... in this darkness. Some species use bioluminescence, ability to produce light, to obtain food, attract a mate, camouflage, or to stay in their school. The pressure in this zone is unremarkable, and is a wall for humans because our bodies would be crushed at these high pressures. We have large air sacs ... , in these pressures, can also have an illness which kills them. When they are caught in nets, and brought to the surface, their swim bladder expands and they burst. I have chosen a fish that lives at these depths, but has little information known about it. This fish is called a tripod fi...

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... . Ondaatje retells the story of Toronto from the perspective of the migrants who literally built the foundations on which Toronto resides today. These once marginalised migrants are now given a chance to present history from their perspective and give readers the underside of history'. Ondaatje tells the stories of the marginalised characters of Toronto. Caravaggio the thief, Nicholas Temelcoff the daredevil and Patrick the tunnel worker have all chosen to tell their ... own stories- to take control of their lives. Ondaatje weaves the story around characters that have chosen to take on t...

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... Carver suffered personal turmoil in 1967, both losing his father and filing for bankruptcy. However, in the same year, his story "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" was chosen for The Best American Short Stories, 1967. Carver met with increasing success publishing his stories during the next few years. As a result, he was offered a number of teaching positions at universities. ... At the same time, alcohol increasingly began to affect his life. In 1976, unemployed and bankrupt, he began ... is also possible for an image to become symbolic in a story. In "Cathedral," the controlling imag...

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(4282 words) I have chosen to research and write my Extended Essay on Edgar Allan Poe and his portrayal of perversion, which is present in every human's ... stories. Though often referred to as a psychopath I believe that Edgar Allan Poe is a genius in his own right, and has written more reliable products analyzing the human psyche than was possible for anybody in his time, perhaps even our own. I do not believe that he wrote his stories for our personal entertainment, but ... and effect," (p.11) or are they indeed caused by the supernatural? By using, three main events in this story, namely...

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