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    In the first passage, the Okefenokee Swamp is described with a wide variety of diction. Its features are mentioned with a neutral tone and simply describe what the place looks like. In the second passage, Okefenokee Swamp is portrayed as an unpleasant setting with many disturbing features. Each passage describes the area with a different purpose and a different view. The first passage from the Encyclopedia Britannica has an objective tone, while the second passage has a detestable tone and is

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    Okefenokee Swamp is a wildlife preserve on the Florida-Georgia border, 50 miles from the Atlantic coast. The Okefenokee Swamp was designated a wilderness park in 1974 to protect the vast quantities and diversity of species in this unique park. To explain the environment of the swamp the author uses pathos and logos. In the first passage, to covay logos, the author used specific numbers like “25 mi wide and 40 mi long” The uses of specific number like this gives a scale for the sizes of the swamp

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    In the Okefenokee Swamp Essay, first passage uses pleasant imagery with detailed information to illustrate the swamp as a pleasant resort-like place while the second passage uses the vivid accumulation of the swamp’s features to emphasize a disgusting and dangerous atmosphere which portrays the writer’s daily experiences at the swamp. The first passage uses pleasant imagery with detailed information to illustrate the swamp as a pleasant resort-like place. The author strategically lists focused

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    In the Okefenokee Swamp, passage one’s detached tone is intended to be utilized as a source for scientific reference of the area while the second passage illustrates the swamp in an engaging and poetic approach with the use of imagery and alliteration to alarm potential visitors of the dangers present in the swamp. The author of passage one employs a detached and impartial style by listing detailed facts about the swamp’s physical features and wildlife. The author immediately commences the passage

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    The Okefenokee Swamp is a complex environment that is home to an abundance of wildlife as well as an abundance of vegetation. Two passages provide information about the swamp, and although they feature the same subject, both works articulate two directly contrasting viewpoints about the ecosystem. Through the use of disparate tones, purposes, and styles of writing, the authors of both excerpts establish two dissimilar perspectives of the swamp. For instance, a significant factor contributing to

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    Describing the Okefenokee Swamp are two very different passages. Both passages contain interesting ideas. However, one passage seems more statistical than the other. For example, passage 1 describes how big the entire place is. It basically gives you an overview of the entire place not just the swamp itself. Passage 2 describes exactly what is in the swamp. For example sentence 1 says, “Vast and primeval, unfathomable, unconquerable, bastion of cottonmouth, rattlesnake and leech, mother of vegetation

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    The Wetlands In Grisham’s novel, The Pelican Brief, he presents a case where an organization attempts to protect the coastal marshes of Louisiana against the selfish oil companies and citizens that wish to destroy it for money. This is a tremendous concern that people deal with in America. John Grisham wrote The Pelican Brief, in 1992 and it was one of his best selling books. Louisiana’s marshes are being destroyed and are suffering greatly because of humans. Grisham shows extensive knowledge of

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    Introduction There is rapid destruction of salt marshes and wetlands due to dredging operations and filling. In Boston, almost eighty-one percent of the salt marshes have been lost. For the Canadian Maritimes, almost sixty-four percent of the coastal wetlands have disappeared due to agricultural reclamation. Approximately, ninety-three percent coastal marshes have been lost along the Pacific coast in the United States. In addition, there is a degradation of coastal wetland due to invasive species

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    and now that we finally see how important they are we are going to lose what little wetlands remain to rising sea levels. What are wetlands? Wetlands are, quite simply wet lands. The word “wetlands” is the collective term for marshes, swamps, bogs, and similar areas. Here in Florida, wetlands are quite abundant. They can

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    Art is all around us, and allows people to express their emotions in a sharable form. The Fifth Avenue Art Gallery is a premiere gallery located in Brevard Country in the Eau Gallie Arts District. I visited this gallery on September 16th and liked that this gallery is open to the public and has free admission. The Fifth Avenue Art Gallery contains wonderful art that are all originals. These visual arts come in a variety of forms like painting, sculptures, crafts, and jewelry. The Fifth Avenue Art

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