Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine on February 22, 1892. Her parents got a divorce in the 1900s when Edna was eight years old. Her father was a teacher and had a gambling problem. Edna lived with her mom and her sisters; Norma, and Kathleen live in a bad area. Her mom was a nurse trying to help the family.
It is evident that O’Connor uses the literary tools characterization, setting, and symbolism in two of her most famous short stories, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “Revelation”, in order to have the greatest impact on her readers. Born on March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia, Mary Flannery O'Connor “is considered one of the best short story authors of the 20th century” (A&E Television Networks). O’Connor wrote an abundant amount of short stories during her lifetime. “She wrote about religious themes and southern life” (A&E Television Networks). In most of her works, O’Connor describes the scenery and lifestyle of the Deep South and her characters speak with a southern dialect, reflecting her background.
In David Suzuki’s, “The Pain of Animals” (2002) he attempts to highlight how for many years, scientists have utilized animals to examine the effects of experimental diseases, drugs, and vaccines as a way to skirt around the ethical consequences of experimenting on humans. As a geneticist, environmentalist, and award-winning academic Suzuki’s attempt to increase public awareness for various issues is apparent within this article. Suzuki utilizes ethos, pathos, and logos throughout his article to express his discomfort on the subject of testing on these animals. Suzuki’s interest in this subject is unending, no matter how many illnesses are destroyed through extensive scientific testing and research. Furthermore, Suzuki effectively discusses the quality of life for the animals being tested, and the depressing and deprived realities that these helpless animals survive.
Animals: Hope amidst Devastation Symbolism is a very important literary device in many novels. Symbols help to communicate important messages, themes or ideas in a novel in shorter and more meaningful sentences. They are used to tell or represent something else as it has a relationship with it. In Timothy Findley’s The Wars, there is one symbol present throughout the entirety of the novel-animals. Numerous animals are mentioned many times throughout this novel.
Write your own fable (with animals as characters). 3. Write an original short story. 4. Negotiate a similar topic with your teacher.
In the folklore of several cultures, the tale of an old, blind woman is told. She is asked whether the 'bird-in-the-hand' is alive, dead or dying. An American writer, novelist and professor 'Toni Morrison', in her, 'Nobel lecture', has explained this 'bird-in-the-hand' as a language, but this is purely her interpretation; accounting that the symbolic 'bird' can be comprehended in various ways, such as culture, which being a universal ideal, has close correlation to language and is confronting the same settings as that of the 'bird'; alive, dead or dying. The talk about liveliness of culture would mean that it is assailable to death, and hence a question arises in the minds of many, “Is culture really cursed with mortality, and is it that feeble?” If a language can be susceptible to erasure, then so can a culture be vulnerable to demise. A writer would think of a language passing when it can no longer fill displeasing silences engraved in hearts of the despaired.
Sharon Olds’ Poetry Explained Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco and received education from Stanford and Columbia University. She married a man in the late 1960s and is the mother of a son and daughter. That marriage eventually ended and the painful breakup has influenced her poetry heavily. Olds writes continuously, and only after an extensive amount of time has passed she feels the need to put together poems that comprise a book. She is one of a few poets in the United States whose books of poetry sell in large quantities.
Man and Animal: Susceptible to Oppression and Regression “The animal world thrives on ploy and counterploy, from chameleons and lion-fish blending in with their backdrop to the majestic cons of mammals… Extrapolating from their behaviors to those of humans came naturally to such a diligent zoologist, especially strategies of deceit.” (Ackerman, 145) The above excerpt from Diane Ackerman’s historical non-fiction novel, The Zookeeper’s Wife, summarizes the theme of the entire novel: during times of chaos and suffering, man reverts to anima-like tendencies, therefore showing direct parallels between the human and animal worlds. A naturalist and a best selling author, Ackerman relates the Polish resistance to the Nazis in Warsaw through the lens of the animal world. The two main characters, husband and wife Jan and Antonina Zabinski, are the owners of the Warsaw Zoo, and therefore are deeply connected to the ways of animals. As the Holocaust begins, they find a way to help rescue Jews from the ghetto and hide them in their now empty and partially destroyed zoo. Jan, unbeknownst to his wife, involves himself deeply in the underground resistance against the Nazis.
It was originally built as a women's residence hall and remained so until 1980 when it became co-ed. Named after Dr. Elizabeth Peet who practically grew up in the Deaf Community. Her mother was deaf and her father was an educator of the Deaf. Her grandfather and father were successive principals of the New York School for the Deaf. After passing the Harvard entrance examinations, she stayed with her father until his death in 1889 and her mother passed on in 1891.
Many argued that alternatives for testing products should be utilized. Although there are other alternatives, to this day, animals are being experimented on for people’s needs such as cosmetics and medical purposes. Animal testing for cosmetic purposes first started in 1933 when a woman used Lash Lure mascara, it burned her eyes, which made her blind and eventually led to her death. The Food and Drug Administration therefore passed a law called the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act. Two common tests performed on animals to determine the toxicity of a chemical are the LD50 and the Draize test.