Neotropic Cormorants occur alongside Double-crested Cormorants in an expanding area of the southern United States. The Neotropic is smaller with a longer tail, and the area in front of the eye is covered by feathers instead of bare facial skin.
Every character in a poem is unique in their own way. In the poem Beowulf, Beowulf endures many challenges that make his character stand out from the rest. Beowulf is a major character with a dynamic, yet flat personality. Beowulf is considered the major character because he has the most influence on the plot. He receives the call to Heorot while at home in Geatland when he hears that Grendel is attacking Heorot.
Beowulf is the hero and title character of an Anglo-Saxon epic poem. The poem was written in England, though the action is set in Scandinavia. It takes place in the 5th and 6th centuries CE, but was written some time between the 8th and 11th centuries. Beowulf is among the most important extant Anglo-Saxon works of literature. According to the poem, Beowulf was the son of a Swede, EcgÃeow, but grew up among the Geats. EcgÃeow had been banished before his son's birth because he was unable to pay a high weregild, a type of fine imposed on those who had killed a man.