a connection with her dead husband. Her second husband , Hunter Jordan, found this bike abandoned in Brooklyn and brought it home. “The contraption would be a collector’s item now, probably worth about five thousand dollars, but back then it was something my step father found on the street in Brooklyn and hauled home a few months before he died.” (page 5). Ruth would ride this bike up and down the street as a form of grieving the loss of her late husband. The loss of her husband was one of the difficulties that Ruth encountered during her life and it took her several years to move on. The symbol of how water has no color is made when Ruth and her son are in church. Ruth’s son asks her what color god was because their family is “mixed”. He asked this because Ruth is a white Jewish woman (now Catholic) who married a black man and had mixed-race children. “God is the color of water. Water doesn’t have a color.” (page 51). This symbol was significant because a large amount of the book had to do with the problems Ruth and her family had with race. Ruth used this statement to help her son understand that color is not important despite what society may think. The last important symbol that I found in this book was Ruth’s mother’s love of birds. As a child Ruth remembered her mother singing a song...
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...Destruction of Birds by Windmills Birds are likely to be affected and/or destroyed by windmills, this is a natural part of life. The basic cycle is, wind developments tend to be placed in upland areas with strong wind currents that have a lot of potential to generate energy. Birds use these currents as highways, so they are likely to come into contact with the windmills (aka turbines). Windmills pose one the highest risks in the world of killing birds. Research also indicates that wind developments can disrupt migration routes; while bird's foraging and nesting habitat are at risk of being lost when turbines are put up. Windmills don't affect all birds, but they do affect birds of prey, disproportionately. The main reason this occurs has to do with bird's genetics. For example, species like vultures have blind spots in their visual field. This means they cannot see objects directly in front of them (like wind turbines) when flying. Concerning amounts of bird deaths; large birds like hen harriers, eagles and vultures are slower to reproduce than other species, so their populations are more likely to have a small number of deaths. Unfortunately, there are specific locations in the world where windmills have caused a great number of fatalities amongst birds of prey. In the Almont pass in California, one study found that about 4,000 wind turbines killed 67 golden eagles and 1,127 birds of prey in a year. In Southern Spain, 252 wind turbines located in an area used by many birds of prey...
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...When there is the joy of life, there must also be the sorrow of death. The realization that we will never be able to touch, see, or even be with our loved ones once Death has claimed them as one of their own can come in many different forms; a song that the person loved, the smell of their favorite food, or the meeting with a raven who only says a single solemn word: “Nevermore”. For the speaker in Edgar Allen Poe’s beautifully morbid and grief stricken poem, “The Raven”, their attitude towards the raven’s sad words of truth changes from fear to confusion to finally grief and anger; illustrated through Poe’s word choice, allusion, and tone. At the start of Poe’s tragic poem, the speaker’s attitude towards the Raven (then the unknown knocker)...
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..."Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." Eccl 12:13-14 (KJV) FEW WAYS TO LOVE YOUR HUSBAND 1. Discover his favorite pet name and call him by that. 2. Allow him exercise his authority as the head of the family. 3. DO not challenge him when he is hurt. 4. Be silent when he is angry. You can go back to him in his sober moment with apology n explain why you behave that way that annoyed him. 5. Be quick to say " I am sorry dear". When ever you offend him pettingly, insist on his forgiveness, appreciate and kiss him when he does. 6. Speak good of him before his Friends and siblings. 7. Honor his mother 8. Insist that he buys gift for his parents and so be sure that he will do same for your parents 9. Surprise him with his favorite dish especially when he has no enough money at hand and never delay his food. 10. Do not allow the maid to serve him food when you are at home. Because u may lose him to them. 11. Give him a warm reception with an embrace when he returns, collect his luggage and help undress him. 12. Smile when you look at him and give him occasional pecks when you are out socially. 13. Praise him before your children sometimes. 14. Wash his back while he is in the tub or shower. 15. Put love note in his lunch box or briefcase. 16. Phone and tell him that you...
