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the central idea of the poem is that there are many challenges and obsticals on the way to success
DDT was initially used by the military in WW II to control malaria, typhus, body lice, and bubonic plague (1). ... DDT was also used in buildings for pest control. • The reason why DDT was so widely used was because it is effective, relatively inexpensive to manufacture, and lasts a long time in the environment
When John enters the Place of the Gods, he starts to assimilate that all that he was told about the Place of the Gods is not true at all. The Place of the Gods he visits can be seen as a post-apocaliptic version of the city of New York; because of that, the author is placing the reader in a possible future of ourselves. The portrait of New York as a post-apocaliptic city that we must encourage to build again (by the words of John) can be related to the fall of the city (kingdom) of Babylon in the ancient Mesopotamia.