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…Brachiopod Brachiopods are bivalved marine invertabrates that constitute a separate group, Brachiopoda. Brachiopods were prominent shell fish in many continental-shelf sea environments for about 250 million years, from the Ordovician…

…is often so final that the reader could expect to read 'the end' stamped after the final rhyming stanza. An example of this is the classic The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in which the importance of final closure was so high…

…the subject until the last two lines, where they reach the conclusion that love is eternal. Both are in imabic pentameter. Shakespear uses more word play than Fletcher. In line two, Shakespear says that nothing “shall outlive this powerful rime.” Rime…

…and a grand canyon stretching over 3,000 miles across its surface (Commins, 178). What was most surprising was the discovery of ancient riverbeds which went across the landscape of the very dry planet. The Mariner 9 was a huge success, photographing 100…

…snout and cone shaped teeth. Porpoises have a rounded snout and a flat or spade shaped teeth. <Tab/>Scientists apply the term dolphin to two families of cetaceans, marine dolphins and river dolphins. There are thirty-two species of marine…

…THE TRIREME Boats have always represented technological ability and knowledge. And though the Ancient Greeks of Homer's time were not very technologically advanced (relative to the present time), their ships were quite remarkable. The most prominent…

…upon him. Heaney uses phonetically intensive words such as “tinkling”(13) to create sounds in the reader’s mind and “blobs”(14) to create feeling for the readers. The use of slant rime(“pots/boots” 9-10) along with exact rime(“clot/knot” 3-4) creates…

…lines of the poem in which the persona asks, “Did [Leda] put on [Zeus’] knowledge [the attitude of the attacker, one of indifference] with his power, Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?” Through the use of certain rime, imagery, and allusion…

…prey with their radula. Some gastropods have destroyed millions of dollars in crops. Polyplacophoras most closely resemble ancient mollusks. Their shell is made of eight overlapping plates. To feed, they cling to rocky surfaces in shallow marine waters…

…for the Vietnamese New Year of Tet. The battle was a critical moment during the war, it changed many Americans opinion about the war. <Tab/>The North Vietnamese started the attack by massing large amounts of troops around the marine base at Khe Sanh…