In line eight Momaday denotes‚”in summer the prairie is an anvil’s edge.” This belletristic sentence makes the land sound very pleasant‚ because the author intended to make it delightful than it is. Behind all the belletrism‚ Momaday meant the grasslands of Oklahoma is a steel or iron block edge; this shows how awful it is without the replacement of the elegant words . By describing something (or in this case Oklahoma) with elaborate and sapient diction‚ it makes the object existence sounds so beautiful than it really is
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LS1 Spring 09 Name & ID________________________________ VERSION A • Don’t open your exam until instructed to. • Write your name and student number on every page of the test before handing in the test (you will lose 5 points if you don’t!). • Use a pencil on the multiple choice‚ and a pen on the short answer. • Mark scantrons neatly‚ one answer per question. Erase changes completely. • Answer written questions in space provided. Do not write on the back. • Only answers on the front side
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Biology Oceanic Biome A Biome is a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat. There are a couple different types of biomes. There are six major groups of biomes which are; freshwater‚ marine‚ desert‚ forest‚ grassland‚ tundra. Then these six groups are broken down a bit father. In this paper we will discuss part of the marine biome which is the ocean biome. When one thinks of very large bodies of water such as the ocean‚ we are talking about marine biomes.
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Unit 38: Environmental Health M2: Assess the effectiveness of organisations in improving the environment. In this task i will be assessing the effectiveness of the greenpeace organisation in improving the environment. Over the years Greenpeace has targeted some of the worlds largest drivers of deforestation such as the palm oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia‚ also the soy and casttle industries in the Brazilian Amazon. These are a prime example of successful Greenpeace campaigns. For example;
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a wild cat. Ocelots live primarily in the rain forests of South America. They also live in Central America‚ Mexico and even some as far north as southern Texas. Ocelots are found in a variety of habitats‚ including tropical forests‚ savannah grasslands‚ mangrove forests and marshes‚ and thorn scrub regions. Their primary habitat requirement is dense vegetative cover. Ocelots are found in open areas only when it’s cloudy or at night when there is a new moon. They generally live at elevations
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Plants can reproduce both sexually & asexually. When producing offspring sexually‚ plants cannot simply grow legs to find a mate nor can they maneuver their sex cells to a different plant all by themselves in order to reproduce. So how do they do it? Well there are multiple ways that this process occurs. All of which differentiate who or what helps the plant spread its seeds. Plants spread their seeds through wind‚ water‚ & animals. A perfect example of how wind disperses seeds of plants
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programs for soil conservation and for the recovery of the dust bowl. Eventually farming became possible again in the Dust Bowl so farmers have learned many lessons from this. The European settlers‚ who first arrived at the Great Plains‚ found strong grasslands that held the fine-grained soil in place in spite of the long regular droughts and occasional heavy rains. A large number of the travelers settled down in this area and built farms and ranches. These lands used led to soil exposure and great erosion
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farmland‚ woodland‚ scrubs‚ and hedgerows which all are well-suited for the common shrew. Therefore‚ keeping conserving these habitats‚ can in turn help keep the shrew as abundant as it is today. Ass the plan states‚ less intensive management of grassland that borders with woodland‚ hedgerows and scrub areas‚ as well as keeping the hedgerows conserved and with a 4 m buffer strip can be of great aid to the shrew‚ as this will provide it with habitats in which it can keep hidden from predators‚ create
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Book Review: 1491 In 1491‚ Charles C. Mann aims to prove a once-widespread belief about Native Americans false. This belief‚ which he calls Holmberg’s mistake‚ was first published in the book Nomads of the Longbow by Holmberg himself. Holmberg states that before European influence arrived in 1492‚ the Native Americans were nothing more than mere savages with lacking religion‚ no appreciation for the arts past feathered beads‚ little impact on the natural world around them‚ and nomadic lifestyles
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the skins of these animals. These tribes of people lived in groups of about 8000 and learned to grow crops to add to their diet of hunted meat. Over thousands of years it began to rain less and less in Egypt and the crops would no longer grow. The grasslands died out from lack of water‚ and sand slowly replaced the plains‚ turning Egypt into the sandy desert that we know it as today. Egypt’s Dynastic Period: Ancient writing came about during the Early Dynastic period in the form of hieroglyphs. By
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