Had the fires been left alone, they surely would have been better off. ... Another example Wilcove uses is the passenger pigeon. ... At one point the population of the pigeon reached an incredible fifty million. ... The leading contributor to the decline of the passenger pigeon was overkill, which is, or course, a form of human intervention. ... However, after reading the text, I was left with a sense of indifference. ...

• Word Count: 1282
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One of the first impressions we are given from the speaker is the feeling of unity and happiness between the two lovers, represented by "two swift-winged pigeons". ... The pigeons are described as "sporting" which suggests frivolity, youth and vitality. ... The blunt absoluteness of this line is a powerful tool used by Rosetti to convey the irrevocable consequences of the death of the two pigeons. ... The first is the refusal to separate from each shown by the two pigeons in the poem. ... Although such an obsessive dwelling on the subject of mortality could easily be seen as morbid, there is a...

• Word Count: 2526
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The opening scene with pigeons is also very reminiscent of the Orson Wells production of Othello shown in lecture. ... Unfortunately, I would have to conclude that in this case, at least the essence of Shakespeare's Othello has been lost, and all that really is left is a film that is fun to watch because it is so closely related to Othello, without really being something that can really be considered of the same vein. The outside plot elements inserted into the film (Othello's history as a dubious character and Iago as a drug-user begging for his father's recognition) as well...

• Word Count: 570
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Family is the great identifier in this poem, illustrated by inclusive languages of collective pronouns; "left us wondering," "we lived like birds of passage," "whose track we would follow," "from our doorstep" and "daily we passed." Further images of bonding are "nationalities sought each other out distinctively like homing pigeons." ...

• Word Count: 620
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The travellers left their homeland for a place of unknown, on a ship where communication was only through hand gestures as "shreds of dialogue hung from fingertips". ... The painful memories of the Nazi regimes in Wold War 2 are expressed in the simile "like cattle brought to slaughter", "the metaphor "pigeons that watched them" gives a sense of surveillance "light turned red and dropped like a guillotine" shows a constant reminder of death in the minds of the refugees. ...

• Word Count: 1404
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Migrant Hostel, third person voicing is utilized to let the feelings of him and all the other migrants to be expressed, showing us how alienated they feel in this new land and how they feel "left out.... The similes "like a homing pigeon/circling to get its bearings" and "like birds of passage" are used to heavily express how lost the migrants feel, as they circle around and wander confused, grasping for a hope of familiarity that does not exist in this new country. ...

• Word Count: 1336
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abraham Lincoln was born to a poor and humble family on February 12 1809, in Hodgenville, Kentucky, the Lincoln family moved to Pigeon Creek in Indiana and settled there where his mother Nancy passed away. ... The confederate government of the south found it self in a dilemma when they heard the news, either to start the war or allow the rebellion to collapse, they chose to start the war by attacking Fort Sumter on April 12 1861, which left Fort Sumter on a blaze of fire and collapsed. ...

• Word Count: 1588
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I have always enjoyed the history of New York City; in particular that history which surrounds the Five Points in lower Manhattan. In this paper I will examine the class structure of the Five Points beginning with geographic and architectural significances that assisted in the class structuring; then I will examine the archeological evidence which further sheds light on the lives of those who resided in what became known as America's first slum. The Five Points, called so because of the five corners of streets that merged together within the ward; Mulberry Street, Anthony (now Worth Stre...

• Word Count: 3406
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Contents 1. Introduction. 2. Review of anatomy and physiology 3. Particle deposition 4. Gases and vapours 5. Defence mechanisms 6. Mechanisms of work related disease a. Irritation b. Inflammation c. Fibrosis d. Allergy i. IgE mediated ii. IgG mediated iii. Other mechanisms...

• Word Count: 3614
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

BIOMES OF THE WORLD RATIONALE FOR HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE WORLD'S ENVIRONMENTS Life on Earth is extremely interesting, as most of us already know from television, if not from our own travels, and it becomes more so when each piece of the complex pattern fits understandably into the who...

• Word Count: 12375
• Approx Pages: 50
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate