A motif is a literary device used to develop the major theme of a novel. Literary symbols are objects or characters used to represent ideas or concepts.
There are several symbols and motifs developed in Old Man and the Sea. Write an essay on the following prompt, explain the meaning of the symbol or motif and discuss its significance within the novel.
The marlin and the sharks
Writing Reminders:
Develop a multiparagraph response that clearly communicates a thesis statement.
Support your thesis with meaningful examples from the text or prior knowledge.
Organize your essay logically with an introduction, body, and conclusion.
Use well-constructed sentences and appropriate language for your audience.
Proofread for coherency and edit for conventions.
The marlin represented strength, beauty and dedication while the sharks represented hunger, selfishness and relentless destruction. The marlin had a “sleek,massive beautiful body” and went on even when it was almost dead. Santiago almost died when it had been caught and the line zipped and was pulled tight, causing Santiago to almost go over, and being eaten by sharks. Then, it pulled the whole ship, causing it to lurch forward and be steadily pulled out to sea. When Santiago killed the marlin even though it had showed strength and desperation for, he was more desperate than the fish. Once Santiago killed the marlin the sharks came because he went inland, into shark territory. Santiago was fighting off the sharks but they had still destroyed the beautiful marlin and would fight over their food.
In the activity, you examined the important contributions of scientists and theorists like Marie Curie, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin. In the early years of the twentieth century, when Curie and Einstein were announcing their discoveries, two important leaders were debating educational theories and civil rights agendas: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. Open the Web Links tab and click on the associated link to learn more about their different perspectives and use what you learn to answer the following prompt.
Compare the value of industrial education to that of liberal arts education. Use quotations from Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois.
Booker T. Washington believed that blacks would have to work from the bottom up to gain equal rights even if that meant lower education less rights more labor and all in all, near slavery. What Booker T. Washington had planned was to make blacks an essential need for living as a white that when they ask for equal rights, they would have to say yes. Booker T. Washington even said that blacks would have to accept white supremacy in order to obtain equal rights. W.E.B. Du Bois how ever, was an early supporter of Washington and as time went on he saw more and more holes in his plan. Washington was known as a powerful tyrant who was a person full of lies in the black community where as he was seen as a respectful thoughtful man. W.E.B. Du Bois had differing views how ever and believed that blacks should get a liberal arts education instead of a industrial education. Du Bois also was not one for gradual freedom, instead he wished for equal rights as soon as possible and acceptance of equal rights. Du Bois was a known opponent of Washington and battled him until he died but that did not mean he did not respect Washington for instance he said “Washington is a misguided powerful leader.”.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1978/2/78.02.02.x.html
Evaluate the impact of European conquests in the last half of the nineteenth century.
The European conquests made big changes like modernization of Russia through peer pressure. Or the shaping of Italy and Germany through conquest. The biggest change was revolutionary weapons and that led to conflict with Russia for conquest of Persia. Europe was definitely in a time of conflict and industrialization. Europe was trying to extend outward it’s boundaries and it had to deal with conflict and other world powers trying to extend their boundaries. Europe was also going through industrialization, revolutions and new ideas like social Darwinism and impressionism. The most dramatic changes were in art like the impressionist movement, the post-impressionist movement, and science like longer life spans, less disease and even more like the discovery of radium. Long story short, European conquest made a major science, art and medicine leap.
Martin Luther King Jr. interpretation
”This evening I would like to use this lofty and historic platform to discuss what appears to me to be the most pressing problem confronting mankind today. Modern man has brought this whole world to an awe-inspiring threshold of the future. He has reached new and astonishing peaks of scientific success. He has produced machines that think and instruments that peer into the unfathomable ranges of interstellar space. He has built gigantic bridges to span the seas and gargantuan buildings to kiss the skies. His airplanes and spaceships have dwarfed distance, placed time in chains, and carved highways through the stratosphere. This is a dazzling picture of modern man’s scientific and technological progress.
Yet, in spite of these spectacular strides in science and technology, and still unlimited ones to come, something basic is missing. There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.-Martin Luther King Jr.”
Prompt 1:
Write a brief essay explaining your understanding of Dr. King’s message. Support your ideas with evidence from the speech. Include an analysis of how these issues have evolved since Dr. King delivered this address over 40 years ago.
Martin Luther King Jr. was pointing out that we have airplanes,space shuttles,skyscrapers, cars, even computers that could calculate almost any problem and yet there was still racism, white only stores, buses that you had to give up your seat to a white person if you were black. Basically even though we had abolished slavery we were still treating black people like crap and he pointed out that so many technological advancements had happened just imagine how many more will be accomplished if every one was treated equal and if not improvements to the others. Motorcycles back then were not even dreamed about, even regular cars were prone to breaking down and they did not get very good gas mileage. Now, at this day and age there are flip-phones more powerful than the computers, racism is now looked down upon, and we are able to do things that he couldn’t dream of. I am certain that if he could see what man has accomplished he would be more than proud, I think he would cry in joy. Please, who ever reads this put your interpretation in the comments.
