The Fens Essays

  • History and Story Telling in Graham Swift's Waterland

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    philosophy and theory that the narrator interjects throughout the novel; the philosophy and theory facilitate the leaps in time between geologic, historic, and biographic past. Swift's mingling of (what appears to be) a "real" geologic history of the fens and the fictional accounts of the Crick and Atkinson families blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction, turning history into fiction and placing fiction within a "real" historical account. (footnote 1) Waterland, as a novel, makes the same

  • Phen/Fen

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    Phen/Fen What is Phen/Fen and How Does it Work? Phen/fen is a popular drug treatment for obesity and binge eating disorders. Two medications named phentermine (phen) and fenfluramine (fen) are taken together in order to work in a balanced fashion on two of the body's neurotransmitters. Phentermine blocks the absorption of a neurotransmitter called dopamine. Dopomine is a stimulant that raises the body's temperature and increases metabolic rate. The effect of this blockage is a decreased

  • Waterland's Ending vs. Song of Solomon's Ending

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    two endings, which leave the audience guessing, making assumptions, but assuming that indeed, all is as well as it can possibly be, finally. Graham Swift creates a vivid description of many generations in a bleak, desolate location known as the fens in his novel Waterland.  His character of Dick Crick plays an enormous role throughout the novel, but Swift ends his novel with Dick drunkenly diving overboard into the water so vital to the rest of the novel. Toni Morrison creates an almost mythical

  • Waterland by Graham Swift

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    History is the study of past events. In his novel Waterland, Graham Swift entwines the past with the present to create a cyclical rhythm, which flows through the narrative. The narrative explores the notion of temporality and explains that instead of time following a linear pattern, it is, in fact, a circle, which moves in into itself, representing the past, the present, and the future. Chapters often end in the middle of a sentence, then picked up at the beginning of the following chapter, suggesting

  • Informative Essay: The Great Salt Lake

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    The Great Salt Lake has many interesting physical. The Great Salt Lake is a massive Lake. The Lame is 75 miles long by 28 miles and covers about 1,700 square miles. Although the lake is big but it is not very deep. The lakes average depth is 14 feet deep. The deepest point of the lake is around 34-40 feet deep. I think you are wondering why the lake is called The Great Salt Lake. Well the lake is named that because of its salinity. Salinity is another word for saltiness. The Great Salt Lake is very

  • Creative Writing: The Red Girl

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    "Pork Butt!" Chu hua lets out a heavy exhale and pinches the bridge of her nose. "Goodness, Fen, you are such a child." The red princess bursts into laughter, even the Empress let out a giggle. One of the concubines shudders in laughter only to be shoulder bumped by another. All of a sudden, the two paper double doors quickly open causing the

  • EASTERN RELIGIONS

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    has treated him, and he begins to fight back. He thinks he is doing the right thing, but he finally comes to realize that to do the right thing you can't think only of yourself. The movie opens with a traffic jam; the man's license plate reads: "D-Fens": This becomes his name since his real name is never told. It takes place in Los Angeles on a very hot day. This traffic jam is significant be... ... middle of paper ... ...ear. However, when Rand feels all the creativity is lost when you give

  • Falling Down Sociology

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    on a personal level, I believe it represents the degree of frustration within each of us. It shows how little control we have on what is going on around us in terms of socioeconomics, ethnics and local government aspects. The movie starts with D-fens sitting in his car stuck in traffic, no AC, loud music and loud children on a school bus. This ultimately leads him to abandon his car in the middle of traffic and decides to walk home.

  • Beowulf: Christian Vs. Old, Christian Versus Pagan

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    The night was dark, a great hall stood upon the land, next to it was a fen, filled with dark creatures. Out of this fen, came the darkest of them all, Grendel! Inside the hall were Guards, since they figured that no one would dare attack this hall, they slept, having drunk much wine, and feasted on a many a thing. Grendel was quick and agile. Before they knew it, their bones were in his mouth, and their blood upon the floor. Beowulf is the story of Good versus Evil, New versus Old, Christian

  • Essay Comparing Falling Down And Birdman

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    personalities but have different strategies of development. When analysed further both show a strong resemblance in how the director portrays his purpose and meaning using different techniques and symbols. Falling Down follows main character Bill Foster ‘D-fens’ as he tries to find his way home after losing his job to fix his abusive relationship with his wife and daughter. Birdman follows main character Riggan Thomson who is mounting a broadway production in hopes to breath new life into his stagnant career

