HISTORY OF THE DODO BIRD The first documented appearance of the dodo bird is in the early 15th century by Dutch explorers. Dutch vice-admiral Wybrand Van Warwijck used the name “walgyogel” in his journal to describe the bird after his visit to the island of Mauritius in 1598. The origins of word dodo to describe the bird is still unclear‚ but some ascribe it to the Dutch word dodoaars referring to the birds knot of feathers. Even though the Portuguese visited the island first in 1507‚ no records
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Zeidel agreed to participate in the making of Out of the Forest‚ a 2004 Israeli documentary about the role of Lithuanian collaborators in the mass killings at Ponar. Once a year‚ on the anniversary of the escape‚ Zeidel would meet for dinner with Isaac Dogim and David Kantorovich‚ another member of the Burning Brigade. “The Jews are the strongest people on earth‚” Zeidel would say. “Look at what they tried to do to us! And still‚ we lived.” Amir told me that Zeidel made several pilgrimages back to
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“Who Understands Me But Me‚” by Jimmy Santiago Baca‚ is about an author talking about life in prison. It explains how life would be behind bars.explaining how you should choose your path the correct way and make good decisions in life. Also how hard it is to get your life back together after prison because it changes your life. To get your life together before it all goes bad. How you need to think things through in life before you do them. Also how hard it could be getting your life back together
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Drink Me! Advertisements are designed to grab the reader’s attention in a short amount of time. The point is to make the product memorable and appealing. People are more likely to purchase a product that has an interesting visual advertisement that he or she can understand than one that is boring or difficult to understand. Vitamin water has developed a new low calorie drink. The vitamin water 10 advertisement is effective because of the variety of flavors shown‚ the word choices‚ and the appearance
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Research Center presents: School of Out-of-Body Travel (SOBT) A Practical Guidebook (Version 2.0‚ October 2011) By Michael Raduga Translated by Peter Orange Pictures: M.Raduga‚ E.Leontyeva‚ S.Buryak Model: Maria Forza This book is free online‚ so feel free to distribute it! Send it to all your friends! Post it on your websites and blogs! www.obe4u.com PART I: LEAVE YOUR BODY WITHIN 3 DAYS .......................................... 5 PART II: 100 OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES..............
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“Superman and Me” In the article “Superman and Me”‚ Sherman Alexie gives a biography of his life as a poor Indian boy who successfully self-educated himself through literature. Through the medium of past experiences as a minority with a strong hunger for learning‚ Alexie reminds everyone of the potential for an individual to overcome adversity through perseverance and diligence. With an informal tone pervading throughout his article‚ Alexie aims considerably at non-Indian children‚ hoping
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College and Me I’m not sure what I want to do when it comes to a career. This makes it hard to decide where I want to go to college. My mom wants me to go to UNCW to study criminology but I don’t know if that is what I want to do. I have been looking into UNCA because I heard that it is more accepting to allowing you to be who you are. UNCA offers all of the degrees that I might like to work toward and I love their beliefs. I do know that I want to go to a instate college so the tuition isn’t as
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together as one. To me‚ music serves as an outlet. I’m able to escape whatever problems I’m having and lose myself in the song. As mentioned‚ music has an extreme power of conveying a message and making people feel a certain way. It’s always there for me whether I’m sad‚ happy‚ angry or heartbroken. Music can put my mind at ease and change my mood within minutes. If I’m having a bad day‚ I can listen to my favorite song or band and almost instantly forget what was bothering me to begin with. It’s
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Dickinson’s poem “510: It was not Death‚ for I stood up‚” explores the uncertainties of Death. The speaker attempts to define or understand her own condition to unwrap the cause of her suffering. The use of extended metaphor is utilized as the speaker uses the term “death” and that her life and state of mind‚ to her‚ resembles nothing other than death itself. The dominant effect would be the feeling of despair as the speaker represents this by saying “As if my life were shaven‚ / and fitted to a
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WIDE READING #4 TITLE: The Best of Me DIRECTOR: Michael Hoffman GENRE: Film “The Best of Me‚” directed by Michael Hoffman is a thought provoking‚ bittersweet movie about Dawson who returns to his hometown for the first time in twenty years to carry out the last wishes of his treasured friend and surrogate father Tuck who passed away. Dawson is surprised to find that Tuck has arranged for Dawson’s high school girlfriend Amanda‚ to join him in fulfilling these last wishes. In fact‚ it soon becomes
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