Dad
Try your hand at a four-line poem that reflects your thoughts and feelings about a group of people or an individual you know who has endured difficult times.
My dad has been through rough times,
I know my dad is mine
My dad is the best,
at least better than the rest.
sonnet
Try your hand at writing a sonnet. Remember the structure is 14 lines: three quatrains (group of four lines) and a couplet (two lines), with a rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg. Try for iambic pentameter (da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM) but don’t get too hung up on it this first time.
a: My sister had
b: In my mom’s life
a: the best dad
b: she was the best wife
c: Fifty pices
d: of lettus
c: of feices
d: and sixty love letters
e: My girl freind’s
f: sister
e: I got a new lense
f: mister
g: Love
g: Dove
idioms
Read the sentences below. For each idiom:
Define it literally.
Define it as a figure of speech in the context.
Write a new sentence using the idiom.
1. My mother scolded me to bite back my tongue when I boldly asked for more candy.
My mother told me to harm my tongue when I boldly asked for more candy.
bite back my tongue means shut up
I bit back my tongue when I had the urge to yell.
2. My requests for a new car fell on deaf ears. I guess I’ll keep driving the old one.
My requests for a new car became solid and fell on deaf people’s ears.
fell on deaf ears means her requests had been ignored or denied even though she had presented a good argument.
I thought I would become president but I guess my request fell on deaf ears.
3. I was so tired after a long day of unpacking boxes that I decided to call it a day. I’ll finish tomorrow.
he was so tired he did not know what day was called but he remembered it as his own name for it day.
call it a day means he finished working for the day he was so tired.
I was so buisy selling fish that when i was half way through I called it a day.
4. After completing a marathon, a five-mile run will be a bed of roses.
After completing a marathon a five mile run will be a bed made out of roses.
bed of roses means super easy.
I thought that math would be a bed of roses after algebra, I guess I was wrong.
Simile
A simile is a comparison of two or more things using the words
like or as.
For example: My new ring shone as bright as the noonday sun.
Write either a poem or a one-paragraph description of your bedroom using similes.
My bedroom is like a tornado in the night. My bedroom window curtain blocks out the sun like thick black smoke. My bedroom has a toy box as wide as my bath tub and twice as tall. My bedroom has a bookshelf as tall as the beast’s from beauty and the beast. The mess that I call my room is as large as the sky. My bedroom’s mess is as bad as a tiger in a room of stuffed animals.
dress codes
One aspect of Chinese dress and fashion was its ability to communicate the wearer’s identity, social status, gender, occupation, and ethnic background. Identify ways in which modern dress allows one to assume such things about others.
If you dress in a suit in public people will automatically assume that you are male and high class but if the suit is ripped or stained people will assume you were rich but you had budget cuts. If you wore a dress in public it would be the same thing. If you live in a trailer people will assume you are poor. while if you live in a mansion people will assume that your rich. If you have a very nice car, people will assume your rich. It’s all based on stereotypes like if your a male wearing pink your a homosexual even if you just like the color pink and are a heterosexual.
The West
Discuss the concept of “West.”
The west is well, mainly the western part of america. It is also commonly known as the part of america that did not support slavery, or the part of america that joined together to form the confederecy. It is also commonly known as the “Wild West” witch is the part of america that had cowboys, sherrifs, shoot outs and other fun things. One thing that all of these things had in common is that it all took place mainly in the western part of america. The “Wild West” was caused by the geografy of the areas, being closer to the west pole it was hotter, then a drout came and it made the perfect condition for a desert and then, with outlaws too we have the wild west.
food
While there are often a number of plant varieties, modern humans tend to focus on the mass production of a single strain. Identify the implications of depending on food monoculture.
A type of plant had more than three thousand variety all either wild or domesticated some were even poisonous. There is another type of plant that has more than a hundred different varieties, most of them so poisonous that they had to be dried, pressed, mashed and then they could be eaten. But now with the peanut there less than fifty varieties of itself. Luckily, there are still types of plants we don’t even know about. Someone once did an estimate and I don’t know how much of it is true but the estimate was that we have only found fifteen percent of life on earth. And at least two species die every day. Another use for chilly peppers, it’s spicy element may also be able to be used to help inflammation with arthritis. Just imagine how many foods are able to be used for medicinal purposes.
Barbados
Identify the reasons why Barbados supported the passage of the act abolishing the slave trade.
The Barbados supported the passage of the act abolishing the slave trade because at the start of the colony they depended on native Americans, who were not inhabiting the island for survival skills and for food native to the Barbados and how to prepare it. The native Americans had been exported from Guiana to the Barbados. The native Americans had taught the settlers the thing needed for survival and unlike most settler colonies the settlers actually accepted the fact that they needed the native Americans for survival. With slavery in america the first slavers enslaved native Americans and then they moved to African Americans. The native Americans in the Barbados had also helped the settlers with complete deforestation and with the profit of the colony. When they had heard that there could possibly be an abolition on slavery they had remembered about how the native Americans were slaves.
english
What if you only had $1.87 to buy a present for your Mom for her birthday? What would you do?
