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    During a passage from the Great Influenza‚ author John M. Barry discusses the qualifications a scientific researcher must yield in order to be efficient to the field and perform intelligent guesswork. Appealing to inspiring scientists‚ Barry insists that they have to “manipulate and even force experiments to yield and answer.” Without the ability to work with uncertainty‚ no work done will be enough to illuminate the subject. Through juxtaposition uncertainty and certainty in this professional field

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    Goa birds

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    Goan Birds 1 orange-headed thrush The orange-headed thrush is 205–235 milliimetres (8.1–9.25 in) long[7] and weighs 47–60 grammes (1.7–2.1 oz). The adult male of the nominate subspecies of this small thrush has an entirely orange head and underparts‚ uniformly grey upperparts and wings‚ and white median and undertail coverts. It has a slate-coloured bill and the legs and feet have brown fronts and pink or yellowish rears.[3] The female resembles the male but has browner or more olive upperparts

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    The Origin of Birds

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    The Origin of Birds For as long as cohesive evolutionary theories have been in place‚ the heated debate regarding the origin of birds and their relationship to dinosaurs has raged on. After the 1860s birds have been hypothesized as being closely related to an ample assortment of extant and extinct reptile lineages. These include a diversity of basal archosaurs and archosauromorphs‚ pterosaurs‚ crocodylomorphs (including modern crocodylians and their Mesozoic relatives)‚ and various theropod ornithischian

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    Love Birds

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    they need for constant activity. In your Lovebirds cage‚ you should provide perches where they can comfortably stand‚ and work as their exercise. You must provide them a lot of toys to prevent them from boredom and stress. They love cage mirrors‚ bird swings and cage ladders. Also keep a cuttle bone in your Lovebirds cage at all times as a beak conditioner and good addition for your list. Lovebirds need a variety of foods to keep them healthy. You might want to add to your Lovebirds care list‚

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    birds in Macbeth

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    Shakespeare there is many mentions of birds in the dialogue. As well it is one of the themes in this play‚ used as a metaphor to different examples‚ such as when the characters use the word fly as an expression of escaping or leaving. Furthermore the theme of birds is also used when speaking of specific birds having meanings‚ or birds in this play used to show pathetic fallacy. Specifically in act IV sense ii and iii there are various uses of the imagery of birds‚ such as Lady Macduff in her shock at

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    The Quail Bird

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    tWrite about the quail bird. a. Origin b. Reproduction c. Rearing/maturity period ORIGIN Japanese Quails (Coturnix Quail) are from pheasant family and are migratory birds which migrate between Asia and Europe. The region of origin of these birds is believed to be south East Asia. Back in history‚ the reference to quails can be traced back in the old testament of the bible. It is also said that the Egyptians caught the quails on a large number from their farmland for meat. But there

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    Bird Lab

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    explored  natural  selection  using  a  laboratory.  We  wanted  to  see  what  was  the  effect  of  the  type  of  food  available  on  the  frequency  of  different  types  of  bird  beaks.  Our  hypothesis  was  that  If the type of the food available changes‚  then the frequency of  beak  types  will  change‚  because  birds  with  beaks  more  suited  to  the  available  food  will  be  more  successful over time.  Variables:  Independent Variable: type of food available  Dependent Variable: frequency of each type (size and shape) of beak 

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    In "Bird by Bird" Anne Lamott is trying to teach how good writing is about telling the truth on the first day of workshop. "So you might start by writing down every single thing you can remember from your first few years of school." (Lamott 4). She teaches the students that its sometimes a easy way to start off with some of your memories that you can remember. Also you should not never worry if your writing is good or not because the only people who are going to see it is you and the teacher. Lamott

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    Bird and Ducks

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    1. Ducks are birds that are also called "waterfowls" because they are normally found in places with water like marshes‚ oceans‚ rivers‚ ponds‚ and lakes. This is because ducks love the water. Ducks can live from 2-12 years‚ depending on species. 2. Some species of ducks migrate or travel longs distances every year to breed. Usually they travel to warmer areas or where the water does not freeze so that they can rest and raise their young. The distance may be thousands of miles away.

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    Birds of Prey

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    Birds of Prey I. Background of the Case On October 30‚ 1908‚ a certain newspaper‚ El Renacimiento‚ was said to have printed‚ published and circulated an article which showed the tendency to injure the reputation of Dean C. Worcester who was at that time‚ an official of the Republic of the Philippines. Martin Ocampo‚ Teodoro M. Kalaw‚ Lope K. Santos‚ Fidel A. Reyes‚ and Faustino Aguilar were the responsible persons for the said publication. Printed in both Spanish and Tagalog languages in the

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