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The Great White Whale And Its Many Meanings
859 wordsThe Great White Whale and its Many Meanings Herman Melville, in his epic novel Moby-Dick, utilizes the symbolism of the color of the Great White Whale to demonstrate his theme of duality. However, Captain Ahab tragically had a single mind set towards Moby Dick, as he believed that the whale was the symbol of the worlds evil and had to be destroyed. On the other hand, Ishmael sees that the color white can mean many various and opposing things. It would be dangerous to settle upon any one single m...
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The Secret Life Of Great White Sharks
1,139 wordsGreat White Sharks are greatly misinterpreted as vicious man-eaters because of the media, movies, and peoples imaginations, but they are actually large fish who mistake people for seals and other marine life. What is a great white shark? The great white, among the least understood of Earths creatures, is an apex predator, meaning that it is at the top of the food chain with no natural predators. This means great whites have their pick of food when it comes to selecting their prey (Klimley 15). C...
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The Secret Life Of Great White Sharks
1,095 words... whale blubber (Long). The likelihood of an attack increases significantly when the water surface is calm, especially in the evening and early morning when the sharks move closer to the shore in search of food (MacGregor 47). Sharks prefer cloudy water and areas near harbors, docks, jetties, and bays (Long). The probability of drowning to that of being attacked by a shark is 1, 000 per every one-shark attack in the United States (Bowman 76). Back then, it was generally accepted that great whi...
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Sitting Bull Exile To Canada
1,424 wordsMany things influenced Sitting Bulls decision to cross the border into Canada. After Custer's defeat at Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had to live life in fear. He fought on the defensive for years. Sitting Bull and his followers fled from the onslaught of American howitzers. He then was able to find sanctuary in the White Grandmothers Country, north of the international boundary. Most of the band drifted back in the next few years; Sitting Bull himself was to return in 1881 to end his exile (Andr...
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Washington D C Vice Versa
5,990 wordsMY INAUGUAL ADDRESS AT THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT OF THE DEAD Alvin Miller September, 2005 web > PREFACE Important note: Read my 1986 booklet (at web >) before you read this. What follows is a rough draft transcript (subject to change when I actually give it) of my inaugural address (presumably in Washington, D. C. ? ) before global television at the Great White Throne Judgment of the Dead, after I have rapture out billions! - corpses laying on the grou...
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Jaws By Peter Benchley
1,980 wordsJaws by Peter Benchley In the novel Jaws written by Peter Benchley, critics are correct when they claim that the novel has a lack of characterization, the book is used as an escape, Benchley is a master of suspense writing, the novel displays the facts of Great Whites and critics claim that the novel also displays formulaic plotting, and is an allusion to classic fish tales such as Herman Melville's Moby Dick, and Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. Critics need to loosen up on irritating Bench...
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General Zaroff Cold Blooded
1,330 wordsMr. Rainsford did not kill General Zaroff in cold blood, but rather in self-defense doing this world a favor by getting rid of such a beast as General Zaroff. Sanger Rainsford is not a murderer, but rather a savior. The general gets bored with hunting animals and in his words decides that he had to invent a new animal to hunt. (21) This new animal being humans, sailors who happened to have the tragic luck of running into his ship-trap. General Zaroff is a cold-blooded murderer who kills for spor...
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Single Family Million Years
1,378 wordsINTRODUCTION Although sharks belong to the class Chondrichtyes, there are many different types. Sharks arose about 350 million years ago and have remained virtually unchanged for the past 70 million years and still comprise a dominant group. It is thought that sharks almost certainly evolved from placoderms, a group of primitive jawed fishes. It took a long series of successful and unsuccessful mutations with fin, jaw positions etc to give us all the different designs of sharks around today. Whe...
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Moby Dick Captain Ahab
564 wordsThe meaning of the name itself is quite simple: The whale was often sighted in the vicinity of the Island of Mocha, and Dick was merely a generic name like Jack or Tom. The transformation of Mocha to Moby presented a greater mystery. Melville himself never explained the origin of the latter word. The answer will probably never be known. The whiteness of the whale has many different meanings. There are obvious ones that are innocence, purity, and cleanliness. But there is also the aspect of white...
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