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    is the city and county where the story takes place. Calpurnia is the maid and nanny of the Finch kids. Dill is the kid that comes to Maycomb every summer and plays with the Finches. The Radley place it the house where the Radleys live. Stephanie Crawford knows everything about everyone’s family history and lives near the Finches. Arthur Radley is the mysterious man that never leaves the Radley place (only at night) everyone always tell strange stories about him. Miss Caroline Fisher is Maycomb’s first

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    I got a really big opportunity to take a trip around the world. I will be traveling around the world with the 7 continents and the 5 oceans. First we will start in Australia. Australia is the 6th largest country in the world. Australia’s biggest water fall is Wallaman Falls it is 879 feet tall. Another beautiful sight in Australia is Sydney Opera it is a house where you perform in it is one of 20th century’s most famous distinctive building. Next i will be traveling to asia. A awesome sight to

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    the Finches had an incestuous streak she completely denied it. Aunt Alexandra has many good and bad qualities most concern the maturation and upbringing of the children. Good qualities include the fact she wants the best for Jem‚ Scout and the rest of the family‚ she will uphold any moral (page 146)‚ she had plenty of pride in her family and she constantly tries to improve herself (page 147). However she has a lot of bad qualities; she is dictative‚ she is prejudice and she believes Finches are

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    Two examples of natural selection are Darwin’s finches and Toxic Cane toads. Bigger birds promptly began eating all the larger seeds‚ pushing the smaller finches to specialize on smaller seeds. So‚ the beaks of the finches changed depending on their food source. Secondly‚ toads with long and strong legs have been rewarded. Toads with shorter legs have to stay behind. In this case‚ nature

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    time he spends at the finch residence. The finches’ house is not at all what Augusten expected‚ it’s an unsanitary mess where raunchy terms are acceptable and a place that rats and roaches can call home. At first‚ Augusten is disgusted by these people and their house‚ but once he makes friends with Dr. Finch’ 14 year old daughter Natalie and starts dating his 33 year old adopted son‚ Neil he becomes just as unruly and misunderstood as the rest of the finches’. Natalie soon becomes Augusten’s excuse

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    Inference/foreshadowing Arthur Radley (Boo) Never goes outside his house. He symbolizes goodness in the town‚ even though he comes off as creepy initially. He is one of the mockingbirds of the novel. Miss Maudie Atkinson A widow neighboring the Finches‚ who are old friends of hers. Miss Caroline Fisher Jean louise’ teacher. Miss Rachel Haverford A relative of Dill. Dill stays at her house over the summer. Calpurnia A black cook under the Finch household. She is very stern

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    areas Only 7% of its old growth closed-canopy forests remain from over 60% in 1945. With so many islands‚ the Philippines surpass Hawaii and the Galapagos in species biodiversity and endemism‚ and would be the perfect system to understand why it is a cauldron of evolution. In fact‚ the Philippines has been described as tenfold more diverse than Galapagos. As predicted by Wilson and MacArthur’s theory of island biogeography‚ different island sizes‚ ages and distance from mainland Asia have influenced

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    the lands. One specific animal that grabbed Darwin’s attention was the finch bird. He noticed that on every island he would go each species of finches were different especially their` beaks. He then took examples of the different bird species and took them back with him to the museum of London. Darwin never valued the little differences between the finches until John Gould did and that’s when Darwin realized the importance on the little details changed the whole view and named it natural selection

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    book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ these same racial tensions also boil over. Some of the blame belongs to Maycomb’s social system‚ including the wealthy whites‚ the poor whites‚ and the blacks. A wealthy white family presents itself in the Finches. Their family is prominent in the town‚ as they descend from Simon Finch‚ “they were related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in the town” (6). The Finch’s neighbors also represented the class. One example of a social get-together presents

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    Next‚ the poet moves onto compare the ’fresh-fire coal chestnut-falls’ and the ‘finches’ wings’. This also emphasises the admiration of all of the many different things that God has made‚ seeing as when the chestnuts fall they open to reveal the meaty interior normally concealed by a hard shell; they are compared to the coals in a fire‚ which are black on the outside and glowing within‚ whereas the wings of finches are multi-coloured and complex. The final example is of the “trades” and activities

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