“Concrete Mixers” by Patricia Hubbell compares concrete mixers to elephants to show humans have created relationships with their machines in much the same way as with animals under their care. The poet shows how the drivers of the concrete mixers wash and tend to their mixers just as the mahout take care of their elephants. This comparison is set up at the beginning of the poem with this simile: “Like elephant tenders they hose them down.” To continue this relationship, the poet describes the concrete drivers as “mahouts”, the name for people who take care of elephants in other countries. The poem also describes how the concrete mixers “stand in muck”, meaning that these machines are in muddy environments similar to the environments of elephants who stand in mud or muck.In the end the poet describes how the concrete mixers are like elephants working to do humans’ work by lifting, moving and helping to create new structures in a city. The poet uses several similes to describe concrete mixers as if they were alive: “Concrete mixers/Move like elephants/Bellow like elephants/Spray like elephants” She further strengthens the effect by writing that they “…are urban elephants/Their trunks are raising a city.” This metaphor means that just as elephants work for humans in
Poetry Collection 3 other countries, the machines in the poem are doing the labor of building a city. The poet uses the word “raising” to show that the city is being built up, becoming taller and taller with skyscrapers. Through the effective use of figurative language the poet shows how humans have begun to treat their machines as if they were living, breathing animal
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Answer:
Option A
Explanation:
The statement here is a plain sentence without any logical backing or support.
For any argument to be reasonable or adequate, three factors are essential
a) Definition
b) Deductive reasoning
c) Inductive reasoning.
The given statement has a valid sentence but does not have any logical support (though it is correct)
Hence, option A is correct
The statement that best describes the author’s viewpoint about the people who learned to decipher the Enigma in The Enigma Machine is that (B)They played a very significant role in helping Allied forces.
Here are the following choices:
A.They deserved more recognition for their service than they got.
B.They played a very significant role in helping Allied forces.
C.They should not have tricked the Germans by sending false codes.
D.They were not as important as the soldiers on the battlefield.
The Civil Rights Act banned racial discrimination.
The 15th Amendment granted African Americans the right to vote. In the U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, it was ruled that racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the Constitution. Finally, in the U. S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, it was ruled that racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional.
<span>Upon hearing Juliette’s death, Romeo is determined to go to
the vault where she was laid to rest. He
informs Balthasar that he will go see Juliette but he has other plans in
mind. He also reveals that to Balthasar
that if he will kill him if he prevents him from seeing her. When confronted by his determination remains
strong and he will kill Paris even when he doesn’t want to. He kills Paris in the end. He is firm in his steadfastness to be with
Juliette to the point that he is willing to die. Fate and fortune are the main concepts of his
actions.</span>
