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This title offers an in-depth look at alligators, including their physical characteristics, behavior, survival, techniques, life cycle, habitat and range, and threats to other animals.
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Visualising the Unseen
The opening illustration appears opposite the final photograph from \"The Romance of the Museums,\" a series on cultural artefacts. [...]an image of Lady Ducayne with a vampire bat's wings outstretched behind her is juxtaposed with some \"long-lost chessmen\" from \"remote antiquity. See PDF ] would have been too threatening to \"middle-class complacency\" to be included.28 Pictorial journalism was often institutionally censored to appear more comforting than confrontational. [...]the illustrations for the Holmes stories reiterate crime fiction's reassuring messages of scientific investigation, revealing the criminal and resolving the case. According to Minna Vuohelainen, the settings of short ghost fiction of the fin de siécle featured not only cemeteries but colonies, gardens, cinemas, prisons, museums, suburbs, ships, trains, and hotels, all heterotopias \"seemingly removed from ordinary life. \"82 In theorising \"the problem of the uncanny,\" Freud particularly noted the differences between experiencing the uncanny and picturing or reading about it.83 Picturing the uncanny becomes a way of mediating fictional and non-fictional experiences of the unknowable. [...]the final double-page illustration in \"The Inexplicable\" sensationalises the supernatural encounter by showing the terrified husband and wife in their home's entrance hall on the left with a sinister crocodile halfway down the stairs on the right.
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Alligator shoes
An alligator with an interest in footwear spends the night locked in a shoe store trying on the merchandise.
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Pirates of the Caribbean in Frank Yerby's The Golden Hawk
[...]there were natural disasters during the period, such as the earthquake that destroyed Port Royal, Jamaica, on June 7, 1692, which Yerby features in his pirate tale.1 As Mark G. Hanna has demonstrated, piracy had expanded dramatically in the 1680s, and 1696 \"marked the culmination of a number of significant movements, involving trade, warfare, colonial administration, economic policies, and information exchange, that all had an impact on the colonial support of illicit sea marauding\" (223). According to Jan Radway, there are some key components of this genre: 1) the heroine's social identity is destroyed; 2) the heroine reacts antagonistically to an aristocratic male; 3) the aristocratic male responds ambiguously to the heroine; 4) the heroine responds to the hero's behavior with anger or coldness; 5) the hero retaliates by punishing the heroine; 6) the heroine and hero are physically and/or emotionally separated; 7) the hero treats the heroine tenderly; 8) the heroine responds warmly to the hero's acts of tenderness; 9) the heroine reinterprets the hero's previous behavior as the product of previous hurt; 10) the hero proposes/openly declares his love for/demonstrates his unwavering commitment to the heroine with a supreme act of tenderness; 11) the heroine responds sexually and emotionally; and 12) the heroine's identity is restored (Radway 187). Fernand Braudel's advice to pay attention to details of trade when rewriting history finds application here as Yerby lists cargoes, from tallow and hides to human beings. [...]it is on the sea itself, rather than the separate island sequences or those in Cartagena, where Yerby chooses to probe the crosscurrents of colonial history and complex identities. First published in 1837 (the first printed African American short story), it is narrated by an old black man who tells of a beautiful African girl, Laïssa, who is sold to the planter Alfred, who rapes her.
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There's an alligator under my bed
The alligator under his bed makes a boy's bedtime hazardous operation, until he lures it out of the house and into the garage.
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Back to the Future: Late Modernism in J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World
J. G. Ballard's second novel, The Drowned World (1962), addresses itself to modernism not, as is typical of what has come to be associated with works late modernism, by intensifying modernism's autotelic dimension—its “surrender to the resistance of its medium” (in Greenberg's terminology) or its “impoverishment” (in Beckett's)—but by producing a Haeckelian recapitulation of modernism that is also a diagnosis, after the fact, of modernism's constitutive impossibility. For at least as it appears in Ballard's novel, modernism describes not only a particular moment in the history of European culture or a particular artistic canon but also, and more radically, a ground clearing, a forgetting of the past that is hostile to the production of lasting literary works—is hostile, finally, to modernism itself. A late modernist repetition of modernism, then, The Drowned World provides a unique perspective on the death and afterlife of the modernist project.
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Little orange honey hood : a Carolina folktale
Resets the story of Little Red Riding Hood in the South, where Blossom is taking medicine to her ailing Grandma when she meets a hungry alligator. Includes list of North and South Carolina state symbols and recipes.
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Flap your wings
When Mr. and Mrs. Bird discover a strange egg in their nest they try to hatch it.
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