bones in their body. A second similarity is that they are chromatophores; these kinds of animals have pigment-bearing cells that permit them to change the pigmentation of their skin by expanding and contracting (“Webster’s Third New International Dictionary”). On the other hand‚ they also have differences. The first difference is that they have two different ways to breath. Lungs are the principal breathing organs of reptiles; those lungs are separated into compartments much like the mammals (Capula
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Irony: the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning (Merriam Webster Dictionary) Of the four soldiers wandering behind enemy lines after the Battle of the Bulge‚ Billy Pilgrim is the least soldierly and least likely to survive. He’s the only one who survives. He also survives the incineration of Dresden‚ not bad for an unfit prisoner of war. He is also the lone survivor of an airplane crash. Edgar Derby is tried and executed for plundering
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investigation‚ regardless of what type of context is being investigated. “The stimulation to output or accomplishment that results from the mere fact of being under observation; also: such an increase in output or accomplishment (Merriam Webster Dictionary) “From the Hawthorne Works of the Western Electric Co.‚
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The Importance of Hard Work That hard work is a key to success is a well-known adage. Parents‚ teachers as well as others guide a child to work hard so that he can achieve good scores‚ though a little bit of luck plays a positive role but I believe that hard work is the key to success. In fact if only luck is to be considered‚ no one would work but just wait till their lick shines up. But this is not the case. Today we see that technology has improved to such an extent that a person can have a
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Cultural Organization." Twenty Percent of Young People in Developing Countries Fail to Complete Primary School and Lack Skills for Work | United Nations Educational‚ Scientific and Cultural Organization. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2016.) Merriam Webster Dictionary defines education as the action or process of teaching someone. (Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster‚ n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2016.) The purpose is to ingrain
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The authors of Peras: an Extract from a Page‚ and Sleeping with the Dictionary‚ use their writing to discuss textual consciousness and what takes place during the reading of a piece. McCaffery’s experimental text‚ Peras: an Extract from a Page‚ introduces the idea of the page as an autonomous being that is launched into a schizophrenic state of self-loathing when written or inscribed upon. Within this text‚ the reader is characterized as an inconsequential witness to the madness of the page. McCaffery
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Culture is defined by Merriam- Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary as “the integrated pattern of human knowledge‚ belief‚ and behavior that depends upon man’s capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations.” People learn about cultural traditions through interaction rather than through the memorization of a text. There are many ways that a culture can be shared among people without them being fluent in it such as through food‚ customs‚ clothing‚ language‚ beliefs‚ and behaviors
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According to Merriam Webster dictionary a hero is‚ "a person who is admired for great or brave acts or fine qualities or a person who is greatly admired." Oskar Schindler does not fit this definition at the beginning of the movie. Heroes commonly experience a classic call to action. Oskar Schindler’s call to action was at the beginning of the war‚ however he did not truly take action until he began to form emotional attachments towards the workers he was hiring that he had hired to originally just
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Abstract This paper explored some published articles from the online (Internet) and from the offline (non-Internet). This paper conveys research about some Filipinos’ negative traits like crab mentality and its behavior in competition. The Urban Dictionary (2002) defined crab mentality as “Crabs in a bucket can easily escape from the buck one at a time‚ but instead of doing that they pull each other down whenever one rises to the top – thus insuring their collective demise.” Crab mentality is best
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motivation 3 Travel safety 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Etymology The origin of the word "travel" is most likely lost to history. The term "travel" may originate from the Old French word travail.[3] According to the Merriam Webster dictionary‚ the first known use of the word travel was in the 14th century. It also states that the word comes from Middle English travailen‚ travelen (which means to torment‚ labor‚ strive‚ journey) and earlier from Old French travailler (which means to work
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