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...The Boy with the Scarlet Heart Murder: the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another. This crime can be committed by a pull on a trigger, a stab from a knife, an addiction birthed by the deadly dance with drugs, a signing of a tear-stained letter, an attempt to fly from a tree too high…... or the abuse of power one presents over a fragile human; neglecting what struggles they face in order to push them to the edge. With every murder, there is a body left with no soul, a killer hiding somewhere dark, and the inevitable destruction of the senses. The latter happens not just to the victim, but their loved ones as well. All they can smell is fresh dirt from the graveyard. All they can hear is their own thoughts drowning in the abyss of their mind. All they can taste is the metallic flavor of blood in their mouth. They touch everything but feel nothing. It’s only their sight that doesn’t fail them. They see everything crystal clear, just painted in a different color: red. It’s the one color that won’t leave their mind, haunting and confusing them with its’ ambiguous nature. Red could mean something...
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...Christian Woodruff American lit. October 15, 2015 Ms. McDaniel The Bird That Spoke The Famous novel “The Raven” written by Edgar Allen Poe deals with a man sitting in his chambers mourning and contemplating the death of his wife Lenor. Out o the night sky flys a raven. Which in some cases stands for the death bird, or in some cases death its self is on it’s way. So… every time the narrator would ask the bird something it says “never more”, and that partially drives the narrator insane. But not only that, he’s fascinated that the bird speaks. Some of other qualities that drive him crazy is himself and thought of Lenore coming back to him. The actual raven plays a huge a factor because, The Raven is not just a bird. It is the representation of death, the loss of Lenore, the loss of the soul of the narrator. It only speaks one word--"Nevermore." And that is the answer to every question the narrator asks. It speaks words of wisdom only (perched upon the Bust of Pallas), letting the speaker know that it is always there, much like the memory of Lenore, even though he is representing her loss. While it is a heartbreaking reminder, it also teaches a lesson that one cannot dwell on death, but must come to terms with the loss, and move on. When the story opens up the narrator is sitting in his chambers alone. When death takes a loved one its never good to be by your self because, at the end of the day there still dead and time still goes on. The narrator, who...
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...to stay. Miserably and angrily he shouts at her, asking her old-fashioned phrases stating his objection to her future marriage, and eventually threatening to tell her mother when she disobeys him. Possessiveness and selfishness have blinded him. The grandfather’s anger towards Alice is because she is leaving him for another man, and the anger towards his daughter Lucy is because she gives Alice permission to leave. The old man who is also the main character, lives in a house by the railroad with his daughter and granddaughter. He keeps birds in his house. The birds are very symbolic in the story. In the beginning of the story, he stands outside his house, holding his favourite bird and is ready to let it go, until he sees Alice. That’s when he changes his mind and catches the birds again, and locks it in a cage. We know he struggles with loneliness because his daughter and three of granddaughters have left home, and probably the death of his wife. He does...
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...APPENDICES A BIBLIOGRAPHY 12 LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page 1 Ormithopter Flying Machine 2 2 Montgolfier Brother’s 1783 hot-air balloon 3 3 dirigible 4 4 First ring of the uss akron 6 5 USS AKRON DESIGN PLANS 7 6 USS AKRON 8 7 LONG ENDURANCE MULTI-INTELLIGENCE VEHICLE 9 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION The idea of flight has intrigued man for many years. For centuries, man experimented with ways of how to fly; some ideas of how to fly were good, while other ideas were not so good. Early pioneers of flight would construct wings out of feathers, wood and wax and attach them to their arms and jump off of high structures. These experiments usually ended in injury or death. During the following years, man invented machines with the idea of making them fly. In 1783, the idea of man flying became a reality with the invention of the hot-air balloon by two brothers. The hot-air balloon led to the...
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...extinct. One example of this is a type of bird called the albatross scientifically called Diomedeidae. Albatross are one of the most impressive sea birds, if not the most impressive in the world. They have the largest wingspan of all birds, which can be up to 3.4 meters long (National Geographic). They glide for hours and hours at sea only flapping their wing when necessary. They can also have a life span of up to 50 years old. They can fly for months and months at a time, only stopping to eat (National Geographic). After years and years at sea they return to their birthplace to mate. At the end...
