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B. her varied carols I hear.
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Galway Kinnell wrote his poem "Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond" condemns the involvement of the American government in the Vietnam War. Adopting the chanting style of another American poet Walt Whitman, Kinnell used the same style in his condemnation of the violence inflicted by the American troops.
The second part of the poem "Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond" has the lines<em> "And I hear, coming over the hills, America singing, her </em><u><em>varied carols I hear</em></u><em>"</em>. This line is the same as that of Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing" which begins with the similar lines<em> "I hear America singing, the </em><u><em>varied carols I hear.</em></u><em>"</em>
Thus, the direct reference to Whitman's poem in Kinnell's poem is "her varied carols I hear."
Taken from his mother when he was just weeks old, Ortega grows up in a research lab run by Dr. Whitmore, a world-renowned expert in primates and language development. A series of surgeries reshape the gorilla’s tongue and palate, and insert an artificial voice box into his throat. Ortega receives intensive social, educational and language support and, at ten years old, is shown to have an IQ of 98, normal for a human being. Having exhausted all avenues of scientific research into Ortega, Dr. Whitmore devises a new study, one sure to garner plenty of interest in the scientific community and plenty of grant money from large corporations; he decides to send the young gorilla to school. So it is arranged that Ortega will attend Grade 5 at a local elementary school, and Dr. Whitmore and his research assistant, Dr. Susan, will monitor how he does in this new environment. Though the gorilla is reluctant to leave the safety of his life with Dr. Susan, and makes that reluctance evident, he finds himself dressed in new clothes, his backpack on his back, meeting his new teacher, Miss Rutherford, outside her Grade 5 classroom. Ortega is confronted by the curiosity, the fear and, often, the cruelty of his new schoolmates and their parents. Nasty tricks and taunting notes send the young gorilla running for the door. He also makes friends with Peter, a bright and intense kid, who has prepped for Ortega’s arrival by reading up on gorillas, and his friends Eugene and Janice, and finds himself eating lunch each day with them all in Peter’s tree fort. As he comes to be accepted as a person in his own right by Miss Rutherford and his school friends, Ortega begins to question who he is, particularly in the eyes of Dr. Susan, his surrogate mother, and the head of the research lab, Dr. Whitmore. Is he a person, equal to though different from his human friends and handlers, or is he, as Dr. Whitmore asserts, a laboratory animal owned and entirely controlled by Project Ortega? With his enormous appetite for fruit, his instinctive gorilla behaviours, and his preference for knuckle walking, Ortega clearly isn’t human, but he has a smart mouth, loves Dr. Susan and her mother, whom he calls Grandma, and his new friends, Peter, Eugene and Janice, and reacts time and again like any Grade 5 student. Often locked in his room in the lab and watched through a two-way mirror or videotaped, Ortega has rescued and made pets of other lab animals, a jar of fruit flies he calls the Lancaster-Stone family, Norman, a frog, and Siggy, a mouse. He is expected to walk upright because, in Dr. Whitmore’s eyes, it helps to reinforce the significance of the researcher’s accomplishments with the young gorilla, but is collared and leashed to transit the airport. <span>When he sabotages Dr. Whitmore’s keynote address to an important scientific conference, Ortega is informed by the furious researcher that the Project that bears his name will be cancelled, and he will be sold. However Dr. Whitmore reckons without Peter, Eugene and Janice who carry out a desperate and inspired plan to rescue the young gorilla from his locked room and hide him away where the animal control officers won’t find him.</span>
Conspiracy theories were always irrational ideas without evidence that’s what a “theory” is so if you have proof you have to have the dates, witnesses, because anyone can fake a video or picture with the help of video editing. Though many people use the term debunk to infer that they have falsified an idea, over the years, it has become less rational an endeavor. Today many debunkers are actually pseudo-skeptics. Instead of considering an idea and trying to falsify it, many debunkers just assume science is on their side and instead try to a priori dismiss the idea, and worse to discredit the person who proposes the idea. That is not rational skepticism or critical thinking. Debunking isn’t always falsification or refutation but as often as not just name-calling and denial.
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Since anything can be called a conspiracy theory, and since debunking can be achieved by put-downs and shaming; any idea you don’t like, you call a conspiracy theory and its proponent a conspiracist, and then contemptuously mock the idea and the person who advocates it. Easy-peezy-debunky-sleazy.
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