The bone still has bits of flesh "clinging to it," implying there is something left behind by the animal and a bit of his life is left behind on the bone and is "still tainted by corruption (25)." ... "That's where you get in a car and drink a little and drive a little and stop and dance a little to a juke box and then you drink a little more and drive a little more and stop and dance a little more to a juke box and then you stop dancing and you just drink and drive and then you stop driving and just drink, and then, finally, you stop drinking (32)." ... Val Xavier is the most visi...

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• Grade Level: High School

He used his knowledge about animals that he gained from living in a zoo to deal with his boatmates and the knowledge he gained from the survival manual to learn how to feed himself with his surroundings. Pi remembered that tigers could drink saltwater, and the survival manual taught him he could poke a fish in the eye to paralyze it and that he could drink turtle's blood for water. He used things from the lifeboat to build a raft to distance himself from Richard Parker, the 450-pound tiger he shared living quarters with, and to keep enough drinking water for the two of them. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The title "The Story of an Hour" first of all reflects how time is an untamed animal that picks and chooses its victims. ... Mallard "was drinking in a very elixir of life through the open window"(17). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The title "The Story of an Hour" first of all reflects how time is an untamed animal that picks and chooses its victims. ... Mallard "was drinking in a very elixir of life through the open window"(17). ...

• Word Count: 728
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The reader is immediately introduced to the main theme of this story, the combination and interchanging of humans and animals. ... It is not enough to equate Buck with people in general: the author desires to place him on a plane that will probably elevate this animal above most of his readers (something I found to be quite funny). ... The seeds of reason are taking root in Buck as he sits in the crate for two days and purposely does not eat or drink. ...

• Word Count: 1031
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Nitrates can then be fed of to plants with fungi in there roots, and then are released into the atomosphere, or are then eaten by animals. ... The oxygen cycles is a simple cycle which consists of plants and animals breathing. Animals breathe in the oxygen from the atmosphere to live and breathe out carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during the process of respiration. ...

• Word Count: 2564
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He was forced to give up his land, herd of animals, and close group of vaquero friends who in turn condemned him for leaving. ... He showed these feelings by drinking often and frequently separating himself from the family. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The combining of flooding waters, sunshine, and the blood from the snake led to the appearance of animal life. ... Joseph Campbell describes this archetype by stating "Then the boys are taken out to the men's sacred ground, and they're really put through an ordeal "circumcision, subincision, the drinking of men's blood and so forth."" ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Later however, all kinds of protection grow around that naked body of animals, like furs, feathers, scales, shields and sometimes even whole houses. ... So, our body makes us not elevated above animals. On the contrary, we actually are the most beastly looking animals on earth, pure biology and naked existence, the essence of all animals. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Their Eyes Were Watching God Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, is a novel about self-discovery, in which Janie Crawford is determined to find true love in marriage, and live life according to her terms. Janie's search begins in her Nanny's yard, as Janie lies beneath th...

• Word Count: 1903
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School