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A University of North Texas student referendum was held to name Baby, a white squirrel on campus, as a secondary mascot. [10] The student body narrowly voted against such an action. [10] In 2019, Oberlin College adopted "Yeobie the Squirrel", a representation of an albino squirrel, as its mascot. [11]
Williams was born in Hoxie, Arkansas, to Ernest Burdette and Ann Jeanette Miller Williams.He was educated in Arkansas, first enrolling at Hendrix College in Conway and eventually transferring to Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, where he published his first collection of poems, Et Cetera, while getting his bachelor's degree in biology.
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in August 1903.The story is about an impertinent red squirrel named Nutkin and his narrow escape from an owl called Old Brown.
The squirrel's brush with death causes him to develop superpowers, allowing him to understand humans and become smarter. Flora then names the squirrel Ulysses after the vacuum cleaner accident. Flora sneaks him inside and then explains to Ulysses that he must use his newfound powers to right wrongs, fight injustice, "or something."
The villanelle is an example of a fixed versed form. Tanka – a classical Japanese poem, composed in Japanese (rather than Chinese, as with kanshi) Ode – a poem written in praise of a person (e.g. Psyche), thing (e.g. a Grecian urn), or event; Ghazal – an Arabic poetic form with rhyming couplets and a refrain, each line in the same meter
Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second (1800) edition ...
Fans at a college football game were so excited when a squirrel took the field at a recent Ole Miss and Oklahoma University game. Not only did the critter get the whole stadium's attention, but at ...
Squirrel's New Year's Resolution is a 2010 Children's picture book written by Pat Miller and illustrated by Kathi Ember. It is about Squirrel who wants to make a New Year's resolution but initially doesn't know what it is (her friend Bear explains it to her), then helps her friends ( Skunk , Mole , Turtle , and Porcupine ) with theirs but is ...