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    The native American tribe known as the Iroquois‚ have a unique creation story. For this story sky‚ people and water exist but there is no land to speak of. It’s funny how most creation stories start off with the earth and sky already in existence. The Iroquois story starts with sky people that live high above the waters in the clouds. The sky people could not die‚ have children or experience sadness. Nonetheless; one day a sky woman realized she had become pregnant with twins. When she told her husband

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    The Little Turtle

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    be an endangered species. Luckily‚ this isn’t the case for us‚ but for endangered sea turtles it is a reality. Some of the older turtles‚ which are 140 to 160 year old‚ can lay hundreds of eggs every time they go ashore. However‚ only one or two of these eggs survive. Some turtles have been known to live more than 250 years‚ but because of poachers few actually survive that long. The cycle of life for the turtle is hard‚ and the beginning is a very rare thing to witness. I had the amazing opportunity

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    post-columbian groups thrived in these geographical regions by developing ways of survival. I will be talking about the Iroquois in the Eastern Woodlands‚ the Cheyenne in the Great Plains‚ and the Inuit from the Arctic/Sub-Arctic. First‚ the Eastern Woodlands has rich dirt which makes it perfect for farming‚ and the Iroquois tribe were the best farmers there were in the Eastern Woodlands. The Iroquois tribe figured out that the three sisters (Corn‚ Squash‚ and beans) were the best crops to grow because they

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    Compare&Contrast The World on Turtle’s back was about a female and male which lived in a sky world. In this sky world was a big tree and on this tree grew crops for the two to eat every year. A day came when the two were curious and started to dig a hole next to the tree. It wasn’t even 10sec. and they broke through the world‚ it spooked the male so he stepped back. The Grandma got down and stuck her head through the hole and then‚ she fell falling from what seemed to be the sky. Then the story about

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    The Legend

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    CONTENTS Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The Legend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Sands of Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Sand Creatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Control Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The Dagger of Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Game Interface

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    The Iroquois were known to be from the Northeast woodlands. They were located in North America and what is now known as upper New York. The Iroquois were known for their agriculture. They grew maize‚ beans‚ squash and tobacco. Since they were close to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean they also set up fishing traps to catch fish. The Iroquois adapted to their environment by growing their own vegetables. They used natural sources such as animals and plants to make their cloth‚ weapons and tools. The

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    the story “ The World On A Turtle’s Back” it talked about how when the girl fell through the hole in the ground in the Sky World she tried grabbing the edge to stop her from falling but she couldn’t hang on and Fell through the hole.. “ However‚ between her fingers there clung bits of things that were growing on the floor of the Sky World and bits of the root tips of the great tree” (26). This textual evidence talks about how the world was created and what helped create the world and all of the things

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    Legends

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    PROMPT- Do you defend or challenge this statement: “When legends die‚ dreams end. When dreams end‚ there is no more greatness.”? Use evidence from history‚ your readings‚ etc. I am inspired by the sound of a dribbling basketball‚ by the sound of squeaking shoes‚ and by the sound of a basketball swishing through a hoop. I can still remember the time when The Celtics almost beat the Lakers in the NBA Championships. I was ten years old‚ in Tennessee‚ watching the All-Star game with my relatives

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    people‚ mostly from major urban centres‚ moved ‘back-to-the land’. United by a shared critique of consumer oriented society‚ capitalization and the homogenizing‚ often oppressive effects of mass media‚ the generation sought to live in ways that were more authentic‚ self-reliant and in better harmony to the natural world. There was an emphasis on nonconformity‚ self-sufficiency and on ‘doing’ itself. Leading thus to the formation of the 1970’s back-to-the land movement. Although originally coined

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    Main Challenges in the Story Legend: Legend is a story about two 15 year old kids. From one side we have‚ as the story tells us in a beginning‚ a kid called Day. Day is a famous criminal who has given many problems to the republic From the moment he failed his trial‚ a test designed to be taken by every ten year old kid in the republic to test their physical and mental capabilities‚ Day was sent to the work camps which turned out to be labs that experimented on the kids who failed their test. Since

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