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    still remains”Sky God said this quote in the trickster tale “How Stories Came to Earth” when he tells Anansi there are still animals to be captured. The story “How Stories Came to Earth” is about a tiny spider who must capture four elusive animals and bring the to the sky god for his stories. He was then able to achieve the goal‚ get the stories‚ and share them with the world. After reading “How Stories Came to Earth” and “Master Cat” it was very obvious that there was many similarities and differences

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    Part one: The three short stories- When Grizzlies Walked Upright‚ The Earth on Turtle’s Back‚ and The Navajo Origin Legend – all share a similar concept. The story The Earth on Turtle’s Back talks about before Earth even existed everything was water and there were birds and animals that swam around. Up‚ above the clouds‚ was a skyland where humans lived. In the end of this short story a small little muskrat brings up land from underneath the water and gives the chief’s wife a place to stand and

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    The Not So Good Earth For a while there we had 25-inch Chinese peasant families famishing in comfort on the 25-inch screen and even Uncle Billy whose eyesight’s going fast by hunching up real close to the convex glass could just about make them out--the riot scene in the capital city for example he saw that better than anything‚ using the contrast knob to bring them up dark--all those screaming faces and bodies going under the horses’ hooves--he did a terrific job on that bit‚ not so successful

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    The Contrast Between Malacandra and Earth Elwin Ransom‚ the main character in the book‚ a professor of philology of the University of Cambridge‚ is a brave‚ open-minded man full of curiosity. I would describe him as brave because he acted very calm during the time he was being prisoned by Weston and Devin. He almost seemed a willing captive in the beginning of the story. Unlike Devin and Weston‚ Ransom had the courage to find Oryarsa and to sacrifice himself to ensure the safety of Malacandra.

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    The Summary of “205 Easy Ways to Save the Earth” In a personal narrative “205 Easy Ways to Save the Earth” by Thomas L. Friedman an award winning columnist. Researched on the internet (Google) “Easy Ways to Save the Earth” upon his search he found a great number of links this included “10 Ways to Save the Earth in Under a Minute”. He argues that were having a green party not a revolution. He states that there is more to changing a light bulb to make a difference. He has come across a law that he

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    Mary Ann Rupli Student ID= 5837 Title: Saving Our Planet Earth and Protecting Our Future. Can I borrow a few minutes of your time? Good. A few minutes of your time will be long enough to direct your attention to saving our planet and guaranteeing our future. Have you ever wonder what effects population increase has on our environment? At the present time‚ there are more than seven billion people in the world. If these people are properly organized and motivated‚ we can dramatically reduce

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    conditions‚ and droughts are due to global warming. The facts: Volcano activity actually helps cool the earth. According to Walker‚ and King‚ “when volcanoes erupt they shot vast quantities of ash that contain huge amounts of aerosols into the air far above the weather systems. This ash and droplets of sulfate put out by volcanoes can sometimes live long enough to cause significant cooling of the Earth. (21) “Such was the case in 1991‚ when Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted with dramatic effect

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    The dragon could breathe fire and destroyed all the bad that happened. He was his bodyguard. God decided to create a place called earth. He started by creating a forest. He added plants and animals. The trees produced oxygen for the plants and animals to breathe. The animals ate some of the plants and attacked other animals to survive. He then decided that the earth needed a little bit more of excitement. So‚ he created this thing called humans. The humans would help grow the plants and help the

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    relationship with the earth and how we gain strength and sustenance from it. Wang Lung‚ the central character of the novel‚ feels a deep respect for the earth. We discover that his house is made of earth and even his gods before whom he places incense are also made of earth. Thus he gains his food‚ his shelter‚ and his religion from the earth. As Pearl Buck notes‚ everything comes out of the earth‚ but ultimately everything returns to the earth. Wang Lung’s relationship with the earth is not an intellectual

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    of sadness and a time of an evil omen."(Lotus 54) A woman is still considered to be a weaker gender in today ’s society and the inequality between male and female perpetuates. In fact‚ this situation is quite prevalent in Pearl S.Buck ’s The Good Earth‚ whereby women continue to be suppressed by the more superior and masculine group which are men. Restrained by the traditional Chinese society ’s belief‚ woman is expected to be an inferior group in every aspect of life. They are only capable of becoming

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