  • Pride In The Play Fences

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    a shadow that followed you everywhere. It weighed on you and sunk into your flesh. It would wrap around you and lay there until you couldn't tell which one was you anymore....I'm just saying I've got to find a way to get rid of that shadow, Mama.” (Fen. 2.5.81) He is talking to Rose in this scene and basically says he needs to find a way to get rid of his dad in his life. He never had a good relationship with his father and wants to forget about it. Throughout Cory’s life football was a dream that

  • The Norfolk Broads

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    licence. In this piece of work I will include pictures and maps of the Norfolk Broads, and graphs. What is so special about the Broads area? The region popularly known as the Norfolk Broads, or Broadland, is a landscape of slow-moving rivers, fens, marshes and waterlogged woodland located to the east of Norwich. It takes its name from some 50 shallow lakes, the great majority of which were hand dug in mediaeval times as a source of peat for fuel. There are some 190 kilometres (120 miles)

  • Spanish Essay

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    Spanish Essay El cambio en el equilibrio de las reacciones dependiendo de distintos factores, en varios experimentos Hipotesis: Al aumentar la temperatura o la concentracion, se hara mas efectiva la reaccion directa. Variables Independientes: - Temperatura - Concentracion - Caracter del reactivo (Acido o base) Variables Dependientes: - Ubicacion del punto de equilibrio Planificacion B Materiales: - Vasos Precipitados (80ml., 250ml., y 500ml.) - Pipeta 1ml

  • Essay On Beowulf

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    He names the hall, Hall Heorot. Grendel, a monstrous creature from the fen, does not like the happiness coming from the hall so he decides to attack. He killed seven of the king’s guards and then he killed ten nobles and Hrothgar barely escaped with his life. A hero named Beowulf heard of this threat and decided to try to

  • Analysis of Shakespeare's The Tempest - Heart Of The Savage

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    speaks with a remarkable eloquence despite his deformed image, "As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed/ With raven's feather from unwholsome fen/ Drop on you both!" (1.2.324-326). These lines show how Caliban speaks in the same eloquent tongue that Prospero speaks with. His lines are long and his words are filled with imagery: "wucked dew", "unwholesome fen", "raven's feather". Caliban doesn't in the play ever seem to be at a loss for words when describing his situation. Later in Act 1 Scene 2 Caliban

  • Free Tempest Essays: Caliban as Savage Tempest essays

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    speaks with a remarkable eloquence despite his deformed image, "As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed/ With raven's feather from unwholsome fen/ Drop on you both!" (1.2.324-326). These lines show how Caliban speaks in the same eloquent tongue that Prospero speaks with. His lines are long and his words are filled with imagery: "wucked dew", "unwholesome fen", "raven's feather". Caliban doesn't in the play ever seem to be at a loss for words when describing his situation. Later in Act 1 Scene 2 Caliban

  • Predictive Validity

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    Validity refers to how well a test or rating scale measures what it is supposed to measure (Kluemper, McLarty, & Bing, 2015). Some researchers describe validation as the process of gathering evidence to support the types of inferences intended to be drawn from the measurements in question. Researchers disagree about how many types of validity there are, and scholarly consensus has varied over the years as different types of validity are incorporated under a single heading one year and then separated

  • Grower Profile: Fenland Celery

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    It’s very labour intensive and uses little to no technology. The crop is still harvested by hand and must be due to the “earthing up” process. It’s this process combined with the growing conditions on the Fens that make the crop so special. Deep furrows are dug into the rich and dark peaty soil (Fenland soil has around 15-20% organic matter, compared with as low as 3-% for some soils). This earth is then banked up around the growing crop, it firstly protects

  • Canadian Raising: A Different Vowel Shift

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    paper ... ...teresting links to older forms of Middle English and linking aspects of Canadian English and certain dialects of American English to certain small sound changes in isolated parts of England, in that small language change can link the Fens of England to Canadians today. Even though Canadian Raising is unique and is an important aspect of Canadian English, Canadian Raising affects various different dialects in the United States. From many different parts of New England to the upper Midwest

  • Epic Battle Between Good And Evil In Beowulf

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    It was dark in the cave when the monster suddenly attacked. If you want to read a story about an epic battle between good and evil then read Beowulf. Beowulf, is an ancient story about one man against some of the most evil creations known to mankind. In the book, Beowulf fights three of the most evil monster ever and comes out victorious. The author, Robert Nye is really descriptive so that you have a very vivid image of what is happening in the story. In the beginning, the king of the Danes,