I would make my mom a home-made gift and would give her the most lovely gift for one dollar. I would pour as much love into the home-made gift as possible. I would make sure that it had what my mom loves most, in drawing or for real. All of my mom’s favorite things bundled into one lovable package. What mom would get most of all would be the pages and pages of love poured into the card. I love my mom more than anything in the world, tying with my dad who is also the best person in the world.
My gift to my mom would be a bracelet that says love you lots with a heart at the end and beginning of the bracelet. The bracelet would be made out of paper with a cheap latch that can still do it’s job.
Tomb NO. KV 1 Was built for Rameses the sixth. we don’t know much about him other than that he was a pharaoh. His tomb was unfinished and his sarcophagus was a pit cut into the ground with a lid on top his tomb had three chambers and a back entrance. Tomb NO. KV 2 was built for Rameses the fourth and was also unfinished. The tomb was quickly turned into a burial chamber as it served for something else before the pharaoh suddenly died. It was still an actual tomb with decor and everything even thought it was a quickly changed burial chamber. Tomb NO. KV 3 Was for a prince who died unexpectedly. That tomb is one of the few tombs that is decorated for a prince. The tomb was finished and was very beautiful the prince was in a normal sarcophagus.
World History VS. National History
World History is quite literally National History on a way larger scale, with all the nations in mind. World History however since it’s at such a large scale is like broad History or an over look on History while National History focuses on a certain region. With National History though, it only starts when a place becomes a Nation. Take the U.S.A. for example it’s National History started in 1789 whereas world history started everywhere in the world before 30,000 B.C.E. When space travel becomes more common, I am certain that there will be a branch of History called Space History or Universal History. World History is special because it really started when humans first evolved, we just haven’t recovered any artifacts from that time.
Analyzing Advertisements
A malware or virus designer had made an advertisement that when clicked downloads a virus on your device that can do anything from wipe everything but itself or siphon your money until non of it’s left. The audience intended is anyone who clicks on it and allows the virus to download. the purpose for the advertisement was for the virus to download on someones device. The advertisement was claiming that your device was not clean and that the product would clean it for you. The information that was withheld was that the product was a virus and that would devastate many people the only people that the withheld info would help is the advertiser. the way the advertisement caught my attention was by a flashing red light and a caution sign. It could have caught my attention better if it looked official though.
Psychology
Psychology is part of the mental health branch of health. Psychologists earn a yearly salary of anywhere from thirty-thousand dollars to seventy-six thousand six hundred and four dollars. Psychologists are therapists on a basic scale, Psychologists have more school years than therapists and has a more scientific aspect of their job. Psychologists work independently or with other scientists, lawyers, engineers, etc. The best way to prepare for psychology is to love the job, study hard, gain a love for the human mind and keep these traits for six or eight years.
Martin Luther King .jr
1. Martin Luther King, Jr. was considered by many to be an “above average” student. What information justifies this idea about him? At Sept. 20, 1944 he Entered Morehouse College at 15 years old. At June 8, 1948 he Graduates from Morehouse College with a BA in Sociology just at 19 years old. May 8, 1951 he Graduated Crozer Theological Seminary with a B.D. At June 5, 1955 he Earned a Doctorate of Philosophy in Systematic Theology and at Feb. 2-March 10, 1959 he Visited India to learn more about Gandhi’s nonviolent methods of protest.
2. Dr. King’s leadership of the civil rights movement was based on his knowledge, beliefs, and understanding of complexities. What allowed him to be such a successful leader?
Timeline of Key Events in the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan. 15, 1929 Born in Atlanta, GA
Sept. 20, 1944 Enters Morehouse College at 15 years old
June 8, 1948 Graduates from Morehouse College with a BA in Sociology
May 8, 1951 Graduates from Crozer Theological Seminary with a BD
June 18, 1953 Marries Coretta Scott Williams
Oct. 31, 1954 Becomes pastor at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
June 5, 1955 Earns Doctorate of Philosophy in Systematic Theology
Dec. 21, 1956 Buses desegregated as a result of a 382-day long protest lead by King
Feb. 14, 1957 Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Feb. 2-March 10, 1959 Visits India to learn more about Gandhi’s nonviolent methods of protest
Aug. 28, 1963 Delivers I Have a Dream speech during the march on Washington
Jan. 3, 1964 Named Time Magazine’s Man of the Year
July 2, 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed, largely influenced by King’s Civil Rights protests
Dec. 10, 1964 Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Aug. 6, 1965 Voting Rights Act of 1965 signed as a result of King’s leadership
April 4, 1968 Assassinated in Memphis, TN by James Earl Ray
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