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    Katrina 10/23/12 English 1 honors Mr. Martin. Hamster and guinea pigs ESSAY: Hamsters and guinea pigs are two completely different animals. The most obvious difference is that hamsters are very small; they can fit in the palm of your hand. Guinea pigs are much larger‚ generally weighs around 3 pounds or so when fully grown. Hamsters are native to Europe and Asia while the guinea pig is native to South America. That’s one difference

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    “Tricia‚ in a pale yellow sundress with frills‚ had hung her arm outside the open window and the fair downy skin was glowing red.” (pg 124) Throughout the story‚ Tricia is portrayed as a character who has a child-like personality. For example‚ she disregards the rules and regulations saying “Silly old rules!” (pg 124) and also left the mosquito stuff because it was too bulky.The colors yellow‚ red and green are used often to set the mood or depict a character’s trait.She “shattered” Ford’s illusion

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    advanced beings‚ as Social Darwinists would believe. Rather‚ their utopian civilization has made them weak‚ physically and mentally; they are beautiful but lazy‚ frail‚ and stupid creatures who can do nothing for themselves. The Morlocks‚ the evolved‚ nocturnal‚ Underworld members of the working class‚ are now the true masters; they breed the Eloi like cattle for food and stalk them at night. Weena follows the TT around like a

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    observatories study. Light pollution also harms the environment and the animals / people that inhabit it. It affects the wildlife and plants negatively. Night lights disorient hatching sea turtles‚ migrating birds and nocturnal animals. Interference with pollination of nocturnal flowers occur when light attracts insects. Remember all that sleep talk? Kids need 10-12 hours and teens need 8-10 hours of sleep? Well light pollution also causes an interference with our sleeping patterns. By preventing

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    traveling mainly along the forest floors. It is known for using a braking system called parachuting in lieu of flying‚ its large beak is perfect for climbing trees and its large wings are perfect for gliding from tree to tree. The Kakapo is largely nocturnal which lends to its nickname the owl parrot and uses its unique green feathers as a method of camouflage. Physically‚ the Kakapo is astounding. The feathers are one of its greatest forms of protection. The strange speckled mixture of forest green

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    Rosario Ferré uses dolls in her writing to symbolize the methods in which society holds down women in Puerto Rico as well as throughout the world. In "The Youngest Doll‚" Ferré sets the precedent that dolls are equal to the maiden aunt’s nieces‚ by stating‚ "The aunt had continued to increase the size of the dolls so that the height and other measurements conformed to those of each of the girls (Ferré 483)." The methods in which the aunt prepares the doll‚ such as‚ "Then she would make a wax mask

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    Brittany Marie Jenkins October 29‚ 2014 Essay One Rough Draft Compare & Contrast The Featherless Truth. Despite peoples beliefs Bats and Birds are very different‚ on the contrary the two animals do share some common attributes. Many people from scientist’s‚ to bird watchers‚ or just nature lovers look at a bat‚ and for many of those people they have the same thought go through their mind‚ what is it a bird?‚ a mammal?‚ or simply a freak of nature? The answer is yes‚ Bats are mammals! Definitely

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    The video I chose to analyze is a 2007 ASPCA animal cruelty awareness and animal welfare commercial. It features a series of small clips of dirty‚ wounded animals in crates‚ cages‚ and what appears to be‚ medical rooms‚ all of which focus on the animals eyes. While those clips are being shown‚ the song ‘In the Arms of an Angel’ by Sarah McLachlan is being played in the background. Photographs with several statistics are being shown. “Every single hour in America thousands of animals suffer from

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    worries about what I would face when I went back down. There was no one on top of the mountain who would tell me about the research paper I had to do or about the girl who says she hates my guts. When I’m at this special place I am in a state of reverie that is a form of escape from the many worries that I have left back in reality. But like all good things in life they have to come to an end and I eventually had to venture back down the mountain. As I trekked down the mountain all these fears‚ that

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    the poem. He was commissioned in 1871 to do a painting of the poem and by 1879 had given it a predella showing an earthly lover (wearing a cloak and a sword) lying under a tree in the forest looking up at his beloved. The poem is presented as his reverie. He dreams that she leans out from the golden bar of heaven. Although she has been in heaven ten years‚ to her it scarcely seems a day. In the forest‚ the lover imagines that the autumn leaves are her hair falling on his face.Around her‚ lovers‚

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