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...The Evil Nature and Evil Omen “Design” by Robert Frost and “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” by Emily Dickinson use natural objects as symbols. In the poem “Design,” life forms within nature are connected and under the influence of a greater consciousness. In “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died,” Emily Dickinson talks about seeing a fly as she takes her final breath. By focusing on natural objects within the poems, both poets reveal the negative nature of their chosen symbols. In the poem “Design,” a spider symbolizes death; in “I heard a Fly Buzz When I Died,” a fly figures as the omen of death. In first stanza of “Design,” Frost describes a spider as “dimpled,” the flower like a “froth,” and the moth like “white satin.” However, in line 4, the spider, flower, and moth are also described as “assorted characters of death and blight.” Frost chooses his words carefully throughout the entire poem. Deirdre Fagan and Robert Seltzer state that “he intentionally contrasts the white innocence of the description of all three characters with the seemingly horrific actions they undertake. Even the spider, which is apparently the exterminator, is described in terms usually applied to infants (‘dimpled’ and ‘fat’)” (Fagan and Seltzer 49.) At this moment, it is difficult to understand how innocence could turn to death and evil. Frost describes the moth as being made of “satin cloth” and the spider as a “snow drop spider” (Frost 7). These reveal Frost’s appreciation of the beauty of the...
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...Cranes represent longevility as in after death . Early on, she asks, “maybe this is the wrong thing?” (8) We wonder, what is she referring to? Slowly, more details are given when he “picked up an object wrapped in a plaid towel” and gives the toast “here’s looking at you kid.” Although not directly stated, the implication is that they drank something. Again indirectly, but toward the end we see the symbolic cranes “stepping delicately away from the commotion,” mirroring the couple’s separation from their life. After they kiss, their eyes close, and the cranes fly away into the sun. The implication, though never direct, is that our couple decided to end their lives together Aha! A gun makes so much more sense! I think I just found it hard to accept that method for suicide given the tone of the article. Thanks. 1. I agree. I thought he was going to use a gun because of the hints about the shower curtain and something for your ears. I believe it was a gun and the shower curtain is there at the woman's request. She states, "I'm just a lot of trouble to everyone." I believe this statement also points to the man shooting her first This is an extremely sad, yet very romantic story about two people in love. They are in a parked car along the shore looking at birds. She is fascinated with the big white birds that are flying by, and they start reminiscing about the past. It is easy to tell how much they still love each other after all the years that have passed, by the way they...
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...officially Game Over Have you seen the bird with thick lips, which looks really heavy, that can’t fly on its own? Tap to flap was its line to be able to go through the spaces of the tubes from above and below. That game which has a weird looking bird that keeps on making people curse themselves when it got itself bumped with the tubes, is called the Flappy Bird. In May, Dong Nguyen uploaded a new game to the iOS App Store. It was just one of the hundreds of apps added to Apple’s iTunes marketplace each day. Nguyen had created a simple game in which the player controls a funny-looking bird by tapping the screen, and it needed a simple name. He called it Flap Flap, until he realized another app had the same title. Luckily, developing and updating games on the App Store is such a fast, iterative process that he was able to quickly retitle it Flappy Bird. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. This game was very common to most teenagers where in they waste time just to be in high score. It was very viral that became the next Angry Birds and next Temple Run. Months after he released it, Flappy Bird shot to the top of the charts, drawing even more players, which made it even more popular, which drew in even more players. Millions of people were downloading Flappy Bird at its peak, and Nguyen was raking in $50,000 a day from the pop-up ads that appeared during gameplay. The concept of the game is just very simple: You tap the screen to make the bird fly, release to dive down and contrive through...
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...In both Lord of the Flies by William Golding and I’m the King of the Castle by Susan Hill, the authors have effectively used settings and locations in their novels. This is a great impact, as most of the settings and locations have a meaning, representing something to do with the plot. The writers have used certain locations in a way that affects the understanding and thoughts of the reader, ranging from calm, peaceful settings, to terrifyingly dark ones. Each novel has different high and lows to their story, and locations are effectively used to express this. In Lord of the Flies, the Island is the main location, and this is used as a symbol of isolation. The Island is in the middle of the sea, and the location is unknown. The boys are separated from the outside, and are isolated from society and rules, leading to no order. William Golding is trying to create a claustrophobic fear in the readers, one of the main emotional states shown in the book while the boys are on the island. The Island is the opening location of the novel, which is deliberately violent, as this is the setting of “the scar.” This instantly portrays the negative effect the boys will have on the environment of the Island. The influence this has by being at the very start of the book on the reader’s interpretation is that it will give a feel to the reader about how the plot will twist throughout the book. In I’m the King of the Castle the main location is Warings. Warings is a ‘gloomy,’ ‘entirely graceless’...
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