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    Judith Beveridge Poem Essay This essay discusses the value and merit of Judith Beveridge’s poems "Domesticity of Giraffes" and "Fox in a tree stump" and describes how each poem clarifies the value of life. Judith Beveridge is a well known poet whose poems portray moral values and meanings which are essential elements for Australian poetry. Two of her poems "Domesticity of giraffes" and "Fox in a tree stump" express these elements by clarifying the value of life‚ exploring humanity’s relationship

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    and her appreciation for life in all. Through her two poems ‘the domesticity of Giraffes’ and ‘the streets of Chippendale’ these both communicate her ideas and values the strongest. One of Beveridge’s strongest values is of life‚ in ‘the domesticity of giraffes’ this is displayed from the first sentence of the second stanza. ‘I think of her graceful on her plain’ Beveridge puts herself into the poem‚ her thoughts of the giraffe in her natural state‚ gracefully running in the wild. The entire second

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    Beveridge does this in three of poems. “The Domesticity of giraffes”‚ “Fox in a tree stump” and “The Two Brothers”. Through the use of repetition and personification she incorporates her feelings about cruelty towards animals and humans. She uses these techniques in all three of her poems. Poetry shows the reader a new way to look at familiar situations and in her poem “The Domesticity of Giraffes” she uses repetition to show the cruelty towards the Giraffe. This creates a feeling of annoyance towards

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    human kind’s primal instincts shape their envrionment. Judith Beveridge’s Poem ’Domesticity of Giraffes’ also cleverly examines the treatment Women receive from their environment or society. Both Robert Frost and Judith beveridge represent people and their environments in unique and evocative ways through the use of allegories‚ tropes and poem structure. this is evident in ’Mending Wall’ by frost‚ and ’Domesticity of Giraffes’ by Beveridge. Frost uses extended metaphors with multi-layered meaning to them

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    The height of the average adult male Giraffe is 16 to 20 feet and the height of the average adult female Giraffe is 15 feet. The average weight of an adult male Giraffe is 2‚600 lbs and the average weight of an adult female Giraffe is 1‚800 lbs. Giraffes are around for a long time. Most Giraffes live to be an average of 25 years. Fun Fact: When a Giraffe is stressed they tend to eat the bark off of branches.” Eastern Gorilla - The Eastern Gorilla

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    object one fixates on is the blob of cherry Jell-O‚ the cartoonish like giraffe‚ and the messy written words a child wrote about their love for Jell-O. This print ad has numerous points that helps buyers want it. They have the red mess of Jell-O. Yet somehow it looks appetizing. Then there is the giraffe. The giraffe is being fed green Jell-O‚ because giraffes are herbivores. And obviously a child’s hand is feeding the giraffe. This print

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    Why are you looking at this document? Learn to speak Giraffe! Ever heard of Marshall Rosenberg? He is de founder of ‘non-violent communication’. And with this non-violent communication‚ he works with to handpuppets: one of a jackal‚ and one of a giraffe. Because giraffes have the biggest heart of al country animals en non-violent communications is the language of the heart. He uses the jackal as a symbol for language that seperates us from each other and that makes violence into something to enjoy

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    separate land from water‚ marshes from rain forests‚ and created islands into regions. King Shrek also created trees to grow crops for the animals. Queen Fiona on the other hand created the most beautiful exotic creatures called the bear‚ bird‚ duck‚ giraffe‚ tiger‚ lion‚ fish‚ dog‚ lizard‚ horse‚ elephant‚ frog‚ cow‚ deer‚ chicken‚ pig‚ leopard‚ rhino‚ squirrels‚ and many other creatures. In those days there was no sun. All light came from the sparkling white moon shined in the sky that stood in the

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    Charles Darwin’s Ideas After reading the book “Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin‚ I would place Darwin halfway between “creative genius” and “spin doctor” if there was a spectrum. The way he thinks and examines a theory was really outstanding‚ even the extraneous amount of research he has accomplished was there to back his theories up. Reading the book made me realized that he did “borrow” the ideas from other people‚ such as Charles Lyell‚ Jean-Baptist Lamarck‚ William Paley and Thomas Malthus

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    Domestication: the domesticated fox as a model. BioEssays‚ 31: 349-360. 5. Simmons‚ R.E.‚ Altwegg‚ R.(2009). Necks-for-sex or Competing Browsers? A Critique of Ideas on the Evolution of the Giraffe. Journal of Zoology‚ 282: 6-12. 6. Mitchell‚ G.‚ Skinner‚ J.D.(2003). On the Origin‚ Evolution and Phylogeny of Giraffes Giraffa camelopardalis. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa‚ 58(1): 51-73.

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